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Code Coverage And Postrelease Defects: A Large-Scale Study On Open Source Projects, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, David Lo, Julia Lawall, Nachiappan Nagappan Sep 2017

Code Coverage And Postrelease Defects: A Large-Scale Study On Open Source Projects, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, David Lo, Julia Lawall, Nachiappan Nagappan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Testing is a pivotal activity in ensuring the quality of software. Code coverage is a common metric used as a yardstick to measure the efficacy and adequacy of testing. However, does higher coverage actually lead to a decline in postrelease bugs? Do files that have higher test coverage actually have fewer bug reports? The direct relationship between code coverage and actual bug reports has not yet been analyzed via a comprehensive empirical study on real bugs. Past studies only involve a few software systems or artificially injected bugs (mutants). In this empirical study, we examine these questions in the context …


Near-Real-Time Applications Of A Mesoscale Analysis System To Complex Terrain, Steven M. Lazarus, Carol M. Ciliberti, John D. Horel, Keith A. Brewer Mar 2002

Near-Real-Time Applications Of A Mesoscale Analysis System To Complex Terrain, Steven M. Lazarus, Carol M. Ciliberti, John D. Horel, Keith A. Brewer

Aeronautics Faculty Publications

Several mesoscale data analysis systems are reviewed, of which one is then adapted and applied to the complex terrain of northwest Utah and the western United States. The analysis system relies on the simple, but computationally efficient, successive correction methodology. Near-real-time three-dimensional mesoscale analyses are produced hourly over northwest Utah at 1-km horizontal resolution while analyses are produced every 15 min for surface fields over northwest Utah and the western United States. Surface analyses over the western United States are also generated at 0000 and 1200 UTC to help to initialize 36- h mesoscale model forecasts. Comparisons between the 1-km …


Optimization Of Orthogonal Polyphase Spreading Sequences For Wireless Data Applications, Beata J. Wysocki, Tadeusz A. Wysocki Oct 2001

Optimization Of Orthogonal Polyphase Spreading Sequences For Wireless Data Applications, Beata J. Wysocki, Tadeusz A. Wysocki

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

We propose a simple but efficient method for optimizing correlation properties of polyphase spreading sequences for asynchronous DS CDMA applications. The proposed method can be used to minimize the mean square value of aperiodic crosscorrelation or the mean square value of aperiodic autocorrelation, the maximum value of aperiodic crosscorrelation functions, merit factor or other properties of the sequence set. The important feature of the method is that when applied to orthogonal sequences, it modifies correlation properties of the sequence set, while it preserves their orthogonality for perfect synchronization.


Effect Of Exponential Averaging On The Variability Of A Red Queue, Archan Misra, Teunis Ott, John Baras Jun 2001

Effect Of Exponential Averaging On The Variability Of A Red Queue, Archan Misra, Teunis Ott, John Baras

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The paper analyzes how using a longer memory of the past queue occupancy in computing the average queue occupancy affects the stability and variability of a RED queue. Extensive simulation studies with both persistent and Web TCP sources are used to study the variance of the RED queue as a function of the memory of the averaging process. Our results show that there is very little performance improvement (and in fact, possibly significant performance degradation) if the length of memory is increased beyond a very small value. Contrary to current practice, our results show that a longer memory reduces the …


Transport Anomalies And Marginal Fermi-Liquid Effects At A Quantum Critical Point, Dietrich Belitz, Theodore R. Kirkpatrick, Rajesh S. Narayanan, Thomas Vojta Nov 2000

Transport Anomalies And Marginal Fermi-Liquid Effects At A Quantum Critical Point, Dietrich Belitz, Theodore R. Kirkpatrick, Rajesh S. Narayanan, Thomas Vojta

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The conductivity and the tunneling density of states of disordered itinerant electrons in the vicinity of a ferromagnetic transition at low temperature are discussed. Critical fluctuations lead to nonanalytic frequency and temperature dependencies that are distinct from the usual long-time tail effects in a disordered Fermi liquid. The crossover between these two types of behavior is proposed as an experimental check of recent theories of the quantum ferromagnetic critical behavior. In addition, the quasiparticle properties at criticality are shown to be those of a marginal Fermi liquid.


Building Mlp Networks By Construction, Ah Chung Tsoi, M. Hagenbuchner, A. Micheli Jul 2000

Building Mlp Networks By Construction, Ah Chung Tsoi, M. Hagenbuchner, A. Micheli

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

We introduce two new models which are obtained through the modification of the well known methods MLP and cascade correlation. These two methods differ fundamentally as they employ learning techniques and produce network architectures that are not directly comparable. We extended the MLP architecture, and reduced the constructive method to obtain very comparable network architectures. The greatest benefit of these new models is that we can obtain an MLP-structured network through a constructive method based on the cascade correlation algorithm, and that we can train a cascade correlation structured network using the standard MLP learning technique. Additionally, we show that …