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On The Effect Of Code Review On Code Smells
Luca Pascarella, Davide Spadini, Fabio Palomba +1
Code smells are symptoms of poor design quality. Since code review is a process that also aims at improving code quality, we investigate whether and how code review influences the…
Not All Bugs Are the Same: Understanding, Characterizing, and Classifying the Root Cause of Bugs
Gemma Catolino, Fabio Palomba, Andy Zaidman +1
Modern version control systems such as Git or SVN include bug tracking mechanisms, through which developers can highlight the presence of bugs through bug reports, i.e., textual de…
Understanding Flaky Tests: The Developer's Perspective
Moritz Eck, Fabio Palomba, Marco Castelluccio +1
Flaky tests are software tests that exhibit a seemingly random outcome (pass or fail) when run against the same, identical code. Previous work has examined fixes to flaky tests and…