Predictive models are one of the most important techniques that are widely applied in many
areas of software engineering. There have been a large number of primary studies that …

Existing work on software patches often use features specific to a single task. These works
often rely on manually identified features, and human effort is required to identify these …

Patching is a common activity in software development. It is generally performed on a source
code base to address bugs or add new functionalities. In this context, given the recurrence of …

Patch generation is an essential software maintenance task because most software systems
inevitably have bugs that need to be fixed. Unfortunately, human resources are often …

Most software defect prediction approaches are trained and applied on data from the same
project. However, often a new project does not have enough training data. Cross-project …

In recent years, there has been a remarkable surge in the adoption of open-source software
(OSS). However, with the growing usage of OSS components in both free and proprietary …

Technical debt is a metaphor to describe the situation in which long-term code quality is
traded for short-term goals in software projects. Recently, the concept of self-admitted …

To design effective tools for detecting and recovering from software failures requires a deep
understanding of software bug characteristics. We study software bug characteristics by …

Many defect prediction techniques have been proposed. While they often take the author of
the code into consideration, none of these techniques build a separate prediction model for …

Software vulnerability is one of the major threats to software security. Once discovered,
vulnerabilities are often fixed by applying security patches. In that sense, security patches …