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03/07/2023
Are We Speeding Up or Slowing Down? On Temporal Aspects of Code Velocity
This paper investigates how the duration of various code review periods ...
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12/22/2022
Who Ate My Memory? Towards Attribution in Memory Management
To understand applications' memory usage details, engineers use instrume...
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08/17/2022
When malloc() Never Returns NULL – Reliability as an Illusion
For decades, the guidance given to software engineers has been to check ...
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06/23/2022
There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Custom Memory Allocator
Using custom memory allocators is an efficient performance optimization ...
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06/11/2022
Is Kernel Code Different From Non-Kernel Code? A Case Study of BSD Family Operating Systems
Code churn and code velocity describe the evolution of a code base. Curr...
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03/14/2022
The Unexplored Treasure Trove of Phabricator Code Review
Phabricator is a modern code collaboration tool used by popular projects...
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03/09/2022
Mining Code Review Data to Understand Waiting Times Between Acceptance and Merging: An Empirical Analysis
Increasing code velocity (or the speed with which code changes are revie...
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03/09/2022
Do Small Code Changes Merge Faster? A Multi-Language Empirical Investigation
Code velocity, or the speed with which code changes are integrated into ...
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03/08/2022
Quantifying Daily Evolution of Mobile Software Based on Memory Allocator Churn
The pace and volume of code churn necessary to evolve modern software sy...
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01/25/2022
The Unexplored Terrain of Compiler Warnings
The authors' industry experiences suggest that compiler warnings, a ligh...
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08/23/2021
Pull Request Latency Explained: An Empirical Overview
Pull request latency evaluation is an essential application of effort ev...
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07/13/2021
Promises and Perils of Inferring Personality on GitHub
Personality plays a pivotal role in our understanding of human actions a...
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06/03/2021
How does Software Change?
Software evolves with changes to its codebase over time. Internally, sof...
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05/28/2021
Pull Request Decision Explained: An Empirical Overview
Context: Pull-based development model is widely used in open source, lea...
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10/07/2020
Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering: A Replication
In 2014, a Microsoft study investigated the sort of questions that data ...
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10/02/2020