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Profiling Software Developers with Process Mining and N-Gram Language Models
João Caldeira, Fernando Brito e Abreu, Jorge Cardoso +2
Context: Profiling developers is challenging since many factors, such as their skills, experience, development environment and behaviors, may influence a detailed analysis and the…
PHP code smells in web apps: survival and anomalies
Américo Rio, Fernando Brito e Abreu
Context: Code smells are considered symptoms of poor design, leading to future problems, such as reduced maintainability. Except for anecdotal cases (e. g. code dropout), a code sm…
Crowdsmelling: The use of collective knowledge in code smells detection
José Pereira dos Reis, Fernando Brito e Abreu, Glauco de Figueiredo Carneiro
Code smells are seen as major source of technical debt and, as such, should be detected and removed. However, researchers argue that the subjectiveness of the code smells detection…
Unveiling process insights from refactoring practices
João Caldeira, Fernando Brito e Abreu, Jorge Cardoso +1
Context : Software comprehension and maintenance activities, such as refactoring, are said to be negatively impacted by software complexity. The methods used to measure software pr…
An Eclipse Plugin to Support Code Smells Detection
Tiago Pessoa, Fernando Brito e Abreu, Miguel Pessoa Monteiro +1
Eradication of code smells is often pointed out as a way to improve readability, extensibility and design in existing software. However, code smell detection in large systems remai…
The cloud paradigm: Are you tuned for the lyrics?
Fernando Brito e Abreu
Major players, business angels and opinion-makers are broadcasting beguiled lyrics on the most recent IT hype: your software should ascend to the clouds. There are many clouds and…
An overview of metrics-based approaches to support software components reusability assessment
Miguel Goulão, Fernando Brito e Abreu
Objective: To present an overview on the current state of the art concerning metrics-based quality evaluation of software components and component assemblies. Method: Comparison of…
SLALOM: a Language for SLA specification and monitoring
Anacleto Correia, Fernando Brito e Abreu, Vasco Amaral
IT services provisioning is usually underpinned by service level agreements (SLAs), aimed at guaranteeing services quality. However, there is a gap between the customer perspective…