Code search is a core software engineering task. Effective code search tools can help
developers substantially improve their software development efficiency and effectiveness. In …

To implement a program functionality, developers can reuse previously written code
snippets by searching through a large-scale codebase. Over the years, many code search …

Developers often wonder how to implement a certain functionality (eg, how to parse XML
files) using APIs. Obtaining an API usage sequence based on an API-related natural …

A great part of software development involves conceptualizing or communicating the
underlying procedures and logic that needs to be expressed in programs. One major …

Measuring code similarity is fundamental for many software engineering tasks, eg, code
search, refactoring and reuse. However, most existing techniques focus on code syntactical …

Clone detection of source code is among the most fundamental software engineering
techniques. Despite intensive research in the past decade, existing techniques are still …

Recently, new applications of code clone detection and search have emerged that rely upon
clones detected across thousands of software systems. Big data clone detection and search …

A GUI skeleton is the starting point for implementing a UI design image. To obtain a GUI
skeleton from a UI design image, developers have to visually understand UI elements and …

Searching and reusing existing code from a large-scale codebase, eg, GitHub, can help
developers complete a programming task efficiently. Recently, Gu et al. proposed a deep …

Recent research has shown feasibility of an interactive pair-programming conversational
agent, but implementing such an agent poses three challenges: a lack of benchmark …