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Gerardo Canfora and Darren Dalcher and David Raffo Editorials: \booktitleSoftware: evolution and process. A new journal is born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Huzefa Kagdi and Malcom Gethers and Denys Poshyvanyk and Maen Hammad Assigning change requests to software developers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--33 Joanne E. Hale and David P. Hale Evaluating testing effectiveness during software evolution: a time-series cross-section approach . . . . . . . . . 35--49 Ray-yaung Chang and Andy Podgurski Discovering programming rules and violations by mining interprocedural dependences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--66 Ákos Hajnal and István Forgács A demand-driven approach to slicing legacy COBOL systems . . . . . . . . . . 67--82 Tony Gorschek and Andrigo Gomes and Andreas Pettersson and Richard Torkar Introduction of a process maturity model for market-driven product management and requirements engineering . . . . . . . . 83--113
Ita Richardson and Dan Paulish and June Verner Editorials: Research directions for global software engineering --- where to next? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117 Rafael Prikladnicki Propinquity in global software engineering: examining perceived distance in globally distributed project teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--137 Alexander Boden and Gabriela Avram and Liam Bannon and Volker Wulf Knowledge sharing practices and the impact of cultural factors: reflections on two case studies of offshoring in SME 139--152 Marcelo Cataldo and Sangeeth Nambiar The impact of geographic distribution and the nature of technical coupling on the quality of global software development projects . . . . . . . . . . 153--168 Olly Gotel and Vidya Kulkarni and Moniphal Say and Christelle Scharff and Thanwadee Sunetnanta Quality indicators on global software development projects: does `getting to know you' really matter? . . . . . . . . 169--184 Arttu Piri and Tuomas Niinimäki and Casper Lassenius Fear and distrust in global software engineering projects . . . . . . . . . . 185--205 Muhammad Ali Babar A framework for groupware-supported software architecture evaluation process in global software development . . . . . 207--229
Selmin Nurcan and Rainer Schmidt and Ilia Bider and Gil Regev Editorials: Special issue on business process lifecycle: design, deployment, operation and evaluation . . . . . . . . 231--236 Sebastian Adam and Norman Riegel and Joerg Doerr and Oezguer Uenalan and Daniel Kerkow From business processes to software services and vice versa --- an improved transition through service-oriented requirements engineering . . . . . . . . 237--258 Roland Ukor and Andy Carpenter Service selection and horizontal multi-sourcing in process-oriented capability outsourcing . . . . . . . . . 259--283 Stefan Zugal and Jakob Pinggera and Barbara Weber Toward enhanced life-cycle support for declarative processes . . . . . . . . . 285--302 Arnon Sturm Supporting business process analysis via data warehousing . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--319 Khurram Shahzad and Jelena Zdravkovic Process warehouses in practice: a goal-driven method for business process analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--339 Antonio De Nicola and Michele Missikoff and Fabrizio Smith Towards a method for business process and informal business rules compliance 341--360 Rainer Schmidt Meta-service support for the business process life cycle . . . . . . . . . . . 361--373
Ebrahim Bagheri and Tommaso Di Noia and Dragan Gasevic and Azzurra Ragone Formalizing interactive staged feature model configuration . . . . . . . . . . 375--400 Ho-Won Jung Process attribute rating and sensitivity analysis in process assessment . . . . . 401--419 P. A. van de Griend and R. J. Kusters Integration test effort in SAP R/3 systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--435 Yeni Yuqin Li Helgesson and Martin Höst and Kim Weyns A review of methods for evaluation of maturity models for process improvement 436--454
Miklós Biró and Richard Messnarz Editorials: Topics in Software, Systems and Services Process Improvement . . . . 455--458 Patricia A. McQuaid Software disasters --- understanding the past, to improve the future . . . . . . 459--470 Michael Steiner and Monique Blaschke and Michael Philipp and Tomas Schweigert Make test process assessment similar to software process assessment --- the Test SPICE approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--480 Iván García and Carla Pacheco and Eloy Mendoza and Jose A. Calvo-Manzano and Gonzalo Cuevas and Tomás San Feliu Managing the software process with a software process improvement tool in a small enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--491 Antonia Mas and Bartomeu Flux\`a and Esperança Amengual Lessons learned from an ISO/IEC 15504 SPI programme in a company . . . . . . . 493--500 Mika Johansson and Risto Nevalainen Additional requirements for process assessment in safety-critical software and systems domain . . . . . . . . . . . 501--510 Jose A. Calvo-Manzano and Gonzalo Cuevas and Gerzón Gómez and Jezreel Mejia and Mirna Muñoz and Tomás San Feliu Methodology for process improvement through basic components and focusing on the resistance to change . . . . . . . . 511--523 Morten Korsaa and Miklos Biro and Richard Messnarz and Jörn Johansen and Detlef Vohwinkel and Risto Nevalainen and Tomas Schweigert The SPI manifesto and the ECQA SPI manager certification scheme . . . . . . 525--540 Volver Bachmann and Richard Messnarz Improving the software development for multiple projects by applying a platform strategy for mechatronic systems . . . . 541--549 Andreas Riel and Anca Draghici and George Draghici and Damian Grajewski and Richard Messnarz Process and product innovation needs integrated engineering collaboration skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--560 Pádraig O'Leary and Fergal McCaffery and Steffen Thiel and Ita Richardson An agile process model for product derivation in software product line engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--571 Elli Georgiadou and Kerstin V. Siakas KASL-II: a dynamic four-loop model for knowledge sharing and learning . . . . . 573--583 Alain Abran and Jean-Marc Desharnais and Juan Jose Cuadrado-Gallego Measurement and quantification are not the same: ISO 15939 and ISO 9126 . . . . 585--601
Allen Milewski and Alberto Avritzer and Yael Dubinsky Editorial: Special issue on global software engineering . . . . . . . . . . 603--604 Darja \vSmite and Claes Wohlin Lessons learned from transferring software products to India . . . . . . . 605--623 Fabio Q. B. da Silva and Rafael Prikladnicki and A. César C. França and Cleviton V. F. Monteiro and Catarina Costa and Rodrigo Rocha An evidence-based model of distributed software development project management: results from a systematic mapping study 625--642 Samireh Jalali and Claes Wohlin Global software engineering and agile practices: a systematic review . . . . . 643--659 Ansgar Lamersdorf and Jürgen Münch and Alicia Fernández- del Viso Torre and Carlos Rebate Sánchez and Markus Heinz and Dieter Rombach A rule-based model for customized risk identification and evaluation of task assignment alternatives in distributed software development projects . . . . . 661--675 Tuomas Niinimäki and Arttu Piri and Casper Lassenius and Maria Paasivaara Reflecting the choice and usage of communication tools in global software development projects with media synchronicity theory . . . . . . . . . . 677--692 Patricia Lago and Henry Muccini and Muhammad Ali Babar An empirical study of learning by osmosis in global software engineering 693--706 Miguel J. Monasor and Aurora Vizcaíno and Mario Piattini Cultural and linguistic problems in GSD: a simulator to train engineers in these issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707--717
Vahid Garousi and Qing Wang Editorial: Guest editors' introduction 719--720 Xu Bai and LiGuo Huang and He Zhang and Supannika Koolmanojwong Hybrid modeling and simulation for trustworthy software process management: a stakeholder-oriented approach . . . . 721--740 He Zhang and Barbara Kitchenham and Ross Jeffery Toward trustworthy software process models: an exploratory study on transformable process modeling . . . . . 741--763 Reda Bendraou and Jean-Marc Jezéquél and Franck Fleurey Achieving process modeling and execution through the combination of aspect and model-driven engineering approaches . . 765--781 Qi Li and Ye Yang and Mingshu Li and Qing Wang and Barry W. Boehm and Chenyong Hu Improving software testing process: feature prioritization to make winners of success-critical stakeholders . . . . 783--801 Dan Houston and Douglas Buettner and Myron Hecht Defectivity profiling with dynamic COQUALMO: An explication and product quality retrospective . . . . . . . . . 803--814 Mubarak Mohammad and Vangalur Alagar A component-based development process for trustworthy systems . . . . . . . . 815--835 Lan Cao Dynamic capability for trustworthy software development . . . . . . . . . . 837--850
Francisco J. Pino and Francisco Ruiz and Félix García and Mario Piattini A software maintenance methodology for small organizations: Agile\_MANTEMA . . 851--876 Mahmood Niazi An exploratory study of software process improvement implementation risks . . . . 877--894 Zádor Dániel Kelemen and Rob Kusters and Jos Trienekens Identifying criteria for multimodel software process improvement solutions --- based on a review of current problems and initiatives . . . . . . . . 895--909
Mohammad Alshayeb and Hamdi Al-Jamimi and Mahmoud O. Elish Empirical taxonomy of refactoring methods for aspect-oriented programming 1--25 Francesca Arcelli Fontana and Stefano Maggioni and Claudia Raibulet Design patterns: a survey on their micro-structures . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--52 Bogdan Dit and Meghan Revelle and Malcom Gethers and Denys Poshyvanyk Feature location in source code: a taxonomy and survey . . . . . . . . . . 53--95 Laura J. White and Thomas Reichherzer and John Coffey and Norman Wilde and Sharon Simmons Maintenance of service oriented architecture composite applications: static and dynamic support . . . . . . . 97--109
Rudolf Ferenc and Jens Knodel and Andreas Winter Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue of the 13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2009) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112 Chiara Di Francescomarino and Alessandro Marchetto and Paolo Tonella Cluster-based modularization of processes recovered from web applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--138 Segla Kpodjedo and Filippo Ricca and Philippe Galinier and Giuliano Antoniol and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc Studying software evolution of large object-oriented software systems using an ETGM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 139--163 Nils Göde and Rainer Koschke Studying clone evolution using incremental clone detection . . . . . . 165--192
Iulian Neamtiu and Guowu Xie and Jianbo Chen Towards a better understanding of software evolution: an empirical study on open-source software . . . . . . . . 193--218 Adam Vanya and Steven Klusener and Rahul Premraj and Hans van Vliet Supporting software architects to improve their software system's decomposition --- lessons learned . . . 219--232 Trosky B. Callo Arias and Pierre America and Paris Avgeriou A top-down approach to construct execution views of a large software-intensive system . . . . . . . 233--260 Jeremy R. Pate and Robert Tairas and Nicholas A. Kraft Clone evolution: a systematic review . . 261--283 Robert Lagerström and Ulf Sporrong and Anders Wall Increasing software development efficiency and maintainability for complex industrial systems --- A case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--301 Alexander Chatzigeorgiou and Emmanouil Stiakakis Combining metrics for software evolution assessment by means of Data Envelopment Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--324
Miklós Biró and Richard Messnarz and Ricardo Colomo Palacios Editorial: Industrial experiences with software process assessment and improvement: (Special Issue with Selected Industrial Experience Papers of EuroSPI$^2$ 2010) . . . . . . . . . . . 325--327 Martin Neumann and Andreas Riel and Daniel Brissaud IT-supported innovation management in the automotive supplier industry to drive idea generation and leverage innovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--339 Volker Bachmann and Richard Messnarz Improving safety and availability of complex systems by using an integrated design approach in development . . . . . 341--349 Philippe Kruchten Contextualizing agile software development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--361 Valentine Casey and Fergal Mc Caffery A lightweight traceability assessment method for medical device software . . . 363--372 Anne Kramer Automotive and medical: can we learn from each other? . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--379 Morten Korsaa and Jörn Johansen and Tomas Schweigert and Detlef Vohwinkel and Richard Messnarz and Risto Nevalainen and Miklos Biro The people aspects in modern process improvement management approaches . . . 381--391 Ismael Edrein Espinosa-Curiel and Josefina Rodríguez-Jacobo and José Alberto Fernández-Zepeda A framework for evaluation and control of the factors that influence the software process improvement in small organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--406
Mahmoud O. Elish and Mojeeb Al-Rahman Al-Khiaty A suite of metrics for quantifying historical changes to predict future change-prone classes in object-oriented software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--437 Lei Wang and Pengzhi Yu and Zheng Wang and Chen Yang and Qiang Ye On the evolution of Linux kernels: a complex network perspective . . . . . . 439--458 Khalid T. Al-Sarayreh and Alain Abran and Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego A standards-based model of system maintainability requirements . . . . . . 459--505 Ricardo Pérez-Castillo and Ignacio García-Rodríguez de Guzmán and Ismael Caballero and Mario Piattini Software modernization by recovering Web services from legacy databases . . . . . 507--533 Habib Seifzadeh and Hassan Abolhassani and Mohsen Sadighi Moshkenani A survey of dynamic software updating 535--568
Rafael Capilla and Juan C. Dueñas and Rudolf Ferenc Editorial: A retrospective view of software maintenance and reengineering research --- a selection of papers from European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering 2010 . . . 569--574 Latifa Guerrouj and Massimiliano Di Penta and Giuliano Antoniol and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc TIDIER: an identifier splitting approach using speech recognition techniques . . 575--599 Rainer Koschke Incremental reflexion analysis . . . . . 601--637 Khalid Adam Nasr and Hans-Gerhard Gross and Arie van Deursen Realizing service migration in industry --- lessons learned . . . . . . . . . . 639--661
Kaan Kurtel and Murat Ozemre Cohesive software measurement planning framework using ISO standards: a case study from logistics service sector . . 663--679 Hasan Ural and Hüsnü Yenigün Regression test suite selection using dependence analysis . . . . . . . . . . 681--709 Mahvish Khurum and Tony Gorschek and Magnus Wilson The software value map --- an exhaustive collection of value aspects for the development of software intensive products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--741 Giovanni Capobianco and Andrea De Lucia and Rocco Oliveto and Annibale Panichella and Sebastiano Panichella Improving IR-based traceability recovery via noun-based indexing of software artifacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--762 Alaa El-deen Hamouda The BSCBAS: a Balanced Scorecard-based Appraisal System for improving the performance of software organizations 763--780
Holger M. Kienle and Giuseppe Di Lucca and Kostas Kontogiannis Editorial: Special issue: selected papers from the 12th International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE 2010) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--787 Mario Luca Bernardi and Marta Cimitile and Damiano Distante Web applications design recovery and evolution with RE--UWA . . . . . . . . . 789--814 Stéphane Vaucher and Antoine Moulart and Houari Sahraoui and Naji Habra Automated evaluation of website navigability: an empirical validation of multilevel quality models . . . . . . . 815--839 Bipin Upadhyaya and Ran Tang and Ying Zou An approach for mining service composition patterns from execution logs 841--870 Marin Litoiu and Cornel Barna A performance evaluation framework for Web applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 871--890
Andrea Capiluppi Similarities, challenges and opportunities of Wikipedia content and open source projects . . . . . . . . . . 891--914 Anu Raninen and Jarmo J. Ahonen and Hanna-Miina Sihvonen and Paula Savolainen and Sarah Beecham LAPPI: A light-weight technique to practical process modeling and improvement target identification . . . 915--933 Raula Gaikovina Kula and Kyohei Fushida and Norihiro Yoshida and Hajimu Iida Micro process analysis of maintenance effort: an open source software case study using metrics based on program slicing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--955 Carlos E. Cuesta and Elena Navarro and Dewayne E. Perry and Cristina Roda Evolution styles: using architectural knowledge as an evolution driver . . . . 957--980 Paul Clarke and Rory V. O'Connor An empirical examination of the extent of software process improvement in software SMEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981--998 Iván Ruiz-Rube and Juan Manuel Dodero and Manuel Palomo-Duarte and Mercedes Ruiz and David Gawn Uses and applications of Software & Systems Process Engineering Meta-Model process models. A systematic mapping study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1025 Andreas Bollin Metrics for quantifying evolutionary changes in Z specifications . . . . . . 1027--1059
Anonymous Editorial: Special issue: software maintenance and reengineering (CSMR 2011) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1061--1062 Jan Harder and Nils Göde Cloned code: stable code . . . . . . . . 1063--1088 Sören Frey and Wilhelm Hasselbring and Benjamin Schnoor Automatic conformance checking for migrating software systems to cloud infrastructures and platforms . . . . . 1089--1115 Karine Mordal and Nicolas Anquetil and Jannik Laval and Alexander Serebrenik and Bogdan Vasilescu and Stéphane Ducasse Software quality metrics aggregation in industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117--1135
James R. Cordy and Paolo Tonella Editorial: Special section on ICSM 2011 1137--1138 Liliane Barbour and Foutse Khomh and Ying Zou An empirical study of faults in late propagation clone genealogies . . . . . 1139--1165 Abdallah Qusef and Gabriele Bavota and Rocco Oliveto and Andrea De Lucia and David Binkley Evaluating test-to-code traceability recovery methods through controlled experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167--1191 Jinshui Wang and Xin Peng and Zhenchang Xing and Wenyun Zhao How developers perform feature location tasks: a human-centric and process-oriented exploratory study . . . 1193--1224
