Abstract The concept of Self-Affirmed Refactoring (SAR) was introduced to explore how
developers document their refactoring activities in commit messages, ie, developers explicit …

Many recent models in software engineering introduced deep neural models based on the
Transformer architecture or use transformer-based Pre-trained Language Models (PLM) …

This paper describes the results of a large (+ 1100 responses) survey of professional
software developers concerning standards for naming source code methods. The various …

Traceability approves trace links among software artifacts based on whether two artifacts are
related by system functionalities. The traces are valuable for software development, but are …

This paper presents an ensemble part-of-speech tagging approach for source code
identifiers. Ensemble tagging is a technique that uses machine-learning and the output from …

Motivation. Variable naming practices are part of the software developer's profession,
influencing program comprehension and code quality. Yet, little is known about how variable …

For any software system, concise and meaningful method names are critical for program
comprehension and maintenance. However, for various reasons, the method names might …

Method naming is a critical factor in program comprehension, affecting software quality.
State-of-the-art naming techniques use deep learning to compute the methods' similarity …

Motivation. Many people interested in learning a programming language choose online
courses to develop their skills. The concept of variables is one of the most foundational ones …

As one of the most important resources to express the semantics of source code, identifiers
are usually composed of several common or domain-specific terms and abbreviations, thus …