[PDF] Top 20 Volume 65: Software Quality and Maintainability 2014

... analytics. Software analytics is a term recently introduced by Zhang et ...of software evolu- tion data available on SourceForge and the FreeBSD package base ...on software evolution ... See full document

... Extending an existing tool instead of writing a new one for retrieving information from Gerrit has proved to be a very efficient approach, as it could be implemented with not much more than 200 lines of Python code. The ... See full document

... To improve the comprehensibility of an impact rule, we provide a simple DSL. In this DSL, it can be specified which conditions have to be fulfilled by a model difference so that a certain checklist hint is created. The ... See full document

... in software languages most permutations concern the operators being infix, prefix or ...a software language can be linked to several different concrete ... See full document

... While the C HA -Q meta-model already provides a lot of beneficial measurements in order to make efficient use of memory, loading all revision of a large software artefact in memory is currently not possible. ... See full document

... Regarding our initial goals (Section 4.1), the study proves positive on both aspects. The model- driven nature of the approach helped define the specific quality requirements in the studied en- vironment. Besides, ... See full document

... Abstract: Previous studies have shown that social factors of software engineering influence software quality. Communication and development networks represent the interactions among software ... See full document

... To identify bug-fix commits, the version history of all six systems was manually inspected, yielding the following list of keywords hinting at bug-fixes: Fix, Bug, Defect, Correct. As Systems A, B, and C are developed by ... See full document

... Clone detectors rely on the concept of similarity and distance measures to identify cloned frag- ments. The choice of a specific distance function in a clone detector is arbitrary up to some extent. However, with a ... See full document

... the software industry and OSS(Open Source Software) projects, it is said that adequate code reuse could improve productivity and reliability of software development, and reduce devel- opment ...of ... See full document

... measuring maintainability of software systems according to the ISO/IEC 9126 stan- dard [ISO01] based on its source ...the maintainability of individual source code elements ...model-based ... See full document

... The “Robot Operating System” (ROS) [QCG + 09] is currently the best-known and most wide- spread solution in academic institutions. Several frameworks are interoperable with it. In this way, ROS has contributed to ... See full document

... uating software quality according to ISO ...all quality characteristics and sub-characteristics contained in the ISO standard and present measurement specifications in order to quantify these on an ... See full document

... If two or more code fragments in the code-base of a software system are exactly or nearly similar to one another, we call them code clones. It is often important that updates (i.e., changes) in one clone fragment ... See full document

... of software development, a code search tool perhaps uses (as a query) only names/values of a code edited by a developer, because structures of such unfinished code will be incorrect or ... See full document

... Software clone management entails detecting, tracking, visualizing, and maintaining clones for developers. Previous research on clone management includes empirical research on clone evolu- tion ([ACD07], [G¨o09], ... See full document

... Abstract: Like any other software system, real life Simulink models contain a considerable amount of cloning. These clones are not always identical copies of each other, but actually show a variety of differences ... See full document

... The clone research community has provided a greater number of industrial case studies on clone analysis techniques compared to other analytics research fields [JDHW09, HG13, YHKI12]. However, most of those studies simply ... See full document

... location overlapping function in combination with unix diff. To determine how much the source code of a code clone has changed, a textual similarity function is defined that measures the textual similarities between a ... See full document

... Furthremore, it showed that the coarse-grained detec- tion technique achieved high precision with fewer numbers of clones detected, but it could not achieve high recall.. In general, the[r] ... See full document