SANER 2017
2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)
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2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER), February 20-24, 2017, Klagenfurt, Austria

SANER 2017 – Proceedings

 Contents - Abstracts - Authors

Main Research

MSR and Open Source
Wed, Feb 22, 11:00 - 12:30

An Empirical Comparison of Dependency Issues in OSS Packaging Ecosystems
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, and Maëlick Claes
(University of Mons, Belgium)
Article: saner17main-mainid17-p doi:
Detecting Similar Repositories on GitHub
Yun Zhang, David Lo, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Xin Xia, Quanlai Li, and Jianling Sun
(Zhejiang University, China; Singapore Management University, Singapore; University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Article: saner17main-mainid169-p doi:
Code of Conduct in Open Source Projects
Parastou Tourani, Bram Adams, and Alexander Serebrenik
(Polytechnique Montréal, Canada; Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Article: saner17main-mainid167-p doi:
Socio-Technical Evolution of the Ruby Ecosystem in GitHub
Eleni Constantinou and Tom Mens
(University of Mons, Belgium)
Article: saner17main-mainid111-p doi:

Features and Knowledge
Wed, Feb 22, 14:00 - 15:30

StiCProb: A Novel Feature Mining Approach using Conditional Probability
Yutian Tang and Hareton Leung
(Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Article: saner17main-mainid5-p doi:
HDSKG: Harvesting Domain Specific Knowledge Graph from Content of Webpages
Xuejiao Zhao, Zhenchang Xing, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Naoya Sawada, Jing Li, and Shang-Wei Lin
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Australian National University, Australia; Charles Sturt University, Australia; NTT, Japan)
Article: saner17main-mainid85-p doi:
Analyzing Closeness of Code Dependencies for Improving IR-Based Traceability Recovery
Hongyu Kuang, Jia Nie, Hao Hu, Patrick Rempel, Jian Lü, Alexander Egyed, and Patrick Mäder
(Nanjing University, China; JKU Linz, Austria; TU Ilmenau, Germany)
Article: saner17main-mainid123-p doi:
STRICT: Information Retrieval Based Search Term Identification for Concept Location
Mohammad Masudur Rahman and Chanchal K. Roy
(University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Article: saner17main-mainid175-p doi:

Apps and Energy
Wed, Feb 22, 16:00 - 17:10

Analyzing Reviews and Code of Mobile Apps for Better Release Planning
Adelina Ciurumelea, Andreas Schaufelbühl, Sebastiano Panichella, and Harald C. Gall
(University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Article: saner17main-mainid28-p doi:
Software-Based Energy Profiling of Android Apps: Simple, Efficient and Reliable?
Dario Di Nucci, Fabio Palomba, Antonio Prota, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, and Andrea De Lucia
(University of Salerno, Italy; Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Article: saner17main-mainid26-p doi:
Investigating the Energy Impact of Android Smells
Antonin Carette, Mehdi Adel Ait Younes, Geoffrey Hecht, Naouel Moha, and Romain Rouvoy
(Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada; Inria, France; University of Lille, France; IUF, France)
Article: saner17main-mainid181-p doi:

Software and Model Analysis
Wed, Feb 22, 16:00 - 17:10

Automated Generation of Consistency-Achieving Model Editors
Patrick Neubauer, Robert Bill, Tanja Mayerhofer, and Manuel Wimmer
(Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Article: saner17main-mainid182-p doi:
Historical and Impact Analysis of API Breaking Changes: A Large-Scale Study
Laerte Xavier, Aline Brito, Andre Hora, and Marco Tulio Valente
(Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Article: saner17main-mainid163-p doi:
Reducing Redundancies in Multi-revision Code Analysis
Carol V. Alexandru, Sebastiano Panichella, and Harald C. Gall
(University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Article: saner17main-mainid43-p doi:

Code and Data Transformations
Thu, Feb 23, 11:00 - 12:30

Recommending Source Code Locations for System Specific Transformations
Gustavo Santos, Klérisson V. R. Paixão, Nicolas Anquetil, Anne Etien, Marcelo de Almeida Maia, and Stéphane Ducasse
(University of Lille, France; CNRS, France; Inria, France; Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil)
Article: saner17main-mainid96-p doi:
Extracting Executable Transformations from Distilled Code Changes
Reinout Stevens and Coen De Roover
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Article: saner17main-mainid112-p doi:
Automatic Generation of Opaque Constants Based on the K-Clique Problem for Resilient Data Obfuscation
Roberto Tiella and Mariano Ceccato
(Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Article: saner17main-mainid27-p doi:
The Dark Side of Event Sourcing: Managing Data Conversion
Michiel Overeem, Marten Spoor, and Slinger Jansen
(AFAS Software, Netherlands; Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Article: saner17main-mainid136-p doi:

