Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021INFO012.
Mining Software Repositories (MSR) has become a complete and mature research field, also due to the increasing number of open source projects publicly available. Repository hosting services such as GitHub provide unprecedented access to millions of events generated during development activities (e.g., code commits, pull requests), that can be mined and analyzed to extract new pieces of...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO014.
Despite the undeniable practical benefits of documentation during software development and evolution activities, its creation and maintenance is often neglected, leading to inadequate and even inexistent documentation. Thus, it is not unusual for developers to deal with unfamiliar code they have difficulties in comprehending. Browsing the official documentation, or accessing online resources,...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO010.
Opinion mining, which uses computational methods to extract opinions and sentiments from natural language texts, can be applied to various software engineering (SE) tasks. For example, developers can mine user feedback from mobile app reviews to understand how to improve their products, and software team leaders can assess developers' mood and emotions by mining communication logs or commit...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018INFO014.
Software development has become more and more pervasive, with influence in almost every human activity. To be able to fit in so many different scenarios and constantly implement new features, software developers adopted methodologies with tight development cycles, sometimes with more than one release per day. With the constant growth of modern software projects and the consequent expansion...
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In: Empirical Software Engineering, 2012, vol. 17, no. 4-5, p. 467-499
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In: Empirical Software Engineering, 2012, vol. 17, no. 4-5, p. 531-577
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In: International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, 2011, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 181-200
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2017 ; 2017INFO013.
Nowadays, software development is largely carried out using Integrated Development Environments, or IDEs. An IDE is a collection of tools and facilities to support the most diverse software engineering activities, such as writing code, debugging, and program understanding. The fact that they are integrated enables developers to find all the tools needed for the development in the same place....
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2017 ; 2017INFO005.
The knowledge possessed by developers is often not sufficient to overcome a programming problem. Short of talking to teammates, when available, developers often gather additional knowledge from development artifacts (e.g., project documentation), as well as online resources. The web has become an essential component in the modern developer’s daily life, providing a plethora of information ...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2013 ; 2013INFO003.
Our thesis is that the analysis of unstructured data supports software understanding and evolution analysis, and complements the data mined from structured sources. To this aim, we implemented the necessary toolset and investigated methods for exploring, exposing, and exploiting unstructured data.To validate our thesis, we focused on development email data. We found two main challenges in...
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