Code Smells & Software Quality in Machine Learning Projects

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are pervasive in the current computer science landscape. Yet, there still exists a lack of Software Engineering (SE) experience and best practices in this field. One such best practice, static code analysis, can be used to find code smells, i.e., (potential) defects in the source code,...

Studying the Effects of Code Clone Size on Clone Evolution

The practice of code cloning is something every software developer has to deal with at some point. The evolution of code clones is of particular interest, because the effects of cloning code show up later in the lifetime of a project. We research the effects a clone's properties have on its evolutionary behavior. For this purpose an approach to...