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Software refactoring plays an important role in software engineering. Developers often turn to refactoring when they want to restructure software to improve its quality without changing its external behavior. Small-scale (floss) refactoring is common in industry and is often perf…
Texts in natural languages are highly repetitive and predictable because of the naturalness of natural languages. Recent research validated that source code in programming languages is also repetitive and predictable, and naturalness is an inherent property of source code. It was…
Programming languages are artificial and highly restricted languages. But source code is there to tell computers as well as programmers what to do, as an act of communication. Despite its weird syntax and is riddled with different delimiters, the good news is that the very large …
Tracking program elements in the commit history of a project is essential for supporting various software maintenance, comprehension and evolution tasks. Accuracy is of paramount importance for the adoption of program element tracking tools by developers and researchers. To this …
Mobile applications, Internet of Things devices and web services are pervasive and they all encrypt the communications between servers and clients to not have information leakages. While the network traffic is encrypted, packet sizes and timings are still visible to an eavesdropp…
Previous research has shown that artificial faults can be useful in many software engineering tasks such as testing, fault-tolerance assessment, debugging, dependability evaluation, risk analysis, etc. However, such artificial-fault-based applications can be questioned or inaccur…
Code Review Automation can reduce human efforts during code review by automatically providing valuable information to reviewers. Nevertheless, it is a challenge to automate the process for large-scale companies, such as Samsung Electronics, due to their complexity: various develo…
Robotic systems are becoming an integral part of human lives. Responding to the increased demands for robot productions, Robot Operating System (ROS), an open-source middleware suite for robotic development, is gaining traction by providing practical tools and libraries for quick…
Deep learning-based automated program repair (DL-APR) can automatically fix software bugs and has received significant attention in the industry because of its potential to significantly reduce software development and maintenance costs. The Samsung mobile experience (MX) team is…
Reliance on third-party libraries is now commonplace in contemporary software engineering. Being open source in nature, these libraries should advocate for a world where the freedoms and opportunities of open source software can be enjoyed by all. Yet, there is a growing concern …
For a cloud service provider, the goal is to proactively identify signals that can help reduce outages and/or reduce the mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-resolve. After an incident is reported, the Site Reliability Engineers diagnose the fault and search for a resolution by f…
Constructing a static call graph requires trade-offs between soundness and precision. Program analysis techniques for constructing call graphs are unfortunately usually imprecise. To address this problem, researchers have recently proposed call graph pruning empowered by machine …
Integrated development environments (IDEs) are equipped with code inspections to warn developers of malformed or incorrect code by analyzing the code's data flow. However, the data flow analysis performed by the IDE code inspections may issue warnings in code where warnings are i…
Flaky tests, which can non-deterministically pass or fail on the same code, impose significant burden on developers by providing misleading signals during regression testing. Microsoft developers consider flaky tests as one of the top two reasons for slowing down software develop…
Cross-device replay for Android apps is challenging because apps have to adapt or even restructure their GUIs responsively upon screen-size or orientation change across devices. As a first exploratory work, this paper demonstrates that cross-device record and replay can be made s…
Software construction using multiple languages has long been a norm, yet it is still unclear if multilingual code construction has significant security implications and real security consequences. This paper aims to address this question with a large-scale study of popular multi-…
Today’s software systems are mostly developed in multiple languages (i.e., multi-language software), yet tool support for understanding and assuring these systems is rare. To facilitate future research on multi-language software engineering, this paper presents PolyFax, a toolkit…
During software evolution, developers make several changes and commit them into the repositories. Unfortunately, many of them tangle different purposes, both hampering program comprehension and reducing separation of concerns. Automated approaches with deterministic solutions hav…
Fault Localization (FL) is a precursor step to most Automated Program Repair (APR) approaches, which fix the faulty statements identified by the FL tools. We present FixLocator, a Deep Learning (DL)-based fault localization approach supporting the detection of faulty statements i…
The Android system manages access to sensitive APIs by permission enforcement. An application (app) must declare proper permissions before invoking specific Android APIs. However, there is no official documentation providing the complete list of permission-protected APIs and the …