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Empirical Software Engineering, Volume 26
Volume 26, Number 1, January 2021
- Rezvan Mahdavi-Hezaveh
, Jacob Dremann, Laurie A. Williams:
Software development with feature toggles: practices used by practitioners. 1 - Yuanrui Fan, Xin Xia, David Lo
, Ahmed E. Hassan, Shanping Li:
What makes a popular academic AI repository? 2 - Yogeshwar Shastri
, Rashina Hoda, Robert Amor:
Spearheading agile: the role of the scrum master in agile projects. 3 - Carlos Diego Nascimento Damasceno
, Mohammad Reza Mousavi
, Adenilso da Silva Simão:
Learning by sampling: learning behavioral family models from software product lines. 4 - Manishankar Mondal
, Banani Roy, Chanchal K. Roy, Kevin A. Schneider:
ID-correspondence: a measure for detecting evolutionary coupling. 5 - Paul Temple
, Gilles Perrouin
, Mathieu Acher, Battista Biggio, Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Fabio Roli
:
Empirical assessment of generating adversarial configurations for software product lines. 6 - Daoyuan Wu
, Debin Gao
, David Lo
:
Scalable online vetting of Android apps for measuring declared SDK versions and their consistency with API calls. 7 - An Ran Chen
, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen
, Shaowei Wang:
Demystifying the challenges and benefits of analyzing user-reported logs in bug reports. 8 - Zeinab Azadeh Kermansaravi, Md. Saidur Rahman, Foutse Khomh, Fehmi Jaafar, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc:
Investigating design anti-pattern and design pattern mutations and their change- and fault-proneness. 9 - Xiajing Wang, Changzhen Hu, Rui Ma, Donghai Tian, Jinyuan He:
CMFuzz: context-aware adaptive mutation for fuzzers. 10 - Belén Ramos-Gutiérrez
, Ángel Jesús Varela-Vaca
, José A. Galindo, María Teresa Gómez-López, David Benavides:
Discovering configuration workflows from existing logs using process mining. 11 - Felipe Ebert
, Fernando Castor
, Nicole Novielli, Alexander Serebrenik
:
An exploratory study on confusion in code reviews. 12 - Adrian Santos, Sira Vegas
, Markku Oivo, Natalia Juristo:
Comparing the results of replications in software engineering. 13 - Morakot Choetkiertikul
, Hoa Khanh Dam, Truyen Tran, Trang Pham, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Aditya Ghose:
Automatically recommending components for issue reports using deep learning. 14 - Juan Hoyos
, Rabe Abdalkareem
, Suhaib Mujahid
, Emad Shihab, Albeiro Espinosa Bedoya
:
On the Removal of Feature Toggles. 15
Volume 26, Number 2, March 2021
- Jiakun Liu, Qiao Huang, Xin Xia, Emad Shihab, David Lo, Shanping Li:
An exploratory study on the introduction and removal of different types of technical debt in deep learning frameworks. 16 - Gharib Gharibi
, Vijay Walunj, Raju Nekadi, Raj Marri, Yugyung Lee:
Automated end-to-end management of the modeling lifecycle in deep learning. 17 - Fabiano Pecorelli
, Fabio Palomba, Andrea De Lucia:
The Relation of Test-Related Factors to Software Quality: A Case Study on Apache Systems. 18 - Ahmed Zerouali
, Tom Mens
, Alexandre Decan
, Jesús M. González-Barahona
, Gregorio Robles
:
A multi-dimensional analysis of technical lag in Debian-based Docker images. 19 - He Ye
, Matias Martinez
, Martin Monperrus
:
Automated patch assessment for program repair at scale. 20 - Rebecca Yates, Norah Power, Jim Buckley:
Correction to: Characterizing the transfer of program comprehension in onboarding: an information-push perspective. 21 - Yuxing Ma
, Tapajit Dey
, Chris Bogart
, Sadika Amreen, Marat Valiev, Adam Tutko, David Kennard, Russell Zaretzki
, Audris Mockus
:
World of code: enabling a research workflow for mining and analyzing the universe of open source VCS data. 22 - Alexander Grebhahn
, Christian Kaltenecker, Christian Engwer, Norbert Siegmund, Sven Apel
:
Lightweight, semi-automatic variability extraction: a case study on scientific computing. 23 - Elias Kuiter
, Sebastian Krieter
, Jacob Krüger, Gunter Saake, Thomas Leich:
variED: an editor for collaborative, real-time feature modeling. 24 - Jessica Díaz
, Daniel López-Fernández
, Jorge Pérez
, Ángel González-Prieto
:
