Technical question and answer Q&A platforms, such as Stack Overflow, provide a platform
for users to ask and answer questions about a wide variety of programming topics. These …

Source code written in textual programming languages is typically edited in integrated
development environments (IDEs) or specialized code editors. These tools often display …

We present the first method for automatically mining code idioms from a corpus of previously
written, idiomatic software projects. We take the view that a code idiom is a syntactic …

This paper presents the results of the first study of the uniqueness of source code. We define
the uniqueness of a unit of source code with respect to the entire body of written software …

Programmers frequently search for source code to reuse using keyword searches. The
search effectiveness in facilitating reuse, however, depends on the programmer's ability to …

Many software reuse tasks involve reusing source code that was not designed in a manner
conducive to those tasks, requiring that ad hoc modifications be applied. Such pragmatic …

Theories of human behavior are an important but largely untapped resource for software
engineering research. They facilitate understanding of human developers' needs and …

Developers often resort to online Q&A forums such as Stack Overflow (SO) for filling their
programming needs. Although code examples on those forums are good starting points …

Code clones are common in software. When applying similar edits to clones, developers
often find it difficult to examine the runtime behavior of clones. The problem is exacerbated …

Empirical studies have revealed that software developers spend 35%–50% of their time
navigating through source code during development activities, yet fundamental questions …