Abstract The concept of Self-Affirmed Refactoring (SAR) was introduced to explore how
developers document their refactoring activities in commit messages, ie, developers explicit …

Many recent models in software engineering introduced deep neural models based on the
Transformer architecture or use transformer-based Pre-trained Language Models (PLM) …

This paper presents an ensemble part-of-speech tagging approach for source code
identifiers. Ensemble tagging is a technique that uses machine-learning and the output from …

This paper describes the results of a large (+ 1100 responses) survey of professional
software developers concerning standards for naming source code methods. The various …

Method naming is a critical factor in program comprehension, affecting software quality.
State-of-the-art naming techniques use deep learning to compute the methods' similarity …

Traceability approves trace links among software artifacts based on whether two artifacts are
related by system functionalities. The traces are valuable for software development, but are …

As one of the most important resources to express the semantics of source code, identifiers
are usually composed of several common or domain-specific terms and abbreviations, thus …

Developers must comprehend the code they will maintain, meaning that the code must be
legible and reasonably self-descriptive. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of research and …

It is good practice to name test methods such that they are comprehensible to developers;
they must be written in such a way that their purpose and functionality are clear to those who …

Unit testing is a vital part of the software development process and involves developers
writing code to verify or assert production code. Furthermore, to help comprehend the test …