A key part of software evolution and maintenance is the continuous integration from
collaborative efforts, often resulting in complex traceability challenges between software …

Researchers have proposed several approaches to extract information from user reviews
useful for maintaining and evolving mobile apps. However, most of them just perform …

The mobile applications industry experiences an unprecedented high growth, developers
working in this context face a fierce competition in acquiring and retaining users. They have …

Software engineers share experiences with modern technologies using software information
sites, such as Stack Overflow. These sites allow developers to label posted content, referred …

Large software development projects receive many bug reports and each of these reports
needs to be triaged. An important step in the triage process is the assignment of the report to …

Abstract Context: Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) has been successfully used in the
literature to extract topics from software documents and support developers in various …

Software datasets play a crucial role in advancing automated software traceability research.
They can be used by researchers in different ways to develop or validate new automated …

Software engineering social content, such as Q&A discussions on Stack Overflow, has
become a wealth of information on software engineering. This textual content is centered …

Just like parallel processing elements can substantially speed up computationally intensive
tasks, concurrent transfer of data in and out of memory can speed up data intensive tasks. In …

Source code lexicon plays a paramount role in software quality: poor lexicon can lead to
poor comprehensibility and even increase software fault-proneness. For this reason …