APSEC 2024
Tue 3 - Fri 6 December 2024 China

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 5 Dec 2024 16:00 - 16:30 at Room 4 (Xiangquan Ballroom) - Session (15)

Machine/deep learning-based code smell detection aims to develop a classification model based on code smell features to predict the presence of code smell in new code instances. To ensure accurate detection, it is crucial to eliminate irrelevant or redundant features that may negatively impact performance. Previous studies have produced inconsistent findings about the impact of feature selection techniques for code smell detection, possibly because they examined only a limited number of different techniques. To address this gap, our study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of feature selection techniques in code smell detection. We investigate 34 feature selection techniques with 7 classification models to build the code smell detection models on 6 code smell datasets. To assess these effects, we use 3 evaluation metrics, i.e., Precision, Recall, and F-measure, and compare the performance differences using the Scott-Knott effect size difference test and the McNemar’s test. The results show that (1) Not all feature selection techniques significantly improve detection performance. The techniques with better performance are chi-square, probabilistic significance, information gain, and symmetrical uncertainty. (2) In general, probabilistic significance should be used as the “generic” feature selection technique because detection models using probabilistic significance can identify more of the same smelly instances compared to models using other methods. (3) The high-frequency features selected by the four highest-performing techniques, which are important for identifying the corresponding code smells, are different for each dataset.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 5 Dec

Displayed time zone: Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Urumqi change

16:00 - 17:30
16:00
30m
Talk
On the Relative Value of Feature Selection Techniques for Code Smell Detection
Technical Track
Zexian Zhang Wuhan University of Technology, Shuang Yin Wuhan University of Technology, Lin Zhu Wuhan University of Technology, Shan Gao Hokkaido University, Haoxuan Chen Wuhan University of Technology, Wenhua Hu Wuhan University of Technology, Fuyang Li Wuhan University of Technology
16:30
30m
Talk
An Empirical Study on Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Quantum Software
Technical Track
Yuta Ishimoto Kyushu University, Yuto Nakamura Kyushu University, Ryota Katsube Hitachi, Ltd., Naoto Sato Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd., Hideto Ogawa Hitachi Ltd., Masanari Kondo Kyushu University, Yasutaka Kamei Kyushu University, Naoyasu Ubayashi Kyushu University
17:00
30m
Talk
Deep Learning and Data Augmentation for Detecting Self-Admitted Technical Debt
Technical Track
Edi Sutoyo Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, Paris Avgeriou University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Andrea Capiluppi University of Groningen