Bug reports document unexpected software behaviors experienced by users. To be
effective, they should allow bug triagers to easily understand and reproduce the potential …

Automated sentiment analysis in software engineering textual artifacts has long been
suffering from inaccuracies in those few tools available for the purpose. We conduct an in …

To access the knowledge contained in developer communication, such as forum posts, it is
useful to determine automatically the code elements referred to in the discussions. We …

Automated sentiment analysis in software engineering textual artifacts has long been
suffering from inaccuracies in those few tools available for the purpose. We conduct an in …

Emails related to the development of a software system contain information about design
choices and issues encountered during the development process. Exploiting the knowledge …

Knowledge management plays a central role in many software development organizations.
While much of the important technical knowledge can be captured in documentation, there …

When knowledgeable colleagues are not available, developers resort to offline and online
resources, eg, tutorials, mailing lists, and Q&A websites. These, however, need to be found …

Java is a safe language. Its runtime environment provides strong safety guarantees that any
Java application can rely on. Or so we think. We show that the runtime actually does not …

Android has empowered third-party apps to access data and services on mobile devices
since its genesis. This involves a wide spectrum of user privacy-sensitive data, such as the …

Extraction of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and their semantic relations from
unstructured text (eg, Stack Overflow) is a fundamental work for software engineering tasks …