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03/01/2023
An Exploratory Study on the Usage and Readability of Messages Within Assertion Methods of Test Cases
Unit testing is a vital part of the software development process and inv...
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02/22/2023
Rename Chains: An Exploratory Study on the Occurrence and Characteristics of Identifiers Undergoing Multiple Renamings
Identifier names play a significant role in program comprehension activi...
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03/19/2022
An Exploratory Study on Refactoring Documentation in Issues Handling
Understanding the practice of refactoring documentation is of paramount ...
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03/10/2022
Refactoring Debt: Myth or Reality? An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Technical Debt and Refactoring
To meet project timelines or budget constraints, developers intentionall...
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02/28/2022
Understanding Digits in Identifier Names: An Exploratory Study
Before any software maintenance can occur, developers must read the iden...
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10/23/2021
How Do I Refactor This? An Empirical Study on Refactoring Trends and Topics in Stack Overflow
An essential part of software maintenance and evolution, refactoring is ...
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09/23/2021
Behind the Scenes: On the Relationship Between Developer Experience and Refactoring
Refactoring is widely recognized as one of the efficient techniques to m...
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09/01/2021
An Ensemble Approach for Annotating Source Code Identifiers with Part-of-speech Tags
This paper presents an ensemble part-of-speech tagging approach for sour...
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07/18/2021
IDEAL: An Open-Source Identifier Name Appraisal Tool
Developers must comprehend the code they will maintain, meaning that the...
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04/29/2021
Test Smell Detection Tools: A Systematic Mapping Study
Test smells are defined as sub-optimal design choices developers make wh...
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03/17/2021
On the Distribution of "Simple Stupid Bugs" in Unit Test Files: An Exploratory Study
A key aspect of ensuring the quality of a software system is the practic...
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03/16/2021
Using Grammar Patterns to Interpret Test Method Name Evolution
It is good practice to name test methods such that they are comprehensib...
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02/26/2021
On the Naming of Methods: A Survey of Professional Developers
This paper describes the results of a large (+1100 responses) survey of ...
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07/15/2020