Programming question and answer (Q&A) websites, such as Stack Overflow, leverage the
knowledge and expertise of users to provide answers to technical questions. Over time …

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 …

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

Topic analysis is a powerful tool that extracts “topics” from document collections. Unlike
manual tagging, which is effort intensive and requires expertise in the documents' subject …

A good understanding of the impact of different types of bugs on various project aspects is
essential to improve software quality research and practice. For instance, we would expect …

Software development teams use test suites to test changes to their source code. In many
situations, the test suites are so large that executing every test for every source code change …

Software developers insert logging statements in their source code to record important
runtime information; such logged information is valuable for understanding system usage in …

Blockchain-related discussions have become increasingly prevalent in programming Q&A
websites, such as Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange communities. Analyzing and …

Oftentimes, during software maintenance the original program modularization decays, thus
reducing its quality. One of the main reasons for such architectural erosion is suboptimal …

The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data provides valuable information on analysis
techniques often used to derive insight from software data. This book shares best practices …