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ESEM
2008
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Evaluation of capture-recapture models for estimating the abundance of naturally-occurring defects
Project managers can use capture-recapture models to manage the inspection process by estimating the number of defects present in an artifact and determining whether a reinspectio...
Gursimran Singh Walia, Jeffrey C. Carver
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
The missing links: bugs and bug-fix commits
Empirical studies of software defects rely on links between bug databases and program code repositories. This linkage is typically based on bug-fixes identified in developer-enter...
Adrian Bachmann, Christian Bird, Foyzur Rahman, Pr...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Does a programmer's activity indicate knowledge of code?
The practice of software development can likely be improved if an externalized model of each programmer's knowledge of a particular code base is available. Some tools already...
Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy, Emily Hill
KBSE
2007
IEEE
16 years 10 days ago
Effective memory protection using dynamic tainting
Programs written in languages that provide direct access to memory through pointers often contain memory-related faults, which may cause non-deterministic failures and even securi...
James A. Clause, Ioannis Doudalis, Alessandro Orso...
ICSE
2010
IEEE-ACM
15 years 11 months ago
An analysis of the variability in forty preprocessor-based software product lines
Over 30 years ago, the preprocessor cpp was developed to extend the programming language C by lightweight metaprogramming capabilities. Despite its error-proneness and low ion lev...
Jörg Liebig, Sven Apel, Christian Lengauer, C...