A code summary is a brief natural language description of source code. Summaries are
usually only a single sentence long, and yet form the backbone of developer documentation …

The ubiquity of large-scale Pre-Trained Models (PTMs) is on the rise, sparking interest in
model hubs, and dedicated platforms for hosting PTMs. Despite this trend, a comprehensive …

Reflecting on the limitations of a study is a crucial part of the research process. In software
engineering studies, this reflection is typically conveyed through discussions of study …

The developer community has witnessed an unprecedented surge in recent years, with over
100 million active developers on the GitHub platform in 2023. Along with it, there is a …

Abstract Self-Admitted Technical Debt, or SATD, is a self-admission of technical debt present
in a software system. The presence of SATD in software systems negatively affects …

Identifying whether GitHub contributors are automated bots is important for empirical
research on collaborative software development practices. Multiple such bot identification …

This paper presents a procedure for and evaluation of using a semantic similarity metric as a
loss function for neural source code summarization. Code summarization is the task of …

Abstract Development bots are being used by maintainers of GitHub repositories to perform
repetitive or error-prone tasks. While multiple approaches have been proposed in the past to …