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The test code, just like production source code, is subject to bad design and programming practices, also known as smells. The presence …

An essential activity of software maintenance is the refactoring of source code. Refactoring operations enable developers to take …

Refactoring is one of the means of managing technical debt and maintaining a healthy software structure through enforcing best design …

The impact of bad programming practices, such as code smells, in production code has been the focus of numerous studies in software …

Expanding abbreviations is an important text normalization technique used for the purpose of either increasing developer comprehension …

We present a data set of abbreviations and expansions, derived from a set of five open source systems, for use by the research and …

Identifier names are the atoms of comprehension; weak identifier names decrease productivity by increasing the chance that developers …

This paper presents the features of a model that relates the natural language found in identifiers with program semantics. The model …

Permissions are one of the most fundamental components for protecting an Android user’s privacy and security. Unfortunately, …

Unknowingly, identifiers in the source code of a software system play a vital role in determining the quality of the system. Ambiguous …