Much of what we know about how programmers refactor in the wild is based on studies that examine just a few software projects. Researchers have rarely taken the time to replicate ...
Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Chris Parnin, Andrew P. Bl...
We improve on previous recommender systems by taking advantage of the layered structure of software. We use a random-walk approach, mimicking the more focused behavior of a develo...
Zachary M. Saul, Vladimir Filkov, Premkumar T. Dev...
Mainstream IDEs such as Eclipse support developers in managing software projects mainly by offering static views of the source code. Such a static perspective neglects any informa...
Test-case prioritization is a typical scenario of regression testing, which plays an important role in software maintenance. With the popularity of Web Services, integrating Web S...
An approach for factoring source-code differences is presented. A single large difference between two versions of a program is decomposed into factors (i.e., smaller changes). The...
Michael L. Collard, Huzefa H. Kagdi, Jonathan I. M...