Every programmer has a characteristic style, ranging from preferences about identifier
naming to preferences about object relationships and design patterns. Coding conventions …

An information retrieval technique, latent semantic indexing, is used to automatically identify
traceability links from system documentation to program source code. The results of two …

In today's applications data is produced at unprecedented rates. While the capacity to collect
and store new data grows rapidly, the ability to analyze these data volumes increases at …

Approximately 70% of the source code of a software system consists of identifiers. Hence,
the names chosen as identifiers are of paramount importance for the readability of computer …

Developers spend the majority of their time reading code, a process in which identifier
names play a key role. Although many identifier naming styles exist, they often lack an …

Readers of programs have two main sources of domain information: identifier names and
comments. When functions are uncommented, as many are, comprehension is almost …

Writing good unit tests can be tedious and error prone, but even once they are written, the
job is not done: Developers need to reason about unit tests throughout software …

A fundamental problem of finding software applications that are highly relevant to
development tasks is the mismatch between the high-level intent reflected in the …

Antipatterns are known as poor solutions to recurring problems. For example, Brown et al.
and Fowler define practices concerning poor design or implementation solutions. However …

Although popular text search engines allow users to retrieve similar web pages, source code
search engines do not have this feature. Detecting similar applications is a notoriously …