The behavior of software that uses the Java Reflection API is fundamentally hard to predict
by analyzing code. Only recent static analysis approaches can resolve reflection under …

Empirical research is playing a significant role in software engineering (SE), and it has been
applied to evaluate software artifacts and technologies. There have been a great number of …

One of the goals of software engineering research is to achieve generality: Are the
phenomena found in a few projects reflective of others? Will a technique perform as well on …

Due to the popularity and pervasive use of regular expressions, researchers have created
tools to support their creation, validation, and use. However, little is known about the context …

Programming languages evolve over time, adding additional language features to simplify
common tasks and make the language easier to use. For example, the Java Language …

The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data provides valuable information on analysis
techniques often used to derive insight from software data. This book shares best practices …

Static type systems play an essential role in contemporary programming languages. Despite
their importance, whether static type systems impact human software development …

Java is a safe language. Its runtime environment provides strong safety guarantees that any
Java application can rely on. Or so we think. We show that the runtime actually does not …

Static type systems play an essential role in contemporary programming languages. Despite
their importance, whether static type systems influence human software development …

To avoid unresponsiveness, a core part of mobile development is asynchronous
programming. Android providesseveral async constructs that developers can use. However …