Michele Lanza

StORMeD: Stack Overflow ready made data

2015

(Q&A) website for developers, and it has been used in many approaches by software engineering researchers to mine useful data. However, the contents of a Stack Overflow discussion are inherently heterogeneous, mixing natural language, source …

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 …

A Metadata Handling API for Framework Development

2020

Frameworks play an essential role in software development, providing not only code reuse, but also design reuse. Several Java frameworks and APIs such as Spring, JPA, and CDI rely on the use of metadata, mainly …

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 …