The rapid growth of high-throughput technologies has transformed biomedical research.
With the increasing amount and complexity of data, scalability and reproducibility have …

Open source components are ubiquitous in companies' setups, processes, and software.
Utilizing these external components as building blocks enables companies to leverage the …

The selection of third-party libraries is an essential element of virtually any software
development project. However, deciding which libraries to choose is a challenging practical …

Fault localization is a critical process that involves identifying specific program elements
responsible for program failures. Manually pinpointing these elements, such as classes …

We conducted a thorough SLR to better grasp the challenges and possible solutions
associated with existing npm security tools. Our goal was to delve into documented …

Programmers often rely on online resources—such as code examples, documentation,
blogs, and Q&A forums—to compare similar libraries and select the one most suitable for …

There is a trend of researchers and practitioners to directly apply pre-trained models to solve
their specific tasks. For example, researchers in software engineering (SE) have …

In today's software world with its cornucopia of reusable software libraries, when a
programmer is faced with a programming task that they suspect can be completed through …

Stack Overflow, the world's largest software Q&A (SQA) website, is facing a significant traffic
drop due to the emergence of generative AI techniques. ChatGPT is banned by Stack …

With the popularity of software ecosystems, the number of open source components (known
as packages) has grown rapidly. Identifying high-quality and well-maintained packages from …