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 …

Context: Open source software (OSS) and software ecosystems (SECOs) are two
consolidated research areas in software engineering. OSS influences the way organizations …

Automatic program repair (APR) is crucial to improve software reliability. Recently, neural
machine translation (NMT) techniques have been used to automatically fix software bugs …

Automated generate-and-validate (GV) program repair techniques (APR) typically rely on
hard-coded rules, thus only fixing bugs following specific fix patterns. These rules require a …

Code completion is an essential feature of IDEs, yet current auto-completers are restricted to
either grammar-based or NLP-based single token completions. Both approaches have …

Attention mechanisms in neural networks have proved useful for problems in which the input
and output do not have fixed dimension. Often there exist features that are locally translation …

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are being adopted as components in software systems.
Creating and specializing DNNs from scratch has grown increasingly difficult as state-of-the …

With over 10 million git repositories, GitHub is becoming one of the most important source of
software artifacts on the Internet. Researchers are starting to mine the information stored in …

The advent of distributed version control systems has led to the development of a new
paradigm for distributed software development; instead of pushing changes to a central …

During the last few years, GitHub has emerged as a popular project hosting, mirroring and
collaboration platform. GitHub provides an extensive REST API, which enables researchers …