2025

Mahmud, J., Saha, A., Chaparro, O.*, Moran, K., Marcus, A.: "Combining Language and App UI Analysis for the Automated Assessment of Bug Reproduction Steps", Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2025), Ottawa, Canada, April 27-28, 2025. [doi][arXiv]

2023

Bernal-Cárdenas, C., Cooper, N., Havranek, M., Moran, K., Chaparro, O.*, Poshyvanyk, D.*, Marcus, A.: "Translating Video Recordings of Complex Mobile App UI Gestures into Replayable Scenarios", in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 49(4), 2023, pp. 1782-1803. [doi][arXiv]

Song, Y., Mahmud, J., De Silva, N., Zhou, Y.*, Chaparro, O.*, Moran, K., Marcus, A., Poshyvanyk, D.*: "BURT: A Chatbot for Interactive Bug Reporting", Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023) - tool demo, Melbourne, Australia, May 17-19, 2023. [doi][arXiv]

2021

Liu, M., Peng, X., Marcus, A., Treude, C., Bai, X., Lyu, G., Xie, J., Zhang, X.: "Learning-based Extraction of First-Order Logic Representations of API Directives", in Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, (ESEC/FSE 2021), virtual event, August 23-28, 2021, pp. 491-502. [doi]

Ghanbari, A.*, Marcus, A.: "Toward Speeding up Mutation Analysis by Memoizing Expensive Methods", in Proceedings of 43rd the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, (ICSE 2021) - NIER Track, virtual event, May 23-29, 2021, pp. 71-75. [doi][arXiv]

Florez, J. M.*, Chaparro, O.*, Treude, C., Marcus, A., "Combining Query Reduction and Expansion for Text-Retrieval-Based Bug Localization", in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2021), virtual, March 9-12, 2021, pp. 166-176. [doi]

2019

Chaparro, O.*, Bernal-Cárdenas, C., Lu, J., Moran, K., Marcus, A., Di Penta, M., Poshyvanyk, D.*, Ng, V.: "Assessing the quality of the steps to reproduce in bug reports", in Proceedings of the ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, (ESEC/FSE 2019), Tallinn, Estonia, August 26-30, 2019, pp. 89-96. [doi] - ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

Liu, M., Peng, X., Marcus, A., Xing, Z., Xie, W., Xing, S., Liu, Y.: "Generating query-specific class API summaries", in Proceedings of the ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, (ESEC/FSE 2019), Tallinn, Estonia, August 26-30, 2019, pp. 120-130. [doi]

Lin, B., Nagy, C., Bavota, G., Marcus, A., Lanza, L.: "On the Quality of Identifiers in Test Code", in Proceedings of the 19th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, (SCAM 2019), Cleveland, OH, September 30- October 1, 2019, pp. 204-215. [doi]

Chaparro, O.*, Florez, J. M.*, Singh, U.*, Marcus, A., Di Penta, M., Poshyvanyk, D.*, Ng, V.: "Reformulating Queries for Duplicate Bug Report Detection", in Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, (SANER 2019), Hangzhou, China, February 24-27, 2019, pp. 218-229. [doi]

Chaparro, O.*, Florez, J. M.*, Marcus, A., "Using bug descriptions to reformulate queries during text-retrieval-based bug localization", in Empirical Software Engineering , 24(5), 2019, pp. 2947-3071.[doi]

2017

Chaparro, O.*, Lu, J., Zampetti, F., Moreno, L.*, Di Penta, M., Marcus, A., Ng, V., "Detecting missing information in bug descriptions", in Proceedings of the 11th Joint Meeting on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2017), Paderborn, Germany, September 4-8, 2017, pp. 376-387. [doi]

Chaparro, O.*, Florez, J. M.*, Marcus, A., "Using Observed Behavior to Reformulate Queries during Text Retrieval-based Bug Localization", in Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2017), Shanghai, China, September 17-24, 2017, pp. 396-407. [doi] -- IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award

Robillard, M., Marcus, A., Treude, C., Bavota, G., Chaparro, O.*, Ernst, N., Gerosa, M. A., Godfrey, M., Lanza, M., Linares-Vasquez, M., Murphy, G., Moreno, M., Shepherd, D., Wong, E., "On-Demand Developer Documentation", in Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2017) ERA Track, Shanghai, China, September 17-24, 2017, pp. 479-483. [doi]

Delgado, D., Aponte, J.*, Velasco, A., Marcus, A., "Evolving a Project-based Software Engineering Course: A Case Study", in Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET 2017), Savannah, GA, November 7-9, 2017, pp. 77-86. [doi]

