Code search is a core software engineering task. Effective code search tools can help
developers substantially improve their software development efficiency and effectiveness. In …

Code completion, which aims to predict the following code token (s) according to the code
context, can improve the productivity of software development. Recent work has proved that …

Software developers write a lot of source code and documentation during software
development. Intrinsically, developers often recall parts of source code or code summaries …

Q&A platforms have been an integral part of the web-help-seeking behavior of programmers
over the past decade. However, with the recent introduction of ChatGPT, the paradigm of …

A variety of research methods and techniques are available to SE researchers, and while
several overviews exist, there is consistency neither in the research methods covered nor in …

Commit messages can be regarded as the documentation of software changes. These
messages describe the content and purposes of changes, hence are useful for program …

Developers often need to search for appropriate APIs for their programming tasks. Although
most libraries have API reference documentation, it is not easy to find appropriate APIs due …

Empirical research is playing a significant role in software engineering (SE), and it has been
applied to evaluate software artifacts and technologies. There have been a great number of …

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become popular, there emerged an important trend of
using multimodality to augment the LLMs' generation ability, which enables LLMs to better …

Code search is an unavoidable activity in software development. Various approaches and
techniques have been explored in the literature to support code search tasks. Most of these …