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• If you want to test your CI test prioritization March 31, 2021
  Jin_Servant_ICSE21_AE.pdf (vt.edu) Many of companies talk about using AI in their software engineering processes. However, they have problems in sharing their data with researchers and students. The legal processes with open sourcing data were and are scary. The processes of setting up internal collaborations is time consuming and therefore it needs more effort. So, this […]
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• What makes a great code maintainer… March 12, 2021
  For many of us, software engineering is the possibility to create new projects, new products and cool services. We do that often, but we equally often forget about the maintenance. Well, maybe not forget, but we deliverately do not want to remember about it. It’s natural, as maintaining old code is not really anything interesting. […]
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• Siri, Write the Next Method… (article highlight) March 5, 2021
  Wen2021a.pdf (usi.ch) I’ve came across this article by accident. Essentially I do not even remember what I was looking for, but that’s maybe not so important. Either way, I really want to try this tool. This research study is about designing a tool for code completion, but not just a completion of a word/statement/variable, but […]
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• Exploring code weaknesses in StackOverflow February 26, 2021
  https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSE.2021.3058985 Whether we like it or not, software designers, programmers and architects use StackOverflow. Mostly because they want to be part of a community – help others and help themselves. However, StackOverflow has become a de-facto go-to place to find programming answers. Oftentimes, these answers include usage of libraries or other solutions. These libraries solve […]
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• Crowdsmelling… February 5, 2021
  2012.12590.pdf (arxiv.org) The concept of crowdsourcing is well known in our community. We are accustomed to reading other’s code and learning from it at the same time improving it. Even the “captcha’s” are a good example of crowdsourcing. However, crowdsmelling? Well, the idea is not as outrageous as one might think. It’s actually an interesting […]
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