Abstract Model-driven engineering has been widely applied in software development,
aiming to facilitate the coordination among various stakeholders. Such a methodology …

While implementing software projects, developers do not reinvent the wheel but try to reuse
existing API calls and source code. In recent years, the problems related to recommending …

Recommender systems in software engineering provide developers with a wide range of
valuable items to help them complete their tasks. Among others, API recommender systems …

To keep their code up-to-date with the newest functionalities as well as bug fixes offered by
third-party libraries, developers often need to replace an old version of third-party libraries …

To perform their daily tasks, developers intensively make use of existing resources by
consulting open source software (OSS) repositories. Such platforms contain rich data …

Modeling is a ubiquitous activity in the process of software development. In recent years,
such an activity has reached a high degree of intricacy, guided by the heterogeneity of the …

UI animations, such as card movement and menu slide in/out, provide appealing user
experience and enhance the usability of mobile applications. In the process of UI animation …

With the growing popularity of machine learning algorithms, dramatic advances have been
made for code completion, and specifically method-call completion. These advances were …

Android developers are often faced with the need to learn how to use different APIs suitable
for their projects. Automated API recommendation approaches have been invented to help …

Automatic API recommendation can accelerate developers' programming, and has been
studied for years. There are two orthogonal lines of approaches for this task, ie, information …