Moreno, L.*, Bavota, G., Di Penta, M., Oliveto, R., Marcus, A., Canfora, G., "ARENA: An Approach for the Automated Generation of Release Notes", in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 43(2), 106-127, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2016.2591536

Mills, C., Bavota, G., Haiduc, S.*, Oliveto, R., Marcus, A., De Lucia, A., "Predicting Query Quality for Applications of Text Retrieval to Software Engineering Tasks", in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodologies (TOSEM), 26(1), 3:1-3:45, 2017. DOI: 10.1145/3078841

2015

Moreno, L.*, Bavota, G., Haiduc, S.*, Di Penta, M., Oliveto, R., Russo, B., Marcus, A., "Query-based configuration of text retrieval solutions for software engineering tasks", in Proceedings of the 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2015), Bergamo, Italy, August 30 - September 4, 2015, pp. 567-578. Acceptance Rate: 74/291 (25.4%)

Moreno, L.*, Bavota, G., Di Penta, M., Oliveto, R., Marcus, A., "How Can I Use This Method?", in Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015), Florence, Italy, May 16-24, 2015, pp. 880-890. Acceptance Rate: 84/452 (18.5%)

Palomba, F., Tufano, M., Bavota, G., Oliveto, R., Marcus, A., Poshyvanyk, D., and De Lucia, A., "Extract Package Refactoring in ARIES", in Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015), Florence, Italy, May 16-24, 2015, tool demo, pp. 669-672. [tool]

Arnaoudova, V., Haiduc, S., Marcus, A., Antoniol, G. "The Use of Text Retrieval and Natural Language Processing in Software Engineering", in Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015), Florence, Italy, May 16-24, 2015, technical briefing, pp.949-950

2013

Moreno, L.*, Bandara, W., Haiduc, s., Marcus, A., "On the Vocabulary Relationship between Bug Reports and Source Code", in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM2013) Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 22-28, 2013, pp.452-455.

Scaniello, G., Gravino, C., Marcus, A., Menzies, T., "Class Level Fault Prediction Using Software Clustering", in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE2013) Silicon Valley, USA, November 11-15, 2013, pp. 640-645

Moreno, L.*, Aponte, J., Sridhara, G., Marcus, A., Pollock, L., Shanker, K. V., "Automatic Generation of Natural Language Summaries for Java Classes", in Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC2013) San Francisco, USA, May 20-21, 2013, pp. 23-32-- Most Influential Paper Award

Moreno, L.*, Marcus, A., Pollock, L., Shanker, K. V., "JSummarizer: An Automatic Generator of Natural Language Summaries for Java Classes", in Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC2013) - formal tool demonstration San Francisco, USA, May 20-21, 2013, pp. 230-232

Diaz, D.*, Bavota, G., Marcus, A., Oliveto, R., Takahashi, S., De Lucia, A., "Using Code Ownership to Improve IR-based Traceability Link Recovery", in Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC2013) San Francisco, USA, May 20-21, 2013, pp. 123-132

Haiduc, S.*, Bavota, G., Marcus, A., Oliveto, R., De Lucia, A., Menzies, T., "Automatic Query Reformulations for Text Retrieval in Software Engineering", in Proceedings of the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2013) San Francisco, USA, May 22-24, 2013, pp.842-851. Acceptance ratio: 18.5%

Haiduc, S.*, De Rosa, G., Bavota, G., Oliveto, R., De Lucia, A., Marcus, A., "Query Quality Prediction and Reformulation for Source Code Search: the Refoqus Tool", in Proceedings of the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2013), formal tool demo, San Francisco, USA, May 22-24, 2013, pp. 1307-1310.

Peters, F., Menzies, T., Marcus, A., "Better Cross Company Defect Prediction", in Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2013) San Francisco, USA, May 18-19, 2013, pp. 409-418.

Peter, A., Pakhira, A., Moreno, L.*, Marcus, A., "A Measure to Assess the Behavior of Method Stereotypes in Object-Oriented Software", in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics (WETSoM2013) San Francisco, USA, May 21, 2013, pp. 7-13.

Shen, W., Lin, C.-L., Marcus, A., "Using Traceability Links to Identifying Potentially Erroneous Artifacts during Regulatory Reviews", in Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE2013) San Francisco, USA, May 19, 2013, pp. 19-22.