Giulio Concas and Maria Ilaria Lunesu and Michele Marchesi and Hongyu Zhang Simulation of software maintenance process, with and without a work-in-process limit . . . . . . . . . 1225--1248 Ting Chen and Xiao-song Zhang and Cong Zhu and Xiao-li Ji and Shi-ze Guo and Yue Wu Design and implementation of a dynamic symbolic execution tool for windows executables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249--1272 Andrea Janes and Tadas Remencius and Alberto Sillitti and Giancarlo Succi Managing changes in requirements: an empirical investigation . . . . . . . . 1273--1283 Alejandra Garrido and Ralph Johnson Embracing the C preprocessor during refactoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1285--1304 Teemu Tunkelo and Ari-Pekka Hameri and Yves Pigneur Improving globally distributed software development and support processes --- A workflow view . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305--1324 Javier Garzás and Mark C. Paulk A case study of software process improvement with CMMI--DEV and Scrum in Spanish companies . . . . . . . . . . . 1325--1333 Yu Sun and Jeff Gray and Romain Delamare and Benoit Baudry and Jules White Automating the maintenance of nonfunctional system properties using demonstration-based model transformation 1335--1356 Lingming Zhang and Miryung Kim and Sarfraz Khurshid FaultTracer: a spectrum-based approach to localizing failure-inducing program edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1357--1383
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Martin Pinzger and Denys Poshyvanyk Editorial: Special issue: a selection of distinguished papers from the 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Weiyi Shang and Zhen Ming Jiang and Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan and Michael W. Godfrey and Mohamed Nasser and Parminder Flora An exploratory study of the evolution of communicated information about the execution of large software systems . . 3--26 Xiaoran Wang and Lori Pollock and K. Vijay-Shanker Automatic Segmentation of Method Code into Meaningful Blocks: Design and Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--49 Amir Aryani and Fabrizio Perin and Mircea Lungu and Abdun Naser Mahmood and Oscar Nierstrasz Predicting dependences using domain-based coupling . . . . . . . . . 50--76 Fehmi Jaafar and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and Sylvie Hamel and Giuliano Antoniol Detecting asynchrony and dephase change patterns by mining software repositories 77--106 Steven Davies and Marc Roper and Murray Wood Comparing text-based and dependence-based approaches for determining the origins of bugs . . . . 107--139
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Maryam Razavian and Patricia Lago A lean and mean strategy: a data migration industrial study . . . . . . . 141--171 Lucia Lucia and David Lo and Lingxiao Jiang and Ferdian Thung and Aditya Budi Extended comprehensive study of association measures for fault localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--219 Syed Muhammad Ali Shah and Cigdem Gencel and Usman Sattar Alvi and Kai Petersen Towards a hybrid testing process unifying exploratory testing and scripted testing . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--250 Michael Unterkalmsteiner and Tony Gorschek and A. K. M. Moinul Islam and Chow Kian Cheng and Rahadian Bayu Permadi and Robert Feldt A conceptual framework for SPI evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--279
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Miklós Biró and Richard Messnarz and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios Editorial: Application themes of software process assessment and improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--283 Richard Messnarz and Miguel-Angel Sicilia and Miklos Biro and Elena García-Barriocanal and Miguel Garre-Rubio and Kerstin Siakas and Adrienne Clarke Social responsibility aspects supporting the success of SPI . . . . . . . . . . . 284--294 Tim Kasse and Jòrn Johansen Maturity differences between customer and supplier --- challenges, problems, and possible solutions . . . . . . . . . 295--305 Motoko Takeuchi and Naohiko Kohtake and Seiko Shirasaka and Yumi Koishi and Kazunori Shioya Report on an assessment experience based on ISO/IEC 29110 . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--312 Péter Balázs Polgár and Ferenc Kazinci Process communication in medical software development . . . . . . . . . . 313--320 Badari Kotejoshyer and Birendra Singh and Suhas Tittibha Rule-based requirements management methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--328 Javier Saldaña-Ramos and Ana Sanz-Esteban and Javier García and Antonio Amescua Skills and abilities for working in a global software development team: a competence model . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--338 Diego Martín and Javier García Guzmán and Julián Urbano and Antonio Amescua Modeling software development practices using reusable project patterns: a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--349 Tomas Schweigert and Andreas Nehfort Technical issues in test process assessment and their current handling in TestSPICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--356 Timo Varkoi and Risto Nevalainen and Timo Mäkinen Toward nuclear SPICE --- integrating IEC 61508, IEC 60880 and SPICE . . . . . . . 357--365
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii David Raffo and Dietmar Pfahl and Li Zhang Editorial: ICSSP 2011 Special issue: processes for tomorrow's systems and software engineering: an evolving dynamic domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370 Frank Elberzhager and Jürgen Münch and Dieter Rombach and Bernd Freimut Integrating inspection and test processes based on context-specific assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--385 Julio A. Hurtado Alegría and María Cecilia Bastarrica and Alcides Quispe and Sergio F. Ochoa MDE-based process tailoring strategy . . 386--403 Maria Paasivaara and Casper Lassenius Agile coaching for global software development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--418 Lorea Belategi and Goiuria Sagardui and Leire Etxeberria and Maider Azanza Embedded software product lines: domain and application engineering model-based analysis processes . . . . . . . . . . . 419--433 Julio A. Hurtado Alegría and María Cecilia Bastarrica and Alexandre Bergel Avispa: a tool for analyzing software process models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--450 Carlton A. Crabtree and Anthony F. Norcio and Carolyn B. Seaman An empirical study of process knowledge: coherence as a static process property 451--463
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Miklós Biró and Richard Messnarz and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios Editorial: Software process improvement leveraged in various application domains 465--467 Phelim Dowling Successfully transitioning a research project to a commercial spin-out using an agile software process . . . . . . . 468--475 Marcos Ruano-Mayoral and Cristina Casado-Lumbreras and Helena Garbarino-Alberti and Sanjay Misra Methodological framework for the allocation of work packages in global software development . . . . . . . . . . 476--487 Onur Kaynak and N. Alpay Karagöz Experience report: implementation of a multi-standard compliant process improvement program . . . . . . . . . . 488--495 Hervé Cholez and Frédéric Girard Maturity assessment and process improvement for information security management in small and medium enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--503 Martin McHugh and Fergal McCaffery and Valentine Casey Adopting agile practices when developing software for use in the medical domain 504--512 Tomas Schweigert and Detlef Vohwinkel and Morten Korsaa and Risto Nevalainen and Miklos Biro Agile maturity model: analysing agile maturity characteristics from the SPICE perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--520 Hideto Ogasawara and Takumi Kusanagi and Minoru Aizawa Proposal and practice of software process improvement framework --- Toshiba's software process improvement history since 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . 521--529
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Mariano Ceccato and Zheng Li and James R. Cordy Editorial: Guest editorial for the special issue on source code analysis and manipulation, SCAM 2012 . . . . . . 531--532 Chris Wilcox and Michelle Mills Strout and James M. Bieman An optimization-based approach to lookup table program transformations . . . . . 533--551 André L. Santos GUI code tracing through direct program interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--568 Lajos Schrettner and Judit Jász and Tamás Gergely and Árpád Beszédes and Tibor Gyimóthy Impact analysis in the presence of dependence clusters using Static Execute After in WebKit . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--588
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and Gregorio Robles and Israel Herraiz and Felipe Ortega Studying the laws of software evolution in a long-lived FLOSS project . . . . . 589--612 Michael W. Godfrey and Daniel M. German On the evolution of Lehman's Laws . . . 613--619 Yguaratã Cerqueira Cavalcanti and Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto and Ivan do Carmo Machado and Tassio Ferreira Vale and Eduardo Santana de Almeida and Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira Challenges and opportunities for software change request repositories: a systematic mapping study . . . . . . . . 620--653 Aakash Ahmad and Pooyan Jamshidi and Claus Pahl Classification and comparison of architecture evolution reuse knowledge --- a systematic review . . . . . . . . 654--691 Adnane Ghannem and Ghizlane El Boussaidi and Marouane Kessentini Model refactoring using examples: a search-based approach . . . . . . . . . 692--713 J. Samalikova and R. J. Kusters and J. J. M. Trienekens and A. J. M. M. Weijters Process mining support for Capability Maturity Model Integration-based software process assessment, in principle and in practice . . . . . . . 714--728
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii T. Mens and A. Cleve Editorial: CSMR 2012 Special issue --- Guest editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 729--729 Sarah Nadi and Ric Holt The Linux kernel: a case study of build system variability . . . . . . . . . . . 730--746 Rainer Koschke Large-scale inter-system clone detection using suffix trees and hashing . . . . . 747--769
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Miklós Biró and Richard Messnarz and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios Editorials: Snapshot of industrial experiences shared at the 20th Anniversary EuroSPI Conference . . . . . 771--775 Filipe Albero Pomar and Jose A. Calvo-Manzano and Edgar Caballero and Magdalena Arcilla-Cobián Understanding sprint velocity fluctuations for improved project plans with Scrum: a case study . . . . . . . . 776--783 Paraic Hegarty and Eoghan O'Leary and Danny Dineen and David Bustard and Adrian Moore Transition to a product line infrastructure: experience at Akari Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784--790 Ricardo Colomo-Palacios and Richard Messnarz and Kerstin Siakas and Daniel Palosi and Darragh Coakley Using social media as a tool for business improvement and certification of knowledge workers . . . . . . . . . . 791--798 Stéphane Cortina and Alain Renault and Michel Picard Assessing partially outsourced processes --- lessons learned from TIPA assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--807 Lucas Grossi and Jose A. Calvo-Manzano and Tomas San Feliu High-maturity levels: achieving CMMI ML-5 in a consultancy company . . . . . 808--817 Alberto Heredia and Javier Garcia-Guzman and Antonio Amescua-Seco and Manuel Velasco-Diego Agile practices adapted to mass-market application development . . . . . . . . 818--828 Masao Ito and Koichi Kishida An approach to manage the concept phase of ISO 26262 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--836 Xabier Larrucea and Izaskun Santamaria An industrial assessment for a multimodel framework . . . . . . . . . . 837--845 Antoni-Lluís Mesquida and Antonia Mas A project management improvement program according to ISO/IEC 29110 and PMBOK\reg 846--854 Efi Papatheocharous and Andreas S. Andreou Empirical evidence and state of practice of software agile teams . . . . . . . . 855--866
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii LiGuo Huang and Ove Armbrust and Guest Editors Editorial: Guest editors' introduction 867--868 Leon J. Osterweil Learning about application software by studying processes . . . . . . . . . . . 869--876 Dan Houston A generalized duration forecasting model of test-and-fix cycles . . . . . . . . . 877--889 Komlan Akpédjé Kedji and Redouane Lbath and Bernard Coulette and Mahmoud Nassar and Laurent Baresse and Florin Racaru Supporting collaborative development using process models: a tooled integration-focused approach . . . . . . 890--909 Pierre N. Robillard and Mathieu Lavallée and Yvan Ton-That and François Chiocchio Taxonomy for software teamwork measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910--922 He Zhang and David Raffo and Thomas Birkhöltzer and Dan Houston and Raymond Madachy and Jürgen Münch and Stanley M. Sutton, Jr. Software process simulation --- at a crossroads? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--928
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Rocco Oliveto and Denys Poshyvanyk A selection of distinguished papers from the 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . 929--930 Hakam W. Alomari and Michael L. Collard and Jonathan I. Maletic and Nouh Alhindawi and Omar Meqdadi srcSlice: very efficient and scalable forward static slicing . . . . . . . . . 931--961 Soumaya Medini and Venera Arnaoudova and Massimiliano Di Penta and Giuliano Antoniol and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and Paolo Tonella SCAN: an approach to label and relate execution trace segments . . . . . . . . 962--995 Feng Zhang and Foutse Khomh and Ying Zou and Ahmed E. Hassan An empirical study of the effect of file editing patterns on software quality . . 996--1029 Cédric Teyton and Jean-Rémy Falleri and Marc Palyart and Xavier Blanc A study of library migrations in Java 1030--1052
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Marco Kuhrmann and Daniel Méndez Fernández and Michaela Tiessler A mapping study on the feasibility of method engineering . . . . . . . . . . . 1053--1073 Mahvish Khurum and Kai Petersen and Tony Gorschek Extending value stream mapping through waste definition beyond customer perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1074--1105 Jan Vlietland and Hans van Vliet Improving IT incident handling performance with information visibility 1106--1127 Ricardo Pérez-Castillo and Danilo Caivano and Mario Piattini Ontology-based similarity applied to business process clustering . . . . . . 1128--1149 Kai Petersen and Peter Roos and Staffan Nyström and Per Runeson Early identification of bottlenecks in very large scale system of systems software development . . . . . . . . . . 1150--1171 Marco Zanoni and Fabrizio Perin and Francesca Arcelli Fontana and Gianluigi Viscusi Pattern detection for conceptual schema recovery in data-intensive systems . . . 1172--1192 C. Bezemer and E. Milon and A. Zaidman and J. Pouwelse Detecting and analyzing I/O performance regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193--1212 Joonseok Park and Taejun Kang and Keunhyuk Yeom Mobile situation-aware framework for developing smart mobile software . . . . 1213--1232 Mario Luca Bernardi and Marta Cimitile and Giuseppe Di Lucca Design pattern detection using a DSL-driven graph matching approach . . . 1233--1266 Tom McBride and Timo Varkoi A method for aggregating ordinal process assessment measures . . . . . . . . . . 1267--1279 Petra Heck and Andy Zaidman Horizontal traceability for just-in-time requirements: the case for open source feature requests . . . . . . . . . . . . 1280--1296 Sanjay Misra and Luis Fernández and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios A simplified model for software inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297--1315 Alastair Walker and Antonio Coletta and Rama Sivaraman An evaluation of the process capability implications of the requirements of ISO/IEC 20000-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1316--1326
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii C. L. Pacheco and I. A. Garcia and J. A. Calvo-Manzano and M. Arcilla A proposed model for reuse of software requirements in requirements catalog . . 1--21 Gabriella Carrozza and Roberto Pietrantuono and Stefano Russo Defect analysis in mission-critical software systems: a detailed investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--49 Philipp Holtkamp and Ivan Lau and Jan Martin Pawlowski How software development competences change in global settings --- an explorative study . . . . . . . . . . . 50--72
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Jan Vlietland and Hans van Vliet Information sharing for effective IT incident resolving in IT service provider networks: a financial service case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--94 Raed Shatnawi Deriving metrics thresholds using log transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--113 Marco Kuhrmann Crafting a software process improvement approach --- a retrospective systematization . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--145
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Laurenz Eveleens and Peter Kampstra and Chris Verhoef Quantifying fair payment after outsourcing --- a case study . . . . . . 147--165 Eya Ben Charrada and Anne Koziolek and Martin Glinz Supporting requirements update during software evolution . . . . . . . . . . . 166--194 Xin Xia and David Lo and Xinyu Wang and Bo Zhou Dual analysis for recommending developers to resolve bugs . . . . . . . 195--220 Fuensanta Medina-Dominguez and Maria-Isabel Sanchez-Segura and Ana Moreno and Daniel Santin Collaborative tools: computer science students' skills versus software industry needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--235
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Faisal Tehseen Shah and Shafay Shamail and Niaz Ahmad Akhtar Lean quality improvement model for quality practices in software industry in Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--254 Dave Binkley and Dawn Lawrie The impact of vocabulary normalization 255--273 Anu Raninen and Helena Merikoski and Jarmo J. Ahonen and Sarah Beecham Applying software process modeling to improve customer support processes . . . 274--293 Davide Di Ruscio and Patrizio Pelliccione A model-driven approach to detect faults in FOSS systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--318
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Derek Flood and Fergal McCaffery and Valentine Casey and Ruth McKeever and Peter Rust A roadmap to ISO 14971 implementation 319--336 Maryam Razavian and Patricia Lago A systematic literature review on SOA migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--372 Jehad Al Dallal Accounting for data encapsulation in the measurement of object-oriented class cohesion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--400
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Rainer Koschke and Juergen Rilling Preface special section on software clones (IWSC'13) . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--401 Hitesh Sajnani and Vaibhav Saini and Cristina Lopes A parallel and efficient approach to large scale clone detection . . . . . . 402--429 Jeffrey Svajlenko and Iman Keivanloo and Chanchal K. Roy Big data clone detection using classical detectors: an exploratory study . . . . 430--464
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Jens Heidrich and Markku Oivo and Andreas Jedlitschka Editorial: Software productivity and effort estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 465--466 Daniel Graziotin and Xiaofeng Wang and Pekka Abrahamsson Do feelings matter? On the correlation of affects and the self-assessed productivity in software engineering . . 467--487 S. Amasaki and C. Lokan On the effectiveness of weighted moving windows: Experiment on linear regression based software effort estimation . . . . 488--507
