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A Decade of Code Comment Quality Assessment: A Systematic Literature Review
Pooja Rani, Arianna Blasi, Nataliia Stulova +3
Code comments are important artifacts in software systems and play a paramount role in many software engineering (SE) tasks related to maintenance and program comprehension. Howeve…
Do Comments follow Commenting Conventions? A Case Study in Java and Python
Pooja Rani, Suada Abukar, Nataliia Stulova +2
Assessing code comment quality is known to be a difficult problem. A number of coding style guidelines have been created with the aim to encourage writing of informative, readable,…
RepliComment: Identifying Clones in Code Comments
Arianna Blasi, Nataliia Stulova, Alessandra Gorla +1
Code comments are the primary means to document implementation and facilitate program comprehension. Thus, their quality should be a primary concern to improve program maintenance.…
What Do Developers Discuss about Code Comments?
Pooja Rani, Mathias Birrer, Sebastiano Panichella +2
Code comments are important for program comprehension, development, and maintenance tasks. Given the varying standards for code comments, and their unstructured or semi-structured…
How to Identify Class Comment Types? A Multi-language Approach for Class Comment Classification
Pooja Rani, Sebastiano Panichella, Manuel Leuenberger +2
Most software maintenance and evolution tasks require developers to understand the source code of their software systems. Software developers usually inspect class comments to gain…
What do class comments tell us? An investigation of comment evolution and practices in Pharo Smalltalk
Pooja Rani, Sebastiano Panichella, Manuel Leuenberger +2
Previous studies have characterized code comments in various programming languages to support better program comprehension activities and maintenance tasks. However, very few studi…
Caveats in Eliciting Mobile App Requirements
Nitish Patkar, Mohammad Ghafari, Oscar Nierstrasz +1
Factors such as app stores or platform choices heavily affect functional and non-functional mobile app requirements. We surveyed 45 companies and interviewed ten experts to explore…
CryptoExplorer: An Interactive Web Platform Supporting Secure Use of Cryptography APIs
Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand, Mohammad Ghafari, Oscar Nierstrasz
Research has shown that cryptographic APIs are hard to use. Consequently, developers resort to using code examples available in online information sources that are often not secure…
VISON: An Ontology-Based Approach for Software Visualization Tool Discoverability
Leonel Merino, Ekaterina Kozlova, Oscar Nierstrasz +1
Although many tools have been presented in the research literature of software visualization, there is little evidence of their adoption. To choose a suitable visualization tool, p…
Testability First!
Mohammad Ghafari, Markus Eggiman, Oscar Nierstrasz
The pivotal role of testing in high-quality software production has driven a significant effort in evaluating and assessing testing practices. We explore the state of testing in a…
The Impact of Feature Selection on Predicting the Number of Bugs
Haidar Osman, Mohammad Ghafari, Oscar Nierstrasz
Bug prediction is the process of training a machine learning model on software metrics and fault information to predict bugs in software entities. While feature selection is an imp…
Consistent Layout for Thematic Software Maps
Adrian Kuhn, Peter Loretan, Oscar Nierstrasz
Software visualizations can provide a concise overview of a complex software system. Unfortunately, since software has no physical shape, there is no "natural" mapping of software…
Embedding Spatial Software Visualization in the IDE: an Exploratory Study
Adrian Kuhn, David Erni, Oscar Nierstrasz
Software visualization can be of great use for understanding and exploring a software system in an intuitive manner. Spatial representation of software is a promising approach of i…
Towards Improving the Mental Model of Software Developers through Cartographic Visualization
Adrian Kuhn, David Erni, Oscar Nierstrasz
Software is intangible and knowledge about software systems is typically tacit. The mental model of software developers is thus an important factor in software engineering. It is o…