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An Empirical Study Of Developers' Discussions About Security Challenges Of Different Programming Languages, Roland Croft, Yongzheng Xie, Mansooreh Zahedi, Muhammad Ali Babar, Christoph Treude
An Empirical Study Of Developers' Discussions About Security Challenges Of Different Programming Languages, Roland Croft, Yongzheng Xie, Mansooreh Zahedi, Muhammad Ali Babar, Christoph Treude
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In collaborative software development projects, work items are used as a mechanism to coordinate tasks and track shared development work. In this paper, we explore how “tagging,” a lightweight social computing mechanism, is used to communicate matters of concern in the management of development tasks. We present the results from two empirical studies over 36 and 12 months, respectively, on how tagging has been adopted and what role it plays in the development processes of several professional development projects with more than 1,000 developers in total. Our research shows that the tagging mechanism was eagerly adopted by the teams, and …
Accessibility In Software Practice: A Practitioner's Perspective, Tingting Bi, Xin Xia, David Lo, John C. Grundy, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
Accessibility In Software Practice: A Practitioner's Perspective, Tingting Bi, Xin Xia, David Lo, John C. Grundy, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Being able to access software in daily life is vital for everyone, and thus accessibility is a fundamental challenge for software development. However, given the number of accessibility issues reported by many users, e.g., in app reviews, it is not clear if accessibility is widely integrated into current software projects and how software projects address accessibility issues. In this article, we report a study of the critical challenges and benefits of incorporating accessibility into software development and design. We applied a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach for gathering data from 15 interviews and 365 survey respondents from 26 countries across …
Just-In-Time Defect Prediction On Javascript Projects: A Replication Study, Chao Ni, Xin Xia, David Lo, Xiaohu Yang, Ahmed E. Hassan
Just-In-Time Defect Prediction On Javascript Projects: A Replication Study, Chao Ni, Xin Xia, David Lo, Xiaohu Yang, Ahmed E. Hassan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Change-level defect prediction is widely referred to as just-in-time (JIT) defect prediction since it identifies a defect-inducing change at the check-in time, and researchers have proposed many approaches based on the language-independent change-level features. These approaches can be divided into two types: supervised approaches and unsupervised approaches, and their effectiveness has been verified on Java or C++ projects. However, whether the language-independent change-level features can effectively identify the defects of JavaScript projects is still unknown. Additionally, many researches have confirmed that supervised approaches outperform unsupervised approaches on Java or C++ projects when considering inspection effort. However, whether supervised JIT defect …
On The Reproducibility And Replicability Of Deep Learning In Software Engineering, Chao Liu, Cuiyun Gao, Xin Xia, David Lo, John C. Grundy, Xiaohu Yang
On The Reproducibility And Replicability Of Deep Learning In Software Engineering, Chao Liu, Cuiyun Gao, Xin Xia, David Lo, John C. Grundy, Xiaohu Yang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Context: Deep learning (DL) techniques have gained significant popularity among software engineering (SE) researchers in recent years. This is because they can often solve many SE challenges without enormous manual feature engineering effort and complex domain knowledge.Objective: Although many DL studies have reported substantial advantages over other state-of-the-art models on effectiveness, they often ignore two factors: (1) reproducibility—whether the reported experimental results can be obtained by other researchers using authors’ artifacts (i.e., source code and datasets) with the same experimental setup; and (2) replicability—whether the reported experimental result can be obtained by other researchers using their re-implemented artifacts with a …
Predictive Models In Software Engineering: Challenges And Opportunities, Yanming Yang, Xin Xia, David Lo, Tingting Bi, John C. Grundy, Xiaohu Yang
Predictive Models In Software Engineering: Challenges And Opportunities, Yanming Yang, Xin Xia, David Lo, Tingting Bi, John C. Grundy, Xiaohu Yang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Predictive models are one of the most important techniques that are widely applied in many areas of software engineering. There have been a large number of primary studies that apply predictive models and that present well-performed studies in various research domains, including software requirements, software design and development, testing and debugging, and software maintenance. This article is a first attempt to systematically organize knowledge in this area by surveying a body of 421 papers on predictive models published between 2009 and 2020. We describe the key models and approaches used, classify the different models, summarize the range of key application …
Correlating Automated And Human Evaluation Of Code Documentation Generation Quality, Xing Hu, Qiuyuan Chen, Haoye Wang, Xin Xia, David Lo, Thomas Zimmermann
Correlating Automated And Human Evaluation Of Code Documentation Generation Quality, Xing Hu, Qiuyuan Chen, Haoye Wang, Xin Xia, David Lo, Thomas Zimmermann
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Automatic code documentation generation has been a crucial task in the field of software engineering. It not only relieves developers from writing code documentation but also helps them to understand programs better. Specifically, deep-learning-based techniques that leverage large-scale source code corpora have been widely used in code documentation generation. These works tend to use automatic metrics (such as BLEU, METEOR, ROUGE, CIDEr, and SPICE) to evaluate different models. These metrics compare generated documentation to reference texts by measuring the overlapping words. Unfortunately, there is no evidence demonstrating the correlation between these metrics and human judgment. We conduct experiments on two …
Mind The Gap: Reimagining An Interactive Programming Course For The Synchronous Hybrid Classroom, Christopher M. Poskitt, Kyong Jin Shim, Yi Meng Lau, Hong Seng Ong
Mind The Gap: Reimagining An Interactive Programming Course For The Synchronous Hybrid Classroom, Christopher M. Poskitt, Kyong Jin Shim, Yi Meng Lau, Hong Seng Ong
