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ICSME 2016 Sessions
Research Track
Wednesday
Empirical studies and literature reviews (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, State DEF, Chair: Tim Menzies)
- An Empirical Evaluation of Models of Programmer Navigation
- A Comprehensive Study on the Energy Efficiency of Java Thread-Safe Collections
- Maintenance Effort Estimation for Open Source Software: A Systematic Literature Review
- A Taxonomy for Program Metamodels in Program Reverse Engineering
Maintaining web-based applications (1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, State DEF, Chair: Tom Mens)
- Automated Extraction of Mixins in Cascading Style Sheets
- The A?B*A Pattern: Undoing Style in CSS and Refactoring Opportunities it Presents
- Detect Cross-browser Issues for JavaScript-based Web Applications based on Record/Replay
- An Empirical Study of Internationalization Failures in the Web
Reverse engineering (3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, State DEF, Chair: Emily Hill)
- Evolving Trace Links between Requirements and Code across Multiple Versions of a Software System
- Inferring Links between Concerns and Methods with Multi-Abstraction Vector Space Model
- Inferring Computational State Machine Models from Program Executions
- An optimization based approach for matching applications with textual models
- Configuring and Assembling Information Retrieval based Solutions for Software Engineering Tasks (Doctoral Symposium Post-doctoral Track Presentation)
Thursday
Software evolution (10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, State DEF, Chair: Oscar Nierstrasz)
- Complete Evolution Specification for MDSE
- Do Contexts Help in Phrase-based, Statistical Source Code Migration?
- Evolving NoSQL Databases Without Downtime
- Hug the Elephant: Migrating a Legacy Data Analytics Application to Hadoop Ecosystem
Changes and fixes (1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, State DEF, Chair: Coen De Roover)
- An Empirical Study on the Characteristics of Python Fine-Grained Source Code Change Types
- Using Topic Model to Suggest Fine-grained Source Code Changes
- From Quick Fixes to Slow Fixes: Reimagining Static Analysis Resolutions to Enable Design Space Exploration
- Recommending Code Changes for Automatic Backporting of Linux Device Drivers
Code smells and software quality (3:00 PM - 4:45 PM, State DEF, Chair: Árpád Beszédes)
- A Validated Set of Smells in Model-View-Controller Architectures
- Smells like Teen Spirit: Improving Bug Prediction Performance Using the Intensity of Code Smells
- Comparing Quality Metrics for Cloned and Non-Cloned Java Methods: A Large Scale Empirical Study
- "Automated Debugging Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful -- A User Study Revisiting the Usefulness of Spectra-Based Fault Localization Techniques with Professionals using Real Bugs from Large Systems
- An Automated Approach for Recommending When to Stop Performance Tests
Friday
Release engineering (10:45 AM - 12:15 PM, State DEF, Chair: Shane McIntosh)
- Recovering Commit Branch of Origin from GitHub Repositories
- Why are Commits being Reverted? A Comparative Study of Industrial and Open Source Projects
- Understanding variable code: Reducing the complexity by integrating variability information
- Concepts, Operations, and Feasibility of a Projection-Based Variation Control System
Mining software repositories (1:15 PM - 2:45 PM, State DEF, Chair: Alexander Serebrenik)
- Understanding the Factors that Impact the Popularity of GitHub Repositories
- Who is who in the mailing list? Comparing six disambiguation heuristics to identify multiple addresses of a participant
- TechLand: Assisting Technology LandscapeInquiries with Insights from Stack Overflow
- Search-Based Peer Reviewers Recommendation in Modern Code Review
APIs (3:15 PM - 4:45 PM, State DEF, Chair: Massimiliano Di Penta)
- ICON: Inferring Temporal Constraints from Natural Language API Descriptions
- Learning to Extract API Mentions from Informal Natural Language Discussions
- On the reaction to deprecation of 25,357 clients of 4+1 popular Java APIs
- Accessing Inaccessible Android APIs: An Empirical Study
ERA Track
Friday
Defects and repair (1:15 PM - 2:45 PM, University, Chair: Scott Fleming)
- Empirical Study on Synthesis Engines for Semantics-based Program Repair
- Enhancing Automated Program Repair with Deductive Verification
- Automatic detection of instability architectural smells
- Towards Accurate Binary Correspondence using Runtime-Observed Values
- A Quantitative and Qualitative Investigation of Performance-Related Commits in Android Apps
- On the Vocabulary Agreement in Software Issue Descriptions
- Repairing intricate faults in code using machine learning and path exploration.
