Bots are frequently used in Github repositories to automate repetitive activities that are part
of the distributed software development process. They communicate with human actors …

Bots have emerged from research prototypes to deployable systems due to the recent
developments in machine learning, natural language processing and understanding …

Fault localization is an essential step in the debugging process. Spectrum-Based Fault
Localization (SBFL) is a popular fault localization family of techniques, utilizing code …

Context The purpose of software restructuring, or refactoring, is to improve software quality
and developer productivity. Objective Prior studies have relied mainly on static and dynamic …

Projects in our software-engineering course require students to submit GitHub pull requests
to an open-source software project containing more than 30,000 lines of source code. Once …

Software robots, or bots, are useful for automating a wide variety of programming and
software development tasks. Despite the advantages of using bots throughout the software …

The growing user population and open nature of social media have attracted a huge number
of programs which are automated, also known as bots, which is considered to be a double …

Social coding platforms such as GitHub and mechanisms such as pull requests, code
reviews, issue reports, and commenting allow developers to contribute to several different …

A software system evolves over time due to factors such as bug-fixes, enhancements,
optimizations and deprecation. As entities interact in a software repository, the alterations …

As software systems continue to grow in size and complexity, their maintenance continues to
become more challenging and costly. Even for the most technologically sophisticated and …