A comprehensive literature survey on approaches for mining software repositories (MSR) in
the context of software evolution is presented. In particular, this survey deals with those …

Understanding software systems written by others is often challenging. When we want to
assess systems to reason about them, ie, to understand dependencies, analyze evolution …

Patching is a common activity in software development. It is generally performed on a source
code base to address bugs or add new functionalities. In this context, given the recurrence of …

Code smells are structures in code that often harm its quality. Manually detecting code
smells is challenging, so researchers proposed many automatic detectors. Traditional code …

Large-scale cloud systems play a pivotal role in modern IT infrastructure. However, incidents
occurring within these systems can lead to service disruptions and adversely affect user …

Reusing existing library components is essential for reducing the cost of software
development and maintenance. When library components evolve to accommodate new …

Traditionally, mutation testing generates an abundance of small deviations of a program,
called mutants. At industrial systems the scale and size of Facebook's, doing this is …

Software updates typically require stopping and restarting an application, but many systems
cannot afford to halt service, or would prefer not to. Dynamic software updating (DSU) …

This paper is about understanding the nature of bug fixing by analyzing thousands of bug fix
transactions of software repositories. It then places this learned knowledge in the context of …

Abstract Machine learning approaches to source code authorship attribution attempt to find
statistical regularities in human-generated source code that can identify the author or …