Patching is a common activity in software development. It is generally performed on a source
code base to address bugs or add new functionalities. In this context, given the recurrence of …

Inferring program transformations from concrete program changes has many potential uses,
such as applying systematic program edits, refactoring, and automated program repair …

Vulnerability becomes a major threat to the security of many systems. Attackers can steal
private information and perform harmful actions by exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities …

Context: Code changes to software occur due to various reasons such as bug fixing, new
feature addition, and code refactoring. Change intents have been studied for years to help …

Context Tangled commits are changes to software that address multiple concerns at once.
For researchers interested in bugs, tangled commits mean that they actually study not only …

The commit messages in source code repositories are valuable but not easy to be
generated manually in time for tracking issues, reporting bugs, and understanding codes …

In this work we present a method to improve the pruning step of the current state-of-the-art
methodology to compress neural networks. The novelty of the proposed pruning technique …

Despite the effort of software maintainers, patches to open-source repositories are
propagated from the main codebase to all the related projects (eg, forks) with a significant …

Software module clustering is an unsupervised learning method used to cluster software
entities (eg, classes, modules, or files) with similar features. The obtained clusters may be …

During the bug fixing process, developers usually need to analyze the source code to
induce the bug cause, which is useful for bug understanding and localization. The bug fixes …