Software Engineering Empirical Research Radar
Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review Papers
Papers tagged as Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review.
| Paper | Venue | Year | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| WildSync: Automated Fuzzing Harness Synthesis via Wild API Usage Recovery. Wei-Cheng Wu; Stefan Nagy; Christophe Hauser | ISSTA | 2025 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Understanding Practitioners' Expectations on Clear Code Review Comments. Junkai Chen; Zhenhao Li 0002; Qiheng Mao; Xing Hu 0008; Kui Liu 0001; Xin Xia 0001 | ISSTA | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| REACCEPT: Automated Co-evolution of Production and Test Code Based on Dynamic Validation and Large Language Models. Jianlei Chi; Xiaotian Wang; Yuhan Huang; Lechen Yu; Di Cui; Jianguo Sun; Jun Sun 0001 | ISSTA | 2025 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| More Effective JavaScript Breaking Change Detection via Dynamic Object Relation Graph. Dezhen Kong; Jiakun Liu; Chao Ni 0001; David Lo 0001; Lingfeng Bao | ISSTA | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Intention-Based GUI Test Migration for Mobile Apps using Large Language Models. Shaoheng Cao; Minxue Pan; Yuanhong Lan; Xuandong Li | ISSTA | 2025 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| FANDANGO: Evolving Language-Based Testing. José Antonio Zamudio Amaya; Marius Smytzek; Andreas Zeller | ISSTA | 2025 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Understanding Architectural Complexity, Maintenance Burden, and Developer Sentiment -A Large-Scale Study. Yuanfang Cai, Lanting He, Jun Qian, Yony Kochinski, Nan Zhang | ICSE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Software Model Evolution with Large Language Models: Experiments on Simulated, Public, and Industrial Datasets. Christof Tinnes, Alisa Welter, Sven Apel | ICSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Navigating the Testing of Evolving Deep Learning Systems: An Exploratory Interview Study. Hanmo You, Zan Wang, Bin Lin 0008, Junjie Chen 0003 | ICSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| LLMs Meet Library Evolution: Evaluating Deprecated API Usage in LLM-Based Code Completion. Chong Wang 0013, Kaifeng Huang 0001, Jian Zhang 0087, Yebo Feng, Lyuye Zhang | ICSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Instrumentation-Driven Evolution-Aware Runtime Verification. Kevin Guan, Owolabi Legunsen | ICSE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| HumanEvo: An Evolution-Aware Benchmark for More Realistic Evaluation of Repository-Level Code Generation. Dewu Zheng, Yanlin Wang 0001, Ensheng Shi, Ruikai Zhang, Yuchi Ma | ICSE | 2025 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Datalog-Based Language-Agnostic Change Impact Analysis for Microservices. Qingkai Shi, Xiaoheng Xie, Xianjin Fu, Peng Di, Huawei Li | ICSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Code Cloning in Solidity Smart Contracts: Prevalence, Evolution, and Impact on Development. Ran Mo, Haopeng Song, Wei Ding, Chaochao Wu | ICSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Chatgpt-Based Test Generation for Refactoring Engines Enhanced by Feature Analysis on Examples. Chunhao Dong, Yanjie Jiang, Yuxia Zhang, Yang Zhang, Hui Liu | ICSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Automated Test Generation For Smart Contracts via On-Chain Test Case Augmentation and Migration. Jiashuo Zhang 0001, Jiachi Chen, John Grundy 0001, Jianbo Gao 0003, Yanlin Wang 0001 | ICSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Automated Accessibility Analysis of Dynamic Content Changes on Mobile Apps. Forough Mehralian, Ziyao He, Sam Malek | ICSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| A Multiple Representation Transformer with Optimized Abstract Syntax Tree for Efficient Code Clone Detection. Tianchen Yu, Li Yuan, Liannan Lin, Hongkui He | ICSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Today's Cat Is Tomorrow's Dog: Accounting for Time-Based Changes in the Labels of ML Vulnerability Detection Approaches. Ranindya Paramitha; Yuan Feng; Fabio Massacci | FSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| The Struggles of LLMs in Cross-Lingual Code Clone Detection. Micheline Bénédicte Moumoula; Abdoul Kader Kaboré; Jacques Klein; Tegawendé F. Bissyandé | FSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Code Change Intention, Development Artifact, and History Vulnerability: Putting Them Together for Vulnerability Fix Detection by LLM. Xu Yang; Wenhan Zhu; Michael Pacheco; Jiayuan Zhou; Shaowei Wang 0002; Xing Hu 0008; Kui Liu 0001 | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Clone Detection for Smart Contracts: How Far Are We? Zuobin Wang; Zhiyuan Wan; Yujing Chen; Yun Zhang 0011; David Lo 