Sampling in software engineering research: A critical review and guidelines

S Baltes, P Ralph - Empirical Software Engineering, 2022 - Springer
Representative sampling appears rare in empirical software engineering research. Not all
studies need representative samples, but a general lack of representative sampling …

An empirical study of pre-trained model reuse in the hugging face deep learning model registry

W Jiang, N Synovic, M Hyatt… - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are being adopted as components in software systems.
Creating and specializing DNNs from scratch has grown increasingly difficult as state-of-the …

Sotorrent: reconstructing and analyzing the evolution of stack overflow posts

S Baltes, L Dumani, C Treude, S Diehl - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for software
developers, providing a large amount of code snippets and free-form text on a wide variety …

How do i refactor this? An empirical study on refactoring trends and topics in Stack Overflow

A Peruma, S Simmons, EA AlOmar… - Empirical Software …, 2022 - Springer
An essential part of software maintenance and evolution, refactoring is performed by
developers, regardless of technology or domain, to improve the internal quality of the …

What do programmers discuss about deep learning frameworks

J Han, E Shihab, Z Wan, S Deng, X ** machine learning applications challenging? a study on stack overflow posts
M Alshangiti, H Sapkota… - 2019 acm/ieee …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Background: As smart and automated applications pervade our lives, an increasing number
of software developers are required to incorporate machine learning (ML) techniques into …

KGTorrent: A dataset of python jupyter notebooks from kaggle

L Quaranta, F Calefato… - 2021 IEEE/ACM 18th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computational notebooks have become the tool of choice for many data scientists and
practitioners for performing analyses and disseminating results. Despite their increasing …