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
COVID-19 has significantly affected universities, forcing many courses to be delivered entirely online. As countries bring the pandemic under control, a potential way to safely resume some face-to-face teaching is the synchronous hybrid classroom, in which physically and remotely attending students are taught simultaneously. This comes with challenges, however, including the risk that remotely attending students perceive a ‘gap’ between their engagement and that of their physical peers. In this experience report, we describe how an interactive programming course was adapted to hybrid delivery in a way that mitigated this risk. Our solution centred on the use of a professional …
An Exploratory Study On The Repeatedly Shared External Links On Stack Overflow, Jiakun Liu, Haoxiang Zhang, Xin Xia, David Lo, Ying Zou, Ahmed E. Hassan, Shanping Li
An Exploratory Study On The Repeatedly Shared External Links On Stack Overflow, Jiakun Liu, Haoxiang Zhang, Xin Xia, David Lo, Ying Zou, Ahmed E. Hassan, Shanping Li
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
On Stack Overflow, users reuse 11,926,354 external links to share the resources hosted outside the Stack Overflow website. The external links connect to the existing programming-related knowledge and extend the crowdsourced knowledge on Stack Overflow. Some of the external links, so-called as repeated external links, can be shared for multiple times. We observe that 82.5% of the link sharing activities (i.e., sharing links in any question, answer, or comment) on Stack Overflow share external resources, and 57.0% of the occurrences of the external links are sharing the repeated external links. However, it is still unclear what types of external resources …
Defining Smart Contract Defects On Ethereum, Jiachi Chen, Xin Xia, David Lo, John Grundy, Xiapu Luo, Ting Chen
Defining Smart Contract Defects On Ethereum, Jiachi Chen, Xin Xia, David Lo, John Grundy, Xiapu Luo, Ting Chen
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Smart contracts are programs running on a blockchain. They are immutable to change, and hence can not be patched for bugs once deployed. Thus it is critical to ensure they are bug-free and well-designed before deployment. A Contract defect is an error, flaw or fault in a smart contract that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways. The detection of contract defects is a method to avoid potential bugs and improve the design of existing code. Since smart contracts contain numerous distinctive features, such as the gas system. decentralized, it is important …
A Survey On Deep Learning For Software Engineering, Yanming Yang, Xin Xia, David Lo
A Survey On Deep Learning For Software Engineering, Yanming Yang, Xin Xia, David Lo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In 2006, Geoffrey Hinton proposed the concept of training "Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)" and an improved model training method to break the bottleneck of neural network development. More recently, the introduction of AlphaGo in 2016 demonstrated the powerful learning ability of deep learning and its enormous potential. Deep learning has been increasingly used to develop state-of-the-art software engineering (SE) research tools due to its ability to boost performance for various SE tasks. There are many factors, e.g., deep learning model selection, internal structure differences, and model optimization techniques, that may have an impact on the performance of DNNs applied in …
Delta Debugging Microservice Systems With Parallel Optimization, Xiang Zhou, Xin Peng, Tao Xie, Jun Sun, Chao Ji, Wenha Li, Dan Ding
Delta Debugging Microservice Systems With Parallel Optimization, Xiang Zhou, Xin Peng, Tao Xie, Jun Sun, Chao Ji, Wenha Li, Dan Ding
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Microservice systems are complicated due to their runtime environments and service communications. Debugging a failure involves the deployment and manipulation of microservice systems on a containerized environment and faces unique challenges due to the high complexity and dynamism of microservices. To address these challenges, we propose a debugging approach for microservice systems based on the delta debugging algorithm, which is to minimize failure-inducing deltas of circumstances (e.g., deployment, environmental configurations). Our approach includes novel techniques for defining, deploying/manipulating, and executing deltas during delta debugging. In particular, to construct a (failing) circumstance space for delta debugging to minimize, our approach defines …
Github Repositories With Links To Academic Papers: Public Access, Traceability, And Evolution, Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai, Bodin Chinthanet, Hideaki Hata, Raula Kula, Christoph Treude, Jin Guo, Kenichi Matsumoto
Github Repositories With Links To Academic Papers: Public Access, Traceability, And Evolution, Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai, Bodin Chinthanet, Hideaki Hata, Raula Kula, Christoph Treude, Jin Guo, Kenichi Matsumoto
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Traceability between published scientific breakthroughs and their implementation is essential, especially in the case of open-source scientific software which implements bleeding-edge science in its code. However, aligning the link between GitHub repositories and academic papers can prove difficult, and the current practice of establishing and maintaining such links remains unknown. This paper investigates the role of academic paper references contained in these repositories. We conduct a large-scale study of 20 thousand GitHub repositories that make references to academic papers. We use a mixed-methods approach to identify public access, traceability and evolutionary aspects of the links. Although referencing a paper is …
Taming The Data In The Internet Of Vehicles, Shahab Tayeb
Taming The Data In The Internet Of Vehicles, Shahab Tayeb
Mineta Transportation Institute
As an emerging field, the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has a myriad of security vulnerabilities that must be addressed to protect system integrity. To stay ahead of novel attacks, cybersecurity professionals are developing new software and systems using machine learning techniques. Neural network architectures improve such systems, including Intrusion Detection System (IDSs), by implementing anomaly detection, which differentiates benign data packets from malicious ones. For an IDS to best predict anomalies, the model is trained on data that is typically pre-processed through normalization and feature selection/reduction. These pre-processing techniques play an important role in training a neural network to optimize …