Menzies, T., Butcher, A., Cok, D., Marcus, A., Layman, L., Shull, F., Turhan, B., Zimmermann, T., "Local vs Global Lessons for Defect Prediction and Effort Estimation", in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 39(6), pp. 822-834, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSE.2012.83

Marcus, A, Haiduc, S.*, "Text Retrieval Approaches for Concept Location in Source Code", in Software Engineering: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Editors: De Lucia, A. and Ferrucci F., Volume 7171, 2013, pp 126-158, ISBN 978-3-642-36053-4, DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-36054-1_5

Bavota, G., De Lucia, A., Marcus, A., Oliveto, R., "Using structural and semantic measures to improve software modularization", in Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 18(5), October 2013, pp. 901-932, DOI: 10.1007/s10664-012-9226-8

2011

Menzies, T., Butcher, A., Marcus, A., Zimmermann, T., Cok, D., "Local vs Global Models for Effort Estimation and Defect Prediction", in the Proceedings of 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference On Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2011), Lawrence, KS, November 6-9, 2011, pp. 343-351

Marcus, A., "The management of unstructured information in software", in Proceedings of 8th Joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE'11), Technical Briefing, Szeged, Hungary, September 5-9, 2011

Scanniello. G., Marcus, A., "Clustering Support for Static Concept Location in Source Code", in the Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2011), Kingston, ON, Canada, June 22-24, 2011, pp. 1-10

Haiduc, S.*, Marcus, A., "On the Effect of the Query in IR-based Concept Location", Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2011) - student research symposium paper, Kingston, ON, Canada, June 22-24, 2011, pp. 234-237

Ohlemacher, S.*, Marcus, A., "Towards a Benchmark and Automatic Calibration for IR-Based Concept Location", Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2011) - student research symposium paper, Kingston, ON, Canada, June 22-24, 2011, pp. 246-249

Aponte, J.*, Marcus, A., "Improving traceability link recovery methods through software artifact summarization", in the Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE2010), Waikiki, Honolulu, HI, May 23, 2011, pp. 46-49

2009

Abebe, S. L., Haiduc, S.*, Tonella, P., Marcus, A. "Lexicon Bad Smells in Software", in the Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE2009), Lille, France, October 13-16, pp. 95-99

Gay, G., Haiduc, S.*, Marcus, A., Menzies, T., "On the Use of Relevance Feedback in IR-Based Concept Location", in the Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM2009), Edmonton, Canada, September 20-26, 2009, pp. 351-360. -- Most Influential Paper Award

Montaño, D., Aponte, J.*, Marcus, A. "Sv3D meets Eclipse", formal tool demonstration in the Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT2009), Edmonton, Canada, September 25.

Abebe, S. L., Haiduc, S.*, Marcus, A., Tonella, P., Antoniol, G., "Analyzing the Evolution of the Source Code Vocabulary", in the Proceedings of the 13th IEEE European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR2009) , Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 24-27, 2009, pp. 189-198

Poshyvanyk, D.*, Marcus, A., Ferenc, R., Gyimóthy, T. "Using Information Retrieval based Coupling Measures for Impact Analysis", Empirical Software Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 1, February 2009, pp. 5-32

2007

Liu, D., Marcus, A., Poshyvanyk, D.*, Rajlich, V. "Feature location via information retrieval based filtering of a single scenario execution trace", in the Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE2007), Atlanta, GA, November 05-09, 2007, pp. 234-243

Poshyvanyk, D.*, Marcus, A. "Using information retrieval to support design of incremental change of software", in the Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE2007) - doctoral symposium, Atlanta, GA, November 05-09, 2007, pp. 563-566

Poshyvanyk, D.*, Gueheneuc, Y.-G., Marcus, A., Antoniol, G., Rajlich, V. "Feature Location using Probabilistic Ranking of Methods based on Execution Scenarios and Information Retrieval", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 6, June 2007, pp. 420-432

Poshyvanyk, D.*, Marcus, A., "Combining Formal Concept Analysis with Information Retrieval for Concept Location in Source Code", in the Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC2007), Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 26-29, 2007, pp. 37-48 -- Best Paper Award and Most Influential Paper Award

Poshyvanyk, D.*, Petrenko, M., Marcus, A., " Integrating COTS Search Engines into Eclipse: Google Desktop Case Study", in the Proceedings of the 2nd International ICSE'07 Workshop on Incorporating COTS Software into Software Systems: Tools and Techniques (IWICSS2007), Minneapolis, MN, May 22, 2007, pp. 6-10

Poshyvanyk, D.*, Marcus, A., "Using Traceability Links to Assess and Maintain the Quality of Software Documentation", in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Grand Challenges in Traceability (GCT/TEFSE2007), Lexington, KY, March 22-23, 2007, pp. 27-30

2005

Marcus, A., Xie, X.*, Poshyvanyk, D.* "When and how to visualize traceability links?" in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE2005), Long Beach, CA, November 8, 2005, pp. 56-61

