Refactoring is a widespread practice that helps developers to improve the maintainability
and readability of their code. However, there is a limited number of studies empirically …

Learning and remembering how to use APIs is difficult. While code-completion tools can
recommend API methods, browsing a long list of API method names and their …

When working on techniques to address the wide-spread problem of software bugs, one
often faces the need for a large number of realistic bugs in real-world programs. Such bugs …

Natural walking can provide a compelling experience in immersive virtual environments, but
it remains an implementation challenge due to the physical space constraints imposed on …

Software developers often repeat the same code changes within a project or across different
projects. These repetitive changes are known as “code change patterns”(CPATs) …

Software engineers make use of design patterns for reasons that range from performance to
code comprehensibility. Several design patterns capturing the body of knowledge of best …

JavaScript has become the most popular language used by developers for client and server
side programming. The language, however, still lacks proper support in the form of warnings …

When working with a document, users often perform context-specific repetitive edits–
changes to the document that are similar but specific to the contexts at their locations …

Prior research exploited the repetitiveness of code changes to enable several tasks such as
code completion, bug-fix recommendation, library adaption, etc. These and other novel …

The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data provides valuable information on analysis
techniques often used to derive insight from software data. This book shares best practices …