* ICSE 2018 *
Sun 27 May - Sun 3 June 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden
Thu 31 May 2018 12:00 - 12:20 at H2 room - Empirical Studies of Code Chair(s): Natalia Juristo

Refactoring detection algorithms have been crucial to a variety of applications: (i) empirical studies about the evolution of code, tests, and faults, (ii) tools for library API migration, (iii) improving the comprehension of changes and code reviews, etc. However, recent research has questioned the accuracy of the state-of-the-art refactoring detection tools, which poses threats to the reliability of their application. Moreover, previous refactoring detection tools are very sensitive to user-provided similarity thresholds, which further reduces their practical accuracy. In addition, their requirement to build the project versions/revisions under analysis makes them inapplicable in many real-world scenarios. To reinvigorate a previously fruitful line of research that has stifled, we designed, implemented, and evaluated RMiner, a technique that overcomes the above limitations. At the heart of RMiner is an AST-based statement matching algorithm that determines refactoring candidates without requiring user-defined thresholds. To empirically evaluate RMiner, we created the most comprehensive oracle to date that uses triangulation to create a dataset with considerably reduced bias, representing 3,188 refactorings from 185 open-source projects. Using this oracle, we found that RMiner has a precision of 98% and recall of 87%, which is a significant improvement over the previous state-of-the-art.

Thu 31 May

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11:00 - 12:30
Empirical Studies of CodeJournal first papers / Technical Papers at H2 room
Chair(s): Natalia Juristo Facultad de Informática - UPM
11:00
20m
Talk
An empirical study of early access games on the Steam platform
Journal first papers
Dayi Lin Queen's University, Cor-Paul Bezemer Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen's University
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
11:20
20m
Talk
Correctness Attraction: A Study of Stability of Software Behavior Under Runtime Perturbation
Journal first papers
Benjamin Danglot University Lille 1 and INRIA, Phlippe Preux , Benoit Baudry KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Martin Monperrus KTH Royal Institute of Technology
DOI Pre-print
11:40
20m
Talk
On the Diffuseness and the Impact on Maintainability of Code Smells: A Large Scale Empirical Investigation
Journal first papers
Fabio Palomba , Gabriele Bavota Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Fausto Fasano , Rocco Oliveto University of Molise, Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno
12:00
20m
Talk
Accurate and Efficient Refactoring Detection in Commit History
Technical Papers
Nikolaos Tsantalis Concordia University, Canada, Matin Mansouri , Laleh M-Eshkevari , Davood Mazinanian University of British Columbia, Danny Dig School of EECS at Oregon State University
Pre-print Media Attached
12:20
10m
Talk
Q&A in groups
Technical Papers