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Developers often change types of program elements. Such refactoring often involves updating not only the type of the element itself, but also the API of all type-dependent references in the code, thus it is tedious and time-consuming.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Oleg Smirnov , Ameya Ketkar , Timofey Bryksin , Nikolaos Tsantalis , Danny Dig

OpenRefine is a popular open-source data cleaning tool. It allows users to export a previously executed data cleaning workflow in a JSON format for possible reuse on other datasets. We have developed or2yw, a novel tool that maps a…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Nikolaus Nova Parulian , Lan Li , Bertram Ludaescher

This report investigates the relationship between software refactoring and behavior preservation. Existing behavior preservation analyses often lack comprehensive insights into refactoring rejections and do not provide actionable solutions.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Wouter Brinksma , William Wernsen , Evert Verduin , Herman Hilberink , Patrick de Beer , Lex Bijlsma , Harrie Passier

Although peer code review is widely adopted in both commercial and open source development, existing studies suggest that such code reviews often contain a significant amount of non-useful review comments. Unfortunately, to date, no tools…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy , Raula G. Kula

Evolving graphs in the real world are large-scale and constantly changing, as hundreds of thousands of updates may come every second. Monotonic algorithms such as Reachability and Shortest Path are widely used in real-time analytics to gain…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Guanyu Feng , Zixuan Ma , Daixuan Li , Shengqi Chen , Xiaowei Zhu , Wentao Han , Wenguang Chen

Developing an algorithm for a visualization prototype often involves the direct comparison of different development stages and design decisions, and even minor modifications may dramatically affect the results. While existing development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Fabian Bolte , Stefan Bruckner

Despite the rising popularity of automated visualization tools, existing systems tend to provide direct results which do not always fit the input data or meet visualization requirements. Therefore, additional specification adjustments are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Qing Chen , Fuling Sun , Xinyue Xu , Zui Chen , Jiazhe Wang , Nan Cao

Fuzzing has proven to be very effective for discovering certain classes of software flaws, but less effective in helping developers process these discoveries. Conventional crash-based fuzzers lack enough information about failures to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Allison Naaktgeboren , Sean Noble Anderson , Andrew Tolmach , Greg Sullivan

We present \code{phaser}, an open-source Python package that provides a unified interface to both conventional and gradient descent-based ptychographic algorithms. Features such as mixed-state probe, probe position correction, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Colin Gilgenbach , Menglin Zhu , James M. LeBeau

Security vulnerabilities introduced by applications using third-party dependencies are on the increase, caused by the emergence of large ecosystems of libraries such as the NPM packages for JavaScript. Nowadays, libraries depend on each…

We consider the problem of graph analytics on evolving graphs. In this scenario, a query typically needs to be applied to different snapshots of the graph over an extended time window. We propose CommonGraph, an approach for efficient…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Mahbod Afarin , Chao Gao , Shafiur Rahman , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh , Rajiv Gupta

In this paper, we present RESIN-EDITOR, an interactive event graph visualizer and editor designed for analyzing complex events. Our RESIN-EDITOR system allows users to render and freely edit hierarchical event graphs extracted from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Khanh Duy Nguyen , Zixuan Zhang , Reece Suchocki , Sha Li , Martha Palmer , Susan Brown , Jiawei Han , Heng Ji

Understanding how developers interact with AI coding assistants requires more than chat logs or git histories in isolation; it requires reconstructing the full context: which prompt led to which edit, what the developer tried and discarded,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Keyu He , Qianou Ma , Valerie Chen , Wayne Chi , Tongshuang Wu

Existing studies show that code summaries help developers understand and maintain source code. Unfortunately, these summaries are often missing or outdated in software projects. Code summarization aims to generate natural language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jia Li , Yongmin Li , Ge Li , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Zhi Jin

Identifying vulnerabilities in the source code is essential to protect the software systems from cyber security attacks. It, however, is also a challenging step that requires specialized expertise in security and code representation. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Van-Anh Nguyen , Dai Quoc Nguyen , Van Nguyen , Trung Le , Quan Hung Tran , Dinh Phung

This paper presents rerankers, a Python library which provides an easy-to-use interface to the most commonly used re-ranking approaches. Re-ranking is an integral component of many retrieval pipelines; however, there exist numerous…

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Software visualization helps to comprehend the system by providing a vivid illustration. The developers, as well as the analysts, can have a glance over the total system to understand the basic changes over time from a high-level point of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Fazle Rabbi , Nishat Tasnim Niloy , Nadia Nahar , Md. Nurul Ahad Tawhid

Maintaining up-to-date, comprehensive documentation for large codebases is a persistent challenge. Recent progress in automated documentation has moved from template-based rules to large language models (LLMs), yet existing tools still…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Dong Xu , Mingwei Liu , Xiwen Wang , Jianfeng Zhong , Zibin Zheng

There is a rapidly growing interest in controlling consistency across multiple generated images using diffusion models. Among various methods, recent works have found that simply manipulating attention modules by concatenating features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jiaojiao Fan , Haotian Xue , Qinsheng Zhang , Yongxin Chen

The static properties of code repositories, e.g., lines of code, dependents, dependencies, etc. can be readily scraped from code hosting platforms such as GitHub, and from package management systems such as npm for JavaScript; Although no…

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