Developers often face challenges in code understanding, which is crucial for building and
maintaining high-quality software systems. Code comments and documentation can provide …

Understanding code is challenging, especially when working in new and complex
development environments. Code comments and documentation can help, but are typically …

With face-to-face music collaboration being severely limited during the recent pandemic,
mixed reality technologies and their potential to provide musicians a feeling of" being there" …

Programmers often rely on online resources—such as code examples, documentation,
blogs, and Q&A forums—to compare similar libraries and select the one most suitable for …

Almost no modern software system is written from scratch, and developers are required to
effectively learn to use third-party libraries and software services. Thus, many practitioners …

Modern programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, and Rust encourage software
reuse by hosting diverse and fast-growing repositories of highly interdependent packages …

" If we make this change to our code, how will it impact our clients?" It is difficult for library
maintainers to answer this simple---yet essential!---question when evolving their libraries …

Conventionally, callbacks and inversion of control have been the main tools to structure
event-driven applications. Sadly, those patterns constitute a well-known source of design …

Many programmers want to use deep learning due to its superior accuracy in many
challenging domains. Yet our formative study with ten programmers indicated that, when …

Cryptographic libraries are a vital security component of software systems, yet their misuse
has caused several incidents. Prior work has established that misuse of cryptographic …