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Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--10
Ross Jeffery and
John Stathis Function point sizing: Structure,
validity and applicability . . . . . . . 11--30
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and
Edward B. Allen and
Kalai S. Kalaichelvan and
Nishith Goel The impact of software evolution and
reuse on software quality . . . . . . . 31--44
Thomas P. Frazier and
John W. Bailey and
Melissa L. Corso Comparing Ada and FORTRAN lines of code:
Some experimental results . . . . . . . 45--59
Lionel Briand and
Khaled El Emam and
Sandro Morasca On the application of measurement theory
in software engineering . . . . . . . . 61--88
Anonymous ``In this issue'' . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Victor R. Basili Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--108
John Daly and
Andrew Brooks and
James Miller and
Marc Roper and
Murray Wood Evaluating inheritance depth on the
maintainability of object-oriented
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--132
Victor R. Basili and
Scott Green and
Oliver Laitenberger and
Filippo Lanubile and
Forrest Shull and
Sivert Sòrumgård and
Marvin V. Zelkowitz The empirical investigation of
Perspective-Based Reading . . . . . . . 133--164
Donald W. Sova and
Carol Smidts Increasing testing productivity and
software quality: A comparison of
software testing methodologies within
NASA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--188
Warren Harrison and
Victor Basili In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Khaled El Emam and
Nazim H. Madhavji An instrument for measuring the success
of the requirements engineering process
in information systems development . . . 201--240
Christopher M. Lott and
H. Dieter Rombach Repeatable software engineering
experiments for comparing
defect-detection techniques . . . . . . 241--277
John C. Munson and
Gregory A. Hall Estimating test effectiveness with
dynamic complexity measurement . . . . . 279--305
Warren Harrison and
Victor Basili ``In This Issue'' . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Warren Harrison Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--10
David Jankowski Computer-Aided Systems Engineering
Methodology Support and Its Effect on
the Output of Structured Analysis . . . 11--38
Pierfrancesco Fusaro and
Filippo Lanubile and
Giuseppe Visaggio A Replicated Experiment to Assess
Requirements Inspection Techniques . . . 39--57
Alberto Avritzer and
Elaine J. Weyuker Monitoring Smoothly Degrading Systems
for Increased Dependability . . . . . . 59--77
Victor R. Basili and
Warren Harrison In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Lionel C. Briand Guest Editor's Introduction . . . . . . 93--95
Filippo Lanubile Empirical Evaluation of Software
Maintenance Technologies . . . . . . . . 97--108
Chris F. Kemerer and
Sandra Slaughter Methodologies for Performing Empirical
Studies: Report from the International
Workshop on Empirical Studies of
Software Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . 109--118
Adam A. Porter Fundamental Laws and Assumptions of
Software Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . 119--131
Jon D. Valett The Practical Use of Empirical Studies
for Maintenance Process Improvement . . 133--142
Khaled El Emam and
Dirk Hoeltje Qualitative Analysis of a Requirements
Change Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--152
Mikael Lindvall Evaluating Impact Analysis --- A Case
Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--158
Anneliese von Mayrhauser and
A. Marie Vans On Increasing Our Knowledge of
Large-Scale Software Comprehension . . . 159--163
Sandro Morasca Applying QIP/GQM in a Maintenance
Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--166
Niclas Ohlsson and
Ann Christin Eriksson and
Mary Helander Early Risk-Management by Identification
of Fault-prone Modules . . . . . . . . . 166--173
Jarrett Rosenberg Problems and Prospects in Quantifying
Software Maintainability . . . . . . . . 173--177
Gregg Rothermel and
Mary Jean Harrold Experience With Regression Test
Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--188
David S. Rosenblum and
Elaine J. Weyuker Lessons Learned from a Regression
Testing Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . 188--191
Norman Schneidewind NASA Shuttle Software Maintenance
Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--196
Carolyn B. Seaman and
Victor R. Basili The Study of Software Maintenance
Organizations and Processes . . . . . . 197--201
Eirik Tryggeseth Report from an Experiment: Impact of
Documentation on Maintenance . . . . . . 201--207
Warren Harrison and
Victor Basili In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Robert W. Bowdidge and
William G. Griswold How Software Engineering Tools Organize
Programmer Behavior During the Task of
Data Encapsulation . . . . . . . . . . . 221--267
Christopher M. Lott A Controlled Experiment to Evaluate
On-Line Process Guidance . . . . . . . . 269--289
Lionel C. Briand and
Christian Bunse and
John W. Daly and
Christiane Differding An Experimental Comparison of the
Maintainability of Object-Oriented and
Structured Design Documents . . . . . . 291--312
Horst Zuse Comments to the Paper: Briand, Eman,
Morasca: \booktitleOn the Application of
Measurement Theory in Software
Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--316
Lionel Briand and
Khaled El Emam and
Sandro Morasca Reply to ``Comments to the Paper:
Briand, El Emam, Morasca: \booktitleOn
the Application of Measurement Theory in
Software Engineering'' . . . . . . . . . 317--322
Warren Harrison and
Victor Basili In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Andy Brooks Meta Analysis --- A Silver Bullet ---
for Meta-Analysts . . . . . . . . . . . 333--338
Barry G. Silverman and
Toufic Mehzer A Study of Strategies for Computerized
Critiquing of Programmers . . . . . . . 339--359
James D. Kiper and
Brent Auernheimer and
Charles K. Ames Visual Depiction of Decision Statements:
What is Best for Programmers and
Non-Programmers? . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--379
R. Harrison and
L. Briand and
J. Daly and
M. Kellner and
D. M. Raffo and
M. J. Shepperd Process Modelling and Empirical Studies
of Software Evolution (PMESSE'97)
Workshop Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--403
Warren Harrison and
Victor Basili In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Warren Harrison Sharing the Wealth: Accumulating and
Sharing Lessons Learned in Empirical
Software Engineering Research . . . . . 7--8
Philip M. Johnson and
Danu Tjahjono Does Every Inspection Really Need a
Meeting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--35
J. Miller and
M. Wood and
M. Roper Further Experiences with Scenarios and
Checklists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--64
Lionel C. Briand and
John W. Daly and
Jürgen Wüst A Unified Framework for Cohesion
Measurement in Object-Oriented Systems 65--117
Anonymous ``In This Issue'' . . . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
James H. Cross II and
T. Dean Hendrix and
Saeed Maghsoodloo The Control Structure Diagram: An
Overview and Initial Evaluation . . . . 131--158
John G. Bilotta and
John F. McGrew A Guttman Scaling of CMM Level 2
Practices: Investigating the
Implementation Sequences Underlying
Software Engineering Maturity . . . . . 159--177
Pierfrancesco Fusaro and
Khaled El Emam and
Bob Smith The Internal Consistencies of the 1987
SEI Maturity Questionnaire and the SPICE
Capability Dimension . . . . . . . . . . 179--201
Mary Jean Harrold and
James A. Jones and
Gregg Rothermel Empirical Studies of Control Dependence
Graph Size for C Programs . . . . . . . 203--211
Susan Wiedenbeck Conference Report: The Seventh Empirical
Studies of Programmers Workshop . . . . 213--216
Anonymous In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Viewpoint: Linking Education With
Practice: Involving Software Engineering
Educators and Researchers in the
Profession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--231
F. MacDonald and
J. Miller A Comparison of Tool-Based and
Paper-Based Software Inspection . . . . 233--253
R. Harrison and
S. J. Counsell and
R. V. Nithi An Investigation into the Applicability
and Validity of Object-Oriented Design
Metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--273
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and
Edward B. Allen Classification of Fault-Prone Software
Modules: Prior Probabilities, Costs, and
Model Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--298
Lionel Briand and
Filippo Lanubile and
Shari L. Pfleeger and
Gregg Rothermel and
Norman Schneidewind Empirical Studies of Software
Maintenance: A Report from WESS '97 . . 299--307
Anonymous In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Ross Jeffery Viewpoint: PhD Abstract Publication in
Empirical Software Engineering . . . . . 325--326
Kristian Sandahl and
Ola Blomkvist and
Joachim Karlsson and
Christian Krysander and
Mikael Lindvall and
Niclas Ohlsson An Extended Replication of an Experiment
for Assessing Methods for Software
Requirements Inspections . . . . . . . . 327--354
Adam Porter and
Lawrence Votta Comparing Detection Methods For Software
Requirements Inspections: A Replication
Using Professional Subjects . . . . . . 355--379
Per Runeson and
Claes Wohlin An Experimental Evaluation of an
Experience-Based Capture--Recapture
Method in Software Code Inspections . . 381--406
David Raffo Software Process Simulation Modeling
(ProSim'98): Workshop Report . . . . . . 407--412
Jean Scholtz and
Ben Shneiderman Introduction to Special Issue on
Usability Engineering . . . . . . . . . 5--10
F. Paterno and
C. Mancini Engineering the Design of Usable
Hypermedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--42
Zhijun Zhang and
Victor Basili and
Ben Shneiderman Perspective-based Usability Inspection:
An Empirical Validation of Efficacy . . 43--69
Susan L. Keenan and
H. Rex Hartson and
Dennis G. Kafura and
Robert S. Schulman The Usability Problem Taxonomy: A
Framework for Classification and
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--104
Warren Harrison and
Victor Basili In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Khaled El Emam Benchmarking Kappa: Interrater Agreement
in Software Process Assessments . . . . 113--133
Fiona Walkerden and
Ross Jeffery An Empirical Study of Analogy-based
Software Effort Estimation . . . . . . . 135--158
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and
Edward B. Allen A Comparative Study of Ordering and
Classification of Fault-Prone Software
Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--186
William Agresti and
Marvin Zelkowitz Introduction to the Special Issue:
Papers from the Fifth International
Symposium on Software Metrics . . . . . 195--198
Alberto Avritzer and
Elaine J. Weyuker Metrics to Assess the Likelihood of
Project Success Based on Architecture
Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--215
John D. McGregor and
Il-Hyung Cho and
Brian A. Malloy and
E. Lowry Curry and
Chanika Hobatr Collecting Metrics for CORBA-Based
Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . 217--240
Sebastian G. Elbaum and
John C. Munson Software Evolution and the Code Fault
Introduction Process . . . . . . . . . . 241--262
Giuliano Antoniol and
Chris Lokan and
Gianluigi Caldiera and
Roberto Fiutem A Function Point-Like Measure for
Object-Oriented Software . . . . . . . . 263--287
Warren Harrison and
Victor Basili ``In This Issue'' . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Andrew R. Gray and
Stephen G. MacDonell Software Metrics Data Analysis ---
Exploring the Relative Performance of
Some Commonly Used Modeling Techniques 297--316
Philip M. Johnson and
Anne M. Disney A Critical Analysis of PSP Data Quality:
Results from a Case Study . . . . . . . 317--349
R. Harrison Empirical Studies of Software
Development and Evolution (ESSDE 99)
Workshop Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--352
David Raffo and
Timo Kaltio and
Derek Partridge and
Keith Phalp and
Juan F. Ramil Empirical Studies Applied to Software
Process Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--369
K. Bennett and
E. Burd and
C. Kemerer and
M. M. Lehman and
M. Lee and
R. Madachy and
C. Mair and
D. Sjoberg and
S. Slaughter Empirical Studies of Evolving Systems 370--380
L. M. Ott and
A. Kinnula and
C. Seaman and
C. Wohlin The Role of Empirical Studies in Process
Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--386
L. Briand and
E. Arisholm and
S. Counsell and
F. Houdek and
P. Thévenod--Fosse Empirical Studies of Object-Oriented
Artifacts, Methods, and Processes: State
of the Art and Future Directions . . . . 387--404
R. Harrison and
N. Badoo and
E. Barry and
S. Biffl and
A. Parra and
B. Winter and
J. Wuest Directions and Methodologies for
Empirical Software Engineering Research 405--410
Warren Harrison and
Victor Basili ``In This Issue'' . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Warren Harrison Editorial: An Issue of Ethics:
Responsibilities and Obligations of
Empirical Software Engineering
Researchers \ldots . . . . . . . . . . . 7--9
Lesley Pek Wee Land and
Chris Sauer and
Ross Jeffery The Use of Procedural Roles in Code
Inspections: An Experimental Study . . . 11--34
L. Angelis and
I. Stamelos A Simulation Tool for Efficient Analogy
Based Cost Estimation . . . . . . . . . 35--68
Andrew Brooks and
Bruce Campbell and
Louise Scott The Human--Computer Interface
Explanation: A Correspondence on
Jankowski's Paper on Methodological
Support for Structured Analysis . . . . 69--71
Ross Jeffrey An Introduction to
``\booktitleDissertation Abstracts'' . . 73--74
Austen Rainer An Empirical Investigation of Software
Project Schedule Behaviour . . . . . . . 75--77
Warren Harrison and
Victor Basili ``In This Issue'' . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Janice Singer and
Norman Vinson Ethics and Empirical Studies of Software
Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--91
Anders Wesslén A Replicated Empirical Study of the
Impact of the Methods in the PSP on
Individual Engineers . . . . . . . . . . 93--123
A. von Mayrhauser and
C. Wohlin and
M. C. Ohlsson Assessing and Understanding Efficiency
and Success of Software Production . . . 125--154
Michael G. Gonzales and
Seshadri Paravastu Correction of the Software Science
Length Estimator Skewness for `C'
Language Programs . . . . . . . . . . . 155--159
Anonymous EASE 2000 Editorial . . . . . . . . . . 171--174
Martin Shepperd and
Michelle Cartwright and
Gada Kadoda On Building Prediction Systems for
Software Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . 175--182
Michael Berry and
Ross Jeffery An Instrument for Assessing Software
Measurement Programs . . . . . . . . . . 183--200
Martin Höst and
Björn Regnell and
Claes Wohlin Using Students as Subjects --- A
Comparative Study of Students and
Professionals in Lead-Time Impact
Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--214
Keith Phalp and
Karl Cox Picking the Right Problem Frame --- An
Empirical Study . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--228
Luigi Lavazza and
Giuseppe Valetto Requirements-Based Estimation of Change
Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--243
Karl Cox and
Keith Phalp Replicating the CREWS Use Case Authoring
Guidelines Experiment . . . . . . . . . 245--267
Andrew Brooks and
Fredrik Utbult and
Catherine Mulligan and
Ross Jeffery Early Lifecycle Work: Influence of
Individual Characteristics,
Methodological Constraints, and
Interface Constraints . . . . . . . . . 269--285
Alessandro Maccari and
Claudio Riva Empirical Evaluation of CASE Tools Usage
at Nokia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--299
Warren Harrison and
Victor Basili In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Walter F. Tichy Hints for Reviewing Empirical Work in
Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 309--312
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and
Xiaojing Yuan and
Edward B. Allen Balancing Misclassification Rates in
Classification-Tree Models of Software
Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--330
Björn Regnell and
Per Runeson and
Thomas Thelin Are the Perspectives Really Different?
