Security has always been a popular and critical topic. With the rapid development of
information technology, it is always attracting people's attention. However, since security has …

As code search is a frequent developer activity in software development practices, improving
the performance of code search is a critical task. In the text retrieval based search …

Manual debugging is notoriously tedious and time-consuming. Therefore, various
automated fault localization techniques have been proposed to help with manual …

Bug report summarization is an effective way to reduce the considerable time in wading
through numerous bug reports. Although some supervised and unsupervised algorithms …

Developers increasingly rely on API tutorials to facilitate software development. However, it
remains a challenging task for them to discover relevant API tutorial fragments explaining …

When implementing unfamiliar programming tasks, developers commonly search code
examples and learn usage patterns of APIs from the code examples or reuse them by copy …

Application programming interface (API) is an important form of software reuse. API
documentations, such as API specifications, tutorials, and online forums, are valuable …

The success of question and answer (Q&A) websites attracts massive user-generated
content for using and learning APIs, which easily leads to information overload: many …

When encountering unfamiliar APIs, developers tend to seek help from API tutorials and
Stack Overflow (SO). API tutorials help developers understand the API knowledge in a …

Stack Overflow (SO) has become an essential resource for software development. Despite
its success and prevalence, navigating SO remains a challenge. Ideally, SO users could …