Quality

An Exploratory Study on the Occurrence of Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Android Apps
Technical debt describes situations where developers write less-than-optimal code to meet project milestones. However, this debt …
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An Exploratory Study on the Usage and Readability of Messages Within Assertion Methods of Test Cases
Unit testing is a vital part of the software development process and involves developers writing code to verify or assert production …
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Performance Comparison of Binary Machine Learning Classifiers in Identifying Code Comment Types: An Exploratory Study
Code comments are vital to source code as they help developers with program comprehension tasks. Written in natural language (usually …
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How Is Software Reuse Discussed in Stack Overflow?
Software reuse is a crucial external quality attribute targeted by open-source and commercial projects. Despite that software reuse has …
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Rename Chains: An Exploratory Study on the Occurrence and Characteristics of Identifiers Undergoing Multiple Renamings
Identifier names play a significant role in program comprehension activities, with high-quality names improving developer productivity …
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On the Relationship Between Developer Experience and Refactoring: An Exploratory Study and Preliminary Results
Refactoring is one of the means of managing technical debt and maintaining a healthy software structure through enforcing best design …
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