Reliably predicting software defects is one of the holy grails of software engineering.
Researchers have devised and implemented a plethora of defect/bug prediction approaches …

Code reading is one of the most frequent activities in software maintenance; before
implementing changes, it is necessary to fully understand source code often written by other …

Unreadable code could compromise program comprehension, and it could cause the
introduction of bugs. Code consists of mostly natural language text, both in identifiers and …

Context: Identifying defects in code early is important. A wide range of static code metrics
have been evaluated as potential defect indicators. Most of these metrics offer only high …

A powerful, but limited, way to view software is as source code alone. Treating a program as
a sequence of instructions enables it to be formalized and makes it amenable to …

The paper presents an approach that combines conceptual and evolutionary techniques to
support change impact analysis in source code. Conceptual couplings capture the extent to …

We show how to compute a relative-error low-rank approximation to any positive
semidefinite (PSD) matrix in sublinear time, ie, for any nxn PSD matrix A, in Õ (n· poly (k/ε)) …

In software development, early identification of fault-prone classes can save a considerable
amount of resources. In the literature, source code structural metrics have been widely …

Experienced programmers choose identifier names carefully, in the attempt to convey
information about the role and behavior of the labeled code entity in a concise and …

Meaningless identifiers as well as inconsistent use of identifiers in the source code might
hinder code readability and result in increased software maintenance efforts. Over the past …