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09/08/2023
Lessons from the Long Tail: Analysing Unsafe Dependency Updates across Software Ecosystems
A risk in adopting third-party dependencies into an application is their...
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08/31/2023
DevGPT: Studying Developer-ChatGPT Conversations
The emergence of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has disrup...
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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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05/05/2023
Meta-Maintanance for Dockerfiles: Are We There Yet?
Docker allows for the packaging of applications and dependencies, and it...
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04/12/2023
We Live in a Society: Motivators for Contributions in an OSS Ecosystem
Due to the increasing number of attacks targeting open source library ec...
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03/16/2023
Intertwining Communities: Exploring Libraries that Cross Software Ecosystems
Using libraries in applications has helped developers reduce the costs o...
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12/04/2022
Visualizing Contributor Code Competency for PyPI Libraries: Preliminary Results
Python is known to be used by beginners to professional programmers. Pyt...
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11/28/2022
An Exploration of Cross-Patch Collaborations via Patch Linkage in OpenStack
Contemporary development projects benefit from code review as it improve...
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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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08/13/2022
Intertwining Ecosystems: A Large Scale Empirical Study of Libraries that Cross Software Ecosystems
An increase in diverse technology stacks and third-party library usage h...
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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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07/08/2022
Understanding the Role of External Pull Requests in the NPM Ecosystem
The risk to using third-party libraries in a software application is tha...
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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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03/30/2022
pycefr: Python Competency Level through Code Analysis
Python is known to be a versatile language, well suited both for beginne...
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02/11/2022
GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source
GitHub Sponsors, launched in 2019, enables donations to individual open ...
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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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09/07/2021
FixMe: A GitHub Bot for Detecting and Monitoring On-Hold Self-Admitted Technical Debt
Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) is a special form of technical debt ...
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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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04/04/2021
Code Reviews with Divergent Review Scores: An Empirical Study of the OpenStack and Qt Communities
Code review is a broadly adopted software quality practice where develop...
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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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02/02/2021
FLOSS != GitHub: A Case Study of Linux/BSD Perceptions from Microsoft's Acquisition of GitHub
In 2018, the software industry giants Microsoft made a move into the Ope...
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09/28/2020
Automated Identification of On-hold Self-admitted Technical Debt
Modern software is developed under considerable time pressure, which imp...
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09/19/2020
Sustaining a Healthy Ecosystem: Participation, Discussion, and Interaction in Eclipse Forums
Although many software development projects have moved their developer d...
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09/08/2020
Predicting Defective Lines Using a Model-Agnostic Technique
Defect prediction models are proposed to help a team prioritize source c...
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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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04/01/2020
GitHub Repositories with Links to Academic Papers: Open Access, Traceability, and Evolution
Traceability between published scientific breakthroughs and their implem...
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03/11/2020
A Simulation Study of Bandit Algorithms to Address External Validity of Software Fault Prediction
Various software fault prediction models and techniques for building alg...
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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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10/15/2019
From Academia to Software Development: Publication Citations in Source Code Comments
Academic publications have been evaluated with the impact on research co...
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07/14/2019
Towards Generation of Visual Attention Map for Source Code
Program comprehension is a dominant process in software development and ...
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07/10/2019
Identifying Algorithm Names in Code Comments
For recent machine-learning-based tasks like API sequence generation, co...
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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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05/09/2019
A Topological Analysis of Communication Channels for Knowledge Sharing in Contemporary GitHub Projects
With over 28 million developers, success of GitHub collaborative platfor...
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04/27/2019
Sentiment Classification using N-gram IDF and Automated Machine Learning
We propose a sentiment classification method with a general machine lear...
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03/15/2019
Toward Imitating Visual Attention of Experts in Software Development Tasks
Expert programmers' eye-movements during source code reading are valuabl...
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02/07/2019
How Different Are Different diff Algorithms in Git? Use --histogram for Code Changes
Automatic identification of the differences between two versions of a fi...
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01/28/2019
Wait For It: Identifying "On-Hold" Self-Admitted Technical Debt
Self-admitted technical debt refers to situations where a software devel...
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06/27/2018
The Impact of Human Factors on the Participation Decision of Reviewers in Modern Code Review
Modern Code Review (MCR) plays a key role in software quality practices....
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06/20/2018
The Impact of IR-based Classifier Configuration on the Performance and the Effort of Method-Level Bug Localization
Context: IR-based bug localization is a classifier that assists develope...
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05/10/2018
Human Capital in Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping of Reconceptualized Human Aspect Studies
The human capital invested into software development plays a vital role ...
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03/12/2018