Feature location is the activity of identifying an initial location in the source code that
implements functionality in a software system. Many feature location techniques have been …

As software systems continue to grow and evolve, locating code for maintenance and reuse
tasks becomes increasingly difficult. Existing static code search techniques using natural …

Feature location techniques aim at locating software artifacts that implement a specific
program functionality, aka a feature. These techniques support developers during various …

Most current software systems contain undocumented high-level ideas implemented across
multiple files and modules. When developers perform program maintenance tasks, they …

Meaningful method names are crucial for the readability and maintainability of software.
Existing naming conventions focus on syntactic details, leaving programmers with little or no …

Just like parallel processing elements can substantially speed up computationally intensive
tasks, concurrent transfer of data in and out of memory can speed up data intensive tasks. In …

The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data provides valuable information on analysis
techniques often used to derive insight from software data. This book shares best practices …

In the summer of 2006, the FindBugs project was challenged to improve the null pointer
analysis in FindBugs so that we could find more null pointer bugs. In particular, we were …

Informal discussions on social platforms (eg, Stack Overflow) accumulates a large body of
programming knowledge in natural language text. Natural language process (NLP) …

To aid program comprehension, programmers choose identifiers for methods, classes, fields
and other program elements primarily by following naming conventions in software. These …