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Readability and Understandability of Snippets Recommended by General-purpose Web Search Engines: a Comparative Study
Carlos Eduardo C. Dantas, Marcelo A. Maia
Developers often search for reusable code snippets on general-purpose web search engines like Google, Yahoo! or Microsoft Bing. But some of these code snippets may have poor qualit…
On the Interplay of Smells Large Class, Complex Class and Duplicate Code
Elder Vicente de Paulo Sobrinho, Marcelo de Almeida Maia
Bad smells have been defined to describe potential problems in code, possibly pointing out refactoring opportunities. Several empirical studies have highlighted that smells have a…
Towards a question answering assistant for software development using a transformer-based language model
Liliane do Nascimento Vale, Marcelo de Almeida Maia
Question answering platforms, such as Stack Overflow, have impacted substantially how developers search for solutions for their programming problems. The crowd knowledge content av…