Barr, Earl T.

The oracle problem in software testing: A survey

Barr, E. T., Harman, M., McMinn, P., Shahbaz, M., & Yoo, S. (2015) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Software Testing and Debugging TechniquesSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 1,104

On the naturalness of software

Hindle, A., Barr, E. T., Su, Z., Gabel, M., & Devanbu, P. (2012) · 2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

Software Engineering ResearchNatural Language Processing Techniques

Cited by 425

Is the cure worse than the disease? overfitting in automated program repair

Smith, E. K., Barr, E. T., Le Goues, C., & Brun, Y. (2015) · Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering

Software Testing and Debugging TechniquesSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 323

The promises and perils of mining git

Bird, C., Rigby, P. C., Barr, E. T., Hamilton, D. J., German, D. M., & Devanbu, P. (2009) · 2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Software Engineering ResearchOpen Source Software Innovations

Cited by 311

On the naturalness of software

Hindle, A., Barr, E. T., Gabel, M., Su, Z., & Devanbu, P. (2016) · Communications of the ACM

Software Engineering ResearchNatural Language Processing Techniques

Cited by 307

A Survey of Machine Learning for Big Code and Naturalness

Allamanis, M., Barr, E. T., Devanbu, P., & Sutton, C. (2019) · ACM Computing Surveys

Software Engineering ResearchLogic, programming, and type systems

Cited by 150

Today was a good day: The daily life of software developers

Meyer, A. N., Barr, E. T., Bird, C., & Zimmermann, T. (2021) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesPersonal Information Management and User Behavior

Cited by 123

Automatic Semantic Augmentation of Language Model Prompts (for Code Summarization)

Ahmed, T., Pai, K. S., Devanbu, P., & Barr, E. (2024) · Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchTopic Modeling

Cited by 112

Automatic Semantic Augmentation of Language Model Prompts (for Code Summarization)

Ahmed, T., Pai, K. S., Devanbu, P., & Barr, E. T. (2023) · arXiv

Software Engineering ResearchTopic Modeling

Cited by 112

Practitioners’ expectations on log anomaly detection

Ma, X., Li, Y., Keung, J., Yu, X., Zou, H., Yang, Z., Sarro, F., & Barr, E. T. (2025) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications

Cited by 14

Failure as a Process: An Anatomy of CLI Coding Agent Trajectories

Zhao, X., Li, H., Li, S., Zhao, T., Barr, E. T., Sarro, F., & Ye, H. (2026) · arXiv

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Testing and Debugging Techniques

Cited by 1