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Shane McIntosh

Shane McIntosh

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
36
Citations
6527
World Ranking
8614
National Ranking
347

Overview

Shane McIntosh is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, particularly within software engineering research. Their body of work encompasses a variety of topics related to software reliability, system performance, testing, debugging, and advanced malware detection techniques.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Accelerating Continuous Integration by Caching Environments and Inferring Dependencies, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Lessons from eight years of operational data from a continuous integration service, 2022, Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
  • Code Cloning in Smart Contracts on the Ethereum Platform: An Extended Replication Study, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • The Ghost Commit Problem When Identifying Fix-Inducing Changes: An Empirical Study of Apache Projects, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • An Empirical Study of Type-Related Defects in Python Projects, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Salomé Perez-Rosero
  • Robert Dyer
  • Witawas Srisa-an
  • Mahmoud Alfadel
  • Samuel W. Flint

McIntosh has published in several prominent venues, with a notable presence in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Empirical Software Engineering
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Software

The main field of study for McIntosh is computer science, with significant contributions distributed across various subfields:

  • Information Systems
  • Software
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Signal Processing

Their research topics emphasize software engineering research, including specific areas such as:

  • Software Reliability and Analysis Research
  • Software System Performance and Reliability
  • Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management

Best Publications

  • An Empirical Comparison of Model Validation Techniques for Defect Prediction Models

    Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn;Shane McIntosh;Ahmed E. Hassan;Kenichi Matsumoto

  • The impact of code review coverage and code review participation on software quality: a case study of the qt, VTK, and ITK projects

    Shane McIntosh;Yasutaka Kamei;Bram Adams;Ahmed E. Hassan

  • The Impact of Automated Parameter Optimization on Defect Prediction Models

    Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn;Shane McIntosh;Ahmed E. Hassan;Kenichi Matsumoto

  • An empirical study of the impact of modern code review practices on software quality

    Shane Mcintosh;Yasutaka Kamei;Bram Adams;Ahmed E. Hassan

  • Automated parameter optimization of classification techniques for defect prediction models

    Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn;Shane McIntosh;Ahmed E. Hassan;Kenichi Matsumoto

  • Revisiting the impact of classification techniques on the performance of defect prediction models

    Baljinder Ghotra;Shane McIntosh;Ahmed E. Hassan

  • Revisiting the Impact of Classification Techniques on the Performance of Defect Prediction Models

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  • Studying just-in-time defect prediction using cross-project models

    Yasutaka Kamei;Takafumi Fukushima;Shane Mcintosh;Kazuhiro Yamashita

  • Are Fix-Inducing Changes a Moving Target? A Longitudinal Case Study of Just-In-Time Defect Prediction

    Shane McIntosh;Yasutaka Kamei

  • Analyzing the State of Static Analysis: A Large-Scale Evaluation in Open Source Software

    Moritz Beller;Radjino Bholanath;Shane McIntosh;Andy Zaidman

  • A Framework for Evaluating the Results of the SZZ Approach for Identifying Bug-Introducing Changes

    Daniel Alencar da Costa;Shane McIntosh;Weiyi Shang;Uira Kulesza

  • An empirical study of just-in-time defect prediction using cross-project models

    Takafumi Fukushima;Yasutaka Kamei;Shane McIntosh;Kazuhiro Yamashita

  • An empirical study of build maintenance effort

    Shane McIntosh;Bram Adams;Thanh H.D. Nguyen;Yasutaka Kamei

  • Do code review practices impact design quality? A case study of the Qt, VTK, and ITK projects

    Rodrigo Morales;Shane McIntosh;Foutse Khomh

  • Revisiting code ownership and its relationship with software quality in the scope of modern code review

    Patanamon Thongtanunam;Shane McIntosh;Ahmed E. Hassan;Hajimu Iida

  • Modern Release Engineering in a Nutshell -- Why Researchers Should Care

    Bram Adams;Shane McIntosh

  • A large-scale study of the impact of feature selection techniques on defect classification models

    Baljinder Ghotra;Shane Mcintosh;Ahmed E. Hassan

  • Review participation in modern code review

    Patanamon Thongtanunam;Shane Mcintosh;Ahmed E. Hassan;Hajimu Iida

  • The impact of mislabelling on the performance and interpretation of defect prediction models

    Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn;Shane McIntosh;Ahmed E. Hassan;Akinori Ihara

  • The Impact of Mislabelling on the Performance and Interpretation of Defect Prediction Models

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  • The Use of Summation to Aggregate Software Metrics Hinders the Performance of Defect Prediction Models

    Feng Zhang;Ahmed E. Hassan;Shane McIntosh;Ying Zou

  • The evolution of Java build systems

    Shane Mcintosh;Bram Adams;Ahmed E. Hassan

  • Investigating code review practices in defective files: an empirical study of the Qt system

    Patanamon Thongtanunam;Shane McIntosh;Ahmed E. Hassan;Hajimu Iida

Frequent Co-Authors

Ahmed E. Hassan
Ahmed E. Hassan Queen's University
Yasutaka Kamei
Yasutaka Kamei Kyushu University
Kenichi Matsumoto
Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Bram Adams
Bram Adams Queen's University
Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn
Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn Monash University
Meiyappan Nagappan
Meiyappan Nagappan University of Waterloo
Martin Pinzger
Martin Pinzger University of Klagenfurt
Audris Mockus
Audris Mockus University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Éric Tanter
Éric Tanter University of Chile
Foutse Khomh
Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal

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