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Using libraries in applications has helped developers reduce the costs of reinventing already existing code. However, an increase in diverse technology stacks and third-party library usage has led developers to inevitably switch…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Kanchanok Kannee , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai , Kenichi Matsumoto

Are malicious repositories hiding under the educational label in GitHub? Recent studies have identified collections of GitHub repositories hosting malware source code with notable collaboration among the developers. Thus, analyzing GitHub…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Md Rayhanul Masud , Michalis Faloutsos

Software is often developed using versioned controlled software, such as Git, and hosted on centralized Web hosts, such as GitHub and GitLab. These Web hosted software repositories are made available to users in the form of traditional HTML…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-05-22 David Calano , Michele C. Weigle , Michael L. Nelson

Traditional code search engines often do not perform well with natural language queries since they mostly apply keyword matching. These engines thus require carefully designed queries containing information about programming APIs for code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy , David Lo

Developers use and contribute to repositories on GitHub. Documentation present in the repositories serves as an important source by helping developers to understand, maintain and contribute to the project. Currently, documentation in a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla , Sridhar Chimalakonda

Software popularity is a valuable information to modern open source developers, who constantly want to know if their systems are attracting new users, if new releases are gaining acceptance, or if they are meeting user's expectations. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Hudson Borges , Andre Hora , Marco Tulio Valente

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) replaced conventional software systems in various domains such as machine translation, natural language processing, and image processing. So, why do we need an repository for artificial neural networks?…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Javad Ghofrani , Ehsan Kozegar , Mohammad Divband Soorati , Arezoo Bozorgmehr , Hongfei Chen , Maximilian Naake

Modern software systems are increasingly dependent on third-party libraries. It is widely recognized that using mature and well-tested third-party libraries can improve developers' productivity, reduce time-to-market, and produce more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Mohamed Aymen Saied , Ali Ouni , Houari Sahraoui , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Katsuro Inoue , David Lo

GitHub hosts hundreds of millions of code repositories written in hundreds of different programming languages. In addition to its hosting services, GitHub provides data and insights into code, such as vulnerability analysis and code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Patrick Thomson , Rob Rix , Nicolas Wu , Tom Schrijvers

Beyond scratch coding, exploiting large-scale code repositories (e.g., GitHub) for practical tasks is vital in real-world software development, yet current benchmarks rarely evaluate code agents in such authentic, workflow-driven scenarios.…

Deep learning based recommender systems have been extensively explored in recent years. However, the large number of models proposed each year poses a big challenge for both researchers and practitioners in reproducing the results for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Shuai Zhang , Yi Tay , Lina Yao , Bin Wu , Aixin Sun

The number of open source software projects has been growing exponentially. The major online software repository host, GitHub, has accumulated tens of millions of publicly available Git version-controlled repositories. Although the research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Vadim Markovtsev , Waren Long

GitHub is the most widely used social, distributed version control system. It has around 10 million registered users and hosts over 16 million public repositories. Its user base is also very active as GitHub ranks in the top 100 Alexa most…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Amirali Sanatinia , Guevara Noubir

Software developed on public platform is a source of data that can be used to make predictions about those projects. While the individual developing activity may be random and hard to predict, the developing behavior on project level can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Tianpei Xia , Wei Fu , Rui Shu , Rishabh Agrawal , Tim Menzies

Almost every Mining Software Repositories (MSR) study requires, as first step, the selection of the subject software repositories. These repositories are usually collected from hosting services like GitHub using specific selection criteria…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Ozren Dabic , Emad Aghajani , Gabriele Bavota

As the social coding is becoming increasingly popular, understanding the influence of developers can benefit various applications, such as advertisement for new projects and innovations. However, most existing works have focused only on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Zhifang Liao , Haozhi Jin , Yifan Li , Benhong Zhao , Jinsong Wu , Shengzong Liu

AI evaluations have become critical tools for assessing large language model capabilities and safety. This paper presents practical insights from eight months of maintaining $inspect\_evals$, an open-source repository of 70+…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Alexandra Abbas , Celia Waggoner , Justin Olive

This paper presents a multi-stage reranking system for repository-level code search, which leverages the vastly available commit histories of large open-source repositories to aid in bug fixing. We define the task of repository-level code…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Siddharth Gandhi , Luyu Gao , Jamie Callan

To evaluate software maintenance techniques and tools in controlled experiments with human participants, researchers currently use projects and tasks selected on an ad-hoc basis. This can unrealistically favor their tool, and it makes the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Matúš Sulír

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