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Deficient documentation detection: a methodology to locate deficient project documentation using topic analysis
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Campbell, J., Chenlei, Z., Xu, Z., Hindle, Abram, Miller, J.
A project's documentation is the primary source of information for developers using that project. With hundreds of thousands of programming-related questions posted on programming Q&A websites, such as Stack Overflow, we question whether the developer-written documentation provides enough...
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GreenMiner: a hardware based mining software repositories software energy consumption framework
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Hindle, Abram, Wilson, A., Rasmussen, K., Barlow, E.J., Campbell, J., Romansky, S.
Green Mining is a field of MSR that studies software energy consumption and relies on software performance data. Unfortunately there is a severe lack of publicly available software power use performance data. This means that green mining researchers must generate this data themselves by writing...
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2014
Campbell, J., Hindle, Abram, Amaral, J.N.
A frustrating aspect of software development is that compiler error messages often fail to locate the actual cause of a syntax error. An errant semicolon or brace can result in many errors reported throughout the file. We seek to find the actual source of these syntax errors by relying on the...
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The Power of System Call Traces: Predicting the Software Energy Consumption Impact of Changes
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Aggarwal, K., Chenlei, Z., Campbell, J., Hindle, Abram, Stroulia, E.
Battery is a critical resource for smartphones. Software developers as the builders and maintainers of applications, are responsible for updating and deploying energy efficient applications to end users. Unfortunately, the impact of software change on energy consumption is still unclear....