Practitioners use infrastructure as code (IaC) scripts to provision servers and development
environments. While developing IaC scripts, practitioners may inadvertently introduce …

Prior works have developed transformer-based language learning models to automatically
generate source code for a task without compilation errors. The datasets used to train these …

With the growing popularity of Large Language Models (eg, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.)
in software engineers' daily practices, it is important to ensure that the code generated by …

Context: Code smells are well-known concepts in Object-Oriented (OO) programs as
symptoms that negatively impact software quality and cause long-term issues. However, the …

The release of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT has revolutionized software
development. Prior works explored ChatGPT's generated response quality, the effectiveness …

Context: Kubernetes has emerged as the de-facto tool for automated container
orchestration. Business and government organizations are increasingly adopting …

WebAssembly is a compilation target for cross-platform applications that is increasingly
being used. In this paper, we investigate whether one can transparently cross-compile C …

Many apps performing security-sensitive tasks (eg, online banking) attempt to verify the
integrity of the device they are running in and the integrity of their own code. To ease this …

Abstract Android Inter-Component Communication (ICC) is complex, largely unconstrained,
and hard for developers to understand. As a consequence, ICC is a common source of …

The popularity of blockchain technology encourages organizations to use more blockchain
features in mission-critical processes such as trading, access control, and computational …