Developers often require knowledge beyond the one they possess, which often boils down
to consulting sources of information like Application Programming Interfaces (API) …

Software developers submit patches to handle tens or even hundreds of bugs reported daily.
However, not all submitted patches can be directly integrated into the code base, since they …

Research in program comprehension has evolved considerably over the past decades.
However, only little is known about how developers practice program comprehension in …

Source Code Summarization is an emerging technology for automatically generating brief
descriptions of code. Current summarization techniques work by selecting a subset of the …

Context: Bug reports are the primary means by which users of a system are able to
communicate a problem to the developers, and their contents are important-not only to …

In the previous chapters, we have looked at the components we foresee in Lean software
engineering and at the conceptual model how they can be combined. In this chapter we …

Sketches and diagrams play an important role in the daily work of software developers. In
this paper, we investigate the use of sketches and diagrams in software engineering …

Written communications recorded through channels such as mailing lists or issue trackers,
but also code co-changes, have been used to identify emerging collaborations in software …

As a software system evolves, the system's codebase constantly changes, making it difficult
for developers to answer such questions as who is knowledgeable about particular parts of …

Starting from the first investigations with strictly functional languages, reactive programming
has been proposed as THE programming paradigm for reactive applications. The …