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To type or not to: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript.
Zheng Gao, Christian Bird, and Earl T. Barr.
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Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'17), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2017.
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Understanding the syntactic rule usage in Java.
Dong Qiu, Bixin Li, Earl T. Barr, and Zhendong Su.
In
Journal of Systems and Software, 123, 160-172, 2017.
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Casper: Automatic tracking of null dereferences to inception with causality traces.
Benoit Cornu, Earl T. Barr, Lionel Seinturier, and Martin Monperrus.
In
Journal of Systems and Software, 122, 52-62, 2016.
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Time-travel debugging for JavaScript/Node. js.
Earl T. Barr, Mark Marron, Ed Maurer, Dan Moseley, and Gaurav Seth.
In
Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'16), Seattle, USA, 2016.
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On the naturalness of software.
Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr, Mark Gabel, Zhendong Su, and Premkumar Devanbu.
In
Communications of the ACM, 59(5), 2016.
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Automated Transplantation of Call Graph and Layout Features into Kate.
Alexandru Marginean, Earl T. Barr, Mark Harman, and Yue Jia.
In
Proceedings of the International Conference on Search-Based Software
Engineering,
Bergamo, Italy, 2015.
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Is the cure worse than the disease? Overfitting in automated program
repair.
EK Smith, Earl T. Barr, C Le Goues, Y Brun.
In
Proceedings of the 10th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), Bergamo, Italy, 2015. (25%)
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Suggesting Accurate Method and Class Names.
Miltos Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, and Charles Sutton.
In
Proceedings of the 10th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), Bergamo, Italy, 2015. (25%)
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The Oracle Problem in Software Testing: A Survey.
Earl T. Barr, Mark Harman, Phil McMinn, Shahbaz Muzammil, and Shin Yoo.
In
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 41(5), 507–525, 2015.
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Automated Software Transplantation.
Earl T. Barr, Yue Jia, Mark Harman, Alexandru Marginean, Justyna Petke.
In
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA’15), Baltimore, USA, 2015. (28%)
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award; the Artifact Evaluation Committee
positively evaluated and formally recognized our tool and data.
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程序数值误差的扰动检测与优化.
汤恩义, BARR T. Earl, 苏振东, and 李宣东.
In 中国科学：信息科学, 2014.
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Learning Natural Coding Conventions.
Miltos Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, and Charles Sutton.
In
Proceedings of the 22nd International
Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'14),
Hong Kong, China, 2014. (22%)
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award;
the Artifact Evaluation Committee positively evaluated and formally
recognized our tool and data.
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The Plastic Surgery Hypothesis.
Earl T. Barr, Yuriy Brun, Prem Devanbu, Mark Harman, and Federica Sarro.
In
Proceedings of the 22nd International
Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'14),
Hong Kong, China, 2014. (22%)
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TARDIS: Affordable Time-Travel Debugging in Managed Runtimes.
Earl T. Barr and Mark Marron.
In
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on
Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and
Applications (OOPSLA/SPLASH!'14),
Portland, Oregon, USA, 2014. (28%)
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Capturing and Exploiting IDE Interactions.
Zhongxian Gu, Drew Schleck, Earl T. Barr, and Zhendong Su.
In
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on
Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and
Applications (OOPSLA/ONWARD!'14),
Portland, Oregon, USA, 2014. (47%)
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Uncertainty, Risk, and Information Value in Software Requirements and Architecture.
Emmanuel Letier, David Stefan, and Earl T. Barr.
In Proceedings of
the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'14),
Hyderabad, India, 2014. (20%)
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Comparing Static Bug Finders and Statistical Prediction.
Foyzur Rahman, Sameer Khatri, Earl T. Barr, and Prem Devanbu.
In Proceedings
of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'14),
Hyderabad, India, 2014. (20%)
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Collecting a Heap of Shapes.
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, and Mark Marron.
In
Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Software Testing and
Analysis (ISSTA),
Lugano, Switzerland, July 15--20, 2013. (26%)
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
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What Effect Does Distributed Version Control Have on OSS Project Organization?
Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu, and Daniel M.
German.
In
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Release Engineering,
San Francisco, CA, USA, May 20, 2013.
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Automatic Detection of Floating-Point Exceptions.
Earl T. Barr, Thanh Vo, Vo Le, and Zhendong Su.
In
Proceedings of Principles of Programming Languages (POPL'13),
Rome, Italy, 2013. (18%)
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Liberating the Programmer with Prorogued Programming.
Mehrdad Afshari, Earl T. Barr, and Zhendong Su.
In
Proceedings of the 3rd Systems, Programming, Languages,
and Applications: Software for Humanity (OOPSLA/SPLASH'12),
Tucson, Arizona, USA, 2012. (26%)
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Reusing Debugging Knowledge via Trace-based Bug Search.
Zhongxian Gu, Earl T. Barr, Drew Schleck, and Zhendong Su.
