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ChatGPT for Code Refactoring: Analyzing Topics, Interaction, and Effective Prompts
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Luo Xu, Sofia Martinez +4
Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have become widely popular and widely used in various software engineering tasks such as refactoring, testing, code review, and progr…
On the Structure and Semantics of Identifier Names Containing Closed Syntactic Category Words
Christian D. Newman, Anthony Peruma, Eman Abdullah AlOmar +8
Identifier names are crucial components of code, serving as primary clues for developers to understand program behavior. This paper investigates the linguistic structure of identif…
10 quick tips for making your software outlive your job
Richard Littauer, Greg Wilson, Jan Ainali +19
Loss of key personnel has always been a risk for research software projects. Key members of the team may have to step away due to illness or burnout, to care for a family member, f…
SCALAR: A Part-of-speech Tagger for Identifiers
Christian D. Newman, Brandon Scholten, Sophia Testa +10
The paper presents the Source Code Analysis and Lexical Annotation Runtime (SCALAR), a tool specialized for mapping (annotating) source code identifier names to their corresponding…