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ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Answering common questions about code
Difficulties understanding update paths while understanding code cause developers to waste time and insert bugs. A detailed investigation of these difficulties suggests that a wid...
Thomas D. LaToza
ISESE
2006
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
An empirical evaluation of a testing and debugging methodology for Excel
Spreadsheets are one of the most commonly used types of programs in the world, and it is important that they be sufficiently dependable. To help end users who create spreadsheets ...
Jeffrey Carver, Marc Fisher II, Gregg Rothermel
PROMISE
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Better, faster, and cheaper: what is better software?
Background: Defects are related to failures and they do not have much power for indicating a higher quality or a better system above the baseline that the end-users expect. Nevert...
Burak Turhan, Çetin Meriçli, Tekin M...
SIGSOFT
2009
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
ConcernMorph: metrics-based detection of crosscutting patterns
Crosscutting concerns can hinder maintainability of a design because they do not adhere to a system's underlying modular structure. Developers, therefore, may wish to refacto...
Eduardo Figueiredo, Jon Whittle, Alessandro F. Gar...
KBSE
2006
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Command-Form Coverage for Testing Database Applications
The testing of database applications poses new challenges for software engineers. In particular, it is difficult to thoroughly test the interactions between an application and it...
William G. J. Halfond, Alessandro Orso