Impact of Software Engineering Research in Practice: A Patent and Author Survey Analysis

Existing work on the practical impact of software engineering (SE) research examines industrial relevance rather than adoption of study results, hence the question of how results have been practically applied remains open. To answer this and investigate the outcomes of impactful research, we performed a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 4...

Tracing Back Log Data to its Log Statement: From Research to Practice

Logs are widely used as a source of information to understand the activity of computer systems and to monitor their health and stability. However, most log analysis techniques require the link between the log messages in the raw log file and the log statements in the source code that produce them. Several solutions have been proposed to solve...

Monitoring-aware IDEs

Engineering modern large-scale software requires software developers to not solely focus on writing code, but also to continuously examine monitoring data to reason about the dynamic behavior of their systems. These additional monitoring responsibilities for developers have only emerged recently, in the light of DevOps culture. Interestingly,...

Towards a weighted voting system for Q&A sites

Version: Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2013, IEEE Computer Society. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2013.49 Q&A sites have become popular to share and look for valuable knowledge. Users can easily and quickly access high quality answers to common questions. The...

Cost Optimizations in Runtime Testing and Diagnosis

Software testing and diagnosis (debugging) is a time-consuming but rather important task for improving software reliability. It is therefore necessary to devise an appropriate verification strategy that not only achieves this reliability goal, but also does this at a minimum cost. Since exhaustive testing is hardly ever possible, testing...

Focusing Automatic Code Inspections

Automatic Code Inspection tools help developers in early detection of defects in software. A well-known drawback of many automatic inspection approaches is that they yield too many warnings and require a clearer focus. In this thesis, we provide such focus by proposing two methods to prioritize inspection results, based on the execution...