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MSR 2022
Mon 23 - Tue 24 May 2022
co-located with ICSE 2022
Wed 18 May 2022 12:08 - 12:12 at MSR Main room - even hours - Mining Challenge Chair(s): Steffen Herbold

Bug fixing and code refactoring are two distinct maintenance actions with different goals. While bug fixing is a corrective change that eliminates a defect from the program, refactoring targets improving the internal quality (i.e., maintainability) of a software system without changing its functionality. Best practices and common intuition suggest that these code actions should not be mixed in a single code change. Furthermore, as refactoring aims for improving quality without functional changes, we would expect that refactoring code changes will not be sources of bugs. Nonetheless, empirical studies show that none of the above hypotheses are necessarily true in practice. In this paper, we empirically investigate the interconnection between bug-related and refactoring code changes using the SmartSHARK dataset. Our goal is to explore how often bug fixes and refactorings co-occur in a single commit (tangled changes) and whether refactoring changes themselves might induce bugs into the system. We found that it is not uncommon to have tangled commits of bug fixes and refactorings; 21% of bug-fixing commits include at least one type of refactoring on average. What is even more shocking is that 54% of bug-inducing commits also contain code refactoring changes. For instance, 10% (652 occurrences) of the Change Variable Type refactorings in the dataset appear in bug-inducing commits that make up 7.9% of the total inducing commits.

Is Refactoring Always a Good Egg? Exploring the Interconnection Between Bugs and Refactorings (presentation-amirreza-bagheri.wmv)13.71MiB

Wed 18 May

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12:00 - 12:50
12:00
4m
Talk
An Exploratory Study on Refactoring Documentation in Issues Handling
Mining Challenge
Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, Anthony Peruma Rochester Institute of Technology, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec
Pre-print
12:04
4m
Talk
Between JIRA and GitHub: ASFBot and its Influence on Human Comments in Issue Trackers
Mining Challenge
Ambarish Moharil Eindhoven University of Technology, Dmitrii Orlov Eindhoven University of Technology, Samar Jameel Eindhoven University of Technology, Tristan Trouwen Eindhoven University of Technology, Nathan Cassee Eindhoven University of Technology, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology
Pre-print
12:08
4m
Talk
Is Refactoring Always a Good Egg? Exploring the Interconnection Between Bugs and Refactorings
Mining Challenge
Amirreza Bagheri University of Szeged, Peter Hegedus University of Szeged
File Attached
12:12
4m
Talk
On the Co-Occurrence of Refactoring of Test and Source Code
Mining Challenge
Nicholas Nagy Concordia University, Rabe Abdalkareem Carleton University
Pre-print Media Attached
12:16
4m
Talk
Refactoring Debt: Myth or Reality? An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Technical Debt and RefactoringBest Mining Challenge Paper Award
Mining Challenge
Anthony Peruma Rochester Institute of Technology, Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec
Pre-print Media Attached
12:20
4m
Talk
Studying the Impact of Continuous Delivery Adoption on Bug-Fixing Time in Apache’s Open-Source Projects
Mining Challenge
Carlos Diego Andrade de Almeida Federal University of Ceará, Diego N. Feijó Federal University of Ceará, Lincoln Souza Rocha Federal University of Ceará
Media Attached
12:24
4m
Talk
Which bugs are missed in code reviews: An empirical study on SmartSHARK dataset
Mining Challenge
fatemeh khoshnoud Department of Computer Science and Engineering and IT; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Ali Rezaei Nasab Department of Computer Science and Engineering and IT; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Zahra Toudeji Department of Computer Science and Engineering and IT; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Ashkan Sami Shiraz University
12:28
22m
Live Q&A
Discussions and Q&A
Technical Papers


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Wed 18 May 2022 12:00 - 12:50 at MSR Main room - even hours - Mining Challenge Chair(s): Steffen Herbold
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