Smart contract, a term which was originally coined to refer to the automation of legal
contracts in general, has recently seen much interest due to the advent of blockchain …

With modern requirements, there is an increasing tendency of considering multiple
objectives/criteria simultaneously in many Software Engineering (SE) scenarios. Such a …

Software defect prediction models are classifiers that are constructed from historical software
data. Such software defect prediction models have been proposed to help developers …

Automatically localizing software bugs to the changesets that induced them has the potential
to improve software developer efficiency and to positively affect software quality. To facilitate …

Many Duplicate Bug Report Detection (DBRD) techniques have been proposed in the
research literature. The industry uses some other techniques. Unfortunately, there is …

The gender gap is a significant concern facing the software industry as the development
becomes more geographically distributed. Widely shared reports indicate that gender …

Bug reports facilitate software development teams in improving the quality of software.
These reports include significant information related to problems encountered within a …

Software bugs claim≈ 50% of development time and cost the global economy billions of
dollars. Once a bug is reported, the assigned developer attempts to identify and understand …

Bug fixing holds significant importance in software development and maintenance. Recent
research has made notable progress in exploring the potential of large language models …

Automatic program repair (APR) is a rapidly advancing field of software engineering that
aims to supplement or replace manual bug fixing with an automated tool. For APR to be …