Publications, Talks, and Manuscripts:

Does Surprisal Predict Code Comprehension Difﬁculty?

Casey Casalnuovo, Prem Devanbu, Emily Morgan

Reference PDF (Under Submission)

A Theory of Dual Channel Constraints

Casey Casalnuovo, Earl T. Barr, Santanu Kumar Bash, Prem Devanbu, Emily Morgan

Accepted at ICSE NIER track 2020. Preprint

Do People Prefer “Natural” code? (Arvix)

Casey Casalnuovo, Kevin Lee, Hulin Wang, Prem Devanbu, Emily Morgan

Early Version PDF (Manuscript, not Published)

Test Coverage in Python Programs

Casey Casalnuovo, Kenji Sagae, Prem Devanbu

Mining Software Repositories 2019

BibTeX · PDF

@inproceedings{zhai2019test,
  title={Test coverage in python programs},
  author={Zhai, Hongyu and Casalnuovo, Casey and Devanbu, Prem},
  booktitle={2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)},
  pages={116--120},
  year={2019},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Is “Naturalness" a result of deliberate choice? (Presentation)

Kevin Lee, Casey Casalnuovo

Presentation at NL4SE Workshop at FSE 2018

Reference PDF (Not Published)
Presentation Slides

Studying the Difference Between Natural and Programming Languages

Casey Casalnuovo, Kenji Sagae, Prem Devanbu

Journal of Empirical Software Engineering 2019

BibTeX · PDF

@article{casalnuovo2019studying,
  title={Studying the difference between natural and programming language corpora},
  author={Casalnuovo, Casey and Sagae, Kenji and Devanbu, Prem},
  journal={Empirical Software Engineering},
  volume={24},
  number={4},
  pages={1823--1868},
  year={2019},
  publisher={Springer}
}

Studying the Differences Between Natural and Programming Languages (Presentation)

Casey Casalnuovo

Presentation at NL4SE Workshop at AAAI 2018

Reference PDF (Not Published)
Presentation Slides

Recovering Clear, Natural Identifiers from Obfuscated JS Names.

Bogdan Vasilescu, Casey Casalnuovo, Prem Devanbu.

FSE 2017

BibTeX · PDF

@inproceedings{Vasilescu:2017:RCN:3106237.3106289,
 author = {Vasilescu, Bogdan and Casalnuovo, Casey and Devanbu, Premkumar},
 title = {Recovering Clear, Natural Identifiers from Obfuscated JS Names},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering},
 series = {ESEC/FSE 2017},
 year = {2017},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-5105-8},
 location = {Paderborn, Germany},
 pages = {683--693},
 numpages = {11},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3106237.3106289},
 doi = {10.1145/3106237.3106289},
 acmid = {3106289},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {Deobfuscation, JavaScript, Statistical Machine Translation},
}

GitcProc: A Tool for Processing and Classifying GitHub Commits.

Casey Casalnuovo, Yagnik Suchak, Baishakhi Ray, Cindy Rubio-González.

ISSTA 2017 Demo Track

BibTeX ·PDF

@inproceedings{casalnuovo2017gitcproc,
  title={Gitcproc: A tool for processing and classifying github commits},
  author={Casalnuovo, Casey and Suchak, Yagnik and Ray, Baishakhi and Rubio-Gonz{\'a}lez, Cindy},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis},
  pages={396--399},
  year={2017}
}

The Sky Is Not the Limit: Multitasking on GitHub Projects.

Bogdan Vasilescu, Kelly Blicoe, Qi Xuan, Casey Casalnuovo, Daniela Damian, Premkumar Devanbu and Vladimir Filkov.

ICSE 2016

BibTeX · PDF

@inproceedings{Vasilescu:2016:SLM:2884781.2884875,
 author = {Vasilescu, Bogdan and Blincoe, Kelly and Xuan, Qi and Casalnuovo, Casey and Damian, Daniela and Devanbu, Premkumar and Filkov, Vladimir},
 title = {The Sky is Not the Limit: Multitasking Across GitHub Projects},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering},
 series = {ICSE '16},
 year = {2016},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-3900-1},
 location = {Austin, Texas},
 pages = {994--1005},
 numpages = {12},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2884781.2884875},
 doi = {10.1145/2884781.2884875},
 acmid = {2884875},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {GitHub, multitasking, productivity},
}

Developer Onboarding in GitHub: The Role of Prior Social Links and Language Experience.

Casey Casalnuovo, Bogdan Vasilescu, Prem Devanbu, Vladimir Filkov.

ESEC/FSE, 2015.

BibTeX · PDF

@inproceedings{Casalnuovo:2015:DOG:2786805.2786854,
 author = {Casalnuovo, Casey and Vasilescu, Bogdan and Devanbu, Premkumar and Filkov, Vladimir},
 title = {Developer Onboarding in GitHub: The Role of Prior Social Links and Language Experience},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering},
 series = {ESEC/FSE 2015},
 year = {2015},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-3675-8},
 location = {Bergamo, Italy},
 pages = {817--828},
 numpages = {12},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2786805.2786854},
 doi = {10.1145/2786805.2786854},
 acmid = {2786854},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {GitHub, onboarding, productivity, social aspects},
}

Assert Use in GitHub Projects.

Casey Casalnuovo, Prem Devanbu, Abiliio Oliveira, Vladimir Filkov, and Baishakhi Ray.

ICSE, 2015.

BibTeX · PDF

@inproceedings{Casalnuovo:2015:AUG:2818754.2818846,
 author = {Casalnuovo, Casey and Devanbu, Prem and Oliveira, Abilio and Filkov, Vladimir and Ray, Baishakhi},
 title = {Assert Use in GitHub Projects},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1},
 series = {ICSE '15},
 year = {2015},
 isbn = {978-1-4799-1934-5},
 location = {Florence, Italy},
 pages = {755--766},
 numpages = {12},
 url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2818754.2818846},
 acmid = {2818846},
 publisher = {IEEE Press},
 address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
}

Note: We performed a replication of this paper with a slightly different data gathering methodology. The replication package can be found here. A replication paper explaining the rationale and differences to the original paper is attached here.