Maintenance and analysis (3:15 PM - 4:45 PM, University, Chair: David Lo)
- How Does the Shift to GitHub Impact Project Collaboration?
- Using Temporal and Semantic Developer-Level Information to Predict Maintenance Activity Profiles
- Modular Change Impact Analysis for Configurable Software
- Continuous Maintenance
- Key Elements Extraction and Traces Comprehension Using Gestalt Theory and the Helmholtz Principle
- Part of Speech Tagging Java Method Names
- Detecting Function Constructors in JavaScript
Industry Track
Wednesday
Best practices (3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, University, Chair: Jochen Quante)
- Improving Code Maintainability: A Case Study on the Impact of Refactoring
- What is the cause for a defect to be re-assigned?
- How Can We Help Software Rearchitecting Efforts? Study of an Industrial Case
- Continuous Delivery Practices in a Large Financial Organization
Thursday
Comprehension (1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, University, Chair: Bonita Sharif)
- Introducing Traceability, Consistency Checking, and Change Impact Analysis between Artifacts in an Automation Solution Company: An Experience Report
- Use Cases of a Generic Model Interpreter in an Automotive Software Setting
- Integration of Static and Dynamic Code Analysis for Understanding Legacy Source Code
- A Case Study of Automated Feature Location Techniques for Industrial Cost Estimation
Testing and migration (3:00 PM - 4:45 PM, University, Chair: David Shepherd)
- A tiered approach towards an incremental BPEL to BPMN 2.0 migration
- Effect of Time Window on the Performance of Continuous Regression Testing
- Customized Regression Testing Using Telemetry Usage Patterns
- Industrial Application of Automated Regression Testing in Test-Driven ETL Development
Tool Demos Track
Thursday (10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, University, Chairs: Alberto Bacchelli and Emily Hill)
- SchemaAnalyst: Search-based Test Data Generation for Relational Database Schemas
- mrstudyr: Retrospectively Studying the Effectiveness of Mutant Reduction Techniques
- BigCloneEval: A Clone Detection Tool Evaluation Framework with BigCloneBench
- NullTerminator: Pseudo-Automatic Refactoring to Null Object Design Pattern
- srcType: A Tool for Efficient Static Type Resolution
- A Tool for Efficiently Reverse Engineering Accurate UML Class Diagrams
Artifacts Track
Friday (10:45 AM - 12:15 PM, University, Chair: Tim Menzies)
- . TraceLab Components for Reproducing Source Code Summarization Experiments
- . Data and Analysis code for GP EFSM Inference (Scorecard)
- . Cassandra Source Code, Feature Descriptions across 27 versions, with Starting and Ending Version Trace Matrices
- . A Tool for Detecting and Refactoring the A?B*A Pattern in CSS
- . A Comprehensive Study on the Energy Efficiency of Java's Thread-Safe Collections
- . The A?B*A Pattern: Undoing Style in CSS and Refactoring Opportunities it Presents
Doctoral Symposium
Tuesday (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Governor's Boardroom, Chairs: Andrew Begel and Lori Pollock)
- A Multiagent-based Framework for Self-adaptive Software with Search-based Optimization
- Measuring Code Similarity in Large-scaled Code Corpora
- Configuring and Assembling Information Retrieval based Solutions for Software Engineering Tasks
- Automatically Documenting Software Artifacts
- Resolving Input Validation Vulnerabilities by Retracing Taint Flow Through Source Code
- On the Popularity of GitHub Software
- Alternative Sources of Information for Code Smell Detection: Postcards From Far Away
- A Roadmap for Co-Evolution of Meta-Models and Models
- Improving Bug Reporting and Testing for Mobile Applications
Technology Briefings
Wednesday (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, University, Chair: David Lo)
- . iTrace: Overcoming the Limitations of Short Code Examples in Eye Tracking Experiments
- . Automated GUI Testing of Android Apps: From Research to Practice
- . srcML 1.0: Explore, Analyze, and Manipulate Source Code
J1C2 (Journal of Software: Evolution and Process)
Friday (10:45 AM - 12:15 PM, Congressional, Chair: Hitesh Sajnani)
- . The Impact of Vocabulary Normalization
- . Robula+: an algorithm for generating robust XPath locators for web testing
- . Automated feature discovery via sentence selection and source code summarization