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2021

Roy, Devjeet; Fakhoury, Sarah; Arnaoudova, Venera

Re-assessing Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Code Summarization Tasks Inproceedings

In: ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), pp. 1105–-1116, 2021.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: automatic evaluation metrics, empirical study, machine translation, source code summarization

2020

Roy, Devjeet; Zhang, Ziyi; Ma, Maggie; Arnaoudova, Venera; Panichella, Annibale; Panichella, Sebastiano; Gonzalez, Danielle; Mirakhorli, Mehdi

DeepTC-Enhancer: Improving the Readability of Automatically Generated Tests Inproceedings

In: International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), pp. 287–298, 2020.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: empirical study, source code readability, source code summarization

Roy, Devjeet; Fakhoury, Sarah; Lee, John; Arnaoudova, Venera

A model to detect incremental readability improvements in incremental changes Inproceedings

In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pp. 25–36, 2020.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: developers' perception, empirical study, machine learning, source code readability

Fakhoury, Sarah; Roy, Devjeet; Ma, Yuzhan; Arnaoudova, Venera; Adesope, Olusola

Measuring the Impact of Inconsistencies on Developers' Cognitive Load during Bug Localization Journal Article

In: Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), vol. 25, pp. 2140–2178, 2020.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Biometrics, empirical study, linguistic antipatterns, program comprehension

Roy, Devjeet; Fakhoury, Sarah; Arnaoudova, Venera

VITALSE: Visualizing Eye Tracking and Biometric Data Inproceedings

In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) - Demonstrations Track, pp. 57–60, 2020.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Biometrics, empirical study, program comprehension, Tool

2019

Fakhoury, Sarah; Roy, Devjeet; Hassan, Sk. Adnan; Arnaoudova, Venera

Improving Source Code Readability: Theory and Practice Inproceedings

In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pp. 2–12, 2019.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: empirical study, readability, source code identifiers

2018

Fakhoury, Sarah; Ma, Yuzhan; Arnaoudova, Venera; Adesope, Olusola

The Effect of Poor Source Code Lexicon and Readability on Developers' Cognitive Load Inproceedings

In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pp. 286–296, 2018, (Distinguished Paper Award).

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Biometrics, empirical study, linguistic antipatterns, program comprehension, source code identifiers

Fakhoury, Sarah; Arnaoudova, Venera; Noiseux, Cedric; Khomh, Foutse; Antoniol, Giuliano

Keep it simple: is deep learning good for linguistic smell detection? Inproceedings

In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)—REproducibility Studies and NEgative Results (RENE) Track, 2018.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: deep learning, empirical study, linguistic antipatterns, machine learning, source code identifiers, source code readability

2017

Sabané, Aminata; Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël; Arnaoudova, Venera; Antoniol, Giuliano

Fragile base-class problem, problem? Journal Article

In: Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 2612–2657, 2017.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: change proneness, empirical study, fault proneness, inheritance

2015

Arnaoudova, Venera; Penta, Massimiliano Di; Antoniol, Giuliano

Linguistic Antipatterns: What They are and How Developers Perceive Them Journal Article

In: Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 104–158, 2015.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: developers' perception, empirical study, linguistic antipatterns, natural language processing, source code identifiers

Panichella, Sebastiano; Arnaoudova, Venera; Penta, Massimiliano Di; Antoniol, Giuliano

Would Static Analysis Tools Help Developers with Code Reviews? Inproceedings

In: International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER), pp. 161–170, 2015.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: Code Review, empirical study, mining software repositories, static analysis

2014

Arnaoudova, Venera

Towards Improving the Code Lexicon and its Consistency PhD Thesis

Polytechnique Montréal, 2014.

Links | BibTeX | Tags: developers' perception, empirical study, fault prediction, linguistic antipatterns, program comprehension, renaming, source code identifiers

Arnaoudova, Venera; Eshkevari, Laleh Mousavi; Penta, Massimiliano Di; Oliveto, Rocco; Antoniol, Giuliano; Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël

REPENT: Analyzing the Nature of Identifier Renamings Journal Article

In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 502–532, 2014.

Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: empirical study, mining software repositories, refactoring, renaming, source code identifiers

Medini, Soumaya; Arnaoudova, Venera; Penta, Massimiliano Di; Antoniol, Giuliano; Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël; Tonella, Paolo

SCAN: An Approach to Label and Relate Execution Trace Segments Journal Article

In: Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP), vol. 26, no. 11, pp. 962–995, 2014.

Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: concept identification, dynamic analysis, empirical study, formal concept analysis, information retrieval

2008

Arnaoudova, Venera; Eshkevari, Laleh Mousavi; Sharifabadi, Elaheh Safari; Constantinides, Constantinos

Overcoming comprehension barriers in the AspectJ programming language Journal Article

In: Journal of Object Technology (JOT), vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 121–142, 2008.

BibTeX | Tags: aspect-oriented programming, empirical study, program comprehension