Software Maintenance and Evolution

Do the Test Smells Assertion Roulette and Eager Test Impact Students' Troubleshooting and Debugging Capabilities?
Educating students about software testing practices is integral to the curricula of many computer science-related courses and typically …
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Impostor Syndrome in Final Year Computer Science Students: An Eye Tracking and Biometrics Study
Imposter syndrome is a psychological phenomenon that affects individuals who doubt their skills and abilities, despite possessing the …
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An Exploratory Study on the Occurrence of Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Android Apps
Technical debt describes situations where developers write less-than-optimal code to meet project milestones. However, this debt …
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An Exploratory Study on the Usage and Readability of Messages Within Assertion Methods of Test Cases
Unit testing is a vital part of the software development process and involves developers writing code to verify or assert production …
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Do the Test Smells Assertion Roulette and Eager Test Impact Students' Troubleshooting and Debugging Capabilities?
To ensure the quality of a software system, developers perform an activity known as unit testing, where they write code (known as test …
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Performance Comparison of Binary Machine Learning Classifiers in Identifying Code Comment Types: An Exploratory Study
Code comments are vital to source code as they help developers with program comprehension tasks. Written in natural language (usually …
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How Is Software Reuse Discussed in Stack Overflow?
Software reuse is a crucial external quality attribute targeted by open-source and commercial projects. Despite that software reuse has …
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Rename Chains: An Exploratory Study on the Occurrence and Characteristics of Identifiers Undergoing Multiple Renamings
Identifier names play a significant role in program comprehension activities, with high-quality names improving developer productivity …
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Behind the scenes: On the relationship between developer experience and refactoring
Refactoring is widely recognized as one of the efficient techniques to manage technical debt and maintain a healthy software project …
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How Do I Refactor This? An Empirical Study on Refactoring Trends and Topics in Stack Overflow
An essential part of software maintenance and evolution, refactoring is performed by developers, regardless of technology or domain, to …
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