Earl T. Barr

According to our database, Earl T. Barr authored at least 99 papers between 2000 and 2025.

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2025

The role of surprisal in issue trackers.

James Caddy, Christoph Treude, Markus Wagner, Earl T. Barr

Empir. Softw. Eng., February, 2025

2024

Summary of the 1st Interpretability and Robustness in Neural Software Engineering (InteNSE 2023).

Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Saeid Tizpaz-Niari, Earl T. Barr, Satish Chandra

ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, January, 2024

The Fact Selection Problem in LLM-Based Program Repair.

Nikhil Parasaram, Huijie Yan, Boyu Yang, Zineb Flahy, Abriele Qudsi, Damian Ziaber, Earl T. Barr, Sergey Mechtaev

CoRR, 2024

A Comprehensive Study of the Capabilities of Large Language Models for Vulnerability Detection.

Benjamin Steenhoek, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Monoshi Kumar Roy, Mirza Sanjida Alam, Earl T. Barr, Wei Le

CoRR, 2024

Automatic Semantic Augmentation of Language Model Prompts (for Code Summarization).

Toufique Ahmed, Kunal Suresh Pai, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Earl T. Barr

Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2024

2023

Program transformation landscapes for automated program modification using Gin.

Justyna Petke, Brad Alexander, Earl T. Barr, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Markus Wagner, David Robert White

Empir. Softw. Eng., July, 2023

Model validation using mutated training labels: An exploratory study.

Jie M. Zhang, Mark Harman, Benjamin Guedj, Earl T. Barr, John Shawe-Taylor

Neurocomputing, June, 2023

PopArt: Ranked Testing Efficiency.

Iason Papapanagiotakis-Bousy, Earl T. Barr, David Clark

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., April, 2023

Aide-mémoire: Improving a Project's Collective Memory via Pull Request-Issue Links.

Profir-Petru Pârtachi, David R. White, Earl T. Barr

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., April, 2023

Epicure: Distilling Sequence Model Predictions into Patterns.

Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr

CoRR, 2023

Software Product Line Engineering via Software Transplantation.

Leandro O. Souza, Earl T. Barr, Justyna Petke, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto

CoRR, 2023

Improving Few-Shot Prompts with Relevant Static Analysis Products.

Toufique Ahmed, Kunal Suresh Pai, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Earl T. Barr

CoRR, 2023

Precise Data-Driven Approximation for Program Analysis via Fuzzing.

Nikhil Parasaram, Earl T. Barr, Sergey Mechtaev, Marcel Böhme

Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2023

CodeGrid: A Grid Representation of Code.

Abdoul Kader Kaboré, Earl T. Barr, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2023

June: A Type Testability Transformation for Improved ATG Performance.

Dan Bruce, David A. Kelly, Héctor D. Menéndez, Earl T. Barr, David Clark

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2023

Rete: Learning Namespace Representation for Program Repair.

Nikhil Parasaram, Earl T. Barr, Sergey Mechtaev

Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2023

Continuously Accelerating Research.

Earl T. Barr, Jonathan Bell, Michael Hilton, Sergey Mechtaev, Christopher Steven Timperley

Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results, 2023

2022

Trident: Controlling Side Effects in Automated Program Repair.

Nikhil Parasaram, Earl T. Barr, Sergey Mechtaev

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2022

Is Surprisal in Issue Trackers Actionable?

James Caddy, Markus Wagner, Christoph Treude, Earl T. Barr, Miltiadis Allamanis

CoRR, 2022

High Assurance Software for Financial Regulation and Business Platforms.

Stephen Goldbaum, Attila Mihály, Tosha Ellison, Earl T. Barr, Mark Marron

Proceedings of the Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, 2022

Modus: a Datalog dialect for building container images.

Chris Tomy, Tingmao Wang, Earl T. Barr, Sergey Mechtaev

Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2022

2021

Today Was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers.

André N. Meyer, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2021

The Assessor's Dilemma: Improving Bug Repair via Empirical Game Theory.

