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In this paper, we present MADE-WIC, a large dataset of functions and their comments with multiple annotations for technical debt and code weaknesses leveraging different state-of-the-art approaches. It contains about 860K code functions and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Moritz Mock , Jorge Melegati , Max Kretschmann , Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra , Barbara Russo

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

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

Training machine learning approaches for vulnerability identification and producing reliable tools to assist developers in implementing quality software -- free of vulnerabilities -- is challenging due to the lack of large datasets and real…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Sofia Reis , Rui Abreu

Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for software developers, providing a large amount of code snippets and free-form text on a wide variety of topics. Like other software artifacts, questions and answers on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Sebastian Baltes , Lorik Dumani , Christoph Treude , Stephan Diehl

Code editing plays a vital role in software engineering, requiring developers to adjust existing code according to natural language instructions while keeping functionality intact and avoiding unnecessary modifications. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zekai Zhang , Mingwei Liu , Zhenxi Chen , Linxi Liang , Yuxuan Chen , Guangsheng Ou , Yanlin Wang , Dan Li , Xin Peng , Zibin Zheng

Stack Overflow (SO) has been a great source of natural language questions and their code solutions (i.e., question-code pairs), which are critical for many tasks including code retrieval and annotation. In most existing research,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Ziyu Yao , Daniel S. Weld , Wei-Peng Chen , Huan Sun

Machine learning developers frequently use interactive computational notebooks, such as Jupyter notebooks, to host code for data processing and model training. Jupyter notebooks provide a convenient tool for writing machine learning…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Bihui Jin , Jiayue Wang , Pengyu Nie

As one of the most well-known programmer Q&A websites, Stack Overflow (i.e., SO) is serving tens of thousands of developers every day. Previous work has shown that many developers reuse the code snippets on SO when they find an answer (from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yuan Huang , Furen Xu , Haojie Zhou , Xiangping Chen , Xiaocong Zhou , Tong Wang

Fine-tuning large language models for code editing has typically relied on mining commits and pull requests. The working hypothesis has been that commit messages describe human intent in natural language, and patches to code describe the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yangtian Zi , Zixuan Wu , Aleksander Boruch-Gruszecki , Jonathan Bell , Arjun Guha

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

During code reviews, an essential step in software quality assurance, reviewers have the difficult task of understanding and evaluating code changes to validate their quality and prevent introducing faults to the codebase. This is a tedious…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Doriane Olewicki , Sarra Habchi , Bram Adams

Fixing software bugs and adding new features are two of the major maintenance tasks. Software bugs and features are reported as change requests. Developers consult these requests and often choose a few keywords from them as an ad hoc query.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

Recent progress in automated repair of performance bugs demands realistic, executable benchmarks. However, existing C++ performance benchmarks are largely built from competitive programming submissions, and recent real-world benchmarks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tommy Ho , Khashayar Etemadi , Zhendong Su

Stack Overflow has been heavily used by software developers as a popular way to seek programming-related information from peers via the internet. The Stack Overflow community recommends users to provide the related code snippet when they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zhipeng Gao , Xin Xia , John Grundy , David Lo , Yuan-Fang Li

Software source code often harbours "hotspots": small portions of the code that change far more often than the rest of the project and thus concentrate maintenance activity. We mine the complete version histories of 91 evolving, actively…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Saleha Muzammil , Mughees Ur Rehman , Zoe Kotti , Diomidis Spinellis

Developers use Question and Answer (Q&A) websites to exchange knowledge and expertise. Stack Overflow is a popular Q&A website where developers discuss coding problems and share code examples. Although all Stack Overflow posts are free to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Le An , Ons Mlouki , Foutse Khomh , Giuliano Antoniol

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

Software defect datasets, which are collections of software bugs, are essential resources to facilitate empirical research and enable standardized benchmarking for a wide range of software engineering techniques, including emerging areas…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Hao-Nan Zhu , Robert M. Furth , Michael Pradel , Cindy Rubio-González

With the rapid development of AI technologies, thousands of AI papers are being published each year. Many of these papers have released sample code to facilitate follow-up researchers. This paper presents an explorative study of over 1700…

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