Context: GitHub, renowned for facilitating collaborative code version control and software
production in software teams, expanded its services in 2017 by introducing GitHub …

Abstract Machine learning (ML) is extensively used in production-ready applications, calling
for mature engineering techniques to ensure robust development, deployment and …

The effort invested in software development should ideally be devoted to the implementation
of new features. But some of the effort is invariably also invested in corrective maintenance …

Code smells are sub-optimal design and implementation choices that hinder software
maintainability. Although significant progress has been achieved in code smell detection …

When modeling topics from chat messages of developer instant messaging communication,
individual chat messages are short text documents. Our study aims at understanding how …

The 1999 addition of business sector software and services spending to the National Income
and Product Accounts was an important innovation, achieving a novel focus on the …

Context. In software engineering there is a widespread assumption that experience
improves requirements analyst effectiveness, although empirical studies demonstrate the …

Marketplaces for distributing software products and services have been getting increasing
popularity. GitHub, which is most known for its version control functionality through Git …

Recent innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), primarily powered by large language models
(LLMs), have transformed how programmers develop and maintain software--leading to new …

We present a code quality metric, Corrective Commit Probability (CCP), measuring the
probability that a commit reflects corrective maintenance. We show that this metric agrees …