When developers join a software development project, they find themselves in a project
landscape, and they must become familiar with the various landscape features. To better …

A reachability question is a search across feasible paths through a program for target
statements matching search criteria. In three separate studies, we found that reachability …

Socio-technical congruence is an approach that measures coordination by examining the
alignment between the technical dependencies and the social coordination in the project …

Software engineering is an intensely people-oriented activity, yet little is known about how
software engineers perform their work. In order to improve software engineering tools and …

Modern software development extensively involves reusing library components accessed
through their Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Usability is therefore a fundamental …

The concern location problem is to identify the source code within a program related to the
features, requirements, or other concerns of the program. This problem is central to program …

Programming assistants have reshaped the experience of programming into one where
programmers spend less time writing and more time critically examining code. In this paper …

The increasing size of APIs and the increase in the number of APIs available imply
developers must frequently learn how to use unfamiliar APIs. To identify the types of …

Understanding code is challenging, especially when working in new and complex
development environments. Code comments and documentation can help, but are typically …

Software development has always inherently required multitasking: developers switch
between coding, reviewing, testing, designing, and meeting with colleagues. The advent of …