Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Graduate Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2013 Improving software quality with programming patterns Tung Thanh Nguyen Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd Part of the Computer Engineering Commons Recommended Citation Nguyen, Tung Thanh, "Improving software quality with programming patterns" (2013). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 13576. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/13576 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Improving software quality with programming patterns by Tung Thanh Nguyen A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Major: Computer Engineering Program of Study Committee: Tien N. Nguyen, Major Professor Suraj C. Kothari Manimaran Govindarasu Akhilesh Tyagi Samik Basu Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2013 Copyright ⃝c Tung Thanh Nguyen, 2013. All rights reserved. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES . vi LIST OF FIGURES . vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . ix ABSTRACT . xi CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION . 1 1.1 Software Quality Problem . 1 1.2 Reuse Practice and Reuse-related Bugs . 3 1.3 Programming Patterns . 8 1.3.1 GROUM: Graph-based object usage model . 10 1.3.2 SLAMC: Statistical semantic language model for source code . 14 1.4 Related Publications and Dissertation Outline . 16 1.4.1 Related publications .