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2016

Hindle, Abram, Alipour, A., Stroulia, E.

The issue-tracking systems used by software projects contain issues, bugs, or tickets written by a wide variety of bug reporters, with different levels of training and knowledge about the system under development. Typically, reporters lack the skills and/or time to search the issue-tracking...

2013

Tsantalis, N., Guana, V., Stroulia, E., Hindle, Abram

In this paper we present an empirical study on the refactoring activity in three well-known projects. We have studied five research questions that explore the different types of refactorings applied to different types of sources, the individual contribution of team members on refactoring...

2017

Borle, N.C., Feghhi, M., Stroulia, E., Greiner, R., Hindle, Abram

Testing is an integral part of the software development lifecycle, approached with varying degrees of rigor by different process models. Agile process models recommend Test Driven Development (TDD) as a key practice for reducing costs and improving code quality. The objective of this work is to...

2014

Aggarwal, K., Hindle, Abram, Stroulia, E.

Github is a very popular collaborative software-development platform that provides typical source-code management and issue tracking features augmented by strong social-networking features such as following developers and watching projects. These features help "spread the word" about individuals...

2015

Badashian, A.S., Hindle, Abram, Stroulia, E.

Bug triaging and assignment is a time-consuming task in big projects. Most research in this area examines the developers' prior development and bug-fixing activities in order to recognize their areas of expertise and assign to them relevant bug fixes. We propose a novel method that exploits a new...

2016

Badashian, A.S., Hindle, Abram, Stroulia, E.

Bug triaging, i.e., assigning a bug report to the “best” person to address it, involves identifying a list of developers that are qualified to understand and address the bug report, and then ranking them according to their expertise. Most research in this area examines the description of the bug...

2017

Aggarwal, K., Timbers, F., Rutgers, T., Hindle, Abram, Stroulia, E., Greiner, R.

Bug deduplication, ie, recognizing bug reports that refer to the same problem, is a challenging task in the software-engineering life cycle. Researchers have proposed several methods primarily relying on information-retrieval techniques. Our work motivated by the intuition that domain knowledge...

2015

Aggarwal, K., Rutgers, T., Timbers, F., Hindle, Abram, Greiner, R., Stroulia, E.

In previous work by Alipour et al., a methodology was proposed for detecting duplicate bug reports by comparing the textual content of bug reports to subject-specific contextual material, namely lists of software-engineering terms, such as non-functional requirements and architecture keywords....

2012

Guana, V., Rocha, F.P., Hindle, Abram, Stroulia, E.

In this paper we mine the Android bug tracker repository and study the characteristics of the architectural layers of the Android system. We have identified the locality of the Android bugs in the architectural layers of the its infrastructure, and analysed the bug lifetime patterns in each one...

2015

Aggarwal, K., Hindle, Abram, Stroulia, E.

Change-impact analysis, namely “identifying the potential consequences of a change” is an important and well studied problem in software evolution. Any change may potentially affect an application's behaviour, performance, and energy consumption profile. Our previous work demonstrated that...