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# QuASoQ-TDA 2016
APSEC 2016 Workshops

- ### 4th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality (QuASoQ 2016)

- ### 1st International Workshop on Technical Debt Analytics (TDA 2016)

### Joint Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality (QuASoQ 2016) and 1st International Workshop on Technical Debt Analytics (TDA 2016)
co-located with the 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2016)

### Hamilton, New Zealand, December 6, 2016.

Edited by

### Horst Lichter, Konrad Fögen, Thanwadee Sunetnanta, Toni Anwar, Aiko Yamashita, Leon Moonen, Tom Mens, Amjed Tahir, Ashish Sureka

QuASoC Chairs
Horst Lichter RWTH Aachen University, Templergraben 55, 52062 Aachen, Germany
Konrad Fögen RWTH Aachen University, Templergraben 55, 52062 Aachen, Germany
Thanwadee Sunetnanta Mahidol University, 999 Phuttamonthon 4 Road, Salaya 73170, Thailand
Toni Anwar Universiti Teknolgi Malaysia, U81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
TDA Chairs
Aiko Yamashita Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica (CWI), Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leon Moonen Simula Research Laboratory, Martin Linges vei 25, 1364 Fornebu, Norway
Tom Mens University of Mons, Hainaut, Belgium
Amjed Tahir Massey University, Palmerston North 4474, New Zealand
Proceedings Chair
Ashish Sureka ABB, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560048, India

## Table of Contents

### 4th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality (QuASoQ)

- Report on the 4th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality (QuASoQ 2016) 1-3
  Horst Lichter, Konrad Fögen, Thanwadee Sunetnanta, Toni Anwar
- Local Variables with Compound Names and Comments as Signs of Fault-Prone Java Methods 4-11
  Hirohisa Aman, Sousuke Amasaki, Tomoyuki Yokogawa, Minoru Kawahara
- Sustainability Profiling of Long-living Software Systems 12-19
  Ahmed D. Alharthi, Maria Spichkova, Margaret Hamilton
- Towards improved Adoption: Effectiveness of Research Tools in the Real World 20-26
  Richa Awasthy, Shayne Flint, Ramesh Sankaranarayana
- Predicting Quality of Service (QoS) Parameters using Extreme Learning Machines with Various Kernel Methods 27-34
  Lov Kumar, Santanu Kumar Rath, Ashish Sureka
- Improving Recall in Code Search by Indexing Similar Codes under Proper Terms 35-42
  Abdus Satter, Kazi Sakib
- Code Coverage Analysis of Combinatorial Testing 43-49
  Eun-Hye Choi, Osamu Mizuno, Yifan Hu
- Trying to Increase the Mature Use of Agile Practices by Group Development Psychology Training - An Experiment 50-57
  Lucas Gren, Alfredo Goldman

### 1st International Workshop on Technical Debt Analytics (TDA)

- Report on the First International Workshop on Technical Debt Analytics (TDA 2016) 58-63
  Aiko Yamashita, Leon Moonen, Tom Mens, Amjed Tahir
- When, Why and for Whom do Practitioners Detect Technical Debt? An Experience Report 64-67
  Norihiro Yoshida
- Using Analytics to Quantify Interest of Self-Admitted Technical Debt 68-71
  Yasutaka Kamei, Everton Maldonado, Emad Shihab, Naoyasu Ubayashi
- Rework Effort Estimation of Self-admitted Technical Debt 72-75
  Solomon Mensah, Jacky Keung, Michael Franklin Bosu, Kwabena Ebo Bennin
- Minimizing Refactoring Effort through Prioritization of Classes based on Historical, Architectural and Code Smell Information 76-79
  Aabha Choudhary, Paramvir Singh
- Co-Existence of the 'Technical Debt' and 'Software Legacy' Concepts 80-83
  Johannes Holvitie, Sherlock Licorish, Antonio Martini, Ville Leppnen
- Perspectives on Managing Technical Debt: A Transition Point and Roadmap from Dagstuhl 84-87
  Clemente Izurieta, Ipek Ozkaya, Carolyn Seaman, Philippe Kruchten, Robert Nord, Will Snipes, Paris Avgeriou

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