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A Survey of Code Review Benchmarks and Evaluation Practices in Pre-LLM and LLM Era
Taufiqul Islam Khan, Shaowei Wang, Haoxiang Zhang +1
Code review is a critical practice in modern software engineering, helping developers detect defects early, improve code quality, and facilitate knowledge sharing. With the rapid a…
Discovery of Timeline and Crowd Reaction of Software Vulnerability Disclosures
Yi Wen Heng, Zeyang Ma, Haoxiang Zhang +3
Reusing third-party libraries increases productivity and saves time and costs for developers. However, the downside is the presence of vulnerabilities in those libraries, which can…
Understanding Open Source Contributor Profiles in Popular Machine Learning Libraries
Jiawen Liu, Haoxiang Zhang, Ying Zou
With the increasing popularity of machine learning (ML), many open-source software (OSS) contributors are attracted to developing and adopting ML approaches. Comprehensive understa…
Studying and Recommending Information Highlighting in Stack Overflow Answers
Shahla Shaan Ahmed, Shaowei Wang, Yuan Tian +3
Context: Navigating the knowledge of Stack Overflow (SO) remains challenging. To make the posts vivid to users, SO allows users to write and edit posts with Markdown or HTML so tha…
How to get better embeddings with code pre-trained models? An empirical study
Yu Zhao, Lina Gong, Haoxiang Zhang +2
Pre-trained language models have demonstrated powerful capabilities in the field of natural language processing (NLP). Recently, code pre-trained model (PTM), which draw from the e…
Revisiting reopened bugs in open source software systems
Ankur Tagra, Haoxiang Zhang, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur +1
Reopened bugs can degrade the overall quality of a software system since they require unnecessary rework by developers. Moreover, reopened bugs also lead to a loss of trust in the…
An empirical study of question discussions on Stack Overflow
Wenhan Zhu, Haoxiang Zhang, Ahmed E. Hassan +1
Stack Overflow provides a means for developers to exchange knowledge. While much previous research on Stack Overflow has focused on questions and answers (Q&A), recent work has sho…
An Exploratory Study on the Repeatedly Shared External Links on Stack Overflow
Jiakun Liu, Haoxiang Zhang, Xin Xia +4
On Stack Overflow, users reuse 11,926,354 external links to share the resources hosted outside the Stack Overflow website. The external links connect to the existing programming-re…
Broken External Links on Stack Overflow
Jiakun Liu, Xin Xia, David Lo +4
Stack Overflow hosts valuable programming-related knowledge with 11,926,354 links that reference to the third-party websites. The links that reference to the resources hosted outsi…
Does the hiding mechanism for Stack Overflow comments work well? No!
Haoxiang Zhang, Shaowei Wang, Tse-Hsun Peter Chen +1
Stack Overflow has accumulated millions of answers. Informative comments can strengthen their associated answers (e.g., providing additional information). Currently, Stack Overflow…
An Empirical Study of Obsolete Answers on Stack Overflow
Haoxiang Zhang, Shaowei Wang, Tse-Hsun +3
Stack Overflow accumulates an enormous amount of software engineering knowledge. However, as time passes, certain knowledge in answers may become obsolete. Such obsolete answers, i…