The blame feature of version control systems is widely used—both by practitioners and
researchers—to determine who has last modified a given line of code, and the commit …

Context As developing high quality software becomes increasingly challenging because of
the explosive growth of scale and complexity, bugs become inevitable in software systems …

In this work, we investigate the practice of patch construction in the Linux kernel
development, focusing on the differences between three patching processes:(1) patches …

Example-based transformational approaches to automate adaptive maintenance changes
plays an important role in software research. One primary concern of those approaches is …

Transforming programs between two APIs or different versions of the same API is a common
software engineering task. However, existing languages supporting for such transformation …

Change distilling algorithms compute a sequence of fine-grained changes that, when
executed in order, transform a given source AST into a given target AST. The resulting …

Static bug detection tools help developers detect problems in the code, including bad
programming practices and potential defects. Recent efforts to integrate static bug detectors …

Static bug detectors help improve software quality by detecting code issues (eg, code smells
or bugs). However, static bug detectors are underutilized in practice due to various reasons …

Change distilling algorithms compute a sequence of fine-grained changes that, when
executed in order, transform a given source AST into a given target AST. The resulting …

Static analysis is widely used for software assurance. However, static analysis tools can
report an overwhelming number of warnings, many of which are false positives. Applying …