Christoph Treude

Beyond tight deadlines: what are the business causes for technical debt?

Business aspects have been identified as a significant cause for the cre...
04/19/2021 ∙ by Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Science-Software Linkage: The Challenges of Traceability between Scientific Knowledge and Software Artifacts

Although computer science papers are often accompanied by software artif...
04/13/2021 ∙ by Hideaki Hata, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Characterising the Knowledge about Primitive Variables in Java Code Comments

Primitive types are fundamental components available in any programming ...
03/23/2021 ∙ by Mahfouth Alghamdi, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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How Do Software Developers Use GitHub Actions to Automate Their Workflows?

Automated tools are frequently used in social coding repositories to per...
03/22/2021 ∙ by Timothy Kinsman, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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How Developers Engineer Test Cases: An Observational Study

One of the main challenges that developers face when testing their syste...
03/01/2021 ∙ by Maurício Aniche, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Same File, Different Changes: The Potential of Meta-Maintenance on GitHub

Online collaboration platforms such as GitHub have provided software dev...
02/12/2021 ∙ by Hideaki Hata, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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GitHub Discussions: An Exploratory Study of Early Adoption

Discussions is a new feature of GitHub for asking questions or discussin...
02/10/2021 ∙ by Hideaki Hata, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Automated Query Reformulation for Efficient Search based on Query Logs From Stack Overflow

As a popular Q A site for programming, Stack Overflow is a treasure fo...
02/01/2021 ∙ by Kaibo Cao, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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The Shifting Sands of Motivation: Revisiting What Drives Contributors in Open Source

Open Source Software (OSS) has changed drastically over the last decade,...
01/25/2021 ∙ by Marco Gerosa, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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How Successful Are Open Source Contributions From Countries with Different Levels of Human Development?

Are Brazilian developers less likely to have a contribution accepted tha...
12/07/2020 ∙ by Leonardo Furtado, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Large-Scale Manual Validation of Bug Fixing Commits: A Fine-grained Analysis of Tangling

Context: Tangled commits are changes to software that address multiple c...
11/12/2020 ∙ by Steffen Herbold, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Business-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization: An Industrial Case Study

Incorporating the business perspective into prioritizing technical debt ...
10/19/2020 ∙ by Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research

Empirical Standards are natural-language models of a scientific communit...
10/07/2020 ∙ by Paul Ralph, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Beyond Accuracy: Assessing Software Documentation Quality

Good software documentation encourages good software engineering, but th...
07/21/2020 ∙ by Christoph Treude, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Selecting third-party libraries: The practitioners' perspective

The selection of third-party libraries is an essential element of virtua...
05/26/2020 ∙ by Enrique Larios-Vargas, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Human-Like Summaries from Heterogeneous and Time-Windowed Software Development Artefacts

Automatic text summarisation has drawn considerable interest in the area...
04/28/2020 ∙ by Mahfouth Alghamdi, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Optimising the Fit of Stack Overflow Code Snippets into Existing Code

Software developers often reuse code from online sources such as Stack O...
04/16/2020 ∙ by Brittany Reid, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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The Impact of Dynamics of Collaborative Software Engineering on Introverts: A Study Protocol

Background: Collaboration among software engineers through face-to-face ...
04/01/2020 ∙ by Ingrid Nunes, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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GitHub Repositories with Links to Academic Papers: Open Access, Traceability, and Evolution

Traceability between published scientific breakthroughs and their implem...
04/01/2020 ∙ by Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Code Duplication on Stack Overflow

Despite the unarguable importance of Stack Overflow (SO) for the daily w...
02/04/2020 ∙ by Sebastian Baltes, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Essential Sentences for Navigating Stack Overflow Answers

Stack Overflow (SO) has become an essential resource for software develo...
12/31/2019 ∙ by Sarah Nadi, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Untapped potential for software engineering in an emerging society: The case of Papua New Guinea

