Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering最新文献

{"title":"Arabic Cyberbullying Detection Using Machine Learning: State of the Art Survey","authors":"Norah Alsunaidi, Sarah Aljbali, Y. Yasin, Hamoud Aljamaan","doi":"10.1145/3593434.3593968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3593434.3593968","url":null,"abstract":"Cyberbullying (CB) is a global dilemma that is growing rapidly to affect more individuals including minors. The devastating consequences of CB indicate a pressing necessity to regulate unethical or illegal users' online behaviors. A remarkable number of researchers attempted to harness the potential of machine learning to detect and prevent such harmful behaviors, however, the existing studies targeting Arabic-based content are still emerging. Therefore, this paper provides a comprehensive review of the published empirical studies in CB detection in Arabic-based content with an emphasis on the adapted methodologies, gaps, and challenges. We hope this work would support researchers in the area of CB-detection to foster a safe online environment and protect against any harmful consequences of CB among users.","PeriodicalId":178596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126314783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do Developers Benefit from Recommendations when Repairing Inconsistent Design Models? a Controlled Experiment","authors":"Luciano Marchezan, W. K. Assunção, G. Michelon, Alexander Egyed","doi":"10.1145/3593434.3593482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3593434.3593482","url":null,"abstract":"Repairing design models is a laborious task that requires a considerable amount of time and effort from developers. Repair recommendation (RR) approaches focus on reducing the effort and improving the quality of the repairs performed. Such approaches have been evaluated in terms of scalability, correctness, and minimalism. These evaluations, however, have not investigated how developers can benefit from using RRs and how they perceive the difficulty of applying RRs. Investigating and discussing the use of RRs from the developers’ perspective is important to demonstrate the benefits of applying such approaches in practice. We explore this opportunity by conducting a controlled experiment carried out with 24 developers where they repaired UML design models in eight different tasks, with and without RRs. The findings indicate that developers can benefit from RRs in complex tasks by improving their effectiveness and efficiency. The results also evidence that the use of RRs does not impact the developers’ perceived difficulty and confidence when repairing models. Furthermore, our findings show that not all developers choose the same RR, but rather, have varied preferences. Thus, the provision of RRs leads to developers considering additional alternatives to repair an inconsistency.","PeriodicalId":178596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134131938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Functional Size Measurement in Agile Development: Velocity in Agile Sprints","authors":"Thomas Fehlmann, Andrea Gelli","doi":"10.1145/3593434.3593486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3593434.3593486","url":null,"abstract":"Agile teams measure their velocity for performance, based on Story Points. However, such velocity does not allow predicting when the product will be finished. Story points measure effort only. They do not discriminate between creating functionality and other tasks. Non-functional requirements (NFR), such as enhancing product quality, test coverage, removing technical debt, as well as process-related NFR such as agreeing with stakeholders, getting requirements right, or documenting, consume effort but do not add functionality. Thus, it remains unclear whether the product makes any progress, or the team is just looping around. Euro Project Office has therefore developed a method how to complement a product backlog by functional size, indicating progress and completeness in unambiguous terms. The method is based on the international standard ISO/IEC 14143 and ISO/IEC 19761. NFR are understood as in . Tools are available as open source and can be used by development teams with minimum investment into training.","PeriodicalId":178596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134290995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Training Bachelor Students to Design Better Quality Web Apps: Preliminary Results from a Prospective Empirical Investigation","authors":"Sabato Nocera, R. Francese, G. Scanniello","doi":"10.1145/3593434.3593957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3593434.3593957","url":null,"abstract":"Background: There are a number of academic courses in the Bachelor Program in Computer Science (CS) on the design of Web apps. Often the internal and external quality of the developed Web apps is not adequately taken into account. Aim: We aimed to (i) estimate the quality of Web apps developed by bachelor CS students in a Software Technologies for the Web (STW) course (a.y. 2021-22) and (ii) define a training plan (on the base of the results of the first step) for the students enrolled to this course for the a.y. 2022-23 to let them design and implement better Web apps, and (iii) experimenting the training plan by comparing the quality of Web apps developed in a.y. 2021-22 and a.y. 2022-23. Method: We designed a prospective empirical investigation to study STW with respect to the training of bachelor students with respect to the quality (internal and external) of the developed Web apps. Results: We observed that quality concerns are widespread in the code of the Web apps the STW students developed in the a.y. 