Carlos Gavidia-Calderon, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Earl T. Barr

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2021

Getting Ahead of the Arms Race: Hothousing the Coevolution of VirusTotal with a Packer.

Héctor D. Menéndez, David Clark, Earl T. Barr

Entropy, 2021

Artefact Relation Graphs for Unit Test Reuse Recommendation.

Robert White, Jens Krinke, Earl T. Barr, Federica Sarro, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul

Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, 2021

2020

Game-theoretic analysis of development practices: Challenges and opportunities.

Carlos Gavidia-Calderon, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Earl T. Barr

J. Syst. Softw., 2020

Detecting Malware with Information Complexity.

Nadia Alshahwan, Earl T. Barr, David Clark, George Danezis, Héctor D. Menéndez

Entropy, 2020

OptTyper: Probabilistic Type Inference by Optimising Logical and Natural Constraints.

Irene Vlassi Pandi, Earl T. Barr, Andrew D. Gordon, Charles Sutton

CoRR, 2020

Flexeme: untangling commits using lexical flows.

Profir-Petru Pârtachi, Santanu Kumar Dash, Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr

Proceedings of the ESEC/FSE '20: 28th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2020

Typilus: neural type hints.

Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Soline Ducousso, Zheng Gao

Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 2020

POSIT: simultaneously tagging natural and programming languages.

Profir-Petru Pârtachi, Santanu Kumar Dash, Christoph Treude, Earl T. Barr

Proceedings of the ICSE '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, 27 June, 2020

Where should I comment my code?: a dataset and model for predicting locations that need comments.

Annie Louis, Santanu Kumar Dash, Earl T. Barr, Michael D. Ernst, Charles Sutton

Proceedings of the ICSE-NIER 2020: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, New Ideas and Emerging Results, Seoul, South Korea, 27 June, 2020

A theory of dual channel constraints.

Casey Casalnuovo, Earl T. Barr, Santanu Kumar Dash, Prem Devanbu, Emily Morgan

Proceedings of the ICSE-NIER 2020: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, New Ideas and Emerging Results, Seoul, South Korea, 27 June, 2020

Ant Colony Optimization for Object-Oriented Unit Test Generation.

Dan Bruce, Héctor D. Menéndez, Earl T. Barr, David Clark

Proceedings of the Swarm Intelligence - 12th International Conference, 2020

2019

Approximate Oracles and Synergy in Software Energy Search Spaces.

Bobby R. Bruce, Justyna Petke, Mark Harman, Earl T. Barr

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2019

The arms race: Adversarial search defeats entropy used to detect malware.

Héctor D. Menéndez, Sukriti Bhattacharya, David Clark, Earl T. Barr

Expert Syst. Appl., 2019

Sub-Turing Islands in the Wild.

Earl T. Barr, David W. Binkley, Mark Harman, Mohamed Nassim Seghir

CoRR, 2019

Perturbed Model Validation: A New Framework to Validate Model Relevance.

Jie M. Zhang, Earl T. Barr, Benjamin Guedj, Mark Harman, John Shawe-Taylor

CoRR, 2019

SafeStrings: Representing Strings as Structured Data.

David A. Kelly, Mark Marron, David Clark, Earl T. Barr

CoRR, 2019

Modelling Genetic Programming as a Simple Sampling Algorithm.

David Robert White, Benjamin Fowler, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Earl T. Barr

Proceedings of the Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XVII [GPTP 2019, 2019

A survey of genetic improvement search spaces.

Justyna Petke, Brad Alexander, Earl T. Barr, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Markus Wagner, David Robert White

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2019

Gin: genetic improvement research made easy.

Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Justyna Petke, Brad Alexander, Earl T. Barr, Markus Wagner, David Robert White

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2019

2018

Mining Semantic Loop Idioms.

Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Mark Marron, Charles Sutton

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2018

A Survey of Machine Learning for Big Code and Naturalness.

Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Charles Sutton

ACM Comput. Surv., 2018

Automated Fix Detection Given Flaky Tests.

David Landsberg, Earl T. Barr

CoRR, 2018

Doric: Foundations for Statistical Fault Localisation.

