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Jupyter notebooks has emerged as a standard tool for data science programming. Programs in Jupyter notebooks are different from typical programs as they are constructed by a collection of code snippets interleaved with text and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Malin Källén , Tobias Wrigstad

Question-and-answer platforms such as Stack Overflow are an important way for software developers to share and retrieve knowledge. However, reusing poorly understood code can lead to serious problems, such as bugs or security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Kathrin Figl , Maria Kirchner , Sebastian Baltes , Michael Felderer

On the Stack Overflow (SO) Q&A site, users often request solutions to their code-related problems (e.g., errors, unexpected behavior). Unfortunately, they often miss required code snippets during their question submission, which could…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Saikat Mondal , Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for software developers, providing a large amount of copyable code snippets. Like other software artifacts, code on SO evolves over time, for example when bugs are fixed or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Sebastian Baltes , Christoph Treude , Stephan Diehl

Stack Overflow is the most popular Q&A website among software developers. As a platform for knowledge sharing and acquisition, the questions posted in Stack Overflow usually contain a code snippet. Stack Overflow relies on users to properly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Kamel Alreshedy , Dhanush Dharmaretnam , Daniel M. German , Venkatesh Srinivasan , T. Aaron Gulliver

Stack Overflow hosts valuable programming-related knowledge with 11,926,354 links that reference to the third-party websites. The links that reference to the resources hosted outside the Stack Overflow websites extend the Stack Overflow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Jiakun Liu , Xin Xia , David Lo , Haoxiang Zhang , Ying Zou , Ahmed E. Hassan , Shanping Li

Platforms like Stack Overflow and GitHub's gist system promote the sharing of ideas and programming techniques via the distribution of code snippets designed to illustrate particular tasks. Python, a popular and fast-growing programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Eric Horton , Chris Parnin

Previous studies have shown that developers regularly seek advice on online forums to resolve their cryptography issues. We investigated whether users who are active in cryptography discussions also use cryptography in practice. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand , Oscar Nierstrasz , Mohammad Ghafari

Jupyter Notebook is a popular tool among data analysts and scientists for working with data. It provides a way to combine code, documentation, and visualizations in a single, interactive environment, facilitating code reuse. While code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Mingke Yang , Yuming Zhou , Bixin Li , Yutian Tang

Code review is widely known as one of the best practices for software quality assurance in software development. In a typical code review process, reviewers check the code committed by developers to ensure the quality of the code, during…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Beiqi Zhang , Liming Fu , Peng Liang , Jiaxin Yu , Chong Wang

On the worldwide web, not only are webpages connected but source code is too. Software development is becoming more accessible to everyone and the licensing for software remains complicated. We need to know if software licenses are being…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Stephen Romansky , Cheng Chen , Baljeet Malhotra , Abram Hindle

Python is a popular, widely used, and general-purpose programming language. In spite of its ever-growing community, researchers have not performed much analysis on Python's topics, trends, and technologies which provides insights for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Hamed Tahmooresi , Abbas Heydarnoori , Alireza Aghamohammadi

An essential part of software maintenance and evolution, refactoring is performed by developers, regardless of technology or domain, to improve the internal quality of the system, and reduce its technical debt. However, choosing the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Anthony Peruma , Steven Simmons , Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Christian D. Newman , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Ali Ouni

Platforms such as Stack Overflow are available for software practitioners to solicit solutions to their challenges and knowledge needs. The practices therein have in recent times however triggered quality related concerns. This is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Sarah Meldrum , Sherlock A. Licorish , Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu

Code maintenance data sets typically consist of a before and after version of the code that contains the improvement or fix. Such data sets are important for software engineering support tools related to code maintenance, such as program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Henry Tang , Sarah Nadi

An important goal for programmers is to minimize cost of identifying and correcting defects in source code. Code review is commonly used for identifying programming defects. However, manual code review has some shortcomings: a) it is time…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Balwinder Sodhi , Shipra Sharma

We introduce a novel dataset tailored for code generation, aimed at aiding developers in common tasks. Our dataset provides examples that include a clarified intent, code snippets associated, and an average of three related unit tests. It…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Nathanaël Beau , Benoît Crabbé

In large and active software projects, it becomes impractical for a developer to stay aware of all project activity. While it might not be necessary to know about each commit or issue, it is arguably important to know about the ones that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Christoph Treude , Larissa Leite , Maurício Aniche

GitHub is the world's largest host of source code, with more than 150M repositories. However, most of these repositories are not labeled or inadequately so, making it harder for users to find relevant projects. There have been various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Cezar Sas , Andrea Capiluppi , Claudio Di Sipio , Juri Di Rocco , Davide Di Ruscio

Software engineering is knowledge-intensive and requires software developers to continually search for knowledge, often on community question answering platforms such as Stack Overflow. Such information sharing platforms do not exist in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Sebastian Baltes , Christoph Treude , Martin P. Robillard