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Miklós Biró and Richard Messnarz and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios Editorial: Process improvement approaches fertilised by advances in SPI 509--513 Su-Jin Choi and Dae-Kyoo Kim and Sooyong Park Identifying correlations of findings for building process improvement packages using graph clustering . . . . . . . . . 514--527 Lohana Lema and José-Antonio Calvo-Manzano and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios and Magdalena Arcilla ITIL in small to medium-sized enterprises software companies: towards an implementation sequence . . . . . . . 528--538 Jozef De Man Experience with teaching and applying process appraisals at a university . . . 539--544 János Ivanyos and Éva Sándor-Kriszt ECQA Governance SPICE assessor skills for evaluating integrated risk management scenarios . . . . . . . . . . 545--554 Harjinder Rahanu and Elli Georgiadou and Kerstin Siakas and Damjan Ekert and Richard Messanarz and Geetha Abeysinghe Towards relating delivery methods and examination success: lessons learned from the VALO LLP project case study . . 555--564 Marion Lepmets and Paul Clarke and Fergal McCaffery and Anita Finnegan and Alec Dorling Development of MDevSPICE\reg --- the medical device software process assessment framework . . . . . . . . . . 565--572 Jan Pries-Heje and Jòrn Johansen Choosing change strategy for ISO/IEC 33014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--583 Wolfgang Raschke and Massimiliano Zilli and Johannes Loinig and Reinhold Weiss and Christian Steger and Christian Kreiner Where does all this waste come from? . . 584--590 Gilbert Regan and Miklos Biro and Derek Flood and Fergal McCaffery Assessing traceability --- practical experiences and lessons learned . . . . 591--601
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Giulio Barabino and Giulio Concas and Erika Corona and Daniele Grechi and Michele Marchesi and Danilo Tigano Web framework points: an effort estimation methodology for Web application development using a content management framework . . . . . . . . . . 603--624 Fuqun Huang and Bin Liu and Shihai Wang and Qiuying Li The impact of software process consistency on residual defects . . . . 625--646 Krzysztof Wnuk and Jaap Kabbedijk and Sjaak Brinkkemper and Björn Regnell and David Callele Exploring factors affecting decision outcome and lead time in large-scale requirements engineering . . . . . . . . 647--673 Matias Nicoletti and Silvia Schiaffino and J. Andres Diaz-Pace An optimization-based tool to support the cost-effective production of software architecture documentation . . 674--699 Mahmood Niazi A comparative study of software process improvement implementation success factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700--722
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Buturab Rizvi and Ebrahim Bagheri and Dragan Gasevic A systematic review of distributed Agile software engineering . . . . . . . . . . 723--762 Bayarbuyan Ulziit and Zeeshan Akhtar Warraich and Cigdem Gencel and Kai Petersen A conceptual framework of challenges and solutions for managing global software maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--792 Jing Qiu and Xiaohong Su and Peijun Ma Identifying functions in binary code with reverse extended control flow graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793--820
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Dilan Sahin and Marouane Kessentini and Manuel Wimmer and Kalyanmoy Deb Model transformation testing: a bi-level search-based software engineering approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821--837 Hongyu Kuang and Patrick Mäder and Hao Hu and Achraf Ghabi and LiGuo Huang and Jian Lü and Alexander Egyed Can method data dependencies support the assessment of traceability between requirements and source code? . . . . . 838--866 Ghulam Rasool and Zeeshan Arshad A review of code smell mining techniques 867--895 Natalja Nikitina Calderon and Mira Kajko-Mattsson and Andrew James Nolan Successful process improvement projects are no accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . 896--911
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Maryam Nooraei Abadeh and Seyed-Hassan Mirian-Hosseinabadi Delta-based regression testing: a formal framework towards model-driven regression testing . . . . . . . . . . . 913--952 Christin Lindholm Involving user perspective in a software risk management process . . . . . . . . 953--975 Jhoney da. Silva Lopes and José Luis Braga and Moisés A. Resende Filho Systems dynamics model for decision support in risk assessment in software projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 976--989 Jukka Ruohonen and Sami Hyrynsalmi and Ville Leppänen Time series trends in software evolution 990--1015
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Antonio Martini and Lars Pareto and Jan Bosch A multiple case study on the inter-group interaction speed in large, embedded software companies employing agile . . . 4--26 Gregor Polan\vci\vc and Gregor Jo\vst The impact of the representatives of three types of process modeling tools on modeler's perceptions and performance 27--56 Amid Khatibi Bardsiri and Seyyed Mohsen Hashemi A differential evolution-based model to estimate the software services development effort . . . . . . . . . . . 57--77
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 79--81 Doaa M. Shawky and Salwa K. Abd-El-Hafiz Characterizing software development method using metrics . . . . . . . . . . 82--96 Jooyoung Seo and Jihyun Park and Byoungju Choi A runtime fault survival method for deployed software during production runs 97--119 Paul W. McBurney and Cheng Liu and Collin McMillan Automated feature discovery via sentence selection and source code summarization 120--145
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 147--149 Yu Zhou and Yanxiang Tong and Ruihang Gu and Harald Gall Combining text mining and data mining for bug report classification . . . . . 150--176 Maurizio Leotta and Andrea Stocco and Filippo Ricca and Paolo Tonella Robula+: an algorithm for generating robust XPath locators for web testing 177--204 Juan M. Carrillo de Gea and Joaquín Nicolás and José L. Fernández Alemán and Ambrosio Toval and Sofia Ouhbi and Ali Idri Co-located and distributed natural-language requirements specification: traditional versus reuse-based techniques . . . . . . . . . 205--227
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 229--231 LiGuo Huang and He Zhang and Ita Richardson Editorial: Guest editors' introduction 232--235 Kevin T. Ryan Software processes for a changing world 236--240 Marco Kuhrmann and Daniel Méndez Fernández and Thomas Ternité On the use of variability operations in the V-Modell XT software process line 241--253 M. Raza and J. P. Faria A model for analyzing performance problems and root causes in the personal software process . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--271 Vahid Garousi and Dietmar Pfahl When to automate software testing? A decision-support approach based on process simulation . . . . . . . . . . . 272--285 Xiao Liu and Dingxian Wang and Dong Yuan and Futian Wang and Yun Yang Workflow temporal verification for monitoring parallel business processes 286--302
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 303--305 Mario Luca Bernardi and Marta Cimitile and Giuseppe Di Lucca Mining static and dynamic crosscutting concerns: a role-based approach . . . . 306--339 Yixin Bian and Mohammed Aziz Parande and Gunes Koru and Song Zhao Testing the theory of relative dependency from an evolutionary perspective: higher dependencies concentration in smaller modules over the lifetime of software products . . . 340--371 Ismael Edrein Espinosa-Curiel and Josefina Rodríguez-Jacobo and José Alberto Fernández-Zepeda Understanding SPI in small organizations: a study of Mexican software enterprises . . . . . . . . . . 372--390
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 391--393 Maryam Razavian and Antony Tang and Rafael Capilla and Patricia Lago In two minds: how reflections influence software design thinking . . . . . . . . 394--426 Markus Borg TuneR: a framework for tuning software engineering tools with hands-on instructions in R . . . . . . . . . . . 427--459 Herman Hartmann and Jan Bosch Towards a multi-criteria decision support method for consumer electronics software ecosystems . . . . . . . . . . 460--482 Domenico Amalfitano and Vincenzo De Simone and Anna Rita Fasolino and Porfirio Tramontana EXACT: A tool for comprehending VBA-based Excel spreadsheet applications 483--505
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 507--509 Leon Moonen and Lori Pollock Editorial: Introduction to the special issue on software maintenance and evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--511 Muhammad Asaduzzaman and Chanchal K. Roy and Kevin A. Schneider and Daqing Hou A Simple, Efficient, Context-sensitive Approach for Code Completion . . . . . . 512--541 Paige Rodeghero and Da Huo and Tao Ding and Collin McMillan and Malcom Gethers An empirical study on how expert knowledge affects bug reports . . . . . 542--564 Cagri Sahin and Mian Wan and Philip Tornquist and Ryan McKenna and Zachary Pearson and William G. J. Halfond and James Clause How does code obfuscation impact energy usage? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--588 Davy Landman and Alexander Serebrenik and Eric Bouwers and Jurgen J. Vinju Empirical analysis of the relationship between CC and SLOC in a large corpus of Java methods and C functions . . . . . . 589--618
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 619--621 Ronald Jabangwe and Claes Wohlin and Kai Petersen and Darja \vSmite and Jürgen Börstler A method for investigating the quality of evolving object-oriented software using defects in global software development projects . . . . . . . . . . 622--641 Ameer Armaly and Collin McMillan Pragmatic source code reuse via execution record and replay . . . . . . 642--664 Anupama Kaushik and Devendra Kr. Tayal and Kalpana Yadav and Arvinder Kaur Integrating firefly algorithm in artificial neural network models for accurate software cost predictions . . . 665--688 Hisham M. Abushama PAM--SMEs: process assessment method for small to medium enterprises . . . . . . 689--711
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 713--715 Dietmar Pfahl and Marco Kuhrmann and Reda Bendraou and Richard Turner ICSSP 2015 --- Special Issue Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--721 Jörg Holtmann and Ruslan Bernijazov and Matthias Meyer and David Schmelter and Christian Tschirner Integrated and iterative systems engineering and software requirements engineering for technical systems . . . 722--743 Christian R. Prause and Markus Bibus and Carsten Dietrich and Wolfgang Jobi Software product assurance at the German Space Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744--761 Hanh Nhi Tran and Mojtaba Hajmoosaei and Christian Percebois and Agnes Front and Claudia Roncancio Integrating run-time changes into system and software process enactment . . . . . 762--782 Fabian Rojas Blum and Jocelyn Simmonds and María Cecilia Bastarrica The $v$-algorithm for discovering software process lines . . . . . . . . . 783--799 Marion Lepmets and Fergal McCaffery and Paul Clarke Development and benefits of MDevSPICE\reg the medical device software process assessment framework 800--816 Silvana Togneri MacMahon and Fergal McCaffery and Frank Keenan The MedITNet assessment framework: development and validation of a framework for improving risk management of medical IT networks . . . . . . . . . 817--834
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 835--837 Chanchal K. Roy and Andrew Begel and Leon Moonen Editorial: Guest editor's introduction to the Special Issue on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2014) . . . . . . . 838--839 Alexandre Perez and Rui Abreu Framing program comprehension as fault localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840--862 Eduardo C. Campos and Lucas B. L. de Souza and Marcelo de A. Maia Searching crowd knowledge to recommend solutions for API usage tasks . . . . . 863--892 David Binkley and Daniel Heinz and Dawn Lawrie and Justin Overfelt Source code analysis with LDA . . . . . 893--920 Shaowei Wang and David Lo AmaLgam+: Composing Rich Information Sources for Accurate Bug Localization 921--942
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 943--945 Miklós Biró and Richard Messnarz and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios Editorial: Results and lessons learned in System, Software & Service Process Improvement & Innovation . . . . . . . . 946--949 Suha Akman and Mert Özmut and Burak Aydìn and Serhat Göktürk EUROSPI 2015: Experience report: implementing requirement traceability throughout the software development life cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 950--954 Jozef De Man EUROSPI 2015: Objective-driven process appraisals: an educational experiment 955--959 Zádor Dániel Kelemen and Balázs Tódor and Sándor Hodosi and Ákos Somfai EUROSPI 2015: Refactoring technical support to reduce interrupts of developers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960--968 Xabier Larrucea and Izaskun Santamaría and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios EUROSPI 2015: Assessing ISO/IEC 29110 by means of ITMark: results from an experience factory . . . . . . . . . . . 969--980 Antonia Mas and Antoni-Lluís Mesquida and Milo\vs Jovanovi\'c and Joan Barceló EUROSPI 2015: Lessons learned from 4-year empowering project management with TALAIA OpenPPM . . . . . . . . . . 981--989 Annick Majchrowski and Christophe Ponsard and Sanae Saadaoui and Jacques Flamand and Jean-Christophe Deprez EUROSPI 2015: Software development practices in small entities: an ISO 29110-based survey . . . . . . . . . . . 990--999 Alexander Poth EUROSPI 2015: Effectivity and economical aspects for agile quality assurance in large enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . 1000--1004 Peter Rust and Derek Flood and Fergal McCaffery EUROSPI 2015: Creation of an IEC 62304 compliant software development plan . . 1005--1010 Rainer Dreves and Frank Hällmayer and Lutz Haunert and Bernhard Sechser and Armin Rieß EUROSPI 2015: A method to realize traceability in development processes 1011--1019
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1021--1023 Marouane Kessentini and Mel Ó Cinnéide Editorial: Introduction to the special issue on search-based software engineering (NasBASE 2015) . . . . . . . 1024--1024 Muhammad Rezaul Karim and Günther Ruhe and Md. Mainur Rahman and Vahid Garousi and Thomas Zimmermann An empirical investigation of single-objective and multiobjective evolutionary algorithms for developer's assignment to bugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1025--1060 Wenbin Li and Jane Huffman Hayes and Giulio Antoniol and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and Bram Adams Error leakage and wasted time: sensitivity and effort analysis of a requirements consistency checking process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1061--1080 Martin Fleck and Javier Troya and Manuel Wimmer Search-based model transformations . . . 1081--1117
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Reviewer Acknowledgements . . . . . . . ?? Gerardo Canfora and Darren Dalcher and David Raffo Editorial: A five year retrospective . . ?? Salma Imtiaz and Naveed Ikram Dynamics of task allocation in global software development . . . . . . . . . . ?? Bunyamin Sisman and Shayan A. Akbar and Avinash C. Kak Exploiting spatial code proximity and order for improved source code retrieval for bug localization . . . . . . . . . . ?? Michele Tufano and Gabriele Bavota and Denys Poshyvanyk and Massimiliano Di Penta and Rocco Oliveto and Andrea De Lucia An empirical study on developer-related factors characterizing fix-inducing commits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Martin Ward and Hussein Zedan The formal semantics of program slicing for nonterminating computations . . . . ??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Samuel J. Chinenyeze and Xiaodong Liu and Ahmed Al-Dubai BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ruzanna Chitchyan and Iris Groher and Joost Noppen Uncovering sustainability concerns in software product lines . . . . . . . . . ?? Daniel Feitosa and Rutger Alders and Apostolos Ampatzoglou and Paris Avgeriou and Elisa Yumi Nakagawa Investigating the effect of design patterns on energy consumption . . . . . ?? Erik Jagroep and Giuseppe Procaccianti and Jan Martijn van der Werf and Sjaak Brinkkemper and Leen Blom and Rob van Vliet Energy efficiency on the product roadmap: An empirical study across releases of a software product . . . . . ?? Patricia Lago and Birgit Penzenstadler Editorial: Reality check for software engineering for sustainability --- pragmatism required . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ma Ángeles Moraga and Ignacio García-Rodríguez de Guzmán and Coral Calero and Timo Johann and Gianantonio Me and Harald Münzel and Julia Kindelsberger GreCo: Green code of ethics . . . . . . ?? Claus Pahl and Pooyan Jamshidi and Danny Weyns Cloud architecture continuity: Change models and change rules for sustainable cloud software architectures . . . . . . ??
Karan Aggarwal and Finbarr Timbers and Tanner Rutgers and Abram Hindle and Eleni Stroulia and Russell Greiner Detecting duplicate bug reports with software engineering domain knowledge ?? Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Luis C. Cruz and Heider Sanchez and Víctor M. González and Romain Robbes Work fragmentation in developer interaction data . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Qingtao Jiang and Xin Peng and Hai Wang and Zhenchang Xing and Wenyun Zhao Understanding systematic and collaborative code changes by mining evolutionary trajectory patterns . . . . ?? Mathieu Nayrolles and Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj and Sofi\`ene Tahar and Alf Larsson A bug reproduction approach based on directed model checking and crash traces ?? Alexander Serebrenik and Bram Adams Foreword to the SANER 2015 special issue ??
Rehan Akbar and Mohd Fadzil Hassan and Azrai Abdullah A meta-model of software development project states behavioral study of software projects . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Naveed Ali and Richard Lai A method of requirements elicitation and analysis for Global Software Development ?? Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Serkan Kirbas and Bora Caglayan and Tracy Hall and Steve Counsell and David Bowes and Alper Sen and Ayse Bener The relationship between evolutionary coupling and defects in large industrial software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Christian D. Newman and Brian Bartman and Michael L. Collard and Jonathan I. Maletic Simplifying the construction of source code transformations via automatic syntactic restructurings . . . . . . . . ?? Mikael Svahnberg and Tony Gorschek A model for assessing and re-assessing the value of software reuse . . . . . . ?? Michele Tufano and Fabio Palomba and Gabriele Bavota and Massimiliano Di Penta and Rocco Oliveto and Andrea De Lucia and Denys Poshyvanyk There and back again: Can you compile that snapshot? . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Les Hatton and Diomidis Spinellis and Michiel van Genuchten The long-term growth rate of evolving software: Empirical results and implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ali Ouni and Marouane Kessentini and Mel Ó Cinnéide and Houari Sahraoui and Kalyanmoy Deb and Katsuro Inoue MORE: A multi-objective refactoring recommendation approach to introducing design patterns and fixing code smells ?? Doni Pracner and Zoran Budimac Enabling code transformations with FermaT on simplified bytecode . . . . . ?? Miguel A. Teruel and Elena Navarro and Víctor López-Jaquero and Francisco Montero and Pascual González A comprehensive framework for modeling requirements of CSCW systems . . . . . . ??
