Earl T. Barr

118 papers A* 15A 14B 5Misc 1Journal 57Unranked 25
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Compressing Code Context for LLM-based Issue Resolution.
CoRR
Haoxiang Jia, Earl T. Barr, Sergey Mechtaev
2026 J jnl
ContextBench: A Benchmark for Context Retrieval in Coding Agents.
CoRR
Han Li, Letian Zhu, Bohan Zhang, Rili Feng, Jiaming Wang, Yue Pan, Earl T. Barr, Federica Sarro, Zhaoyang Chu, He Ye
2026 J jnl
Forecasting Developer Environments with GenAI: A Research Perspective.
CoRR
Raula Gaikovina Kula, Christoph Treude, Xing Hu, Sebastian Baltes, Earl T. Barr, Kelly Blincoe, Fabio Calefato, Junjie Chen, Marc Cheong, Youmei Fan, Daniel M. Germán, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Jin L. C. Guo, Shinpei Hayashi, Robert Hirschfeld, Reid Holmes, Yintong Huo, Takashi Kobayashi, Michele Lanza, Zhongxin Liu, Olivier Nourry, Nicole Novielli, Denys Poshyvanyk, Shinobu Saito, Kazumasa Shimari, Igor Steinmacher, Mairieli Wessel, Markus Wagner, Annie Vella, Laurie Williams, Xin Xia
2026 J jnl
LLM-Powered Workflow Optimization for Multidisciplinary Software Development: An Automotive Industry Case Study.
CoRR
Shuai Wang, Yinan Yu, Earl T. Barr, Dhasarathy Parthasarathy
2025 J jnl
BOSQTGEN: Breaking the Sound Barrier in Test Generation.
CoRR
S. M. Sadrul Islam Asif, James Chen, Earl T. Barr, Mark Marron
2025 A* conf
Detecting Semantic Clones of Unseen Functionality.
ASE
Konstantinos Kitsios, Francesco Sovrano, Earl T. Barr, Alberto Bacchelli
2025 J jnl
Detecting Semantic Clones of Unseen Functionality.
CoRR
Konstantinos Kitsios, Francesco Sovrano, Earl T. Barr, Alberto Bacchelli
2025 J jnl
Excision Score: Evaluating Edits with Surgical Precision.
CoRR
Nikolai Gruzinov, Ksenia Sycheva, Earl T. Barr, Alex Bezzubov
2025 J jnl
Memorization or Interpolation ? Detecting LLM Memorization through Input Perturbation Analysis.
CoRR
Albérick Euraste Djiré, Abdoul Kader Kaboré, Earl T. Barr, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
2025 — conf
Polymer: Development Workflows as Software.
SIGSOFT FSE Companion
Dhasarathy Parthasarathy, Yinan Yu, Earl T. Barr
2025 J jnl
Polymer: Development Workflows as Software.
CoRR
Dhasarathy Parthasarathy, Yinan Yu, Earl T. Barr
2025 J jnl
Practitioners' Expectations on Log Anomaly Detection.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Xiaoxue Ma, Yishu Li, Jacky Keung, Xiao Yu, Huiqi Zou, Zhen Yang, Federica Sarro, Earl T. Barr
2025 A* conf
Rechecking Recheck Requests in Continuous Integration: An Empirical Study of OpenStack.
ASE
Yelizaveta Brus, Rungroj Maipradit, Earl T. Barr, Shane McIntosh
2025 J jnl
Software Product Line Engineering via Software Transplantation.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.
Leandro O. Souza, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Earl T. Barr, Justyna Petke
2025 A* conf
The Fact Selection Problem in LLM-Based Program Repair.
ICSE
Nikhil Parasaram, Huijie Yan, Boyu Yang, Zineb Flahy, Abriele Qudsi, Damian Ziaber, Earl T. Barr, Sergey Mechtaev
2025 J jnl
The role of surprisal in issue trackers.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
James Caddy, Christoph Treude, Markus Wagner, Earl T. Barr
2024 J jnl
A Comprehensive Study of the Capabilities of Large Language Models for Vulnerability Detection.
