CONTEXT: Open source software (OSS) is changing the way organizations develop,
acquire, use, and commercialize software. OBJECTIVE: This paper seeks to identify how …

Programmers often consult an online Q&A forum such as Stack Overflow to learn new APIs.
This paper presents an empirical study on the prevalence and severity of API misuse on …

Developers often require knowledge beyond the one they possess, which often boils down
to consulting sources of information like Application Programming Interfaces (API) …

Partial code usually involves non-fully-qualified type names (non-FQNs) and undeclared
receiving objects. Resolving the FQNs of these non-FQN types and undeclared receiving …

Enriched by natural language texts, Stack Overflow code snippets are an invaluable code-
centric knowledge base of small units of source code. Besides being useful for software …

This paper explores the use of volumetric features for action recognition. First, we propose a
novel method to correlate spatio-temporal shapes to video clips that have been …

Developers often learn to use APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) by looking at
existing examples of API usage. Code repositories contain many instances of such usage of …

When knowledgeable colleagues are not available, developers resort to offline and online
resources, eg, tutorials, mailing lists, and Q&A websites. These, however, need to be found …

Software development often requires knowledge beyond what developers already possess.
In such cases, developers have to seek help from different sources of information. As a …

Software developers search the Web for various kinds of source code for diverse reasons. In
a previous study, we found that searches varied along two dimensions: the size of the …