Luca Pascarella

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 …

Automating Code-Related Tasks Through Transformers: The Impact of Pre-training

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Transformers have gained popularity in the software engineering (SE) literature. These deep learning models are usually pre-trained through a self-supervised objective, meant to provide the model with basic knowledge about a language of interest (e.g., …

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 …

The NLBSE'23 Tool Competition

2023

We report on the organization and results of the second edition of the tool competition from the International Workshop on Natural Language-based Software Engineering (NLBSE'23). As in the prior edition, we organized the competition on …