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A change impact analysis to characterize evolving program behaviors 变更影响分析，以描述不断发展的程序行为

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405261

Neha Rungta, S. Person, Joshua Branchaud

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引用次数: 39

Adapting Linux for mobile platforms: An empirical study of Android Linux适配移动平台:Android的实证研究

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405339

Foutse Khomh, Hao Yuan, Ying Zou

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引用次数: 17

Supervised software modularisation 受监督的软件模块化

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405309

Mathew Hall, Neil Walkinshaw, Phil McMinn

引用次数: 36

Leveraging natural language analysis of software: Achievements, challenges, and opportunities 利用软件的自然语言分析:成就、挑战和机遇

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405245

L. Pollock

{"title":"Leveraging natural language analysis of software: Achievements, challenges, and opportunities","authors":"L. Pollock","doi":"10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405245","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given. Studies continue to report that more time is spent reading, locating, and comprehending code than actually writing code. The increasing size and complexity of software systems makes it significantly more challenging for humans to perform maintenance tasks on software without automated and semi-automated tools to support them, especially in the error-prone tasks. Thus, software engineers increasingly rely on software engineering tools to automate maintenance tasks as much as possible. The program analyses that drive today's software engineering tools have historically focused on analyzing the program's data and control flow, dependencies, and other structural information about the program to uncover and prove program properties. Yet, a software system is more than just the source code and its structure. To build effective software tools, the underlying automated analyses need to use all the information available to make the tools as intelligent and useful as possible. By adapting natural language processing (NLP) to source code analysis, and integrating information retrieval (IR), NLP, and traditional program analyses, we can expect significant improvement in automated and semi-automated software engineering tools for many different software engineering tasks. In this talk, I will overview research in text analysis of software and discuss our achievements to date, the challenges faced in text analysis, and the opportunities for text analysis of software in the future.","PeriodicalId":348790,"journal":{"name":"2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130103521","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}

引用次数: 6

Detecting semantic changes in Makefile build code 检测Makefile构建代码中的语义变化

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405266

Jafar M. Al-Kofahi, H. V. Nguyen, A. Nguyen, T. Nguyen, T. Nguyen

{"title":"Detecting semantic changes in Makefile build code","authors":"Jafar M. Al-Kofahi, H. V. Nguyen, A. Nguyen, T. Nguyen, T. Nguyen","doi":"10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405266","url":null,"abstract":"Build code in a Makefile represents the build rules with the dependencies among the files, and how they must be built together to produce a software system. As software evolves, its build code evolves as well to accommodate necessary changes in the build process. As part of software maintenance, it is crucial to understand how the build code is changed (e.g. changes in build rules or dependencies), and to verify and validate the correctness of the build process with different build configurations. Due to Make's dynamic nature, understanding and managing the changes to Makefiles is not trivial. In this paper, we introduce a set of semantic changes to build code in Makefiles. We also develop MkDiff, a tool to detect the changes to a Makefile at the semantic level. MkDiff uses symbolic dependency graphs (SDG) to find all possible concrete rules from a Makefile, and the dependencies among them. For two SDGs built from a Makefile at two versions, it first detects changed and unchanged nodes via its SDG matching algorithm. Then, from those results, it derives the semantic changes to the Makefile. Our empirical evaluation for MkDiff showed that it can accurately detect semantic changes in Makefiles.","PeriodicalId":348790,"journal":{"name":"2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115541802","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}

引用次数: 16

Bacterio: Java mutation testing tool: A framework to evaluate quality of tests cases Java突变测试工具:评估测试用例质量的框架

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405344

Pedro Reales Mateo, Macario Polo

引用次数: 31

Build system issues in multilanguage software 在多语言软件中构建系统问题

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405265

Andrew Neitsch, Kenny Wong, Michael W. Godfrey

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引用次数: 28

SEANets: Software evolution analysis with networks SEANets:基于网络的软件演化分析

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405341

Theodoros Chaikalis, G. Melas, A. Chatzigeorgiou

引用次数: 4

Interactive fault localization leveraging simple user feedback 利用简单用户反馈的交互式故障定位

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405255

Liang Gong, D. Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, Hongyu Zhang

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引用次数: 48

Applying technical stock market indicators to analyze and predict the evolvability of open source projects 应用技术股票市场指标分析和预测开源项目的可演化性

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405335

Aseel Hmood, Mostafa Erfani, I. Keivanloo, J. Rilling

引用次数: 2