--- Further Experimentation on
Scenario-Based Reading of Requirements 331--356
Tore Dyba An Instrument for Measuring the Key
Factors of Success in Software Process
Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--390
Warren Harrison and
Victor Basili In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Anonymous Welcome to the New Members of the
Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--9
Lionel C. Briand and
Jürgen Wüst and
Hakim Lounis Replicated Case Studies for
Investigating Quality Factors in
Object-Oriented Designs . . . . . . . . 11--58
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and
Edward B. Allen Controlling Overfitting in
Classification-Tree Models of Software
Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--79
Oliver Laitenberger Cost-effective Detection of Software
Defects through Perspective-based
Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84
Susan Elliott Sim and
Janice Singer and
Margaret-Anne Storey Beg, Borrow, or Steal: Using
Multidisciplinary Approaches in
Empirical Software Engineering Research 85--93
Anonymous In this Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Anneliese Amschler Andrews and
Arundeep S. Pradhan Ethical Issues in Empirical Software
Engineering: The Limits of Policy . . . 105--110
MÁrcio Eduardo Delamaro and
JosÉ Carlos Maldonado and
Alberto Pasquini and
Aditya P. Mathur Interface Mutation Test Adequacy
Criterion: An Empirical Evaluation . . . 111--142
Patrick d'Astous and
Pierre N. Robillard and
Françoise Détienne and
Willemien Visser Quantitative Measurements of the
Influence of Participant Roles during
Peer Review Meetings . . . . . . . . . . 143--159
Andreas Zendler A Preliminary Software Engineering
Theory as Investigated by Published
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--180
Anonymous 3rd International Workshop on Learning
Software Organizations (LSO'01) . . . . 181--181
Anonymous In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Editorial: Open Source and Empirical
Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
Norman Fenton Viewpoint Article: Conducting and
Presenting Empirical Software
Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--200
Norman F. Schneidewind Knowledge Requirements for Software
Quality Measurement . . . . . . . . . . 201--205
Khaled El-Emam and
Dennis Goldenson and
James McCurley and
James Herbsleb Modelling the Likelihood of Software
Process Improvement: An Exploratory
Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--229
Erik Arisholm and
Dag I. K. Sjòberg and
Magne Jòrgensen Assessing the Changeability of two
Object-Oriented Design Alternatives ---
a Controlled Experiment . . . . . . . . 231--277
Anonymous Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Janice Singer and
Norman Vinson Why and How Research Ethics Matters to
You. Yes, You! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--290
Khaled El-Emam Ethics and Open Source . . . . . . . . . 291--292
Norman Vinson and
Janice Singer Getting to the Source of Ethical Issues 293--297
Carolyn B. Seaman Ethics in Qualitative Studies of
Commercial Software Enterprises: Case
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300
Donald Gotterbarn Ethics in Qualitative Studies of
Commercial Software Enterprises: Ethical
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--304
Tracy Hall and
Valerie Flynn Ethical Issues in Software Engineering
Research: A Survey of Current Practice 305--317
Timothy C. Lethbridge Mixing Software Engineering Research and
Development --- What Needs Ethical
Review and What Does Not? . . . . . . . 319--321
Joan E. Sieber Not Your Ordinary Research . . . . . . . 323--327
Joan E. Sieber Protecting Research Subjects, Employees
and Researchers: Implications for
Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 329--341
M.-A. D. Storey and
B. Phillips and
M. Maczewski Is it Ethical to Evaluate Web-based
Learning Tools using Students? . . . . . 343--348
Michael Davis When is a Volunteer Not a Volunteer? . . 349--352
Ulrike Becker-Kornstaedt Descriptive Software Process Modeling
--- How to Deal with Sensitive Process
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--367
Warren Harrison and
Victor Basili In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
Lars Bratthall and
Magne Jòrgensen Can you Trust a Single Data Source:
Exploratory Software Engineering Case
Study? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--26
Mari Carmen Otero and
José Javier Dolado An Initial Experimental Assessment of
the Dynamic Modelling in UML . . . . . . 27--47
Shinji Kusumoto and
Akira Nishimatsu and
Keisuke Nishie and
Katsuro Inoue Experimental Evaluation of Program
Slicing for Fault Localization . . . . . 49--76
Lesley Pek Wee Land Software Group Reviews and the Impact of
Procedural Roles on Defect Detection
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--79
Anonymous In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Nathan Baddoo and
Tracy Hall Software Process Improvement Motivators:
An Analysis using Multidimensional
Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--114
Jean-Marie Burkhardt and
Françoise Détienne and
Susan Wiedenbeck Object-Oriented Program Comprehension:
Effect of Expertise, Task and Phase . . 115--156
Hareton K. N. Leung Estimating Maintenance Effort by Analogy 157--175
Isabella Wieczorek Improved Software Cost Estimation --- A
Robust and Interpretable Modelling
Method and a Comprehensive Empirical
Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180
Anonymous 2002 International Symposium on
Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE
2002) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--183
Anonymous In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Ignatios S. Deligiannis and
Martin Shepperd and
Steve Webster and
Manos Roumeliotis A Review of Experimental Investigations
into Object-Oriented Technology . . . . 193--231
Helen C. Purchase and
David Carrington and
Jo-Anne Allder Empirical Evaluation of Aesthetics-based
Graph Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--255
Stefan Biffl and
Walter J. Gutjahr Using a Reliability Growth Model to
Control Software Inspection . . . . . . 257--284
Anonymous In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and
Xiaojing Yuan and
Edward B. Allen and
Wendell D. Jones and
John P. Hudepohl Uncertain Classification of Fault-Prone
Software Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--318
C. Stringfellow and
A. Amschler Andrews An Empirical Method for Selecting
Software Reliability Growth Models . . . 319--343
Oliver Laitenberger and
Thomas Beil and
Thilo Schwinn An Industrial Case Study to Examine a
Non-Traditional Inspection
Implementation for Requirements
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--374
Magne Jòrgensen Comments on \booktitleA Simulation Tool
for Efficient Analogy Based Cost
Estimation, by L. Angelis and I.
Stamelos, published in Empirical
Software Engineering, 5, 35--68 (2000) 375--376
L. Angelis and
I. Stamelos Reply to comments by M. Jorgensen, on
the paper: \booktitleA Simulation Tool
for Efficient Analogy Based Cost
Estimation by L. Angelis and I.
Stamelos, Published in Empirical
Software Engineering, 5, 35--68 (2000) 377--381
Torgeir Dingsòyr Knowledge Management in Medium-Sized
Software Consulting Companies . . . . . 383--386
Tore Dybå Enabling Software Process Improvement:
An Investigation of the Importance of
Organizational Issues . . . . . . . . . 387--390
Anonymous In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Sarah Beecham and
Tracy Hall and
Austen Rainer Software Process Improvement Problems in
Twelve Software Companies: An Empirical
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--42
Nadine Hanebutte and
Carol S. Taylor and
Reiner R. Dumke Techniques of Successful Application of
Factor Analysis in Software Measurement 43--57
Griselda Giraudo and
Paolo Tonella Designing and Conducting an Empirical
Study on Test Management Automation . . 59--81
Mikael Lindvall and
Roseanne Tesoriero Tvedt and
Patricia Costa An Empirically-Based Process for
Software Architecture Evaluation . . . . 83--108
Lionel Briand and
Victor Basili In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Maurizio Pighin and
Vili Podgorelec and
Peter Kokol Fault-Threshold Prediction with Linear
Programming Methodologies . . . . . . . 117--138
Erik Stensrud and
Tron Foss and
Barbara Kitchenham and
Ingunn Myrtveit A Further Empirical Investigation of the
Relationship Between MRE and Project
Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--161
Emilia Mendes and
Ian Watson and
Chris Triggs and
Nile Mosley and
Steve Counsell A Comparative Study of Cost Estimation
Models for Web Hypermedia Applications 163--196
Giancarlo Succi and
Witold Pedrycz and
Milorad Stefanovic and
Barbara Russo An Investigation on the Occurrence of
Service Requests in Commercial Software
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--215
Lionel Briand and
Vic Basili In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
G. Antoniol and
R. Fiutem and
C. Lokan Object-Oriented Function Points: An
Empirical Validation . . . . . . . . . . 225--254
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and
Naeem Seliya Fault Prediction Modeling for Software
Quality Estimation: Comparing Commonly
Used Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--283
Claes Wohlin and
Anneliese Amschler Andrews Prioritizing and Assessing Software
Project Success Factors and Project
Characteristics using Subjective Data 285--308
Thomas Thelin Empirical Evaluations of Usage-Based
Reading and Fault Content Estimation for
Software Inspections . . . . . . . . . . 309--313
Lionel Briand and
Vic Basili In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--324
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and
Naeem Seliya Analogy-Based Practical Classification
Rules for Software Quality Estimation 325--350
Stephen R. Schach and
Bo Jin and
Liguo Yu and
Gillian Z. Heller and
Jeff Offutt Determining the Distribution of
Maintenance Categories: Survey versus
Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--365
Dietmar Pfahl and
Oliver Laitenberger and
Jörg Dorsch and
Günther Ruhe An Externally Replicated Experiment for
Evaluating the Learning Effectiveness of
Using Simulations in Software Project
Management Education . . . . . . . . . . 367--395
Ross Jeffery In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
Natalia Juristo and
Ana M. Moreno and
Sira Vegas Reviewing 25 Years of Testing Technique
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--44
Daniela Damian and
Didar Zowghi and
Lakshminarayanan Vaidyanathasamy and
Yogendra Pal An Industrial Case Study of Immediate
Benefits of Requirements Engineering
Process Improvement at the Australian
Center for Unisys Software . . . . . . . 45--75
Thomas Thelin and
Per Runeson and
Claes Wohlin and
Thomas Olsson and
Carina Andersson Evaluation of Usage-Based Reading ---
Conclusions after Three Experiments . . 77--110
Forrest Shull and
Manoel G. Mendoncça and
Victor Basili and
Jeffrey Carver and
José C. Maldonado and
Sandra Fabbri and
Guilherme Horta Travassos and
Maria Cristina Ferreira Knowledge-Sharing Issues in Experimental
Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 111--137
Anonymous In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--148
Marek Voká\vc and
Walter Tichy and
Dag I. K. SjÒberg and
Erik Arisholm and
Magne Aldrin A Controlled Experiment Comparing the
Maintainability of Programs Designed
with and without Design Patterns --- A
Replication in a Real Programming
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--195
Kai Chen and
Stephen R. Schach and
Liguo Yu and
Jeff Offutt and
Gillian Z. Heller Open-Source Change Logs . . . . . . . . 197--210
Claes Wohlin Are Individual Differences in Software
Development Performance Possible to
Capture Using a Quantitative Survey? . . 211--228
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and
Naeem Seliya Comparative Assessment of Software
Quality Classification Techniques: An
Empirical Case Study . . . . . . . . . . 229--257
Jeff Carver The Impact of Background and Experience
on Software Inspections . . . . . . . . 259--262
Marian Petre and
David Budgen and
Jean Scholtz A Focus on the Human Side of Software
Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--274
Jarmo J. Ahonen and
Tuukka Junttila and
Markku Sakkinen Impacts of the Organizational Model on
Testing: Three Industrial Cases . . . . 275--296
Magne Jòrgensen Regression Models of Software
Development Effort Estimation Accuracy
and Bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--314
Kjetil Molòkken-Òstvold and
Magne Jòrgensen Group Processes in Software Effort
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--334
Matthias M. Müller Are Reviews an Alternative to Pair
Programming? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--351
Helen Sharp and
Hugh Robinson An Ethnographic Study of XP Practice . . 353--375
Anonymous In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Kjetil Molòkken and
Magne Jòrgensen Expert Estimation of Web-Development
Projects: Are Software Professionals in
Technical Roles More Optimistic Than
Those in Non-Technical Roles? . . . . . 7--30
Mira Kajko-Mattsson A Survey of Documentation Practice
within Corrective Maintenance . . . . . 31--55
Iris Reinhartz-Berger and
Dov Dori OPM vs. UML--Experimenting with
Comprehension and Construction of Web
Application Models . . . . . . . . . . . 57--80
Giancarlo Succi and
Witold Pedrycz and
Snezana Djokic and
Paolo Zuliani and
Barbara Russo An Empirical Exploration of the
Distributions of the Chidamber and
Kemerer Object-Oriented Metrics Suite 81--104
Lionel Briand and
Vic Basili In this Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Amela Karahasanoviæ and
Bente Anda and
Erik Arisholm and
Siw Elisabeth Hove and
Magne Jòrgensen and
Dag I. K. Sjòberg and
Ray Welland Collecting Feedback during Software
Engineering Experiments . . . . . . . . 113--147
Mikael Svahnberg and
Claes Wohlin An Investigation of a Method for
Identifying a Software Architecture
Candidate with Respect to Quality
Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--181
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and
Naeem Seliya and
Kehan Gao Assessment of a New Three-Group Software
Quality Classification Technique: An
Empirical Case Study . . . . . . . . . . 183--218
James McDonald The Impact of Project Planning Team
Experience on Software Project Cost
Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--234
Qinbao Song and
Martin Shepperd and
Michelle Cartwright A Short Note on Safest Default
Missingness Mechanism Assumptions . . . 235--243
Anonymous In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253
Daniela Damian and
James Chisan and
Lakshminarayanan Vaidyanathasamy and
Yogendra Pal Requirements Engineering and Downstream
Software Development: Findings from a
Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--283
Bente Anda and
Dag I. K. Sjòberg Investigating the Role of Use Cases in
the Construction of Class Diagrams . . . 285--309
Timothy C. Lethbridge and
Susan Elliott Sim and
Janice Singer Studying Software Engineers: Data
Collection Techniques for Software Field
Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--341
Helen Sharp and
Mark Woodman and
Fiona Hovenden Using Metaphor to Analyse Qualitative
Data: Vulcans and Humans in Software
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--365
Jörg Zettel Methodology Support in CASE Tools and
Its Impact on Individual Acceptance and
Use: A Controlled Experiment . . . . . . 367--394
Anonymous In this Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--404
Hyunsook Do and
Sebastian Elbaum and
Gregg Rothermel Supporting Controlled Experimentation
with Testing Techniques: An
Infrastructure and its Potential Impact 405--435
Sira Vegas and
Victor Basili A Characterisation Schema for Software
Testing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . 437--466
Jan Verelst The Influence of the Level of
Abstraction on the Evolvability of
Conceptual Models of Information Systems 467--494
Yasunari Takagi and
Osamu Mizuno and
Tohru Kikuno An Empirical Approach to Characterizing
Risky Software Projects Based on
Logistic Regression Analysis . . . . . . 495--515
Judith Segal When Software Engineers Met Research
Scientists: A Case Study . . . . . . . . 517--536
Anonymous In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Michael Ellims and
James Bridges and
Darrel C. Ince The Economics of Unit Testing . . . . . 5--31
Hyunsook Do and
Gregg Rothermel and
Alex Kinneer Prioritizing JUnit Test Cases: An
Empirical Assessment and Cost--Benefits
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--70
Katerina Go\vseva-Popstojanova and
Ajay Deep Singh and
Sunil Mazimdar and
Fengbin Li Empirical Characterization of
Session-Based Workload and Reliability
for Web Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--117
José C. Maldonado and
Jeffrey Carver and
Forrest Shull and
Sandra Fabbri and
Emerson Dória and
Luciana Martimiano and
Manoel Mendonça and
Victor Basili Perspective-Based Reading: A Replicated
Experiment Focused on Individual
Reviewer Effectiveness . . . . . . . . . 119--142
Sharifah Syed-Abdullah and
Mike Holcombe and
Marian Gheorge The Impact of an Agile Methodology on
the Well Being of Development Teams . . 143--167
Anonymous In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172
Avik Sinha and
Carol Smidts An experimental evaluation of a
higher-ordered-typed-functional
specification-based test-generation
technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--202
Daniel Karlström and
Per Runeson Integrating Agile software development
into stage-gate managed product
development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--225
Christian Bunse Using patterns for the refinement and
translation of UML models: A controlled
experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--267
Panagiotis Sfetsos and
Lefteris Angelis and
Ioannis Stamelos Investigating the Extreme programming
system --- an empirical study . . . . . 269--301
Johan Natt och Dag and
Thomas Thelin and
Björn Regnell An experiment on linguistic tool support
for consolidation of requirements from
multiple sources in market-driven
product development . . . . . . . . . . 303--329
Anonymous EMSE special issue from ICSM and Metrics 333--334
Ahmed E. Hassan and
Richard C. Holt Replaying development history to assess
the effectiveness of change propagation
tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--367
Daniel M. German An empirical study of fine-grained
software modifications . . . . . . . . . 369--393
Mika V. Mäntylä and
Casper Lassenius Subjective evaluation of software
evolvability using code smells: An
empirical study . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--431
Jingyue Li and
Finn Olav Bjòrnson and
Reidar Conradi and
Vigdis B. Kampenes An empirical study of variations in
COTS-based software development
processes in the Norwegian IT industry 433--461
Per Jönsson and
Claes Wohlin Benchmarking $k$-nearest neighbour
imputation with homogeneous Likert data ??
Lionel Briand and
Victor Basili In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--492
Jane Huffman Hayes and
Jeff Offutt Input validation analysis and testing 493--522
Jeffrey Carver and
Forrest Shull and
Victor Basili Can observational techniques help
novices overcome the software inspection
learning curve? An empirical
investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--539
Girish H. Subramanian and
Parag C. Pendharkar and
Mary Wallace An empirical study of the effect of
complexity, platform, and program type
on software development effort of
business applications . . . . . . . . . 541--553
Bente Anda and
Kai Hansen and
Ingolf Gullesen and
Hanne Kristin Thorsen Experiences from introducing UML-based
development in a large safety-critical
project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--581
Mats Grindal and
Birgitta Lindström and
Jeff Offutt and
Sten F. Andler An evaluation of combination strategies
for test case selection . . . . . . . . 583--611
Anonymous Empirical software engineering:
Industrial experience reports . . . . . 613--613
Lionel Briand and
Victor Basili In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Lena Karlsson and
Thomas Thelin and
Björn Regnell and
Patrik Berander and
Claes Wohlin Pair-wise comparisons versus planning
game partitioning --- experiments on
requirements prioritisation techniques 3--33
Hél\`ene Waeselynck and
Pascale Thévenod-Fosse and
Olfa Abdellatif-Kaddour Simulated annealing applied to test
generation: landscape characterization
and stopping criteria . . . . . . . . . 35--63
Jingzhou Li and
Guenther Ruhe and
Ahmed Al-Emran and
Michael M. Richter A flexible method for software effort
estimation by analogy . . . . . . . . . 65--106
Victor R. Basili and
Marvin V. Zelkowitz and
Dag I. K. Sjòberg and
Philip Johnson and
Anthony J. Cowling Protocols in the use of empirical
software engineering artifacts . . . . . 107--119
Lionel Briand and
Vic Basili In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Liguo Yu Understanding component co-evolution
with a study on Linux . . . . . . . . . 123--141
Xiangyu Zhang and
Neelam Gupta and
Rajiv Gupta A study of effectiveness of dynamic
slicing in locating real faults . . . . 143--160
Man Xiao and
Mohamed El-Attar and
Marek Reformat and
James Miller Empirical evaluation of optimization
algorithms when used in goal-oriented
automated test data generation
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--239
Carina Andersson A replicated empirical study of a
selection method for software
reliability growth models . . . . . . . ??
