Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant attention in the software engineering community. Nowadays developers have the possibility to exploit these models through industrial-grade tools providing a handy interface toward LLMs, such as OpenAI'...

When comprehending code, a helping hand may come from the natural language comments documenting it that, unfortunately, are not always there. To support developers in such a scenario, several techniques have been presented to automatically generate ...

The automation of code review has been tackled by several researchers with the goal of reducing its cost. The adoption of deep learning in software engineering pushed the automation to new boundaries, with techniques <italic>imitating</italic> developers ...

Automatically linking bug-fixing changes to bug-inducing ones (BICs) is one of the key data-extraction steps behind several empirical studies in software engineering. The SZZ algorithm is the de facto standard to achieve this goal, with several ...

• Developer-informed annotated dataset for evaluating SZZ, composed of 2304 instances.
• Empirical evaluation of 9 different SZZ variants, where R-SZZ performs best.
• Definition of a heuristic for SZZ that allows the processing of added ...

Transformers have gained popularity in the software engineering (SE) literature. These deep learning models are usually pre-trained through a self-supervised objective, meant to provide the model with basic knowledge about a language of interest (e.g.,...

Different from what happens for most types of software systems, testing video games has largely remained a manual activity performed by human testers. This is mostly due to the continuous and intelligent user interaction video games require. Recently, ...

Code review is a practice widely adopted in open source and industrial projects. Given the non-negligible cost of such a process, researchers started investigating the possibility of automating specific code review tasks. We recently proposed Deep ...

ICPC is the premier venue for research on program comprehension. Starting as a workshop in 1992, it is now a wellestablished conference at its 30th edition and recently became an "A" conference in the CORE ranking. Program comprehension is a vital ...

The SZZ algorithm for identifying bug-inducing changes has been widely used to evaluate defect prediction techniques and to empirically investigate when, how, and by whom bugs are introduced. Over the years, researchers have proposed several heuristics ...

Code reviews are popular in both industrial and open source projects. The benefits of code reviews are widely recognized and include better code quality and lower likelihood of introducing bugs. However, since code review is a manual activity it comes at ...