Code ownership transfer or succession is a crucial ingredient in open source code reuse and in offshoring projects. Measuring succession can help understand factors that affect ...
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...
Identifying code duplication in large multi-platform software systems is a challenging problem. This is due to a variety of reasons including the presence of high-level programmin...
This paper describes the design goals and current status of tidier, a software tool that tidies Erlang source code, making it cleaner, simpler, and often also more efficient. In ...
Abstract--Concept or feature identification, i.e., the identification of the source code fragments implementing a particular feature, is a crucial task during software understandin...
Fatemeh Asadi, Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Ant...