2021-22. Therefore, we plan to ask the students of the a.y. 2022-23 to use in their development pipeline a Static Analysis Tool (SAT) to detect quality concerns in the developed Web apps and deal with them. This second step represents an ongoing stage of our research. Conclusions: Our preliminary outcomes suggest that students must be aware that quality is of primary relevance for the development of Web apps and prepared to use SAT in the development pipeline.","PeriodicalId":178596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130823834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of Architectural Smells on Software Performance: an Exploratory Study","authors":"Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Mateo Camilli, Davide Rendina, Andrei Gabriel Taraboi, Catia Trubiani","doi":"10.1145/3593434.3593442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3593434.3593442","url":null,"abstract":"Architectural smells have been studied in the literature looking at several aspects, such as their impact on maintainability as a source of architectural debt, their correlations with code smells, and their evolution in the history of complex projects. The goal of this paper is to extend the study of architectural smells from a different perspective. We focus our attention on software performance, and we aim to quantify the impact of architectural smells as support to explain the root causes of system performance hindrances. Our method consists of a study design matching the occurrence of architectural smells with performance metrics. We exploit state-of-the-art tools for architectural smell detection, software performance profiling, and testing the systems under analysis. The removal of architectural smells generates new versions of systems from which we derive some observations on design changes improving/worsening performance metrics. Our experimentation considers two complex open-source projects, and results show that the detection and removal of two common types of architectural smells yield lower response time (up to ) with a large effect size, i.e., for - of the hotspot methods. The median memory consumption is also lower (up to ) with a large effect size for all the services.","PeriodicalId":178596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129186757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis of Bug Report Qualities with Fixing Time using a Bayesian Network","authors":"Sien Reeve Ordonez Peralta, H. Washizaki, Y. Fukazawa, Yuki Noyori, Shuhei Nojiri, Hideyuki Kanuka","doi":"10.1145/3593434.3593484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3593434.3593484","url":null,"abstract":"Most client software employs a bug-tracking system, which utilizes user-submitted reports (bug reports) that contain information necessary for software developers to fix bugs. The quality of bug reports drastically differs. Bug reports can include severity, priority, and associated issues determined by researching the addressed bug. Herein we investigate the influence of bug report qualities on successfully fixing a bug and estimating the fixing time. We also examine the claim in previous studies that bias and differences in the treatment of bug reports exist due to broad expertness among the reporters. Our approach examines the relationship between the qualities within the bug-fixing cycle and modeling graphical causal dependencies through a Bayesian Network. Bug reports with attachments, dependencies on another bug, and frequent discussions are more likely to be fixed. In addition, bug reports with a high severity tend to be fixed faster. Moreover, the difficulty of the bug itself may influence the fixing rate such that a straightforward bug will be fixed easier and faster regardless of the bug report quality.","PeriodicalId":178596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125628075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"NxtUnit: Automated Unit Test Generation for Go","authors":"Siwei Wang, Xue Mao, Ziguang Cao, Yujun Gao, Qucheng Shen, Chao Peng","doi":"10.1145/3593434.3593443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3593434.3593443","url":null,"abstract":"Automated test generation has been extensively studied for dynamically compiled or typed programming languages like Java and Python. However, Go, a popular statically compiled and typed programming language for server application development, has received limited support from existing tools. To address this gap, we present NxtUnit, an automatic unit test generation tool for Go that uses random testing and is well-suited for microservice architecture. NxtUnit employs a random approach to generate unit tests quickly, making it ideal for smoke testing and providing quick quality feedback. It comes with three types of interfaces: an integrated development environment (IDE) plugin, a command-line interface (CLI), and a browser-based platform. The plugin and CLI tool allow engineers to write unit tests more efficiently, while the platform provides unit test visualization and asynchronous unit test generation. We evaluated NxtUnit by generating unit tests for 13 open-source repositories and 500 ByteDance in-house repositories, resulting in a code coverage of 20.74% for in-house repositories. We conducted a survey among Bytedance engineers and found that NxtUnit can save them 48% of the time on writing unit tests. We have made the CLI tool available at https://github.com/bytedance/nxt_unit.","PeriodicalId":178596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132657386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analyzing the Resource Usage Overhead of Mobile App Development Frameworks","authors":"Wellington Oliveira, Bernardo Moraes, Fernando