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An Empirical Study on the Usage of Transformer Models for Code Completion
Matteo Ciniselli, Nathan Cooper, Luca Pascarella +5
Code completion aims at speeding up code writing by predicting the next code token(s) the developer is likely to write. Works in this field focused on improving the accuracy of the…
Mutation-based Evaluation of Cryptographic API Misuse Detectors
Amit Seal Ami, Scott Marsden, Kevin Moran +2
The correct use of cryptography is central to ensuring data security in modern software systems. Hence, several academic and commercial static analysis tools have been developed fo…
An Empirical Study on the Usage of BERT Models for Code Completion
Matteo Ciniselli, Nathan Cooper, Luca Pascarella +3
Code completion is one of the main features of modern Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). Its objective is to speed up code writing by predicting the next code token(s) the…
V2S: A Tool for Translating Video Recordings of Mobile App Usages into Replayable Scenarios
Madeleine Havranek, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Nathan Cooper +3
Screen recordings are becoming increasingly important as rich software artifacts that inform mobile application development processes. However, the amount of manual effort required…
SE: Mutation-based Evaluation of Security-focused Static Analysis Tools for Android
Amit Seal Ami, Kaushal Kafle, Kevin Moran +2
This demo paper presents the technical details and usage scenarios of SE: a mutation-based tool for evaluating security-focused static analysis tools for Android. Mutation testi…
Studying the Usage of Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer to Support Code-Related Tasks
Antonio Mastropaolo, Simone Scalabrino, Nathan Cooper +4
Deep learning (DL) techniques are gaining more and more attention in the software engineering community. They have been used to support several code-related tasks, such as automati…
Systematic Mutation-based Evaluation of the Soundness of Security-focused Android Static Analysis Techniques
Amit Seal Ami, Kaushal Kafle, Kevin Moran +2
Mobile application security has been a major area of focus for security research over the course of the last decade. Numerous application analysis tools have been proposed in respo…
Towards Automating Code Review Activities
Rosalia Tufano, Luca Pascarella, Michele Tufano +2
Code reviews are popular in both industrial and open source projects. The benefits of code reviews are widely recognized and include better code quality and lower likelihood of int…