Contemporary code review is a widespread practice used by software engineers to maintain
high software quality and share project knowledge. However, conducting proper code …

Although version control systems allow developers to describe and explain the rationale
behind code changes in commit messages, the state of practice indicates that most of the …

Software evolves with continuous source-code changes. These code changes usually need
to be understood by software engineers when performing their daily development and …

During software maintenances tasks, commit messages are an important source of
information, knowledge, and documentation that developers rely upon. However, the …

Code review is an important mechanism for code quality assurance both in open source
software and industrial software. Reviewers usually suffer from numerous, tangled and …

Accurate and complete commit messages summarizing software changes are important to
support various software maintenance activities. In practice, these commit messages are …

Tracking source code lines between two different versions of a file is a fundamental step for
solving a number of important problems in software maintenance such as locating bug …

For highly configurable software systems, such as the Linux kernel, maintaining and
evolving variability information along changes to source code poses a major challenge …

Model matching algorithms are used to identify common elements in input models, which is
a fundamental precondition for many software engineering tasks, such as merging software …

A fundamental unit of work in programming is the code contribution (“commit”) that a
developer makes to the code base of the project in work. We use statistical methods to …