0001; Difan Xie; Xiaohu Yang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| ChangeGuard: Validating Code Changes via Pairwise Learning-Guided Execution. Lars Gröninger; Beatriz Souza; Michael Pradel | FSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Automatically Fixing Dependency Breaking Changes. Lukas Fruntke; Jens Krinke | FSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Automated Unit Test Refactoring. Yi Gao; Xing Hu 0008; Xiaohu Yang 0001; Xin Xia 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| An Empirical Study on Release-Wise Refactoring Patterns. Shayan Noei; Heng Li 0007; Ying Zou 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| iCodeReviewer: Improving Secure Code Review with Mixture of Prompts. Yun Peng, Kisub Kim, Linghan Meng, Kui Liu 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| What Types of Code Review Comments Do Developers Most Frequently Resolve? Saul Goldman, Hong Yi Lin, Jirat Pasuksmit, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Chakkrit Kla Tantithamthavorn | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Walk the Talk: Is Your Log-based Software Reliability Maintenance System Really Reliable? Minghua He, Tong Jia, Chiming Duan, Pei Xiao 0007, Lingzhe Zhang | ASE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Speculative Automated Refactoring of Imperative Deep Learning Programs to Graph Execution. Raffi Khatchadourian, Tatiana Castro Vélez, Mehdi Bagherzadeh 0001, Nan Jia, Anita Raja | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| SGCR: A Specification-Grounded Framework for Trustworthy LLM Code Review. Kai Wang, Bingcheng Mao, Shuai Jia, Yujie Ding, Dongming Han | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| PseudoFix: Refactoring Distorted Structures in Decompiled C Pseudocode. Gangyang Li, Xiuwei Shang, Shaoyin Cheng, Junqi Zhang, Li Hu | ASE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Learning from the Past: Real-World Exploit Migration for Smart Contract PoC Generation. Kairan Sun, Zhengzi Xu, Kaixuan Li 0002, Lyuye Zhang, Yebo Feng | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| LLM-Guided Genetic Improvement: Envisioning Semantic Aware Automated Software Evolution. Karine Even-Mendoza, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Alina Geiger, Carol Hanna, Justyna Petke | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| LAURA: Enhancing Code Review Generation with Context-Enriched Retrieval-Augmented LLM. Yuxin Zhang, Yuxia Zhang, Zeyu Sun 0004, Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu 0003 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Incremental Program Analysis in the Wild: An Empirical Study on Real-World Program Changes. Xizao Wang, Xiangrong Bin, Lanxin Huang, Shangqing Liu, Jianhua Zhao | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Evolution-Aware Heuristics for GR(1) Realizability Checking. Dor Ma'ayan, Shahar Maoz, Jan Oliver Ringert | ASE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Demystifying the Evolution of Neural Networks with BOM Analysis: Insights from a Large-Scale Study of 55,997 GitHub Repositories. Xiaoning Ren, Yuhang Ye 0004, Xiongfei Wu, Yueming Wu 0001, Yinxing Xue | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| CoorLog: Efficient-Generalizable Log Anomaly Detection via Adaptive Coordinator in Software Evolution. Pei Xiao 0007, Chiming Duan, Minghua He, Tong Jia, Yifan Wu 0002 | ASE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Comprehend, Imitate, and then Update: Unleashing the Power of LLMs in Test Suite Evolution. Tangzhi Xu, Jianhan Liu, Yuan Yao 0001, Cong Li 0003, Feng Xu 0007 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Beyond Static GUI Agent: Evolving LLM-based GUI Testing via Dynamic Memory. Mengzhuo Chen, Zhe Liu 0025, Chunyang Chen 0001, Junjie Wang 0001, Yangguang Xue | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| An Empirical Study of Python Library Migration Using Large Language Models. Mohayeminul Islam, Ajay Kumar Jha, May Mahmoud, Ildar Akhmetov, Sarah Nadi | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Synthesis-Based Enhancement for GUI Test Case Migration. Yakun Zhang 0001, Qihao Zhu, Jiwei Yan, Chen Liu 0041, Wenjie Zhang 0007 | ISSTA | 2024 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| One-to-One or One-to-Many? Suggesting Extract Class Refactoring Opportunities with Intra-class Dependency Hypergraph Neural Network. Di Cui, Qiangqiang Wang, Yutong Zhao, Jiaqi Wang, Minjie Wei | ISSTA | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Learning the Effects of Software Changes. Laura Plein | ISSTA | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| HECS: A Hypergraph Learning-Based System for Detecting Extract Class Refactoring Opportunities. Luqiao Wang, Qiangqiang Wang, Jiaqi Wang, Yutong