Inferring program transformations from concrete program changes has many potential uses,
such as applying systematic program edits, refactoring, and automated program repair …

API misuses are prevalent and extremely harmful. Despite various techniques have been
proposed for API-misuse detection, it is not even clear how different types of API misuses …

Maintenance of aging legacy COBOL systems is labor‐intensive and is becoming a more
and more difficult problem. Program slicing is a potentially useful analysis for aiding different …

Over the past decades, software systems have been widely adopted in almost all aspects of
human lives, and are making our lives more and more convenient. However, software …

Enterprise systems must guarantee high availability and reliability to provide 24/7 services
without interruptions and failures. Mechanisms for handling exceptional cases and …

Fault localization, aiming at localizing the root cause of the bug under repair, has been a
longstanding research topic. Although many approaches have been proposed in past …

Program slicing can be used to improve software reliability. It enables identification and
checking of critical points by removing program parts that do not influence them. The …

Introduction: Although the use of big data analytic platforms such as Splunk has increased,
the way in which the software quality of these products can be measured has not been well …

With software systems becoming more complex, the need to have good quality code is
becoming increasingly important. Confidence in the code can only be gained if one has …