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The use of non-traditional computing devices is growing rapidly. One paradigm of interest is chemical reaction networks (CRNs) which can model and use chemical interactions for computation. These CRNs are used to develop programs at the nanoscale for ...

In the context of user interface-oriented software development, the task of translating a GUI into code requires sufficient knowledge to identify visual elements and how to code it for one or more platforms. In addition, other issues are important, ...

[Background:] Automated Intelligent Toolchains, which are a composition of different tools that use AI or static analysis, are widely used in software engineering to deploy automated program repair techniques, or in software security to identify ...

Software evolution analytics can be supported by generating and comparing call graph evolution information over versions of a software system. Call Graph evolution analytics can assist a software engineer when maintaining or evolving a software system. ...

C has been regarded as a dominant programming language for system software implementation. Meanwhile, it often suffers from various memory vulnerabilities due to its low-level memory control. Quite massive approaches are proposed to enhance memory ...

Software developers often have to make many design decisions. The underlying logic behind these decisions, also called design rationale, represents beneficial and valuable information. In the past, researchers have tried to automatically extract and ...

Contemporary software development organizations are dominated by straight males and lack diversity. As a result, people from other demographic such as women and LGBTQ+ often encounter bias, sexism, and misogyny. Due to negative experiences, many women ...

Toxic and unhealthy conversations during the developer’s communication may reduce the professional harmony and productivity of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects. For example, toxic code review comments may raise pushback from an author to ...

Understanding binary code is an essential but complex software engineering task for reverse engineering, malware analysis, and compiler optimization. Unlike source code, binary code has limited semantic information, which makes it challenging for human ...

Refactoring code manually can be complex. Several refactoring tools were developed to mitigate the effort needed to create more readable, adaptable, and maintainable code. However, most of them continue to provide late feedback, assistance, and support ...

The growth in the popularity of smart contracts has been accompanied by a rise in security attacks targeting smart contracts, which have led to financial losses of millions of dollars and erosion of trust. To enable developers discover vulnerabilities ...

Modern code review (MCR) is a widely adopted software quality assurance practice in the contemporary software industry. As software developers spend significant amounts of time on MCR activities, even a small improvement in MCR effectiveness will incur ...