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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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08/19/2023
Evaluating Transfer Learning for Simplifying GitHub READMEs
Software documentation captures detailed knowledge about a software prod...
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08/18/2023
Visually Analyzing Company-wide Software Service Dependencies: An Industrial Case Study
Managing dependencies between software services is a crucial task for an...
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07/20/2023
Addressing Compiler Errors: Stack Overflow or Large Language Models?
Compiler error messages serve as an initial resource for programmers dea...
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05/29/2023
Promises and Perils of Mining Software Package Ecosystem Data
The use of third-party packages is becoming increasingly popular and has...
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05/27/2023
Ethical Considerations Towards Protestware
A key drawback to using a Open Source third-party library is the risk of...
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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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05/25/2023
The Impact of a Continuous Integration Service on the Delivery Time of Merged Pull Requests
Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development practice that buil...
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04/28/2023
Barriers and Self-Efficacy: A Large-Scale Study on the Impact of OSS Courses on Student Perceptions
Open source software (OSS) development offers a unique opportunity for s...
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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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03/28/2023
Understanding the Role of Images on Stack Overflow
Images are increasingly being shared by software developers in diverse c...
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03/18/2023
Stop Words for Processing Software Engineering Documents: Do they Matter?
Stop words, which are considered non-predictive, are often eliminated in...
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03/17/2023
She Elicits Requirements and He Tests: Software Engineering Gender Bias in Large Language Models
Implicit gender bias in software development is a well-documented issue,...
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03/17/2023
Towards Understanding the Open Source Interest in Gender-Related GitHub Projects
The open-source community uses the GitHub platform to exchange and share...
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02/11/2023
Overcoming Challenges in DevOps Education through Teaching Methods
DevOps is a set of practices that deals with coordination between develo...
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01/28/2023
Navigating Complexity in Software Engineering: A Prototype for Comparing GPT-n Solutions
Navigating the diverse solution spaces of non-trivial software engineeri...
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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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08/01/2022
In War and Peace: The Impact of World Politics on Software Ecosystems
Reliance on third-party libraries is now commonplace in contemporary sof...
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07/31/2022
Taming Multi-Output Recommenders for Software Engineering
Recommender systems are a valuable tool for software engineers. For exam...
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07/30/2022
Adding Context to Source Code Representations for Deep Learning
Deep learning models have been successfully applied to a variety of soft...
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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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06/28/2022
GitHub Actions: The Impact on the Pull Request Process
Automated tools are frequently used in social coding repositories to per...
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06/11/2022
Software Engineering in Australasia
Six months ago an important call was made for researchers globally to pr...
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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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05/15/2022
Querying Spatial-Temporal-Spectral Data Using a Graphical Query Builder
Constructing complex queries on data which combines spatial, temporal, a...
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03/31/2022
Does This Apply to Me? An Empirical Study of Technical Context in Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow has become an essential technical resource for developers...
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03/19/2022
DevOps Education: An Interview Study of Challenges and Recommendations
Over the last years, the software industry has adopted several DevOps te...
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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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10/25/2021
Generating GitHub Repository Descriptions: A Comparison of Manual and Automated Approaches
Given the vast number of repositories hosted on GitHub, project discover...
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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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07/29/2021
An Empirical Study of Developers' Discussions about Security Challenges of Different Programming Languages
Given programming languages can provide different types and levels of se...
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04/19/2021
Beyond tight deadlines: what are the business causes for technical debt?
Business aspects have been identified as a significant cause for the cre...
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04/13/2021
Science-Software Linkage: The Challenges of Traceability between Scientific Knowledge and Software Artifacts
Although computer science papers are often accompanied by software artif...
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03/23/2021
Characterising the Knowledge about Primitive Variables in Java Code Comments
Primitive types are fundamental components available in any programming ...
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03/22/2021
How Do Software Developers Use GitHub Actions to Automate Their Workflows?
Automated tools are frequently used in social coding repositories to per...
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03/01/2021
How Developers Engineer Test Cases: An Observational Study
One of the main challenges that developers face when testing their syste...
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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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02/10/2021
GitHub Discussions: An Exploratory Study of Early Adoption
Discussions is a new feature of GitHub for asking questions or discussin...
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02/01/2021
Automated Query Reformulation for Efficient Search based on Query Logs From Stack Overflow
As a popular Q A site for programming, Stack Overflow is a treasure fo...
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01/25/2021
The Shifting Sands of Motivation: Revisiting What Drives Contributors in Open Source
Open Source Software (OSS) has changed drastically over the last decade,...
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12/07/2020
How Successful Are Open Source Contributions From Countries with Different Levels of Human Development?
Are Brazilian developers less likely to have a contribution accepted tha...
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11/12/2020
Large-Scale Manual Validation of Bug Fixing Commits: A Fine-grained Analysis of Tangling
Context: Tangled commits are changes to software that address multiple c...
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10/19/2020
Business-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization: An Industrial Case Study
Incorporating the business perspective into prioritizing technical debt ...
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10/07/2020
Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research
Empirical Standards are natural-language models of a scientific communit...
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07/21/2020
Beyond Accuracy: Assessing Software Documentation Quality
Good software documentation encourages good software engineering, but th...
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05/26/2020
Selecting third-party libraries: The practitioners' perspective
The selection of third-party libraries is an essential element of virtua...
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04/28/2020
Human-Like Summaries from Heterogeneous and Time-Windowed Software Development Artefacts
Automatic text summarisation has drawn considerable interest in the area...
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04/16/2020
Optimising the Fit of Stack Overflow Code Snippets into Existing Code
Software developers often reuse code from online sources such as Stack O...
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04/01/2020