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Towards Summarizing Code Snippets Using Pre-Trained Transformers
Antonio Mastropaolo, Matteo Ciniselli, Luca Pascarella +3
When comprehending code, a helping hand may come from the natural language comments documenting it that, unfortunately, are not always there. To support developers in such a scenar…
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…
Automated Variable Renaming: Are We There Yet?
Antonio Mastropaolo, Emad Aghajani, Luca Pascarella +1
Identifiers, such as method and variable names, form a large portion of source code. Therefore, low-quality identifiers can substantially hinder code comprehension. To support deve…
Don't Reinvent the Wheel: Towards Automatic Replacement of Custom Implementations with APIs
Rosalia Tufano, Emad Aghajani, Gabriele Bavota
Reusing code is a common practice in software development: It helps developers speedup the implementation task while also reducing the chances of introducing bugs, given the assump…
Using Reinforcement Learning for Load Testing of Video Games
Rosalia Tufano, Simone Scalabrino, Luca Pascarella +3
Different from what happens for most types of software systems, testing video games has largely remained a manual activity performed by human testers. This is mostly due to the con…
An Empirical Study on the Usage of Transformer Models for Code Completion
Matteo Ciniselli, Nathan Cooper, Luca Pascarella +5
Code completion aims at speeding up code writing by predicting the next code token(s) the developer is likely to write. Works in this field focused on improving the accuracy of the…
An Empirical Study on Code Comment Completion
Antonio Mastropaolo, Emad Aghajani, Luca Pascarella +1
Code comments play a prominent role in program comprehension activities. However, source code is not always documented and code and comments not always co-evolve. To deal with thes…
Sampling Projects in GitHub for MSR Studies
Ozren Dabic, Emad Aghajani, Gabriele Bavota
Almost every Mining Software Repositories (MSR) study requires, as first step, the selection of the subject software repositories. These repositories are usually collected from hos…
Siri, Write the Next Method
Fengcai Wen, Emad Aghajani, Csaba Nagy +2
Code completion is one of the killer features of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), and researchers have proposed different methods to improve its accuracy. While these te…