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 …

Crash reports are vital for software maintenance since they allow the developers to be
informed of the problems encountered in the mobile application. Before fixing, developers …

Both software debugging and artificial intelligence techniques are hot topics in the current
field of software engineering. Debugging techniques, which comprise fault localization and …

Software reuse is a popular way to utilize existing software components to ensure the quality
of newly developed software in service-oriented architecture. However, how to find a …

Context: Software crash is a serious form of the software failure, which often occurs during
the software development and maintenance process. As the stack trace reported when the …

Nowadays, many applications do not exist independently but rely on various frameworks or
libraries. The frequent evolution and the complex implementation of framework APIs induce …

Software crashes occur when the software program is executed wrongly or interrupted
compulsively, which negatively impacts on user experience. Since the stack traces offer the …

With the increasing popularity of Open‐Source Software (OSS), the number of GitHub issues
reported daily in these OSS projects has been growing rapidly. To resolve these issues …

Automated test generation can reduce the manual effort in improving software quality. A test
generation method employs code coverage, such as the widely-used branch coverage, to …

Nowadays, increasing complexity and size of object-oriented software systems bring new
software quality assurance challenges. Unit testing is one of the main phases of the testing …