CONTEXT: Software metrics may be used in fault prediction models to improve software
quality by predicting fault location. OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to identify software metrics …

There is a plethora of studies investigating object-oriented measures and their link with
external quality attributes, but usefulness of the measures may differ across empirical …

Researchers in software engineering have attempted to improve software development by
mining and analyzing software repositories. Since the majority of the software engineering …

As software systems play an increasingly important role in our lives, their complexity
continues to increase. The increased complexity of software systems makes the assurance …

Unreadable code could compromise program comprehension, and it could cause the
introduction of bugs. Code consists of mostly natural language text, both in identifiers and …

Testing with simulation environments helps to identify critical failing scenarios for self-driving
cars (SDCs). Simulation-based tests are safer than in-field operational tests and allow …

Software repositories hold applications that are often categorized to improve the
effectiveness of various maintenance tasks. Properly categorized applications allow …

Information Retrieval (IR) techniques have been used for various software engineering
tasks, including the labeling of software artifacts by extracting “keywords” from them. Such …

Topic models are generative probabilistic models which have been applied to information
retrieval to automatically organize and provide structure to a text corpus. Topic models …

Software repositories, such as source code, email archives, and bug databases, contain
unstructured and unlabeled text that is difficult to analyze with traditional techniques. We …