Measuring effort accurately and consistently across subjects in a programming experiment can be a surprisingly difficult task. In particular, measures based on self-reported data ...
Lorin Hochstein, Victor R. Basili, Marvin V. Zelko...
The search for proof and the search for counterexamples (bugs) are complementary activities that need to be pursued concurrently in order to maximize the practical success rate of...
Ashutosh Gupta, Thomas A. Henzinger, Rupak Majumda...
Regression testing is an important software maintenance activity to ensure the integrity of a software after modification. However, most methods and tools developed for software te...
In this paper, we examine the social roles of software tools in the English-language Wikipedia, specifically focusing on autonomous editing programs and assisted editing tools. Th...
Dependence analysis underpins many activities in software maintenance such as comprehension and impact analysis. As a result, dependence has been studied widely for programming la...
Kelly Androutsopoulos, Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, ...