Most programs today are written not by professional software developers, but by people with
expertise in other domains working towards goals for which they need computational …

Due to the increasing scale and complexity of software products, software maintenance
especially on bug resolution has become a challenging task. Generally in large-scale …

Social applications on the web let users track and follow the activities of a large number of
others regardless of location or affiliation. There is a potential for this transparency to …

Software developers use many different communication tools and channels in their work.
The diversity of these tools has dramatically increased over the past decade and developers …

Question and Answer (Q&A) websites, such as Stack Overflow, use social media to facilitate
knowledge exchange between programmers and fill archives with millions of entries that …

Developers often require knowledge beyond the one they possess, which often boils down
to consulting sources of information like Application Programming Interfaces (API) …

Large APIs can be hard to learn, and this can lead to decreased programmer productivity.
But what makes APIs hard to learn? We conducted a mixed approach, multi-phased study of …

Defect prediction has been an active research area for over four decades. Despite
numerous studies on defect prediction, the potential value of defect prediction in practice …

The better the software development community becomes at creating software, the more
software the world seems to demand. Although there is a large body of research about …

In this paper, we present the results from two surveys related to data science applied to
software engineering. The first survey solicited questions that software engineers would like …