CoRR
Benjamin Steenhoek, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Monoshi Kumar Roy, Mirza Sanjida Alam, Earl T. Barr, Wei Le
2024 A* conf
Automatic Semantic Augmentation of Language Model Prompts (for Code Summarization).
ICSE
Toufique Ahmed, Kunal Suresh Pai, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Earl T. Barr
2024 J jnl
Practitioners' Expectations on Log Anomaly Detection.
CoRR
Xiaoxue Ma, Yishu Li, Jacky Keung, Xiao Yu, Huiqi Zou, Zhen Yang, Federica Sarro, Earl T. Barr
2024 J jnl
Summary of the 1st Interpretability and Robustness in Neural Software Engineering (InteNSE 2023).
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes
Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Saeid Tizpaz-Niari, Earl T. Barr, Satish Chandra
2024 J jnl
The Fact Selection Problem in LLM-Based Program Repair.
CoRR
Nikhil Parasaram, Huijie Yan, Boyu Yang, Zineb Flahy, Abriele Qudsi, Damian Ziaber, Earl T. Barr, Sergey Mechtaev
2023 J jnl
Aide-mémoire: Improving a Project's Collective Memory via Pull Request-Issue Links.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.
Profir-Petru Pârtachi, David R. White, Earl T. Barr
2023 A conf
CodeGrid: A Grid Representation of Code.
ISSTA
Abdoul Kader Kaboré, Earl T. Barr, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
2023 — conf
Continuously Accelerating Research.
ICSE (NIER)
Earl T. Barr, Jonathan Bell, Michael Hilton, Sergey Mechtaev, Christopher Steven Timperley
2023 J jnl
Epicure: Distilling Sequence Model Predictions into Patterns.
CoRR
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr
2023 J jnl
Improving Few-Shot Prompts with Relevant Static Analysis Products.
CoRR
Toufique Ahmed, Kunal Suresh Pai, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Earl T. Barr
2023 A conf
June: A Type Testability Transformation for Improved ATG Performance.
ISSTA
Dan Bruce, David A. Kelly, Héctor D. Menéndez, Earl T. Barr, David Clark
2023 J jnl
Model validation using mutated training labels: An exploratory study.
Neurocomputing
Jie M. Zhang, Mark Harman, Benjamin Guedj, Earl T. Barr, John Shawe-Taylor
2023 J jnl
PopArt: Ranked Testing Efficiency.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Iason Papapanagiotakis-Bousy, Earl T. Barr, David Clark
2023 A* conf
Precise Data-Driven Approximation for Program Analysis via Fuzzing.
ASE
Nikhil Parasaram, Earl T. Barr, Sergey Mechtaev, Marcel Böhme
2023 J jnl
Program transformation landscapes for automated program modification using Gin.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Justyna Petke, Brad Alexander, Earl T. Barr, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Markus Wagner, David Robert White
2023 A* conf
Rete: Learning Namespace Representation for Program Repair.
ICSE
Nikhil Parasaram, Earl T. Barr, Sergey Mechtaev
2023 J jnl
Software Product Line Engineering via Software Transplantation.
CoRR
Leandro O. Souza, Earl T. Barr, Justyna Petke, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto
2022 B conf
High Assurance Software for Financial Regulation and Business Platforms.
VMCAI
Stephen Goldbaum, Attila Mihály, Tosha Ellison, Earl T. Barr, Mark Marron
2022 J jnl
Is Surprisal in Issue Trackers Actionable?
CoRR
James Caddy, Markus Wagner, Christoph Treude, Earl T. Barr, Miltiadis Allamanis
2022 — conf
Modus: a Datalog dialect for building container images.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Chris Tomy, Tingmao Wang, Earl T. Barr, Sergey Mechtaev
2022 J jnl
Trident: Controlling Side Effects in Automated Program Repair.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Nikhil Parasaram, Earl T. Barr, Sergey Mechtaev
2021 A conf
Artefact Relation Graphs for Unit Test Reuse Recommendation.
ICST
Robert White, Jens Krinke, Earl T. Barr, Federica Sarro, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul
2021 J jnl
Getting Ahead of the Arms Race: Hothousing the Coevolution of VirusTotal with a Packer.
