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ESEM
2009
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
A detailed examination of the correlation between imports and failure-proneness of software components
Research has provided evidence that type usage in source files is correlated with the risk of failure of software components. Previous studies that investigated the correlation b...
Ekwa Duala-Ekoko, Martin P. Robillard
ESEM
2010
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Gender differences and programming environments: across programming populations
Although there has been significant research into gender regarding educational and workplace practices, there has been little investigation of gender differences pertaining to pro...
Margaret M. Burnett, Scott D. Fleming, Shamsi Iqba...
ICSE
2000
IEEE-ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Software metrics: roadmap
Software metrics as a subject area is over 30 years old, but it has barely penetrated into mainstream software engineering. A key reason for this is that most software metrics act...
Norman E. Fenton, Martin Neil
ICSE
2012
IEEE-ACM
13 years 10 hour ago
On the naturalness of software
—Natural languages like English are rich, complex, and powerful. The highly creative and graceful use of languages like English and Tamil, by masters like Shakespeare and Avvaiya...
Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su, Mark Gabe...
ISSTA
2012
ACM
13 years 2 days ago
A human study of patch maintainability
Identifying and fixing defects is a crucial and expensive part of the software lifecycle. Measuring the quality of bug-fixing patches is a difficult task that affects both func...
Zachary P. Fry, Bryan Landau, Westley Weimer