Context and Motivation–Developer eXperience (Dev-X) is a recent research area that
focuses on developers perceptions, feelings, and values with respect to software …

Patch generation is an essential software maintenance task because most software systems
inevitably have bugs that need to be fixed. Unfortunately, human resources are often …

Software development is usually a collaborative venture. Open Source Software (OSS)
projects are no exception; indeed, by design, the OSS approach can accommodate teams …

Continuous integration (CI) systems automate the compilation, building, and testing of
software. Despite CI being a widely used activity in software engineering, we do not know …

A key issue in collaborative software development is communication among developers.
One modality of communication is a commit message, in which developers describe the …

A documentation generator is a programming tool that creates documentation for software
by analyzing the statements and comments in the software's source code. While many of …

Contemporary code review is a widespread practice used by software engineers to maintain
high software quality and share project knowledge. However, conducting proper code …

Robotic systems are increasingly a part of everyday life. Characteristics of robotic systems
such as interaction with the physical world, and integration of hardware and software …

Source code summarization is the task of creating readable summaries that describe the
functionality of software. Source code summarization is a critical component of …

Code Reviews, an important and popular mechanism for quality assurance, are often
performed on a change set, a set of modified files that are meant to be committed to a source …