Entropy
Héctor D. Menéndez, David Clark, Earl T. Barr
2021 J jnl
The Assessor's Dilemma: Improving Bug Repair via Empirical Game Theory.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Carlos Gavidia-Calderon, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Earl T. Barr
2021 J jnl
Today Was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
André N. Meyer, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann
2020 — conf
A theory of dual channel constraints.
ICSE (NIER)
Casey Casalnuovo, Earl T. Barr, Santanu Kumar Dash, Prem Devanbu, Emily Morgan
2020 — conf
Ant Colony Optimization for Object-Oriented Unit Test Generation.
ANTS Conference
Dan Bruce, Héctor D. Menéndez, Earl T. Barr, David Clark
2020 J jnl
Detecting Malware with Information Complexity.
Entropy
Nadia Alshahwan, Earl T. Barr, David Clark, George Danezis, Héctor D. Menéndez
2020 — conf
Flexeme: untangling commits using lexical flows.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Profir-Petru Pârtachi, Santanu Kumar Dash, Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr
2020 J jnl
Game-theoretic analysis of development practices: Challenges and opportunities.
J. Syst. Softw.
Carlos Gavidia-Calderon, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Earl T. Barr
2020 J jnl
OptTyper: Probabilistic Type Inference by Optimising Logical and Natural Constraints.
CoRR
Irene Vlassi Pandi, Earl T. Barr, Andrew D. Gordon, Charles Sutton
2020 A* conf
POSIT: simultaneously tagging natural and programming languages.
ICSE
Profir-Petru Pârtachi, Santanu Kumar Dash, Christoph Treude, Earl T. Barr
2020 J jnl
Typilus: Neural Type Hints.
CoRR
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Soline Ducousso, Zheng Gao
2020 A* conf
Typilus: neural type hints.
PLDI
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Soline Ducousso, Zheng Gao
2020 — conf
Where should I comment my code?: a dataset and model for predicting locations that need comments.
ICSE (NIER)
Annie Louis, Santanu Kumar Dash, Earl T. Barr, Michael D. Ernst, Charles Sutton
2019 — conf
A survey of genetic improvement search spaces.
GECCO (Companion)
Justyna Petke, Brad Alexander, Earl T. Barr, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Markus Wagner, David Robert White
2019 J jnl
Approximate Oracles and Synergy in Software Energy Search Spaces.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Bobby R. Bruce, Justyna Petke, Mark Harman, Earl T. Barr
2019 A conf
Gin: genetic improvement research made easy.
GECCO
Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Justyna Petke, Brad Alexander, Earl T. Barr, Markus Wagner, David Robert White
2019 — conf
Modelling Genetic Programming as a Simple Sampling Algorithm.
GPTP
David Robert White, Benjamin Fowler, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Earl T. Barr
2019 J jnl
Perturbed Model Validation: A New Framework to Validate Model Relevance.
CoRR
Jie M. Zhang, Earl T. Barr, Benjamin Guedj, Mark Harman, John Shawe-Taylor
2019 J jnl
SafeStrings: Representing Strings as Structured Data.
CoRR
David A. Kelly, Mark Marron, David Clark, Earl T. Barr
2019 J jnl
Sub-Turing Islands in the Wild.
CoRR
Earl T. Barr, David W. Binkley, Mark Harman, Mohamed Nassim Seghir
2019 J jnl
The arms race: Adversarial search defeats entropy used to detect malware.
Expert Syst. Appl.
Héctor D. Menéndez, Sukriti Bhattacharya, David Clark, Earl T. Barr
2018 J jnl
A Survey of Machine Learning for Big Code and Naturalness.
ACM Comput. Surv.
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Charles Sutton
2018 J jnl
Automated Fix Detection Given Flaky Tests.
CoRR
David Landsberg, Earl T. Barr
2018 — conf
Darwinian data structure selection.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Michail Basios, Lingbo Li, Fan Wu, Leslie Kanthan, Earl T. Barr
2018 J jnl
Deep Learning to Detect Redundant Method Comments.
