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Pingen, R.A. (author)A lack of cohesion is often associated with bad software quality, and could lead to more changes and bugs in software. In this thesis the impact of cohesion on the change-proneness of Java interfaces is investigated. Showing the existence of a relation between these concepts can lead to better change prediction models that can support software...master thesis 2012
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Alidarso, R. (author)Software systems are getting larger and more complex. It takes therefore more time and money to maintain these systems. The maintenance effort is strongly related to the quality of the implementation during the development phase. Providing qualitative numbers to developers about their previous im- plementations could help increase the quality of...master thesis 2012
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Giger, E. (author), Pinzger, M. (author), Gall, H.C. (author)Preprint of paper published in: 9th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2-3 June 2012; doi:10.1109/MSR.2012.6224284 There exist many approaches that help in pointing developers to the change-prone parts of a software system. Although beneficial, they mostly fall short in providing details of these changes. Fine-grained...report 2012
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Bouwers, E. (author), Van Deursen, A. (author)Architecture evaluations offer many benefits, including the early detection of problems and a better understanding of the possibilities of a system. Although many methods are available to evaluate an architecture, studies have shown that the adoption of architecture evaluations in industry is low. A reason for this lack of adoption is that there...report 2013
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- Koster, Martin (author), Arkesteijn, Youri (author), Meuleman, Mathias (author) bachelor thesis 2017
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Pascarella, L. (author), Bacchelli, A. (author)Code comments are a key software component containing information about the underlying implementation. Several studies have shown that code comments enhance the readability of the code. Nevertheless, not all the comments have the same goal and target audience. In this paper, we investigate how six diverse Java OSS projects use code comments,...conference paper 2017
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den Braber, Tom (author)The goal of this thesis is to learn how exception handling constructs are used by PHP developers. We present an approach for detecting the exception flow of a software system, based on the work of Robillard and Murphy (2003). We show the accuracy of this approach by evaluating the tool on a corpus of three different PHP systems. The approach is...master thesis 2017
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Roy, S. (author), van Deursen, A. (author), Hermans, F.F.J. (author)Automatically inferred invariants have been found to be successful in detecting regression faults in traditional software, but their application has not been explored in the context of spreadsheets. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of automatically inferred invariants in detecting regression faults in spreadsheets. We conduct an...conference paper 2018
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Kula, E. (author), Rastogi, A. (author), Huijgens, H.K.M. (author), van Deursen, A. (author), Gousios, G. (author)The appeal of delivering new features faster has led many software projects to adopt rapid releases. However, it is not well understood what the effects of this practice are. This paper presents an exploratory case study of rapid releases at ING, a large banking company that develops software solutions in-house, to characterize rapid releases....conference paper 2019
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Kula, Elvan (author)The appeal of delivering new features faster has led many software projects to change their development processes towards rapid release models. Even though rapid releases are increasingly being adopted in open-source and commercial software, it is not well understood what the effects are of this practice. This thesis presents an exploratory case...master thesis 2019
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Panichella, A. (author), Panichella, Sebastiano (author), Fraser, Gordon (author), Sawant, Anand Ashok (author), Hellendoorn, Vincent J. (author)Test smells attempt to capture design issues in test code that reduce their maintainability. Previous work found such smells to be highly common in automatically generated test-cases, but based this result on specific static detection rules; although these are based on the original definition of “test smells”, a recent empirical study showed...conference paper 2020
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Zhu, Q. (author)The main goal of this thesis is to investigate, improve and extend the applicability of mutation testing. To seek the potential directions of how to improve and extend the applicability of mutation testing, we have started with a systematic literature review on the current state of how mutation testing is applied. The results from the systematic...doctoral thesis 2020
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Nederveen, Tim (author)Software engineers often lack the domain knowledge needed to validate context specific parts of software. Domain experts do have this knowledge needed to validate the software, but often lack the expertise and tools to apply this knowledge in a way that tests the software product. Based on a case study at business-software company Exact, this...master thesis 2021
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van Oort, Bart (author)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,...master thesis 2021
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Panichella, A. (author), Panichella, Sebastiano (author), Fraser, Gordon (author), Sawant, Anand Ashok (author), Hellendoorn, Vincent (author)Test smells aim to capture design issues in test code that reduces its maintainability. These have been extensively studied and generally found quite prevalent in both human-written and automatically generated test-cases. However, most evidence of prevalence is based on specific static detection rules. Although those are based on the original,...journal article 2022
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Van Oort, Bart (author), Cruz, Luis (author), Loni, Babak (author), van Deursen, A. (author)Machine Learning (ML) projects incur novel challenges in their development and productionisation over traditional software applications, though established principles and best practices in ensuring the project's software quality still apply. While using static analysis to catch code smells has been shown to improve software quality attributes...conference paper 2022
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Zhang, Haiyin (author)The popularity of machine learning has wildly expanded in recent years. Machine learning techniques have been heatedly studied in academia and applied in the industry to create business value. However, there is a lack of guidelines for code quality in machine learning applications. Although machine learning code is usually integrated as a small...master thesis 2022
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Zaidman, A.E. (author), Khatami, Ali (author)Software engineers employ a variety of approaches to ensure the quality of software systems, including software testing, modern code review, automated static analysis, build automation, and continuous integration. To make effective decisions regarding quality assurance (QA), software engineers need to have an awareness of (1) the QA approaches...conference paper 2023
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Abdelgawad, Ahmed A. (author), Comes, M. (author)Evaluation and testing are significant steps in developing any information system. More attention must be devoted to these steps if the system is to be used in high-risk contexts, such as the response to conflict disasters. Several testing methodologies are designed to guarantee that software fulfills technology requirements; others will assure...book chapter 2023
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Khatami, Ali (author), Zaidman, A.E. (author)To ensure the quality of software systems, software engineers can make use of a variety of quality assurance approaches, for example, software testing, modern code review, automated static analysis, and build automation. Each of these quality assurance practices have been studied in depth in isolation, but there is a clear knowledge gap when...journal article 2024