Identifying and fixing defects is a crucial and expensive part of the software lifecycle.
Measuring the quality of bug-fixing patches is a difficult task that affects both functional …

Recent research has made significant progress in automatic patch generation, an approach
to repair programs with less or no manual intervention. However, direct deployment of auto …

Code comprehension has been recently investigated from physiological and cognitive
perspectives using medical imaging devices. Floyd et al.(ie, the original study) used fMRI to …

The rise of social networks for software development has attached a notion of popularity to
open source projects. This work attempts to extract knowledge from the differences between …

Developers frequently change the type of a program element and update all its references
for performance, security, concurrency, library migration, or better maintainability. Despite …

Blind programmers use a screen reader to read code aloud. Screen readers force blind
programmers to read code sequentially one line at a time. In contrast, sighted programmers …

Software quality is an urgent problem. There are so many bugs in industrial program source
code that mature software projects are known to ship with both known and unknown bugs …

Maintenance is an important activity in the software life cycle. No software product can do
without undergoing the process of maintenance. Estimating a software's maintainability effort …

This paper presents a versatile high performance FPGA-based Fog platform to
accommodate the growth of Internet-of-Thing. Proposed platform allows hosted Fog …

Cyber-attacks are fairly mundane. The misconfigurations of the source code can result in
security vulnerabilities that potentially encourage the attackers to exploit them and …