Context: GitHub, nowadays the most popular social coding platform, has become the
reference for mining Open Source repositories, a growing research trend aiming at learning …

Researchers have recently achieved significant advances in deep learning techniques,
which in turn has substantially advanced other research disciplines, such as natural …

Peer code review locates common coding rule violations and simple logical errors in the
early phases of software development, and thus reduces overall cost. However, in GitHub …

Knowledge and experience are touted as both the necessary and sufficient conditions to
make a person an expert. This paper attempts to investigate this issue in the context of …

Open Source Software (OSS) is forming the spines of technology infrastructures, attracting
millions of talents to contribute. Notably, it is challenging and critical to consider both the …

Purpose Software developers extensively use stack overflow (SO) for knowledge sharing on
software development. Thus, software engineering researchers have started mining the …

Selecting reviewers for code changes is a critical step for an efficient code review process.
Recent studies propose automated reviewer recommendation algorithms to support …

Context: Modern software development demands high levels of technical specialization.
These conditions make IT companies focus on creating cross-functional teams, such as …

Software developers are increasingly adopting social-media platforms to contribute to
software development, learn and develop a reputation for themselves. GitHub supports …

With the popularity of question-and-answer (Q&A) communities, widespread dissemination
of scientific knowledge has become more viable than ever before. However, those …