Abstract—In a young field, such as Mining Software Repositories (MSR), there is always a call for benchmarks so that researchers can compare their results against others. Thus i...
Abram Hindle, Israel Herraiz, Emad Shihab, Zhen Mi...
—Clones are generally considered bad programming practice in software engineering folklore. They are identified as a bad smell and a major contributor to project maintenance dif...
Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanb...
A fundamental problem of finding applications that are highly relevant to development tasks is the mismatch between the high-level intent reflected in the descriptions of these ...
Mark Grechanik, Chen Fu, Qing Xie, Collin McMillan...
The comprehensive understanding of today’s software systems is a daunting activity, because of the sheer size and complexity that such systems exhibit. Moreover, software system...
Although design metaphors play an important role in many software projects, their influence on system functionality, project methodology and the interactions among members of the ...