ICPC 2018
Sun 27 - Mon 28 May 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden
co-located with * ICSE 2018 *
Sun 27 May 2018 11:40 - 11:50 at J1 room - Clones, Code Smell, Refactoring and Maintenance Chair(s): Hitesh Sajnani

Bug localization is a technique that has been proposed to support the process of identifying the locations of bugs specified in a bug report. A traditional approach such as information retrieval (IR)-based bug localization calculates the similarity between the bug description and the source code and suggests locations that are likely to contain the bug. However, while many approaches have been proposed to improve the accuracy, the likelihood of each module having a bug is often overlooked or they are treated equally, whereas this may not be the case. For example, modules having code smells have been found to be more prone to changes and faults. Therefore, in this paper, we explore a first step toward leveraging code smells to improve bug localization. By combining the code smell severity with the textual similarity from IR-based bug localization, we can identify the modules that are not only similar to the bug description but also have a higher likelihood of containing bugs. Our preliminary evaluation on four open source projects shows that our technique can improve the baseline approach by 142.25% and 30.50% on average for method and class levels, respectively.

Sun 27 May

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11:00 - 12:30
Clones, Code Smell, Refactoring and MaintenanceTechnical Research at J1 room
Chair(s): Hitesh Sajnani Microsoft
11:00
10m
Short-paper
Towards Just-In-Time Refactoring Recommenders (ERA)ERA
Technical Research
Jevgenija Pantiuchina Università della Svizzera italiana, Gabriele Bavota Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Michele Tufano College of William and Mary, Denys Poshyvanyk William and Mary
11:10
10m
Short-paper
Toward Refactoring Evaluation with Code NaturalnessERA
Technical Research
Pre-print
11:20
10m
Industry talk
How Slim Will My System Be? Estimating Refactored Code Size by Merging ClonesIndustry Track
Technical Research
Norihiro Yoshida Nagoya University, Takuya Ishizu Osaka University, Buford Edwards Iii Osaka University, Katsuro Inoue Osaka University
Link to publication DOI
11:30
10m
Short-paper
RepliComment: Identifying Clones in Code CommentsERA
Technical Research
Arianna Blasi Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and IMDEA Software Institute, Alessandra Gorla IMDEA Software Institute
11:40
10m
Short-paper
A Preliminary Study on Using Code Smells to Improve Bug LocalizationERA
Technical Research
Aoi Takahashi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Natthawute Sae-Lim Tokyo Institute of Technology, Shinpei Hayashi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Motoshi Saeki Tokyo Institute of Technology
DOI Pre-print
11:50
17m
Full-paper
Un-Break My Build: Assisting Developers with Build Repair HintsTechnical Research
Technical Research
Carmine Vassallo University of Zurich, Sebastian Proksch University of Zurich, Timothy Zemp University of Zurich, Harald Gall University of Zurich
DOI Pre-print
12:07
17m
Full-paper
Aiding Comprehension of Unit Test Cases and Test Suites with Stereotype-based TaggingTechnical Research
Technical Research
Boyang Li , Christopher Vendome , Mario Linares-Vásquez Systems and Computing Engineering Department , Universidad de los Andes , Bogotá, Colombia , Denys Poshyvanyk William and Mary