Muhammad Ovais Ahmad and Lucy Ellen Lwakatare and Pasi Kuvaja and Markku Oivo and Jouni Markkula An empirical study of portfolio management and Kanban in agile and lean software companies . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . ?? F. M. A. Erich and C. Amrit and M. Daneva A qualitative study of DevOps usage in practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Passant Kandil and Sherin Moussa and Nagwa Badr Cluster-based test cases prioritization and selection technique for agile regression testing . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Alok Mishra and Juan Garbajosa and Xiaofeng Wang and Jan Bosch and Pekka Abrahamsson Editorial: Future directions in Agile research: Alignment and divergence between research and practice . . . . . ?? Mirko Perkusich and Kyller Costa Gorgônio and Hyggo Almeida and Angelo Perkusich Assisting the continuous improvement of Scrum projects using metrics and Bayesian networks . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Oktay Turetken and Igor Stojanov and Jos J. M. Trienekens Assessing the adoption level of scaled agile development: a maturity model for Scaled Agile Framework . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Marum Simão Filho and Plácido Rogério Pinheiro and Adriano Bessa Albuquerque Analysis of task allocation in distributed software development through a hybrid methodology of verbal decision analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Yuan Huang and Xiangping Chen and Zhiyong Liu and Xiaonan Luo and Zibin Zheng Using discriminative feature in software entities for relevance identification of code changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Deguang Li and Bing Guo and Yan Shen and Junke Li and Yanhui Huang The evolution of open-source mobile applications: An empirical study . . . . ?? Helena Holmström Olsson and Jan Bosch From ad hoc to strategic ecosystem management: the ``Three-Layer Ecosystem Strategy Model'' (TeLESM) . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Juan Manuel Carrillo de Gea and Joaquín Nicolás and José L. Fernández-Alemán and Ambrosio Toval Automated support for reuse-based requirements engineering in global software engineering . . . . . . . . . . ?? Muhammad Ilyas and Siffat Ullah Khan Software integration in global software development: Challenges for GSD vendors ?? Mahmood Niazi and Sajjad Mahmood and Mohammad Alshayeb and Abdulrahman Ahmed Bobakr Baqais and Asif Qumer Gill Motivators for adopting social computing in global software development: An empirical study . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Leonardo Humberto Silva and Marco Tulio Valente and Alexandre Bergel and Nicolas Anquetil and Anne Etien Identifying Classes in Legacy JavaScript Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mohammad Azzeh and Ali Bou Nassif Analyzing the relationship between project productivity and environment factors in the use case points method ?? Sheikh Umar Farooq and S. M. K. Quadri and Nesar Ahmad A replicated empirical study to evaluate software testing methods . . . . . . . . ?? C. Ghezzi Of software and change . . . . . . . . . ?? Mahdi Noorian and Ebrahim Bagheri and Weichang Du Toward automated quality-centric product line configuration using intentional variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Zadia Codabux and Byron J. Williams and Gary L. Bradshaw and Murray Cantor An empirical assessment of technical debt practices in industry . . . . . . . ?? Davy Landman and Alexander Serebrenik and Eric Bouwers and Jurgen Vinju Corrigendum: Empirical analysis of the relationship between CC and SLOC in a large corpus of Java methods and C functions published on 9 December 2015 ?? Antonio Martini and Jan Bosch On the interest of architectural technical debt: Uncovering the contagious debt phenomenon . . . . . . . ?? Efi Papatheocharous and Stamatia Bibi and Ioannis Stamelos and Andreas S. Andreou An investigation of effort distribution among development phases: A four-stage progressive software cost estimation model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tobias Baum and Fabian Kortum and Kurt Schneider and Arthur Brack and Jens Schauder Comparing pre-commit reviews and post-commit reviews using process simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? P. Diebold and S. A. Scherr Software process models vs descriptions: What do practitioners use and need? . . ?? Regina Hebig and Jesper Derehag The changing balance of technology and process: A case study on a combined setting of model-driven development and classical C coding . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Djamel Eddine Khelladi and Reda Bendraou and Regina Hebig and Marie-Pierre Gervais Coadapting multidimension process properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Marco Kuhrmann and Rory V. O'Connor and Dewayne E. Perry and David Raffo ICSSP 2016 --- Special Issue Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rory V. O'Connor and Peter Elger and Paul M. Clarke Continuous software engineering --- A microservices architecture perspective ?? Binish Tanveer and Liliana Guzmán and Ulf Martin Engel Effort estimation in agile software development: Case study and improvement framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Kitija Trektere and Gilbert Regan and Fergal Mc Caffery and Derek Flood and Marion Lepmets and Grainne Barry Mobile medical app development with a focus on traceability . . . . . . . . . ??
Efthimia Aivaloglou and David Hoepelman and Felienne Hermans Parsing Excel formulas: A grammar and its application on 4 large datasets . . ?? Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mohammad Ghafari and Konstantin Rubinov and Mohammad Mehdi Pourhashem K. Mining unit test cases to synthesize API usage examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Foutse Khomh and David Lo and Michael W. Godfrey Editorial: Guest editor's introduction to the Special Issue on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2015) ?? Jens Nicolay and Quentin Stiévenart and Wolfgang De Meuter and Coen De Roover Purity analysis for JavaScript through abstract interpretation . . . . . . . . ?? Rahul Pandita and Raoul Jetley and Sithu Sudarsan and Timothy Menzies and Laurie Williams TMAP: Discovering relevant API methods through text mining of API documentation ??
Khaled Walid Al-Sabbagh and Lucas Gren The connections between group maturity, software development velocity, and planning effectiveness . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Brian P. Eddy and Nicholas A. Kraft and Jeff Gray Impact of structural weighting on a latent Dirichlet allocation-based feature location technique . . . . . . . ?? Abdul Rehman Gilal and Jafreezal Jaafar and Luiz Fernando Capretz and Mazni Omar and Shuib Basri and Izzatdin Abdul Aziz Finding an effective classification technique to develop a software team composition model . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Raman Goyal and Gabriel Ferreira and Christian Kästner and James Herbsleb Identifying unusual commits on GitHub ?? Jingdong Jia and Hanlin Mo and Luiz Fernando Capretz and Zupeng Chen Grouping environmental factors influencing individual decision-making behavior in software projects: a cluster analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tahere Yaghoobi Prioritizing key success factors of software projects using fuzzy AHP . . . ??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e1900:1--e1900:?? Roberto Erick Lopez-Herrejon and Sheny Illescas and Alexander Egyed A systematic mapping study of information visualization for software product line engineering . . . . . . . . e1912:1--e1912:?? Leonel Merino and Mohammad Ghafari and Oscar Nierstrasz Towards actionable visualization for software developers . . . . . . . . . . e1923:1--e1923:?? Christopher Parnin and Johan Fabry Special edition of the \booktitleJournal of Software: Evolution and Process for thef 4th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2016) e1940:1--e1940:?? Teemu Sirkiä Jsvee and Kelmu: Creating and tailoring program animations for computing education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1924:1--e1924:?? Evan Wilde and Daniel German Merge-Tree: Visualizing the integration of commits into Linux . . . . . . . . . e1936:1--e1936:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e1901:1--e1901:?? Radu Babiceanu and Hél\`ene Waeselynck Emerging high assurance solutions for safe, secure, and reliable software systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1950:1--e1950:?? Marcello M. Bersani and Marisol García-Valls Online verification in cyber-physical systems: Practical bounds for meaningful temporal costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yuan Fei and Huibiao Zhu and Xi Wu and Huixing Fang and Shengchao Qin Comparative modelling and verification of Pthreads and Dthreads . . . . . . . . e1919:1--e1919:?? Paul Hyden and Richard G. McGrath and Ira S. Moskowitz and Stephen Russell Managing risk in high assurance systems by optimizing topological resources . . e1887:1--e1887:?? Md Shahrear Iqbal and Mohammad Zulkernine and Fehmi Jaafar and Yuan Gu Protecting Internet users from becoming victimized attackers of click-fraud . . e1871:1--e1871:?? Sunint Kaur Khalsa and Yvan Labiche Extending Category Partition's Base Choice criterion to better support constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1868:1--e1868:?? Michael Lauer and Matthieu Amy and Jean-Charles Fabre and Matthieu Roy and William Excoffon and Miruna Stoicescu Resilient computing on ROS using adaptive fault tolerance . . . . . . . . e1917:1--e1917:?? Marco Mori and Andrea Ceccarelli and Paolo Lollini and Bernhard Frömel and Francesco Brancati and Andrea Bondavalli Systems-of-systems modeling using a comprehensive viewpoint-based SysML profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1878:1--e1878:?? Van Chan Ngo and Axel Legay Formal verification of probabilistic SystemC models with statistical model checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1890:1--e1890:?? Tommaso Zoppi and Andrea Ceccarelli and Francesco Lo Piccolo and Paolo Lollini and Gabriele Giunta and Vito Morreale and Andrea Bondavalli Labelling relevant events to support the crisis management operator . . . . . . . e1874:1--e1874:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e1902:1--e1902:?? Ricardo Britto and Daniela S. Cruzes and Darja Smite and Aivars Sablis Onboarding software developers and teams in three globally distributed legacy projects: a multi-case study . . . . . . e1921:1--e1921:?? Adnane Ghannem and Marouane Kessentini and Mohammad Salah Hamdi and Ghizlane El Boussaidi Model refactoring by example: a multi-objective search based software engineering approach . . . . . . . . . . e1916:1--e1916:?? José Miguel Horcas and Julien Monteil and Mélanie Bouroche and Mónica Pinto and Lidia Fuentes and Siobhán Clarke Context-dependent reconfiguration of autonomous vehicles in mixed traffic . . e1926:1--e1926:?? Ali Idri and Ibtissam Abnane and Alain Abran Evaluating Pred($p$) and standardized accuracy criteria in software development effort estimation . . . . . e1925:1--e1925:?? Yao Lu and Xinjun Mao and Zude Li and Yang Zhang and Tao Wang and Gang Yin Internal quality assurance for external contributions in GitHub: an empirical investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1918:1--e1918:?? A. V. Miranskyy and Z. Al-zanbouri and D. Godwin and A. B. Bener Database engines: Evolution of greenness e1915:1--e1915:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e1903:1--e1903:?? Silvia Bonfanti and Angelo Gargantini and Atif Mashkoor A systematic literature review of the use of formal methods in medical software systems . . . . . . . . . . . . e1943:1--e1943:?? Onur Erdogan and Muhammed Emre Pekkaya and Halime Gök More effective sprint retrospective with statistical analysis . . . . . . . . . . e1933:1--e1933:?? Verena Geist and Christine Natschläger and Christa Illibauer and Klaus-Dieter Schewe Towards functional safety and security for adaptive and flexible business processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1952:1--e1952:?? Johannes Leupolz and Axel Habermaier and Wolfgang Reif Quantitative and qualitative safety analysis of a hemodialysis machine with S# . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1942:1--e1942:?? Atif Mashkoor and Miklós Biró and Richard Messnarz and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios Selected functional safety and cybersecurity concerns in system, software, and service process improvement and innovation . . . . . . . e1955:1--e1955:?? Richard Messnarz and Christian Kreiner and Georg Macher and Alastair Walker Extending Automotive SPICE 3.0 for the use in ADAS and future self-driving service architectures . . . . . . . . . e1948:1--e1948:?? Alastair Walker Cybersecurity in safety-critical systems e1956:1--e1956:?? Marcin Wolski and Bartosz Walter and Szymon Kupi\'nski and Jakub Chojnacki Software quality model for a research-driven organization --- an experience report . . . . . . . . . . . e1911:1--e1911:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e1904:1--e1904:?? Gabriele Bavota and Jonathan I. Maletic and Michael L. Collard Introduction to the special issue on program comprehension . . . . . . . . . e1962:1--e1962:?? Natthawute Sae-Lim and Shinpei Hayashi and Motoshi Saeki Context-based approach to prioritize code smells for prefactoring . . . . . . e1886:1--e1886:?? Simone Scalabrino and Mario Linares-Vásquez and Rocco Oliveto and Denys Poshyvanyk A comprehensive model for code readability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1958:1--e1958:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e1905:1--e1905:?? Noel Carroll and Craig Kuziemsky and Ita Richardson Special issue on software engineering for Connected Health: Challenges and research roadmap . . . . . . . . . . . . e1941:1--e1941:?? Benjamin Eze and Craig Kuziemsky and Liam Peyton Cloud-based performance management of community care services . . . . . . . . e1897:1--e1897:?? Sofia Ouhbi and José Luis Fernández-Alemán and Ambrosio Toval and José Rivera Pozo and Ali Idri Sustainability requirements for connected health applications . . . . . e1922:1--e1922:?? Özden Özcan-Top and Fergal McCaffery A hybrid assessment approach for medical device software development companies e1929:1--e1929:?? Andrea M. Plaza and Jessica Díaz and Jennifer Pérez Software architectures for health care cyber-physical systems: a systematic literature review . . . . . . . . . . . e1930:1--e1930:?? Philip Weber and João Bosco Ferreira Filho and Behzad Bordbar and Mark Lee and Ian Litchfield and Ruth Backman Automated conflict detection between medical care pathways . . . . . . . . . e1898:1--e1898:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e1906:1--e1906:?? Philipp Diebold and Sven Theobald How is agile development currently being used in regulated embedded domains? . . e1935:1--e1935:?? Asma Hachemi and Mohamed Ahmed-Nacer Reusing process patterns in software process models modification . . . . . . e1938:1--e1938:?? Amin Jalali and Fabrizio Maria Maggi and Hajo A. Reijers A hybrid approach for aspect-oriented business process modeling . . . . . . . e1931:1--e1931:?? Haithem Mezni and Mokhtar Sellami and Jaber Kouki Security-aware SaaS placement using swarm intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . e1932:1--e1932:?? Nasir Rashid and Siffat Ullah Khan Using agile methods for the development of green and sustainable software: Success factors for GSD vendors . . . . e1927:1--e1927:?? Muhammad Salam and Siffat Ullah Khan Challenges in the development of green and sustainable software for software multisourcing vendors: Findings from a systematic literature review and industrial survey . . . . . . . . . . . e1939:1--e1939:??
Václav Rajlich Cover Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e1907:1--e1907:?? Muhammad Asim and Artsiom Yautsiukhin and Achim D. Brucker and Thar Baker and Qi Shi and Brett Lempereur Security policy monitoring of BPMN-based service compositions . . . . . . . . . . e1944:1--e1944:?? Ismael Edrein Espinosa-Curiel and Josefina Rodríguez-Jacobo and Erika Vázquez-Alfaro and José Alberto Fernández-Zepeda and Daniel Fajardo-Delgado Analysis of the changes in communication and social interactions during the transformation of a traditional team into an agile team . . . . . . . . . . . e1946:1--e1946:?? Daniel Kulesz and Verena Käfer and Stefan Wagner Spreadsheet guardian: an approach to protecting semantic correctness throughout the evolution of spreadsheets e1934:1--e1934:?? Indira Nurdiani and Jürgen Börstler and Samuel A. Fricker Literature review of flexibility attributes: a flexibility framework for software developing organization . . . . e1937:1--e1937:?? Václav Rajlich Five recommendations for software evolvability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1949:1--e1949:?? Cristiano Tolfo and Raul Sidnei Wazlawick and Marcelo Gitirana Gomes Ferreira and Fernando Antonio Forcellini Agile practices and the promotion of entrepreneurial skills in software development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1945:1--e1945:??
Amira Ali and Huda Amin Maghawry and Nagwa Badr Automated parallel GUI testing as a service for mobile applications . . . . e1963:1--e1963:?? Malek Ahmad Almomani and Shuib Basri and Abdul Rehman Gilal Empirical study of software process improvement in Malaysian small and medium enterprises: the human aspects e1953:1--e1953:?? Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e1908:1--e1908:?? Zhiyuan Chen and Young-Woo Kwon and Myoungkyu Song Clone refactoring inspection by summarizing clone refactorings and detecting inconsistent changes during software evolution . . . . . . . . . . . e1951:1--e1951:?? Ning Ge and Arnaud Dieumegard and Eric Jenn and Laurent Voisin Correct-by-construction specification to verified code . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1959:1--e1959:?? Martin Kalenda and Petr Hyna and Bruno Rossi Scaling agile in large organizations: Practices, challenges, and success factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1954:1--e1954:?? Fatma Lahmar and Haithem Mezni Multicloud service composition: a survey of current approaches and issues . . . . e1947:1--e1947:?? Nasir Rashid and Siffat Ullah Khan Agile practices for global software development vendors in the development of green and sustainable software . . . e1964:1--e1964:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e1909:1--e1909:?? Yi Bian and Zheng Li and Junxia Guo and Ruilian Zhao Concrete hyperheuristic framework for test case prioritization . . . . . . . . e1992:1--e1992:?? Jan Bosch and Helena Holmström Olsson Ecosystem traps and where to find them e1961:1--e1961:?? Jennifer Brings and Marian Daun and Sarah Brinckmann and Kevin Keller and Thorsten Weyer Approaches, success factors, and barriers for technology transfer in software engineering --- Results of a systematic literature review . . . . . . e1981:1--e1981:?? Taher Ahmed Ghaleb and Musab A. Alturki and Khalid Aljasser Program comprehension through reverse-engineered sequence diagrams: a systematic review . . . . . . . . . . . e1965:1--e1965:?? Taisa Guidini Gonçalves and Káthia Marçal de Oliveira and Christophe Kolski HCI in practice: an empirical study with software process capability maturity model consultants in Brazil . . . . . . e2109:1--e2109:?? Ramtin Jabbari and Nauman bin Ali and Kai Petersen and Binish Tanveer Towards a benefits dependency network for DevOps based on a systematic literature review . . . . . . . . . . . e1957:1--e1957:?? Xiaoyu Liu and LiGuo Huang and Alexander Egyed and Jidong Ge Do code data sharing dependencies support an early prediction of software actual change impact set? . . . . . . . e1960:1--e1960:?? Francesco Mercaldo and Andrea Di Sorbo and Corrado Aaron Visaggio and Aniello Cimitile and Fabio Martinelli An exploratory study on the evolution of Android malware quality . . . . . . . . e1978:1--e1978:?? Mohammad Shameem and Rakesh Ranjan Kumar and Chiranjeev Kumar and Bibhas Chandra and Arif Ali Khan Prioritizing challenges of agile process in distributed software development environment using analytic hierarchy process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1979:1--e1979:?? Anton V. Uzunov and Eduardo B. Fernandez and Katrina Falkner Assessing and improving the quality of security methodologies for distributed systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1980:1--e1980:??
