Knowledge and experience are touted as both the necessary and sufficient conditions to
make a person an expert. This paper attempts to investigate this issue in the context of …

Software development increasingly depends on libraries and frameworks to increase
productivity and reduce time-to-market. Despite this fact, we still lack techniques to assess …

Since job characteristics in areas related to the green economy and Industry 4.0 are
changing rapidly, combined methodologies to measure the labour demand and supply are …

The rapid evolution of technology directly impacts the skills and jobs needed in the next
decade. Users can, intentionally or unintentionally, develop different skills by creating …

Context: Modern software development demands high levels of technical specialization.
These conditions make IT companies focus on creating cross-functional teams, such as …

Background: Developers inevitably make human errors while coding. These errors can lead
to faults in code, some of which may result in system failures. It is important to reduce the …

Third-party libraries have been widely adopted in modern software projects due to several
benefits, such as code reuse and software quality. Software development is increasingly …

Background: In software development, the identification of source code file experts is an
important task. Identifying these experts helps to improve software maintenance and …

In the field of Computer Science, software developers need to use a wide array of social
collaborative platforms for learning and cooperating. The most popular ones are GitHub and …

A GitHub profile is becoming an essential part of a developer's resume enabling HR
departments to extract someone's expertise, through automated analysis of his/her …