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A lot of talk and a badge: An exploratory analysis of personal achievements in GitHub 滔滔不绝与徽章对 GitHub 中个人成就的探索性分析
IF 3.8 2区 计算机科学
Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107561
Fabio Calefato, Luigi Quaranta, Filippo Lanubile
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DCM-GIFT: An Android malware dynamic classification method based on gray-scale image and feature-selection tree DCM-GIFT:基于灰度图像和特征选择树的安卓恶意软件动态分类方法
IF 3.8 2区 计算机科学
Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107560
Jinfu Chen , Zian Zhao , Saihua Cai , Xiao Chen , Bilal Ahmad , Luo Song , Kun Wang
{"title":"DCM-GIFT: An Android malware dynamic classification method based on gray-scale image and feature-selection tree","authors":"Jinfu Chen ,&nbsp;Zian Zhao ,&nbsp;Saihua Cai ,&nbsp;Xiao Chen ,&nbsp;Bilal Ahmad ,&nbsp;Luo Song ,&nbsp;Kun Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107560","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107560","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context:</h3><p>The boom of Android market makes mobile products more popular and convenient. However, in the face of the complex Android application market, how to efficiently and accurately identify malware has become one of the focuses of research. Various new types of disguised malware lurk in the web pages, links and major application malls. Therefore, people’s privacy and property security have become a major obstacle to the continued development of mobile devices.</p></div><div><h3>Objective:</h3><p>Most of the existing malware classification methods are fixed on one or several types of characteristics of Android devices, such as static characteristics, dynamic characteristics and traffic characteristics. Single feature detection or fixed feature fusion models limit the dimension of detection software, and also cause imbalanced classification results. This paper proposes an Android Malware Dynamic Classification Method based on Gray-scale Image and Feature-selection Tree (DCM-GIFT), which aims to improve and stabilize the precision of Android software classification and enhance the robustness of malware classification.</p></div><div><h3>Method:</h3><p>In this paper, we construct gray-scale images for the original Android traffic to retain the characteristics of the time series and spatial structure of the original network traffic. At the same time, we take the dynamic information and static information of Android software as auxiliary features to build a feature selection tree. The feature-selection algorithm helps the classifier dynamically select the optimal feature fusion scheme, and the resulting fusion feature vector will be trained and predicted using machine learning clusters for model training.</p></div><div><h3>Results:</h3><p>We evaluate the performance of DCM-GIFT on multiple datasets published at the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, the area under the accuracy, precision, recall and <span><math><mrow><mi>F</mi><msub><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mrow><mi>m</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>s</mi><mi>u</mi><mi>r</mi><mi>e</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></math></span>. The results show that the proposed DCM-GIFT model has significantly better prediction performance compared to other software classification models.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion:</h3><p>It can be concluded that: (1) In terms of accuracy, precision, recall and <span><math><mrow><mi>F</mi><msub><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mrow><mi>m</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>s</mi><mi>u</mi><mi>r</mi><mi>e</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></math></span>, the DCM-GIFT model has a higher average value. (2) The DCM-GIFT model effectively solves the problem of imbalanced classification results in Android software. (3) The DCM-GIFT model achieves the goal of dynamic feature fusion and significantly improves the utilization of system resources.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 107560"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Bringing architecture-based adaption to the mainstream 将基于架构的适应性纳入主流
IF 3.8 2区 计算机科学
Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107550
Negar Ghorbani, Joshua Garcia, Sam Malek
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How do software practitioners perceive human-centric defects? 软件从业人员如何看待以人为本的缺陷?
