Abstract: An eye-tracking study of 18 developers reading and summarizing Java methods is presented. The developers provide a written summary for methods assigned to them. In total, 63 methods are used ...

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Java's default constructor allows developers to create instances of classes when no other constructors are explicitly defined. The default constructor in Java takes no arguments -- it simply ...

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com.google.gson.model.yml is missing some constructors and methods that cause some security vulnerabilities to be missed by CodeQL. These were discovered by using the new Visual Studio Code Model ...

When I try to simply add a empty constructor method to a test class by using Java template in my customized recipe, after code refactoring, the constructor is generated but with a returned type ...

Abstract: Code metrics have been widely used to estimate software maintenance effort. Metrics have generally been used to guide developer effort to reduce or avoid future maintenance burdens. Size is ...