Emotions (eg, Joy, Anger) are prevalent in daily software engineering (SE) activities, and are
known to be significant indicators of work productivity (eg, bug fixing efficiency). Recent …

The documentation of software libraries is an essential resource for learning how to use the
library. Bad documentation may demotivate a developer from using the library or may result …

Background Bioinformatics software is developed for collecting, analyzing, integrating, and
interpreting life science datasets that are often enormous. Bioinformatics engineers often …

Interpersonal trust plays a crucial role in facilitating collaborative tasks, such as software
development. While previous research recognizes the significance of trust in an …

Context: The abundance of software artifacts in open-source repositories has been analyzed
by researchers from many perspectives, to address challenges in downstream tasks such as …

The developer community has witnessed an unprecedented surge in recent years, with over
100 million active developers on the GitHub platform in 2023. Along with it, there is a …

Context: Non native machine learning and deep learning (DL) developers face several
challenges in using DL frameworks owing to the issues persistent in DL documentation …

Communication among software developers plays an essential role in open-source software
(OSS) projects. Not unexpectedly, previous studies have shown that the conversational tone …

Software documentation is one of the critical aspects of a software project, that could support
multiple tasks throughout the software development life-cycle. There is extensive research …

Modern systems often employ decentralised and distributed approaches. This can be
attributed, among others, to the increasing complexity of system processes, which go …