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2018

Santos, E.A., McLean, C., Solinas, C., Hindle, Abram

Context: Virtual machines provide isolation of services at the cost of hypervisors and more resource usage. This spurred the growth of systems like Docker that enable single hosts to isolate several applications, similar to VMs, within a low-overhead abstraction called containers. Motivation:...

2016

Santos, E.A., Hindle, Abram

Developers summarize their changes to code in commit messages. When a message seems "unusual", however, this puts doubt into the quality of the code contained in the commit. We trained n-gram language models and used cross-entropy as an indicator of commit message "unusualness" of over 120,000...

2018

Santos, E.A., Campbell, J.C., Patel, D., Hindle, Abram, Amaral, J.N.

Syntax errors are made by novice and experienced programmers alike; however, novice programmers lack the years of experience that help them quickly resolve these frustrating errors. Standard LR parsers are of little help, typically resolving syntax errors and their precise location poorly. We...

2016

Campbell, J.C., Santos, E.A., Hindle, Abram

Organizations like Mozilla, Microsoft, and Apple are flooded with thousands of automated crash reports per day. Although crash reports contain valuable information for debugging, there are often too many for developers to examine individually. Therefore, in industry, crash reports are often...

2016

Feist, M.D., Santos, E.A., Watts, I., Hindle, Abram

What is a developer's contribution to a repository? By only counting commits and number of lines changed, existing tools that visualize source code repositories (such as GitHub's graphs) fall short on showing the effective contributions made by each developer. When many commits are viewed as a...