Predictive models are one of the most important techniques that are widely applied in many
areas of software engineering. There have been a large number of primary studies that …

The amount of unstructured data available to software engineering researchers in
versioning systems, issue trackers, achieved communications, and many other repositories …

Classifier specific (CS) and classifier agnostic (CA) feature importance methods are widely
used (often interchangeably) by prior studies to derive feature importance ranks from a …

README files play an essential role in shaping a developer's first impression of a software
repository and in documenting the software project that the repository hosts. Yet, we lack a …

Enabled by the pull-based development model, developers can easily contribute to a project
through pull requests (PRs). When creating a PR, developers can add a free-form …

Release notes document corrections, enhancements, and, in general, changes that were
implemented in a new release of a software project. They are usually created manually and …

Vulnerabilities in open source packages can be a security risk for the downstream client
projects. When a new vulnerability is discovered, a package should quickly release a fix in a …

The release note is one of the most important software artifacts that serves as a
communication bridge between development teams and users. Release notes contain a set …

Release notes of a new mobile release provide valuable information for app users about the
updated functionality of an app. Moreover, app developers can use the release notes to …

Context: Though linking issues and commits plays an important role in software verification
and maintenance, such link information is not always explicitly provided during software …