Guglielmo De Angelis and Alessio Ferrari and Stefania Gnesi and Andrea Polini Requirements elicitation and refinement in collaborative research projects . . . e1990:1--e1990:?? Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e1910:1--e1910:?? Mohammad Azzeh and Ali Bou Nassif Project productivity evaluation in early software effort estimation . . . . . . . e2110:1--e2110:?? Omar El Beggar Multicriteria decision aid for agile methods evaluation using fuzzy PROMETHEE e2108:1--e2108:?? Aleksander Fabijan and Pavel Dmitriev and Colin McFarland and Lukas Vermeer and Helena Holmström Olsson and Jan Bosch Experimentation growth: Evolving trustworthy A/B testing capabilities in online software companies . . . . . . . e2113:1--e2113:?? Julián Alberto García-García and Laura García-Borgoñón and María José Escalona and Manuel Mejías A model-based solution for process modeling in practice environments: PLM$_4$ BS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1982:1--e1982:?? Swarnima Singh Gautam and Vrijendra Singh Cover Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2152:1--e2152:?? Swarnima Singh Gautam and Vrijendra Singh The state-of-the-art in software development effort estimation . . . . . e1983:1--e1983:?? Ali Idri and Ibtissam Abnane and Alain Abran Support vector regression-based imputation in analogy-based software development effort estimation . . . . . e2114:1--e2114:?? Yuzhou Liu and Lei Liu and Huaxiao Liu and Xiaoyu Wang Analyzing reviews guided by App descriptions for the software development and evolution . . . . . . . e2112:1--e2112:?? Ricardo Perez-Castillo and Mario Piattini An empirical study on how project context impacts on code cloning . . . . e2115:1--e2115:?? Pooja Sharma and Amrit Lal Sangal Framework for empirical examination and modeling structural dependencies among inhibitors that impact SPI implementation initiatives in software SMEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1993:1--e1993:?? Xuan Zhang and Xu Wang and YanNi Kang Trustworthiness requirement-oriented software process modeling . . . . . . . e1991:1--e1991:?? Xiaoyan Zhu and Yueyang He and Long Cheng and Xiaolin Jia and Lei Zhu Software change-proneness prediction through combination of bagging and resampling methods . . . . . . . . . . . e2111:1--e2111:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e1966:1--e1966:?? Béatrix Barafort and Antoni-Lluís Mesquida and Ant\`onia Mas ISO 31000-based integrated risk management process assessment model for IT organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . e1984:1--e1984:?? Miklós Biró and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios and Richard Messnarz Advances in system, software and service process improvement and innovation . . . e2146:1--e2146:?? Arif Ali Khan and Jacky Keung and Mahmood Niazi and Shahid Hussain and Mohammad Shameem GSEPIM: a roadmap for software process assessment and improvement in the domain of global software development . . . . . e1988:1--e1988:?? Xabier Larrucea and Izaskun Santamaría Correlations study and clustering from SPI experiences in small settings . . . e1989:1--e1989:?? So Norimatsu and Kiyoshi Endo and Makoto Usugi and Aiichiro Niwa and Koichi Tange Formulation of process improvement knowledge: 7 components of a good PI story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2107:1--e2107:?? Alexander Poth and Susumu Sasabe and Ant\`onia Mas and Antoni-Lluís Mesquida Lean and agile software process improvement in traditional and agile environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1986:1--e1986:?? Hamsini Ketheswarasarma Rajaram and John Loane and Silvana Togneri MacMahon and Fergal Mc Caffery Taxonomy-based testing and validation of a new defect classification for health software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e1985:1--e1985:?? Sandra Sanchez-Gordon and Mary Sánchez-Gordón and Murat Yilmaz and Rory V. O'Connor Integration of accessibility design patterns with the software implementation process of ISO/IEC 29110 e1987:1--e1987:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e1967:1--e1967:?? Esra Çetin and Pinar Onay Durdu Blended Scrum model for software development organizations . . . . . . . e2147:1--e2147:?? Anaisa Hernández González and Coral Calero and Dianelys Pérez Parra and Javier Mancebo Approaching Green BPM characterisation e2145:1--e2145:?? Mohamed Hosni and Ali Idri and Alain Abran Evaluating filter fuzzy analogy homogeneous ensembles for software development effort estimation . . . . . e2117:1--e2117:?? Enrique A. Miranda and Mario Berón and Germán Montejano and Daniel Riesco Using reverse engineering techniques to infer a system use case model . . . . . e2121:1--e2121:?? Katija Rak and Zeljka Car and Ignac Lovrek Effort estimation model for software development projects based on use case reuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2119:1--e2119:?? Tilmann Stehle and Matthias Riebisch A porting method for coordinated multiplatform evolution . . . . . . . . e2116:1--e2116:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e1968:1--e1968:?? Subhashis Chatterjee and Ankur Shukla A unified approach of testing coverage-based software reliability growth modelling with fault detection probability, imperfect debugging, and change point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2150:1--e2150:?? Salma El Koutbi and Ali Idri and Alain Abran Empirical evaluation of an entropy-based approach to estimation variation of software development effort . . . . . . e2149:1--e2149:?? Per Lenberg and Robert Feldt and Lars Göran Wallgren Tengberg Misaligned values in software engineering organizations . . . . . . . e2148:1--e2148:?? Jesús Morán and Claudio de la Riva and Javier Tuya Testing MapReduce programs: a systematic mapping study . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2120:1--e2120:?? Haris Mumtaz and Mohammad Alshayeb and Sajjad Mahmood and Mahmood Niazi A survey on UML model smells detection techniques for software refactoring . . e2154:1--e2154:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2185:1--e2185:?? Lorenzo Pagliari and Raffaela Mirandola and Catia Trubiani Engineering cyber-physical systems through performance-based modelling and analysis: a case study experience report e2179:1--e2179:?? Muhammad Usman and Muhammad Zohaib Iqbal and Muhammad Uzair Khan An automated model-based approach for unit-level performance test generation of mobile applications . . . . . . . . . e2215:1--e2215:?? Amir Ghaemi and Bahman Arasteh SFLA-based heuristic method to generate software structural test data . . . . . e2228:1--e2228:?? Saurabh Tiwari and Atul Gupta Use case specifications: How complete are they? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2218:1--e2218:?? Pedro Miguel Ortega-Cabezas and Antonio Colmenar-Santos and David Borge-Diez and Jorge Juan Blanes-Peiró Application of rule-based expert systems in hardware-in-the-loop simulation case study: Software and performance validation of an engine electronic control unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2223:1--e2223:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2186:1--e2186:?? Atif Mashkoor and Johannes Sametinger and Miklós Biro and Alexander Egyed Security- and safety-critical cyber-physical systems . . . . . . . . . e2239:1--e2239:?? Maryam Zahid and Irum Inayat and Maya Daneva and Zahid Mehmood A security risk mitigation framework for cyber physical systems . . . . . . . . . e2219:1--e2219:?? Silvia Bonfanti and Angelo Gargantini and Atif Mashkoor Design and validation of a C++ code generator from Abstract State Machines specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2205:1--e2205:?? Sarah Benyagoub and Yamine A\"\it-Ameur and Meriem Ouederni and Atif Mashkoor and Ahmed Medeghri Formal design of scalable conversation protocols using Event-B: Validation, experiments, and benchmarks . . . . . . e2209:1--e2209:?? Natalia Chaudhry and Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf and Muhammad Taimoor Khan Security assessment of data management systems for cyber physical system applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2241:1--e2241:?? Xabier Larrucea and Pablo González-Nalda and Ismael Etxeberria-Agiriano and Mari Carmen Otero Analysing encryption mechanisms and functional safety in a ROS-based architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2224:1--e2224:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2187:1--e2187:?? Miklós Biró and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios and Richard Messnarz Addressing evolving requirements faced by the software industry . . . . . . . . e2237:1--e2237:?? Harjinder Rahanu and Elli Georgiadou and Kerstin Siakas and Margaret Ross Health, safety, and well-being through ethical behaviours in computer and information systems development and deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2225:1--e2225:?? Timo Varkoi and Timo Mäkinen and Frank Cameron and Risto Nevalainen Validating effectiveness of safety requirements' compliance evaluation in process assessments . . . . . . . . . . e2177:1--e2177:?? Mehvish Rashid and Paul M. Clarke and Rory V. O'Connor A mechanism to explore proactive knowledge retention in open source software communities . . . . . . . . . . e2198:1--e2198:?? Barbara Gallina Quantitative evaluation of tailoring within SPICE-compliant security-informed safety-oriented process lines . . . . . e2212:1--e2212:?? Xabier Larrucea and Izaskun Santamaria and Borja Fernandez-Gauna Managing security debt across PLC phases in a VSE context . . . . . . . . . . . . e2214:1--e2214:?? Jakub Stolfa and Svatopluk Stolfa and Christian Baio and Utimia Madaleno and Petr Dolejsi and Federico Brugnoli and Richard Messnarz DRIVES-EU blueprint project for the automotive sector --- a literature review of drivers of change in automotive industry . . . . . . . . . . e2222:1--e2222:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2188:1--e2188:?? Manziba Akanda Nishi and Kostadin Damevski Automatically identifying valid API versions for software development tutorials on the Web . . . . . . . . . . e2227:1--e2227:?? Hirohisa Aman and Sousuke Amasaki and Tomoyuki Yokogawa and Minoru Kawahara Empirical study of abnormality in local variables and its application to fault-prone Java method analysis . . . . e2220:1--e2220:?? Yang Zhang and Huaimin Wang and Yiwen Wu and Dongyang Hu and Tao Wang GitHub's milestone tool: a mixed-methods analysis on its use . . . . . . . . . . e2229:1--e2229:?? Sandra L. Ramírez-Mora and Hanna Oktaba and Juana Patlán Pérez Group maturity, team efficiency, and team effectiveness in software development: a case study in a CMMI-DEV Level 5 organization . . . . . . . . . . e2232:1--e2232:?? Arif Ali Khan and Muhammad Azeem Akbar Systematic literature review and empirical investigation of motivators for requirements change management process in global software development e2242:1--e2242:?? Michael John Decker and Michael L. Collard and L. Gwenn Volkert and Jonathan I. Maletic srcDiff: a syntactic differencing approach to improve the understandability of deltas . . . . . . e2226:1--e2226:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2189:1--e2189:?? Muhammad Rashid Naeem and Tao Lin and Hamad Naeem and Hailu Liu A machine learning approach for classification of equivalent mutants . . e2238:1--e2238:?? Sikandar Ali and Hongqi Li and Siffat Ullah Khan and Muhammad Faisal Abrar and Yanhong Zhao Practitioner's view of barriers to software outsourcing partnership formation: an empirical exploration . . e2233:1--e2233:?? Xiang Chen and Yanzhou Mu and Yubin Qu and Chao Ni and Meng Liu and Tong He and Shangqing Liu Do different cross-project defect prediction methods identify the same defective modules? . . . . . . . . . . . e2234:1--e2234:?? Geng Liu and Luigi Lavazza and Davide Tosi Evolution of functional size measures through ICONIX process phases . . . . . e2240:1--e2240:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2190:1--e2190:?? Manal M. Alhammad and Ana M. Moreno Challenges of gamification in software process improvement . . . . . . . . . . e2231:1--e2231:?? Nasir Mehmood Minhas and Sohaib Masood and Kai Petersen and Aamer Nadeem A systematic mapping of test case generation techniques using UML interaction diagrams . . . . . . . . . . e2235:1--e2235:?? Sikandar Ali and Jiwei Huang and Siffat Ullah Khan and Hongqi Li A framework for modelling structural association amongst barriers to software outsourcing partnership formation: an interpretive structural modelling approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2243:1--e2243:?? Lucas Gren and Alfredo Goldman and Christian Jacobsson Agile ways of working: a team maturity perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2244:1--e2244:?? Helena Holmström Olsson and Jan Bosch Going digital: Disruption and transformation in software-intensive embedded systems ecosystems . . . . . . e2249:1--e2249:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2191:1--e2191:?? Yasir Mahmood and Nazri Kama and Azri Azmi A systematic review of studies on use case points and expert-based estimation of software development effort . . . . . e2245:1--e2245:?? Hina Saeeda and Junyu Dong and Yong Wang and Muhammmad Adil Abid A proposed framework for improved software requirements elicitation process in SCRUM: Implementation by a real-life Norway-based IT project . . . e2247:1--e2247:?? Nazakat Ali and Horn Daneth and Jang-Eui Hong A hybrid DevOps process supporting software reuse: a pilot project . . . . e2248:1--e2248:?? Harry M. Sneed and Chris Verhoef Cost-driven software migration: an experience report . . . . . . . . . . . e2236:1--e2236:?? Muhammad Azeem Akbar and Arif Ali Khan and Abdul Wahid Khan and Sajjad Mahmood Requirement change management challenges in GSD: an analytical hierarchy process approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2246:1--e2246:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2192:1--e2192:?? Theresia Ratih Dewi Saputri and Seok-Won Lee Addressing sustainability in the requirements engineering process: From elicitation to functional decomposition e2254:1--e2254:?? Bahareh Bafandeh Mayvan and Abbas Rasoolzadegan and Abbas Javan Jafari Bad smell detection using quality metrics and refactoring opportunities e2255:1--e2255:?? Shanquan Gao and Lei Liu and Yuzhou Liu and Huaxiao Liu and Yihui Wang Updating the goal model with user reviews for the evolution of an app . . e2257:1--e2257:?? Vahid Garousi and Michael Felderer and Marco Kuhrmann and Kadir Herkiloglu and Sigrid Eldh Exploring the industry's challenges in software testing: an empirical study . . e2251:1--e2251:?? Muhammad Azeem Akbar and Sajjad Mahmood and Ahmed Alsanad and Abeer Abdul-Aziz Alsanad and Abdu Gumaei and Syed Furqan Qadri A multivocal study to improve the implementation of global requirements change management process: a client-vendor prospective . . . . . . . e2252:1--e2252:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2193:1--e2193:?? Ashima Singh and Sukhpal Singh Gill Measuring the maturity of Indian small and medium enterprises for unofficial readiness for capability maturity model integration-based software process improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2261:1--e2261:?? Xuan Zhang and Xu Wang and Wei Yun and Chen Gao and Mengting Han and Hui Liu Pattern-based software process modeling for dependability . . . . . . . . . . . e2262:1--e2262:?? Nikolaos Mittas and Lefteris Angelis Data-driven benchmarking in software development effort estimation: the few define the bulk . . . . . . . . . . . . e2258:1--e2258:?? Ibtissam Abnane and Ali Idri and Alain Abran Fuzzy case-based-reasoning-based imputation for incomplete data in software engineering repositories . . . e2260:1--e2260:?? Munish Saini and Rohan Verma and Antarpuneet Singh and Kuljit Kaur Chahal Investigating diversity and impact of the popularity metrics for ranking software packages . . . . . . . . . . . e2265:1--e2265:?? Ali Sajedi-Badashian and Eleni Stroulia Guidelines for evaluating bug-assignment research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2250:1--e2250:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2194:1--e2194:?? Antonio Manjavacas and Aurora Vizcaíno and Francisco Ruiz and Mario Piattini Global software development governance: Challenges and solutions . . . . . . . . e2266:1--e2266:?? Sidra Tariq and Muhammad Usman and Alvis C. M. Fong Selecting best predictors from large software repositories for highly accurate software effort estimation . . e2271:1--e2271:?? Arif Ali Khan and Mohammad Shameem Multicriteria decision-making taxonomy for DevOps challenging factors using analytical hierarchy process . . . . . . e2263:1--e2263:?? Muhammad Azeem Akbar and Sajjad Mahmood and Zhiqiu Huang and Arif Ali Khan and Mohammad Shameem Readiness model for requirements change management in global software development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2264:1--e2264:?? Nemitari Ajienka and Peter Vangorp and Andrea Capiluppi An empirical analysis of source code metrics and smart contract resource consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2267:1--e2267:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2195:1--e2195:?? Miklós Biró and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios and Richard Messnarz Current perspectives on the software engineering process . . . . . . . . . . e2313:1--e2313:?? Elli Georgiadou and Kerstin Siakas and Eleni Berki and John Estdale and Harjinder Rahanu and Margaret Ross The sociocultural dimension of the Software Process Improvement Manifesto: Pilot validation by experts . . . . . . e2304:1--e2304:?? Mirna Muñoz and Adriana Peña and Jezreel Mejía and Gloria Piedad Gasca-Hurtado and María Clara Gómez-Alvarez and Claude Y. Laporte Analysis of 13 implementations of the software engineering management and engineering basic profile guide of ISO/IEC 29110 in very small entities using different life cycles . . . . . . e2300:1--e2300:?? Gilbert Regan and Fergal McCaffery and Pangkaj Chandra Paul and Jan Reich and Eric Armengaud and Cem Kaypmaz and Marc Zeller and Joe Zhensheng Guo and Simone Longo and Eoin O'Carroll and Ioannis Sorokos Quality improvement mechanism for cyber physical systems --- an evaluation . . . e2295:1--e2295:?? Ricardo Colomo-Palacios and Mary Sánchez-Gordón and Daniel Arias-Aranda A critical review on blockchain assessment initiatives: a technology evolution viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . e2272:1--e2272:?? Marçal Mora-Cantallops and Miguel-Ángel Sicilia and Elena García-Barriocanal and Salvador Sánchez-Alonso Evolution and prospects of the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) package ecosystem . . . . . . . . . . . e2270:1--e2270:?? Zulal Akarsu and Murat Yilmaz Managing the social aspects of software development ecosystems: an industrial case study on personality . . . . . . . e2277:1--e2277:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2196:1--e2196:?? Muhammad Faisal Abrar and M. Sohail and Sikandar Ali and Muhammad Faran Majeed and Ibrar Ali Shah and Nasir Rashid and Naimat Ullah De-motivators for the adoption of agile methodologies for large-scale software development