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To improve software reliability, many rule-based techniques have been proposed to infer programming rules and detect violations of these rules as bugs. These rule-based approaches often rely on the highly frequent appearances of certain patterns in a project to infer rules. It is known that if a pattern does not appear frequently enough, rules are not learned, thus missing many bugs. In this paper,...
To design effective tools for detecting and recovering from software failures requires a deep understanding of software bug characteristics. We study software bug characteristics by sampling 2,060 real world bugs in three large, representative open-source projects—the Linux kernel, Mozilla, and Apache. We manually study these bugs in three dimensions—root causes, impacts, and components. We further...
Many defect prediction techniques have been proposed. While they often take the author of the code into consideration, none of these techniques build a separate prediction model for each developer. Different developers have different coding styles, commit frequencies, and experience levels, causing different defect patterns. When the defects of different developers are combined, such differences are...
Innovations from multiple directions have been proposed to improve software reliability. Unfortunately, many of the innovations are not fully exploited by programmers. To bridge the gap, this paper proposes a new approach to ldquolistenrdquo to thousands of programmers: studying their programming comments. Since comments express programmers' assumptions and intentions, comments can reveal programmers'...
In order to ensure reliability and quality, software systems must be tested. Testing object-oriented software is harder than testing procedure-oriented software. It involves four levels, namely the algorithmic level, class level, cluster level, and system level. We proposed a methodology TACCLE for class- and cluster- level testing. It includes an important algorithm GFT for generating fundamental...
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