IF 3.8 2区 计算机科学
Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107549
Vedant Chauhan , Chetan Arora , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , John Grundy
{"title":"How do software practitioners perceive human-centric defects?","authors":"Vedant Chauhan ,&nbsp;Chetan Arora ,&nbsp;Hourieh Khalajzadeh ,&nbsp;John Grundy","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107549","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107549","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context:</h3><p>Human-centric software design and development prioritises the way users prefer to complete their jobs, rather than expecting users to adapt to the software. Software users can have different genders, ages, cultures, languages, disabilities, socioeconomic statuses, and educational backgrounds, among many other differences. Due to the inherently varied nature of these differences and their impact on software usage, preferences and issues of users can vary, resulting in user-specific defects that we term as <em>‘human-centric defects’ (HCDs)</em>.</p></div><div><h3>Objective:</h3><p>This research aims to understand the perception and current management practices of such HCDs by software practitioners, identify key challenges in reporting, understanding and fixing them, and provide recommendations to improve HCDs management in software engineering.</p></div><div><h3>Methods:</h3><p>We conducted a survey and interviews with software engineering practitioners to gauge their knowledge and experience on HCDs and the defect tracking process.</p></div><div><h3>Results:</h3><p>We analysed fifty (50) survey- and ten (10) interview-responses from SE practitioners and identified that there are multiple gaps in the current management of HCDs in software engineering practice. There is a lack of awareness regarding human-centric aspects, causing them to be lost or under-appreciated during software development. Our results revealed that handling HCDs could be improved by following a better feedback process with end-users, a more descriptive taxonomy, and suitable automation.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion:</h3><p>HCDs, given their diverse end-user base, present a major challenge to software practitioners. In the software engineering domain, research on HCDs has been limited and requires effort from research and practice communities to create awareness and support for human-centric aspects.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 107549"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095058492400154X/pdfft?md5=31ebde54765e3c996c418b4582749ef2&pid=1-s2.0-S095058492400154X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142096903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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In memoriam of professor Guenther Ruhe: Contributions to the software product management research and practice 纪念 Guenther Ruhe 教授:对软件产品管理研究和实践的贡献
IF 3.8 2区 计算机科学
Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107548
Hans-Bernd Kittlaus , Andrey Saltan
{"title":"In memoriam of professor Guenther Ruhe: Contributions to the software product management research and practice","authors":"Hans-Bernd Kittlaus ,&nbsp;Andrey Saltan","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107548","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107548","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>For many years, Guenther Ruhe was a fellow of the International Software Product Management Association, playing an important role in shaping the academic and practical landscapes of Software Product Management (SPM). This editorial note honors Ruhe's enduring impact on the SPM Body of Knowledge, evaluating his extensive contributions to SPM research and practice, and recognizing his legacy in shaping the future trajectory of the field. By examining Ruhe's academic publications and his role in developing the SPM Body of Knowledge, we highlight key areas of his influence, particularly in release planning and requirements engineering. His integration of empirical research into SPM has notably enhanced the discipline's rigor and relevance. Ruhe's contributions to the SPM Body of Knowledge are profound and far-reaching, establishing his work as a cornerstone for ongoing research and practice in SPM.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 107548"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584924001538/pdfft?md5=99aecd0b78aeb2502ea75938529a17d7&pid=1-s2.0-S0950584924001538-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142007012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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XDrain: Effective log parsing in log streams using fixed-depth forest XDrain:使用固定深度森林对日志流进行有效的日志解析
IF 3.8 2区 计算机科学
Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107546
Changjian Liu , Yang Tian , Siyu Yu , Donghui Gao , Yifan Wu , Suqun Huang , Xiaochun Hu , Ningjiang Chen
{"title":"XDrain: Effective log parsing in log streams using fixed-depth forest","authors":"Changjian Liu ,&nbsp;Yang Tian ,&nbsp;Siyu Yu ,&nbsp;Donghui Gao ,&nbsp;Yifan Wu ,&nbsp;Suqun Huang ,&nbsp;Xiaochun Hu ,&nbsp;Ningjiang Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107546","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107546","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Logs record rich information that can help operators diagnose system failure <span><span>[1]</span></span>. Analyzing logs in log streams can expedite the diagnostic process and effectively mitigate the impact of failures. Log parsing is a prerequisite for automated log analysis, which transforms semi-structured logs into structured logs. However, the effectiveness of existing parsers has only been evaluated on a limited set of logs, which lack sufficient log types. After conducting a more comprehensive evaluation of the existing log parser, we identified the following deficiencies: (1) Variable-starting logs can make some log parsers error-prone. (2) The order of logs in a log stream can have a great impact on the effectiveness. We proposes XDrain to satisfy these challenges by using fixed-depth forest. XDrain first shuffles the order of logs and the order of words within each log a few times. Secondly, XDrain will generate parsing forest for all the logs generated after the shuffling. Finally, the final log template is generated by voting. Evaluation results show that XDrain outperforms existing log parsers on two widely-used accuracy metrics and is immune to inappropriate log order. XDrain only takes about 97.89 s to parse one million logs on average.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 107546"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141984747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Don’t forget to change these functions! recommending co-changed functions in modern code review 不要忘记更改这些函数!在现代代码审查中推荐共同更改函数
IF 3.8 2区 计算机科学
Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2024-08-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107547
Yang Hong, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Aldeida Aleti
