Abram Hindle

Stopping duplicate bug reports before they start with Continuous Querying for bug reports

2016

Bug deduplication is a hot topic in software engineering information retrieval research, but it is often not deployed. Typically to de-duplicate bug reports developers rely upon the search capabilities of the bug report software they …

What do Developers Know About Machine Learning: A Study of ML Discussions on StackOverflow

2019

Machine learning, a branch of Artificial Intelligence, is now popular in software engineering community and is successfully used for problems like bug prediction, and software development effort estimation. Developers' understanding of machine learning, however, is …

On the Time-Based Conclusion Stability of Cross-Project Defect\n Prediction Models

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Researchers in empirical software engineering often make claims based on\nobservable data such as defect reports. Unfortunately, in many cases, these\nclaims are generalized beyond the data sets that have been evaluated. Will the\nresearcher's conclusions hold a …