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most citedToxic Code Snippets on Stack Overflow

118 citations · 156 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.SE2023★ 10 cited

Using Gameplay Videos for Detecting Issues in Video Games

Emanuela Guglielmi, Simone Scalabrino, Gabriele Bavota +1

Context. The game industry is increasingly growing in recent years. Every day, millions of people play video games, not only as a hobby, but also for professional competitions (e.g…

cs.SE2023

Automatically Generating Dockerfiles via Deep Learning: Challenges and Promises

Giovanni Rosa, Antonio Mastropaolo, Simone Scalabrino +2

Containerization allows developers to define the execution environment in which their software needs to be installed. Docker is the leading platform in this field, and developers t…

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★ 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…

cs.SE2022★ 1 cited

Fixing Dockerfile Smells: An Empirical Study

Giovanni Rosa, Simone Scalabrino, Rocco Oliveto

Background. Containerization technologies are widely adopted in the DevOps workflow. The most commonly used one is Docker, which requires developers to define a specification file…

cs.SE2022★ 5 cited

Using Transfer Learning for Code-Related Tasks

Antonio Mastropaolo, Nathan Cooper, David Nader Palacio +4

Deep learning (DL) techniques have been used to support several code-related tasks such as code summarization and bug-fixing. In particular, pre-trained transformer models are on t…

cs.SE2022★ 1 cited

Towards Using Gameplay Videos for Detecting Issues in Video Games

Emanuela Guglielmi, Simone Scalabrino, Gabriele Bavota +1

Context. The game industry is increasingly growing in recent years. Every day, millions of people play video games, not only as a hobby, but also for professional competitions (e.g…

cs.SE2022

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…

cs.SE2021★ 1 cited

Evaluating SZZ Implementations Through a Developer-informed Oracle

Giovanni Rosa, Luca Pascarella, Simone Scalabrino +4

The SZZ algorithm for identifying bug-inducing changes has been widely used to evaluate defect prediction techniques and to empirically investigate when, how, and by whom bugs are…

cs.SE2021★ 1 cited

Studying the Usage of Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer to Support Code-Related Tasks

Antonio Mastropaolo, Simone Scalabrino, Nathan Cooper +4

Deep learning (DL) techniques are gaining more and more attention in the software engineering community. They have been used to support several code-related tasks, such as automati…

cs.SE2021

Why Developers Refactor Source Code: A Mining-based Study

Jevgenija Pantiuchina, Fiorella Zampetti, Simone Scalabrino +4

Refactoring aims at improving code non-functional attributes without modifying its external behavior. Previous studies investigated the motivations behind refactoring by surveying…

cs.SE2018★ 9 cited

Awareness and Experience of Developers to Outdated and License-Violating Code on Stack Overflow: An Online Survey

Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Jens Krinke, Rocco Oliveto

We performed two online surveys of Stack Overflow answerers and visitors to assess their awareness to outdated code and software licenses in Stack Overflow answerers. The answerer…

cs.SE2018★ 118 cited

Toxic Code Snippets on Stack Overflow

Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Jens Krinke, Matheus Paixao +2

Online code clones are code fragments that are copied from software projects or online sources to Stack Overflow as examples. Due to an absence of a checking mechanism after the co…