{"title":"Don’t forget to change these functions! recommending co-changed functions in modern code review","authors":"Yang Hong,&nbsp;Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn,&nbsp;Patanamon Thongtanunam,&nbsp;Aldeida Aleti","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107547","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107547","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context:</h3><p>Code review is effective and widely used, yet still time-consuming. Especially, in large-scale software systems, developers may forget to change other related functions that must be changed together (aka. co-changes). This may increase the number of review iterations and reviewing time, thus delaying the code review process. Based on our analysis of 66 projects from five open-source systems, we find that there are 16%–33% of code reviews where at least one function must be co-changed, but was not initially changed.</p></div><div><h3>Objectives:</h3><p>This study aims to propose an approach to recommend co-changed functions in the context of modern code review, which could reduce reviewing time and iterations and help developers identify functions that need to be changed together.</p></div><div><h3>Methods:</h3><p>We propose <span>CoChangeFinder</span>, a novel method that employs a Graph Neural Network (GNN) to recommend co-changed functions for newly submitted code changes. Then, we conduct a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of <span>CoChangeFinder</span> with 66 studied large-scale open-source software projects.</p></div><div><h3>Results:</h3><p>Our evaluation results show that our <span>CoChangeFinder</span> outperforms the state-of-the-art approach, achieving 3.44% to 40.45% for top-k accuracy, 2.00% to 26.07% for Recall@k, and 0.04 to 0.21 for mean average precision better than the baseline approach. In addition, our <span>CoChangeFinder</span> demonstrates the capacity to pinpoint the functions related to logic changes.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion:</h3><p>Our <span>CoChangeFinder</span> outperforms the baseline approach (i.e., TARMAQ) in recommending co-changed functions during the code review process. Based on our findings, <span>CoChangeFinder</span> could help developers save their time and effort, reduce review iterations, and enhance the efficiency of the code review process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 107547"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584924001526/pdfft?md5=c441a69fab78652cf4e529fda2be63fc&pid=1-s2.0-S0950584924001526-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141984746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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FCTree: Visualization of function calls in execution FCTree:执行中的函数调用可视化
IF 3.8 2区 计算机科学
Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107545
Fangfang Zhou , Yilun Fan , Shenglan Lv , Lijia Jiang , Zhuo Chen , Jian Yuan , Feijiang Han , Haojin Jiang , Genghuai Bai , Ying Zhao
{"title":"FCTree: Visualization of function calls in execution","authors":"Fangfang Zhou ,&nbsp;Yilun Fan ,&nbsp;Shenglan Lv ,&nbsp;Lijia Jiang ,&nbsp;Zhuo Chen ,&nbsp;Jian Yuan ,&nbsp;Feijiang Han ,&nbsp;Haojin Jiang ,&nbsp;Genghuai Bai ,&nbsp;Ying Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107545","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107545","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Function calls in execution contain rich bivariate, hierarchical, and chronological information. Many visualizations have been adopted to analyze function calls in execution for program testing, vulnerability locating, and malware detection. However, we conducted a pilot study and revealed that existing single-viewed function call visualizations fail to present the bivariate, hierarchical, and chronological information comprehensively. A new function call visualization named FCTree is proposed in this work to deal with this situation. Learned from advantages of existing visualizations and iterative discussions with actual users, FCTree uses a compact and aligned hierarchical layout design to present the bivariate and hierarchical information and adopts a glyph design to present the chronological information. Subjective and objective experiments in the laboratory and a field study in a real-world scenario were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of FCTree.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 107545"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A rule-based decision model to support technical debt decisions: A multiple case study of web and mobile app startups 支持技术债务决策的基于规则的决策模型:网络和移动应用程序初创企业的多案例研究
IF 3.8 2区 计算机科学
Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107542
Abdullah Aldaeej , Carolyn Seaman
{"title":"A rule-based decision model to support technical debt decisions: A multiple case study of web and mobile app startups","authors":"Abdullah Aldaeej ,&nbsp;Carolyn Seaman","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107542","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107542","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><p>Software startups are immature software organizations that focus on the development of a single software product or service. This organizational context accumulates a lot of technical debt to cope with constraints such as limited resources and product-market fit uncertainty. While some research has explored technical debt in startups, there is no study that investigates how software startups should make technical debt decisions throughout the startup evolution stages.</p></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><p>The objective of this study is to understand how technical debt decisions are made, and how such decisions should have been made in hindsight.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>We conducted a multiple embedded case study to investigate technical debt decisions in five web/mobile app startups. For each case, we interviewed the case founder and developer (a total of 17 participants across cases). In addition, we collected some public documents about the five startups. The data were analyzed using qualitative data analysis techniques.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>We developed a rule-based decision model that summarizes the logic to effectively make technical debt decisions throughout the startup evolution stages. In addition, we evaluated the model by conducting follow-up interviews with three participants.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>The study provides a decision model that reflects actual practice, and is designed to help software teams in startups when making technical debt decisions throughout the startup evolution stages.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 107542"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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On meetings involving remote software teams: A systematic literature review 关于涉及远程软件团队的会议:系统文献综述
IF 3.8 2区 计算机科学
Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2024-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107541
Anielle S.L. de Andrade , Victoria Jackson , Rafael Prikladnicki , André van der Hoek
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