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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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

Developers prefer to utilize third-party libraries when they implement some functionalities and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are frequently used by them. Facing an unfamiliar API, developers tend to consult tutorials as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-07 He Jiang , Jingxuan Zhang , Xiaochen Li , Zhilei Ren , David Lo

Using APIs to develop software applications is the norm. APIs help developers to build applications faster as they do not need to reinvent the wheel. It is therefore important for developers to understand the APIs that they plan to use.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Ferdian Thung , Kisub Kim , Ting Zhang , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Ratnadira Widyasari , Zhou Yang , David Lo

When designing a new API for a large project, developers need to make smart design choices so that their code base can grow sustainably. To ensure that new API components are well designed, developers can learn from existing API components.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Sae Young Moon , Gregor Kerr , Fran Silavong , Sean Moran

Open Source Software projects add labels to open issues to help contributors choose tasks. However, manually labeling issues is time-consuming and error-prone. Current automatic approaches for creating labels are mostly limited to…

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Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms integrate and orchestrate a wide variety of security tools to accelerate the operational activities of Security Operation Center (SOC). Integration of security tools in a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Zarrin Tasnim Sworna , Chadni Islam , Muhammad Ali Babar

Understanding the correct API usage sequences is one of the most important tasks for programmers when they work with unfamiliar libraries. However, programmers often encounter obstacles to finding the appropriate information due to either…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-04 James Martin , Jin L. C. Guo

Nowadays, developers often turn to Stack Overflow for solutions to daily problems, however, these code snippets are partial code that cannot be tested and verified properly. One way to test these code snippets is to transform them into APIs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yubo Mai , Zhipeng Gao , Xing Hu , Lingfeng Bao , Jingyuan Chen , Jianling Sun

Application programming interfaces (APIs) offer a plethora of functionalities for developers to reuse without reinventing the wheel. Identifying the appropriate APIs given a project requirement is critical for the success of a project, as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ferdian Thung , Richard J. Oentaryo , David Lo , Yuan Tian

With the rise of Web 2.0 and microservices, the increasing availability of Web APIs has intensified the need for effective recommendation systems. Existing approaches are generally categorized into two methods: recommendation-type methods,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zishuo Xu , Yuhong Gu , Dezhong Yao

Background: Sub-optimal code is prevalent in software systems. Developers may write low-quality code due to many reasons, such as lack of technical knowledge, lack of experience, time pressure, management decisions, and even unhappiness.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul , Matheus Paixao

Code comments can help in program comprehension and are considered as important artifacts to help developers in software maintenance. However, the comments are mostly missing or are outdated, specially in complex software projects. As a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Ramin Shahbazi , Rishab Sharma , Fatemeh H. Fard

Recently, automatic code comment generation is proposed to facilitate program comprehension. Existing code comment generation techniques focus on describing the functionality of the source code. However, there are other aspects such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy , Iman Keivanloo

Optimizing and maintaining up-to-date API documentation is a challenging problem for evolving OpenAPIs. In this poster, we propose a data-driven continuous optimization solution and multilingual SDK generation scheme to improve the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Shujun Wang , Yongqiang Tian , Dengcheng He

We propose a novel software service recommendation model to help users find their suitable repositories in GitHub. Our model first designs a novel context-induced repository graph embedding method to leverage rich contextual information of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Mingwei Zhang , Jiayuan Liu , Weipu Zhang , Ke Deng , Hai Dong , Ying Liu

App reviews reflect various user requirements that can aid in planning maintenance tasks. Recently, proposed approaches for automatically classifying user reviews rely on machine learning algorithms. A previous study demonstrated that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yasaman Abedini , Abbas Heydarnoori

Despite recent research efforts, the vision of automatic code generation through API recommendation has not been realized. Accuracy and expressiveness challenges of API recommendation needs to be systematically addressed. We present a new…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Ya Xiao , Salman Ahmed , Wenjia Song , Xinyang Ge , Bimal Viswanath , Danfeng Yao

Compiler error messages serve as an initial resource for programmers dealing with compilation errors. However, previous studies indicate that they often lack sufficient targeted information to resolve code issues. Consequently, programmers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Patricia Widjojo , Christoph Treude

Online technical forums (e.g., StackOverflow) are popular platforms for developers to discuss technical problems such as how to use specific Application Programming Interface (API), how to solve the programming tasks, or how to fix bugs in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Yintong Huo , Yuxin Su , Hongming Zhang , Michael R. Lyu

Developers often wonder how to implement a certain functionality (e.g., how to parse XML files) using APIs. Obtaining an API usage sequence based on an API-related natural language query is very helpful in this regard. Given a query,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Xiaodong Gu , Hongyu Zhang , Dongmei Zhang , Sunghun Kim