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08/16/2023
Where to Go Now? Finding Alternatives for Declining Packages in the npm Ecosystem
Software ecosystems (e.g., npm, PyPI) are the backbone of modern softwar...
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07/25/2023
An Empirical Study on Bugs Inside PyTorch: A Replication Study
Software systems are increasingly relying on deep learning components, d...
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05/29/2023
Understanding the Helpfulness of Stale Bot for Pull-based Development: An Empirical Study of 20 Large Open-Source Projects
Pull Requests (PRs) that are neither progressed nor resolved clutter the...
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05/25/2023
Dependency Update Strategies and Package Characteristics
Managing project dependencies is a key maintenance issue in software dev...
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01/31/2023
Diversity Awareness in Software Engineering Participant Research
Diversity and inclusion are necessary prerequisites for shaping technolo...
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12/05/2022
Can Ensembling Pre-processing Algorithms Lead to Better Machine Learning Fairness?
As machine learning (ML) systems get adopted in more critical areas, it ...
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08/11/2022
Achievement Unlocked: A Case Study on Gamifying DevOps Practices in Industry
Gamification is the use of game elements such as points, leaderboards, a...
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07/29/2022
Not All Dependencies are Equal: An Empirical Study on Production Dependencies in NPM
Modern software systems are often built by leveraging code written by ot...
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07/04/2022
The Present and Future of Bots in Software Engineering
We are witnessing a massive adoption of software engineering bots, appli...
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04/12/2022
A Machine Learning Approach to Determine the Semantic Versioning Type of npm Packages Releases
Semantic versioning policy is widely used to indicate the level of chang...
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04/09/2022
What are the characteristics of highly-selected packages? A case study on the npm ecosystem
With the popularity of software ecosystems, the number of open source co...
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10/28/2021
On Wasted Contributions: Understanding the Dynamics of Contributor-Abandoned Pull Requests
Pull-based development has enabled numerous volunteers to contribute to ...
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07/21/2021
Towards Using Package Centrality Trend to Identify Packages in Decline
Due to its increasing complexity, today's software systems are frequentl...
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01/11/2021
An Exploratory Study on the Introduction and Removal of Different Types of Technical Debt
To complete tasks faster, developers often have to sacrifice the quality...
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12/04/2020
A Comparison of Natural Language Understanding Platforms for Chatbots in Software Engineering
Chatbots are envisioned to dramatically change the future of Software En...
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10/27/2020
Dependency Smells in JavaScript Projects
Dependency management in modern software development poses many challeng...
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09/18/2020
On the Threat of npm Vulnerable Dependencies in Node.js Applications
Software vulnerabilities have a large negative impact on the software sy...
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06/17/2020
Breaking Type-Safety in Go: An Empirical Study on the Usage of the unsafe Package
A decade after its first release, the Go programming language has become...
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05/16/2019
MSRBot: Using Bots to Answer Questions from Software Repositories
Software repositories contain a plethora of useful information that can ...
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04/04/2019
Subject Cross Validation in Human Activity Recognition
K-fold Cross Validation is commonly used to evaluate classifiers and tun...
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12/18/2018
Learning to Generate Corrective Patches using Neural Machine Translation
Bug fixing is generally a manually-intensive task. However, recent work ...
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09/11/2018