A key part of software evolution and maintenance is the continuous integration from
collaborative efforts, often resulting in complex traceability challenges between software …

In large-scale software development projects, change impact analysis (CIA) plays an
important role in controlling software design evolution. Identifying and accessing the effects …

Resolving bugs in the maintenance phase of software is a complicated task. Bug
assignment is one of the main tasks for resolving bugs. Some Bugs cannot be fixed properly …

Bug localization, which aims to locate buggy source code files for given bug reports, is a
crucial yet challenging software-mining task. Despite remarkable success, the state of the art …

Source code analysis is one of the important activities during the software maintenance
phase that focuses on performing the tasks including bug localization, feature location …

Software projects are not void from bugs when they are released, so the developers keep
receiving bug reports that describe technical issues. The process of identifying the buggy …

Feature location is a technique for determining source code that implements specific
features in software. It developed to help minimize effort on program comprehension. The …

Software bugs are a noteworthy concern for developers and maintainers. When a failure is
detected late, it costs more to be fixed. To repair the bug that caused the software failure, the …

Question-answering (QA) models find answers to a given question. The necessity of
automatically finding answers is increasing because it is very important and challenging …

Feature location is a method of mapping between high abstraction of software artifacts into
specific areas of source code. A use case scenario is a software artifact that contains many …