Code Spelunking: Exploring Cavernous Code Bases

Cellular spelunking: exploring adipocyte caveolae.

It has been known for decades that the adipocyte cell surface is particularly rich in small invaginations we now know to be caveolae. These structures are common to many cell types but are not ubiquitous. They have generated considerable curiosity, as manifested by the numerous publications on the topic that describe various, sometimes contradictory, caveolae functions. Here, we review the fiel...

CodeWeave: Exploring Fine-Grained Mobility of Code

Revealing Missing Bug-Fixes in Code Clones in Large-Scale Code Bases

If a bug gets fixed in duplicated code, often all duplicates (so called clones) need to be modified accordingly. In practice, however, fixes are often incomplete, causing the bug to remain in one or more of the clones. In this paper, we present an approach to detect such incomplete bug-fixes in cloned code. It analyzes a system’s version history to reveal those commits that fix problems. It the...

Revealing Missing Bug-Fixes in Code Clones in Large-Scale Code Bases

When a bug is fixed in duplicated code, it is often necessary to modify all duplicates (so-called clones) accordingly. In practice, however, fixes are often incomplete, which causes the bug to remain in one or more of the clones. This paper presents an approach that detects such incomplete bug-fixes in cloned code by analyzing a system’s version history to reveal those commits that fix problems...

A Framework for Reverse Engineering Large C++ Code Bases

When assessing the quality and maintainability of large C++ code bases, tools are needed for extracting several facts from the source code, such as: architecture, structure, code smells, and quality metrics. Moreover, these facts should be presented in such ways so that one can correlate them and find outliers and anomalies. We present SolidFX, an integrated reverse-engineering environment (IRE...