The current Internet environment is complex, and in the face of endless vulnerability,
patching is one of the main means to mitigate vulnerability hazards. In the past few decades …

Software bugs constitute a frequent and common issue of software development. To deal
with this problem, modern software development methodologies introduce dedicated quality …

JavaScript (JS) is one of the most popular programming languages due to its flexibility and
versatility, but maintaining JS code is tedious and error-prone. In our research, we …

Frequent co-changes to multiple files, ie, evolutionary coupling, can demonstrate active
relations among files, explicit or implicit. Although evolutionary coupling has been used to …

When maintaining software, developers sometimes change multiple program entities (ie,
classes, methods, and fields) to fulfill one maintenance task. We call such complex changes …

The occurrences of bugs are not isolated events, rather they may interact, affect each other,
and trigger other latent bugs. Identifying and understanding bug correlations could help …

Abstract Changes on source code may propagate to distant code entities through various
kinds of relationships, which may form up change propagation channels. It is however …

缺陷理解是针对缺陷本身及衍生产物建立完整认知过程的研究. 由于调试的连贯性及完美缺陷
理解假设不合理性, 深入分析缺陷传播过程及缺陷间关系, 研究关键信息检测及理解信息表达 …

Developers spend significant time and effort in maintaining software. In a maintenance task,
developers sometimes have to simultaneously modify multiple program entities (ie, classes …

When building enterprise applications on Java frameworks (eg, Spring), developers often
specify components and configure operations with a special kind of XML files named" …