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Modern software development relies on cloud-based collaborative platforms (e.g., GitHub and GitLab). In these platforms, developers often employ a pull-based development approach, proposing changes via pull requests and engaging in communication via ...

Software ecosystems are typically networks of organizations collaboratively serving a market for software around a technical platform. Software ecosystem orchestrators are responsible for the health of these networks, for instance by attracting new ...

The rapidly evolving fields of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence have witnessed the emergence of platforms like Hugging Face (HF) as central hubs for model development and sharing. This experience report synthesizes insights from two ...

Hugging Face (HF) has established itself as a crucial platform for the development and sharing of machine learning (ML) models. This repository mining study, which delves into more than 380,000 models using data gathered via the HF Hub API, aims to ...

Code smell detection tools not only help practitioners and researchers detect maintainability issues but also enable repository mining and empirical research involving code smells. However, current tools for detecting code smells exhibit notable ...

Static Program Analysis (SPA) has long been established as an important technique for gaining insights into software systems. Over the last years, analysis designers increasingly produced analyses that are compositional, collaborative, or incremental in ...

Accessibility ensures that individuals with disabilities or reduced mobility are equally included in all means with independence, where access to content on the internet is just one of the possible scenarios. Assuming this plurality of people, there are ...

Collaborative development is an essential practice for the success of most nontrivial software projects. However, merge conflicts might occur when a developer integrates, through a remote shared repository, their changes with the changes from other ...

Software continuously changes to address new requirements and to fix defects. Regression testing is performed to ensure that the applied changes do not adversely affect existing functionality. The increasing number of test cases makes it infeasible to ...

JavaScript (JS) is one of the most popular programming languages, and widely used for web apps, mobile apps, desktop clients, and even backend development. Due to its dynamic and flexible nature, however, JS applications often have a reputation for poor ...

In modern-day software development, a vast amount of public software libraries enable the reuse of existing implementations for reoccurring tasks and common problems. While this practice does yield significant benefits in productivity, it also puts an ...

Many open-source software projects depend on a few core developers, who take over both the bulk of coordination and programming tasks. They are supported by peripheral developers, who contribute either via discussions or programming tasks, often for a ...

Software companies need to provide a large set of features satisfying functional and non-functional requirements of diverse customers, thereby leading to variability in space. Feature location techniques have been proposed to support software ...

Ten years ago, we published the article Finding software license violations through binary code clone detection at the MSR 2011 conference. Our paper was motivated by the tendency of em- bedded hardware vendors to only release binary blobs of their ...

In software engineering practice, fixing a bug promptly reduces the associated costs. On the other hand, the manual bug fixing process can be time-consuming, cumbersome, and error-prone. In this work, we introduce a bug triaging method, called ...

Code repositories contain valuable information, which can be extracted, processed and synthesized into valuable information. It enabled developers to improve maintenance, increase code quality and understand software evolution, among other insights. ...

Software repositories contain information about source code, software development processes, and team interactions. We combine provenance of the development process with code security analysis to automatically discover insights. This provides fast ...

Highly-Configurable Software Systems (HCSSs) support the systematic evolution of systems in space, i.e., the inclusion of new features, which then allow users to configure software products according to their needs. However, HCSSs also change over time, ...

Software companies encounter variability in space as variants of software systems need to be produced for different customers. At the same time, companies need to handle evolution in time because the customized variants need to be revised and kept up-to-...

With the increasing use of battery‐powered devices comes the need to test mobile applications for energy consumption and energy issues. Unfortunately, energy testing is expensive because it is a manual, labor‐intensive process that often requires ...

We present a technique, Energy Retest Umpire (ERU), that provides feedback on executing/skipping energy tests for proposed code changes. This feedback can allow developers to avoid spending unnecessary time for energy testing and develop an effective ...