Background: Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance and is generally
performed to enforce the best design and implementation practices or to cope with design …

Commit messages are the atomic level of software documentation. They provide a natural
language description of the code change and its purpose. Messages are critical for software …

News article revision histories provide clues to narrative and factual evolution in news
articles. To facilitate analysis of this evolution, we present the first publicly available dataset …

Refactoring tools have advanced greatly and are being used in many large projects. As a
result, a great deal of information is now available about past refactoring and its effects on …

Refactoring is a set of code changes applied to improve the internal structure of a program,
without altering its external behavior. With the rise of continuous integration and the …

Identifier names are the atoms of comprehension; weak identifier names decrease
productivity by increasing the chance that developers make mistakes and increasing the …

Identifier names are the atoms of program comprehension. Weak identifier names decrease
developer productivity and degrade the performance of automated approaches that …

Software requirements are ever-changing which often leads to software evolution.
Consequently, throughout software lifetime, developers receive new requirements often …

Execution logs capture the run-time behavior of software systems. To assist developers in
their maintenance tasks, many studies have proposed tools to analyze execution information …

Context Execution logs capture the run-time behavior of software systems. To assist
developers in their maintenance tasks, many studies have proposed tools to analyze …