Ivan Beschastnikh

Mining Specifications from Documentation using a Crowd

2019

Temporal API specifications are useful for many software engineering tasks, such as test case generation. In practice, however, APIs are rarely formally specified, inspiring researchers to develop tools that infer or mine specifications automatically.Traditional specification …

Promises and perils of using Transformer-based models for SE research

2024 · Neural Networks

Many Transformer-based pre-trained models for code have been developed and applied to code-related tasks. In this paper, we analyze 519 papers published on this topic during 2017-2023, examine the suitability of model architectures for different …