Software Engineering and Analytics Research (SOAR) Lab

What We Do

Improving software engineers’ tools and environments through empirical data analysis, natural language processing and machine learning

At the Software Engineering and Analytics Research (SOAR) Lab, a software engineering research group in the College of Computing & Informatics at Drexel University, researchers focus on improving software engineers’ tools and environments through empirical data analysis, natural language processing and machine learning.

Research Faculty & PhD Students

View a complete list of researchers on the SOAR Lab’s website.

Recent Publications

  • Imran, Mia Mohammad & Chatterjee, Preetha & Damevski, Kostadin. (2024). “Uncovering the Causes of Emotions in Software Developer Communication Using Zero-shot LLMs.” In Proceedings of the 46th International Conference onSoftware Engineering (ICSE 2024). 10.13140/RG.2.2.13040.43524. Link to full paper
  • Ehsani, Ramtin & Imran, Mia Mohammad & Zita, Robert & Damevski, Kostadin & Chatterjee, Preetha. (2024). “Incivility in Open Source Projects: A Comprehensive Annotated Dataset of Locked GitHub Issue Threads.” In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2024). Link to full paper
  • Imran, Mia Mohammad & Chatterjee, Preetha & Damevski, Kostadin. (2024). “Shedding Light on Software Engineering-specific Metaphors and Idioms.” In the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Research Track, 2024. Link to full paper
  • Mishra, Shyamal & Chatterjee, Preetha. (2024). “Exploring ChatGPT for Toxicity Detection in GitHub.” In the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), New Ideas and Emerging Results Track, 2024. 10.13140/RG.2.2.21945.13920. Link to full paper

View a complete list of publications on the SOAR Lab's website.

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