Recent language models have demonstrated proficiency in summarizing source code. However, as in many other domains of machine learning, language models of code lack sufficient explainability --- informally, we lack a formulaic or intuitive understanding ...

Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) represents an algorithmic complexity attack that exploits the processing of regular expressions (regexes) to produce a denial-of-service attack. This attack occurs when a regex's evaluation time scales ...

AI-based code generators have become pivotal in assisting developers in writing software starting from natural language (NL). However, they are trained on large amounts of data, often collected from unsanitized online sources (e.g., GitHub, HuggingFace). ...

The software engineering research community has begun recognizing the importance of human factors in the field. Yet, there remains a limited focus on the role of creativity in software development beyond requirement engineering. Given that software ...