Generative models have become adept at producing artifacts such as images, videos, and
prose at human-like levels of proficiency. New generative techniques, such as unsupervised …

Software testing depends on effective oracles. Implicit oracles, such as checks for program
crashes, are widely applicable but narrow in scope. Oracles based on formal specifications …

Self-admitted technical debt (SATD) consists of annotations, left by developers as comments
in the source code or elsewhere, as a reminder about pieces of software manifesting …

Background. Self-admitted technical debt (SATD) is a special kind of technical debt that is
intentionally introduced and remarked by code comments. Those technical debts reduce the …

Many techniques were proposed for detecting software misconfigurations in cloud systems
and for diagnosing unintended behavior caused by such misconfigurations. Detection and …

TODO comments are very widely used by software developers to describe their pending
tasks during software development. However, after performing the task developers …

Natural language comments convey key aspects of source code such as implementation,
usage, and pre-and post-conditions. Failure to update comments accordingly when the …

Comments are valuable resources for the development, comprehension and maintenance of
software. However, while changing code, developers sometimes neglect the evolution of the …

There has been a growing interest in developing machine learning (ML) models for code
summarization tasks, eg, comment generation and method naming. Despite substantial …

Code comments are key to program comprehension. When they are not consistent with the
code, maintenance is hindered. Yet developers often forget to update comments along with …