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Programmers make rich use of natural language in the source code they write through identifiers and comments. Source code identifiers are selected from a pool of tokens which are strongly related to the meaning, naming conventions, and…

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When programmers look for how to achieve certain programming tasks, Stack Overflow is a popular destination in search engine results. Over the years, Stack Overflow has accumulated an impressive knowledge base of snippets of code that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Di Yang , Pedro Martins , Vaibhav Saini , Cristina Lopes

GitHub is one of the most widely used public code development platform. However, the code hosted publicly on the platform is vulnerable to commit spoofing that allows an adversary to introduce malicious code or commits into the repository…

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Academic publications have been evaluated in terms of their impact on research communities based on many metrics, such as the number of citations. On the other hand, the impact of academic publications on industry has been rarely studied.…

Release notes (RNs) summarize main changes between two consecutive software versions and serve as a central source of information when users upgrade software. While producing high quality RNs can be hard and poses a variety of challenges to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Jianyu Wu , Hao He , Wenxin Xiao , Kai Gao , Minghui Zhou

Toxicity on GitHub can severely impact Open Source Software (OSS) development communities. To mitigate such behavior, a better understanding of its nature and how various measurable characteristics of project contexts and participants are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Jaydeb Sarker , Asif Kamal Turzo , Amiangshu Bosu

We present stack graphs, an extension of Visser et al.'s scope graphs framework. Stack graphs power Precise Code Navigation at GitHub, allowing users to navigate name binding references both within and across repositories. Like scope…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Douglas A. Creager , Hendrik van Antwerpen

Continuous integration is a software engineering practice of frequently merging all developer working copies with a shared main branch, e.g., several times a day. With the advent of GitHub, a platform well known for its "social coding"…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Bogdan Vasilescu , Stef van Schuylenburg , Jules Wulms , Alexander Serebrenik , Mark G. J. van den Brand

GitHub, a central hub for collaborative software development, has revolutionized the open-source software (OSS) ecosystem through its GitHub Marketplace, a platform launched in 2017 to host automation tools aimed at enhancing the efficiency…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 SK. Golam Saroar , Waseefa Ahmed , Elmira Onagh , Maleknaz Nayebi

Blockchain is a distributed ledger technique that guarantees the traceability of transactions. Blockchain is adopted in multiple domains like finance (e.g., cryptocurrency), healthcare, security, and supply chain. In the open-source…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Ajoy Das , Gias Uddin , Guenther Ruhe

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…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Boyang Zhang

GitHub hosts millions of software repositories, facilitating developers to contribute to many projects in multiple ways. Most of the information about the repositories is text-based in the form of stars, forks, commits, and so on. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla , Kowndinya Boyalakunta , Sridhar Chimalakonda

Dockerfiles are one of the most prevalent kinds of DevOps artifacts used in industry. Despite their prevalence, there is a lack of sophisticated semantics-aware static analysis of Dockerfiles. In this paper, we introduce a dataset of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jordan Henkel , Christian Bird , Shuvendu K. Lahiri , Thomas Reps

Faced with over 100M open source projects most empirical investigations select a subset. Most research papers in leading venues investigated filtering projects by some measure of popularity with explicit or implicit arguments that unpopular…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Addi Malviya-Thakur , Audris Mockus

Open source software projects usually acknowledge contributions with text files, websites, and other idiosyncratic methods. These data sources are hard to mine, which is why contributorship is most frequently measured through changes to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Jean-Gabriel Young , Amanda Casari , Katie McLaughlin , Milo Z. Trujillo , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , James P. Bagrow

Programming languages themselves have a limited number of reserved keywords and character based tokens that define the language specification. However, programmers have a rich use of natural language within their code through comments, text…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Vadim Markovtsev , Eiso Kant

The demand for quick and reliable DevOps operations pushed distributors of repository platforms to implement workflows. Workflows allow automating code management operations directly on the repository hosting the software. However, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Giacomo Benedetti , Luca Verderame , Alessio Merlo

The use of large language models like ChatGPT in code review offers promising efficiency gains but also raises concerns about correctness and safety. Existing evaluation methods for code review generation either rely on automatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Robert Heumüller , Frank Ortmeier

Bug reports provide critical insights into software quality, yet existing datasets often suffer from limited scope, outdated content, or insufficient metadata for machine learning. To address these limitations, we present GitBugs-a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Avinash Patil , Siru Tao , Aryan Jadon

In open-source software development environments; textual, numerical and relationship-based data generated are of interest to researchers. Various data sets are available for this data, which is frequently used in areas such as software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Abdulkadir Şeker , Banu Diri , Halil Arslan