Abstract The majority of Information Technology (IT)/Software Engineering (SE)
professionals are male. A potential reason for the low number of female IT/SE professionals …

Over the past decade, modern code review (MCR) has been deemed as a crucial practice of
software quality assurance, which is applied to improve software quality and transfer …

Toxicity on GitHub can severely impact Open Source Software (OSS) development
communities. To mitigate such behavior, a better understanding of its nature and how …

Attracting and retaining a steady stream of new contributors is crucial to ensuring the long-
term survival of open-source software (OSS) projects. However, there are two key research …

Software inspection is a widely-used approach to software quality assurance. Human-
Machine Pair Inspection (HMPI) is a novel software inspection technology proposed in our …

The fairness of machine learning (ML) approaches is critical to the reliability of modern
artificial intelligence systems. Despite extensive study on this topic, the fairness of ML …

Non-inclusive language in software artefacts has been recognised as a serious problem. We
describe a tool to find and fix non-inclusive language in a variety of GitHub repository …

Abstract Open Source Software (OSS) projects depend on the contribution of new and
existing developers. However, a significant number of newcomers fail to become long-term …

Within the world of open source software (OSS) development, previous research has shown
that the success rate of pull requests (PRs) may exhibit gender-related imbalances. In this …