Automatically Summarising and Measuring Software Development Activity

GitHub Actions: The Impact on the Pull Request Process

M Wessel, J Vargovich, MA Gerosa, C Treude

2023-11-01

Software projects frequently use automation tools to perform repetitive activities in the distributed software development process..

Contextual Documentation Referencing on Stack Overflow

S Baltes, C Treude, MP Robillard

2022-01-01

Software engineering is knowledge-intensive and requires software developers to continually search for knowledge, often on communi..

GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution

S Wattanakriengkrai, B Chinthanet, H Hata, RG Kula, C Treude, J Guo, K Matsumoto

2022-01-01

Traceability between published scientific breakthroughs and their implementation is essential, especially in the case of open-sour..

Automated query reformulation for efficient search based on query logs from stack overflow

K Cao, C Chen, S Baltes, C Treude, X Chen

2021-11-05

As a popular Q&A site for programming, Stack Overflow is a treasure for developers. However, the amount of questions and answers o..

The shifting sands of motivation: Revisiting what drives contributors in open source

M Gerosa, I Wiese, B Trinkenreich, G Link, G Robles, C Treude, I Steinmacher, A Sarma

2021-11-05

Open Source Software (OSS) has changed drastically over the last decade, with OSS projects now producing a large ecosystem of popu..

How do software developers use github actions to automate their workflows?

T Kinsman, M Wessel, MA Gerosa, C Treude

2021-05-01

Automated tools are frequently used in social coding repositories to perform repetitive activities that are part of the distribute..

Beyond accuracy: Assessing software documentation quality

C Treude, J Middleton, T Atapattu

2020-11-08

Good software documentation encourages good software engineering, but the meaning of "good"documentation is vaguely defined in the..

Selecting third-party libraries: The practitioners' perspective

E Larios Vargas, M Aniche, C Treude, M Bruntink, G Gousios

2020-11-08

The selection of third-party libraries is an essential element of virtually any software development project. However, deciding wh..

The impact of automated feature selection techniques on the interpretation of defect models

J Jiarpakdee, C Tantithamthavorn, C Treude

2020-09-01

The interpretation of defect models heavily relies on software metrics that are used to construct them. Prior work often uses feat..

Refactoring from 9 to 5? What and When Employees and Volunteers Contribute to OSS

LF Dias, C Barbosa, G Pinto, I Steinmacher, B Fonseca, M Ribeiro, C Treude, DA Da Costa

2020-08-01

In this paper we characterize the contributions made by employees (developers that work for GitHub, the company) and volunteers (d..

Optimising the fit of stack overflow code snippets into existing code

B Reid, C Treude, M Wagner

2020-07-08

Software developers often reuse code from online sources such as Stack Overflow within their projects. However, the process of sea..

Code duplication on stack overflow

S Baltes, C Treude

2020-06-27

Despite the unarguable importance of Stack Overflow (SO) for the daily work of many software developers and despite existing knowl..

Understanding wikipedia as a resource for opportunistic learning of computing concepts

MP Robillard, C Treude

2020-02-26

Posts on on-line forums where programmers look for information often include links to Wikipedia when it can be assumed the reader ..

Essential Sentences for Navigating Stack Overflow Answers

S Nadi, C Treude

2020-02-01

Stack Overflow (SO) has become an essential resource for software development. Despite its success and prevalence, navigating SO r..

Human-like summaries from heterogeneous and time-windowed software development artefacts

M Alghamdi, C Treude, M Wagner

2020-01-01

Automatic text summarisation has drawn considerable interest in the area of software engineering. It is challenging to summarise t..

Automatic generation of pull request descriptions

Z Liu, X Xia, C Treude, D Lo, S Li

2019-11-01

Enabled by the pull-based development model, developers can easily contribute to a project through pull requests (PRs). When creat..

Twenty years of open source software: From skepticism to mainstream

G Robles, I Steinmacher, P Adams, C Treude

2019-11-01

Open Source Software (OSS) has conquered the software world. You can see it nearly everywhere, from Internet infrastructure to mob..

Comprehending Test Code: An Empirical Study

CS Yu, C Treude, M Aniche

2019-09-01

Developers spend a large portion of their time and effort on comprehending source code. While many studies have investigated how d..

Enhancing Python Compiler Error Messages via Stack

E Thiselton, C Treude

2019-09-01

Background: Compilers tend to produce cryptic and uninformative error messages, leaving programmers confused and requiring them to..

9.6 Million Links in Source Code Comments: Purpose, Evolution, and Decay

H Hata, C Treude, RG Kula, T Ishio

2019-05-01

Links are an essential feature of the World Wide Web, and source code repositories are no exception. However, despite their many u..

Automatically Generating Documentation for Lambda Expressions in Java

Anwar Alqaimi, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Christoph Treude

2019-05-01

When lambda expressions were introduced to the Java programming language as part of the release of Java 8 in 2014, they were the l..

Predicting good configurations for github and stack overflow topic models

C Treude, M Wagner

2019-05-01

Software repositories contain large amounts of textual data, ranging from source code comments and issue descriptions to questions..

Autospearman: Automatically mitigating correlated software metrics for interpreting defect models

J Jiarpakdee, C Tantithamthavorn, C Treude

2018-11-09

The interpretation of defect models heavily relies on software metrics that are used to construct them. However, such software met..