Lionel Briand and
Vic Basili In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242
Douglas Kirk and
Marc Roper and
Murray Wood Identifying and addressing problems in
object-oriented framework reuse . . . . 243--274
Steve Counsell and
George Loizou and
Rajaa Najjar Quality of manual data collection in
Java software: an empirical
investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--293
Raimund Moser and
Barbara Russo and
Giancarlo Succi Empirical analysis on the correlation
between GCC compiler warnings and
revision numbers of source files in five
industrial software projects . . . . . . 295--310
Allen E. Milewski Global and task effects in
information-seeking among software
engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--326
Lionel Briand and
Victor Basili In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--329
Ping Li and
Toan Huynh and
Marek Reformat and
James Miller A practical approach to testing GUI
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--357
Dawn Lawrie and
Henry Feild and
David Binkley Quantifying identifier quality: an
analysis of trends . . . . . . . . . . . 359--388
Hayden Melton and
Ewan Tempero An empirical study of cycles among
classes in Java . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--415
Mikael Lindvall and
Ioana Rus and
Paolo Donzelli and
Atif Memon and
Marvin Zelkowitz and
Aysu Betin-Can and
Tevfik Bultan and
Chris Ackermann and
Bettina Anders and
Sima Asgari and
Victor Basili and
Lorin Hochstein and
Jörg Fellmann and
Forrest Shull and
Roseanne Tvedt and
et al Experimenting with software testbeds for
evaluating new technologies . . . . . . 417--444
Lionel Briand and
Victor Basili In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--446
Sebastian Elbaum and
Satya Kanduri and
Anneliese Andrews Trace anomalies as precursors of field
failures: an empirical study . . . . . . 447--469
Parastoo Mohagheghi and
Reidar Conradi Quality, productivity and economic
benefits of software reuse: a review of
industrial studies . . . . . . . . . . . 471--516
Marcela Genero and
Esperanza Manso and
Aaron Visaggio and
Gerardo Canfora and
Mario Piattini Building measure-based prediction models
for UML class diagram maintainability 517--549
Paolo Tonella and
Marco Torchiano and
Bart Du Bois and
Tarja Systä Empirical studies in reverse
engineering: state of the art and future
trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--571
Lionel Briand and
Victor Basili In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--574
Dowming Yeh and
Pei-chen Sun and
William Chu and
Chien-Lung Lin and
Hongji Yang An empirical study of a reverse
engineering method for the aggregation
relationship based on operation
propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--592
Matthias M. Müller and
Andreas Höfer The effect of experience on the
test-driven development process . . . . 593--615
Margaret A. Wojcicki and
Paul Strooper Maximising the information gained from a
study of static analysis technologies
for concurrent software . . . . . . . . 617--645
Rob Kommeren and
Päivi Parviainen Philips experiences in global
distributed software development . . . . 647--660
José Maldonado and
Claes Wohlin In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Emilia Mendes and
Chris Lokan Replicating studies on cross- vs
single-company effort models using the
ISBSG Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--37
Muhammad Ali Babar and
Barbara Kitchenham and
Ross Jeffery Comparing distributed and face-to-face
meetings for software architecture
evaluation: A controlled experiment . . 39--62
Jingzhou Li and
Guenther Ruhe Analysis of attribute weighting
heuristics for analogy-based software
effort estimation method AQUA$^+$ . . . 63--96
Barbara Kitchenham and
Hiyam Al-Khilidar and
Muhammed Ali Babar and
Mike Berry and
Karl Cox and
Jacky Keung and
Felicia Kurniawati and
Mark Staples and
He Zhang and
Liming Zhu Evaluating guidelines for reporting
empirical software engineering studies 97--121
Lionel Briand and
Vic Basili In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
Ho-Won Jung and
Dennis R. Goldenson The internal consistency and precedence
of key process areas in the capability
maturity model for software . . . . . . 125--146
Panagiotis Sentas and
Lefteris Angelis and
Ioannis Stamelos A statistical framework for analyzing
the duration of software projects . . . 147--184
Forrest J. Shull and
Jeffrey C. Carver and
Sira Vegas and
Natalia Juristo The role of replications in Empirical
Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 211--218
Barbara Kitchenham The role of replications in empirical
software engineering --- a word of
warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--221
James Miller Triangulation as a basis for knowledge
discovery in software engineering . . . 223--228
Adalberto Nobiato Crespo and
Mario Jino and
Alberto Pasquini and
José Carlos Maldonado A binomial software reliability model
based on coverage of structural testing
criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Lionel Briand and
Victor Basili In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Yvonne Dittrich and
Kari Rönkkö and
Jeanette Eriksson and
Christina Hansson and
Olle Lindeberg Cooperative method development . . . . . 231--260
John Moses and
Malcolm Farrow Tests for consistent measurement of
external subjective software quality
attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--287
Nachiappan Nagappan and
E. Michael Maximilien and
Thirumalesh Bhat and
Laurie Williams Realizing quality improvement through
test driven development: results and
experiences of four industrial teams . . 289--302
M. Pikkarainen and
J. Haikara and
O. Salo and
P. Abrahamsson and
J. Still The impact of Agile practices on
communication in software development 303--337
Lionel Briand and
Victor Basili In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--342
Mark Hennessy and
James F. Power Analysing the effectiveness of
rule-coverage as a reduction criterion
for test suites of grammar-based
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--368
David Budgen and
Barbara A. Kitchenham and
Stuart M. Charters and
Mark Turner and
Pearl Brereton and
Stephen G. Linkman Presenting software engineering results
using structured abstracts: a randomised
experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--468
Silvia T. Acuña and
Marta Gómez and
Natalia Juristo Towards understanding the relationship
between team climate and software
quality --- a quasi-experimental study ??
Wes Masri Exploiting the empirical characteristics
of program dependences for improved
forward computation of dynamic slices ??
Tim Menzies Editorial, special issue, repeatable
experiments in software engineering . . 469--471
Elaine J. Weyuker and
Thomas J. Ostrand and
Robert M. Bell Do too many cooks spoil the broth? Using
the number of developers to enhance
defect prediction models . . . . . . . . 539--559
Yue Jiang and
Bojan Cukic and
Yan Ma Techniques for evaluating fault
prediction models . . . . . . . . . . . 561--595
Norman Fenton and
Martin Neil and
William Marsh and
Peter Hearty and
\Lukasz Radli\'nski and
Paul Krause On the effectiveness of early life cycle
defect prediction with Bayesian Nets . . ??
A. Güne\cs Koru and
Khaled El Emam and
Dongsong Zhang and
Hongfang Liu and
Divya Mathew Theory of relative defect proneness . . ??
Susan Elliott Sim and
Massimiliano Di Penta Guest Editors' introduction: special
issue from the 13th Working Conference
on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2006) . . . 597--600
Raimar Falke and
Pierre Frenzel and
Rainer Koschke Empirical evaluation of clone detection
using syntax suffix trees . . . . . . . 601--643
Jens Knodel and
Dirk Muthig and
Matthias Naab An experiment on the role of graphical
elements in architecture visualization 693--726
Marco Lormans and
Arie van Deursen and
Hans-Gerhard Gross An industrial case study in
reconstructing requirements views . . . 727--760
Cory J. Kapser and
Michael W. Godfrey ``Cloning considered harmful''
considered harmful: patterns of cloning
in software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Letha Etzkorn and
Tim Menzies Special issue on information retrieval
for program comprehension . . . . . . . 1--4
Denys Poshyvanyk and
Andrian Marcus and
Rudolf Ferenc and
Tibor Gyimóthy Using information retrieval based
coupling measures for impact analysis 5--32
Robert Tairas and
Jeff Gray An information retrieval process to aid
in the analysis of code clones . . . . . 33--56
Andrea De Lucia and
Rocco Oliveto and
Genoveffa Tortora Assessing IR-based traceability recovery
tools through controlled experiments . . 57--92
Brendan Cleary and
Chris Exton and
Jim Buckley and
Michael English An empirical analysis of information
retrieval based concept location
techniques in software comprehension . . 93--130
Anita Gupta and
Jingyue Li and
Reidar Conradi and
Harald Rònneberg and
Einar Landre A case study comparing defect profiles
of a reused framework and of
applications reusing it . . . . . . . . 227--255
Rattikorn Hewett and
Phongphun Kijsanayothin On modeling software defect repair time ??
Per Runeson and
Martin Höst Guidelines for conducting and reporting
case study research in software
engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Panagiotis Sfetsos and
Ioannis Stamelos and
Lefteris Angelis and
Ignatios Deligiannis An experimental investigation of
personality types impact on pair
effectiveness in pair programming . . . ??
Stephan Diehl and
Harald C. Gall and
Ahmed E. Hassan Guest Editors' introduction: special
issue on mining software repositories 257--261
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and
Gregorio Robles and
Martin Michlmayr and
Juan José Amor and
Daniel M. German Macro-level software evolution: a case
study of a large software compilation 262--285
Kai Pan and
Sunghun Kim and
E. James Whitehead, Jr. Toward an understanding of bug fix
patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--315
Lucian Voinea and
Alexandru Telea Visual querying and analysis of large
software repositories . . . . . . . . . 316--340
Ben H. Smith and
Laurie Williams On guiding the augmentation of an
automated test suite via mutation
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--369
Toan Huynh and
James Miller Another viewpoint on ``Evaluating web
software reliability based on workload
and failure data extracted from server
logs'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--396
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim and
Marcello Thiry and
Djone Kochanski Empirical evaluation of an educational
game on software measurement . . . . . . 418--452
Jihyun Lee and
Sungwon Kang and
Chang-Ki Kim Software architecture evaluation methods
based on cost benefit analysis and
quantitative decision making . . . . . . 453--475
Stefan Koch Exploring the effects of SourceForge.net
coordination and communication tools on
the efficiency of open source projects
using data envelopment analysis . . . . ??
Oscar Dieste and
Anna Grimán and
Natalia Juristo Developing search strategies for
detecting relevant experiments . . . . . 513--539
Burak Turhan and
Tim Menzies and
Ay\cse B. Bener and
Justin Di Stefano On the relative value of cross-company
and within-company data for defect
prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540--578
Alexander Lam and
Barry Boehm Experiences in developing and applying a
software engineering technology testbed 579--601
Mohamed El-Attar and
James Miller A subject-based empirical evaluation of
SSUCD's performance in reducing
inconsistencies in use case models . . . ??
Y. F. Li and
M. Xie and
T. N. Goh A study of the non-linear adjustment for
analogy based software cost estimation 603--643
Andrea Herrmann and
Barbara Paech Practical challenges of requirements
prioritization based on risk estimation 644--684
José A. Cruz-Lemus and
Marcela Genero and
M. Esperanza Manso and
Sandro Morasca and
Mario Piattini Assessing the understandability of UML
statechart diagrams with composite
states --- A family of empirical studies 685--719
Gürcan Güle\csir and
Klaas van den Berg and
Lodewijk Bergmans and
Mehmet Ak\csit Experimental evaluation of a tool for
the verification and transformation of
source code in event-driven systems . . 720--777
Suresh Thummalapenta and
Luigi Cerulo and
Lerina Aversano and
Massimiliano Di Penta An empirical study on the maintenance of
source code clones . . . . . . . . . . . 1--34
Jeffrey C. Carver and
Letizia Jaccheri and
Sandro Morasca and
Forrest Shull A checklist for integrating student
empirical studies with research and
teaching goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--59
Mohammad Azzeh and
Daniel Neagu and
Peter I. Cowling Fuzzy grey relational analysis for
software effort estimation . . . . . . . 60--90
Darja \vSmite and
Claes Wohlin and
Tony Gorschek and
Robert Feldt Empirical evidence in global software
engineering: a systematic review . . . . 91--118
Xuchang Zou and
Raffaella Settimi and
Jane Cleland-Huang Improving automated requirements trace
retrieval: a study of term-based
enhancement methods . . . . . . . . . . 119--146
Hideaki Hata and
Osamu Mizuno and
Tohru Kikuno Fault-prone module detection using
large-scale text features based on spam
filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--165
Hans Christian Benestad and
Bente Anda and
Erik Arisholm Understanding cost drivers of software
evolution: a quantitative and
qualitative investigation of change
effort in two evolving software systems 166--203
Seiyoung Lee and
Hwan-Seung Yong Distributed Agile: project management in
a global environment . . . . . . . . . . 204--217
Randy L. Hackbarth and
Audris Mockus and
John Douglas Palframan and
David M. Weiss Assessing the state of software in a
large enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--249
Davide Falessi and
Muhammad Ali Babar and
Giovanni Cantone and
Philippe Kruchten Applying empirical software engineering
to software architecture: challenges and
lessons learned . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--276
Elaine J. Weyuker and
Thomas J. Ostrand and
Robert M. Bell Comparing the effectiveness of several
modeling methods for fault prediction 277--295
Swapna S. Gokhale and
Robert E. Mullen A multiplicative model of software
defect repair times . . . . . . . . . . 296--319
Laurie Williams Guest editorial: Special issue on
software reliability engineering . . . . 321--322
Zibin Zheng and
Michael R. Lyu An adaptive QoS-aware fault tolerance
strategy for web services . . . . . . . 323--345
Eduardo Cunha de Almeida and
Gerson Sunyé and
Yves Le Traon and
Patrick Valduriez Testing peer-to-peer systems . . . . . . 346--379
Constantin Sârbu and
Andréas Johansson and
Neeraj Suri and
Nachiappan Nagappan Profiling the operational behavior of OS
device drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--422
Michael Kläs and
Haruka Nakao and
Frank Elberzhager and
Jürgen Münch Support planning and controlling of
early quality assurance by combining
expert judgment and defect data --- a
case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--454
Andrea De Lucia and
Carmine Gravino and
Rocco Oliveto and
Genoveffa Tortora An experimental comparison of ER and UML
class diagrams for data modelling . . . 455--492
Gerardo Cepeda Porras and
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc An empirical study on the efficiency of
different design pattern representations
in UML class diagrams . . . . . . . . . 493--522
Nikolaos Mittas and
Lefteris Angelis LSEbA: least squares regression and
estimation by analogy in a
semi-parametric model for software cost
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--555
Toan Huynh and
James Miller An empirical investigation into open
source web applications' implementation
vulnerabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 556--576
Gunes Koru and
Hongfang Liu and
Dongsong Zhang and
Khaled El Emam Testing the theory of relative defect
proneness for closed-source software . . 577--598
George Michaelides and
Chris Thomson and
Stephen Wood Measuring fidelity to Extreme
programming: a psychometric approach . . 599--617
Barbara A. Kitchenham and
Pearl Brereton and
Mark Turner and
Mahmood K. Niazi and
Stephen Linkman and
Rialette Pretorius and
David Budgen Refining the systematic literature
review process --- two
participant-observer case studies . . . 618--653
Kai Petersen and
Claes Wohlin The effect of moving from a plan-driven
to an incremental software development
approach with Agile practices . . . . . 654--693
Massimiliano Di Penta and
Simon Poulding Introduction to the special issue on
search based software engineering . . . 1--4
Iain Bate and
Usman Khan WCET analysis of modern processors using
multi-criteria optimisation . . . . . . 5--28
Juan J. Durillo and
Yuanyuan Zhang and
Enrique Alba and
Mark Harman and
Antonio J. Nebro A study of the bi-objective next release
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--60
Brady J. Garvin and
Myra B. Cohen and
Matthew B. Dwyer Evaluating improvements to a
meta-heuristic search for constrained
interaction testing . . . . . . . . . . 61--102
Alessandro Marchetto and
Paolo Tonella Using search-based algorithms for Ajax
event sequence generation during testing 103--140
Segla Kpodjedo and
Filippo Ricca and
Philippe Galinier and
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and
Giuliano Antoniol Design evolution metrics for defect
prediction in object oriented systems 141--175
Steve Bannerman and
Andrew Martin A multiple comparative study of
test-with development product changes
and their effects on team speed and
product quality . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--210
Anna Corazza and
Sergio Di Martino and
Filomena Ferrucci and
Carmine Gravino and
Emilia Mendes Investigating the use of Support Vector
Regression for web effort estimation . . 211--243
David Budgen and
Andy J. Burn and
Barbara Kitchenham Reporting computing projects through
structured abstracts: a quasi-experiment 244--277
Rados\law Hofman Behavioral economics in software quality
engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--293
Natalia Juristo and
Sira Vegas The role of non-exact replications in
software engineering experiments . . . . 295--324
Andy Zaidman and
Bart Van Rompaey and
Arie van Deursen and
Serge Demeyer Studying the co-evolution of production
and test code in open source and
industrial developer test processes
through repository mining . . . . . . . 325--364
Martin Ivarsson and
Tony Gorschek A method for evaluating rigor and
industrial relevance of technology
evaluations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--395
Daryl Posnett and
