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 …

Background: Software vulnerabilities are weaknesses in source code that might be exploited
to cause harm or loss. Previous work has proposed a number of automated machine …

To implement a program functionality, developers can reuse previously written code
snippets by searching through a large-scale codebase. Over the years, many code search …

Besides a git-based version control system, GitHub integrates several social coding
features. Particularly, GitHub users can star a repository, presumably to manifest interest or …

As molecular dynamics (MD) simulations continue to evolve into powerful computational
tools for studying complex biomolecular systems, the necessity of flexible and easy-to-use …

Software processes comprise many steps; coding is followed by building, integration testing,
system testing, deployment, operations, among others. Software process integration and …

Software popularity is a valuable information to modern open source developers, who
constantly want to know if their systems are attracting new users, if new releases are gaining …

In the pull-based development model, the integrator has the crucial role of managing and
integrating contributions. This work focuses on the role of the integrator and investigates …

Leveraging the pull request model of social coding platforms, Open Source Software (OSS)
integrators review developers' contributions, checking aspects like license, code quality, and …

With over 10 million git repositories, GitHub is becoming one of the most important sources
of software artifacts on the Internet. Researchers mine the information stored in GitHub's …