What is the effect of programming languages on software quality? This question has been a
topic of much debate for a very long time. In this study, we gather a very large data set from …

Maintaining large code bases written in dynamically typed languages, such as JavaScript or
Python, can be challenging due to the absence of type annotations: simple data …

Recent studies in the literature have shown that syntax remains a significant barrier to
novice computer science students in the field. While this syntax barrier is known to exist …

Abstract An Application Programming Interface (API) provides a programmatic interface to a
software component that is often offered publicly and may be used by programmers who are …

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Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics OASIcs – Open Access Series in …

Various mature automated test generation tools exist for statically typed programming
languages such as Java. Automatically generating unit tests for dynamically typed …

JavaScript is growing explosively and is now used in large mature projects even outside the
web domain. JavaScript is also a dynamically typed language for which static type systems …

The increasing popularity of WebAssembly creates a demand for understanding and reverse
engineering WebAssembly binaries. Recovering high-level function types is an important …

Static type systems play an essential role in contemporary programming languages. Despite
their importance, whether static type systems impact human software development …

When developers use Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), they often rely on
documentation to assist their tasks. In previous studies, we reported evidence indicating that …