Given 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 ...

We 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 ...

Understanding 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, ...

The 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 ...

Exploring 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 ...

Although 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 ...

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 ...

The 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 ...

Code 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 ...

Designing 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 ...

Pre-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 ...

Modern compilers often offer a variety of warning flags, which developers can enable to get feedback on code that, while syntactically correct, may be problematic. In the case of C++, one example of such "correct but problematic" code is code that leads ...

Generative 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 ...

The open-source nature of smart contracts provides the facility for developers to clone contracts and introduces the risk of vulnerability proliferation as well. Despite intensive research on smart contract clone detection in recent years, existing ...

Automatic Static Analysis Tools (ASATs) are widely used by software developers to diffuse and enforce coding practices. Yet, we know little about the documentation of ASATs, despite it being critical to learn about the coding practices in the first ...

AI-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) ...

Context: Application Programming Interface (API) code examples are an essential knowledge resource for learning APIs. However, a few user studies have explored how the structural characteristics of the source code in code examples impact their ...