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07/14/2023
More Than React: Investigating The Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests
Open source software development has become more social and collaborativ...
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05/26/2023
18 Million Links in Commit Messages: Purpose, Evolution, and Decay
Commit messages contain diverse and valuable types of knowledge in all a...
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11/21/2022
An Empirical Study of Package Management Issues via Stack Overflow
The package manager (PM) is crucial to most technology stacks, acting as...
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08/18/2022
An Empirical Evaluation of Competitive Programming AI: A Case Study of AlphaCode
AlphaCode is a code generation system for assisting software developers ...
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08/05/2022
Bug-Fix Variants: Visualizing Unique Source Code Changes across GitHub Forks
Forking is a common practice for developers when building upon on alread...
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05/26/2022
Giving Back: Contributions Congruent to Library Dependency Changes in a Software Ecosystem
Popular adoption of third-party libraries for contemporary software deve...
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05/17/2022
On the Use of Refactoring in Security Vulnerability Fixes: An Exploratory Study on Maven Libraries
Third-party library dependencies are commonplace in today's software dev...
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04/13/2022
Software Supply Chain Map: How Reuse Networks Expand
Clone-and-own is a typical code reuse approach because of its simplicity...
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03/28/2022
Does Coding in Pythonic Zen Peak Performance? Preliminary Experiments of Nine Pythonic Idioms at Scale
In the field of data science, and for academics in general, the Python p...
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09/18/2021
SōjiTantei: Function-Call Reachability Detection of Vulnerable Code for npm Packages
It has become common practice for software projects to adopt third-party...
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09/18/2021
An Exploration of npm Package Co-Usage Examples from Stack Overflow: A Case Study
Third-party package usage has become a common practice in contemporary s...
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08/18/2021
More Than React: Investigating The Role of EmojiReaction in GitHub Pull Requests
Context: Open source software development has become more social and col...
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08/13/2021
Contrasting Third-Party Package Management User Experience
The management of third-party package dependencies is crucial to most te...
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06/04/2021
Automatic Patch Linkage Detection in Code Review Using TextualContent and File Location Features
Context: Contemporary code review tools are a popular choice for softwar...
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04/07/2021
Does the First-Response Matter for Future Contributions? A Study of First Contributions
Context: Open Source Software (OSS) projects rely on a continuous stream...
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03/15/2021
Does Code Review Promote Conformance? A Study of OpenStack Patches
Code Review plays a crucial role in software quality, by allowing review...
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02/19/2021
Characterizing and Mitigating Self-Admitted Build Debt
Technical Debt is a metaphor used to describe the situation in which lon...
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02/12/2021
Same File, Different Changes: The Potential of Meta-Maintenance on GitHub
Online collaboration platforms such as GitHub have provided software dev...
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12/23/2020
A Framework for Self-Admitted Technical Debt Identification and Description
Technical debt occurs when software engineers favour short-term operabil...
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10/12/2020
PATSQL: Efficient Synthesis of SQL Queries from Example Tables with Quick Inference of Projected Columns
SQL is one of the most popular tools for data analysis and used by an in...
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08/11/2020
Code-based Vulnerability Detection in Node.js Applications: How far are we?
With one of the largest available collection of reusable packages, the J...
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08/06/2020
Newcomer Candidate: Characterizing Contributions of a Novice Developer to GitHub
Context: To attract, onboard, and retain any new-comer in Open Source So...
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05/22/2020
DevReplay: Automatic Repair with Editable Fix Pattern
Static analysis tools, or linters, detect violation of source code conve...
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03/12/2020
Code Clone Matching: A Practical and Effective Approach to Find Code Snippets
Finding the same or similar code snippets in source code is one of funda...
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11/20/2019
The Evolution of Code Review Research: A Systematic Mapping Study
Code Review (CR) is a cornerstone for Quality Assurance within software ...
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07/08/2019
On The Lag of Library Vulnerability Updates: An Investigation into the Repackage and Delivery of Security Fixes Within The npm JavaScript Ecosystem
Vulnerabilities in third-party libraries is a growing concern for the so...
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01/22/2019
9.6 Million Links in Source Code Comments: Purpose, Evolution, and Decay
Links are an essential feature of the World Wide Web, and source code re...
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09/18/2017
Using High-Rising Cities to Visualize Performance in Real-Time
For developers concerned with a performance drop or improvement in their...
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09/14/2017
Modeling Library Dependencies and Updates in Large Software Repository Universes
Popular (re)use of third-party open-source software (OSS) is evidence of...
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09/14/2017