Souti Chattopadhyay

A tale from the trenches

2020

Cognitive biases are hard-wired behaviors that influence developer actions and can set them on an incorrect course of action, necessitating backtracking. While researchers have found that cognitive biases occur in development tasks in controlled lab …

Generating Function Names to Improve Comprehension of Synthesized Programs

2024

The hope of allowing programmers to more freely express themselves has led to a proliferation of program synthesis techniques. These tools automatically derive implementations from high-level specifications of user intent. These specifications may take the …