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Effort estimation models have been long studied in software engineering research. Effort estimation models help organizations and individuals plan and track progress of their software projects and individual tasks to help plan delivery milestones better. Towards this end, there i…
While performing a task, software developers interact with a myriad of natural language documents. Not all information in these documents is relevant to a developer's task forcing them to filter relevant information from large amounts of irrelevant information. If a developer mis…
The importance of startups to economic development is indisputable. Software startups are startups that develop an innovative software-intensive product or service. In spite of the rising of several methodologies to improve their efficiency, most of software startups still fail. …
Test automation requires automated oracles to assess test outputs. For cyber physical systems (CPS), oracles, in addition to be automated, should ensure some key objectives: (i) they should check test outputs in an online manner to stop expensive test executions as soon as a fail…
Data is arguably the most valuable asset of the modern world. In this era, the success of any data-intensive solution relies on the quality of data that drives it. Among vast amount of data that are captured, managed, and analyzed everyday, geospatial data are one of the most int…
The evolution of software bugs has been a well-studied topic in software engineering. We used three different program analysis tools to examine the different versions of two popular sets of programming tools (gnu Binary and Core utilities), and check if their bugs increase or dec…
Open Source Software (OSS) forms an infrastructure on which numerous (often critical) software applications are based. Substantial research was done to investigate central projects such as Linux kernel but we have only a limited understanding of how the periphery of the larger OS…
Automated testing activities like automated test case generation imply a reduction in human effort and cost, with the potential to impact the test coverage positively. If the optimal policy, i.e., the course of actions adopted, for performing the intended test activity could be l…
Semantic versioning is widely used by library developers to indicate whether updates contain changes that may break existing clients. Especially for dynamic languages like JavaScript, using semantic versioning correctly is known to be difficult, which often causes program failure…
Software startups develop innovative products under extreme conditions of uncertainty. At the same time they represent a fast-growing sector in the economy and scale up research and technological advancement. This paper describes findings after observing a startup during its firs…
Many critical software systems developed in C utilize compile-time configurability. The many possible configurations of this software make bug detection through static analysis difficult. While variability-aware static analyses have been developed, there remains a gap between tho…
A code clone is a pair of similar code fragments, within or between software systems. To detect each possible clone pair from a software system while handling the complex code structures, the clone detection tools undergo a lot of generalization of the original source codes. The …
Already early in the history of open source projects it became apparent that they are driven by only a few contributors, creating the biggest portion of code. Whereas this has already been shown in previous research, this work adds a time perspective and considers the dynamics an…
Software testing is one of the costliest stages in the software development life cycle. One approach to reducing the test execution cost is to group changes and test them as a batch (i.e. batch testing). However, when tests fail in a batch, commits in the batch need to be re-test…
Matlab/Simulink is a development and simulation language that is widely used by the Cyber-Physical System (CPS) industry to model dynamical systems. There are two mainstream approaches to verify CPS Simulink models: model testing that attempts to identify failures in models by ex…
Feature models are arguably one of the most intuitive and successful notations for modeling the features of a variant-rich software system. Feature models help developers to keep an overall understanding of the system, and also support scoping, planning, development, variant deri…
Enterprise software vendors often need to support their customer companies to customize the enterprise software products deployed on-premises of customers. But when software vendors are migrating their products to cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), deep customization that …
Natural language elements, e.g., todo comments, are frequently used to communicate among developers and to describe tasks that need to be performed (actions) when specific conditions hold on artifacts related to the code repository (triggers), e.g., from the Apache Struts project…
Node.js provides the ability to write JavaScript programs for the server-side and has become a popular language for developing web applications. Node.js allows direct access to the underlying filesystem, operating system resources, and databases, but does not provide any security…
The way software is produced is very similar to an artistic and creative process. This fact is well known and has been acknowledged from the very early era of computers.