The C preprocessor is used in many C projects to support variability and portability.
However, researchers and practitioners criticize the C preprocessor because of its negative …

Regression test selection (RTS) reduces regression testing costs by re-running only tests
that can change behavior due to code changes. Researchers and large software …

Mutation testing is a program-transformation technique that injects artificial bugs to check
whether the existing test suite can detect them. However, the costs of using mutation testing …

Refactoring engines may have overly strong preconditions preventing developers from
applying useful transformations. We find that 32 percent of the Eclipse and JRRT test suites …

Transformations form an important part of developing domain specific languages, where
they are used to provide semantics for typing and evaluation. Yet, few solutions exist for …

Maintenance tasks are often time-consuming and hard to manage. To cope with that,
developers often use failing test cases to guide their maintenance efforts. Therefore, working …

Refactoring is a widely used development practice, available in mainstream IDEs. A
previous work conducted a survey with developers, and finds that most of them use their …

Developers of widely used Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) implement and test the Java
Reflection API based on a Javadoc, which is specified using a natural language. However …

Refactoring is a critical process in software development, aiming at improving the internal
structure of code while preserving its external behavior. Refactoring engines are integral …

It has been broadly assumed that removing code clones by refactorings would solve the
problems of code duplication. Despite recent empirical studies on the benefit of refactorings …