Christian Bird and
Prem Devanbu An empirical study on the influence of
pattern roles on change-proneness . . . 396--423
Tore Dybå and
Rafael Prikladnicki and
Kari Rönkkö and
Carolyn Seaman and
Jonathan Sillito Qualitative research in software
engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--429
Laurie McLeod and
Stephen G. MacDonell and
Bill Doolin Qualitative research on software
development: a longitudinal case study
methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--459
Susan Elliott Sim and
Thomas A. Alspaugh Getting the whole story: an experience
report on analyzing data elicited using
the war stories procedure . . . . . . . 460--486
Steve Adolph and
Wendy Hall and
Philippe Kruchten Using grounded theory to study the
experience of software development . . . 487--513
Lutz Prechelt and
Christopher Oezbek The search for a research method for
studying OSS process innovation . . . . 514--537
Trosky B. Callo Arias and
Pieter van der Spek and
Paris Avgeriou A practice-driven systematic review of
dependency analysis solutions . . . . . 544--586
Anne Martens and
Heiko Koziolek and
Lutz Prechelt and
Ralf Reussner From monolithic to component-based
performance evaluation of software
architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--622
Michel Wermelinger and
Yijun Yu and
Angela Lozano and
Andrea Capiluppi Assessing architectural evolution: a
case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--666
Zude Li and
Nazim H. Madhavji and
Syed Shariyar Murtaza and
Mechelle Gittens and
Andriy V. Miranskyy and
David Godwin and
Enzo Cialini Characteristics of multiple-component
defects and architectural hotspots: a
large system case study . . . . . . . . 667--702
Muhammad Ali Babar and
Patricia Lago and
Arie Van Deursen Empirical research in software
architecture: opportunities, challenges,
and approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Martin P. Robillard and
Robert DeLine A field study of API learning obstacles 703--732
Carol K. Gonzales and
Gondy Leroy Eliciting user requirements using
Appreciative Inquiry . . . . . . . . . . 733--772
Meghan Revelle and
Malcom Gethers and
Denys Poshyvanyk Using structural and textual information
to capture feature coupling in
object-oriented software . . . . . . . . 773--811
Steffen Herbold and
Jens Grabowski and
Stephan Waack Calculation and optimization of
thresholds for sets of software metrics 812--841
Tim Menzies and
Martin Shepperd Special issue on repeatable results in
software engineering prediction . . . . 1--17
Brendan Murphy The difficulties of building generic
reliability models for software . . . . 18--22
Ingunn Myrtveit and
Erik Stensrud Validity and reliability of evaluation
procedures in comparative studies of
effort prediction models . . . . . . . . 23--33
Nikolaos Mittas and
Lefteris Angelis A permutation test based on regression
error characteristic curves for software
cost estimation models . . . . . . . . . 34--61
Burak Turhan On the dataset shift problem in software
engineering prediction models . . . . . 62--74
Jesús M. González-Barahona and
Gregorio Robles On the reproducibility of empirical
software engineering studies based on
data retrieved from development
repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--89
Mohammad Azzeh A replicated assessment and comparison
of adaptation techniques for
analogy-based effort estimation . . . . 90--127
Serdar Tasiran and
M. Erkan Keremo\uglu and
Kivanç Mu\cslu Location pairs: a test coverage metric
for shared-memory concurrent programs 129--165
Renato Maia and
Renato Cerqueira and
Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza and
Tomás Guisasola-Gorham A qualitative human-centric evaluation
of flexibility in middleware
implementations . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--199
Hongmin Lu and
Yuming Zhou and
Baowen Xu and
Hareton Leung and
Lin Chen The ability of object-oriented metrics
to predict change-proneness: a
meta-analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--242
Foutse Khomh and
Massimiliano Di Penta and
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and
Giuliano Antoniol An exploratory study of the impact of
antipatterns on class change- and
fault-proneness . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--275
Toma\vz Kosar and
Marjan Mernik and
Jeffrey C. Carver Program comprehension of domain-specific
and general-purpose languages:
comparison using a family of experiments 276--304
Krzysztof Wnuk and
Martin Höst and
Björn Regnell Replication of an experiment on
linguistic tool support for
consolidation of requirements from
multiple sources . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--344
Michael Godfrey and
Jim Whitehead Introduction to the special issue on
software repository mining in 2009 . . . 345--347
Jayalath Ekanayake and
Jonas Tappolet and
Harald C. Gall and
Abraham Bernstein Time variance and defect prediction in
software projects . . . . . . . . . . . 348--389
Yonghee Shin and
Robert M. Bell and
Thomas J. Ostrand and
Elaine J. Weyuker On the use of calling structure
information to improve fault prediction 390--423
Sushil Krishna Bajracharya and
Cristina Videira Lopes Analyzing and mining a code search
engine usage log . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--466
Lile Palma Hattori and
Michele Lanza and
Romain Robbes Refining code ownership with synchronous
changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--499
Jim Whitehead and
Thomas Zimmermann Introduction to the Special Issue on
Mining Software Repositories in 2010 . . 500--502
Foyzur Rahman and
Christian Bird and
Premkumar Devanbu Clones: what is that smell? . . . . . . 503--530
Marco D'Ambros and
Michele Lanza and
Romain Robbes Evaluating defect prediction approaches:
a benchmark and an extensive comparison 531--577
Shane McIntosh and
Bram Adams and
Ahmed E. Hassan The evolution of Java build systems . . 578--608
Rashina Hoda and
James Noble and
Stuart Marshall Developing a grounded theory to explain
the practices of self-organizing Agile
teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--639
Fabio Calefato and
Daniela Damian and
Filippo Lanubile Computer-mediated communication to
support distributed requirements
elicitations and negotiations tasks . . 640--674
Minna Pikkarainen and
Outi Salo and
Raija Kuusela and
Pekka Abrahamsson Strengths and barriers behind the
successful Agile deployment --- insights
from the three software intensive
companies in Finland . . . . . . . . . . 675--702
Martin Monperrus and
Michael Eichberg and
Elif Tekes and
Mira Mezini What should developers be aware of? An
empirical study on the directives of API
documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--737
Cuauhtemoc Lopez-Martin and
Claudia Isaza and
Arturo Chavoya Software development effort prediction
of industrial projects applying a
general regression neural network . . . 738--756
Ekrem Kocaguneli and
Tim Menzies and
Jacky W. Keung Kernel methods for software effort
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24
Yonghee Shin and
Laurie Williams Can traditional fault prediction models
be used for vulnerability prediction? 25--59
Andrea Capiluppi and
Daniel Izquierdo-Cortázar Effort estimation of FLOSS projects: a
study of the Linux kernel . . . . . . . 60--88
Parastoo Mohagheghi and
Wasif Gilani and
Alin Stefanescu and
Miguel A. Fernandez An empirical study of the state of the
practice and acceptance of model-driven
engineering in four industrial cases . . 89--116
Uzma Raja All complaints are not created equal:
text analysis of open source software
defect reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--138
Elizabeth Ashlee Holbrook and
Jane Huffman Hayes and
Alex Dekhtyar and
Wenbin Li A study of methods for textual
satisfaction assessment . . . . . . . . 139--176
Giuliano Antoniol and
Keith B. Gallagher Preface to the special issue on program
comprehension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180
Andy Zaidman and
Nick Matthijssen and
Margaret-Anne Storey and
Arie van Deursen Understanding Ajax applications by
connecting client and server-side
execution traces . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--218
Dave Binkley and
Marcia Davis and
Dawn Lawrie and
Jonathan I. Maletic and
Christopher Morrell and
Bonita Sharif The impact of identifier style on effort
and comprehension . . . . . . . . . . . 219--276
Bogdan Dit and
Meghan Revelle and
Denys Poshyvanyk Integrating information retrieval,
execution and link analysis algorithms
to improve feature location in software 277--309
Ralf Lämmel and
Ekaterina Pek Understanding privacy policies . . . . . 310--374
Nicolas Bettenburg and
Ahmed E. Hassan Studying the impact of social
interactions on software quality . . . . 375--431
Tim Menzies and
Gunes Koru Predictive models in software
engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434
Thomas Schulz and
\Lukasz Radli\'nski and
Thomas Gorges and
Wolfgang Rosenstiel Predicting the Flow of Defect Correction
Effort using a Bayesian Network Model 435--477
Robert M. Bell and
Thomas J. Ostrand and
Elaine J. Weyuker The limited impact of individual
developer data on software defect
prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--505
A. Corazza and
S. Di Martino and
F. Ferrucci and
C. Gravino and
F. Sarro and
E. Mendes Using tabu search to configure support
vector regression for effort estimation 506--546
Mel Ó Cinnéide and
Myra B. Cohen Introduction to the special issue on
search based software engineering . . . 547--549
Shin Yoo and
Mark Harman and
Shmuel Ur GPGPU test suite minimisation: search
based software engineering performance
improvement using graphics cards . . . . 550--593
Andrea Arcuri and
Gordon Fraser Parameter tuning or default values? An
empirical investigation in search-based
software engineering . . . . . . . . . . 594--623
Gursimran S. Walia and
Jeffrey C. Carver Using error abstraction and
classification to improve requirement
quality: conclusions from a family of
four empirical studies . . . . . . . . . 625--658
Yeong-Seok Seo and
Doo-Hwan Bae On the value of outlier elimination on
software effort estimation research . . 659--698
Janet Feigenspan and
Christian Kästner and
Sven Apel and
Jörg Liebig and
Michael Schulze and
Raimund Dachselt and
Maria Papendieck and
Thomas Leich and
Gunter Saake Do background colors improve program
comprehension in the #ifdef hell? . . . 699--745
Heiko Koziolek and
Bastian Schlich and
Steffen Becker and
Michael Hauck Performance and reliability prediction
for evolving service-oriented software
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746--790
Neil Walkinshaw and
Bernard Lambeau and
Christophe Damas and
Kirill Bogdanov and
Pierre Dupont STAMINA: a competition to encourage the
development and assessment of software
model inference techniques . . . . . . . 791--824
Marijn J. H. Heule and
Sicco Verwer Software model synthesis using
satisfiability solvers . . . . . . . . . 825--856
Martin Pinzger and
Giuliano Antoniol Guest editorial: reverse engineering . . 857--858
Michaela Greiler and
Arie van Deursen What your plug-in test suites really
test: an integration perspective on test
suite understanding . . . . . . . . . . 859--900
Gabriele Bavota and
Andrea De Lucia and
Andrian Marcus and
Rocco Oliveto Using structural and semantic measures
to improve software modularization . . . 901--932
Huzefa Kagdi and
Malcom Gethers and
Denys Poshyvanyk Integrating conceptual and logical
couplings for change impact analysis in
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933--969
Fabian Beck and
Stephan Diehl On the impact of software evolution on
software clustering . . . . . . . . . . 970--1004
Emad Shihab and
Akinori Ihara and
Yasutaka Kamei and
Walid M. Ibrahim and
Masao Ohira and
Bram Adams and
Ahmed E. Hassan and
Ken-ichi Matsumoto Studying re-opened bugs in open source
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005--1042
Tao Xie and
Thomas Zimmermann and
Arie van Deursen Introduction to the special issue on
mining software repositories . . . . . . 1043--1046
Chris Parnin and
Christian Bird and
Emerson Murphy-Hill Adoption and use of Java generics . . . 1047--1089
Dennis Pagano and
Walid Maalej How do open source communities blog? . . 1090--1124
Abram Hindle and
Neil A. Ernst and
Michael W. Godfrey and
John Mylopoulos Automated topic naming . . . . . . . . . 1125--1155
Oscar Callaú and
Romain Robbes and
Éric Tanter and
David Röthlisberger How (and why) developers use the dynamic
features of programming languages: the
case of smalltalk . . . . . . . . . . . 1156--1194
Julius Davies and
Daniel M. German and
Michael W. Godfrey and
Abram Hindle Software Bertillonage . . . . . . . . . 1195--1237
Gerardo Canfora and
Luigi Cerulo and
Marta Cimitile and
Massimiliano Di Penta How changes affect software entropy: an
empirical study . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--38
Rodrigo Pastl Pontes and
Paulo Claudino Véras and
Ana Maria Ambrosio and
Emília Villani Contributions of model checking and CoFI
methodology to the development of space
embedded software . . . . . . . . . . . 39--68
Jeff Offutt and
Vasileios Papadimitriou and
Upsorn Praphamontripong A case study on bypass testing of web
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--104
Darja \vSmite and
Claes Wohlin and
Zane Galvi\cna and
Rafael Prikladnicki An empirically based terminology and
taxonomy for global software engineering 105--153
Ahmet Okutan and
Olcay Taner Y\i ld\i z Software defect prediction using
Bayesian networks . . . . . . . . . . . 154--181
Stephen W. Thomas and
Hadi Hemmati and
Ahmed E. Hassan and
Dorothea Blostein Static test case prioritization using
topic models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--212
Taeho Lee and
Taewan Gu and
Jongmoon Baik MND-SCEMP: an empirical study of a
software cost estimation modeling
process in the defense domain . . . . . 213--240
Özlem Albayrak and
Jeffrey C. Carver Investigation of individual factors
impacting the effectiveness of
requirements inspections: a replicated
experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--266
Jeffrey C. Carver and
Natalia Juristo and
Maria Teresa Baldassarre and
Sira Vegas Replications of software engineering
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--276
Davide Fucci and
Burak Turhan On the role of tests in test-driven
development: a differentiated and
partial replication . . . . . . . . . . 277--302
Juha Itkonen and
Mika V. Mäntylä Are test cases needed? Replicated
comparison between exploratory and
test-case-based software testing . . . . 303--342
Marta N. Gómez and
Silvia T. Acuña A replicated quasi-experimental study on
the influence of personality and team
climate in software development . . . . 343--377
Cecilia Apa and
Oscar Dieste and
Edison G. Espinosa G. and
Efraín R. Fonseca C. Effectiveness for detecting faults
within and outside the scope of testing
techniques: an independent replication 378--417
Byron J. Williams and
Jeffrey C. Carver Examination of the software architecture
change characterization scheme using
three empirical studies . . . . . . . . 419--464
Lauren R. Biggers and
Cecylia Bocovich and
Riley Capshaw and
Brian P. Eddy and
Letha H. Etzkorn and
Nicholas A. Kraft Configuring latent Dirichlet allocation
based feature location . . . . . . . . . 465--500
Fabio Q. B. da Silva and
Marcos Suassuna and
A. César C. França and
Alicia M. Grubb and
Tatiana B. Gouveia and
Cleviton V. F. Monteiro and
Igor Ebrahim dos Santos Replication of empirical studies in
software engineering research: a
systematic mapping study . . . . . . . . 501--557
Jeff Offutt and
Chandra Alluri An industrial study of applying input
space partitioning to test financial
calculation engines . . . . . . . . . . 558--581
Mario Linares-Vásquez and
Collin McMillan and
Denys Poshyvanyk and
Mark Grechanik On using machine learning to
automatically classify software
applications into domain categories . . 582--618
Anton Barua and
Stephen W. Thomas and
Ahmed E. Hassan What are developers talking about? An
analysis of topics and trends in Stack
Overflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--654
Oscar Ljungkrantz and
Knut Åkesson and
Martin Fabian and
Amir Hossein Ebrahimi An empirical study of control logic
specifications for programmable logic
controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--677
Iris Reinhartz-Berger and
Arnon Sturm Comprehensibility of UML-based software
product line specifications . . . . . . 678--713
Norsaremah Salleh and
Emilia Mendes and
John Grundy Investigating the effects of personality
traits on pair programming in a higher
education setting through a family of
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714--752
Roberto Latorre A successful application of a
Test-Driven Development strategy in the
industrial environment . . . . . . . . . 753--773
Jehad Al Dallal and
Sandro Morasca Predicting object-oriented class
reuse-proneness using internal quality
attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--821
Rafael Prikladnicki and
Alexander Boden and
Gabriela Avram and
Cleidson R. B. de Souza and
Volker Wulf Data collection in global software
engineering research: learning from past
experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822--856
Vahid Khatibi Bardsiri and
Dayang Norhayati Abang Jawawi and
Siti Zaiton Mohd Hashim and
Elham Khatibi A flexible method to estimate the
software development effort based on the
classification of projects and
localization of comparisons . . . . . . 857--884
Georgios Gousios and
Diomidis Spinellis Conducting quantitative software
engineering studies with Alitheia Core 885--925
Ariadi Nugroho and
Michel R. V. Chaudron The impact of UML modeling on defect
density and defect resolution time in a
proprietary system . . . . . . . . . . . 926--954
Bogdan Vasilescu and
Alexander Serebrenik and
Mathieu Goeminne and
Tom Mens On the variation and specialisation of
workload --- A case study of the Gnome
ecosystem community . . . . . . . . . . 955--1008
Jon Eyolfson and
Lin Tan and
Patrick Lam Correlations between bugginess and
time-based commit characteristics . . . 1009--1039
Mariano Ceccato and
Massimiliano Di Penta and
Paolo Falcarin and
Filippo Ricca and
Marco Torchiano and
Paolo Tonella A family of experiments to assess the
effectiveness and efficiency of source
code obfuscation techniques . . . . . . 1040--1074
Luigi Lavazza An evaluation of the statistical
convertibility of Function Points into
COSMIC Function Points . . . . . . . . . 1075--1110
Aiko Yamashita Assessing the capability of code smells
to explain maintenance problems: an
empirical study combining quantitative
and qualitative data . . . . . . . . . . 1111--1143
