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Jupyter notebooks are widely used for machine learning (ML) prototyping. Yet, few debugging tools are designed for ML code in notebooks, partly, due to the lack of benchmarks. We introduce JunoBench, the first benchmark dataset of…

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We introduce DS-1000, a code generation benchmark with a thousand data science problems spanning seven Python libraries, such as NumPy and Pandas. Compared to prior works, DS-1000 incorporates three core features. First, our problems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yuhang Lai , Chengxi Li , Yiming Wang , Tianyi Zhang , Ruiqi Zhong , Luke Zettlemoyer , Scott Wen-tau Yih , Daniel Fried , Sida Wang , Tao Yu

Computational notebooks, tools that facilitate storytelling through exploration, data analysis, and information visualization, have become the widely accepted standard in the data science community. These notebooks have been widely adopted…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Venkatesh Potluri , Sudheesh Singanamalla , Nussara Tieanklin , Jennifer Mankoff

A central function of code review is to increase understanding; helping reviewers understand a code change aids in knowledge transfer and finding bugs. Comments in code largely serve a similar purpose, helping future readers understand the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Nikitha Rao , Jason Tsay , Martin Hirzel , Vincent J. Hellendoorn

Detecting vulnerabilities in software is a critical challenge in the development and deployment of applications. One of the most known and dangerous vulnerabilities is stack-based buffer overflows, which may allow potential attackers to…

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Code retrieval helps developers reuse the code snippet in the open-source projects. Given a natural language description, code retrieval aims to search for the most relevant code among a set of code. Existing state-of-the-art approaches…

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Software developers frequently issue generic natural language queries for code search while using code search engines (e.g., GitHub native search, Krugle). Such queries often do not lead to any relevant results due to vocabulary mismatch…

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Python is a popular, widely used, and general-purpose programming language. In spite of its ever-growing community, researchers have not performed much analysis on Python's topics, trends, and technologies which provides insights for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Hamed Tahmooresi , Abbas Heydarnoori , Alireza Aghamohammadi

With the recent advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), AI-based code generation tools become a practical solution for software development. GitHub Copilot, the AI pair programmer, utilizes machine…

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Jupyter notebooks enable developers to interleave code snippets with rich-text and in-line visualizations. Data scientists use Jupyter notebook as the de-facto standard for creating and sharing machine-learning based solutions, primarily…

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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

Software bots have been facilitating several development activities in Open Source Software (OSS) projects, including code review. However, these bots may bring unexpected impacts to group dynamics, as frequently occurs with new technology…

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Context: Kubernetes is an open source software that helps in automated deployment of software and orchestration of containers. With Kubernetes, IT organizations, such as IBM, Pinterest, and Spotify have experienced an increase in release…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Shazibul Islam Shamim , Jonathan Alexander Gibson , Patrick Morrison , Akond Rahman

Static analysis tools are frequently used to scan the source code and detect deviations from the project coding guidelines. Given their importance, linters are often introduced to classrooms to educate students on how to detect and…

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Saving, or checkpointing, intermediate results during interactive data exploration can potentially boost user productivity. However, existing studies on this topic are limited, as they primarily rely on small-scale experiments with human…

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Sensemaking is the iterative process of identifying, extracting, and explaining insights from data, where each iteration is referred to as the "sensemaking loop." Although recent work observes snapshots of the sensemaking loop within…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Deepthi Raghunandan , Aayushi Roy , Shenzhi Shi , Niklas Elmqvist , Leilani Battle

Developer turnover is inevitable on software projects and leads to knowledge loss, a reduction in productivity, and an increase in defects. Mitigation strategies to deal with turnover tend to disrupt and increase workloads for developers.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Fahimeh Hajari , Samaneh Malmir , Ehsan Mirsaeedi , Peter C. Rigby

React is a JavaScript library used to build user interfaces for single-page applications. Although recent studies have shown the popularity and advantages of React in web development, the specific challenges users face remain unknown. Thus,…

When working in large and complex codebases, developers face challenges using \textit{Find Usages} to understand how to reuse classes and methods. To better understand these challenges, we conducted a small exploratory study with 4…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Emad Aghayi , Aaron Massey , Thomas LaToza