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Paper Memory and resource leak defects exists as real study

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“The paper titled 'Memory and resource leak defects and their repairs in Java projects' by Mohammadreza Ghanavati, Diego Costa, Janos Seboek, David Lo, and Artur Andrzejak, published in Empirical Software Engineering 25, 1 (2020), pages 678–718, DOI 10.1007/s10664-019-09731-8, exists as a real study.”
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The paper “Memory and resource leak defects and their repairs in Java projects” by Mohammadreza Ghanavati, Diego Costa, Janos Seboek, David Lo, and Artur Andrzejak was published in Empirical Software Engineering, volume 25, issue 1 (2020), pages 678–718, DOI 10.1007/s10664-019-09731-8. It is listed in the journal’s archive and indexed in academic databases, confirming its existence as a real study.

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    We find that most of the errors manifest on error-free execution paths, and developers repair the leak defects in a shorter time than non-leak defects. We also identify 13 recurring code transformations in the repair patches.

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