Tuomas Ihme and
Minna Pikkarainen and
Susanna Teppola and
Jukka Kääriäinen and
Olivier Biot Challenges and industry practices for
managing software variability in small
and medium sized enterprises . . . . . . 1144--1168
Ammar Osaiweran and
Mathijs Schuts and
Jozef Hooman Experiences with incorporating formal
techniques into industrial practice . . 1169--1194
Filippo Lanubile and
Rafael Prikladnicki and
Erran Carmel and
Rini van Solingen Resolving the challenges of time and
distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195--1196
Hans-Christian Estler and
Martin Nordio and
Carlo A. Furia and
Bertrand Meyer and
Johannes Schneider Agile vs. structured distributed
software development: A case study . . . 1197--1224
Nils Brede Moe and
Darja \vSmite and
Geir Kjetil Hanssen and
Hamish Barney From offshore outsourcing to insourcing
and partnerships: four failed
outsourcing attempts . . . . . . . . . . 1225--1258
Michael W. Godfrey and
Arie van Deursen Special issue on program comprehension 1259--1260
Ahmad Jbara and
Adam Matan and
Dror G. Feitelson High-MCC Functions in the Linux Kernel 1261--1298
Janet Siegmund and
Christian Kästner and
Jörg Liebig and
Sven Apel and
Stefan Hanenberg Measuring and modeling programming
experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299--1334
Stefan Hanenberg and
Sebastian Kleinschmager and
Romain Robbes and
Éric Tanter and
Andreas Stefik An empirical study on the impact of
static typing on software
maintainability . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335--1382
Andrea De Lucia and
Massimiliano Di Penta and
Rocco Oliveto and
Annibale Panichella and
Sebastiano Panichella Labeling source code with information
retrieval methods: an empirical study 1383--1420
Gordon Fraser and
Jerffeson Teixeira de Souza Guest editorial: Search-based software
engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1421--1422
Márcio de O.Barros An experimental evaluation of the
importance of randomness in hill
climbing searches applied to software
engineering problems . . . . . . . . . . 1423--1465
Erik M. Fredericks and
Byron DeVries and
Betty H. C. Cheng AutoRELAX: automatically RELAXing a goal
model to address uncertainty . . . . . . 1466--1501
Jonathan M. Aitken and
Rob Alexander and
Tim Kelly and
Simon Poulding Evolving robust networks for
systems-of-systems: is it viable for
large networks? . . . . . . . . . . . . 1502--1530
Ning Chen and
Steven C. H. Hoi and
Xiaokui Xiao Software process evaluation: a machine
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Filippo Ricca and
Marco Torchiano and
Maurizio Leotta and
Alessandro Tiso and
Giovanna Guerrini and
Gianna Reggio On the impact of state-based
model-driven development on
maintainability: a family of experiments
using UniMod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1743--1790
Nemitari Ajienka and
Andrea Capiluppi and
Steve Counsell An empirical study on the interplay
between semantic coupling and co-change
of software classes . . . . . . . . . . 1791--1825
Jianmei Guo and
Dingyu Yang and
Norbert Siegmund and
Sven Apel and
Atrisha Sarkar and
Pavel Valov and
Krzysztof Czarnecki and
Andrzej Wasowski and
Huiqun Yu Data-efficient performance learning for
configurable systems . . . . . . . . . . 1826--1867
Nour Ali and
Sean Baker and
Ross O'Crowley and
Sebastian Herold and
Jim Buckley Erratum to: Architecture consistency:
State of the practice, challenges and
requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1868--1869
Michail Tsikerdekis Persistent code contribution: a ranking
algorithm for code contribution in
crowdsourced software . . . . . . . . . 1871--1894
Wies\law Kope\'c and
Bart\lomiej Balcerzak and
Rados\law Nielek and
Grzegorz Kowalik and
Adam Wierzbicki and
Fabio Casati Older adults and hackathons: a
qualitative study . . . . . . . . . . . 1895--1930
Neil C. Borle and
Meysam Feghhi and
Eleni Stroulia and
Russell Greiner and
Abram Hindle Analyzing the effects of test driven
development in GitHub . . . . . . . . . 1931--1958
Andrea Arcuri An experience report on applying
software testing academic results in
industry: we need usable automated test
generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1959--1981
Lech Madeyski and
Barbara Kitchenham Effect sizes and their variance for
AB/BA crossover design studies . . . . . 1982--2017
Adam Przyby\lek An empirical study on the impact of
AspectJ on software evolvability . . . . 2018--2050
Paola Accioly and
Paulo Borba and
Guilherme Cavalcanti Understanding semi-structured merge
conflict characteristics in open-source
Java projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2051--2085
Benjamin Danglot and
Philippe Preux and
Benoit Baudry and
Martin Monperrus Correctness attraction: a study of
stability of software behavior under
runtime perturbation . . . . . . . . . . 2086--2119
Anonymous Editor's Note: Special Issue on Software
Maintenance and Evolution . . . . . . . 2120--2120
Maurício Aniche and
Gabriele Bavota and
Christoph Treude and
Marco Aurélio Gerosa and
Arie van Deursen Code smells for Model--View-Controller
architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2121--2157
Anand Ashok Sawant and
Romain Robbes and
Alberto Bacchelli On the reaction to deprecation of
clients of $ 4 + 1 $ popular Java APIs
and the JDK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2158--2197
Mona Rahimi and
Jane Cleland-Huang Evolving software trace links between
requirements and source code . . . . . . 2198--2231
Vaibhav Saini and
Hitesh Sajnani and
Cristina Lopes Cloned and non-cloned Java methods: a
comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . 2232--2278
Yun Zhang and
David Lo and
Xin Xia and
Giuseppe Scanniello and
Tien-Duy B. Le and
Jianling Sun Fusing multi-abstraction vector space
models for concern localization . . . . 2279--2322
Hironori Washizaki and
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and
Foutse Khomh ProMeTA: a taxonomy for program
metamodels in program reverse
engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2323--2358
Gabriele Bavota and
Michaela Greiler Introduction to the special issue on
source code analysis and manipulation 2359--2361
Leon Moonen and
Thomas Rolfsnes and
Dave Binkley and
Stefano Di Alesio What are the effects of history length
and age on mining software change
impact? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2362--2397
Dave Binkley and
Dawn Lawrie and
Christopher Morrell The need for software specific natural
language techniques . . . . . . . . . . 2398--2425
Marinos Kintis and
Mike Papadakis and
Andreas Papadopoulos and
Evangelos Valvis and
Nicos Malevris and
Yves Le Traon How effective are mutation testing
tools? An empirical analysis of Java
mutation testing tools with manual
analysis and real faults . . . . . . . . 2426--2463
Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul and
Jens Krinke and
David Clark A comparison of code similarity
analysers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2464--2519
Hao Zhong and
Na Meng Towards reusing hints from past fixes 2521--2549
Maria Paasivaara and
Benjamin Behm and
Casper Lassenius and
Minna Hallikainen Large-scale agile transformation at
Ericsson: a case study . . . . . . . . . 2550--2596
Mohamed Sami Rakha and
Cor-Paul Bezemer and
Ahmed E. Hassan Revisiting the performance of automated
approaches for the retrieval of
duplicate reports in issue tracking
systems that perform just-in-time
duplicate retrieval . . . . . . . . . . 2597--2621
Raphael Sirres and
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and
Dongsun Kim and
David Lo and
Jacques Klein and
Kisub Kim and
Yves Le Traon Augmenting and structuring user queries
to support efficient free-form code
search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2622--2654
Heng Li and
Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen and
Weiyi Shang and
Ahmed E. Hassan Studying software logging using topic
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2655--2694
Giuseppe Scanniello and
Carmine Gravino and
Marcela Genero and
José A. Cruz-Lemus and
Genoveffa Tortora and
Michele Risi and
Gabriella Dodero Do software models based on the UML aid
in source-code comprehensibility?
Aggregating evidence from 12 controlled
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2695--2733
Toma\vz Kosar and
Sa\vso Gaberc and
Jeffrey C. Carver and
Marjan Mernik Program comprehension of domain-specific
and general-purpose languages:
replication of a family of experiments
using integrated development
environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2734--2763
Maleknaz Nayebi and
Henry Cho and
Guenther Ruhe App store mining is not enough for app
improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2764--2794
Christoph Hannebauer and
Marc Hesenius and
Volker Gruhn Does syntax highlighting help
programming novices? . . . . . . . . . . 2795--2828
Rubén Saborido and
Rodrigo Morales and
Foutse Khomh and
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and
Giuliano Antoniol Getting the most from map data
structures in Android . . . . . . . . . 2829--2864
Anonymous Editor's Note: Special Issue on
Automatic Software Repair . . . . . . . 2865--2865
Rongxin Wu and
Ming Wen and
Shing-Chi Cheung and
Hongyu Zhang ChangeLocator: locate crash-inducing
changes based on crash reports . . . . . 2866--2900
Manish Motwani and
Sandhya Sankaranarayanan and
René Just and
Yuriy Brun Do automated program repair techniques
repair hard and important bugs? . . . . 2901--2947
Jooyong Yi and
Shin Hwei Tan and
Sergey Mechtaev and
Marcel Böhme and
Abhik Roychoudhury A correlation study between automated
program repair and test-suite metrics 2948--2979
Vinicius Paulo L. Oliveira and
Eduardo Faria de Souza and
Claire Le Goues and
Celso G. Camilo-Junior Improved representation and genetic
operators for linear genetic programming
for automated program repair . . . . . . 2980--3006
Xuan Bach D. Le and
Ferdian Thung and
David Lo and
Claire Le Goues Overfitting in semantics-based automated
program repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3007--3033
Tingting Yu and
Michael Pradel Pinpointing and repairing performance
bottlenecks in concurrent programs . . . 3034--3071
Claudia Ayala and
Anh Nguyen-Duc and
Xavier Franch and
Martin Höst and
Reidar Conradi and
Daniela Cruzes and
Muhammad Ali Babar System requirements--OSS components:
matching and mismatch resolution
practices --- an empirical study . . . . 3073--3128
Deheng Ye and
Lingfeng Bao and
Zhenchang Xing and
Shang-Wei Lin APIReal: an API recognition and linking
approach for online developer forums . . 3129--3160
Zhe Yu and
Nicholas A. Kraft and
Tim Menzies Finding better active learners for
faster literature reviews . . . . . . . 3161--3186
Tomasz Kuchta and
Thibaud Lutellier and
Edmund Wong and
Lin Tan and
Cristian Cadar On the correctness of electronic
documents: studying, finding, and
localizing inconsistency bugs in PDF
readers and files . . . . . . . . . . . 3187--3220
Gustavo Pinto and
Igor Steinmacher and
Luiz Felipe Dias and
Marco Gerosa On the challenges of open-sourcing
proprietary software projects . . . . . 3221--3247
Mehran Hassani and
Weiyi Shang and
Emad Shihab and
Nikolaos Tsantalis Studying and detecting log-related
issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3248--3280
Ana M. Fernández-Sáez and
Michel R. V. Chaudron and
Marcela Genero An industrial case study on the use of
UML in software maintenance and its
perceived benefits and hurdles . . . . . 3281--3345
Yuanrui Fan and
Xin Xia and
David Lo and
Shanping Li Early prediction of merged code changes
to prioritize reviewing tasks . . . . . 3346--3393
Simona Bernardi and
Juan L. Domínguez and
Abel Gómez and
Christophe Joubert and
José Merseguer and
Diego Perez-Palacin and
José I. Requeno and
Alberto Romeu A systematic approach for performance
assessment using process mining . . . . 3394--3441
Hanyang Hu and
Cor-Paul Bezemer and
Ahmed E. Hassan Studying the consistency of star ratings
and the complaints in $1$ & $2$-star user
reviews for top free cross-platform
Android and iOS apps . . . . . . . . . . 3442--3475
Suhaib Mujahid and
Giancarlo Sierra and
Rabe Abdalkareem and
Emad Shihab and
Weiyi Shang An empirical study of Android Wear user
complaints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3476--3502
Amantia Pano and
Daniel Graziotin and
Pekka Abrahamsson Factors and actors leading to the
adoption of a JavaScript framework . . . 3503--3534
Eero Laukkanen and
Maria Paasivaara and
Juha Itkonen and
Casper Lassenius Comparison of release engineering
practices in a large mature company and
a startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3535--3577
Srdjan Stevanetic and
Uwe Zdun Supporting the analyzability of
architectural component models ---
empirical findings and tool support . . 3578--3625
Paul Grünbacher and
Anna Perini Foreword to the special issue on
empirical research in requirements
engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3626--3629
Thomas Quirchmayr and
Barbara Paech and
Roland Kohl and
Hannes Karey and
Gunar Kasdepke Semi-automatic rule-based domain
terminology and software
feature-relevant information extraction
from natural language user manuals . . . 3630--3683
Alessio Ferrari and
Gloria Gori and
Benedetta Rosadini and
Iacopo Trotta and
Stefano Bacherini and
Alessandro Fantechi and
Stefania Gnesi Detecting requirements defects with NLP
patterns: an industrial experience in
the railway domain . . . . . . . . . . . 3684--3733
Nishant Jha and
Anas Mahmoud Using frame semantics for classifying
and summarizing application store
reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3734--3767
Wenhua Hu and
Jeffrey C. Carver and
Vaibhav Anu and
Gursimran S. Walia and
Gary L. Bradshaw Using human error information for error
prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3768--3800
Robert Feldt and
Thomas Zimmermann and
Gunnar R. Bergersen and
Davide Falessi and
Andreas Jedlitschka and
Natalia Juristo and
Jürgen Münch and
Markku Oivo and
Per Runeson and
Martin Shepperd and
Dag I. K. Sjòberg and
Burak Turhan Four commentaries on the use of students
and professionals in empirical software
engineering experiments . . . . . . . . 3801--3820
Anonymous Appreciation to \booktitleEmpirical
Software Engineering Reviewers of 2018 1--6
Hanyang Hu and
Shaowei Wang and
Cor-Paul Bezemer and
Ahmed E. Hassan Studying the consistency of star ratings
and reviews of popular free hybrid
Android and iOS apps . . . . . . . . . . 7--32
Zhongxing Yu and
Matias Martinez and
Benjamin Danglot and
Thomas Durieux and
Martin Monperrus Alleviating patch overfitting with
automatic test generation: a study of
feasibility and effectiveness for the
Nopol repair system . . . . . . . . . . 33--67
Eriks Klotins and
Michael Unterkalmsteiner and
Tony Gorschek Software engineering in start-up
companies: An analysis of 88 experience
reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--102
Sebastian Nielebock and
Robert Heumüller and
Frank Ortmeier Programmers do not favor lambda
expressions for concurrent
object-oriented code . . . . . . . . . . 103--138
Ahmed Al-Zubidy and
Jeffrey C. Carver Identification and prioritization of SLR
search tool requirements: an SLR and a
survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--169
Dayi Lin and
Cor-Paul Bezemer and
Ying Zou and
Ahmed E. Hassan An empirical study of game reviews on
the Steam platform . . . . . . . . . . . 170--207
David Lo and
Alexander Serebrenik Preface to the Special Issue on Program
Comprehension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--210
Daniel A. Almeida and
Gail C. Murphy and
Greg Wilson and
Michael Hoye Investigating whether and how software
developers understand open source
software licensing . . . . . . . . . . . 211--239
Mariano Ceccato and
Paolo Tonella and
Cataldo Basile and
Paolo Falcarin and
Marco Torchiano and
Bart Coppens and
Bjorn De Sutter Understanding the behaviour of hackers
while performing attack tasks in a
professional setting and in a public
challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--286
Shulamyt Ajami and
Yonatan Woodbridge and
Dror G. Feitelson Syntax, predicates, idioms--- what
really affects code complexity? . . . . 287--328
Gabriele Bavota and
Andrian Marcus Introduction to the special issue on
software analysis, evolution, and
reengineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--331
Carol V. Alexandru and
Sebastiano Panichella and
Sebastian Proksch and
Harald C. Gall Redundancy-free analysis of
multi-revision software artifacts . . . 332--380
Alexandre Decan and
Tom Mens and
Philippe Grosjean An empirical comparison of dependency
network evolution in seven software
packaging ecosystems . . . . . . . . . . 381--416
Johannes C. Hofmeister and
Janet Siegmund and
Daniel V. Holt Shorter identifier names take longer to
comprehend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--443
Bing Liu and
Shiva Nejati and
Lucia and
Lionel C. Briand Effective fault localization of
automotive Simulink models: achieving
the trade-off between test oracle effort
and fault localization accuracy . . . . 444--490
Reinout Stevens and
Tim Molderez and
Coen De Roover Querying distilled code changes to
extract executable transformations . . . 491--535
Ruizhi Gao and
Yabin Wang and
Yang Feng and
Zhenyu Chen and
W. Eric Wong Successes, challenges, and rethinking
--- an industrial investigation on
crowdsourced mobile application testing 537--561
Andrea McIntosh and
Safwat Hassan and
Abram Hindle What can Android mobile app developers
do about the energy consumption of
machine learning? . . . . . . . . . . . 562--601
Kwabena Ebo Bennin and
Jacky W. Keung and
Akito Monden On the relative value of data resampling
approaches for software defect
prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--636
Yuhao Wu and
Shaowei Wang and
Cor-Paul Bezemer and
Katsuro Inoue How do developers utilize source code
from Stack Overflow? . . . . . . . . . . 637--673
Axel Halin and
Alexandre Nuttinck and
Mathieu Acher and
Xavier Devroey and
Gilles Perrouin and
Benoit Baudry Test them all, is it worth it? Assessing
configuration sampling on the JHipster
Web development stack . . . . . . . . . 674--717
Yonghui Huang and
Daniel Alencar da Costa and
Feng Zhang and
Ying Zou An empirical study on the issue reports
with questions raised during the issue
resolving process . . . . . . . . . . . 718--750
Brian A. Malloy and
James F. Power An empirical analysis of the transition
from Python 2 to Python 3 . . . . . . . 751--778
Toshiki Mori and
Naoshi Uchihira Balancing the trade-off between accuracy
and interpretability in software defect
prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--825
Md Tajmilur Rahman and
