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Formation of quizzes is a vital problem as they are an important part of learning. To create a quiz on a particular topic, its related terms need to be identified for further use in extraction of questions on the topic. These terms are referred to as entities for the topic and th…
For maintaining the quality of software updates to complex software products (e.g. Windows 7 OS), an extensive, broad level regression testing is conducted whenever releasing new code fixes or updates. Despite the huge cost and investment in the test infrastructure to execute the…
JavaScript programs often suffer from memory issues that can either hurt performance or eventually cause memory exhaustion. While existing snapshot-based profiling tools can be helpful, the information provided is limited to the coarse granularity at which snapshots can be taken.…
Sketch-based synthesis, epitomized by the Sketch tool, lets developers synthesize software starting from a partial program, also called a sketch or template. This paper presents JSketch, a tool that brings sketch-based synthesis to Java. JSketch's input is a partial Java program …
Cross-company defect prediction (CCDP) learns a prediction model by using training data from one or multiple projects of a source company and then applies the model to the target company data. Existing CCDP methods are based on the assumption that the data of source and target co…
Even though different developers have varying levels of expertise, the tools in one developer's integrated development environment (IDE) behave the same as the tools in every other developers' IDE. In this paper, we propose the idea of automatically customizing development tools …
Mutation-based fuzzing is a popular and widely employed black-box testing technique for finding security and robustness bugs in software. It owes much of its success to its simplicity; a well-formed seed input is mutated, e.g. through random bit-flipping, to produce test inputs. …
What are software developers doing during a change task? While an answer to this question opens countless opportunities to support developers in their work, only little is known about developers' detailed navigation behavior for realistic change tasks. Most empirical studies on d…
Quality assurance for common APIs is important since the the reliability of APIs affects the quality of other systems using the APIs. Testing is a common practice to ensure the quality of APIs, but it is a challenging and laborious task especially for industrial projects. Due to …
In recent years, fine-grained monitoring of software developers during software development and maintenance activities has increased in popularity, together with use of devices for eye tracking and recording developer’s biometric data. We look for everyday application of such dat…
Public tender processes typically start with a comprehensive specification phase, where representatives of the eventual owner of the system, usually together with a hired group of consultants, spend a considerable amount of time to determine the needs of the owner. For the compan…
Debugging often takes much effort and resources. To help developers debug, numerous information retrieval (IR)-based and spectrum-based bug localization techniques have been proposed. IR-based techniques process textual information in bug reports, while spectrum-based techniques …
To be able to respond to source code modifications with large impact or commits that necessitate further examination, developers and managers in a software development team need to be aware of anything unusual happening in their software projects. To address this need, we introdu…
String analysis is critical for many verification techniques. However, accurately modeling string variables is a challeng- ing problem. Current approaches are generally customized for certain problem domains or have critical limitations in handling loops, providing context-sensit…
Energy is a critical resource for current mobile devices. In a smartphone, display is one of the most energy consuming components. Modern smartphones often use OLED screens, which consume much more energy when displaying light colors than displaying dark colors. In our previous s…
Developers often need to modify pasted code when programming with copy-and-paste practice. Some modifications on pasted code could involve lots of editing efforts, and any missing or wrong edit could incur bugs. In this paper, we propose a clone-based and interactive approach to …
The number of software engineering research papers over the last few years has grown significantly. An important question here is: how relevant is software engineering research to practitioners in the field? To address this question, we conducted a survey at Microsoft where we in…
We present SPR, a new program repair system that combines staged program repair and condition synthesis. These techniques enable SPR to work productively with a set of parameterized transformation schemas to generate and efficiently search a rich space of program repairs. Togethe…
The automotive industry adopts various approaches to reduce the production lead time in order to be competitive on the market. Due to the increasing amount of in-house software development, this industry gets new opportunities to decrease the software development lead-time. This …
Exploratory programming is one of the programming techniques, and it is considered to be an effective way to improve programming skills for novices. However, there is no existing system or programming environment educating exploratory programming for novices. Therefore, we have d…