Understanding software systems written by others is often challenging. When we want to
assess systems to reason about them, ie, to understand dependencies, analyze evolution …

A comprehensive literature survey on approaches for mining software repositories (MSR) in
the context of software evolution is presented. In particular, this survey deals with those …

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in the realm of
natural language understanding and programming code processing tasks. Their capacity to …

Patching is a common activity in software development. It is generally performed on a source
code base to address bugs or add new functionalities. In this context, given the recurrence of …

Large-scale cloud systems play a pivotal role in modern IT infrastructure. However, incidents
occurring within these systems can lead to service disruptions and adversely affect user …

Code smells are structures in code that often harm its quality. Manually detecting code
smells is challenging, so researchers proposed many automatic detectors. Traditional code …

Reusing existing library components is essential for reducing the cost of software
development and maintenance. When library components evolve to accommodate new …

Numerous techniques involve mining change data captured in software archives to assist
engineering efforts, for example to identify components that tend to evolve together. We …

Abstract Machine learning approaches to source code authorship attribution attempt to find
statistical regularities in human-generated source code that can identify the author or …

Software updates typically require stop** and restarting an application, but many systems
cannot afford to halt service, or would prefer not to. Dynamic software updating (DSU) …