Peter C. Rigby and
Emad Shihab The modular and feature toggle
architectures of Google Chrome . . . . . 826--853
Fabio Calefato and
Filippo Lanubile and
Nicole Novielli An empirical assessment of best-answer
prediction models in technical Q&A sites 854--901
Abram Hindle and
Curtis Onuczko Preventing duplicate bug reports by
continuously querying bug reports . . . 902--936
Patanamon Thongtanunam and
Weiyi Shang and
Ahmed E. Hassan Will this clone be short-lived? Towards
a better understanding of the
characteristics of short-lived clones 937--972
Shade Ruangwan and
Patanamon Thongtanunam and
Akinori Ihara and
Kenichi Matsumoto The impact of human factors on the
participation decision of reviewers in
modern code review . . . . . . . . . . . 973--1016
Onkar Malgonde and
Kaushal Chari An ensemble-based model for predicting
agile software development effort . . . 1017--1055
Daniel Méndez Fernández and
Martin Monperrus and
Robert Feldt and
Thomas Zimmermann The open science initiative of the
\booktitleEmpirical Software Engineering
journal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057--1060
Mojtaba Shahin and
Mansooreh Zahedi and
Muhammad Ali Babar and
Liming Zhu An empirical study of architecting for
continuous delivery and deployment . . . 1061--1108
Ian McChesney and
Raymond Bond Eye tracking analysis of computer
program comprehension in programmers
with dyslexia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109--1154
Chunyang Chen and
Zhenchang Xing and
Yang Liu What's Spain's Paris? Mining analogical
libraries from Q&A discussions . . . . . 1155--1194
Oscar Luis Vera-Pérez and
Benjamin Danglot and
Martin Monperrus and
Benoit Baudry A comprehensive study of pseudo-tested
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195--1225
Alcemir Rodrigues Santos and
Ivan do Carmo Machado and
Eduardo Santana de Almeida and
Janet Siegmund and
Sven Apel Comparing the influence of using
feature-oriented programming and
conditional compilation on comprehending
feature-oriented software . . . . . . . 1226--1258
Sebastian Baltes and
Stephan Diehl Usage and attribution of Stack Overflow
code snippets in GitHub projects . . . . 1259--1295
Gede Artha Azriadi Prana and
Christoph Treude and
Ferdian Thung and
Thushari Atapattu and
David Lo Categorizing the Content of GitHub
README Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296--1327
Tassio Vale and
Eduardo Santana de Almeida Experimenting with information retrieval
methods in the recovery of feature-code
SPL traces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328--1368
Damian A. Tamburri and
Fabio Palomba and
Alexander Serebrenik and
Andy Zaidman Discovering community patterns in
open-source: a systematic approach and
its evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1369--1417
Sebastian Nielebock and
Dariusz Krolikowski and
Jacob Krüger and
Thomas Leich and
Frank Ortmeier Commenting source code: is it worth it
for small programming tasks? . . . . . . 1418--1457
Lin Tan and
Abram Hindle Guest Editorial: Special Section on
Mining Software Repositories . . . . . . 1458--1460
Davide Spadini and
Maur\'ìcio Aniche and
Magiel Bruntink and
Alberto Bacchelli Mock objects for testing Java systems 1461--1498
Luca Pascarella and
Magiel Bruntink and
Alberto Bacchelli Classifying code comments in Java
software systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1499--1537
Mohammad Gharehyazie and
Baishakhi Ray and
Mehdi Keshani and
Masoumeh Soleimani Zavosht and
Abbas Heydarnoori and
Vladimir Filkov Cross-project code clones in GitHub . . 1538--1573
Josh G. M. Mengerink and
Jeroen Noten and
Alexander Serebrenik Empowering OCL research: a large-scale
corpus of open-source data from GitHub 1574--1609
Kelly Blincoe and
Ali Dehghan and
Abdoul-Djawadou Salaou and
Adam Neal and
Johan Linaker and
Daniela Damian High-level software requirements and
iteration changes: a predictive model 1610--1648
Shaiful Chowdhury and
Stephanie Borle and
Stephen Romansky and
Abram Hindle GreenScaler: training software energy
models with automatic test generation 1649--1692
Flávio Medeiros and
Gabriel Lima and
Guilherme Amaral and
Sven Apel and
Christian Kästner and
Márcio Ribeiro and
Rohit Gheyi An investigation of misunderstanding
code patterns in C open-source software
projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1693--1726
Iflaah Salman and
Burak Turhan and
Sira Vegas A controlled experiment on time pressure
and confirmation bias in functional
software testing . . . . . . . . . . . . 1727--1761
Tobias Baum and
Kurt Schneider and
Alberto Bacchelli Associating working memory capacity and
code change ordering with code review
performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1762--1798
Le An and
Marco Castelluccio and
Foutse Khomh An empirical study of DLL injection bugs
in the Firefox ecosystem . . . . . . . . 1799--1822
Casey Casalnuovo and
Kenji Sagae and
Prem Devanbu Studying the difference between natural
and programming language corpora . . . . 1823--1868
Mohammad M. Rahman and
Chanchal K. Roy and
David Lo Automatic query reformulation for code
search using crowdsourced knowledge . . 1869--1924
Masanari Kondo and
Cor-Paul Bezemer and
Yasutaka Kamei and
Ahmed E. Hassan and
Osamu Mizuno The impact of feature reduction
techniques on defect prediction models 1925--1963
Ehsan Noei and
Feng Zhang and
Shaohua Wang and
Ying Zou Towards prioritizing user-related issue
reports of mobile applications . . . . . 1964--1996
Anna May and
Johannes Wachs and
Anikó Hannák Gender differences in participation and
reward on Stack Overflow . . . . . . . . 1997--2019
Nauman bin Ali and
Emelie Engström and
Masoumeh Taromirad and
Mohammad Reza Mousavi and
Nasir Mehmood Minhas and
Daniel Helgesson and
Sebastian Kunze and
Mahsa Varshosaz On the search for industry-relevant
regression testing research . . . . . . 2020--2055
Alejandro Mazuera-Rozo and
Jairo Bautista-Mora and
Mario Linares-Vásquez and
Sandra Rueda and
Gabriele Bavota The Android OS stack and its
vulnerabilities: an empirical study . . 2056--2101
Taher Ahmed Ghaleb and
Daniel Alencar da Costa and
Ying Zou An empirical study of the long duration
of continuous integration builds . . . . 2102--2139
Guoliang Zhao and
Daniel Alencar da Costa and
Ying Zou Improving the pull requests review
process using learning-to-rank
algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2140--2170
Meng Yan and
Xin Xia and
David Lo and
Ahmed E. Hassan and
Shanping Li Characterizing and identifying reverted
commits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2171--2208
Luis Cruz and
Rui Abreu Catalog of energy patterns for mobile
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2209--2235
Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul and
Jens Krinke Siamese: scalable and incremental code
clone search via multiple code
representations . . . . . . . . . . . . 2236--2284
Boyuan Chen and
Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang Extracting and studying the
Logging--Code-Issue-Introducing changes
in Java-based large-scale open source
software systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 2285--2322
Yangguang Li and
Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang Assessing and optimizing the performance
impact of the just-in-time configuration
parameters --- a case study on PyPy . . 2323--2363
Elizabeth Bjarnason and
Helen Sharp and
Björn Regnell Improving requirements-test alignment by
prescribing practices that mitigate
communication gaps . . . . . . . . . . . 2364--2409
Anonymous Editor's Note: Special Section on
Software Maintenance and Evolution . . . 2821--2822
Qiao Huang and
Xin Xia and
David Lo Revisiting supervised and unsupervised
models for effort-aware just-in-time
defect prediction . . . . . . . . . . . 2823--2862
Nicholas Nelson and
Caius Brindescu and
Shane McKee and
Anita Sarma and
Danny Dig The life-cycle of merge conflicts:
processes, barriers, and strategies . . 2863--2906
Fabio Palomba and
Andy Zaidman The smell of fear: on the relation
between test smells and flaky tests . . 2907--2946
Oscar Chaparro and
Juan Manuel Florez and
Andrian Marcus Using bug descriptions to reformulate
queries during text-retrieval-based bug
localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2947--3007
Marco Castelluccio and
Le An and
Foutse Khomh An empirical study of patch uplift in
rapid release development pipelines . . 3008--3044
Anonymous Editor's Note: Special Section on Source
Code Analysis and Manipulation . . . . . 3045--3045
Pascal Gadient and
Mohammad Ghafari and
Patrick Frischknecht and
Oscar Nierstrasz Security code smells in Android ICC . . 3046--3076
David Binkley and
Nicolas Gold and
Syed Islam and
Jens Krinke and
Shin Yoo A comparison of tree- and line-oriented
observational slicing . . . . . . . . . 3077--3113
Giovanni Liva and
Muhammad Taimoor Khan and
Martin Pinzger Semantics-driven extraction of timed
automata from Java programs . . . . . . 3114--3150
David Bowes and
Emad Shihab and
Burak Turhan Guest editorial: special section on
predictive models and data analytics in
software engineering . . . . . . . . . . 3151--3152
Leandro L. Minku A novel online supervised hyperparameter
tuning procedure applied to
cross-company software effort estimation 3153--3204
Riccardo Coppola and
Maurizio Morisio and
Marco Torchiano and
Luca Ardito Scripted GUI testing of Android
open-source apps: evolution of test code
and fragility causes . . . . . . . . . . 3205--3248
Sebastiano Panichella and
Fabio Palomba and
David Lo and
Meiyappan Nagappan Guest Editorial: Special Issue on
Software Engineering for Mobile
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3249--3254
Roselane Silva Farias and
Renata Maria de Souza and
John D. McGregor and
Eduardo Santana de Almeida Designing smart city mobile applications 3255--3289
Afnan Al-Subaihin and
Federica Sarro and
Sue Black and
Licia Capra Empirical comparison of text-based
mobile apps similarity measurement
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3290--3315
Daniel Martens and
Walid Maalej Towards understanding and detecting fake
reviews in app stores . . . . . . . . . 3316--3355
Bruno Góis Mateus and
Matias Martinez An empirical study on quality of Android
applications written in Kotlin language 3356--3393
Yi Zeng and
Jinfu Chen and
Weiyi Shang and
Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Studying the characteristics of logging
practices in mobile apps: a case study
on F-Droid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3394--3434
Yepang Liu and
Jue Wang and
Lili Wei and
Chang Xu and
Shing-Chi Cheung and
Tianyong Wu and
Jun Yan and
Jian Zhang DroidLeaks: a comprehensive database of
resource leaks in Android apps . . . . . 3435--3483
Sara Seif Afjehei and
Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen and
Nikolaos Tsantalis iPerfDetector: Characterizing and
detecting performance anti-patterns in
iOS applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 3484--3513
Xu Wang and
Chunyang Chen and
Zhenchang Xing Domain-specific machine translation with
recurrent neural network for software
localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3514--3545
Suelen Goularte Carvalho and
Maur\'ìcio Aniche and
Júlio Ver\'ìssimo and
Rafael S. Durelli and
Marco Aurélio Gerosa An empirical catalog of code smells for
the presentation layer of Android apps 3546--3586
Kobra Khanmohammadi and
Neda Ebrahimi and
Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj and
Raphaël Khoury Empirical study of Android repackaged
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3587--3629
Domenico Cotroneo and
Antonio Ken Iannillo and
Roberto Natella Evolutionary Fuzzing of Android OS
Vendor System Services . . . . . . . . . 3630--3658
Nishant Jha and
Anas Mahmoud Mining non-functional requirements from
App store reviews . . . . . . . . . . . 3659--3695
Sadeeq Jan and
Annibale Panichella and
Andrea Arcuri and
Lionel Briand Search-based multi-vulnerability testing
of XML injections in web applications 3696--3729
Sadeeq Jan and
Annibale Panichella and
Andrea Arcuri and
Lionel Briand Correction to: Search-based
multi-vulnerability testing of XML
injections in web applications . . . . . 3730--3730
Matthieu Foucault and
Xavier Blanc and
Jean-Rémy Falleri and
Margaret-Anne Storey Fostering good coding practices through
individual feedback and gamification: an
industrial case study . . . . . . . . . 3731--3754
Maleknaz Nayebi and
Liam Dicke and
Ron Ittyipe and
Chris Carlson and
Guenther Ruhe ESSMArT way to manage customer requests 3755--3789
Mariam El Mezouar and
Feng Zhang and
Ying Zou An empirical study on the teams
structures in social coding using GitHub
projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3790--3823
Anand Ashok Sawant and
Romain Robbes and
Alberto Bacchelli To react, or not to react: Patterns of
reaction to API deprecation . . . . . . 3824--3870
Weiqin Zou and
Jifeng Xuan and
Xiaoyuan Xie and
Zhenyu Chen and
Baowen Xu How does code style inconsistency affect
pull request integration? An exploratory
study on 117 GitHub projects . . . . . . 3871--3903
Alessio Viticchié and
Leonardo Regano and
Cataldo Basile and
Marco Torchiano and
Mariano Ceccato and
Paolo Tonella Empirical assessment of the effort
needed to attack programs protected with
client/server code splitting . . . . . . 1--48
Gemma Catolino and
Fabio Palomba and
Francesca Arcelli Fontana and
Andrea De Lucia and
Andy Zaidman and
Filomena Ferrucci Improving change prediction models with
code smell-related information . . . . . 49--95
Mozhan Soltani and
Pouria Derakhshanfar and
Xavier Devroey and
Arie van Deursen A benchmark-based evaluation of
search-based crash reproduction . . . . 96--138
Jiayuan Zhou and
Shaowei Wang and
Cor-Paul Bezemer and
Ahmed E. Hassan Bounties on technical Q&A sites: a case
study of Stack Overflow bounties . . . . 139--177
Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath and
Joydeep Mitra Are free Android app security analysis
tools effective in detecting known
vulnerabilities? . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--219
Miroslaw Ochodek and
Regina Hebig and
Wilhelm Meding and
Gert Frost and
Miroslaw Staron Recognizing lines of code violating
company-specific coding guidelines using
machine learning . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--265
Abdul Razzaq and
Andrew Le Gear and
Chris Exton and
Jim Buckley An empirical assessment of baseline
feature location techniques . . . . . . 266--321
Paul Luo Li and
Amy J. Ko and
Andrew Begel What distinguishes great software
engineers? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--352
Barbara Kitchenham and
Lech Madeyski and
Pearl Brereton Meta-analysis for families of
experiments in software engineering: a
systematic review and reproducibility
and validity assessment . . . . . . . . 353--401
Gustavo Vale and
Angelika Schmid and
Alcemir Rodrigues Santos and
Eduardo Santana de Almeida and
Sven Apel On the relation between Github
communication activity and merge
conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--433
Thierry Titcheu Chekam and
Mike Papadakis and
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and
Yves Le Traon and
Koushik Sen Selecting fault revealing mutants . . . 434--487
Kundi Yao and
Guilherme B. de Pádua and
Weiyi Shang and
Catalin Sporea and
Andrei Toma and
Sarah Sajedi Log4Perf: suggesting and updating
logging locations for web-based systems'
performance monitoring . . . . . . . . . 488--531
Hui Guo and
Özgür Kafalì and
Anne-Liz Jeukeng and
Laurie Williams and
Munindar P. Singh Çorba: crowdsourcing to obtain
requirements from regulations and
breaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--561
Caius Brindescu and
Iftekhar Ahmed and
Carlos Jensen and
Anita Sarma An empirical investigation into merge
conflicts and their effect on software
quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562--590
Yi Xiang and
Xiaowei Yang and
Yuren Zhou and
Zibin Zheng and
Miqing Li and
Han Huang Going deeper with optimal software
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optimization and satisfiability solvers 591--626
Jacob Krüger and
Christian Lausberger and
Ivonne von Nostitz-Wallwitz and
Gunter Saake and
Thomas Leich Search. Review. Repeat? An empirical
study of threats to replicating SLR
searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--677
Mohammadreza Ghanavati and
Diego Costa and
Janos Seboek and
David Lo and
Artur Andrzejak Memory and resource leak defects and
their repairs in Java projects . . . . . 678--718
Jindae Kim and
Jeongho Kim and
Eunseok Lee and
Sunghun Kim The effectiveness of context-based
change application on automatic program
repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--754
Bowen Xu and
Le An and
Ferdian Thung and
Foutse Khomh and
David Lo Why reinventing the wheels? An empirical
study on library reuse and
re-implementation . . . . . . . . . . . 755--789
Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho and
Hideaki Hata and
Kenichi Matsumoto How different are different diff
algorithms in Git? . . . . . . . . . . . 790--823
Melissa Fearon 2019 Reviewer Acknowledgment . . . . . . 1031--1034
Lise Tordrup Heeager and
Peter Axel Nielsen Meshing agile and plan-driven
development in safety-critical software:
a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1062
Luca Allodi and
Marco Cremonini and
Fabio Massacci and
Woohyun Shim Measuring the accuracy of software
vulnerability assessments: experiments
with students and professionals . . . . 1063--1094
Fiorella Zampetti and
Carmine Vassallo and
Sebastiano Panichella and
Gerardo Canfora and
Harald Gall and
Massimiliano Di Penta An empirical characterization of bad
practices in continuous integration . . 1095--1135
Sadika Amreen and
Audris Mockus and
Russell Zaretzki and
Christopher Bogart and
Yuxia Zhang ALFAA: Active Learning Fingerprint based
Anti-Aliasing for correcting developer
identity errors in version control
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136--1167
Rabe Abdalkareem and
Vinicius Oda and
Suhaib Mujahid and
Emad Shihab On the impact of using trivial packages:
an empirical case study on \pkgnpm and
\pkgPyPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168--1204
Nuno Amálio and
Lionel Briand and
Pierre Kelsen An experimental scrutiny of visual
design modelling: VCL up against UML+OCL 1205--1258
Mohammed Sayagh and
Noureddine Kerzazi and
Fabio Petrillo and
Khalil Bennani and
Bram Adams What should your run-time configuration
framework do to help developers? . . . . 1259--1293
Gema Rodr\'ìguez-Pérez and
Gregorio Robles and
Alexander Serebrenik and
Andy Zaidman and
Daniel M. Germán and
