Representative sampling appears rare in empirical software engineering research. Not all
studies need representative samples, but a general lack of representative sampling …

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 …

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 …

Background: Docker technology has been increasingly used among software developers in
a multitude of projects. This growing interest is due to the fact that Docker technology …

Computational notebooks have become the tool of choice for many data scientists and
practitioners for performing analyses and disseminating results. Despite their increasing …

Through an examination of Stack Overflow posts, this study explores Docker-related
subjects and difficulties in order to pinpoint common problems and patterns in Docker …

In this paper, we present the first exploratory study of deprecated Python library APIs to
understand the status quo of API deprecation in the realm of Python libraries. Specifically …

Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for software
developers, providing a large amount of copyable code snippets. Using those snippets …

Background: As smart and automated applications pervade our lives, an increasing number
of software developers are required to incorporate machine learning (ML) techniques into …

Discussions is a new feature of GitHub for asking questions or discussing topics outside of
specific Issues or Pull Requests. Before being available to all projects in December 2020, it …