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Background: Leaking sensitive information - such as API keys, tokens, and credentials - in source code remains a persistent security threat. Traditional regex and entropy-based tools often generate high false positives due to limited…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Md Nafiu Rahman , Sadif Ahmed , Zahin Wahab , S M Sohan , Rifat Shahriyar

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

We constructed a newly large-scale and comprehensive C/C++ vulnerability dataset named MegaVul by crawling the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database and CVE-related open-source projects. Specifically, we collected all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Chao Ni , Liyu Shen , Xiaohu Yang , Yan Zhu , Shaohua Wang

Mobile mini-programs in WeChat have gained significant popularity since their debut in 2017, reaching a scale similar to that of Android apps in the Play Store. Like Google, Tencent, the provider of WeChat, offers APIs to support the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yue Zhang , Yuqing Yang , Zhiqiang Lin

Several studies showed that misuses of cryptographic APIs are common in real-world code (e.g., Apache projects and Android apps). There exist several open-sourced and commercial security tools that automatically screen Java programs to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Sharmin Afrose , Ya Xiao , Sazzadur Rahaman , Barton P. Miller , Danfeng , Yao

Bug reports provide critical insights into software quality, yet existing datasets often suffer from limited scope, outdated content, or insufficient metadata for machine learning.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

GitHub recommends that projects adopt a security file that outlines vulnerability reporting procedures. However, the effectiveness and operational challenges of such files are not yet fully understood. This study aims to clarify the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Rintaro Kanaji , Brittany Reid , Yutaro Kashiwa , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Hajimu Iida

Where can we find malware source code? This question is motivated by a real need: there is a dearth of malware source code, which impedes various types of security research. Our work is driven by the following insight: public archives, like…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Md Omar Faruk Rokon , Risul Islam , Ahmad Darki , Vagelis E. Papalexakis , Michalis Faloutsos

GitHub is the world's largest host of source code, with more than 150M repositories. However, most of these repositories are not labeled or inadequately so, making it harder for users to find relevant projects. There have been various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Cezar Sas , Andrea Capiluppi , Claudio Di Sipio , Juri Di Rocco , Davide Di Ruscio

Artificial Intelligence systems, which benefit from the availability of large-scale datasets and increasing computational power, have become effective solutions to various critical tasks, such as natural language understanding, speech…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Zhou Yang , Chenyu Wang , Jieke Shi , Thong Hoang , Pavneet Kochhar , Qinghua Lu , Zhenchang Xing , David Lo

Two key contributions presented in this paper are: i) A method for building a dataset containing source code features extracted from source files taken from Open Source Software (OSS) and associated bug reports, ii) A predictive model for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Ritu Kapur , Balwinder Sodhi

The lack of large-scale datasets has been a major hindrance to the development of NLP tasks such as spelling correction and grammatical error correction (GEC). As a complementary new resource for these tasks, we present the GitHub Typo…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Masato Hagiwara , Masato Mita

Software repository hosting services contain large amounts of open-source software, with GitHub hosting more than 100 million repositories, from new to established ones. Given this vast amount of projects, there is a pressing need for a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Cezar Sas , Andrea Capiluppi

Mobile apps often embed authentication secrets, such as API keys, tokens, and client IDs, to integrate with cloud services. However, developers often hardcode these credentials into Android apps, exposing them to extraction through reverse…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Marco Alecci , Jordan Samhi , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein

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

Typical users are known to use and reuse weak passwords. Yet, as cybersecurity concerns continue to rise, understanding the password practices of software developers becomes increasingly important. In this work, we examine developers'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Nikolaos Lykousas , Constantinos Patsakis

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

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

The development of machine learning techniques for discovering software vulnerabilities relies fundamentally on the availability of appropriate datasets. The ideal dataset consists of a large and diverse collection of real-world…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sima Arasteh , Georgios Nikitopoulos , Wei-Cheng Wu , Nicolaas Weideman , Aaron Portnoy , Mukund Raghothaman , Christophe Hauser

Software Heritage is the largest existing public archive of software source code and accompanying development history. It spans more than five billion unique source code files and one billion unique commits , coming from more than 80…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Antoine Pietri , Diomidis Spinellis , Stefano Zacchiroli