Feature location is the activity of identifying an initial location in the source code that
implements functionality in a software system. Many feature location techniques have been …

To deal with post-release bugs, many software projects set up public bug repositories for
users all over the world to report bugs that they have encountered. Recently, researchers …

As software systems continue to grow and evolve, locating code for maintenance and reuse
tasks becomes increasingly difficult. Existing static code search techniques using natural …

Feature location techniques aim at locating software artifacts that implement a specific
program functionality, aka a feature. These techniques support developers during various …

Coupling is an important property of software systems, which directly impacts program
comprehension. In addition, the strength of coupling measured between modules in …

Many theories of human debugging rely on complex mental constructs that offer little
practical advice to builders of software engineering tools. Although hypotheses are …

A reachability question is a search across feasible paths through a program for target
statements matching search criteria. In three separate studies, we found that reachability …

Automated software engineering tools (eg, program search, concern location, code reuse,
quality assessment, etc.) increasingly rely on natural language information from comments …

The paper presents an adaptive approach to perform impact analysis from a given change
request to source code. Given a textual change request (eg, a bug report), a single snapshot …

This paper is intended to review a number of variancebased methods used in Sensitivity
Analysis (SA) to ascertain how much a model (numerical or otherwise) depends on each or …