Technological advancement is a main driver for societal change. The Papu...
10/31/2019 ∙ by Raula Gaikovina Kula, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Google Summer of Code: Student Motivations and Contributions

Several open source software (OSS) projects expect to foster newcomers' ...
10/13/2019 ∙ by Jefferson O. Silva, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Automatic Generation of Pull Request Descriptions

Enabled by the pull-based development model, developers can easily contr...
09/16/2019 ∙ by Zhongxin Liu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Tracy: A Business-driven Technical Debt Prioritization Framework

Technical debt is a pervasive problem in software development. Software ...
07/31/2019 ∙ by Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Comprehending Test Code: An Empirical Study

Developers spend a large portion of their time and effort on comprehendi...
07/31/2019 ∙ by Chak Shun Yu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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A Case Study on Automated Fuzz Target Generation for Large Codebases

Fuzz Testing is a largely automated testing technique that provides rand...
07/29/2019 ∙ by Matthew Kelly, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Enhancing Python Compiler Error Messages via Stack Overflow

Background: Compilers tend to produce cryptic and uninformative error me...
06/27/2019 ∙ by Emillie Thiselton, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Contextual Documentation Referencing on Stack Overflow

Software engineering is knowledge-intensive and requires software develo...
06/11/2019 ∙ by Sebastian Baltes, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Toward Human-Like Summaries Generated from Heterogeneous Software Artefacts

Automatic text summarisation has drawn considerable interest in the fiel...
05/06/2019 ∙ by Mahfouth Alghamdi, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Automatically Generating Documentation for Lambda Expressions in Java

When lambda expressions were introduced to the Java programming language...
03/15/2019 ∙ by Anwar Alqaimi, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Wait For It: Identifying "On-Hold" Self-Admitted Technical Debt

Self-admitted technical debt refers to situations where a software devel...
01/28/2019 ∙ by Rungroj Maipradit, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Unveiling Exception Handling Guidelines Adopted by Java Developers

Despite being an old language feature, Java exception handling code is o...
01/25/2019 ∙ by Hugo Melo, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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9.6 Million Links in Source Code Comments: Purpose, Evolution, and Decay

Links are an essential feature of the World Wide Web, and source code re...
01/22/2019 ∙ by Hideaki Hata, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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The Evolution of Stack Overflow Posts: Reconstruction and Analysis

Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for ...
11/02/2018 ∙ by Sebastian Baltes, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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SIEVE: Helping Developers Sift Wheat from Chaff via Cross-Platform Analysis

Software developers have benefited from various sources of knowledge suc...
10/31/2018 ∙ by Agus Sulistya, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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SOTorrent: Studying the Origin, Evolution, and Usage of Stack Overflow Code Snippets

Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for ...
09/08/2018 ∙ by Sebastian Baltes, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Aligning Technical Debt Prioritization with Business Objectives: A Multiple-Case Study

Technical debt (TD) is a metaphor to describe the trade-off between shor...
07/15/2018 ∙ by Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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AutoSpearman: Automatically Mitigating Correlated Metrics for Interpreting Defect Models

The interpretation of defect models heavily relies on software metrics t...
06/26/2018 ∙ by Jirayus Jiarpakdee, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Per-Corpus Configuration of Topic Modelling for GitHub and Stack Overflow Collections

To make sense of large amounts of textual data, topic modelling is frequ...
04/13/2018 ∙ by Christoph Treude, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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SOTorrent: Reconstructing and Analyzing the Evolution of Stack Overflow Posts

Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for ...
03/20/2018 ∙ by Sebastian Baltes, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Categorizing the Content of GitHub README Files

README files play an essential role in shaping a developer's first impre...
02/20/2018 ∙ by Gede Artha Azriadi Prana, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Unusual Events in GitHub Repositories

In large and active software projects, it becomes impractical for a deve...
10/05/2017 ∙ by Christoph Treude, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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