Zhao, Minjie Wei | ISSTA | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Graph Learning for Extract Class Refactoring. Luqiao Wang | ISSTA | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Foliage: Nourishing Evolving Software by Characterizing and Clustering Field Bugs. Zhanyao Lei, Yixiong Chen, Mingyuan Xia 0001, Zhengwei Qi | ISSTA | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| C2D2: Extracting Critical Changes for Real-World Bugs with Dependency-Sensitive Delta Debugging. Xuezhi Song, Yijian Wu, Shuning Liu, Bihuan Chen 0001, Yun Lin 0001 | ISSTA | 2024 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| BRAFAR: Bidirectional Refactoring, Alignment, Fault Localization, and Repair for Programming Assignments. Linna Xie, Chongmin Li, Yu Pei 0001, Tian Zhang 0001, Minxue Pan | ISSTA | 2024 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| An Empirical Study of Static Analysis Tools for Secure Code Review. Wachiraphan Charoenwet 0001, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Van-Thuan Pham, Christoph Treude | ISSTA | 2024 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Prism: Decomposing Program Semantics for Code Clone Detection through Compilation. Haoran Li 0014, Siqian Wang, Weihong Quan, Xiaoli Gong, Huayou Su | ICSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Machine Learning is All You Need: A Simple Token-based Approach for Effective Code Clone Detection. Siyue Feng, Wenqi Suo, Yueming Wu 0001, Deqing Zou, Yang Liu 0003 | ICSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| MUT: Human-in-the-Loop Unit Test Migration. Yi Gao, Xing Hu 0008, Tongtong Xu, Xin Xia 0001, David Lo 0001 | ICSE | 2024 | Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| GenderMag Improves Discoverability in the Field, Especially for Women: An Multi-Year Case Study of Suggest Edit, a Code Review Feature. Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Alberto Elizondo, Ambar Murillo, Marian Harbach, Bogdan Vasilescu | ICSE | 2024 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Exploiting Library Vulnerability via Migration Based Automating Test Generation. Zirui Chen, Xing Hu 0008, Xin Xia 0001, Yi Gao, Tongtong Xu | ICSE | 2024 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| DSFM: Enhancing Functional Code Clone Detection with Deep Subtree Interactions. Zhiwei Xu, Shaohua Qiang, Dinghong Song, Min Zhou 0001, Hai Wan | ICSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Characterizing Software Maintenance Meetings: Information Shared, Discussion Outcomes, and Information Captured. Adriana Meza Soria, Taylor Lopez, Elizabeth Seero, Negin Mashhadi, Emily Evans | ICSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Barriers for Students During Code Change Comprehension. Justin Middleton, John-Paul Ore, Kathryn T. Stolee | ICSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Education / Program Comprehension |
| Unprecedented Code Change Automation: The Fusion of LLMs and Transformation by Example. Malinda Dilhara; Abhiram Bellur; Timofey Bryksin; Danny Dig | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Understanding the Impact of APIs Behavioral Breaking Changes on Client Applications. Dhanushka Jayasuriya; Valerio Terragni; Jens Dietrich 0001; Kelly Blincoe | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Sharing Software-Evolution Datasets: Practices, Challenges, and Recommendations. David Broneske; Sebastian Kittan; Jacob Krüger | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Refactoring to Pythonic Idioms: A Hybrid Knowledge-Driven Approach Leveraging Large Language Models. Zejun Zhang 0006; Zhenchang Xing; Xiaoxue Ren; Qinghua Lu 0001; Xiwei Xu 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Investigating Documented Privacy Changes in Android OS. Chuan Yan; Mark Huasong Meng; Fuman Xie; Guangdong Bai | FSE | 2024 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Improving the Learning of Code Review Successive Tasks with Cross-Task Knowledge Distillation. Oussama Ben Sghaier; Houari A. Sahraoui | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Do Words Have Power? Understanding and Fostering Civility in Code Review Discussion. Md Shamimur Rahman; Zadia Codabux; Chanchal K. Roy | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| ChangeRCA: Finding Root Causes from Software Changes in Large Online Systems. Guangba Yu; Pengfei Chen 0002; Zilong He; Qiuyu Yan; Yu Luo; Fangyuan Li; Zibin Zheng | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| CC2Vec: Combining Typed Tokens with Contrastive Learning for Effective Code Clone Detection. Shihan Dou; Yueming Wu 0001; Haoxiang Jia; Yuhao Zhou 0005; Yan Liu 0012; Yang Liu 0003 | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| BARO: Robust Root Cause Analysis for Microservices via Multivariate Bayesian Online Change Point