CoRR
Annie Louis, Santanu Kumar Dash, Earl T. Barr, Charles Sutton
2018 — conf
Deep learning type inference.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr, Miltiadis Allamanis
2018 J jnl
Doric: Foundations for Statistical Fault Localisation.
CoRR
David Landsberg, Earl T. Barr
2018 J jnl
Indexing Operators to Extend the Reach of Symbolic Execution.
CoRR
Earl T. Barr, David Clark, Mark Harman, Alexandru Marginean
2018 A conf
Making data-driven porting decisions with Tuscan.
ISSTA
Kareem Khazem, Earl T. Barr, Petr Hosek
2018 J jnl
Mining Semantic Loop Idioms.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Mark Marron, Charles Sutton
2018 — conf
RefiNym: using names to refine types.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Santanu Kumar Dash, Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr
2017 J jnl
A Survey of Machine Learning for Big Code and Naturalness.
CoRR
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Charles Sutton
2017 J jnl
Darwinian Data Structure Selection.
CoRR
Michail Basios, Lingbo Li, Fan Wu, Leslie Kanthan, Donald Lawrence, Earl T. Barr
2017 B conf
Optimising Darwinian Data Structures on Google Guava.
SSBSE
Michail Basios, Lingbo Li, Fan Wu, Leslie Kanthan, Earl T. Barr
2017 A* conf
To type or not to type: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript.
ICSE
Zheng Gao, Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr
2017 J jnl
Understanding the syntactic rule usage in java.
J. Syst. Softw.
Dong Qiu, Bixin Li, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su
2016 J jnl
Casper: Automatic tracking of null dereferences to inception with causality traces.
J. Syst. Softw.
Benoit Cornu, Earl T. Barr, Lionel Seinturier, Martin Monperrus
2016 J jnl
ITect: Scalable Information Theoretic Similarity for Malware Detection.
CoRR
Sukriti Bhattacharya, Héctor D. Menéndez, Earl T. Barr, David Clark
2016 J jnl
Learning Python Code Suggestion with a Sparse Pointer Network.
CoRR
Avishkar Bhoopchand, Tim Rocktäschel, Earl T. Barr, Sebastian Riedel
2016 J jnl
On the naturalness of software.
Commun. ACM
Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr, Mark Gabel, Zhendong Su, Premkumar T. Devanbu
2016 J jnl
Tailored Mutants Fit Bugs Better.
CoRR
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, René Just, Charles Sutton
2016 — ch.
The naturalness of software ☆.
Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering
Earl T. Barr, Premkumar T. Devanbu
2016 — conf
Time-travel debugging for JavaScript/Node.js.
SIGSOFT FSE
Earl T. Barr, Mark Marron, Ed Maurer, Dan Moseley, Gaurav Seth
2015 J jnl
A Study of "Wheat" and "Chaff" in Source Code.
CoRR
Martin Velez, Dong Qiu, You Zhou, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su
2015 B conf
Automated Transplantation of Call Graph and Layout Features into Kate.
SSBSE
Alexandru Marginean, Earl T. Barr, Mark Harman, Yue Jia
2015 A conf
Automated software transplantation.
ISSTA
Earl T. Barr, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, Alexandru Marginean, Justyna Petke
2015 J jnl
Casper: Debugging Null Dereferences with Dynamic Causality Traces.
CoRR
Benoit Cornu, Earl T. Barr, Lionel Seinturier, Martin Monperrus
2015 J jnl
Detecting Malware with Information Complexity.
CoRR
Nadia Alshahwan, Earl T. Barr, David Clark, George Danezis
2015 — conf
Is the cure worse than the disease? overfitting in automated program repair.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Edward K. Smith, Earl T. Barr, Claire Le Goues, Yuriy Brun
2015 — conf
Suggesting accurate method and class names.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton
2015 J jnl
The Oracle Problem in Software Testing: A Survey.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Earl T. Barr, Mark Harman, Phil McMinn, Muzammil Shahbaz, Shin Yoo
2014 — conf
Capturing and Exploiting IDE Interactions.
Onward!
Zhongxian Gu, Drew Schleck, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su
2014 A* conf
Comparing static bug finders and statistical prediction.
