Code clones are identical or nearly similar code fragments often introduced into software
systems by programmers with software modification and maintenance. During the evolution …

Code is often reused to facilitate collaborative development, to create software variants, to
experiment with new ideas, or to develop new features in isolation. Social-coding platforms …

Thanks to the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software
engineering research, the long-standing dream of automated code generation has become …

Abstract Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) annotates development decisions that
intentionally exchange long-term software artifact quality for short-term goals. Recent work …

Research in automatic program repair has shown that real bugs can be automatically fixed.
However, there are several challenges involved in such a task that are not yet fully …

Abstract Detecting Bug Inducing Commit (BIC) or Just in Time (JIT) defect prediction using
Machine Learning (ML) based models requires tabulated feature values extracted from the …

Exactly or nearly similar code pieces residing in a software system's code-base are known
as code clones in the lit-erature. The existing studies have investigated the bug-proneness …

Abstract Changes on source code may propagate to distant code entities through various
kinds of relationships, which may form up change propagation channels. It is however …

Existing studies report that inconsistent changes in code clones can introduce bugs or
inconsistencies in a software system's code-base. However, inconsistent changes can often …

With the recent advancements in machine learning (ML), numerous ML-based approaches
have been extensively applied in software analytics tasks to streamline software …