The amount of unstructured data available to software engineering researchers in
versioning systems, issue trackers, achieved communications, and many other repositories …

Identifiers, such as method and variable names, form a large portion of source code.
Therefore, low-quality identifiers can substantially hinder code comprehension. To support …

Renaming is vital to software maintenance and evolution. Developers rename entities when
their original names no longer fit their behavioral role within the program. This may happen if …

Bug localization is the task of determining which source code entities are relevant to a bug
report. Manual bug localization is labor intensive since developers must consider thousands …

Variable names are important to understand and maintain code. If a variable name and the
value stored in the variable do not match, then the program suffers from a name-value …

Source code lexicon plays a paramount role in software quality: poor lexicon can lead to
poor comprehensibility and even increase software fault-proneness. For this reason …

Feature location is a program comprehension activity, the goal of which is to identify source
code entities that implement a functionality. Recent feature location techniques apply text …

Informal discussions on social platforms (eg, Stack Overflow, CodeProject) have
accumulated a large body of programming knowledge in the form of natural language text …

Refactoring aims at improving code non-functional attributes without modifying its external
behavior. Previous studies investigated the motivations behind refactoring by surveying …

Informal discussions on social platforms (eg, Stack Overflow) accumulates a large body of
programming knowledge in natural language text. Natural language process (NLP) …