To implement a program functionality, developers can reuse previously written code
snippets by searching through a large-scale codebase. Over the years, many code search …

Software developers write a lot of source code and documentation during software
development. Intrinsically, developers often recall parts of source code or code summaries …

A great part of software development involves conceptualizing or communicating the
underlying procedures and logic that needs to be expressed in programs. One major …

With the proliferation of online developer forums, developers share their opinions about the
APIs they use. The plethora of such information can present challenges to the developers to …

The term 'crowdsourcing'was initially introduced in 2006 to describe an emerging distributed
problem-solving model by online workers. Since then it has been widely studied and …

Developers often need to search for appropriate APIs for their programming tasks. Although
most libraries have API reference documentation, it is not easy to find appropriate APIs due …

Software developers need access to different kinds of information which is often dispersed
among different documentation sources, such as API documentation or Stack Overflow. We …

Purpose Software developers extensively use stack overflow (SO) for knowledge sharing on
software development. Thus, software engineering researchers have started mining the …

(Good) Software documentation provides developers and users with a description of what a
software system does, how it operates, and how it should be used. For example, technical …

To protect sensitive data processed by current applications, developers, whether security
experts or not, have to rely on cryptography. While cryptography algorithms have become …