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Identifying non-natural language artifacts in bug reports
Thomas Hirsch, Birgit Hofer
Bug reports are a popular target for natural language processing (NLP). However, bug reports often contain artifacts such as code snippets, log outputs and stack traces. These arti…
What we can learn from how programmers debug their code
Thomas Hirsch, Birgit Hofer
Researchers have developed numerous debugging approaches to help programmers in the debugging process, but these approaches are rarely used in practice. In this paper, we investiga…
Root cause prediction based on bug reports
Thomas Hirsch, Birgit Hofer
This paper proposes a supervised machine learning approach for predicting the root cause of a given bug report. Knowing the root cause of a bug can help developers in the debugging…
On the Refinement of Spreadsheet Smells by means of Structure Information
Patrick Koch, Birgit Hofer, Franz Wotawa
Spreadsheet users are often unaware of the risks imposed by poorly designed spreadsheets. One way to assess spreadsheet quality is to detect smells which attempt to identify parts…
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering Methods in Spreadsheets (SEMS'18)
Birgit Hofer, Jorge Mendes
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering Methods in Spreadsheets (SEMS'18), held on October 1st, 2018, in Lisbon, Portugal, and co-located with the 201…
Combining Spreadsheet Smells for Improved Fault Prediction
Patrick Koch, Konstantin Schekotihin, Dietmar Jannach +2
Spreadsheets are commonly used in organizations as a programming tool for business-related calculations and decision making. Since faults in spreadsheets can have severe business i…