Women are underrepresented in Open Source Software (OSS) projects, as a result of which,
not only do women lose career and skill development opportunities, but the projects …

Background: Modern Code Review (MCR) is a lightweight alternative to traditional code
inspections. While secondary studies on MCR exist, it is ua nknown whether the research …

Neural code summarization leverages deep learning models to automatically generate brief
natural language summaries of code snippets. The development of Transformer models has …

Code summarization is the task of creating short, natural language descriptions of source
code. It is an important part of code comprehension and a powerful method of …

Code review is an essential task for modern software engineers, where the author of a code
change assigns other engineers the task of providing feedback on the author's code. In this …

In software engineering, interruptions during tasks can have significant implications for
productivity and well-being. While previous studies have investigated the effect of …

The increasing use of large language model (LLM)-powered code generation tools, such as
GitHub Copilot, is transforming software engineering practices. This paper investigates how …

This paper describes some fundamentals and challenges in using eye tracking for the
assessment of usability and accessibility in the fields in Human–Computer Interaction and …

The most popular code review tools (eg, Gerrit and GitHub) present the files to review sorted
in alphabetical order. Could this choice or, more generally, the relative position in which a …

Context: Empirical studies with human participants (eg, controlled experiments) are
established methods in Software Engineering (SE) research to understand developers' …