Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly becoming fundamental in supporting
software developers in coding tasks. The massive datasets used for training LLMs are often …

Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) are nowadays at the core of software
development. Their benefits come at the cost of setting up and maintaining the CI/CD …

Refactoring is one of the most important activities in software engineering which is used to
improve the quality of a software system. With the advancement of deep learning …

Extract local variable is one of the most popular refactorings. It is frequently employed to
replace occurrences of a complex expression with simple accesses to a newly introduced …

Methods should be named to summarize their responsibilities meaningfully. When a method
has a non-trivial responsibility, it may require a naming using multiple words. However …

Reading source code occupies most of developer's daily activities. Any maintenance and
evolution task requires developers to read and understand the code they are going to …

Renaming is one of the most popular software refactorings. Although developers may know
what the new name should be when they conduct a renaming, it remains valuable for …

Using meaningful identifiers in source code reduces the risk of errors, the cognitive load of
developers, and speeds up the development process. Therefore, recent research has …

While learning programming languages is crucial for software engineers, mastering the
necessary tools is equally important. To facilitate this, JetBrains recently released the …

Code readability strongly influences code compre-hension and, to some degree, code
quality. Unreadable code makes software maintenance more challenging and is prone to …