In theory,(good) documentation is an invaluable asset to any software project, as it helps
stakeholders to use, understand, maintain, and evolve a system. In practice, however …

A domain glossary that organizes domain-specific concepts and their aliases and relations
is essential for knowledge acquisition and software development. Existing approaches use …

Software systems operating in any type of safety or security critical domains must comply
with an increasingly large and complex set of regulatory standards. Compliance is partially …

Code comments play a prominent role in program comprehension activities. However,
source code is not always documented and code and comments not always co-evolve. To …

When reusing or modifying code, developers need to understand the implicit knowledge
behind a piece of code in addition to the literal meaning of code. Such implicit knowledge …

When working on a project, software developers must be familiar with computing concepts,
standards, and technologies related to the project. We present a novel approach, called …

In long lifespan software systems, specification documents can be outdated or even missing.
Developing new software releases or checking whether some user requirements are still …

In software development, developer turnover is among the primary reasons for project
failures, leading to a great void of knowledge and strain for newcomers. Unfortunately, no …

Software development deals with larger design and development pressures and requires
software system to be developed in a shorter period. A big problem encountered during …

A common practice among programmers is to reuse existing code, accomplished by
performing natural language queries through search engines. The main aim of code …