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CRaDLe: Deep Code Retrieval Based on Semantic Dependency Learning
Wenchao Gu, Zongjie Li, Cuiyun Gao +4
Code retrieval is a common practice for programmers to reuse existing code snippets in open-source repositories. Given a user query (i.e., a natural language description), code ret…
Opportunities and Challenges in Code Search Tools
Chao Liu, Xin Xia, David Lo +3
Code search is a core software engineering task. Effective code search tools can help developers substantially improve their software development efficiency and effectiveness. In r…
Do Users Care about Ad's Performance Costs? Exploring the Effects of the Performance Costs of In-App Ads on User Experience
Cuiyun Gao, Jichuan Zeng, Federica Sarro +3
Context: In-app advertising is the primary source of revenue for many mobile apps. The cost of advertising (ad cost) is non-negligible for app developers to ensure a good user expe…
Automating App Review Response Generation Based on Contextual Knowledge
Cuiyun Gao, Wenjie Zhou, Xin Xia +3
User experience of mobile apps is an essential ingredient that can influence the audience volumes and app revenue. To ensure good user experience and assist app development, severa…
Emerging App Issue Identification via Online Joint Sentiment-Topic Tracing
Cuiyun Gao, Jichuan Zeng, Zhiyuan Wen +4
Millions of mobile apps are available in app stores, such as Apple's App Store and Google Play. For a mobile app, it would be increasingly challenging to stand out from the enormou…
An Empirical Study of In-App Advertising Issues Based on Large Scale App Review Analysis
Cuiyun Gao, Jichuan Zeng, David Lo +3
In-app advertising closely relates to app revenue. Reckless ad integration could adversely impact app reliability and user experience, leading to loss of income. It is very challen…
A Deep Dive on the Impact of COVID-19 in Software Development
Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Umme Ayda Mannan, Eduardo Santana de Almeida +5
Context: COVID-19 pandemic has impacted different business sectors around the world. Objective. This study investigates the impact of COVID-19 on software projects and software dev…
CoreGen: Contextualized Code Representation Learning for Commit Message Generation
Lun Yiu Nie, Cuiyun Gao, Zhicong Zhong +3
Automatic generation of high-quality commit messages for code commits can substantially facilitate software developers' works and coordination. However, the semantic gap between so…
On the Replicability and Reproducibility of Deep Learning in Software Engineering
Chao Liu, Cuiyun Gao, Xin Xia +3
Deep learning (DL) techniques have gained significant popularity among software engineering (SE) researchers in recent years. This is because they can often solve many SE challenge…
Why an Android App is Classified as Malware? Towards Malware Classification Interpretation
Bozhi Wu, Sen Chen, Cuiyun Gao +4
Machine learning (ML) based approach is considered as one of the most promising techniques for Android malware detection and has achieved high accuracy by leveraging commonly-used…
Automating App Review Response Generation
Cuiyun Gao, Jichuan Zeng, Xin Xia +3
Previous studies showed that replying to a user review usually has a positive effect on the rating that is given by the user to the app. For example, Hassan et al. found that respo…
What Changed Your Mind: The Roles of Dynamic Topics and Discourse in Argumentation Process
Jichuan Zeng, Jing Li, Yulan He +3
In our world with full of uncertainty, debates and argumentation contribute to the progress of science and society. Despite of the increasing attention to characterize human argume…