Detection. Luan Pham; Huong Ha 0001; Hongyu Zhang 0002 | FSE | 2024 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| An Empirical Study on Code Review Activity Prediction and Its Impact in Practice. Doriane Olewicki; Sarra Habchi; Bram Adams | FSE | 2024 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| iSMELL: Assembling LLMs with Expert Toolsets for Code Smell Detection and Refactoring. Di Wu, Fangwen Mu, Lin Shi 0006, Zhaoqiang Guo, Kui Liu 0001 | ASE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Unveiling the Characteristics and Impact of Security Patch Evolution. Zifan Xie, Ming Wen 0001, Zichao Wei, Hai Jin 0001 | ASE | 2024 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Understanding the Implications of Changes to Build Systems. Mahtab Nejati, Mahmoud Alfadel, Shane McIntosh | ASE | 2024 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Understanding Code Changes Practically with Small-Scale Language Models. Cong Li 0003, Zhaogui Xu, Peng Di, Dongxia Wang 0002, Zheng Li 0035 | ASE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Three Heads Are Better Than One: Suggesting Move Method Refactoring Opportunities with Inter-class Code Entity Dependency Enhanced Hybrid Hypergraph Neural Network. Di Cui, Jiaqi Wang, Qiangqiang Wang, Peng Ji, Minglang Qiao | ASE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| GPP: A Graph-Powered Prioritizer for Code Review Requests. Lanxin Yang, Jinwei Xu, He Zhang 0001, Fanghao Wu, Jun Lyu | ASE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Cross-lingual Code Clone Detection: When LLMs Fail Short Against Embedding-based Classifier. Micheline Bénédicte Moumoula, Abdoul Kader Kaboré, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé | ASE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Understanding Breaking Changes in the Wild. Dhanushka Jayasuriya, Valerio Terragni, Jens Dietrich 0001, Samuel Ou, Kelly Blincoe | ISSTA | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| RefBERT: A Two-Stage Pre-trained Framework for Automatic Rename Refactoring. Hao Liu 0003, Yanlin Wang 0001, Zhao Wei, Yong Xu 0007, Juhong Wang | ISSTA | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| More Precise Regression Test Selection via Reasoning about Semantics-Modifying Changes. Yu Liu 0079, Jiyang Zhang 0003, Pengyu Nie 0001, Milos Gligoric 0001, Owolabi Legunsen | ISSTA | 2023 | Testing / QA; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Harnessing Large Language Models for Simulink Toolchain Testing and Developing Diverse Open-Source Corpora of Simulink Models for Metric and Evolution Analysis. Sohil Lal Shrestha | ISSTA | 2023 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Fine-Grained Code Clone Detection with Block-Based Splitting of Abstract Syntax Tree. Tiancheng Hu, Zijing Xu, Yilin Fang, Yueming Wu 0001, Bin Yuan | ISSTA | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| CONCORD: Clone-Aware Contrastive Learning for Source Code. Yangruibo Ding, Saikat Chakraborty 0001, Luca Buratti, Saurabh Pujar, Alessandro Morari | ISSTA | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Tolerate Control-Flow Changes for Sound Data Race Prediction. Shihao Zhu, Yuqi Guo 0002, Long Zhang, Yan Cai 0001 | ICSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| The untold story of code refactoring customizations in practice. Daniel Oliveira 0005, Wesley K. G. Assunção, Alessandro F. Garcia 0001, Ana Carla Bibiano, Márcio Ribeiro 0001 | ICSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Testability Refactoring in Pull Requests: Patterns and Trends. Pavel Reich, Walid Maalej | ICSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| RAT: A Refactoring-Aware Traceability Model for Bug Localization. Feifei Niu, Wesley K. G. Assunção, LiGuo Huang, Christoph Mayr-Dorn, Jidong Ge | ICSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| PYEVOLVE: Automating Frequent Code Changes in Python ML Systems. Malinda Dilhara, Danny Dig, Ameya Ketkar | ICSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| On the Self-Governance and Episodic Changes in Apache Incubator Projects: An Empirical Study. Likang Yin, Xiyu Zhang 0002, Vladimir Filkov | ICSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| DeepArc: Modularizing Neural Networks for the Model Maintenance. Xiaoning Ren, Yun Lin 0001, Yinxing Xue, Ruofan Liu, Jun Sun 0001 | ICSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Comparison and Evaluation of Clone Detection Techniques with Different Code Representations. Yuekun Wang, Yuhang Ye 0004, Yueming Wu 0001, Weiwei Zhang, Yinxing Xue | ICSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Commit Message Matters: Investigating Impact and Evolution of Commit Message Quality. Jiawei Li 0013, Iftekhar Ahmed 0001 | ICSE | 2023 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Code