Software developers are often using instant messaging platforms to communicate with each
other and other stakeholders. Among these platforms, Gitter has emerged as a popular …

As a popular social code hosting platform, GitHub encourages developers to discuss and
leave opinions on issues. However, the linear format of GitHub issue discussions makes …

Online chatrooms are gaining popularity as a communication channel between widely
distributed developers of Open Source Software (OSS) projects. Most discussion threads in …

Software collaborative platforms, eg, Gitter live chat and GitHub Discussions, are essential in
software maintenance. Summarizing the live chat logs is useful for extracting, retrieving, and …

A big part of software developers' time is spent finding answers to their coding-task-related
questions. To answer their questions, developers usually perform web searches, ask …

Context: The abundance of software artifacts in open-source repositories has been analyzed
by researchers from many perspectives, to address challenges in downstream tasks such as …

Collaborative live chats are gaining popularity as a development communication tool. In
community live chatting, developers are likely to post issues they encountered (eg, setup …

Developers often reuse code fragments by copy-and-paste activities to speed up code
delivery. Through this copy-and-paste process, they create duplicated code, also known as …

Communication is critical for the software development teams to maintain project
awareness, facilitate project co-ordination and avoid misunderstandings. The features …

Modern communication platforms used in software development host daily conversations
among developers and users about a wide range of topics pertaining to software systems …