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona How bugs are born: a model to identify
how bugs are introduced in software
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1294--1340
Sangameshwar Patil and
B. Ravindran Predicting software defect type using
concept-based classification . . . . . . 1341--1378
Massimiliano Di Penta and
David C. Shepherd Guest editorial: special section on
software analysis, evolution, and
reengineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1379--1381
Xin Chen and
He Jiang and
Xiaochen Li and
Liming Nie and
Dongjin Yu and
Tieke He and
Zhenyu Chen A systemic framework for crowdsourced
test report quality assessment . . . . . 1382--1418
Carmine Vassallo and
Sebastiano Panichella and
Fabio Palomba and
Sebastian Proksch and
Harald C. Gall and
Andy Zaidman How developers engage with static
analysis tools in different contexts . . 1419--1457
Aline Brito and
Marco Tulio Valente and
Laerte Xavier and
Andre Hora You broke my code: understanding the
motivations for breaking changes in APIs 1458--1492
Md Ahasanuzzaman and
Muhammad Asaduzzaman and
Chanchal K. Roy and
Kevin A. Schneider CAPS: a supervised technique for
classifying Stack Overflow posts
concerning API issues . . . . . . . . . 1493--1532
Ayse Tosun and
Shane McIntosh and
Leandro Minku and
Burak Turhan Guest Editorial: Special Issue on
Predictive Models and Data Analytics in
Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 1533--1535
Mohammad Alahmadi and
Abdulkarim Khormi and
Biswas Parajuli and
Jonathan Hassel and
Sonia Haiduc and
Piyush Kumar Code Localization in Programming
Screencasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1536--1572
Sousuke Amasaki Cross-version defect prediction: use
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Tapajit Dey and
Audris Mockus Deriving a usage-independent software
quality metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1596--1641
Anonymous Editor's Note: \booktitleEmpirical
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Alejandro Mazuera-Rozo and
Catia Trubiani and
Mario Linares-Vásquez and
Gabriele Bavota Investigating types and survivability of
performance bugs in mobile apps . . . . 1644--1686
Vahid Garousi and
Markus Borg and
Markku Oivo Practical relevance of software
engineering research: synthesizing the
community's voice . . . . . . . . . . . 1687--1754
Thorsten Berger and
Jan-Philipp Steghöfer and
Tewfik Ziadi and
Jacques Robin and
Jabier Martinez The state of adoption and the challenges
of systematic variability management in
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Andre Hora and
Romain Robbes Characteristics of method extractions in
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Ahmad Abdellatif and
Khaled Badran and
Emad Shihab MSRBot: Using bots to answer questions
from software repositories . . . . . . . 1834--1863
Gustavo A. Oliva and
Ahmed E. Hassan and
Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang An exploratory study of smart contracts
in the Ethereum blockchain platform . . 1864--1904
Zhaoqiang Guo and
Yanhui Li and
Wanwangying Ma and
Yuming Zhou and
Hongmin Lu and
Lin Chen and
Baowen Xu Boosting crash-inducing change
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feature subset selection . . . . . . . . 1905--1950
Yoshiki Higo and
Shinpei Hayashi and
Hideaki Hata and
Meiyappan Nagappan Ammonia: an approach for deriving
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Anil Koyuncu and
Kui Liu and
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and
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Clément Robert and
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Yasutaka Kamei and
Andy Zaidman Guest editorial: Mining software
repositories 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . 2055--2057
Li Li and
Jun Gao and
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and
Lei Ma and
Xin Xia and
Jacques Klein CDA: Characterising Deprecated Android
APIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2058--2098
Amritanshu Agrawal and
Tim Menzies and
Leandro L. Minku and
Markus Wagner and
Zhe Yu Better software analytics via ``DUO'':
Data mining algorithms using/used-by
optimizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2099--2136
Janet Siegmund and
Chanchal K. Roy Preface to the special issue on program
comprehension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2137--2139
Sarah Fakhoury and
Devjeet Roy and
Yuzhan Ma and
Venera Arnaoudova and
Olusola Adesope Measuring the impact of lexical and
structural inconsistencies on
developers' cognitive load during bug
localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2140--2178
Xing Hu and
Ge Li and
Xin Xia and
David Lo and
Zhi Jin Deep code comment generation with hybrid
lexical and syntactical information . . 2179--2217
Carmine Vassallo and
Sebastian Proksch and
Timothy Zemp and
Harald C. Gall Every build you break:
developer-oriented assistance for build
failure resolution . . . . . . . . . . . 2218--2257
Stefanie Beyer and
Christian Macho and
Massimiliano Di Penta and
Martin Pinzger What kind of questions do developers ask
on Stack Overflow? A comparison of
automated approaches to classify posts
into question categories . . . . . . . . 2258--2301
Shanshan Li and
Xu Niu and
Zhouyang Jia and
Xiangke Liao and
Ji Wang and
Tao Li Guiding log revisions by learning from
software evolution history . . . . . . . 2302--2340
Benjamin Danglot and
Martin Monperrus and
Walter Rudametkin and
Benoit Baudry An approach and benchmark to detect
behavioral changes of commits in
continuous integration . . . . . . . . . 2379--2415
Thomas D. LaToza and
Maryam Arab and
Dastyni Loksa and
Amy J. Ko Explicit programming strategies . . . . 2416--2449
Marcello Cinque and
Raffaele Della Corte and
Antonio Pecchia An empirical analysis of error
propagation in critical software systems 2450--2484
Daniel Lee and
Dayi Lin and
Cor-Paul Bezemer and
Ahmed E. Hassan Building the perfect game --- an
empirical study of game modifications 2485--2518
Edson Oliveira and
Eduardo Fernandes and
Igor Steinmacher and
Marco Cristo and
Tayana Conte and
Alessandro Garcia Code and commit metrics of developer
productivity: a study on team leaders
perceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2519--2549
Seifeddine Bettaieb and
Seung Yeob Shin and
Mehrdad Sabetzadeh and
Lionel C. Briand and
Michael Garceau and
Antoine Meyers Using machine learning to assist with
the selection of security controls
during security assessment . . . . . . . 2550--2582
Rita Marques and
Gonçalo Costa and
Miguel Mira da Silva and
Daniel Gonçalves and
Pedro Gonçalves A gamification solution for improving
Scrum adoption . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2583--2629
Emelie Engström and
Margaret-Anne Storey and
Per Runeson and
Martin Höst and
Maria Teresa Baldassarre How software engineering research aligns
with design science: a review . . . . . 2630--2660
Linghuan Hu and
W. Eric Wong and
D. Richard Kuhn and
Raghu N. Kacker How does combinatorial testing perform
in the real world: an empirical study 2661--2693
Junxiao Han and
Emad Shihab and
Zhiyuan Wan and
Shuiguang Deng and
Xin Xia What do Programmers Discuss about Deep
Learning Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . 2694--2747
Teerath Das and
Massimiliano Di Penta and
Ivano Malavolta Characterizing the evolution of
statically-detectable performance issues
of Android apps . . . . . . . . . . . . 2748--2808
Florian Pudlitz and
Florian Brokhausen and
Andreas Vogelsang What am I testing and where? Comparing
testing procedures based on lightweight
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Sira Vegas and
Patricia Riofr\'ìo and
Esperanza Marcos and
Natalia Juristo On (mis)perceptions of testing
effectiveness: an empirical study . . . 2844--2896
Peter Pickerill and
Heiko Joshua Jungen and
Miros\law Ochodek and
Micha\l Ma\'ckowiak and
Miroslaw Staron PHANTOM: Curating GitHub for engineered
software projects using time-series
clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2897--2929
Guillaume Rousseau and
Roberto Di Cosmo and
Stefano Zacchiroli Software provenance tracking at the
scale of public source code . . . . . . 2930--2959
Rodrigo Morales and
Foutse Khomh and
Giuliano Antoniol RePOR: Mimicking humans on refactoring
tasks. Are we there yet? . . . . . . . . 2960--2996
Andreas Biòrn-Hansen and
Christoph Rieger and
Tor-Morten Grònli and
Tim A. Majchrzak and
Gheorghita Ghinea An empirical investigation of
performance overhead in cross-platform
mobile development frameworks . . . . . 2997--3040
Fabio Palomba and
Andy Zaidman Retraction Note: Retraction note to: The
smell of fear: on the relation between
test smells and flaky tests . . . . . . 3041--3041
Kundi Yao and
Heng Li and
Weiyi Shang and
Ahmed E. Hassan A study of the performance of general
compressors on log files . . . . . . . . 3043--3085
Chris Mills and
Esteban Parra and
Jevgenija Pantiuchina and
Gabriele Bavota and
Sonia Haiduc On the relationship between bug reports
and queries for text retrieval-based bug
localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3086--3127
Zohreh Sharafi and
Bonita Sharif and
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and
Andrew Begel and
Roman Bednarik and
Martha Crosby A practical guide on conducting eye
tracking studies in software engineering 3128--3174
Serena Elisa Ponta and
Henrik Plate and
Antonino Sabetta Detection, assessment and mitigation of
vulnerabilities in open source
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Nicolli Rios and
Rodrigo Oliveira Spínola and
Manoel Mendonça and
Carolyn Seaman The practitioners' point of view on the
concept of technical debt and its causes
and consequences: a design for a global
family of industrial surveys and its
first results from Brazil . . . . . . . 3216--3287
Zoe Kotti and
Konstantinos Kravvaritis and
Konstantina Dritsa and
Diomidis Spinellis Standing on shoulders or feet? An
extended study on the usage of the MSR
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Andrey Krutauz and
Tapajit Dey and
Peter C. Rigby and
Audris Mockus Do code review measures explain the
incidence of post-release defects? . . . 3323--3356
Domenico Cotroneo and
Antonio Ken Iannillo and
Roberto Natella and
Roberto Pietrantuono A comprehensive study on software aging
across Android versions and vendors . . 3357--3395
Daniel Lee and
Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur and
Dayi Lin and
Mohammed Sayagh and
Cor-Paul Bezemer and
Ahmed E. Hassan An empirical study of the
characteristics of popular Minecraft
mods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3396--3429
Akond Rahman and
Effat Farhana and
Laurie Williams The `as code' activities: development
anti-patterns for infrastructure as code 3430--3467
Rahul Krishna and
Tim Menzies Learning actionable analytics from
multiple software projects . . . . . . . 3468--3500
Wladmir Araujo Chapetta and
Guilherme Horta Travassos Towards an evidence-based theoretical
framework on factors influencing the
software development productivity . . . 3501--3543
Ethem Utku Aktas and
Cemal Yilmaz Automated issue assignment: results and
insights from an industrial case . . . . 3544--3589
Jirayus Jiarpakdee and
Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn and
Christoph Treude The impact of automated feature
selection techniques on the
interpretation of defect models . . . . 3590--3638
Adam Alami and
Peter Axel Nielsen and
Andrzej Wa\csowski A tailored participatory action research
for FOSS communities . . . . . . . . . . 3639--3670
Chunhui Wang and
Wei Zhang and
Haiyan Zhao and
Zhi Jin Towards a fictional collective
programming scenario: an approach based
on the EIF loop . . . . . . . . . . . . 3671--3710
Ines Hajri and
Arda Goknil and
Fabrizio Pastore and
Lionel C. Briand Automating system test case
classification and prioritization for
use case-driven testing in product lines 3711--3769
Rungroj Maipradit and
Christoph Treude and
Hideaki Hata and
Kenichi Matsumoto Wait for it: identifying ``On-Hold''
self-admitted technical debt . . . . . . 3770--3798
Johan Linåker and
Björn Regnell What to share, when, and where:
balancing the objectives and
complexities of open source software
contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3799--3840
Rasmus Ros and
Mikael Hammar Data-driven software design with
Constraint Oriented Multi-variate Bandit
Optimization (COMBO) . . . . . . . . . . 3841--3872
Claus Hunsen and
Janet Siegmund and
Sven Apel On the fulfillment of coordination
requirements in open-source software
projects: an exploratory study . . . . . 4379--4426
Rodi Jolak and
Maxime Savary-Leblanc and
Manuela Dalibor and
Andreas Wortmann and
Regina Hebig and
Juraj Vincur and
Ivan Polasek and
Xavier Le Pallec and
Sébastien Gérard and
Michel R. V. Chaudron Software engineering whispers: The
effect of textual vs. graphical software
design descriptions on software design
communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4427--4471
Rodi Jolak and
Maxime Savary-Leblanc and
Manuela Dalibor and
Andreas Wortmann and
Regina Hebig and
Juraj Vincur and
Ivan Polasek and
Xavier Le Pallec and
Sébastien Gérard and
Michel R. V. Chaudron Correction to: Software engineering
whispers: The effect of textual vs.
graphical software design descriptions
on software design communication . . . . 4472--4472
Mario Gleirscher and
Diego Marmsoler Formal methods in dependable systems
engineering: a survey of professionals
from Europe and North America . . . . . 4473--4546
Yisen Xu and
Fan Wu and
Xiangyang Jia and
Lingbo Li and
Jifeng Xuan Mining the use of higher-order
functions: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4547--4584
Robert Heumüller and
Sebastian Nielebock and
Jacob Krüger and
Frank Ortmeier Publish or perish, but do not forget
your software artifacts . . . . . . . . 4585--4616
Masanari Kondo and
Gustavo A. Oliva and
Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang and
Ahmed E. Hassan and
Osamu Mizuno Code cloning in smart contracts: a case
study on verified contracts from the
Ethereum blockchain platform . . . . . . 4617--4675
Tao Wang and
Xiao Yu and
Zhengyi Qiu and
Guoliang Jin and
Frank Mueller BarrierFinder: recognizing ad hoc
barriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4676--4706
Rodrigo Fernandes Gomes da Silva and
Chanchal K. Roy and
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Stefano Zacchiroli Using the uniqueness of global
identifiers to determine the provenance
of Python software source code . . . . . ??
Hirohisa Aman and
Sousuke Amasaki and
Tomoyuki Yokogawa and
Minoru Kawahara An automated detection of confusing
variable pairs with highly similar
compound names in Java and Python
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Zainab Masood and
Kelly Blincoe and
Daniela Damian What have we learned? A conceptual
framework on New Zealand software
professionals and companies' response to
COVID-19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
José Carlos Pazos and
Jean-Sébastien Légaré and
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cross-site scripting protection . . . . ??
Paulina Stevia Nouwou Mindom and
Amin Nikanjam and
Foutse Khomh A comparison of reinforcement learning
frameworks for software testing tasks ??
Valentina Piantadosi and
Simone Scalabrino and
Alexander Serebrenik and
Nicole Novielli and
Rocco Oliveto Do attention and memory explain the
performance of software developers? . . ??
Yihao Chen and
Eduardo Fernandes and
Bram Adams and
Ahmed E. Hassan On practitioners' concerns when adopting
service mesh frameworks . . . . . . . . ??
Marthe Berntzen and
Viktoria Stray and
Nils Brede Moe and
Rashina Hoda Responding to change over time: a
longitudinal case study on changes in
coordination mechanisms in large-scale
agile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Elizabeth Bjarnason and
Franz Lang and
Alexander Mjöberg An empirically based model of software
prototyping: a mapping study and a
multi-case study . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Fabio Santos and
Joseph Vargovich and
Bianca Trinkenreich and
Italo Santos and
Jacob Penney and
Ricardo Britto and
João Felipe Pimentel and
Igor Wiese and
Igor Steinmacher and
Anita Sarma and
Marco A. Gerosa Tag that issue: applying API-domain
labels in issue tracking systems . . . . ??
Abdulaziz Alaboudi and
Thomas D. LaToza What constitutes debugging? An
exploratory study of debugging episodes ??
Goran Piskachev and
Matthias Becker and
Eric Bodden Can the configuration of static analyses
make resolving security vulnerabilities
more effective? --- A user study . . . . ??
Xiangping Chen and
Peiyong Liao and
Queping Kong and
Yuan Huang and
Xiaocong Zhou Studying differentiated code to support
smart contract update . . . . . . . . . ??
Tushar Sharma and
Stefanos Georgiou and
Maria Kechagia and
Taher A. Ghaleb and
Federica Sarro Investigating developers' perception on
software testability and its effects . . ??
George G. Cabral and
Leandro L. Minku and
Adriano L. I. Oliveira and
Dinaldo A. Pessoa and
Sadia Tabassum An investigation of online and offline
learning models for online Just-in-Time
Software Defect Prediction . . . . . . . ??
Neil A. Ernst and
Martin P. Robillard A study of documentation for software
architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dong Wang and
Tao Xiao and
Teyon Son and
Raula Gaikovina Kula and
Takashi Ishio and
Yasutaka Kamei and
Kenichi Matsumoto More than React: Investigating the Role
of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull
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Liyan Song and
Leandro L. Minku and
Xin Yao On the validity of retrospective
predictive performance evaluation
procedures in just-in-time software
defect prediction . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Arut Prakash Kaleeswaran and
Arne Nordmann and
Thomas Vogel and
Lars Grunske A user study for evaluation of formal
verification results and their
explanation at Bosch . . . . . . . . . . ??
Yuexiu Gao and
Hongyu Zhang and
Chen Lyu EnCoSum: enhanced semantic features for
multi-scale multi-modal source code
summarization . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Hengjie Song and
Guobin Wu and
Le Ma and
Yufei Pan and
Qingan Huang and
Siyu Jiang Adversarial domain adaptation for
cross-project defect prediction . . . . ??
Jürgen Börstler and
Kwabena E. Bennin and
Sara Hooshangi and
Johan Jeuring and
Hieke Keuning and
Carsten Kleiner and
Bonnie MacKellar and
Rodrigo Duran and
Harald Störrle and
Daniel Toll and
Jelle van Assema Developers talking about code quality ??
Owura Asare and
Meiyappan Nagappan and
N. Asokan Is GitHub's Copilot as bad as humans at
introducing vulnerabilities in code? . . ??