Review of Build System Specifications: Prevalence, Purposes, Patterns, and Perceptions. Mahtab Nejati, Mahmoud Alfadel, Shane McIntosh | ICSE | 2023 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| CCRep: Learning Code Change Representations via Pre-Trained Code Model and Query Back. Zhongxin Liu 0002, Zhijie Tang, Xin Xia 0001, Xiaohu Yang 0001 | ICSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Scalable Program Clone Search through Spectral Analysis. Tristan Benoit, Jean-Yves Marion, Sébastien Bardin | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Multilingual Code Co-evolution using Large Language Models. Jiyang Zhang 0003, Pengyu Nie 0001, Junyi Jessy Li, Milos Gligoric 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Gitor: Scalable Code Clone Detection by Building Global Sample Graph. Junjie Shan, Shihan Dou, Yueming Wu 0001, Hairu Wu, Yang Liu 0003 | FSE | 2023 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| EvoCLINICAL: Evolving Cyber-Cyber Digital Twin with Active Transfer Learning for Automated Cancer Registry System. Chengjie Lu, Qinghua Xu, Tao Yue 0002, Shaukat Ali 0001, Thomas Schwitalla | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| EvaCRC: Evaluating Code Review Comments. Lanxin Yang, Jinwei Xu, Yifan Zhang, He Zhang 0001, Alberto Bacchelli | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Do All Software Projects Die When Not Maintained? Analyzing Developer Maintenance to Predict OSS Usage. Emily Nguyen | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Dead Code Removal at Meta: Automatically Deleting Millions of Lines of Code and Petabytes of Deprecated Data. Will Shackleton, Katriel Cohn-Gordon, Peter C. Rigby, Rui Abreu 0001, James Gill | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| C³: Code Clone-Based Identification of Duplicated Components. Yanming Yang, Ying Zou 0001, Xing Hu 0008, David Lo 0001, Chao Ni 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| CCT5: A Code-Change-Oriented Pre-trained Model. Bo Lin 0011, Shangwen Wang, Zhongxin Liu 0002, Yepang Liu 0001, Xin Xia 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Vision-Based Widget Mapping for Test Migration Across Mobile Platforms: Are We There Yet? Ruihua Ji, Tingwei Zhu, Xiaoqing Zhu, Chunyang Chen 0001, Minxue Pan | ASE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Towards Safe Automated Refactoring of Imperative Deep Learning Programs to Graph Execution. Raffi Khatchadourian, Tatiana Castro Vélez, Mehdi Bagherzadeh 0001, Nan Jia, Anita Raja | ASE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Towards Automatically Addressing Self-Admitted Technical Debt: How Far Are We? Antonio Mastropaolo, Massimiliano Di Penta, Gabriele Bavota | ASE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Repeated Builds During Code Review: An Empirical Study of the OpenStack Community. Rungroj Maipradit, Dong Wang 0044, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Yasutaka Kamei | ASE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Identify and Update Test Cases When Production Code Changes: A Transformer-Based Approach. Xing Hu 0008, Zhuang Liu, Xin Xia 0001, Zhongxin Liu 0002, Tongtong Xu | ASE | 2023 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| DCLINK: Bridging Data Constraint Changes and Implementations in FinTech Systems. Wensheng Tang, Chengpeng Wang 0001, Peisen Yao, Rongxin Wu, Xianjin Fu | ASE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| BugMiner: Automating Precise Bug Dataset Construction by Code Evolution History Mining. Xuezhi Song, Yijian Wu, Junming Cao, Bihuan Chen 0001, Yun Lin 0001 | ASE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Assessing the Impact of Refactoring Energy-Inefficient Code Patterns on Software Sustainability: An Industry Case Study. Rohit Mehra, Priyavanshi Pathania, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud, Sanjay Podder | ASE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| RegMiner: towards constructing a large regression dataset from code evolution history. Xuezhi Song, Yun Lin 0001, Siang Hwee Ng, Yijian Wu, Xin Peng 0001 | ISSTA | 2022 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Evolution-aware detection of order-dependent flaky tests. Chengpeng Li 0002, August Shi | ISSTA | 2022 | Testing / QA; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Combining solution reuse and bound tightening for efficient analysis of evolving systems. Clay Stevens, Hamid Bagheri | ISSTA | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Using Pre-Trained Models to Boost Code Review Automation. Rosalia Tufano, Simone Masiero, Antonio Mastropaolo, Luca Pascarella, Denys Poshyvanyk | ICSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Less is More: Supporting Developers in Vulnerability Detection during Code Review. Larissa