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We introduce a new challenge to the software development community: 1) leveraging AI to accurately detect and flag up secrets in code and on popular document sharing platforms that frequently used by developers, such as Confluence and 2)…

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Commercial content moderation APIs are marketed as scalable solutions to combat online hate speech. However, the reliance on these APIs risks both silencing legitimate speech, called over-moderation, and failing to protect online platforms…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-04 David Hartmann , Amin Oueslati , Dimitri Staufer , Lena Pohlmann , Simon Munzert , Hendrik Heuer

Recent breakthroughs in pre-trained code models, such as CodeBERT and Codex, have shown their superior performance in various downstream tasks. The correctness and unambiguity of API usage among these code models are crucial for achieving…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Terry Yue Zhuo , Xiaoning Du , Zhenchang Xing , Jiamou Sun , Haowei Quan , Li Li , Liming Zhu

Security Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are crucial for ensuring software security. However, their misuse introduces vulnerabilities, potentially leading to severe data breaches and substantial financial loss. Complex API design,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Zahra Mousavi , Chadni Islam , M. Ali Babar , Alsharif Abuadbba , Kristen Moore

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are essential tools for social work researchers aiming to harness advanced technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI services. This paper demystifies APIs and illustrates how they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Brian E. Perron , Hui Luan , Zia Qi , Bryan G. Victor , Kavin Goyal

Modern web dashboards and enterprise applications increasingly rely on complex, distributed microservices architectures. While these architectures offer scalability, they introduce significant challenges in debugging and observability. When…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Devendra Tata , Mona Rajhans

In industry, RESTful APIs are widely used to build modern Cloud Applications. Testing them is challenging, because not only they rely on network communications, but also they deal with external services like databases. Therefore, there has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Amid Golmohammadi , Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

Nowadays, developers often reuse existing APIs to implement their programming tasks. A lot of API usage patterns are mined to help developers learn API usage rules. However, there are still many missing variables to be synthesized when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Qi Shen , Shijun Wu , Yanzhen Zou , Bing Xie

RESTful APIs are an increasingly common way to expose software systems functionality and it is therefore of high interest to find methods to automatically test and verify such APIs. To lower the barrier for industry adoption, such methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Stefan Karlsson , Adnan Causevic , Daniel Sundmark

API integration is a cornerstone of our digital infrastructure, enabling software systems to connect and interact. However, as shown by many studies, writing or generating correct code to invoke APIs, particularly web APIs, is challenging.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Daniel Maninger , Leon Chemnitz , Amir Molzam Sharifloo , Tushar Lamba , Jannis Brugger , Mira Mezini

Web tracking through third-party cookies is considered a threat to users' privacy and is supposed to be abandoned in the near future. Recently, Google proposed the Topics API framework as a privacy-friendly alternative for behavioural…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Nikhil Jha , Martino Trevisan , Emilio Leonardi , Marco Mellia

Utilizing pre-existing software artifacts, such as libraries and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), is crucial for software development efficiency. However, the abundance of artifacts that provide similar functionality can lead to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Kisub Kim , Ferdian Thung , Ting Zhang , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Ratnadira Widyasari , Zhou Yang , David Lo

Learning and remembering to use APIs are difficult. Several techniques have been proposed to assist developers in using APIs. Most existing techniques focus on recommending the right API methods to call, but very few techniques focus on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Son Nguyen , Cuong Tran Manh , Kien T. Tran , Tan M. Nguyen , Thu-Trang Nguyen , Kien-Tuan Ngo , Hieu Dinh Vo

Project-specific code completion is a critical task that leverages context from a project to generate accurate code. State-of-the-art methods use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with large language models (LLMs) and project information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Le Deng , Xiaoxue Ren , Chao Ni , Ming Liang , David Lo , Zhongxin Liu

When a software bug is reported, developers engage in a discussion to collaboratively resolve it. While the solution is likely formulated within the discussion, it is often buried in a large amount of text, making it difficult to comprehend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Sheena Panthaplackel , Junyi Jessy Li , Milos Gligoric , Raymond J. Mooney

The ongoing deprecation of third-party cookies by web browser vendors has sparked the proposal of alternative methods to support more privacy-preserving personalized advertising on web browsers and applications. The Topics API is being…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Mário S. Alvim , Natasha Fernandes , Annabelle McIver , Gabriel H. Nunes

We present the first approach to automatically building resources for academic writing. The aim is to build a writing aid system that automatically edits a text so that it better adheres to the academic style of writing. On top of existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Seid Muhie Yimam , Gopalakrishnan Venkatesh , John Sie Yuen Lee , Chris Biemann

Most of the web services are offered in the form of RESTful APIs. This has led to an active research interest in API testing to ensure the reliability of these services. While most of the testing techniques proposed in the past rely on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Devika Sondhi , Ananya Sharma , Diptikalyan Saha

Inspired by the great potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) for solving complex coding tasks, in this paper, we propose a novel approach, named Code2API, to automatically perform APIzation for Stack Overflow code snippets. Code2API does…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yubo Mai , Zhipeng Gao , Xing Hu , Lingfeng Bao , Yu Liu , Jianling Sun

Online forums provide a unique opportunity for online users to share comments and exchange information on a particular topic. Understanding user behaviour is valuable to organizations and has applications for social and security strategies,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Hamed Jelodar , Richard Frank