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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…
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…
Does the hiding mechanism for Stack Overflow comments work well? No!
Haoxiang Zhang, Shaowei Wang, Tse-Hsun Peter Chen +1
Stack Overflow has accumulated millions of answers. Informative comments can strengthen their associated answers (e.g., providing additional information). Currently, Stack Overflow…
An Empirical Study of Obsolete Answers on Stack Overflow
Haoxiang Zhang, Shaowei Wang, Tse-Hsun +3
Stack Overflow accumulates an enormous amount of software engineering knowledge. However, as time passes, certain knowledge in answers may become obsolete. Such obsolete answers, i…