The immense amounts of source code provide ample challenges and opportunities during
software development. To handle the size of code bases, developers commonly search for …

Code search is a core software engineering task. Effective code search tools can help
developers substantially improve their software development efficiency and effectiveness. In …

In this work we systematically review the recent advancements in software engineering with
language models, covering 70+ models, 40+ evaluation tasks, 180+ datasets, and 900 …

Test-based automated program repair has been a prolific field of research in software
engineering in the last decade. Many approaches have indeed been proposed, which …

The performance of neural code search is significantly influenced by the quality of the
training data from which the neural models are derived. A large corpus of high-quality query …

Programmers often write code that has similarity to existing code written somewhere. A tool
that could help programmers to search such similar code would be immensely useful. Such …

Learning code representations has found many uses in software engineering, such as code
classification, code search, comment generation, and bug prediction, etc. Although …

Smart contracts have been increasingly used together with blockchains to automate
financial and business transactions. However, many bugs and vulnerabilities have been …

To ensure code readability and facilitate software maintenance, program methods must be
named properly. In particular, method names must be consistent with the corresponding …

Partial code usually involves non-fully-qualified type names (non-FQNs) and undeclared
receiving objects. Resolving the FQNs of these non-FQN types and undeclared receiving …