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

Various information retrieval (IR) based techniques have been proposed recently to locate
bugs automatically at the file level. However, their usefulness is often compromised by the …

Word2Vec is a class of neural network models that as being trainedfrom a large corpus of
texts, they can produce for each unique word acorresponding vector in a continuous space …

Change is a routine in software development. Like any system, libraries also evolve over
time. As a consequence, clients are compelled to update and, thus, benefit from the …

Prior research has shown that source code also exhibits naturalness, ie it is written by
humans and is likely to be repetitive. The researchers also showed that the n-gram …

Because of functionality evolution, or security and performance-related changes, some APIs
eventually become unnecessary in a software system and thus need to be cleaned to …

The same software product nowadays could appear in multiple platforms and devices. To
address business needs, software companies develop a software product in a programming …

Modern software often exposes configuration options that enable users to customize its
behavior. During software evolution, developers may change how the configuration options …

Developers build programs based on software libraries. When a library evolves,
programmers need to migrate their client code from the library's old release (s) to new …

Like traditional local APIs, web service APIs (web APIs for short) evolve, bringing new and
improved functionality as well as incompatibilities. Client programs have to be modified …