David Landsberg, Earl T. Barr

CoRR, 2018

Indexing Operators to Extend the Reach of Symbolic Execution.

Earl T. Barr, David Clark, Mark Harman, Alexandru Marginean

CoRR, 2018

Deep Learning to Detect Redundant Method Comments.

Annie Louis, Santanu Kumar Dash, Earl T. Barr, Charles Sutton

CoRR, 2018

Deep learning type inference.

Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr, Miltiadis Allamanis

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2018

RefiNym: using names to refine types.

Santanu Kumar Dash, Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2018

Darwinian data structure selection.

Michail Basios, Lingbo Li, Fan Wu, Leslie Kanthan, Earl T. Barr

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2018

Making data-driven porting decisions with Tuscan.

Kareem Khazem, Earl T. Barr, Petr Hosek

Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2018

2017

Understanding the syntactic rule usage in java.

Dong Qiu, Bixin Li, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su

J. Syst. Softw., 2017

Darwinian Data Structure Selection.

Michail Basios, Lingbo Li, Fan Wu, Leslie Kanthan, Donald Lawrence, Earl T. Barr

CoRR, 2017

Optimising Darwinian Data Structures on Google Guava.

Michail Basios, Lingbo Li, Fan Wu, Leslie Kanthan, Earl T. Barr

Proceedings of the Search Based Software Engineering - 9th International Symposium, 2017

To type or not to type: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript.

Zheng Gao, Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr

Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2017

2016

Casper: Automatic tracking of null dereferences to inception with causality traces.

Benoit Cornu, Earl T. Barr, Lionel Seinturier, Martin Monperrus

J. Syst. Softw., 2016

Learning Python Code Suggestion with a Sparse Pointer Network.

Avishkar Bhoopchand, Tim Rocktäschel, Earl T. Barr, Sebastian Riedel

CoRR, 2016

ITect: Scalable Information Theoretic Similarity for Malware Detection.

Sukriti Bhattacharya, Héctor D. Menéndez, Earl T. Barr, David Clark

CoRR, 2016

Tailored Mutants Fit Bugs Better.

Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, René Just, Charles Sutton

CoRR, 2016

On the naturalness of software.

Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr, Mark Gabel, Zhendong Su, Premkumar T. Devanbu

Commun. ACM, 2016

Time-travel debugging for JavaScript/Node.js.

Earl T. Barr, Mark Marron, Ed Maurer, Dan Moseley, Gaurav Seth

Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2016

The naturalness of software ☆.

Earl T. Barr, Premkumar T. Devanbu

Proceedings of the Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering, 2016

2015

The Oracle Problem in Software Testing: A Survey.

Earl T. Barr, Mark Harman, Phil McMinn, Muzammil Shahbaz, Shin Yoo

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2015

A Study of "Wheat" and "Chaff" in Source Code.

Martin Velez, Dong Qiu, You Zhou, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su

CoRR, 2015

Casper: Debugging Null Dereferences with Dynamic Causality Traces.

Benoit Cornu, Earl T. Barr, Lionel Seinturier, Martin Monperrus

CoRR, 2015

Detecting Malware with Information Complexity.

Nadia Alshahwan, Earl T. Barr, David Clark, George Danezis

CoRR, 2015

Automated Transplantation of Call Graph and Layout Features into Kate.

Alexandru Marginean, Earl T. Barr, Mark Harman, Yue Jia

Proceedings of the Search-Based Software Engineering - 7th International Symposium, 2015

Is the cure worse than the disease? overfitting in automated program repair.

Edward K. Smith, Earl T. Barr, Claire Le Goues, Yuriy Brun

Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2015

Suggesting accurate method and class names.

Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton

Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2015

Automated software transplantation.

Earl T. Barr, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, Alexandru Marginean, Justyna Petke

Proceedings of the 2015 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2015

2014

Learning Natural Coding Conventions.

Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Charles Sutton

CoRR, 2014

The plastic surgery hypothesis.

Earl T. Barr, Yuriy Brun, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Mark Harman, Federica Sarro

Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, (FSE-22), Hong Kong, China, November 16, 2014

Learning natural coding conventions.

Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton

Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, (FSE-22), Hong Kong, China, November 16, 2014

Capturing and Exploiting IDE Interactions.

Zhongxian Gu, Drew Schleck, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su

Proceedings of the Onward! 2014, 2014

Tardis: affordable time-travel debugging in managed runtimes.

Earl T. Barr, Mark Marron

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages & Applications, 2014

Comparing static bug finders and statistical prediction.

Foyzur Rahman, Sameer Khatri, Earl T. Barr, Premkumar T. Devanbu

Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2014

Uncertainty, risk, and information value in software requirements and architecture.

Emmanuel Letier, David Stefan, Earl T. Barr

Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2014

2013

Automatic detection of floating-point exceptions.

Earl T. Barr, Thanh Vo, Vu Le, Zhendong Su

Proceedings of the 40th Annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, 2013

Collecting a heap of shapes.

Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Mark Marron

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2013

What effect does distributed version control have on OSS project organization?

Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Daniel M. Germán

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Release Engineering, 2013

2012

Reusing debugging knowledge via trace-based bug search.

Zhongxian Gu, Earl T. Barr, Drew Schleck, Zhendong Su

Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, 2012

Liberating the programmer with prorogued programming.

Mehrdad Afshari, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on New Ideas in Programming and Reflections on Software, 2012

Cohesive and Isolated Development with Branches.

Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Abram Hindle, Daniel M. Germán, Premkumar T. Devanbu

Proceedings of the Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, 2012

2011

BugCache for inspections: hit or miss?

Foyzur Rahman, Daryl Posnett, Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr, Premkumar T. Devanbu

Proceedings of the SIGSOFT/FSE'11 19th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-19) and ESEC'11: 13th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC-13), 2011

BQL: capturing and reusing debugging knowledge.

Zhongxian Gu, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su

Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering, 2011

2010

On the shoulders of giants.

Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Eric Hyatt, Tim Menzies, Gregorio Robles

Proceedings of the Workshop on Future of Software Engineering Research, 2010

Perturbing numerical calculations for statistical analysis of floating-point program (in)stability.

Enyi Tang, Earl T. Barr, Xuandong Li, Zhendong Su

Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2010

Has the bug really been fixed?

Zhongxian Gu, Earl T. Barr, David J. Hamilton, Zhendong Su

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, 2010

2009

Structure and Dynamics of Research Collaboration in Computer Science.

Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr, Andre Nash, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Vladimir Filkov, Zhendong Su

Proceedings of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2009

The promises and perils of mining git.

Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, David J. Hamilton, Daniel M. Germán, Premkumar T. Devanbu

Proceedings of the 6th International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2009

Trust Is in the Eye of the Beholder.

Dimitri do B. DeFigueiredo, Earl T. Barr, Shyhtsun Felix Wu

Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2009

2007

Fixing federal e-voting standards.

Earl T. Barr, Matt Bishop, Mark A. Gondree

Commun. ACM, 2007

ConceptDoppler: a weather tracker for internet censorship.

Jedidiah R. Crandall, Daniel Zinn, Michael Byrd, Earl T. Barr, Rich East

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2007

2005

TrustDavis: A Non-Exploitable Online Reputation System.

Dimitri do B. DeFigueiredo, Earl T. Barr

Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC 2005), 2005

2004

Handling Catastrophic Failures in Scalable Internet Applications.

Michael Haungs, Raju Pandey, Earl T. Barr

Proceedings of the 2004 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2004), 2004

2002

A Fast Connection-Time Redirection Mechanism for Internet Application Scalability.

Michael Haungs, Raju Pandey, Earl T. Barr, J. Fritz Barnes

Proceedings of the High Performance Computing, 2002

2001

MAGE: A Distributed Programming Model.

Earl T. Barr, Raju Pandey, Michael Haungs

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2001), 2001

2000

Runtime Support for Type-Safe Dynamic Java Classes.

Scott Malabarba, Raju Pandey, Jeff Gragg, Earl T. Barr, J. Fritz Barnes

Proceedings of the ECOOP 2000, 2000