Rocco Oliveto

Characterizing Leveraged Stack Overflow Posts

2019

Stack Overflow is the most popular question and answer website on computer programming with more than 2.5M users, 16M questions, and a new answer posted, on average, every five seconds. This wide availability of data …

The Scent of a Smell: An Extensive Comparison Between Textual and Structural Smells

2017 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Code smells are symptoms of poor design or implementation choices that have a negative effect on several aspects of software maintenance and evolution, such as program comprehension or change- and fault-proneness. This is why researchers …

Evaluating SZZ Implementations Through a Developer-informed Oracle

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

The SZZ algorithm for identifying bug-inducing changes has been widely used to evaluate defect prediction techniques and to empirically investigate when, how, and by whom bugs are introduced. Over the years, researchers have proposed several …

Source Code Recommender Systems: The Practitioners' Perspective

2023

The automatic generation of source code is one of the long-lasting dreams in software engineering research. Several techniques have been proposed to speed up the writing of new code. For example, code completion techniques can …

Using Deep Learning to Automatically Improve Code Readability

2023

Reading source code occupies most of developer's daily activities. Any maintenance and evolution task requires developers to read and understand the code they are going to modify. For this reason, previous research focused on the …