Deep learning based vulnerability detection: Are we there yet?

S Chakraborty, R Krishna, Y Ding… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated detection of software vulnerabilities is a fundamental problem in software
security. Existing program analysis techniques either suffer from high false positives or false …

Modern code review: a case study at google

C Sadowski, E Söderberg, L Church, M Sipko… - Proceedings of the 40th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Employing lightweight, tool-based code review of code changes (aka modern code review)
has become the norm for a wide variety of open-source and industrial systems. In this paper …

Accurate and efficient refactoring detection in commit history

N Tsantalis, M Mansouri, LM Eshkevari… - Proceedings of the 40th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Refactoring detection algorithms have been crucial to a variety of applications:(i) empirical
studies about the evolution of code, tests, and faults,(ii) tools for library API migration,(iii) …

Why we refactor? confessions of github contributors

D Silva, N Tsantalis, MT Valente - Proceedings of the 2016 24th acm …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Refactoring is a widespread practice that helps developers to improve the maintainability
and readability of their code. However, there is a limited number of studies empirically …

Work practices and challenges in pull-based development: The contributor's perspective

G Gousios, MA Storey, A Bacchelli - Proceedings of the 38th International …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
The pull-based development model is an emerging way of contributing to distributed
software projects that is gaining enormous popularity within the open source software (OSS) …

On the" naturalness" of buggy code

B Ray, V Hellendoorn, S Godhane, Z Tu… - Proceedings of the 38th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Information needs in contemporary code review

L Pascarella, D Spadini, F Palomba… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Contemporary code review is a widespread practice used by software engineers to maintain
high software quality and share project knowledge. However, conducting proper code …

Race: Retrieval-augmented commit message generation

E Shi, Y Wang, W Tao, L Du, H Zhang, S Han… - ar** strategies
F Ebert, F Castor, N Novielli… - 2019 IEEE 26th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Code review is a software quality assurance practice widely employed in both open source
and commercial software projects to detect defects, transfer knowledge and encourage …

Cct5: A code-change-oriented pre-trained model

B Lin, S Wang, Z Liu, Y Liu, X **a, X Mao - Proceedings of the 31st ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Software is constantly changing, requiring developers to perform several derived tasks in a
timely manner, such as writing a description for the intention of the code change, or …