teams: An SLR from management perspective . . . . . . . . . e2268:1--e2268:?? Macario Polo and Oscar Pedreira and Ángeles S. Places and Ignacio García Rodríguez de Guzmán Automated generation of oracled test cases with regular expressions and combinatorial techniques . . . . . . . . e2273:1--e2273:?? Javed Ali Khan and Lin Liu and Lijie Wen and Raian Ali Conceptualising, extracting and analysing requirements arguments in users' forums: The CrowdRE-Arg framework e2309:1--e2309:?? Temitope Elizabeth Abioye and Oluwasefunmi Tale Arogundade and Sanjay Misra and Adio T. Akinwale and Olusola John Adeniran Toward ontology-based risk management framework for software projects: an empirical study . . . . . . . . . . . . e2269:1--e2269:?? Mahmood Niazi and Sajjad Mahmood and Mohammad Alshayeb GLOB: a global project management readiness framework . . . . . . . . . . e2302:1--e2302:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2278:1--e2278:?? Regina Hebig and Ove Armbrust and Stanley M. Sutton, Jr. Hybrid and evolving processes for software and systems --- ICSSP 2019 special issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2318:1--e2318:?? Kan Qi and Barry Boehm Effort estimation of open source Android projects via transaction analysis . . . e2253:1--e2253:?? Paolo Tell and Jil Klünder and Steffen Küpper and David Raffo and Stephen MacDonell and Jürgen Münch and Dietmar Pfahl and Oliver Linssen and Marco Kuhrmann Towards the statistical construction of hybrid development methods . . . . . . . e2315:1--e2315:?? Carolin Unger-Windeler and Jil Ann-Christin Klünder and Timothy Reuscher and Kurt Schneider Are Product Owners communicators? A multi-method research approach to provide a more comprehensive picture of Product Owners in practice . . . . . . . e2311:1--e2311:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2279:1--e2279:?? Martin Vogel and Peter Knapik and Moritz Cohrs and Bernd Szyperrek and Winfried Pueschel and Haiko Etzel and Daniel Fiebig and Andreas Rausch and Marco Kuhrmann Metrics in automotive software development: a systematic literature review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2296:1--e2296:?? Clément Quinton and Michael Vierhauser and Rick Rabiser and Luciano Baresi and Paul Grünbacher and Christian Schuhmayer Evolution in dynamic software product lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2293:1--e2293:?? Prateek Pandey and. Ratnesh Litoriya Software process selection system based on multicriteria decision making . . . . e2305:1--e2305:?? Gianna Reggio and Maurizio Leotta and Filippo Ricca A service-oriented method for domain and business process modelling . . . . . . . e2307:1--e2307:?? Ricardo Pérez-Castillo and Danilo Caivano and Francisco Ruiz and Mario Piattini ArchiRev-Reverse engineering of information systems toward ArchiMate models. An industrial case study . . . . e2314:1--e2314:?? Damla Güncan and Pinar Onay Durdu A user-centered behavioral software development model . . . . . . . . . . . e2274:1--e2274:?? Muhammad Azeem Akbar and Arif Ali Khan and Sajjad Mahmood and Ahmed Alsanad and Abdu Gumaei A robust framework for cloud-based software development outsourcing factors using analytical hierarchy process . . . e2275:1--e2275:?? Mitali Chugh and Nitin Chanderwal and Rajesh Kumar Upadhyay and Devendra Kumar Punia Antecedents and consequences of knowledge sharing for software process improvement in the Indian software industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2291:1--e2291:?? Muhammad Azeem Akbar and Mohammad Shameem and Arif Ali Khan and Mohammad Nadeem and Ahmed Alsanad and Abdu Gumaei A fuzzy analytical hierarchy process to prioritize the success factors of requirement change management in global software development . . . . . . . . . . e2292:1--e2292:?? Sofia Charalampidou and Apostolos Ampatzoglou and Evangelos Karountzos and Paris Avgeriou Empirical studies on software traceability: a mapping study . . . . . e2294:1--e2294:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2280:1--e2280:?? Amjad AbuHassan and Mohammad Alshayeb and Lahouari Ghouti Software smell detection techniques: a systematic literature review . . . . . . e2320:1--e2320:?? Zhuo Zhang and Yan Lei and Xiaoguang Mao and Meng Yan and Ling Xu and Junhao Wen Improving deep-learning-based fault localization with resampling . . . . . . e2312:1--e2312:?? Aygun Shafagatova and Amy Van Looy Developing a tool for process-oriented appraisals and rewards: Design science research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2321:1--e2321:?? Shanquan Gao and Lei Liu and Yuzhou Liu and Huaxiao Liu and Yihui Wang and Peixun Liu App recommendation based on both quality and security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2325:1--e2325:?? Walid Ben Mesmia and Mohamed Escheikh and Kamel Barkaoui DevOps workflow verification and duration prediction using non-Markovian stochastic Petri nets . . . . . . . . . e2329:1--e2329:?? Aivars Sablis and Darja Smite and Nils Moe Team-external coordination in large-scale software development projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2297:1--e2297:?? Dries Couckuyt and Amy Van Looy An empirical study on Green BPM adoption: Contextual factors and performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2299:1--e2299:?? Kazi Zakia Sultana and Vaibhav Anu and Tai-Yin Chong Using software metrics for predicting vulnerable classes and methods in Java projects: a machine learning approach e2303:1--e2303:?? Abdul Wahid Khan and Imtiaz Hussain and Muhammad Zamir Analytic hierarchy process-based prioritization framework for vendor's reliability challenges in global software development . . . . . . . . . . e2310:1--e2310:?? Andrea Di Sorbo and Giovanni Grano and Corrado Aaron Visaggio and Sebastiano Panichella Investigating the criticality of user-reported issues through their relations with app rating . . . . . . . e2316:1--e2316:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2281:1--e2281:?? Nazakat Ali and Jang-Eui Hong and Lawrence Chung Social network sites and requirements engineering: a systematic literature review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2332:1--e2332:?? Busra Ozdenizci Kose Business process management approach for improving agile software process and agile maturity . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2331:1--e2331:?? Neeraj Kumar Singh and Mark Lawford and Thomas S. E. Maibaum and Alan Wassyng A formal approach to rigorous development of critical systems . . . . e2334:1--e2334:?? Subhajit Datta and Reshma Roychoudhuri and Subhashis Majumder Understanding the relation between repeat developer interactions and bug resolution times in large open source ecosystems: a multisystem study . . . . e2317:1--e2317:?? Jie Tan and Daniel Feitosa and Paris Avgeriou and Mircea Lungu Evolution of technical debt remediation in Python: a case study on the Apache Software Ecosystem . . . . . . . . . . . e2319:1--e2319:?? Mali Senapathi and Meghann L. Drury-Grogan Systems Thinking Approach to Implementing Kanban: a case study . . . e2322:1--e2322:?? Saima Rafi and Wu Yu and Muhammad Azeem Akbar and Sajjad Mahmood and Ahmed Alsanad and Abdu Gumaei Readiness model for DevOps implementation in software organizations e2323:1--e2323:?? Fatima Azzahra Amazal and Ali Idri Estimating software development effort using fuzzy clustering-based analogy . . e2324:1--e2324:?? Maria-Isabel Sanchez-Segura PhD and Fuensanta Medina-Dominguez PhD and Antonio de Amescua PhD and German-Lenin Dugarte-Peña PhD Knowledge governance maturity assessment can help software engineers during the design of business digitalization projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2326:1--e2326:?? Ke Shi and Yang Lu and Guangliang Liu and Zhenchun Wei and Jingfei Chang MPT-embedding: an unsupervised representation learning of code for software defect prediction . . . . . . . e2330:1--e2330:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2282:1--e2282:?? Baogang Bai and Shah Nazir and Yuhe Bai and Amir Anees Security and provenance for Internet of Health Things: a systematic literature review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2335:1--e2335:?? Abdellatif Haj and Youssef Balouki and Taoufiq Gadi Automated generation of terminological dictionary from textual business rules e2339:1--e2339:?? Siwen Wang and Linhui Wang and Yang Qu and Rong Chen and Shikai Guo Toward more accurate developer recommendation via inference of development activities from interaction with bug repair process . . . . . . . . e2341:1--e2341:?? Jan Bosch and Helena H. Olsson Digital for real: a multicase study on the digital transformation of companies in the embedded systems domain . . . . . e2333:1--e2333:?? T. K. Paul and M. J. M. Chowdhury and M. F. Lau A new disjunctive literal insertion fault detection strategy in boolean specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2336:1--e2336:??
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Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2285:1--e2285:?? Ying Zhen and Abdullah Khan and Shah Nazir and Zhao Huiqi and Abdullah Alharbi and Sulaiman Khan Crowdsourcing usage, task assignment methods, and crowdsourcing platforms: a systematic literature review . . . . . . e2368:1--e2368:?? Muhammad Faisal Abrar and Sikandar Ali and Muhammad Faran Majeed and Sohail Khan and Muzamil Khan and Hamid Ullah and Mushtaq Ahmad Khan and Samad Baseer and Muhammad Asshad A framework for modeling structural association among De-Motivators of scaling agile . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2366:1--e2366:?? Asad Ali and Carmine Gravino An empirical comparison of validation methods for software prediction models e2367:1--e2367:?? Yong Xu and Lili Bo and Xiaobing Sun and Bin Li and Jing Jiang and Wei Zhou \pkgimage2emmet: Automatic code generation from web user interface image e2369:1--e2369:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2286:1--e2286:?? Miklós Biró and Atif Mashkoor and Johannes Sametinger Safe and secure cyber-physical systems e2340:1--e2340:?? Richard Banach and Huibiao Zhu Language evolution and healthiness for critical cyber-physical systems . . . . e2301:1--e2301:?? Michael Tröls and Atif Mashkoor and Andreas Demuth and Alexander Egyed Ensuring safe and consistent coengineering of cyber-physical production systems: a case study . . . . e2308:1--e2308:?? Mohamad Gharib and Leandro Dias da Silva and Andrea Ceccarelli A model to discipline autonomy in cyber-physical systems-of-systems and its application . . . . . . . . . . . . e2328:1--e2328:?? Christophe Ponsard and Jeremy Grandclaudon and Philippe Massonet A goal-driven approach for the joint deployment of safety and security standards for operators of essential services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2338:1--e2338:?? Maryam Zahid and Irum Inayat and Maya Daneva and Zahid Mehmood Security risks in cyber physical systems --- a systematic mapping study . . . . . e2346:1--e2346:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2287:1--e2287:?? Fangchao Tian and Tianlu Wang and Peng Liang and Chong Wang and Arif Ali Khan and Muhammad Ali Babar The impact of traceability on software maintenance and evolution: a mapping study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2374:1--e2374:?? Ying Wei and Xiaobing Sun and Lili Bo and Sicong Cao and Xin Xia and Bin Li A comprehensive study on security bug characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . e2376:1--e2376:?? Sergio Rico and Elizabeth Bjarnason and Emelie Engström and Martin Höst and Per Runeson A case study of industry-academia communication in a joint software engineering research project . . . . . . e2372:1--e2372:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2288:1--e2288:?? Lei Liu and Xun Li and Yuzhou Liu and Huaxiao Liu Application programming interface recommendation according to the knowledge indexed by app feature mined from app stores . . . . . . . . . . . . e2380:1--e2380:?? Nils Prenner and Carolin Unger-Windeler and Kurt Schneider Goals and challenges in hybrid software development approaches . . . . . . . . . e2382:1--e2382:?? José L. Barros-Justo and Fabiane B. V. Benitti and Jefferson S. Molleri Risks and risk mitigation in global software development: an update . . . . e2370:1--e2370:?? Beyza Eken and Selda Tufan and Alper Tunaboylu and Tevfik Guler and Rifat Atar and Ayse Tosun Deployment of a change-level software defect prediction solution into an industrial setting . . . . . . . . . . . e2381:1--e2381:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2289:1--e2289:?? Jinyong Wang Open source software reliability model with nonlinear fault detection and fault introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2385:1--e2385:?? Richard Banach and Joseph Razavi and Oivier Debicki and Suzanne Lesecq Formal methods by stealth: The INSPEX experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2383:1--e2383:?? Maria-Eleni Paschali and Christina Volioti and Apostolos Ampatzoglou and Anastasios Gkagkas and Ioannis Stamelos and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou Implementing game requirements using design patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . e2399:1--e2399:?? Abdul Wahid Khan and Maseeh Ullah Khan and Javed Ali Khan and Javed Khan and Wresham Gul Identification and prioritization of security challenges of big data on cloud computing based on SLR: a fuzzy-TOPSIS analysis approach . . . . . . . . . . . e2387:1--e2387:?? Damian A. Tamburri and Fabio Palomba Evolving software forges: an experience report from Apache Allura . . . . . . . e2397:1--e2397:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2349:1--e2349:?? Bahman Arasteh and Ahmad Fatolahzadeh and Farzad Kiani \pkgSavalan: Multi objective and homogeneous method for software modules clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2408:1--e2408:?? Tanuja Shailesh and Ashalatha Nayak and Devi Prasad Transformation of sequence diagram to timed Petri net using Atlas Transformation Language metamodel approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2412:1--e2412:?? Kang Yang and Huiqun Yu and Guisheng Fan and Xingguang Yang and Zijie Huang A graph sequence neural architecture for code completion with semantic structure features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2414:1--e2414:?? Darius Sas and Paris Avgeriou and Ilaria Pigazzini and Francesca Arcelli Fontana On the relation between architectural smells and source code changes . . . . . e2398:1--e2398:?? Menna Noureldin and Atef Ghalwash and Laila Abd-Ellatif and Mohamed ElGazzar Blending agile methodologies to support automotive SPICE compliance . . . . . . e2391:1--e2391:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2350:1--e2350:?? Alireza Rouhi and Shekoufeh Kolahdouz Rahimi and Kevin Lano Formalizing model transformation patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2406:1--e2406:?? Shachi Sharma and Parag C. Pendharkar On the analysis of power law distribution in software component sizes e2417:1--e2417:?? Ehsan Zabardast and Kwabena Ebo Bennin and Javier Gonzalez-Huerta Further investigation of the survivability of code technical debt items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2425:1--e2425:?? Ameni Hedhli and Haithem Mezni and Lamjed Ben Said Predictive BPaaS management with quantum and neural computing . . . . . . . . . . e2421:1--e2421:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2351:1--e2351:?? Rodrigo Augusto dos Santos and Darli Vieira and Alencar Bravo and Larissa Suzuki and Fadiah Qudah A systematic mapping study on the employment of neural networks on software engineering projects: Where to go next? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2402:1--e2402:?? Ruiyin Li and Peng Liang and Mohamed Soliman and Paris Avgeriou Understanding software architecture erosion: a systematic mapping study . . e2423:1--e2423:?? Nadine Rücker and Andreas Maier \pkgFlexParser --- The adaptive log file parser for continuous results in a changing world . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2426:1--e2426:?? João Paulo L. Machado and Elder V. P. Paula-Sobrinho and Marcelo A. Maia Anti-bloater class restructuring: an exploratory study . . . . . . . . . . . e2431:1--e2431:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2352:1--e2352:?? Xiaoyan Zhu and Nan Li and Yong Wang Software change-proneness prediction based on deep learning . . . . . . . . . e2434:1--e2434:?? Xinyue Yang and Xiaofang Zhang and Yao Tong Simplified abstract syntax tree based semantic features learning for software change prediction . . . . . . . . . . . e2445:1--e2445:?? Damjan Vavpotic and Saimir Bala and Jan Mendling and Tomaz Hovelja Software Process Evaluation from User Perceptions and Log Data . . . . . . . . e2438:1--e2438:?? Léuson Da Silva and Paulo Borba and Arthur Pires Build conflicts in the wild . . . . . . e2441:1--e2441:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2353:1--e2353:?? Julieth Patricia Castellanos Ardila and Barbara Gallina and Faiz Ul Muram Compliance checking of software processes: a systematic literature review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2440:1--e2440:?? Saima Rafi and Muhammad Azeem Akbar and Sajjad Mahmood and Ahmed Alsanad and Abdulrahman Alothaim Selection of DevOps best test practices: a hybrid approach using ISM and fuzzy TOPSIS analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . e2448:1--e2448:?? Atif Aftab Jilani and Salman Sherin and Sidra Ijaz and Muhammad Zohaib Iqbal and Muhammad Uzair Khan Deriving and evaluating a fault model for testing data science applications e2449:1--e2449:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2354:1--e2354:?? Nebi Yilmaz and Ayça Kolukisa Tarhan Quality evaluation models or frameworks for open source software: a systematic literature review . . . . . . . . . . . e2458:1--e2458:?? Asma Hachemi and Mohamed Ahmed-Nacer POEML: a Process Orchestration, Execution, and Modeling Language . . . . e2456:1--e2456:?? Micha\l Kowalczyk and Bartosz Marcinkowski and Adam Przyby\lek Scaled agile framework. Dealing with software process-related challenges of a financial group with the action research approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2455:1--e2455:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2355:1--e2355:?? Affan Yasin and Rubia Fatima and Lin Liu and Javed Ali Khan and Raian Ali and Jianmin Wang On the utilization of non-quality assessed literature in software engineering research . . . . . . . . . . e2464:1--e2464:?? Srijoni Majumdar and Ayush Bansal and Partha Pratim Das and Paul D. Clough and Kausik Datta and Soumya Kanti Ghosh Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance . . . . . . . . . . e2463:1--e2463:?? Muhammad Yaseen and Sikandar Ali and Aida Mustapha and Nauman Mazhar Success factors analysis for requirement elicitation in global software development paradigm: an empirical study e2460:1--e2460:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2356:1--e2356:?? Abdullateef Oluwagbemiga Balogun and Malek Almomani and Shuib Basri and Omar Almomani and Luiz Fernando Capretz and Arif Ali Khan and Abdul Rehman Gilal and Yahia Baashar Towards