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A core goal of Continuous Integration (CI) is to make small incremental changes to software projects, which are integrated frequently into a mainline repository or branch. This paper presents an empirical study that investigates if developers adjust ...

Continuous integration (CI) tools integrate code changes by automatically compiling, building, and executing test cases upon submission of code changes. Use of CI tools is getting increasingly popular, yet how proprietary projects reap the benefits of ...

Our industrial experience in institutionalizing defect prediction models in the software industry shows that the first step is to measure prediction metrics and defects to assess the feasibility of the tool, i.e., if the accuracy of the defect ...

Hyperparameter tuning is the black art of automatically finding a good combination of control parameters for a data miner. While widely applied in empirical Software Engineering, there has not been much discussion on which hyperparameter tuner is best ...

Software analytics libraries are widely used in mobile applications, which raises many questions about trade-offs between privacy, utility, and practicality. A promising approach to address these questions is differential privacy. This algorithmic ...

Originally conceived for compiler optimization, the program dependence graph has become a widely used internal representation for tools in many software engineering tasks. The currently available frameworks for building program dependence graphs rely on ...