Lwin Khin Shar and
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Mariano Ceccato and
Yan Naing Tun and
David Lo and
Lingxiao Jiang and
Christoph Bienert Experimental comparison of features,
analyses, and classifiers for Android
malware detection . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Mairieli Wessel and
Joseph Vargovich and
Marco A. Gerosa and
Christoph Treude GitHub Actions: The Impact on the Pull
Request Process . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Justus Bogner and
Sebastian Kotstein and
Timo Pfaff Do RESTful API design rules have an
impact on the understandability of Web
APIs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ming Wen and
Yongcong Wang and
Yifan Xia and
Hai Jin Evaluating seed selection for fuzzing
JavaScript engines . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Humphrey O. Obie and
Hung Du and
Kashumi Madampe and
Mojtaba Shahin and
Idowu Ilekura and
John Grundy and
Li Li and
Jon Whittle and
Burak Turhan and
Hourieh Khalajzadeh Automated detection, categorisation and
developers' experience with the
violations of honesty in mobile apps . . ??
Ensheng Shi and
Yanlin Wang and
Lun Du and
Hongyu Zhang and
Shi Han and
Dongmei Zhang and
Hongbin Sun CoCoAST: Representing Source Code via
Hierarchical Splitting and
Reconstruction of Abstract Syntax Trees ??
Emanuela Guglielmi and
Simone Scalabrino and
Gabriele Bavota and
Rocco Oliveto Using gameplay videos for detecting
issues in video games . . . . . . . . . ??
Xingfang Wu and
Heng Li and
Foutse Khomh On the effectiveness of log
representation for log-based anomaly
detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dong Wang and
Masanari Kondo and
Yasutaka Kamei and
Raula Gaikovina Kula and
Naoyasu Ubayashi When conversations turn into work: a
taxonomy of converted discussions and
issues in GitHub . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ranindya Paramitha and
Fabio Massacci Technical leverage analysis in the
Python ecosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Milica \Dbaror\dbarevi\'c and
Michel Albonico and
Grace A. Lewis and
Ivano Malavolta and
Patricia Lago Computation offloading for ground
robotic systems communicating over WiFi
-- an empirical exploration on
performance and energy trade-offs . . . ??
Guang Yang and
Yu Zhou and
Xiang Chen and
Xiangyu Zhang and
Yiran Xu and
Tingting Han and
Taolue Chen A syntax-guided multi-task learning
approach for Turducken-style code
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Samantha Syeda Khairunnesa and
Shibbir Ahmed and
Sayem Mohammad Imtiaz and
Hridesh Rajan and
Gary T. Leavens What kinds of contracts do ML APIs need? ??
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Heng Li and
Foutse Khomh Studying the characteristics of AIOps
projects on GitHub . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Liang Yu and
Emil Alégroth and
Panagiota Chatzipetrou and
Tony Gorschek Automated NFR testing in continuous
integration environments: a multi-case
study of Nordic companies . . . . . . . ??
Déaglán Connolly Bree and
Mel Ó Cinnéide Energy efficiency of the Visitor
Pattern: contrasting Java and C++
implementations . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michael Weiss and
André García Gómez and
Paolo Tonella Generating and detecting true ambiguity:
a forgotten danger in DNN supervision
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and
Sergio Montes-Leon and
Gregorio Robles and
Stefano Zacchiroli The Software Heritage License Dataset
(2022 edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Talita Vieira Ribeiro and
Paulo Sérgio Medeiros dos Santos and
Guilherme Horta Travassos On the Investigation of Empirical
Contradictions --- Aggregated Results of
Local Studies on Readability and
Comprehensibility of Source Code . . . . ??
Shalini Chakraborty and
Grischa Liebel We do not understand what it says --
studying student perceptions of software
modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana and
Xiaoyan Xu and
Mahmoud Alfadel and
Shane McIntosh and
Meiyappan Nagappan An empirical comparison of ethnic and
gender diversity of DevOps and
non-DevOps contributions to open-source
projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Bram Adams and
Ahmed E. Hassan On the coordination of vulnerability
fixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Christian Kaltenecker and
Stefan Mühlbauer and
Alexander Grebhahn and
Norbert Siegmund and
Sven Apel Performance evolution of configurable
software systems: an empirical study . . ??
Johannes Härtel and
Ralf Lämmel Operationalizing validity of empirical
software engineering studies . . . . . . ??
Caique G. Moreira and
Breno B. N. de França and
Tayana U. Conte Analyzing the BizDev interface in an
enterprise context: a case of developers
acting in business . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Luigi Lavazza and
Sandro Morasca and
Marco Gatto An empirical study on software
understandability and its dependence on
code characteristics . . . . . . . . . . ??
Mehdi Keshani and
Georgios Gousios and
Sebastian Proksch Frankenstein: fast and lightweight call
graph generation for software builds . . ??
Roger Creus Castanyer and
Silverio Martínez-Fernández and
Xavier Franch Which design decisions in AI-enabled
mobile applications contribute to
greener AI? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Maria Teresa Baldassarre and
Marcos Kalinowski Guest editorial: special issue on
empirical software engineering and
measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michael Fu and
Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn and
Trung Le and
Yuki Kume and
Van Nguyen and
Dinh Phung and
John Grundy AIBugHunter: a Practical tool for
predicting, classifying and repairing
software vulnerabilities . . . . . . . . ??
Wen Siang Tan and
Markus Wagner and
Christoph Treude Detecting outdated code element
references in software repository
documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Asif Kamal Turzo and
Amiangshu Bosu What makes a code review useful to
OpenDev developers? An empirical
investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Gunnar Kudrjavets and
Ayushi Rastogi Does code review speed matter for
practitioners? . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Arif Ali Khan and
Javed Ali Khan and
Muhammad Azeem Akbar and
Peng Zhou and
Mahdi Fahmideh Insights into software development
approaches: mining Q&A repositories . . . ??
Carmine Ferrara and
Giulia Sellitto and
Filomena Ferrucci and
Fabio Palomba and
Andrea De Lucia Fairness-aware machine learning
engineering: how far are we? . . . . . . ??
Florian Tambon and
Amin Nikanjam and
Le An and
Foutse Khomh and
Giuliano Antoniol Silent bugs in deep learning frameworks:
an empirical study of Keras and
TensorFlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rahul Bajaj and
Eduardo Fernandes and
Bram Adams and
Ahmed E. Hassan Unreproducible builds: time to fix,
causes, and correlation with external
ecosystem factors . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Cezar Sas and
Andrea Capiluppi Multi-granular software annotation using
file-level weak labelling . . . . . . . ??
Majd Soud and
Grischa Liebel and
Mohammad Hamdaqa A fly in the ointment: an empirical
study on the characteristics of Ethereum
smart contract code weaknesses . . . . . ??
Mohammad Mehdi Morovati and
Amin Nikanjam and
Florian Tambon and
Foutse Khomh and
Zhen Ming Jiang Bug characterization in machine
learning-based systems . . . . . . . . . ??
Mihaela Tomova and
Martin Hofmann and
Constantin Hütterer and
Patrick Mäder Assessing the utility of text-to-SQL
approaches for satisfying software
developer information needs . . . . . . ??
Iris Reinhartz-Berger Challenges in software model reuse:
cross application domain vs. cross
modeling paradigm . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Emitzá Guzmán and
Ricarda Anna-Lena Fischer and
Janey Kok Mind the gap: gender, micro-inequities
and barriers in software development . . ??
Quang-Cuong Bui and
Ranindya Paramitha and
Duc-Ly Vu and
Fabio Massacci and
Riccardo Scandariato APR4Vul: an empirical study of automatic
program repair techniques on real-world
Java vulnerabilities . . . . . . . . . . ??
Giovani Guizzo and
Jie M. Zhang and
Federica Sarro and
Christoph Treude and
Mark Harman Mutation analysis for evaluating code
translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Giammaria Giordano and
Gerardo Festa and
Gemma Catolino and
Fabio Palomba and
Filomena Ferrucci and
Carmine Gravino On the adoption and effects of source
code reuse on defect proneness and
maintenance effort . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Elizabeth Bjarnason and
Per Runeson A theory of factors affecting continuous
experimentation (FACE) . . . . . . . . . ??
Moses Openja and
Gabriel Laberge and
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Önder Babur and
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metamodels on GitHub . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Heitor Costa and
Sven Apel Predicting merge conflicts considering
social and technical assets . . . . . . ??
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Nikolaos Mittas and
Apostolos Ampatzoglou and
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among various refactoring candidates . . ??
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experimental study . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Maria Paasivaara and
Casper Lassenius SAFe transformation in a large financial
corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Alireza Ardalani and
Saeed Parsa and
Morteza Zakeri-Nasrabadi and
Alexander Chatzigeorgiou Supporting single responsibility through
automated extract method refactoring . . ??
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Ali Ouni A multi-objective effort-aware approach
for early code review prediction and
prioritization . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Diego Marcilio and
Carlo A. Furia Lightweight precise automatic extraction
of exception preconditions in Java
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rui Rua and
João Saraiva A large-scale empirical study on mobile
performance: energy, run-time and memory ??
Dulaji Hidellaarachchi and
John Grundy and
Rashina Hoda and
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languages to recommend reviewers for
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Akond Rahman and
Dibyendu Brinto Bose and
Yue Zhang and
Rahul Pandita An empirical study of task infections in
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Sebastian Proksch and
Daniel M. German and
Michael W. Godfrey and
Li Li and
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engineering perspective . . . . . . . . ??
Max Hort and
Jie M. Zhang and
Federica Sarro and
Mark Harman Search-based Automatic Repair for
Fairness and Accuracy in Decision-making
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Aniruddhan Murali and
Gaurav Sahu and
Kishanthan Thangarajah and
Brian Zimmerman and
Gema Rodríguez-Pérez and
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bots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Riccardo Felici and
Laura Pozzi and
Carlo A. Furia HyperPUT: generating synthetic faulty
programs to challenge bug-finding tools ??
Lu Xiao and
Gengwu Zhao and
Xiao Wang and
Keye Li and
Erick Lim and
Chenhao Wei and
Tingting Yu and
Xiaoyin Wang An empirical study on the usage of
mocking frameworks in Apache Software
Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Amador Durán Toro and
Pablo Fernández and
Nathaniel Weinman and
Aslìhan Akalìn and
Armando Fox Exploring Gender Bias In Remote Pair
Programming Among Software Engineering
Students: The twincode Original Study
And First External Replication . . . . . ??
Christopher S. Timperley and
Gijs van der Hoorn and
André Santos and
Harshavardhan Deshpande and
Andrzej W\kasowski ROBUST: 221 bugs in the Robot Operating
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Elgun Jabrayilzade and
Ayda Yurto\uglu and
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Amal Alazba and
Hamoud Aljamaan and
Mohammad Alshayeb CoRT: Transformer-based code
representations with self-supervision by
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detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Tuan Dung Lai and
Anj Simmons and
Scott Barnett and
Jean-Guy Schneider and
Rajesh Vasa Comparative analysis of real issues in
open-source machine learning projects ??
Manuel De Stefano and
Dario Di Nucci and
Fabio Palomba and
Andrea De Lucia An empirical study into the effects of
transpilation on quantum circuit smells ??
Eduardo Guerra and
Everaldo Gomes and
Jeferson Ferreira and
Igor Wiese and
Phyllipe Lima and
Marco Gerosa and
Paulo Meirelles How do annotations affect Java code
readability? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Shaoyu Yang and
Xiang Chen and
Ke Liu and
Guang Yang and
Chi Yu Automatic bi-modal question title
generation for Stack Overflow with
prompt learning . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Junren Chen and
Cheng Huang and
Jiaxuan Han VioDroid-Finder: automated evaluation of
compliance and consistency for Android
apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Kalvin Eng and
Abram Hindle and
Eleni Stroulia Patterns of multi-container composition
for service orchestration with Docker
Compose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michel Maes-Bermejo and
Alexander Serebrenik and
Micael Gallego and
Francisco Gortázar and
Gregorio Robles and
Jesús María González Barahona Hunting bugs: Towards an automated
approach to identifying which change
caused a bug through regression testing ??
Aastha Pant and
Rashina Hoda and
Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn and
Burak Turhan Ethics in AI through the practitioner's
view: a grounded theory literature
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Chathrie Wimalasooriya and
Sherlock A. Licorish and
Daniel Alencar da Costa and
Stephen G. MacDonell Just-in-Time crash prediction for mobile
apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Yan Lin and
Trisha Singhal and
Debin Gao and
David Lo Analyzing and revivifying function
signature inference using deep learning ??
Farideh Khalili and
Leonardo Mariani and
Ali Mohebbi and
Mauro Pezz\`e and
Valerio Terragni Semantic matching in GUI test reuse . . ??
Fabiano Pecorelli and
Giovanni Grano and
Fabio Palomba and
Harald C. Gall and
Andrea De Lucia Toward granular search-based automatic
unit test case generation . . . . . . . ??
Matteo Biagiola and
Andrea Stocco and
Vincenzo Riccio and
Paolo Tonella Two is better than one: digital siblings
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William Levén and
Hampus Broman and
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Samuel Idowu and
Osman Osman and
Daniel Strüber and
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tools: a mixed-methods empirical study ??
Christiaan Verwijs and
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team effectiveness across popular
scaling approaches . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jianyu Wu and
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Kai Gao and
Wenxin Xiao and
Jingyue Li and
Minghui Zhou A comprehensive analysis of challenges
and strategies for software release
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Fatemeh Hadadi and
Joshua H. Dawes and
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Domenico Bianculli and
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Mouna Abidi and
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Amin Ghadesi and
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Giovanni Rosa and
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Simone Scalabrino and
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Ali Arabat and
Mohammed Sayagh An empirical study on cross-component
dependent changes: a case study on the
components of OpenStack . . . . . . . . ??
Shenyu Zheng and
Bram Adams and
Ahmed E. Hassan Does using Bazel help speed up
continuous integration builds? . . . . . ??
Yinghua Li and
Xueqi Dang and
Lei Ma and
Jacques Klein and
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé Prioritizing test cases for deep
learning-based video classifiers . . . . ??
Xueqi Dang and
Yinghua Li and
Wei Ma and
Yuejun Guo and
Qiang Hu and
Mike Papadakis and
Maxime Cordy and
Yves Le Traon Towards Exploring the Limitations of
Test Selection Techniques on Graph
Neural Networks: an Empirical Study . . ??
Kollin Napier and
Tanmay Bhowmik and
Zhiqian Chen Explaining poor performance of
text-based machine learning models for
vulnerability detection . . . . . . . . ??
Adam Alami and
Raúl Pardo and
Johan Linåker Free open source communities
sustainability: Does it make a
difference in software quality? . . . . ??
Pooja Rani and
Fernando Petrulio and
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Discussion Data . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Matias Martinez and
Maria Kechagia and
Anjana Perera and
Justyna Petke and
Federica Sarro and
Aldeida Aleti Test-based patch clustering for
automatically-generated patches
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Andrei Arusoaie and
\cStefan-Claudiu Susan Towards Trusted Smart Contracts: a
Comprehensive Test Suite For
Vulnerability Detection . . . . . . . . ??
Hongjing Guo and
Chuanqi Tao and
Zhiqiu Huang Neuron importance-aware coverage
analysis for deep neural network testing ??
Adam Alami and
Mansooreh Zahedi and
Oliver Krancher The role of psychological safety in
promoting software quality in agile
teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Xiang Chen and
Wenlong Pei and
Shaoyu Yang and
Yanlin Zhou and
Zichen Zhang and
Jiahua Pei Automatic title completion for Stack
Overflow posts and GitHub issues . . . . ??
Benjamin Danglot and
Jean-Rémy Falleri and
Romain Rouvoy Can we spot energy regressions using
developers tests? . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Bingting Chen and
Weiqin Zou and
Biyu Cai and
Qianshuang Meng and
Wenjie Liu and
Piji Li and
Lin Chen An empirical study on the potential of
word embedding techniques in bug report
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Youssef Esseddiq Ouatiti and
Mohammed Sayagh and
Noureddine Kerzazi and
Bram Adams and
Ahmed E. Hassan The impact of concept drift and data
leakage on log level prediction models ??
Xunzhu Tang and
Haoye Tian and
Pingfan Kong and
Saad Ezzini and
Kui Liu and
Xin Xia and
Jacques Klein and
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé App review driven collaborative bug
finding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Miguel Setúbal and
Tayana Conte and
Marcos Kalinowski and
Allysson Allex Araújo Investigating the online recruitment and
selection journey of novice software
engineers: Anti-patterns and
recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Markus Borg and
Leif Jonsson and
Emelie Engström and
Béla Bartalos and
Attila Szabó Adopting automated bug assignment in
practice --- a longitudinal case study
at Ericsson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michel Maes-Bermejo and
Micael Gallego and
Francisco Gortázar and
Gregorio Robles and
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona Testing the past: can we still run tests
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Hocine Rebatchi and
Tégawendé F. Bissyandé and
Naouel Moha Dependabot and security pull requests:
large empirical study . . . . . . . . . ??
Mingyue Jiang and
Chengjian Tang and
Xiao-Yi Zhang and
Yangyang Zhao and
Zuohua Ding DDImage: an image reduction based
approach for automatically explaining
black-box classifiers . . . . . . . . . ??
Muhammad Laiq and
Nauman bin Ali and
Jürgen Börstler and
Emelie Engström Industrial adoption of machine learning
techniques for early identification of
invalid bug reports . . . . . . . . . . ??
Hareem Sahar and
Abdul Ali Bangash and
Abram Hindle and
Denilson Barbosa IRJIT: a simple, online, information
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