Abstract Version Control Systems (VCS) have been used by many software developers
during project developments as it helps them to manage the source codes and enables …

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Continuous Integration (CI) has become a disruptive innovation in software development:
with proper tool support and adoption, positive effects have been demonstrated for pull …

Learning and remembering how to use APIs is difficult. While code-completion tools can
recommend API methods, browsing a long list of API method names and their …

Enabled by a rich ecosystem of Machine Learning (ML) libraries, programming using
learned models, ie, Software-2.0, has gained substantial adoption. However, we do not …

Continuous Integration (CI) has become a common practice in both industrial and open-
source software development. While CI has evidently improved aspects of the software …

Regression testing is an important activity but can get expensive for large test suites. Test-
suite reduction speeds up regression testing by identifying and removing redundant tests …

Regression testing is widely used to check that changes made to software do not break
existing functionality, but regression test suites grow, and running them fully can become …

The notion of forking has changed with the rise of distributed version control systems and
social coding environments, like GitHub. Traditionally forking refers to splitting off an …

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 …