ICSE
Foyzur Rahman, Sameer Khatri, Earl T. Barr, Premkumar T. Devanbu
2014 J jnl
Learning Natural Coding Conventions.
CoRR
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Charles Sutton
2014 — conf
Learning natural coding conventions.
SIGSOFT FSE
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton
2014 A conf
Tardis: affordable time-travel debugging in managed runtimes.
OOPSLA
Earl T. Barr, Mark Marron
2014 — conf
The plastic surgery hypothesis.
SIGSOFT FSE
Earl T. Barr, Yuriy Brun, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Mark Harman, Federica Sarro
2014 A* conf
Uncertainty, risk, and information value in software requirements and architecture.
ICSE
Emmanuel Letier, David Stefan, Earl T. Barr
2013 A* conf
Automatic detection of floating-point exceptions.
POPL
Earl T. Barr, Thanh Vo, Vu Le, Zhendong Su
2013 A conf
Collecting a heap of shapes.
ISSTA
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Mark Marron
2013 — conf
What effect does distributed version control have on OSS project organization?
RELENG@ICSE
Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Daniel M. Germán
2012 B conf
Cohesive and Isolated Development with Branches.
FASE
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Abram Hindle, Daniel M. Germán, Premkumar T. Devanbu
2012 — conf
Liberating the programmer with prorogued programming.
Onward!
Mehrdad Afshari, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su
2012 A* conf
On the naturalness of software.
ICSE
Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su, Mark Gabel, Premkumar T. Devanbu
2012 A conf
Reusing debugging knowledge via trace-based bug search.
OOPSLA
Zhongxian Gu, Earl T. Barr, Drew Schleck, Zhendong Su
2011 A* conf
BQL: capturing and reusing debugging knowledge.
ICSE
Zhongxian Gu, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su
2011 — conf
BugCache for inspections: hit or miss?
SIGSOFT FSE
Foyzur Rahman, Daryl Posnett, Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr, Premkumar T. Devanbu
2010 — conf
Has the bug really been fixed?
ICSE (1)
Zhongxian Gu, Earl T. Barr, David J. Hamilton, Zhendong Su
2010 — conf
On the shoulders of giants.
FoSER
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Eric Hyatt, Tim Menzies, Gregorio Robles
2010 A conf
Perturbing numerical calculations for statistical analysis of floating-point program (in)stability.
ISSTA
Enyi Tang, Earl T. Barr, Xuandong Li, Zhendong Su
2009 A conf
Structure and Dynamics of Research Collaboration in Computer Science.
SDM
Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr, Andre Nash, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Vladimir Filkov, Zhendong Su
2009 A conf
The promises and perils of mining git.
MSR
Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, David J. Hamilton, Daniel M. Germán, Premkumar T. Devanbu
2009 — conf
Trust Is in the Eye of the Beholder.
CSE (3)
Dimitri do B. DeFigueiredo, Earl T. Barr, Shyhtsun Felix Wu
2007 A* conf
ConceptDoppler: a weather tracker for internet censorship.
CCS
Jedidiah R. Crandall, Daniel Zinn, Michael Byrd, Earl T. Barr, Rich East
2007 J jnl
Fixing federal e-voting standards.
Commun. ACM
Earl T. Barr, Matt Bishop, Mark A. Gondree
2005 B conf
TrustDavis: A Non-Exploitable Online Reputation System.
CEC
Dimitri do B. DeFigueiredo, Earl T. Barr
2004 — conf
Handling Catastrophic Failures in Scalable Internet Applications.
SAINT
Michael Haungs, Raju Pandey, Earl T. Barr
2002 Misc conf
A Fast Connection-Time Redirection Mechanism for Internet Application Scalability.
HiPC
Michael Haungs, Raju Pandey, Earl T. Barr, J. Fritz Barnes
2001 A conf
MAGE: A Distributed Programming Model.
ICDCS
Earl T. Barr, Raju Pandey, Michael Haungs
2000 A conf
Runtime Support for Type-Safe Dynamic Java Classes.
ECOOP
Scott Malabarba, Raju Pandey, Jeff Gragg, Earl T. Barr, J. Fritz Barnes