The software engineering community recently has witnessed widespread deployment of AI
programming assistants, such as GitHub Copilot. However, in practice, developers do not …

Employing lightweight, tool-based code review of code changes (aka modern code review)
has become the norm for a wide variety of open-source and industrial systems. In this paper …

Besides a git-based version control system, GitHub integrates several social coding
features. Particularly, GitHub users can star a repository, presumably to manifest interest or …

Software popularity is a valuable information to modern open source developers, who
constantly want to know if their systems are attracting new users, if new releases are gaining …

Software processes comprise many steps; coding is followed by building, integration testing,
system testing, deployment, operations, among others. Software process integration and …

Leveraging the pull request model of social coding platforms, Open Source Software (OSS)
integrators review developers' contributions, checking aspects like license, code quality, and …

With over 10 million git repositories, GitHub is becoming one of the most important sources
of software artifacts on the Internet. Researchers mine the information stored in GitHub's …

The technical debt metaphor is widely used to encapsulate numerous software quality
problems. The metaphor is attractive to practitioners as it communicates to both technical …