Publications - Tushar Sharma

Rafi Almhana, Thiago Ferreira, Marouane Kessentini and Tushar Sharma. “Understanding and Characterizing Changes in Bugs Priority : The Practitioners’ Perceptive”, Accepted in SCAM 2020.
Vishvajeet Thakur, Maroune Kessentini, Tushar Sharma. “QScored: An Open Platform for Code Quality Ranking and Visualization”, Accepted in ICSME Tool Demo track, July 2020. Preprint
Tushar Sharma, Paramvir Singh, Diomidis Spinellis. “An empirical investigation on the relationship between design and architecture smells”, Empirical Software Engineering 25, 4020–4068 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-020-09847-2. Preprint

Tushar Sharma, Vasiliki Efstathiou, Panos Louridas, Diomidis Spinellis. On the Feasibility of Transfer-learning Code Smells using Deep Learning. April 2019. Available on Arxiv.
Tushar Sharma. 2019. How deep is the mud: fathoming architecture technical debt using designite. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt ’19). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 59-60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TechDebt.2019.00018. Preprint

Tushar Sharma, Marios Fragkoulis, Stamatia Rizou, Magiel Bruntink, and Diomidis Spinellis. 2018. Smelly relations: measuring and understanding database schema quality. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP ’18). ACM. 55-64. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3183519.3183529 Preprint
Tushar Sharma. Detecting and managing code smells: research and practice. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings (ICSE ’18). ACM. 546-547. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3183440.3183460. Preprint
Tushar Sharma, Diomidis Spinellis. “A survey on software smells”, Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 138, 2018, Pages 158-173, ISSN 0164-1212, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2017.12.034. Preprint

Tushar Sharma, Girish Suryanarayana, “Augur: Incorporating Hidden Dependencies and Variable Granularity in Change Impact Analysis” in the 16th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) 2016. Preprint
Ganesh Samarthyam, Girish Suryanarayana, Tushar Sharma, “Refactoring for Software Architecture Smells” in the 1st International Workshop on Refactoring (IWoR@ASE) 2016. Preprint
Tushar Sharma, Marios Fragkoulis, and Diomidis Spinellis, “Does your configuration code smell?” in 13th international conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2016. Preprint
Tushar Sharma, Pratibha Mishra, and Rohit Tiwari, “Designite – A Software Design Quality Assessment Tool”, in First International Workshop on Bringing Architecture Design Thinking into Developers’ Daily Activities (Bridge’16), 2016. Preprint

Tushar Sharma, Girish Suryanarayana, Ganesh Samarthyam, “Challenges to and Solutions for Refactoring Adoption: An Industrial Perspective”, IEEE Software, Nov/Dec 2015.
Girish Suryanarayana, Tushar Sharma, Ganesh Samarthyam, “Software Process versus Design Quality: Tug of War?” IEEE Software, July/August 2015.

Ganesh SG; Tushar Sharma; Girish Suryanarayana, “Software Design Quality in Practice: Refactoring for Design Smells,” tutorial in International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2014.
Tushar Sharma; PVR Murthy, “ESA: The Exclusive Similarity Algorithm for identifying Extract-class Refactoring Candidates Automatically,” in Indian Software Engineering Conference (ISEC) 2014.

SG Ganesh; Girish Suryanarayana; Tushar Sharma; and Shrinath Gupta, “MIDAS: A Design Quality Assessment Method for Industrial Software,” in International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2013, SEIP track.
S G Ganesh; Tushar Sharma; Girish Suryanarayana, “Towards a Principle-based Classification of Structural Design Smells,” In Journal of Object Technology, vol. 12, no. 2, 2013, pages 1:1–29. doi:10.5381/jot.2013.12.2.a1

Tushar Sharma, “Identifying extract-method refactoring candidates automatically,” In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Refactoring Tools (WRT ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 50-53. DOI=10.1145/2328876.2328883.
Tushar Sharma, “Quantifying Quality of Software Design to Measure the Impact of Refactoring,” Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops (COMPSACW), 2012 IEEE 36th Annual , pp.266,271, 16-20 July 2012 doi: 10.1109/COMPSACW.2012.56.

Murthy, P.V.R.; Kumar, V.S.; Sharma, Tushar; Kiron Rao; , “Quality Model Driven Dynamic Analysis,” Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2011 IEEE 35th Annual , pp.360-365, 18-22 July 2011, doi: 10.1109/COMPSAC.2011.54.

Tushar Sharma; and D Janakiram, “Inferring design patterns using the ReP graph”, Journal of Object Technology, Volume 9, no. 5 (September 2010), pp. 95-110, doi:10.5381/jot.2010.9.5.a5.

Tushar Sharma, and Shrinath Gupta, “Achieving optimal refactoring order using Local-maxima Impact Factor Ordering algorithm”, patent to be filed in 2014.
Tushar Sharma, and PVR Murthy, “Exclusive similarity algorithm to identify extract class refactoring automatically”, patent filed in 2013 nationally and internationally.
Tushar Sharma, and Girish Suryanarayana, “A method for annotating design diagrams to indicate smells in software design”, patent filed in 2012 nationally.
Tushar Sharma, Shrinath Gupta, “An automated context-aware approach to infer suitable refactorings to address code-clones”, patent filed in 2012 nationally.
Tushar Sharma, “Identifying extract method refactoring candidates automatically” patent filed in 2011 nationally and internationally.
Tushar Sharma, “Automated quality estimation for software design” patent filed in 2011 nationally and internationally.
Tushar Sharma, and PVR Murthy, “Design intent validator framework” patent filed in 2011 nationally and internationally.
Tushar Sharma, and PVR Murthy, “Workflow Based Refactoring” patent filed in 2010 nationally and internationally.