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- research-articleJune 2024
SICode: Embedding-Based Subgraph Isomorphism Identification for Bug Detection
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 304–315https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3646556Given a known buggy code snippet, searching for similar patterns in a target project to detect unknown bugs is a reasonable approach. In practice, a search unit, such as a function, may appear quite different from the buggy snippet but actually contains ...
- research-articleJune 2024
CAREER: Context-Aware API Recognition with Data Augmentation for API Knowledge Extraction
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 438–449https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644431The recognition of Application Programming Interface (API) mentions in the software-related texts is a prerequisite task for extracting API-related knowledge. Previous studies have demonstrated the superiority of deep learning-based methods in ...
- research-articleJune 2024
Exploring the Effects of Urgency and Reputation in Code Review: An Eye-Tracking Study
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 202–213https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644425The Pull-Based development model, a fundamental mechanism of collaboration in modern software engineering (SE), initiates the code review process when a contributor submits pull requests (PRs) for evaluation. Although the decision to approve or decline ...
- research-articleJune 2024
What Do Developers Feel About Fast-Growing Programming Languages? An Exploratory Study
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 178–189https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644422The developer community has witnessed an unprecedented surge in recent years, with over 100 million active developers on the GitHub platform in 2023. Along with it, there is a significant rise and adoption of new programming languages, frameworks and ...
- research-articleJune 2024
Knowledge-Aware Code Generation with Large Language Models
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 52–63https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644418Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well on basic programming problems. However, they encounter challenges when dealing with complex tasks involving the use of diverse algorithmic and data structure skills, particularly programming competition-level ...
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- research-articleJune 2024
ESGen: Commit Message Generation Based on Edit Sequence of Code Change
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 112–124https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644414Commit messages provide important information for comprehending the code changes, and a number of researchers try to generate commit messages by using an automatic way. These research on commit message generation has profited from the code tokens or code ...
- research-articleJune 2024
Rationale Dataset and Analysis for the Commit Messages of the Linux Kernel Out-of-Memory Killer
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 415–425https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644413Code commit messages can contain useful information on why a developer has made a change. However, the presence and structure of rationale in real-world code commit messages is not well studied. Here, we detail the creation of a labelled dataset to ...
- research-articleJune 2024
Analyzing Prompt Influence on Automated Method Generation: An Empirical Study with Copilot
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 24–34https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644409Generative AI is changing the way developers interact with software systems, providing services that can produce and deliver new content, crafted to satisfy the actual needs of developers. For instance, developers can ask for new code directly from ...
- research-articleJune 2024
ASKDetector: An AST-Semantic and Key Features Fusion based Code Comment Mismatch Detector
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 392–402https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644405Code comments are essential for programming comprehension. Nevertheless, developers often neglect to update comments after modifying the source code. Wrong code comments may lead to bugs in the maintenance process, thus affecting the reliability of the ...
- research-articleJune 2024
Generating Java Methods: An Empirical Assessment of Four AI-Based Code Assistants
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 13–23https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644402AI-based code assistants are promising tools that can facilitate and speed up code development. They exploit machine learning algorithms and natural language processing to interact with developers, suggesting code snippets (e.g., method implementations) ...
- research-articleJune 2024
HyperCRX: A Browser Extension for Insights into GitHub Projects and Developers
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 460–464https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644440We present HyperCRX, a browser extension designed to enhance the open source experience by providing insights into GitHub projects and developers. Our tool seamlessly integrates with GitHub, offering interactive features that reveal the maintenance ...
- research-articleJune 2024
Immersive Software Archaeology: Collaborative Exploration and Note Taking in Virtual Reality
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 387–391https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644438Understanding software systems is a vital task, often undertaken by teams of engineers, for the development and maintenance of systems. Collaborative software visualization tools are essential in this context, yet they are limited. Existing tools, ...
- research-articleJune 2024
On the comprehensibility of functional decomposition: An empirical study
- Ewan Tempero,
- Paul Denny,
- James Finnie-Ansley,
- Andrew Luxton-Reilly,
- Diana Kirk,
- Juho Leinonen,
- Asma Shakil,
- Robert Sheehan,
- James Tizard,
- Yu-Cheng Tu,
- Burkhard Wuensche
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 214–224https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644432Folk-wisdom in software engineering suggests that small functions that adhere to the principle of single-responsibility have several advantages over longer, monolithic functions, including improvement in code comprehension. Despite this widespread view, ...
- research-articleJune 2024
A Just-in-time Software Defect Localization Method based on Code Graph Representation
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 293–303https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644428Traditional software defect localization aims to locate defective files, methods, or code lines based on symptoms such as defect reports. In comparison, Just-In-Time (JIT) software defect localization focuses on identifying defective code lines when a ...
- research-articleJune 2024
Collaborative Software Exploration with Multimedia Note Taking in Virtual Reality
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 346–357https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644427Exploring and comprehending a software system, e.g., as preparation for its re-engineering, is a relevant, yet challenging endeavour often conducted by teams of engineers. Collaborative exploration tools aim to ease the process, e.g., via interactive ...
- research-articleJune 2024
The Sword of Damocles: Upgradeable Smart Contract in Ethereum
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 333–345https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644426Although smart contracts are immutable once they are deployed, the reality is that they need upgrades to fix bugs or add new features. Nowadays, there are a few upgrade methods in Ethereum, some of which can change the contract without changing the ...
- research-articleJune 2024
Understanding Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS): Insights from LLM-Generated Regexes and Developer Forums
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 190–201https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644424Regular 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 ...
- research-articleJune 2024
Exploring and Improving Code Completion for Test Code
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 137–148https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644421Code completion is an important feature in Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). These years, researchers have been making efforts for intelligent code completion. However, existing work on intelligent code completion either only considered ...
- research-articleJune 2024
Lightweight Syntactic API Usage Analysis with UCov
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 426–437https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644415Designing an effective API is essential for library developers as it is the lens through which clients will judge its usability and benefits, as well as the main friction point when the library evolves. Despite its importance, defining the boundaries of ...
- research-articleJune 2024
How do Hugging Face Models Document Datasets, Bias, and Licenses? An Empirical Study
- Federica Pepe,
- Vittoria Nardone,
- Antonio Mastropaolo,
- Gabriele Bavota,
- Gerardo Canfora,
- Massimiliano Di Penta
ICPC '24: Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program ComprehensionApril 2024, Pages 370–381https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644412Pre-trained Machine Learning (ML) models help to create ML-intensive systems without having to spend conspicuous resources on training a new model from the ground up. However, the lack of transparency for such models could lead to undesired consequences ...