In
Proceedings of the 3rd Systems, Programming, Languages,
and Applications: Software for Humanity (OOPSLA/SPLASH'12),
Tucson, Arizona, USA, 2012. (25%)
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On the ``Naturalness'' of Software.
Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su, Mark Gabel, and Premkumar Devanbu.
In
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on
Software Engineering (ICSE'12),
Zurich, Switzerland, 2012. (21%)
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Cohesive and Isolated Development with Branches.
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Abram Hindle, Daniel M. German,
and Premkumar Devanbu.
In
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches
to Software Engineering (FASE'12),
Tallinn, Estonia, 2012. (25%)
The original publication is available at
www.springerlink.com.
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BugCache for Inspections: Hit of Miss?
Foyzur Rahman, Daryl Posnett, Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr and Premkumar Devanbu.
In
Proceedings 2011 International Symposium on the Foundations of Software
Engineering (FSE'11), Szeged, Hungary, 2011. (17%)
Nominated for ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
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BQL: Capturing and Resuing Debugging Knowledge
.
Zhongxian Gu, Earl T. Barr, and Zhendong Su.
In
Proceedings 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering —
Demonstrations Track, Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2011.
(37%)
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On the Shoulders of Giants.
Earl T. Barr and Christian Bird and Eric Hyatt and Tim Menzies and Gregorio Robles.
In
Proceedings 2010 FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering
Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2010.
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Perturbing Numerical Calculations for Statistical Analysis of Floating-Point
Program (In)Stability.
Enyi Tang, Earl T. Barr, Xuandong Li, and Zhendong Su.
In Proceedings of the International
Conference on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA'10), Trento, Italy,
2010. (23%)
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Has the Bug Really Been Fixed?
Zhongxian Gu, Earl T. Barr, David J. Hamilton, and Zhendong Su.
In Proceedings of the 2010
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'10), Cape
Town, South Africa, 2010. (14%)
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Trust is in the Eye of the Beholder.
Dimitri DeFigueiredo, Earl T. Barr, and S. Felix Wu.
In Proceedings of the 2009
International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and
Trust (PASSAT'09), Vancouver, Canada, 2009. (14%)
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The Promises and Perils of Mining Git.
Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, David J. Hamilton, Daniel M. German, and Prem Devanbu.
In Proceedings of the Sixth
Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 09),
Vancouver, Canada, 2009. (28%)
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MAGE: A Distributed Programming Model.
Earl T. Barr.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Davis, Spring 2009.
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Structure and Dynamics of Research Collaboration in Computer Science.
Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr, Andre Nash, Vladimir Filkov, Prem Devanbu, and Zhendong Su.
In Proceedings of the 2009 SIAM
International Conference on Data Mining. (SDM 2009), Sparks, NV,
April–May 2009. (30%)
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ConceptDoppler: A Weather Tracker for Internet Censorship.
Jedidiah R. Crandall, Daniel Zinn, Michael Byrd, Earl T. Barr, and Rich East.
In Proceedings of the 14th ACM
Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2007),
Alexandria, VA, October 2007. (18%)
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Fixing the Federal E-Voting Standards.
Earl T. Barr, Matt Bishop, and Mark Gondree.
Communications of the ACM 50(3) pp. 19-24, March 2007.
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Toward Clarifying Election Systems Standards.
Earl T. Barr, Matt Bishop, Dimitri DeFigueiredo, Mark Gondree, and
Patrick Wheeler.
Submitted to NIST's Technical Committee for the U.S. Election Assistance
Commission's Voting System Guidelines Comments, September 2005.
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TrustDavis: A Non-Exploitable Online Reputation System.
Dimitri do B. DeFigueiredo and Earl T. Barr.
In Proceedings of the 7th International
IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC), Munich, Germany,
June 2005. (21%)
Best Paper Award
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Handling Catastrophic Failures in Internet Applications.
Michael Haungs, Earl T. Barr, and Raju Pandey.
In Proceedings
of the International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT
2004), Tokyo, Japan, January 2004. (28%) [29/105]
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A Fast Connection-Time Redirection Mechanism for Internet Application
Scalability.
Michael Haungs, Raju Pandey, Earl T. Barr, and J. Fritz Barnes.
In Proceedings of the Ninth
International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC),
Bangalore, India, December 2002. (39%)
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MAGE: A Distributed Programming Model.
Earl T. Barr, Raju Pandey and Michael Haungs.
In Proceedings of the 21th
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
(ICDCS), Phoenix, Arizona, April 2001. (32%)
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Runtime support for type-safe dynamic Java classes.
Scott Malabarba, Raju Pandey, Jeff Gragg, Earl T. Barr, and J. Fritz Barnes.
In Proceedings
of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
(ECOOP), Sophia Antipolis and Cannes, France, June 2000 (20%)
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