The behavior of software that uses the Java Reflection API is fundamentally hard to predict
by analyzing code. Only recent static analysis approaches can resolve reflection under …

Software developers interact with APIs on a daily basis and, therefore, often face the need to
learn how to use new APIs suitable for their purposes. Previous work has shown that …

Just like any software, libraries evolve to incorporate new features, bug fixes, security
patches, and refactorings. However, when a library evolves, it may break the contract …

Software development activity has reached a high degree of complexity, guided by the
heterogeneity of the components, data sources, and tasks. The proliferation of open-source …

While implementing software projects, developers do not reinvent the wheel but try to reuse
existing API calls and source code. In recent years, the problems related to recommending …

Recommender systems in software engineering provide developers with a wide range of
valuable items to help them complete their tasks. Among others, API recommender systems …

Third-party libraries (TPLs) have become an essential component of software, accelerating
development and reducing maintenance costs. However, breaking changes often occur …

To perform their daily tasks, developers intensively make use of existing resources by
consulting open source software (OSS) repositories. Such platforms contain rich data …

Measuring the internal quality of source code is one of the traditional goals of making
software development into an engineering discipline. Cyclomatic complexity (CC) is an often …

Context: While working on software projects, developers often replace third-party libraries
(TPLs) with different ones offering similar functionalities. However, choosing a suitable TPL …