Conference Papers (Computing Science)

2011

Uddin, S., Roy, C.K., Schneider, K.A., Hindle, Abram

Clone detection techniques essentially cluster textually, syntactically and/or semantically similar code fragments in or across software systems. For large datasets, similarity identification is costly both in terms of time and memory, and especially so when detecting near-miss clones where lines...

2012

Hindle, Abram, Barr, E.T., Su, Z., Devanbu, P.T., Gabel, M.

Natural languages like English are rich, complex, and powerful. The highly creative and graceful use of languages like English and Tamil, by masters like Shakespeare and Avvaiyar, can certainly delight and inspire. But in practice, given cognitive constraints and the exigencies of daily life,...

2013

Bazelli, B., Hindle, Abram, Stroulia, E.

In the last decade, developers have been increasingly sharing their questions with each other through Question and Answer (Q&A) websites. As a result, these websites have become valuable knowledge repositories, covering a wealth of topics related to particular programming languages. This...

2015

Hindle, Abram

Cloud computing potentially ushers in a new era of computer music performance with exceptionally large computer music instruments consisting of 10s to 100s of virtual machines which we propose to call a ‘cloud-orchestra’. Cloud computing allows for the rapid provisioning of resources, but to...

2017

Hindle, Abram, Posnett, D.

The didgeridoo is a wind instrument composed of a single large tube often used as drone instrument for backing up the mids and lows of an ensemble. A didgeridoo is played by buzzing the lips and blowing air into the didgeridoo. To play a didgeridoo continously one can employ circular breathing...

2021

Kamienski, A.V., Palechor, L., Hindle, Abram, Bezemer, C.P.

Single-statement bugs (SStuBs) can have a severe impact on developer productivity. Despite usually being simple and not offering much of a challenge to fix, these bugs may still disturb a developer’s workflow and waste precious development time. However, few studies have paid attention to these...

2012

Hindle, Abram, Bird, C., Zimmermann, T., Nagappan, N.

Large organizations like Microsoft tend to rely on formal requirements documentation in order to specify and design the software products that they develop. These documents are meant to be tightly coupled with the actual implementation of the features they describe. In this paper we evaluate the...

2021

Eng, K., Hindle, Abram

Docker is becoming ubiquitous with containerization for developing and deploying applications. Previous studies have analyzed Dockerfiles that are used to create container images in order to better understand how to improve Docker tooling. These studies obtain Dockerfiles using either Docker Hub...

2011

Davies, J., Godfrey, M., German, D., Hindle, Abram

Deployed software systems are typically composed of many pieces, not all of which may have been created by the main development team. Often, the provenance of included components -- such as external libraries or cloned source code -- is not clearly stated, and this uncertainty can introduce...

2013

Hindle, Abram

Audience participation in computer music has long been limited by resources such as sensor technology or the material goods necessary to share such an instrument. A recent paradigm is to take advantage of the incredible popularity of the smart-phone, a pocket sized computer, and other mobile...