Program Comprehension
Thu, Feb 23, 16:00 - 17:30

Automatically Generating Natural Language Descriptions for Object-Related Statement Sequences
Xiaoran Wang, Lori Pollock, and K. Vijay-Shanker
(University of Delaware, USA)
Article: saner17main-mainid57-p doi:
Shorter Identifier Names Take Longer to Comprehend
Johannes Hofmeister, Janet Siegmund, and Daniel V. Holt
(University of Passau, Germany; University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Article: saner17main-mainid59-p doi:
Lexical Categories for Source Code Identifiers
Christian D. Newman, Reem S. AlSuhaibani, Michael L. Collard, and Jonathan I. Maletic
(Kent State University, USA; University of Akron, USA)
Article: saner17main-mainid66-p doi:
Computing Counter-Examples for Privilege Protection Losses using Security Models
Marc-André Laverdière and Ettore Merlo
(Tata Consultancy Services, Canada; Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
Article: saner17main-mainid141-p doi:

Software Development Support
Fri, Feb 24, 09:00 - 10:30

Enriching In-IDE Process Information with Fine-Grained Source Code History
Sebastian Proksch, Sarah Nadi, Sven Amann, and Mira Mezini
(TU Darmstadt, Germany; University of Alberta, Canada)
Article: saner17main-mainid137-p doi:
How to Gamify Software Engineering
Tommaso Dal Sasso, Andrea Mocci, Michele Lanza, and Ebrisa Mastrodicasa
(University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Article: saner17main-mainid98-p doi:
Scalable Tag Recommendation for Software Information Sites
Pingyi Zhou, Jin Liu, Zijiang Yang, and Guangyou Zhou
(Wuhan University, China; Western Michigan University, USA; Central China Normal University, China)
Article: saner17main-mainid35-p doi:
Stack Overflow: A Code Laundering Platform?
Le An, Ons Mlouki, Foutse Khomh, and Giuliano Antoniol
(Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
Article: saner17main-mainid144-p doi:

Code Smells and Refactoring
Fri, Feb 24, 11:00 - 12:30

An Empirical Study of Code Smells in JavaScript Projects
Amir Saboury, Pooya Musavi, Foutse Khomh, and Giuliano Antoniol
(Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
Article: saner17main-mainid148-p doi:
Antipatterns Causing Memory Bloat: A Case Study
Kamil Jezek and Richard Lipka
(University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic)
Article: saner17main-mainid56-p doi:
Variant-Preserving Refactorings for Migrating Cloned Products to a Product Line
Wolfram Fenske, Jens Meinicke, Sandro Schulze, Steffen Schulze, and Gunter Saake
(University of Magdeburg, Germany; Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Article: saner17main-mainid179-p doi:
Efficient Method Extraction for Automatic Elimination of Type-3 Clones
Ran Ettinger, Shmuel Tyszberowicz, and Shay Menaia
(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel)
Article: saner17main-mainid130-p doi:

Testing and Fault Localization
Fri, Feb 24, 14:00 - 15:30

Spreadsheet Testing in Practice
Sohon Roy, Felienne Hermans, and Arie van Deursen
(Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Article: saner17main-mainid145-p doi:
Dynamic Patch Generation for Null Pointer Exceptions using Metaprogramming
Thomas Durieux, Benoit Cornu, Lionel Seinturier, and Martin Monperrus
(University of Lille, France; Inria, France)
Article: saner17main-mainid187-p doi:
Improving Fault Localization for Simulink Models using Search-Based Testing and Prediction Models
Bing Liu, Lucia, Shiva Nejati, and Lionel C. Briand
(University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Article: saner17main-mainid89-p doi:
An Empirical Investigation into the Cost-Effectiveness of Test Effort Allocation Strategies for Finding Faults
Yiyang Feng, Wanwangying Ma, Yibiao Yang, Hongmin Lu, Yuming Zhou, and Baowen Xu
(Nanjing University, China)
Article: saner17main-mainid49-p doi:

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