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Refactoring aims to improve the quality of software without altering its functional behaviors. Understanding developers’ refactoring activities is essential to improve software maintainability. The use of machine learning (ML) libraries and frameworks in ...

The teaching of code quality is a prominent topic among CSed researchers; however, most studies focus on elementary courses, with very few exploring the subject from the perspective of embedded systems education. This topic is of real interest because ...

Code quality is an attribute composed of various metrics, such as complexity, readability, testability, interoperability, reusability, and the use of good or bad practices, among others. Static code analysis tools aim to measure a set of attributes to ...

The growing popularity of enterprise technologies for decentralized systems leads to commonalities in using components. This direction, however, opens new challenges to code clone detection. Approaches can no longer look at the low-level code but ...

Neural Language Models for code have lead to interesting applications such as code completion and bug fix generation. Another type of code related application is the identification of code quality issues such as repetitive code and unnatural code. ...

Recent work on open source sustainability shows that successful trajectories of projects in the Apache Software Foundation Incubator (ASFI) can be predicted early on, using a set of socio-technical measures. Because OSS projects are socio-technical ...

Scaled Agile methodologies have revolutionized the way safety critical applications work. A majority of organizations have benefited from increased success rates in software development, improved quality and time to market while being compliant with ...

Continuous Integration (CI) is a software engineering practice where developers constantly integrate their changes to a project through an automated build process. The goal of CI is to provide developers with prompt feedback on several quality ...

The article tries to shed some light on the impact of human psychology on the effective use of pair programming in the modern Software development lifecycle such as SCRUM, Extreme Programming which are in turn used on heterogeneous software projects. ...

This paper is a case study of globally distributed product for its journey of agile-scrum transformation. The case study provides a holistic view of various challenges, innovative practices, and impacts on product success.

The challenges cover areas ...

Tackling the issues of technical debt in a large system in parallel with continuing to enable it to evolve is a challenging problem.

In this paper, we are describing a case study of managing technical debt on a legacy project referred here as Global ...

Refactorings are behavior-preserving source code transformations. While tool support exists for (semi) automatically identifying refactoring solutions, applying or not a recommended refactoring is usually up to the software developers, who have to ...

There is empirical evidence that the code quality of software has an important impact on the external, i.e., user perceptible, software quality. Currently a large number of source code metrics exist that seem to ease the evaluation of code quality. ...