Real software, the kind working programmers produce by the kLOC to solve real-world
problems, tends to be" natural", like speech or natural language; it tends to be highly …

Smart contracts have been increasingly used together with blockchains to automate
financial and business transactions. However, many bugs and vulnerabilities have been …

The way developers edit day-to-day code tends to be repetitive, often using existing code
elements. Many researchers have tried to automate repetitive code changes by learning …

Automated transplantation would open many exciting avenues for software development:
suppose we could autotransplant code from one system into another, entirely unrelated …

Developers often perform repetitive code editing activities (up to 70%) for various reasons
(eg, code refactoring) during software development. Many deep learning (DL) models have …

The notion of forking has changed with the rise of distributed version control systems and
social coding environments, like GitHub. Traditionally forking refers to splitting off an …

As code search permeates most activities in software development, code-to-code search
has emerged to support using code as a query and retrieving similar code in the search …

This paper explores the extent to which regular expressions (regexes) are portable across
programming languages. Many languages offer similar regex syntaxes, and it would be …

Forking and pull requests have been widely used in open-source communities as a uniform
development and contribution mechanism, giving developers the flexibility to modify their …

More than 70% of characters in the source code are used to label identifiers. Consequently,
identifiers are one of the most important source for program comprehension. Meaningful …