Grounded Theory (GT) has proved an extremely useful research approach in several fields
including medical sociology, nursing, education and management theory. However, GT is a …

Diagnostic messages generated by compilers and interpreters such as syntax error
messages have been researched for over half of a century. Unfortunately, these messages …

The problem of automatically fixing programming errors is a very active research topic in
software engineering. This is a challenging problem as fixing even a single error may …

The First Complete Guide to DevOps for Software Architects DevOps promises to accelerate
the release of new software features and improve monitoring of systems in production, but its …

We consider the problem of learning to repair programs from diagnostic feedback (eg,
compiler error messages). Program repair is challenging for two reasons: First, it requires …

Learning-based program repair has achieved good results in a recent series of papers. Yet,
we observe that the related work fails to repair some bugs because of a lack of knowledge …

Creating and running software produces large amounts of raw data about the development
process and the customer usage, which can be turned into actionable insight with the help of …

Continuous Integration (CI) has become a best practice of modern software development.
Yet, at present, we have a shortfall of insight into the testing practices that are common in CI …

Programmers spend a substantial amount of time manually repairing code that does not
compile. We observe that the repairs for any particular error class typically follow a pattern …

Static analysis tools help developers find bugs, improve code readability, and ensure
consistent style across a project. However, these tools can be difficult to smoothly integrate …