Block-based programming, already popular in computer science education, has been successfully used to make programming accessible to end-users in applied domains such as the field of robotics. Most prior work in these domains has examined smaller ...

This empirical study investigates the effectiveness of pair programming with GitHub Copilot in comparison to human pair-programming. Through an experiment with 21 participants we focus on code productivity and code quality. For experimental design, a ...

Open-source software has integrated itself into our daily lives, impacting 78% of US companies in 2015 [11]. Past studies of open-source community dynamics have found motivations behind contributions [3, 14, 18, 19] and the significance of community ...

The complexity of GUI and some combinations of personalized settings make the UI display issues occur frequently. Unfortunately, little is known about the causes of UI display issues. The Android fragmentation and variety of UI components post a great ...

The problem of flakiness occurs when a test case is non-deterministic and exhibits both a passing and failing behavior when run against the same code. Over the last years, the software engineering research community has been working toward defining ...

Software products now have more users than ever. This means more people to please, more use-cases to consider, and more requirements to fulfill. These users can then write feedback on software in any number of public or private online repositories. Many ...

Virtual Reality (VR) is an emerging technique that attracts interest from various application domains such as training, education, remote communication, gaming, and navigation. Despite the ever growing number of VR software projects, the quality ...

We present a prototype tool Icon2Code, targeted to helping app developers more quickly implement the callback functions of complex Android GUI components by recommending code implementations learnt from similar GUI components from other apps. Given an ...

Manual testing, as a complement to automated GUI testing, is the last line of defense for app quality especially in spotting usability and accessibility issues. However, the repeated actions and easy missing of some functionalities make manual testing ...

Chatbots have become a popular way to access all sorts of services via natural language. Many platforms and tools have been proposed for their construction, like Google's Dialogflow, Amazon's Lex or Rasa. However, most of them still miss integrated ...

The Android framework provides a rich set of APIs that can be exploited by developers to build their apps. However, the rapid evolution of these APIs jointly with the specific characteristics of the lifecycle of the Android components challenge ...