Braz, Christian Aeberhard, Gül Çalikli, Alberto Bacchelli | ICSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Inferring and Applying Type Changes. Ameya Ketkar, Oleg Smirnov, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Danny Dig, Timofey Bryksin | ICSE | 2022 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| FIRA: Fine-Grained Graph-Based Code Change Representation for Automated Commit Message Generation. Jinhao Dong, Yiling Lou, Qihao Zhu, Zeyu Sun 0004, Zhilin Li | ICSE | 2022 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Discovering Repetitive Code Changes in Python ML Systems. Malinda Dilhara, Ameya Ketkar, Nikhith Sannidhi, Danny Dig | ICSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Demystifying the Vulnerability Propagation and Its Evolution via Dependency Trees in the NPM Ecosystem. Chengwei Liu, Sen Chen 0001, Lingling Fan 0003, Bihuan Chen 0001, Yang Liu 0003 | ICSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Change Is the Only Constant: Dynamic Updates for Workflows. Daniel Sokolowski, Pascal Weisenburger, Guido Salvaneschi | ICSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Buildsheriff: Change-Aware Test Failure Triage for Continuous Integration Builds. Chen Zhang, Bihuan Chen 0001, Xin Peng 0001, Wenyun Zhao | ICSE | 2022 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| AutoTransform: Automated Code Transformation to Support Modern Code Review Process. Patanamon Thongtanunam, Chanathip Pornprasit, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn | ICSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| APER: Evolution-Aware Runtime Permission Misuse Detection for Android Apps. Sinan Wang, Yibo Wang 0006, Xian Zhan, Ying Wang 0038, Yepang Liu 0001 | ICSE | 2022 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Understanding why we cannot model how long a code review will take: an industrial case study. Lawrence Chen 0002, Peter C. Rigby, Nachiappan Nagappan | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Understanding automated code review process and developer experience in industry. Hyungjin Kim, Yonghwi Kwon 0003, Sangwoo Joh, Hyukin Kwon, Yeonhee Ryou | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| UTANGO: untangling commits with context-aware, graph-based, code change clustering learning model. Yi Li 0048, Shaohua Wang 0002, Tien N. Nguyen | FSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| The evolution of type annotations in python: an empirical study. Luca Di Grazia, Michael Pradel | FSE | 2022 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Sometimes you have to treat the symptoms: tackling model drift in an industrial clone-and-own software product line. Christof Tinnes, Wolfgang Rössler, Uwe Hohenstein, Torsten Kühn, Andreas Biesdorf | FSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Software security during modern code review: the developer's perspective. Larissa Braz, Alberto Bacchelli | FSE | 2022 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Quantifying community evolution in developer social networks. Liang Wang 0006, Ying Li 0114, Jierui Zhang, Xianping Tao | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Making Python code idiomatic by automatic refactoring non-idiomatic Python code with pythonic idioms. Zejun Zhang 0006, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia 0001, Xiwei Xu 0001, Liming Zhu 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Leveraging test plan quality to improve code review efficacy. Lawrence Chen 0002, Rui Abreu 0001, Tobi Akomolede, Peter C. Rigby, Satish Chandra 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Industry experiences with large-scale refactoring. James Ivers, Robert L. Nord, Ipek Ozkaya, Chris Seifried, Christopher Steven Timperley | FSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| First come first served: the impact of file position on code review. Enrico Fregnan, Larissa Braz, Marco D'Ambros, Gül Çalikli, Alberto Bacchelli | FSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Fault localization to detect co-change fixing locations. Yi Li 0048, Shaohua Wang 0002, Tien N. Nguyen | FSE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| CommentFinder: a simpler, faster, more accurate code review comments recommendation. Yang Hong 0004, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Aldeida Aleti | FSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Change-aware mutation testing for evolving systems. Milos Ojdanic | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| CORMS: a GitHub and Gerrit based hybrid code reviewer recommendation approach for modern code review. Prahar Pandya, Saurabh Tiwari 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Automating code review activities by large-scale pre-training. Zhiyu Li, Shuai Lu, Daya Guo, Nan Duan 