Recent software advances have led to an expansion of the development and usage of
application programming interfaces (APIs). From millions of Android packages (APKs) …

Mobile apps rely heavily on the application programming interface (API) provided by their
underlying operating system (OS). Because OS and API can change frequently, developers …

Software engineering activities such as package migration, fixing errors reports from static
analysis or testing, and adding type annotations or other specifications to a codebase …

Over the years, researchers capitalized on the repetitiveness of software changes to
automate many software evolution tasks. Despite the extraordinary rise in popularity of …

The heavy fragmentation of the Android ecosystem has led to severe compatibility issues
with apps, including those that crash at runtime or cannot be installed on certain devices but …

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) provide tool support to automate many source
code editing tasks. Traditionally, IDEs use only the spatial context, ie, the location where the …

The reliance on vulnerable dependencies is a major threat to software systems.
Dependency vulnerabilities are common and remain undisclosed for years. However, once …

REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is considered as one standard software
architectural style to build web APIs that can integrate software systems over the internet …

Developers heavily rely on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) from libraries to build
their projects. However, libraries might become obsolete, or new libraries with better APIs …

Software vulnerabilities are now reported unprecedentedly due to the recent development of
automated vulnerability hunting tools. However, fixing vulnerabilities still mainly depends on …