Static analysis tools help developers find bugs, improve code readability, and ensure
consistent style across a project. However, these tools can be difficult to smoothly integrate …

Continuous integration (CI) is a widely used practice in modern software engineering.
Unfortunately, it is also an expensive practice---Google and Mozilla estimate their CI …

Continuous Delivery is an agile software development practice in which developers
frequently integrate changes into the main development line and produce releases of their …

For the last ten years we have been teaching a capstone course for fifth year students of the
Computer Science Department of the Universidad de Chile. Five year ago we redesigned …

Performance is an important aspect of software quality. In fact, large software systems
failures are often due to performance issues rather than functional bugs. One of the most …

Security is a harsh reality for software teams today. Developers must engineer secure
software by preventing vulnerabilities, which are design and coding mistakes that have …

Source code hosting websites (code forges) have recently changed to more social
environments, and the contribution process evolved to the so-called pull-based …

GitHub is the largest collaborative source code hosting site built on top of the Git version
control system. The availability of a comprehensive API has made GitHub a target for many …

Since manual black-box testing of GUI-based applications (GAPs) is tedious and laborious,
test engineers create test scripts to automate the testing process. These test scripts interact …

The paper describes a system called TESTTUBE that combines static and dynamic analysis
to perform selective retesting of software systems written in C. TESTTUBE first identifies …