The software engineering community is rapidly adopting machine learning for transitioning
modern-day software towards highly intelligent and self-learning systems. However, the …

Code comments are important artifacts in software systems and play a paramount role in
many software engineering (SE) tasks related to maintenance and program comprehension …

App Stores, such as Google Play or the Apple Store, allow users to provide feedback on
apps by posting review comments and giving star ratings. These platforms constitute a …

Software developers need access to different kinds of information which is often dispersed
among different documentation sources, such as API documentation or Stack Overflow. We …

Application markets such as Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store have played an
important role in the popularity of smartphones and mobile devices. However, keeping …

Testing is widely recognized as an important stage of the software development lifecycle.
Effective software testing can provide benefits such as bug finding, preventing regressions …

How do we know a program does what it claims to do? After clustering Android apps by their
description topics, we identify outliers in each cluster with respect to their API usage. A" …

The booming popularity of smartphones is partly a result of application markets where users
can easily download wide range of third-party applications. However, due to the open nature …

Input constraints are useful for many software development tasks. For example, input
constraints of a function enable the generation of valid inputs, ie, inputs that follow these …

We have implemented a root-extraction stemmer for Arabic which is similar to the Khoja
stemmer but without a root dictionary. Our stemmer was found to perform equivalently to the …