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Software development is a social process: tasks such as implementing a requirement or fixing a bug typically spark conversations between the stakeholders of a software project, where they identify points of uncertainty in the solution space and explore ...

When starting a new task, a software developer must typically find one or more starting points amongst many resources (e.g., source code and other files) forming the software system. In this paper, we consider how we might recommend one resource as an ...

Data Provenance is defined as lineage or history of the given dataitem. Knowing the source of the data or the transformation of the data-source to compute the given data is critical for analyzing the quality of the data. Many transformations of data ...

Over the last years, researchers proposed a variety of assistance tools to support developers in their development environments. Many of the respective publications introduce new evaluation strategies or use custom datasets. Size and quality of the ...

Software process improvement (SPI) has been widely practiced in various domains. SPI uses a process reference model (e.g., CMMI) for planning improvement actions by identifying weaknesses and strengths of the current exercise. Identified findings are ...

Today, planning phase of software development is very important since it involves crucial decision making on resource allocation, task management and delivery timelines. It is extremely important for employees and administrative decision makers (...

This paper positions an idea for an interactive code recommendation system. In this work, candidate recommendations are abstracted as a graph-based visualization of the API usages that are decorated with the API specifications and the usage rules mined ...

Code recommendation systems predict and present what the user is likely to write next by using the user's editing context, namely textual and semantic information about the programs being edited in a programming editor. Most existing systems however ...

It is widely recognized the potential of using organizational data analysis to enable automated tools supporting process management task. The organizational repositories should be used in an active way to accordingly support dynamic decision-making ...