0001, Shailesh Jannu | FSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| 23 shades of self-admitted technical debt: an empirical study on machine learning software. David O'Brien, Sumon Biswas, Sayem Imtiaz, Rabe Abdalkareem, Emad Shihab | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| reformulator: Automated Refactoring of the N+1 Problem in Database-Backed Applications. Alexi Turcotte, Mark W. Aldrich, Frank Tip | ASE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| TreeCen: Building Tree Graph for Scalable Semantic Code Clone Detection. Yutao Hu, Deqing Zou, Junru Peng, Yueming Wu 0001, Junjie Shan | ASE | 2022 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Towards a Live Environment for Code Refactoring. Sara Fernandes | ASE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Towards Improving Code Review Effectiveness Through Task Automation. Asif Kamal Turzo | ASE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Software Evolution Management with Differential Facts. Xiuheng Wu | ASE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| SAFA: A Tool for Supporting Safety Analysis in Evolving Software Systems. Alberto D. Rodriguez, Timothy Newman, Katherine R. Dearstyne, Jane Cleland-Huang | ASE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Mining Android API Usage to Generate Unit Test Cases for Pinpointing Compatibility Issues. Xiaoyu Sun 0002, Xiao Chen 0002, Yanjie Zhao 0001, Pei Liu, John Grundy 0001 | ASE | 2022 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| LiveRef: a Tool for Live Refactoring Java Code. Sara Fernandes, Ademar Aguiar, André Restivo | ASE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Is this Change the Answer to that Problem?: Correlating Descriptions of Bug and Code Changes for Evaluating Patch Correctness. Haoye Tian, Xunzhu Tang, Andrew Habib, Shangwen Wang, Kui Liu 0001 | ASE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Intelligent Code Review Assignment for Large Scale Open Source Software Stacks. Ishan Aryendu, Ying Wang 0113, Farah Elkourdi, Eman Abdullah AlOmar | ASE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| How Useful is Code Change Information for Fault Localization in Continuous Integration? An Ran Chen, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Junjie Chen 0003 | ASE | 2022 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Generalizability of Code Clone Detection on CodeBERT. Tim Sonnekalb, Bernd Gruner, Clemens-Alexander Brust, Patrick Mäder | ASE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Evolving Ranking-Based Failure Proximities for Better Clustering in Fault Isolation. Yi Song, Xiaoyuan Xie, Xihao Zhang, Quanming Liu, Ruizhi Gao | ASE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Call Graph Evolution Analytics over a Version Series of an Evolving Software System. Animesh Chaturvedi 0001 | ASE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Automatically Fixing Breaking Changes of Data Science Libraries. Hailie Mitchell | ASE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| WebEvo: taming web application evolution via detecting semantic structure changes. Fei Shao, Rui Xu, Wasif Arman Haque, Jingwei Xu 0004, Ying Zhang 0012 | ISSTA | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Towards Automating Code Review Activities. Rosalia Tufano, Luca Pascarella, Michele Tufano, Denys Poshyvanyk, Gabriele Bavota | ICSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Studying Test Annotation Maintenance in the Wild. Dong Jae Kim, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Tse-Hsun Peter Chen, Jinqiu Yang 0001 | ICSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Semantic Patches for Adaptation of JavaScript Programs to Evolving Libraries. Benjamin Barslev Nielsen, Martin Toldam Torp, Anders Møller | ICSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Same File, Different Changes: The Potential of Meta-Maintenance on GitHub. Hideaki Hata, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Takashi Ishio, Christoph Treude | ICSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| SOAR: A Synthesis Approach for Data Science API Refactoring. Ansong Ni, Daniel Ramos, Aidan Z. H. Yang, Inês Lynce, Vasco Manquinho | ICSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| On Indirectly Dependent Documentation in the Context of Code Evolution: A Study. Devika Sondhi, Avyakt Gupta, Salil Purandare, Ankit Rana, Deepanshu Kaushal | ICSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| An Empirical Study of Refactorings and Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems. Yiming Tang 0002, Raffi Khatchadourian, Mehdi Bagherzadeh 0001, Rhia Singh, Ajani Stewart | ICSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Unveiling multiple facets of design degradation in modern code review. Anderson G. Uchôa | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Towards automating code review at scale. Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Jason Tsay, Manisha Mukherjee, Martin Hirzel | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| RAPID: checking API usage for the cloud in the cloud. Michael Emmi, Liana Hadarean, Ranjit Jhala, Lee Pike, Nicolás Rosner | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| One thousand and one stories: a large-scale survey of software refactoring. Yaroslav Golubev, Zarina Kurbatova, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Timofey Bryksin, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Improving the effectiveness of peer code review in identifying security defects. Rajshakhar Paul | FSE | 2021 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Identifying casualty changes in software patches. Adriana Sejfia, Yixue Zhao, Nenad Medvidovic | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Identifying bad software changes via multimodal anomaly detection for online service systems. Nengwen Zhao, Junjie Chen 0003, Zhaoyang Yu 0002, Honglin Wang, Jiesong Li | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Discovering repetitive code changes in ML systems. Malinda Dilhara | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| DIFFBASE: a differential factbase for effective software evolution management. Xiuheng Wu, Chenguang Zhu 0002, Yi Li 0008 | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| An automatic refactoring framework for replacing test-production inheritance by mocking mechanism. Xiao Wang 0030, Lu Xiao 0001, Tingting Yu 0001, Anne Woepse, Sunny Wong 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| AC²: towards understanding architectural changes in Python projects. A. Eashaan Rao, Dheeraj Vagavolu, Sridhar Chimalakonda | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| A live environment for inspection and refactoring of software systems. Sara Fernandes | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| UI Test Migration Across Mobile Platforms. Saghar Talebipour, Yixue Zhao, Luka Dojcilovic, Chenggang Li, Nenad Medvidovic | ASE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Revizor: A Data-Driven Approach to Automate Frequent Code Changes Based on Graph Matching. Oleg Smirnov, Artyom Lobanov, Yaroslav Golubev, Elena Tikhomirova, Timofey Bryksin | ASE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Restoring the Executability of Jupyter Notebooks by Automatic Upgrade of Deprecated APIs. Chenguang Zhu 0002, Ripon K. Saha, Mukul R. Prasad, Sarfraz Khurshid | ASE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Refactorings and Technical Debt in Docker Projects: An Empirical Study. Emna Ksontini, Marouane Kessentini, Thiago do Nascimento Ferreira, Foyzul Hassan | ASE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| RefactorInsight: Enhancing IDE Representation of Changes in Git with Refactorings Information. Zarina Kurbatova, Vladimir Kovalenko, Ioana Savu, Bob Brockbernd, Dan Andreescu | ASE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Mining Cross-Domain Apps for Software Evolution: A Feature-based Approach. Md Kafil Uddin, Qiang He 0001, Jun Han 0004, Caslon Chua | ASE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Learning-based Assistant for Data Migration of Enterprise Information Systems. Sayandeep Mitra, Debayan Mukherjee, Atreya Bandyopadhyay, Rajdip Chowdhury, Raveendra Kumar Medicherla | ASE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Intelligent Change Operators for Multi-Objective Refactoring. Chaima Abid, James Ivers, Thiago do Nascimento Ferreira, Marouane Kessentini, Fares E. Kahla | ASE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| FixMe: A GitHub Bot for Detecting and Monitoring On-Hold Self-Admitted Technical Debt. Saranphon Phaithoon, Supakarn Wongnil, Patiphol Pussawong, Morakot Choetkiertikul, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul | ASE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| EvoMe: A Software Evolution Management Engine Based on Differential Factbase. Xiuheng Wu, Mengyang Li, Yi Li 0008 | ASE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Effectively Analyzing Evolving Software with Differential Facts. Xiuheng Wu | ASE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Can Neural Clone Detection Generalize to Unseen Functionalitiesƒ. Chenyao Liu, Zeqi Lin, Jian-Guang Lou, Lijie Wen 0001, Dongmei Zhang 0001 | ASE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Automated Code Refactoring upon Database-Schema Changes in Web Applications. Sophie Xie, Junwen Yang, Shan Lu 0001 | ASE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| A Prediction Model for Software Requirements Change Impact. Kareshna Zamani | ASE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |