Feature location is the activity of identifying an initial location in the source code that
implements functionality in a software system. Many feature location techniques have been …

Large software development projects receive many bug reports and each of these reports
needs to be triaged. An important step in the triage process is the assignment of the report to …

Psychology has benefited from an enormous wealth of knowledge about processes of
cognition in relation to how the brain organizes information. Within the categorization …

A glossary is an important part of any software requirements document. By making explicit
the technical terms in a domain and providing definitions for them, a glossary helps mitigate …

Just like parallel processing elements can substantially speed up computationally intensive
tasks, concurrent transfer of data in and out of memory can speed up data intensive tasks. In …

Knowledge management plays a central role in many software development organizations.
While much of the important technical knowledge can be captured in documentation, there …

Source code lexicon plays a paramount role in software quality: poor lexicon can lead to
poor comprehensibility and even increase software fault-proneness. For this reason …

Cobbler's children do not wear shoes. Software engineers build sophisticated software but
we often cannot find the needed information and knowledge for ourselves. Issues are the …

Many software development and maintenance tools involve matching between natural
language words in different software artifacts (eg, traceability) or between queries submitted …

Identifiers make up a majority of the text in code. They are one of the most basic mediums
through which developers describe the code they create and understand the code that …