Castor, J. Fernandes","doi":"10.1145/3593434.3593487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3593434.3593487","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile app development frameworks lower the effort to write and deploy apps across different execution platforms. At the same time, their use may limit native optimizations and impose overhead, increasing resource usage. In this paper, we analyze the resource usage of Android benchmarks and apps based on three mobile app development frameworks, Flutter, React Native, and Ionic, comparing them to functionally equivalent, native variants written in Java. These frameworks, besides being in widespread use, represent three different approaches for developing multiplatform apps: Flutter supports the deployment of apps that are compiled and run fully natively, React Native runs interpreted JavaScript code combined with native views for different platforms, and Ionic is based on web apps, which means that it does not depend on platform-specific details. We measure the energy consumption, execution time, and memory usage of ten optimized, CPU-intensive benchmarks, to gauge overhead in a controlled manner, and two applications, to measure their impact when running commonly mobile app functionalities. Our results show that cross-platform and hybrid frameworks can be competitive in CPU-intensive applications. In five of the ten benchmarks, at least one framework-based version exhibits lower energy consumption and execution time than its native counterpart, up to a reduction of 81% in energy and 83% in execution time. Furthermore, in three other benchmarks, framework-based and native versions achieved similar results. Overall, Flutter, usually imposes the least overhead in execution time and energy, while React Native imposes the highest in all the benchmarks. However, in an app that continuously animates multiple images on the screen, without interaction, the React Native version uses the least CPU and energy, up to a reduction of 96% in energy compared to the second-best framework-based version. These findings highlight the importance of analyzing expected application behavior before committing to a specific framework.","PeriodicalId":178596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115270511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Advancements in 6G Technology based on its Applications, Research Challenges and Problems: A Review","authors":"Muhammad Mustafa Qureshi, M. Riaz, S. Waseem, M. A. Khan, S. Riaz","doi":"10.1145/3593434.3593965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3593434.3593965","url":null,"abstract":"Continuous placement of cellular networks keeps on revealing because of the inbuilt limitations of the network. To overcome these flaws, there is the next generation 6G concept which could properly assimilate important rate-hungry applications such as stretched reality, wireless brain-computer connections, independent automobiles, and others. 6G will also help in handling huge data transmission in rural areas. Many state-of-the-art trends and technologies are combined in it with the aim of providing higher data rates for ultra-reliable and low-dormancy communications. This article deals with the conceptualization of 6G cellular addressing system requirements, potential trends, technologies, services, applications, and research progress. This research includes a summary of open research issues and current research groups to benefit readers with the technology roadmap and for consideration of challenges in their research regarding 6G research. The fourth industrial revolution in the textile sector can greatly benefit from 5G and 6G technologies in automated processes of textiles such as in spinning, weaving, and especially in garments manufacturing to meet competitive advantages, excellent communication, and for better and more flexible production. 3D modeling, simulation of virtual clothes on avatars, automation of robotics, and data communication can be improved by the concept of 5G and 6G technologies.","PeriodicalId":178596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129392442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Replication and Extension of Schnappinger’s Study on Human-level Ordinal Maintainability Prediction Based on Static Code Metrics","authors":"Sébastien Bertrand, Silvia Ciappelloni, Pierre-Alexandre Favier, J. André","doi":"10.1145/3593434.3593488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3593434.3593488","url":null,"abstract":"As a part of a research project concerning software maintainability assessment in collaboration with the development team, we wanted to explore dissensions between developers and the confounding effect of size. To this end, this study replicated and extended a recent study from Schnappinger et al. with the public part of its dataset and the metrics extracted from the graph-based tool Javanalyser. The entire processing pipeline was automated, from metrics extraction to the training of machine learning models. The study was extended by predicting the continuous maintainability to take account of dissensions. Then, all experimental shots were duplicated to evaluate the overall influence of the class size. In the end, the original study was successfully replicated. Moreover, good performance was achieved on the continuous maintainability prediction. Finally, the class size was not sufficient for fine-grained maintainability prediction. This study shows the necessity to explore the nature of what is measured by code metrics, and is also the first step in the construction of a maintainability model.","PeriodicalId":178596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131338468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}