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LiSSA: Toward Generic Traceability Link Recovery Through Retrieval-Augmented Generation by FuchB, Dominik, Hey, Tobias, Keim, Jan, Liu, Haoyu, Ewald, Niklas, Thirolf, Tobias, Koziolek, Anne

“… These artifacts interrelate in multiple, complex ways. Therefore, many software engineering tasks are enabled - and even empowered - by a clear understanding of artifact…”
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An Empirical Study of Refactorings and Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems by Tang, Yiming, Khatchadourian, Raffi, Bagherzadeh, Mehdi, Singh, Rhia, Stewart, Ajani, Raja, Anita

“… In this paper, we fill this gap by studying refactorings, i.e., source-to-source semantics-preserving program transformations, performed in real-world, open-source software, and the technical debt issues they alleviate…”
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PairSmell: A Novel Perspective Inspecting Software Modular Structure by Zhong, Chenxing, Feitosa, Daniel, Avgeriou, Paris, Huang, Huang, Li, Yue, Zhang, He

“…) software modularization and (2) identifying design issues (e.g., smells) as refactoring opportunities…”
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Automated Software Entity Matching Between Successive Versions by Liu, Bo, Liu, Hui, Niu, Nan, Zhang, Yuxia, Li, Guangjie, Jiang, Yanjie

“…Version control systems are widely used to manage the evolution of software applications…”
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Do Developers Adopt Green Architectural Tactics for ML-Enabled Systems? A Mining Software Repository Study by De Martino, Vincenzo, Martinez-Fernandez, Silverio, Palomba, Fabio

“…As machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become more widespread, concerns about their environmental impact are increasing due to…”
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iASTMapper: An Iterative Similarity-Based Abstract Syntax Tree Mapping Algorithm by Zhang, Neng, Chen, Qinde, Zheng, Zibin, Zou, Ying

“…) have impacts on the mappings of higher-level AST nodes (e.g., statements) and vice versa. This mutual influence issue is rarely considered by existing algorithms…”
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Understanding and Enhancing Issue Prioritization in GitHub by He, Yingying, Yang, Wenhua, Pan, Minxue, Hussain, Yasir, Zhou, Yu

“…GitHub has become a prominent platform for open source software development, facilitating collaboration and communication among a diverse group of contributors…”
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A First Look at Conventional Commits Classification by Zeng, Qunhong, Zhang, Yuxia, Qiu, Zhiqing, Liu, Hui

“…Modern distributed software development relies on commits to control system versions…”
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A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Semantic Versioning in Golang Ecosystem by Li, Wenke, Wu, Feng, Fu, Cai, Zhou, Fan

“…Third-party libraries (TPLs) have become an essential component of software, accelerating development and reducing maintenance costs…”
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The Design Smells Breaking the Boundary between Android Variants and AOSP by Jin, Wuxia, Shang, Jiaowei, Zheng, Jianguo, Sun, Mengjie, Huang, Zhenyu, Fan, Ming, Liu, Ting

“…Phone vendors customize their Android variants to enhance system functionalities based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). While independent…”
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The Symptom, Cause and Repair of Workaround by Song, Daohan, Zhong, Hao, Jia, Li

“…In software development, issue tracker systems are widely used to manage bug reports…”
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Recovering Trace Links Between Software Documentation And Code by Keim, Jan, Corallo, Sophie, Fuchss, Dominik, Hey, Tobias, Telge, Tobias, Koziolek, Anne

“…Introduction Software development involves creating various arti-facts at different levels of abstraction and establishing relationships between them is…”
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Towards Better Answers: Automated Stack Overflow Post Updating by Mai, Yubo, Gao, Zhipeng, Wang, Haoye, Bi, Tingting, Hu, Xing, Xia, Xin, Sun, Jianling

“… into software projects. SO comments often point out weaknesses of a post and provide valuable insights to improve the quality of answers, while SO comments are usually missed and/or ignored, leaving these problematic code snippets untouched…”
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JITBot: An Explainable Just-In-Time Defect Prediction Bot by Khanan, Chaiyakarn, Luewichana, Worawit, Pruktharathikoon, Krissakorn, Jiarpakdee, Jirayus, Tantithamthavorn, Chakkrit, Choetkiertikul, Morakot, Ragkhitwetsagul, Chaiyong, Sunetnanta, Thanwadee

“… However, recent studies raised concerns related to the explain-ability of the predictions of many software analytics applications (i.e…”
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From Commit Message Generation to History-Aware Commit Message Completion by Eliseeva, Aleksandra, Sokolov, Yaroslav, Bogomolov, Egor, Golubev, Yaroslav, Dig, Danny, Bryksin, Timofey

“…Commit messages are crucial to software development, allowing developers to track changes and collaborate effectively…”
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Large Language Models are Few-Shot Summarizers: Multi-Intent Comment Generation via In-Context Learning by Geng, Mingyang, Wang, Shangwen, Dong, Dezun, Wang, Haotian, Li, Ge, Jin, Zhi, Mao, Xiaoguang, Liao, Xiangke

“…Code comment generation aims at generating natural language descriptions for a code snippet to facilitate developers' program comprehension activities. Despite…”
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MELT: Mining Effective Lightweight Transformations from Pull Requests by Ramos, Daniel, Mitchell, Hailie, Lynce, Ines, Manquinho, Vasco, Martins, Ruben, Goues, Claire Le

“…Software developers often struggle to update APIs, leading to manual, time-consuming, and error-prone processes…”
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Assessing the Impact of Refactoring Energy-Inefficient Code Patterns on Software Sustainability: An Industry Case Study by Mehra, Rohit, Pathania, Priyavanshi, Sharma, Vibhu Saujanya, Kaulgud, Vikrant, Podder, Sanjay, Burden, Adam P.

“…Advances in technologies like artificial intelligence and metaverse have led to a proliferation of software systems in business and everyday life…”
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Understanding Performance Concerns in the API Documentation of Data Science Libraries by Tao, Yida, Jiang, Jiefang, Liu, Yepang, Xu, Zhiwu, Qin, Shengchao

“…The development of efficient data science applications is often impeded by unbearably long execution time and rapid RAM exhaustion. Since API documentation is…”
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Using AI to Automate the Modernization of Legacy Software Applications by Nitin, Vikram

“…The task of modernizing legacy software has gained increasing attention in recent years…”
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