In large-scale software development projects, change impact analysis (CIA) plays an
important role in controlling software design evolution. Identifying and accessing the effects …

Information Retrieval (IR) methods, and in particular topic models, have recently been used
to support essential software engineering (SE) tasks, by enabling software textual retrieval …

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices that may hinder
code comprehension, and possibly increase changeand fault-proneness. While most of the …

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

During the evolution of a software system, a large number of bug reports are submitted.
Locating the source code files that need to be fixed to resolve the bugs is a challenging …

Code review is an important part of the software development process. Recently, many open
source projects have begun practicing code review through “modern” tools such as GitHub …

For creative tasks, programmers face a choice: Use a GUI and sacrifice flexibility, or write
code and sacrifice ergonomics? To obtain both flexibility and ease of use, a number of …

DevOps has emerged as one of the most rapidly evolving software development paradigms.
With the growing concerns surrounding security in software systems, the DevSecOps …

Software maintenance starts as soon as the first artifacts are delivered and is essential for
the success of the software. However, kee** maintenance activities and their related …

Context Several issues or defects in released software during the maintenance phase are
reported to the development team. It is costly and time-consuming for developers to …