—A widely shared belief in the software engineering community is that stack traces are much sought after by developers to support them in debugging. But limited empirical evidenc...
Abstract. Software vendors are increasingly concerned about mitigating the security risk of their software. Code quality improvement is a traditional approach to mitigate security ...
Publicly accessible bug report repositories maintained by free / open source development communities provide vast stores of data about distributed software problem management (SWP...
Defect prediction is an important task in the mining of software repositories, but the quality of predictions varies strongly within and across software projects. In this paper we...
Jayalath Ekanayake, Jonas Tappolet, Harald Gall, A...
Information obtained by merging data extracted from problem reporting systems – such as Bugzilla – and versioning systems – such as Concurrent Version System (CVS) – is wi...