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most citedAn Empirical Study on the Usage of Transformer Models for Code Completion

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cs.SE2023

Log Statements Generation via Deep Learning: Widening the Support Provided to Developers

Antonio Mastropaolo, Valentina Ferrari, Luca Pascarella +1

Logging assists in monitoring events that transpire during the execution of software. Previous research has highlighted the challenges confronted by developers when it comes to log…

cs.SE2023★ 2 cited

On the Empirical Evidence of Microservice Logical Coupling. A Registered Report

Dario Amoroso d Aragona, Luca Pascarella, Andrea Janes +3

[Context] Coupling is a widely discussed metric by software engineers while developing complex software systems, often referred to as a crucial factor and symptom of a poor or good…

cs.SE2023

Breaks and Code Quality: Investigating the Impact of Forgetting on Software Development. A Registered Report

Dario Amoroso d'Aragona, Luca Pascarella, Andrea Janes +3

Developers interrupting their participation in a project might slowly forget critical information about the code, such as its intended purpose, structure, the impact of external de…

cs.SE2023★ 3 cited

Source Code Recommender Systems: The Practitioners' Perspective

Matteo Ciniselli, Luca Pascarella, Emad Aghajani +3

The automatic generation of source code is one of the long-lasting dreams in software engineering research. Several techniques have been proposed to speed up the writing of new cod…

cs.SE2023★ 2 cited

Automating Code-Related Tasks Through Transformers: The Impact of Pre-training

Rosalia Tufano, Luca Pascarella, Gabriele Bavota

Transformers have gained popularity in the software engineering (SE) literature. These deep learning models are usually pre-trained through a self-supervised objective, meant to pr…

cs.SE2023★ 7 cited

On the Robustness of Code Generation Techniques: An Empirical Study on GitHub Copilot

Antonio Mastropaolo, Luca Pascarella, Emanuela Guglielmi +4

Software engineering research has always being concerned with the improvement of code completion approaches, which suggest the next tokens a developer will likely type while coding…