Marcus, A., Poshyvanyk, D.*, "The Conceptual Cohesion of Classes" in the Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM2005), Budapest, Hungary, September 25-30, 2005, pp. 133-142

Marcus, A., Rajlich, V., "Panel Summary: Identifications of Concepts, Features, and Concerns in Source Code" in the Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM2005), Budapest, Hungary, September 25-30, 2005, p. 718

Xie, X.*, Poshyvanyk, D.*, Marcus, A. "Support for Static Concept Location with sv3D" in the Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Workshop on Visualizing Software for Analysis and Understanding (VISSOFT2005), Budapest, Hungary, September 25, 2005, pp. 108-113

Poshyvanyk, D.*, Marcus, A., Dong, Y.*, Sergeyev, A.*, "IRiSS - A Source Code Exploration Tool" in the Industrial and Tool Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM2005), Budapest, Hungary, September 25-30, 2005, pp. 69-72

Marcus, A., Maletic, J.I., Sergeyev, A.*, "Recovery of Traceability Links Between Software Documentation and Source Code" International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, World Scientific, Vol. 15, No. 5, October 2005, pp. 811-836

Xu, S., Rajlich, V., Marcus, A. "An Empirical Study of Programmer Learning
during Incremental Software Development" in the Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI2005), Irvine, CA, August 8-10, pp. 340-349

Marcus, A., Rajlich, V., Buchta, J., Petrenko, M., Sergeyev, A.*, "Static Techniques for Concept Location in Object Oriented Code" in the Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC2005), St. Louis, MO, May 15-16, pp. 33-42

Marcus, A., Comorski, D.*, Sergeyev, A.*, "Supporting the Evolution of a Software Visualization Tool through Usability Studies" in the Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC2005), St. Louis, MO, May 15-16, pp. 307-316

Maletic, J.I., Marcus, A., "Data Cleansing - A prelude to knowledge discovery" in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook: A Complete Guide for Practitioners and Researchers, Maimon, O. and Rokach, L. Editors, Springer, 2005, ISBN 0-387-24435-2, pp. 21-36

2003

Maletic, J., Munson, E., Marcus, A., Nguyen, T., "Combining Traceability Link Recovery with Conformance Analysis via a Formal Hypertext Model", in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE2003), Montreal, Canada, October 6, 2003, pp. 47-54

Maletic, J., Marcus, A., "CFB: A Call For Benchmarks - for Software Visualization", a position paper in the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop of Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT2003), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 22, 2003, pp. 108-113

Marcus, A., Maletic, J.I. "Recovering Documentation-to-Source-Code Traceability Links using Latent Semantic Indexing", in Proceedings of the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2003), Portland, OR, May 3-10, 2003, pp. 125-137

Marcus, A., Feng, L., Maletic, J.I., "Comprehension of Software Analysis Data Using 3D Visualization", in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC2003), Portland, OR, May 10-11, 2003, pp.105-114

Marcus, A., Feng, L., Maletic, J.I. "3D representations for software visualization", in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (Softvis2003), San Diego, CA, June 11-13,2003, pp. 27-36

Maletic, J.I., Marcus, A., Feng, L. "Source Viewer 3D (sv3D) - A Framework for Software Visualization", Formal Research Demonstration in Proceedings of the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2003), Portland, OR, May 3-10,2003, pp. 812-813

2001

Marcus, A., Maletic, J.I. "Identification of High-Level Concept Clones in Source Code", in Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE2001), San Diego, CA, USA, November 26-29, pp. 107-114

Marcus, A., Maletic, J.I., Lin, K.-I., "Ordinal association rules for error identification in data sets", in Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2001), Atlanta, GA, October 05-10, 2001, pp. 589-591

Maletic, J.I., Leigh, J., Marcus, A., Dunlap, G., "Visualizing Object-Oriented Software in Virtual Reality", in Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC2001), Toronto, Canada, May 12-13, 2001, pp. 26-35

Maletic, J.I., Marcus, A., "Supporting Program Comprehension Using Semantic and Structural Information", in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2001), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 12-19, 2001, pp. 103-112

Maletic, J.I., Leigh, J., Marcus, A., "Visualizing Software in an Immersive Virtual Reality Environment", in Proceedings of the ICSE'01 Workshop on Software Visualization (ICSESV2001), Toronto, Canada, May 13-14, 2001, pp. 49-54

Maletic, J.I., Howald, A., Marcus, A., "Incorporating PSP into a Traditional Software Engineering Course: An Experience Report", in Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training (CSEE&T2001), Charlotte, NC, USA, February 19-21, 2001, pp. 89-97