Abstract Topic modeling using models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a text mining technique to extract human-readable semantic “topics” (i.e., word clusters) from corpus of textual documents. In software engineering, topic has been used analyze data in empirical studies (e.g., find out what developers talk about online), but also build new techniques support engineering tasks sour...

Software is becoming a critical component of most products and organizational functions. The ability to continuously improve software determines how well the organization can respond market opportunities. Continuous engineering promises numerous advantages over sprint-based or plan-driven development. However, implementing continuous pipeline in an existing challenging. In this invited position...

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING is quite well de ned. In 2014, the IEEE Computer Society released the third edition of its comprehensive Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK Guide).1 Figure 1 shows part of the SWEBOK Guide’s conceptual layout. The boxes show major topics, with subtopics listed in the descending structures. Each subtopic is further broken down and supported by even d...