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ICST
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A Model Building Process for Identifying Actionable Static Analysis Alerts
Automated static analysis can identify potential source code anomalies early in the software process that could lead to field failures. However, only a small portion of static ana...
Sarah Smith Heckman, Laurie A. Williams
ICSM
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Release Pattern Discovery: A Case Study of Database Systems
Studying the release-time activities of a software project — that is, activities that occur around the time of a major or minor release — can provide insights into both the de...
Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt
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ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Scalable detection of semantic clones
Several techniques have been developed for identifying similar code fragments in programs. These similar fragments, referred to as code clones, can be used to identify redundant c...
Mark Gabel, Lingxiao Jiang, Zhendong Su
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Program comprehension as fact finding
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb,...
ICST
2011
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
It is Not the Length That Matters, It is How You Control It
—The length of test cases is a little investigated topic in search-based test generation for object oriented software, where test cases are sequences of method calls. While intui...
Gordon Fraser, Andrea Arcuri