5 papers
D-Diff: An Interactive Environment for Adjusting Commit Boundaries Based on an Editable 3-way Diff
Daiki Muto, Takayoshi Ueno, Shinpei Hayashi
In version control, it is recommended that each commit include only changes related to one task. To follow this recommendation, developers may need to adjust commit boundaries, tha…
MORCoRA: Multi-Objective Refactoring Recommendation Considering Review Availability
Lei Chen, Shinpei Hayashi
Background: Search-based refactoring involves searching for a sequence of refactorings to achieve specific objectives. Although a typical objective is improving code quality, a dif…
Forecasting Developer Environments with GenAI: A Research Perspective
Raula Gaikovina Kula, Christoph Treude, Xing Hu +28
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models are achieving remarkable performance in various tasks, including code generation, testing, code review, and program repair. The ab…
ChangePrism: Visualizing the Essence of Code Changes
Lei Chen, Michele Lanza, Shinpei Hayashi
Understanding the changes made by developers when they submit a pull request and/or perform a commit on a repository is a crucial activity in software maintenance and evolution. Th…
How Much Can a Behavior-Preserving Changeset Be Decomposed into Refactoring Operations?
Kota Someya, Lei Chen, Michael J. Decker +1
Developers sometimes mix behavior-preserving modifications, such as refactorings, with behavior-altering modifications, such as feature additions. Several approaches have been prop…