the sustainability of small and medium software enterprises through the implementation of software process improvement: Empirical investigation . . e2466:1--e2466:?? Yingying Wen and Guanjie Cheng and Shuiguang Deng and Jianwei Yin Characterizing and synthesizing the workflow structure of microservices in ByteDance Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . e2467:1--e2467:?? Jorge Cervantes-Ojeda and María Gómez-Fuentes and Guillermo Chacón-Acosta Can non-developers learn a simplified modeling notation quickly? . . . . . . . e2481:1--e2481:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2357:1--e2357:?? Rajdeep Kaur and Kuljit Kaur Chahal Exploring factors affecting developer abandonment of open source software projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2484:1--e2484:?? José Amancio M. Santos and Gadiel Xavier Antunes Petronilo Building empirical knowledge on the relationship between code smells and design patterns: an exploratory study e2487:1--e2487:?? Solomon Mensah and Patrick Kwaku Kudjo A classification scheme to improve conclusion instability using Bellwether moving windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2488:1--e2488:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2358:1--e2358:?? Pietro Braione and Daniela Briola and Guglielmo De Angelis and Francesco Gallo and Francesco Poggi and Giovanni Quattrocchi About the special issue on: ``Distributed Complex Systems: Governance, Engineering, and Maintenance'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2459:1--e2459:?? Andrea Stocco and Paolo Tonella Confidence-driven weighted retraining for predicting safety-critical failures in autonomous driving systems . . . . . e2386:1--e2386:?? Francesca Lonetti and Vânia de Oliveira Neves and Antonia Bertolino Designing and testing systems of systems: From variability models to test cases passing through desirability assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2427:1--e2427:?? Stefano Forti and Isaac Lera and Carlos Guerrero and Antonio Brogi Osmotic management of distributed complex systems: a declarative decentralised approach . . . . . . . . . e2405:1--e2405:?? Gianluca Filippone and Marco Autili and Massimo Tivoli Synthesis of context-aware business-to-business processes for location-based services through choreographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2416:1--e2416:?? Shang-Pin Ma and I-Hsiu Liu and Chun-Yu Chen and Yu-Te Wang Version-based and risk-enabled testing, monitoring, and visualization of microservice systems . . . . . . . . . . e2429:1--e2429:?? Ningning Chen and Huibiao Zhu and Jiaqi Yin and Yuan Fei and Lili Xiao and Minghua Zhu Modeling and verifying NDN-based IoV using CSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2371:1--e2371:?? Apostolos V. Zarras and Ioannis Dinos and Panos Vassiliadis The athletic heart syndrome in web service evolution . . . . . . . . . . . e2418:1--e2418:?? Kamaleddin Yaghoobirafi and Ali Farahani An approach for semantic interoperability in autonomic distributed intelligent systems . . . . e2436:1--e2436:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2359:1--e2359:?? Breno Miranda and Javier Tuya and Alejandra Garrido Guest editors' introduction to the special issue ``Automatic Software Testing from the Trenches'' . . . . . . e2510:1--e2510:?? Maik Betka and Stefan Wagner Towards practical application of mutation testing in industry --- Traditional versus extreme mutation testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2450:1--e2450:?? Atif Aftab Jilani and Muhammad Uzair Khan and Muhammad Zohaib Iqbal and Muhammad Usman An automated search-based test model generation approach for structural testing of model transformations . . . . e2461:1--e2461:?? Aitor Gartziandia and Aitor Arrieta and Jon Ayerdi and Miren Illarramendi and Aitor Agirre and Goiuria Sagardui and Maite Arratibel Machine learning-based test oracles for performance testing of cyber-physical systems: an industrial case study on elevators dispatching algorithms . . . . e2465:1--e2465:?? Giovanni Quattrocchi and Damian Andrew Tamburri Predictive maintenance of infrastructure code using ``fluid'' datasets: an exploratory study on Ansible defect proneness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2480:1--e2480:?? Dániel Vince and Renáta Hodován and Daniella Bársony and Ákos Kiss The effect of hoisting on variants of Hierarchical Delta Debugging . . . . . . e2483:1--e2483:?? Malik Qasaimeh and Rand Abu Hammour and Muneer Bani Yassein and Raad S. Al-Qassas and Juan Alfonso Lara Torralbo and David Lizcano Advanced security testing using a cyber-attack forecasting model: a case study of financial institutions . . . . e2489:1--e2489:?? Ebert Schoofs and Mehrdad Abdi and Serge Demeyer AmPyfier: Test amplification in Python e2490:1--e2490:?? Alessio Bucaioni and Fabio Di Silvestro and Inderjeet Singh and Mehrdad Saadatmand and Henry Muccini Model-based generation of test scripts across product variants: an experience report from the railway industry . . . . e2498:1--e2498:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2360:1--e2360:?? Amira Ali and Huda Amin Maghawry and Nagwa Badr Performance testing as a service using cloud computing environment: a survey e2492:1--e2492:?? Can Cui and Bin Liu and Shihai Wang WIFLF: an approach independent of the target project for cross-project defect prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2497:1--e2497:?? Jil Klünder and Felix Trommer and Nils Prenner How agile coaches create an agile mindset in development teams: Insights from an interview study . . . . . . . . e2491:1--e2491:?? Hui Dou and Jicheng Mei and Yiwen Zhang and Pengfei Chen and Zibin Zheng JointConf: Jointly autotuning configuration parameters for modularized graph databases . . . . . . . . . . . . e2495:1--e2495:?? Muhammad Azeem Akbar and Víctor Leiva and Saima Rafi and Syed Furqan Qadri and Sajjad Mahmood and Ahmed Alsanad Towards roadmap to implement blockchain in healthcare systems based on a maturity model . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2500:1--e2500:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2468:1--e2468:?? Emran Altamimi and Abdullah Elkawakjy and Cagatay Catal Metamorphic relation automation: Rationale, challenges, and solution directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2509:1--e2509:?? Chong Hon Lim and Jeng Feng Chin V-model with fuzzy quality function deployments for mobile application development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2518:1--e2518:?? Qiong Feng and Ran Mo Fine-grained analysis of dependency cycles among classes . . . . . . . . . . e2496:1--e2496:?? Debasish Chakroborti and Sristy Sumana Nath and Kevin A. Schneider and Chanchal K. Roy Release conventions of open-source software: an exploratory study . . . . . e2499:1--e2499:?? Matti Saarikallio and Pasi Tyrväinen Quality culture boosts agile transformation-Action research in a business-to-business software business e2504:1--e2504:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2469:1--e2469:?? Bálint Szabó and Károly Hercegfi User-centered approaches in software development processes: Qualitative research into the practice of Hungarian companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2501:1--e2501:?? Nasir Mehmood Minhas and Thejendar Reddy Koppula and Kai Petersen and Jürgen Börstler Using goal-question-metric to compare research and practice perspectives on regression testing . . . . . . . . . . . e2506:1--e2506:?? Mingzhe Hu and Yu Zhang An empirical study of the Python/C API on evolution and bug patterns . . . . . e2507:1--e2507:?? Haifeng Wang and Hengyuan Liu and Zheng Li and Yong Liu and Fuxiang Sun and Xiang Chen A Token-based Compilation Error Categorization and Its Applications . . e2512:1--e2512:?? Umm-e Laila and Najeed Ahmed and Asad Arfeen and Agha Yasir Ali and Mohammad Khurram and Muzammil Ahmed Khan Mission-critical open-source software adoption model validation using Partial Least Square --- Structural Equation Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2514:1--e2514:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2470:1--e2470:?? David Lizcano and Andrés-Leonardo Martínez-Ortíz and Genoveva López and Arnaud Grignard End-user modeling of quality for web components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2256:1--e2256:?? Andres Jiménez-Ramírez and Jesús Chacón-Montero and Tomasz Wojdynsky and José González Enríquez Automated testing in robotic process automation projects . . . . . . . . . . e2259:1--e2259:?? Hammam M. AlGhamdi and Cor-Paul Bezemer and Weiyi Shang and Ahmed E. Hassan and Parminder Flora Towards reducing the time needed for load testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2276:1--e2276:?? Anjali Goyal and Neetu Sardana IM$_{\rm NRFixer}$: a hybrid approach to alleviate class-imbalance problem for predicting the fixability of Non-Reproducible bugs . . . . . . . . . e2290:1--e2290:?? Antonia Bertolino and Guglielmo De Angelis and Antonio Guerriero and Breno Miranda and Roberto Pietrantuono and Stefano Russo DevOpRET: Continuous reliability testing in DevOps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2298:1--e2298:?? Said Daoudagh and Francesca Lonetti and Eda Marchetti An automated framework for continuous development and testing of access control systems . . . . . . . . . . . . e2306:1--e2306:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2471:1--e2471:?? Antonia Bertolino and Shin Hong and Aditya P. Mathur Introduction to the special issue on automation of software test and test code quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2453:1--e2453:?? Antonio García de la Barrera and Ignacio García-Rodríguez de Guzmán and Macario Polo and Mario Piattini Quantum software testing: State of the art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2419:1--e2419:?? Iván Arcuschin and Juan Pablo Galeotti and Diego Garbervetsky An Empirical Study on How Sapienz Achieves Coverage and Crash Detection e2411:1--e2411:?? Mitja Kulczynski and Florin Manea and Dirk Nowotka and Danny Bògsted Poulsen \pkgZaligVinder: a generic test framework for string solvers . . . . . . e2400:1--e2400:?? Luca Gazzola and Maayan Goldstein and Leonardo Mariani and Marco Mobilio and Itai Segall and Alessandro Tundo and Luca Ussi \pkgExVivoMicroTest: ExVivo Testing of Microservices . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2452:1--e2452:?? Maura Cerioli and Giovanni Lagorio and Maurizio Leotta and Filippo Ricca Fight silent horror unit test methods by consulting a TestWizard . . . . . . . . e2396:1--e2396:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2472:1--e2472:?? Igor Steinmacher and Paul Clarke and Eray Tuzun and Ricardo Britto Editorial: Best papers of the 14th International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP 2020) and 15th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE 2020) . . . e2544:1--e2544:?? Stina Matthiesen and Pernille Bjòrn and Claus Trillingsgaard Implicit bias and negative stereotyping in global software development and why it is time to move on! . . . . . . . . . e2435:1--e2435:?? David Issa Mattos and Anas Dakkak and Jan Bosch and Helena Holmström Olsson The HURRIER process for experimentation in business-to-business mission-critical systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2390:1--e2390:?? Rodi Jolak and Andreas Wortmann and Grischa Liebel and Eric Umuhoza and Michel R. V. Chaudron Design thinking and creativity of colocated versus globally distributed software developers . . . . . . . . . . e2377:1--e2377:?? Mojtaba Shahin and Ali Rezaei Nasab and Muhammad Ali Babar A qualitative study of architectural design issues in DevOps . . . . . . . . e2379:1--e2379:?? Kattiana Constantino and Mauricio Souza and Shurui Zhou and Eduardo Figueiredo and Christian Kästner Perceptions of open-source software developers on collaborations: an interview and survey study . . . . . . . e2393:1--e2393:?? Awdren Fontão and Sergio Cleger-Tamayo and Igor Wiese and Rodrigo Pereira dos Santos and Arilo Claudio Dias-Neto A Developer Relations (DevRel) model to govern developers in Software Ecosystems e2389:1--e2389:?? Marian Daun and Jennifer Brings and Thorsten Weyer Model inspections in the engineering of collaborative cyber-physical systems with instance-level review diagrams . . e2392:1--e2392:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2473:1--e2473:?? Igor Steinmacher and Paul Clarke and Eray Tuzun and Ricardo Britto Editorial: Machine learning, software process, and global software engineering e2545:1--e2545:?? James Herbsleb Global software engineering in the age of GitHub and Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . e2347:1--e2347:?? Yang Yang and Zheng Li and Ying Shang and Qianyu Li Sparse reward for reinforcement learning-based continuous integration testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2409:1--e2409:?? Kumar Abhinav and Gurpriya Kaur Bhatia and Alpana Dubey and Sakshi Jain and Nitish Bhardwaj CrowdAssist: a multidimensional decision support system for crowd workers . . . . e2404:1--e2404:?? Nuri Almarimi and Ali Ouni and Moataz Chouchen and Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Improving the detection of community smells through socio-technical and sentiment analysis . . . . . . . . . . . e2505:1--e2505:?? Meenu Mary John and Helena Holmström Olsson and Jan Bosch Towards an AI-driven business development framework: a multi-case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2432:1--e2432:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2474:1--e2474:?? Miklos Biro and Atif Mashkoor and Johannes Sametinger Safety and security of cyber-physical systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2522:1--e2522:?? Kaushik Madala and Hyunsook Do and Bastian Tenbergen Identifying safety issues from energy conservation requirements . . . . . . . e2515:1--e2515:?? Marian Daun and Bastian Tenbergen Context modeling for cyber-physical systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2451:1--e2451:?? Georgios Lampropoulos and Kerstin Siakas Enhancing and securing cyber-physical systems and Industry 4.0 through digital twins: a critical review . . . . . . . . e2494:1--e2494:?? Neeraj Kumar Singh and Yamine A\"\it-Ameur and Ismail Mendil and Dominique Méry and David Navarre and Philippe Palanque and Marc Pantel F3FLUID: a formal framework for developing safety-critical interactive systems in FLUID . . . . . . . . . . . . e2439:1--e2439:?? Yuan Fei and Huibiao Zhu and Jiaqi Yin Modeling and verifying NLSR protocol of NDN for CPS using UPPAAL . . . . . . . . e2384:1--e2384:?? Hannes Sochor and Flavio Ferrarotti and Rudolf Ramler An automated evaluation of broker compatibility for the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport protocol . . . . . . e2410:1--e2410:?? Irum Inayat and Muhammad Farooq and Zubaria Inayat Safety and security risks management process for cyber-physical systems: a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2482:1--e2482:?? Mah Noor Asmat and Saif Ur Rehman Khan and Shahid Hussain Uncertainty handling in cyber-physical systems: State-of-the-art approaches, tools, causes, and future directions . . e2428:1--e2428:?? Daniel De Pascale and Giuseppe Cascavilla and Mirella Sangiovanni and Damian A. Tamburri and Willem-Jan van den Heuvel Internet-of-Things architectures for secure cyber-physical spaces: The VISOR experience report . . . . . . . . . . . e2511:1--e2511:?? Atif Mashkoor and Alexander Egyed and Robert Wille and Sebastian Stock Model-driven engineering of safety and security software systems: a systematic mapping study and future research directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2457:1--e2457:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2475:1--e2475:?? Miklós Biró and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios and Richard Messnarz Model-based process improvement recommendation approaches . . . . . . . e2442:1--e2442:?? Mert Onuralp Gökalp and Ebru Gökalp and Selin Gökalp and Altan Koçyigit The development of data analytics maturity assessment framework: DAMAF . . e2415:1--e2415:?? Jan Pries-Heje and Jòrn Johansen and Morten Korsaa Symptom-based improvement recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . e2375:1--e2375:?? Alexander Poth and Mario Kottke and Torsten Mahr and Andreas Riel Teamwork quality in technology-driven product teams in large-scale agile organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2388:1--e2388:?? Nesib Tekin and Murat Yilmaz and Paul Clarke A novel approach for visualization, monitoring, and control techniques for Scrum metric planning using the analytic hierarchy process . . . . . . . . . . . e2420:1--e2420:?? Richard Messnarz and Thomas Wegner and Damjan Ekert and Bernhardt Steger and Ralf Mayer and Rainer Dreves and Bernhard Sechser and Christian Schlager and Christoph Karner Process improvement guidance for successful automotive SPI implementation e2373:1--e2373:?? Jürgen Dobaj and Georg Macher and Damjan Ekert and Andreas Riel and Richard Messnarz Towards a security-driven automotive development lifecycle . . . . . . . . . e2407:1--e2407:?? Izaskun Santamaria and Xabier Larrucea and Borja Fernandez-Gauna Integrating privacy debt and VSE's software developments . . . . . . . . . e2437:1--e2437:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2476:1--e2476:?? Ricardo Colomo-Palacios and Richard Messnarz and Miklós Biró Global challenges reflected in software process improvement . . . . . . . . . . e2551:1--e2551:?? Selina Demi and Mary Sánchez-Gordón and Monica Kristiansen Blockchain for requirements traceability: a qualitative approach . . e2493:1--e2493:?? Valeria Henriquez and Ana M. Moreno and Sabrina Gutiérrez Organizational training in agile settings under the lens of CMMI V2.0 . . e2502:1--e2502:?? Bartosz Walter and Branko Marovic and Ivan Garnizov and Marcin Wolski and Andrijana Todosijevic A software process improvement framework based on best practices . . . . . . . . e2525:1--e2525:?? Samer Sameh and Selina Meza and Damjan Ekert and Richard Messnarz The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the globalization on how automotive assessments will be performed in the future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2535:1--e2535:?? Murat Yilmaz and Emer O'Farrell and Paul Clarke Examining the training and education potential of the metaverse: Results from an empirical study of next generation SAFe training . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2531:1--e2531:?? Richard Messnarz and Damjan Ekert and Georg Macher and Alexander Much and Tobias Zehetner and Laura Aschbacher Experiences with the automotive SPICE for cybersecurity assessment model and tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2519:1--e2519:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2477:1--e2477:?? Jinfeng Wen and Yi Liu and Zhenpeng Chen and Junkai Chen and Yun Ma Characterizing commodity serverless computing platforms . . . . . . . . . . e2394:1--e2394:?? Guangba Yu and Zicheng Huang and Pengfei Chen TraceRank: Abnormal service localization with dis-aggregated end-to-end tracing data in cloud native systems . . . . . . e2413:1--e2413:?? Lu Wang and Yu Xuan Jiang and Zhan Wang and Qi En Huo and Jie Dai and Sheng Long Xie and Rui Li and Ming Tao Feng and Yue Shen Xu and Zhi Ping Jiang The operation and maintenance governance of microservices architecture systems: a systematic literature review . . . . . . e2433:1--e2433:?? Imen Trabelsi and Manel Abdellatif and Abdalgader Abubaker and Naouel Moha and Sébastien Mosser and Samira Ebrahimi-Kahou and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc From legacy to microservices: a type-based approach for microservices identification using machine learning and semantic analysis . . . . . . . . . e2503:1--e2503:?? Ladan Tahvildari and Kostas Kontogiannis Erratum to ``Improving design quality using meta-pattern transformations: a metric-based approach'' . . . . . . . . e2542:1--e2542:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2478:1--e2478:?? Rui Hao and Yuying Li and Yang Feng and Zhenyu Chen Are duplicates really harmful? An empirical study on bug report summarization techniques . . . . . . . . e2424:1--e2424:?? Abubakar Omari Abdallah Semasaba and Wei Zheng and Xiaoxue Wu and Samuel Akwasi Agyemang and Tao Liu and Yuan Ge An empirical evaluation of deep learning-based source code vulnerability detection: Representation versus models e2422:1--e2422:?? Junwei Du and Xinshuang Ren and Haojie Li and Feng Jiang and Xu Yu Prediction of bug-fixing time based on distinguishable sequences fusion in open source software . . . . . . . . . . . . e2443:1--e2443:?? Chuanqi Tao and Hongjing Guo and Jingxuan Zhang and Zhiqiu Huang Supporting maintenance and testing for AI functions of mobile apps based on user reviews: an empirical study on plant identification apps . . . . . . . e2444:1--e2444:?? Berfin Kucuk and Idil Hanhan and Eray Tuzun Characterizing duplicate bugs: Perceptions of practitioners and an empirical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . e2446:1--e2446:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2479:1--e2479:?? Renu Verma and Kuldeep Kumar and Harsh K. Verma Code smell prioritization in object-oriented software systems: a systematic literature review . . . . . . e2536:1--e2536:?? Anam Taskeen and Saif Ur Rehman Khan and Ebubeogu Amarachukwu Felix A research landscape on software defect prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2549:1--e2549:?? Ismael Camargo-Henríquez and Andrés Silva Understanding Software-centered Evolutive Ecosystems through Activity Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2560:1--e2560:?? Dirk Wiesmann Avoidance of the term agile in software engineering: Necessary and possible . . e2566:1--e2566:?? Elham Feizpour and Hooman Tahayori and Ashkan Sami CoBRA without experts: New paradigm for software development effort estimation using COCOMO metrics . . . . . . . . . . e2569:1--e2569:?? Daniel Ståhl The dynamic versus the stable team: the unspoken question in large-scale agile development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2589:1--e2589:?? Jinfu Chen and Jingyi Chen and Saihua Cai and Haibo Chen and Chi Zhang A novel combinatorial testing approach with fuzzing strategy . . . . . . . . . e2537:1--e2537:?? Jannik Laval and Nawel Amokrane and Boubou Thiam Niang and Mustapha Derras and Néjib Moalla Data interoperability assessment, case of messaging-based data exchanges . . . e2538:1--e2538:?? Rimma Dzhusupova and Richa Banotra and Jan Bosch and Helena Holmström Olsson Using artificial intelligence to find design errors in the engineering drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2543:1--e2543:?? Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Cifo and Pablo Bermejo and Elena Navarro DevOps: Is there a gap between education and industry? . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2534:1--e2534:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2574:1--e2574:?? Anna M. Eilertsen and Gail C. Murphy A study of refactorings during software change tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2378:1--e2378:?? Eman Abdullah Alomar and Anthony Peruma and Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer and Christian D. Newman and Ali Ouni Behind the scenes: On the relationship between developer experience and refactoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2395:1--e2395:?? Amjad AbuHassan and Mohammad Alshayeb and Lahouari Ghouti Software refactoring side effects . . . e2401:1--e2401:?? Yang Zhang and Chunhao Dong MARS: Detecting brain class/method code smell based on metric-attention mechanism and residual network . . . . . e2403:1--e2403:?? Rusen Halepmollasi and Ayse Tosun Exploring the relationship between refactoring and code debt indicators . . e2447:1--e2447:?? Ashraf Abdou and Nagy Darwish Severity classification of software code smells using machine learning techniques: a comparative study . . . . e2454:1--e2454:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2575:1--e2575:?? Kamaljit Kaur and Parminder Kaur SABDM: a self-attention based bidirectional-RNN deep model for requirements classification . . . . . . e2430:1--e2430:?? Yin Hang and Sangeen Khan and Abdullah Alharbi and Shah Nazir Assessing English teaching linguistic and artificial intelligence for efficient learning using analytical hierarchy process and Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2462:1--e2462:?? Habib Ullah Khan and Farhad Ali and Shah Nazir Systematic analysis of software development in cloud computing perceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2485:1--e2485:?? Yandong Xu and Shah Nazir Ranking the art design and applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2486:1--e2486:?? Xiaobing Sun and Lili Li and Lili Bo and Xiaoxue Wu and Ying Wei and Bin Li Automatic software vulnerability classification by extracting vulnerability triggers . . . . . . . . . e2508:1--e2508:?? Muhammad Ovais Ahmad and Iftikhar Ahmad and Fawad Qayum Early career software developers and work preferences in software engineering e2513:1--e2513:?? Muhammad Ovais Ahmad and Tomas Gustavsson The Pandora's box of social, process, and people debts in software engineering e2516:1--e2516:?? Yaohui Peng and Jing Xie and Gang Hu and Mengting Yuan Transformer-based code search for software Q&A sites . . . . . . . . . . . e2517:1--e2517:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2576:1--e2576:?? Anne Caroline Melo Santos and Methanias Colaço Júnior and Edna de Carvalho Andrade Multimedia resources as a support for requirements engineering and software maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2327:1--e2327:?? Mirna Muñoz and Mario Negrete Rodríguez A guidance to implement or reinforce a DevOps approach in organizations: a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2342:1--e2342:?? Rafiq Ahmad Khan and Siffat Ullah Khan and Muhammad Azeem Akbar and Musaad Alzahrani Security risks of global software development life cycle: Industry practitioner's perspective . . . . . . . e2521:1--e2521:?? Lorenz Klampfl and Florian Klück and Franz Wotawa Using genetic algorithms for automating automated lane-keeping system testing e2520:1--e2520:?? Sen Yang and Zhanwei Hui and Hui li and Changyou Zheng and Yifan Huang APP constraint analysis approach to select mobile devices for compatibility crowdtesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2523:1--e2523:?? Kaishun Wu and Yaqing Shi and Jing Zhu and Yongming Yao and Shiqi Tang False negative of defects estimation in crowdsourced testing . . . . . . . . . . e2524:1--e2524:?? Yifan Wu and Yao Tong and An Liu and Lei Zhao and Xiaofang Zhang Mobile crowdsourced test report prioritization based on text and image understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2541:1--e2541:?? Huangzhao Zhang and Shuai Lu and Zhuo Li and Zhi Jin and Lei Ma and Yang Liu and Ge Li CodeBERT-Attack: Adversarial attack against source code deep learning models via pre-trained model . . . . . . . . . e2571:1--e2571:?? Muhammad Azeem Akbar and Víctor Leiva A new taxonomy of global software development best practices using prioritization based on a fuzzy system e2629:1--e2629:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2577:1--e2577:?? Muhammad Azeem Akbar and Arif Ali Khan and Sajjad Mahmood and Kari Smolander Successful management of cloud-based global software development projects: a multivocal study . . . . . . . . . . . . e2527:1--e2527:?? Hongchen Cao and Shuai Li and Yuming Zhou and Ming Fan and Xuejiao Zhao and Yutian Tang Cheating your apps: Black-box adversarial attacks on deep learning apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2528:1--e2528:?? Ibtissam Abnane and Ali Idri and Alain Abran Optimized fuzzy clustering-based k-nearest neighbors imputation for mixed missing data in software development effort estimation . . . . . . . . . . . e2529:1--e2529:?? Luana Martins and Heitor Costa and Ivan Machado On the diffusion of test smells and their relationship with test code quality of Java projects . . . . . . . . e2532:1--e2532:?? Aline Brito and Andre Hora and Marco Tulio Valente Towards a catalog of composite refactorings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2530:1--e2530:?? Pankajeshwara Nand Sharma and Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu and Nigel Stanger How are decisions made in open source software communities? --- Uncovering rationale from Python email repositories e2526:1--e2526:?? Stefano Dalla Palma and Chiel van Asseldonk and Gemma Catolino and Dario Di Nucci and Fabio Palomba and Damian A. Tamburri ``Through the looking-glass\ldots'' An empirical study on blob infrastructure blueprints in the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2533:1--e2533:?? Mashal Kasem Alqudah and Rozilawati Razali and Musab Kasim Alqudah and Muawya N. Al Dalaien and Hamzeh Mohammad Alabool and Hamzah Ali Alkhazaleh A grounded theory of selecting lean and agile practices for software development e2539:1--e2539:?? Muhammad Ilyas and Siffat Ullah Khan and Habib Ullah Khan and Nasir Rashid Software integration model: an assessment tool for global software development vendors . . . . . . . . . . e2540:1--e2540:?? Xin Fan and Qi Chen and Li Yu and Fangqi Liu and Jiahao Zhu and Wei Zheng Spectrum-based fault localization using empirical mode decomposition algorithm e2546:1--e2546:?? Reem Alfayez and Robert Winn and Yunyan Ding and Ghaida Alfayez and Barry Boehm Technical debt (TD) through the lens of Twitter: a survey . . . . . . . . . . . e2547:1--e2547:?? Alexandre Ouellet and Mourad Badri Combining object-oriented metrics and centrality measures to predict faults in object-oriented software: an empirical validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2548:1--e2548:?? Mohammad Azzeh and Yousef Alqasrawi and Yousef Elsheikh A soft computing approach for software defect density prediction . . . . . . . e2553:1--e2553:?? Yuqi Zhang and Yu Huang and Hengfeng Wei and Xiaoxing Ma Model-checking-driven explorative testing of CRDT designs and implementations . . . . . . . . . . . . e2555:1--e2555:?? Haoyu Wang and Zan Wang and Shuang Liu and Jun Sun and Yingquan Zhao and Yan Wan and Tai D. Nguyen \pkgsFuzz2.0: Storage-access pattern guided smart contract fuzzing . . . . . e2557:1--e2557:?? Amany Mohamed and Marwa Salah and Mai Eldefrawi Code quality improvement using Aquila Optimizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2559:1--e2559:?? Ming Yan and Junjie Chen and Xuejie Cao and Zhuo Wu and Yuning Kang and Zan Wang Revisiting deep neural network test coverage from the test effectiveness perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2561:1--e2561:?? Xiaobing Wang and Chunyi Li and Liang Zhao Requirement specification extraction and analysis based on propositional projection temporal logic . . . . . . . e2558:1--e2558:?? Dimitrios Tsoukalas and Miltiadis Siavvas and Dionysios Kehagias and Apostolos Ampatzoglou and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou A practical approach for technical debt prioritization based on class-level forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2564:1--e2564:?? Shin Hwei Tan and Ziqiang Li and Lu Yan \pkgCrossFix: Resolution of GitHub issues via similar bugs recommendation e2554:1--e2554:?? Ying Fu and Meng Ren and Fuchen Ma and Xin Yang and Heyuan Shi and Shanshan Li and Xiangke Liao EVMFuzz: Differential fuzz testing of Ethereum virtual machine . . . . . . . . e2556:1--e2556:?? Zhouxian Jiang and Honghui Li and Rui Wang Efficient generation of valid test inputs for deep neural networks via gradient search . . . . . . . . . . . . e2550:1--e2550:?? Ying Yin and Yucen Shi and Yuhai Zhao and Fazal Wahab Multi-graph learning-based software defect location . . . . . . . . . . . . e2552:1--e2552:?? Jinfu Chen and Yuechao Gu and Saihua Cai and Haibo Chen and Jingyi Chen A novel test case prioritization approach for black-box testing based on K-medoids clustering . . . . . . . . . . e2565:1--e2565:?? Yuanqing Mei and Xutong Liu and Zeyu Lu and Yibiao Yang and Huihui Liu and Yuming Zhou Cross-version defect prediction using threshold-based active learning . . . . e2563:1--e2563:?? Ebru Gökalp and Bora Çaliskanbas and Altan Koçyigit A reference model for software product line capability assessment . . . . . . . e2567:1--e2567:?? Maria Raffaella Martina and Elisabetta Bianchini and Sara Sinceri and Martina Francesconi and Vincenzo Gemignani Software medical device maintenance: DevOps based approach for problem and modification management . . . . . . . . e2570:1--e2570:?? Bochuan Chen and Xiao Guo and Yuting Chen and Xiaofeng Yu and Lei Bu Constructing exception handling chains for testing Java virtual machine implementations . . . . . . . . . . . . e2562:1--e2562:?? Zhenbang Chen and Guofeng Zhang and Zehua Chen and Ziqi Shuai and Weiyu Pan and Yufeng Zhang and Ji Wang Adaptive solving strategy synthesis for symbolic execution . . . . . . . . . . . e2568:1--e2568:?? José Antonio Martínez-López and Félix García and Francisco Ruiz and Aurora Vizcaíno Contributions of enterprise architecture to software engineering: a systematic literature review . . . . . . . . . . . e2572:1--e2572:?? Yongxin Zhao and Wenhan Wu and Yuan Fei and Zhihao Liu and Yang Li and Yilong Yang and Ling Shi and Bo Zhang An architecture refactoring approach to reducing software hierarchy complexity e2573:1--e2573:?? Hongliang Ge and Wenkang Zhong and Chuanyi Li and Jidong Ge and Hao Hu and Bin Luo RobustNPR: Evaluating the robustness of neural program repair models . . . . . . e2586:1--e2586:??
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . e2578:1--e2578:?? Akshay Jadhav and Shishir Kumar Shandilya Towards effective feature selection in estimating software effort using machine learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2588:1--e2588:?? Mansi Agnihotri and Anuradha Chug Severity Factor (\textitSF): an aid to developers for application of refactoring operations to improve software quality . . . . . . . . . . . . e2590:1--e2590:?? Anas Dakkak and Jan Bosch and Helena Holmstrom Olsson Towards AIOps enabled services in continuously evolving software-intensive embedded systems . . . . . . . . . . . . e2592:1--e2592:?? Mahshid Helali Moghadam and Markus Borg and Mehrdad Saadatmand and Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad and Markus Bohlin and Björn Lisper Machine learning testing in an ADAS case study using simulation-integrated bio-inspired search-based testing . . . e2591:1--e2591:?? Affan Yasin and Rubia Fatima and Javed Ali Khan and Lin Liu and Raian Ali and Jianmin Wang Counteracting sociocultural barriers in global software engineering using group activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2587:1--e2587:?? Gulzar Alam and Sajjad Mahmood and Mohammad Alshayeb and Mahmood Niazi and Saad Zafar Maturity model for secure software testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2593:1--e2593:?? Rafiq Ahmad Khan and Muhammad Azeem Akbar and Saima Rafi and Alaa Omran Almagrabi and Musaad Alzahrani Evaluation of requirement engineering best practices for secure software development in GSD: an ISM analysis . . e2594:1--e2594:?? Lukas Daubner and Barbora Buhnova and Tomas Pitner Forensic experts' view of forensic-ready software systems: a qualitative study e2598:1--e2598:?? Iman Hemati Moghadam and Mel Ó Cinnéide and Ali Sardarian and Faezeh Zarepour Model-based source code refactoring with interaction and visual cues . . . . . . e2596:1--e2596:?? Ningning Chen and Huibiao Zhu A process calculus SMrCaIT for IoT . . . e2595:1--e2595:?? Apostolos Kritikos and Ioannis Stamelos A resilience-based framework for assessing the evolution of open source software projects . . . . . . . . . . . e2597:1--e2597:?? Lisa Grabinger and Florian Hauser and Jürgen Mottok On the perception of graph layouts . . . e2599:1--e2599:?? Julio Suárez and Aurora Vizcaíno Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering . . . . . . e2600:1--e2600:?? Necmettin Ozkan and Tugba Gurgen Erdogan and Sevval Bal and Mehmet Sahin Gök A bibliometric analysis of Agile software development publications originating from Turkey . . . . . . . . e2601:1--e2601:?? Walter Lucas and Fausto Carvalho and Rafael Campos Nunes and Rodrigo Bonifácio and João Saraiva and Paola Accioly Embracing modern C++ features: an empirical assessment on the KDE community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2605:1--e2605:?? Pei Liu and Li Li and Kui Liu and Shane McIntosh and John Grundy Understanding the quality and evolution of Android app build systems . . . . . . e2602:1--e2602:?? Davide Di Ruscio and Ludovico Iovino and Alfonso Pierantonio AMINO: a quality assessment framework for modeling ecosystems . . . . . . . . e2603:1--e2603:?? Maurizio Leotta and Filippo Ricca and Alessandro Marchetto and Dario Olianas An empirical study to compare three web test automation approaches: NLP-based, programmable, and capture&replay . . . . e2606:1--e2606:?? Muhammad Yaseen Empirical exploration of critical challenges of requirements implementation in global software development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2604:1--e2604:?? Maleknaz Nayebi and Bram Adams Image-based communication on social coding platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . e2609:1--e2609:?? Binnur Görer and Fatma Basak Aydemir RoboREIT: an interactive robotic tutor with instructive feedback component for requirements elicitation interview training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2608:1--e2608:?? Ho Le Thi Kim Nhung and Vo Van Hai and Petr Silhavy and Zdenka Prokopova and Radek Silhavy Incorporating statistical and machine learning techniques into the optimization of correction factors for software development effort estimation e2611:1--e2611:?? Cheah WaiShiang and Michelle Ten LiBin and Eaqerzilla Phang and Nurfauza bt Jali and Muhammad Asyraf bin Khairuddin eAOM: Extended agent-oriented modeling as an alternative methodology for blockchain enabling application development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e2610:1--e2610:?? Ersin Ersoy and Engin Çalli and Batuhan Erdogan and Selami Bagriyanik and Hasan Sözer A longitudinal case study on Nexus transformation: Impact on productivity, quality, and motivation . . . . . . . . e2615:1--e2615:??