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To address security vulnerabilities arising from third-party libraries, security researchers maintain databases monitoring and curating vulnerability reports. Application developers can identify libraries affected by vulnerability reports (in short, ...

Unit testing is an essential activity in software development for verifying the correctness of software components. However, manually writing unit tests is challenging and time-consuming. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) offers a new ...

In collaborative software development, developers generally make code changes and commit the changes to the repositories. Among others, "making small, single-purpose commits" is considered the best practice for making commits, allowing the team to ...

Numerous third-party libraries introduced into client projects are not actually required, resulting in modern software being gradually bloated. Software developers may spend much unnecessary effort to manage the bloated dependencies: keeping the library ...

Code generation models based on the pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm have been increasingly attempted by both academia and industry, resulting in well-known industrial models such as Codex, CodeGen, and PanGu-Coder. To evaluate the effectiveness of ...

Although existing techniques have proposed automated approaches to alleviate the path explosion problem of symbolic execution, users still need to optimize symbolic execution by applying various searching strategies carefully. As existing approaches ...

In collaborative software development, it is considered to be a best practice to submit code changes as a sequence of cohesive commits, each of which records the work result of a specific development activity, such as adding a new feature, bug fixing, ...

During software maintenance, developers may need to migrate an already in-use library to another library with similar functionalities. However, it is difficult to make the optimal migration decision with limited information, knowledge, or expertise. In ...

In modern software development, developers rely on version control systems like Git to collaborate in the branch-based development workflow. One downside of this workflow is the conflicts occurred when merging contributions from different developers: ...

Rich mobile apps make mobile devices increasingly pervasive in our daily life. However, energy consumptions of mobile devices brings lots of users’ frustrations. To guarantee good experiences of mobile users, we propose an energy-saving framework for ...

API-library switching is to change an underlying API library to another one for a given program. API-library switching is frequent in software-development process, with typical examples as migrating programs across platforms or across incompatible ...

To accelerate the development of mobile apps, more and more third-party services that can be consumed as mobile backend services are available for the consumption of mobile developers. However, with the growth of mobile backend services, it turns to be ...

With the rapid growth of cloud computing, developing business applications on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) systems is increasingly popular among industry companies. Various services are developed to support different business requirements on PaaS ...

Mobile app developers suffer a lot from the fragmentation of mobile platforms (e.g., needs to rewrite an app for a new platform). To alleviate this problem, cross-platform development techniques provide a cost-effective way (i.e., write-once-deploymany) ...

Lightweight static bug-detection tools such as FindBugs, PMD, Jlint, and Lint4j detect bugs with the knowledge of generic bug patterns (e.g., objects of java.io.InputStream are not closed in time after used). Besides generic bug patterns, different ...

Recently many popular websites such as Twitter and Flickr expose their data through web service APIs, enabling third-party organizations to develop client applications that provide function-alities beyond what the original websites offer. These client ...

Compared with the traditional local IDE, online IDE provides a no-install programming environment. The proceeding in this area is attracting more and more researchers' focuses. Although online IDE can bring developers a lot of convenience for developing ...

Failing to release unneeded system resources such as I/O streams can result in resource leaks, which can lead to performance degradation and system crashes. Existing resource-leak detectors are usually based on predefined defect patterns to detect ...

Software systems commonly use resources such as network connections or external file handles. Once finish using the resources, the software systems must release these resources by explicitly calling specific resource-releasing API methods. Failing to ...

Temporal specifications for Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) serve as an important basis for many defect detection tools. As these specifications are often not well documented, various approaches have been proposed to automatically mine ...