The main drawback of existing software artifact management systems is the lack of automatic
or semi-automatic traceability link generation and maintenance. We have improved an …

Information Retrieval (IR) methods, and in particular topic models, have recently been used
to support essential software engineering (SE) tasks, by enabling software textual retrieval …

In past and recent years, the issues related to managing technical debt received significant
attention by researchers from both industry and academia. There are several factors that …

Code smells were defined as symptoms of poor design choices applied by programmers
during the development of a software project [2]. They might hinder the comprehensibility and …

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 …

During the recent years, the market of mobile software applications (apps) has maintained
an impressive upward trajectory. Many small and large software development companies …

Developers often require knowledge beyond the one they possess, which often boils down
to consulting sources of information like Application Programming Interfaces (API) …

Code smells represent symptoms of poor implementation choices. Previous studies found that
these smells make source code more difficult to maintain, possibly also increasing its fault-…

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices that may hinder
code comprehension, and possibly increase changeand fault-proneness. While most of the …

Developers have to to constantly improve their apps by fixing critical bugs and implementing
the most desired features in order to gain shares in the continuously increasing and …