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A Study of Update Request Comments in Stack Overflow Answer Posts
Mohammad Sadegh Sheikhaei, Yuan Tian, Shaowei Wang
Comments play an important role in updating Stack Overflow (SO) posts. They are used to point out a problem (e.g., obsolete answer and buggy code) in a SO answer or ask for more de…
The Impact of Using Regression Models to Build Defect Classifiers
Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Shaowei Wang, Yasutaka Kamei +1
It is common practice to discretize continuous defect counts into defective and non-defective classes and use them as a target variable when building defect classifiers (discretize…
Impact of Discretization Noise of the Dependent variable on Machine Learning Classifiers in Software Engineering
Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Shaowei Wang, Yasutaka Kamei +1
Researchers usually discretize a continuous dependent variable into two target classes by introducing an artificial discretization threshold (e.g., median). However, such discretiz…
The impact of feature importance methods on the interpretation of defect classifiers
Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Shaowei Wang, Yasutaka Kamei +1
Classifier specific (CS) and classifier agnostic (CA) feature importance methods are widely used (often interchangeably) by prior studies to derive feature importance ranks from a…
IncBL: Incremental Bug Localization
Zhou Yang, Jieke Shi, Shaowei Wang +1
Numerous efforts have been invested in improving the effectiveness of bug localization techniques, whereas little attention is paid to making these tools run more efficiently in co…
Bounties in Open Source Development on GitHub: A Case Study of Bountysource Bounties
Jiayuan Zhou, Shaowei Wang, Cor-Paul Bezemer +2
Due to the voluntary nature of open source software, it can be hard to find a developer to work on a particular task. For example, some issue reports may be too cumbersome and unex…