This paper presents a literature review in the field of summarizing software artifacts, focusing
on bug reports, source code, mailing lists and developer discussions artifacts. From Jan …

Bug reports document unexpected software behaviors experienced by users. To be
effective, they should allow bug triagers to easily understand and reproduce the potential …

Many software development organizations strive to enhance the productivity of their
developers. All too often, efforts aimed at improving developer productivity are undertaken …

README files play an essential role in shaping a developer's first impression of a software
repository and in documenting the software project that the repository hosts. Yet, we lack a …

Enabled by the pull-based development model, developers can easily contribute to a project
through pull requests (PRs). When creating a PR, developers can add a free-form …

Software development includes diverse tasks such as implementing new features, analyzing
requirements, and fixing bugs. Being an expert in those tasks requires a certain set of skills …

Bug reports play an important role in the process of debugging and fixing bugs. To reduce
the burden of bug report managers and facilitate the process of bug fixing, a great amount of …

Many Transformer-based pre-trained models for code have been developed and applied to
code-related tasks. In this paper, we analyze 519 papers published on this topic during 2017 …

One way to improve the productivity of knowledge workers is to increase their self-
awareness about productivity at work through self-monitoring. Yet, little is known about …

Video games represent a substantial and increasing share of the software market. However,
their development is particularly challenging as it requires multi-faceted knowledge, which is …