A Mining Software Repository (MSR) study often involves identifying a set of GitHub repositories based on a set of filters. An MSR study uses the obtained repositories as the subject system to mine a specific aspect (for example, source code, number of …
CSCI 3130 (Software Engineering) is one of the courses that I (Tushar Sharma) teach at Dalhousie University. As a part of the course, I took a lecture on git and GitHub in the beginning of the course. After the session, I gave the students an assignment - to contribute to a …
Are you moving to Halifax, NS, Canada? Notes in this article might help you get going smoother. I assume that you are coming from outside of Canada. If you are moving domestically, some of the things might not apply to you; hence, feel free to skip them.
It's a long due post. I moved to the USA more than a year ago; first six months, I waited to understand things but later on, I just kept postponing writing this article. Anyway, here we go. If you are moving from India (or for that matter, anywhere else) to …
This article is a spin-off piece from the paper “Do We Need Improved Code Quality Metrics?” by myself and Prof. Diomidis Spinellis.
Earlier, I wrote an article about issues with code quality metrics; in another article I presented how all the variants of LCOMmetric misrepresent simple cases of class …
This article is a spin-off piece from the paper "Do We Need Improved Code Quality Metrics?" by myself and Prof. Diomidis Spinellis.
Software metrics have always been on a roller-coaster ride. On one hand, researchers and practitioners have adopted metrics not only to reveal quality characteristics of their programs, but …
Recently, I was reading "Coders: The making of a new tribe and the remaking of the world" by Clive Thompson to write its review for Computing Reviews. In the book, he takes the reader on a fascinating journey of the evolution of computing systems and software programmers. In one of …
I recently completed my Ph.D. (thesis, defense presentation) and currently, I am cherishing my beautiful days back in Athens. This is also a laid back time (well.. not so much) to ponder about the last three and half years of investment. The pondering revealed that I learned many things …
The wordle above is generated from the titles of 109 accepted papers in ICSE 2019 research track.
ICSE 2019 is merely one week away and many of SE researchers will be flying to Montreal on the coming weekend to participate possibly in the biggest ensemble of SE researchers worldwide. I …
Code smells indicate the presence of quality issues in source code. An excessive number of smells make a software system hard to evolve and maintain. In this article, we apply deep learning models based on CNN and RNN to detect code smells without extensive feature engineering, just by feeding the …
Machine Learning for Source Code Analysis (ML4SCA)