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cs.SE2019★ 11 cited

Beyond Textual Issues: Understanding the Usage and Impact of GitHub Reactions

Hudson Borges, Rodrigo Brito, Marco Tulio Valente

Recently, GitHub introduced a new social feature, named reactions, which are "pictorial characters" similar to emoji symbols widely used nowadays in text-based communications. Part…

cs.SE2019★ 1 cited

Software Engineering Meets Deep Learning: A Mapping Study

Fabio Ferreira, Luciana Lourdes Silva, Marco Tulio Valente

Deep Learning (DL) is being used nowadays in many traditional Software Engineering (SE) problems and tasks. However, since the renaissance of DL techniques is still very recent, we…

cs.SE2019★ 11 cited

How do Developers Promote Open Source Projects?

Hudson Borges, Marco Tulio Valente

Open source projects have an increasing importance on modern software development. For this reason, these projects, as usual with commercial software projects, should make use of p…

cs.SE2019

On the abandonment and survival of open source projects: An empirical investigation

Guilherme Avelino, Eleni Constantinou, Marco Tulio Valente +1

Background: Evolution of open source projects frequently depends on a small number of core developers. The loss of such core developers might be detrimental for projects and even t…

cs.SE2019★ 54 cited

Migrating to GraphQL: A Practical Assessment

Gleison Brito, Thais Mombach, Marco Tulio Valente

GraphQL is a novel query language proposed by Facebook to implement Web-based APIs. In this paper, we present a practical study on migrating API clients to this new technology. Fir…

cs.SE2019★ 1 cited

Identifying Experts in Software Libraries and Frameworks among GitHub Users

Joao Eduardo Montandon, Luciana Lourdes Silva, Marco Tulio Valente

Software development increasingly depends on libraries and frameworks to increase productivity and reduce time-to-market. Despite this fact, we still lack techniques to assess deve…