Why are many businesses instilling a DevOps culture into their organization? 25 - Thomas Olsson
, Krzysztof Wnuk, Slinger Jansen
:
A validated model for the scoping process of quality requirements: a multi-case study. 26 - Xiaowei Chen, Rabe Abdalkareem
, Suhaib Mujahid
, Emad Shihab, Xin Xia:
Helping or not helping? Why and how trivial packages impact the npm ecosystem. 27 - Pertti Karhapää
, Woubshet Behutiye
, Pilar Rodríguez
, Markku Oivo
, Dolors Costal
, Xavier Franch
, Sanja Aaramaa, Michal Choras, Jari Partanen
, Antonin Abherve:
Strategies to manage quality requirements in agile software development: a multiple case study. 28 - Toufique Ahmed
, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Vincent J. Hellendoorn:
Learning lenient parsing & typing via indirect supervision. 29 - Robert Lindohf, Jacob Krüger
, Erik Herzog, Thorsten Berger:
Software product-line evaluation in the large. 30 - Mathieu Nassif
, Martin P. Robillard
:
Wikifying software artifacts. 31
Volume 26, Number 3, May 2021
- Christian Macho
, Stefanie Beyer, Shane McIntosh, Martin Pinzger
:
The nature of build changes. 32 - Rungroj Maipradit, Christoph Treude
, Hideaki Hata
, Kenichi Matsumoto:
Correction to: Wait for it: identifying "On-Hold" self-admitted technical debt. 33 - Armstrong Foundjem
, Bram Adams
:
Release synchronization in software ecosystems. 34 - Misoo Kim
, Eunseok Lee
:
Are datasets for information retrieval-based bug localization techniques trustworthy? 35 - Majid Hatamian, Samuel Wairimu, Nurul Momen
, Lothar Fritsch:
A privacy and security analysis of early-deployed COVID-19 contact tracing Android apps. 36 - Appreciation to Empirical Software Engineering reviewers of 2020. 37
- Rui Pereira
, Hugo Matalonga, Marco Couto
, Fernando Castor
, Bruno Cabral
, Pedro Carvalho, Simão Melo de Sousa
, João Paulo Fernandes
:
GreenHub: a large-scale collaborative dataset to battery consumption analysis of android devices. 38 - João Pedro Moraes, Ivanilton Polato
, Igor Wiese, Filipe Saraiva, Gustavo Pinto
:
From one to hundreds: multi-licensing in the JavaScript ecosystem. 39 - Grischa Liebel
, Shalini Chakraborty:
Ethical issues in empirical studies using student subjects: Re-visiting practices and perceptions. 40 - Simone V. Spiegler
, Christoph Heinecke, Stefan Wagner
:
An empirical study on changing leadership in agile teams. 41 - Adrian Santos, Sira Vegas
, Oscar Dieste
, Fernando Uyaguari, Ayse Tosun, Davide Fucci, Burak Turhan
, Giuseppe Scanniello, Simone Romano
, Itir Karac, Marco Kuhrmann, Vladimir Mandic
, Robert Ramac, Dietmar Pfahl
, Christian Engblom, Jarno Kyykka, Kerli Rungi, Carolina Palomeque, Jaroslav Spisak, Markku Oivo, Natalia Juristo:
A family of experiments on test-driven development. 42 - Amin Sleimi
, Nicolas Sannier, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Lionel C. Briand, Marcello Ceci
, John Dann:
An automated framework for the extraction of semantic legal metadata from legal texts. 43 - Mikaela Cashman
, Justin W. Firestone
, Myra B. Cohen
, Thammasak Thianniwet
, Wei Niu
:
An empirical investigation of organic software product lines. 44 - César Soto-Valero
, Nicolas Harrand
, Martin Monperrus
, Benoit Baudry
:
A comprehensive study of bloated dependencies in the Maven ecosystem. 45 - Timothée Riom, Arthur D. Sawadogo, Kevin Allix, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Naouel Moha, Jacques Klein
:
Revisiting the VCCFinder approach for the identification of vulnerability-contributing commits. 46 - Bodin Chinthanet
, Raula Gaikovina Kula
, Shane McIntosh, Takashi Ishio
, Akinori Ihara, Kenichi Matsumoto:
Lags in the release, adoption, and propagation of npm vulnerability fixes. 47 - Omer Levy, Dror G. Feitelson
:
Understanding large-scale software systems - structure and flows. 48 - Abdul Razzaq, Andrew Le Gear, Chris Exton, Jim Buckley:
Correction to: An empirical assessment of baseline feature location techniques. 49 - Sebastián Pizard
, Fernando Acerenza, Ximena Otegui
, Silvana Moreno
, Diego Vallespir
, Barbara A. Kitchenham
:
Training students in evidence-based software engineering and systematic reviews: a systematic review and empirical study. 50 - Ezekiel O. Soremekun
, Lukas Kirschner, Marcel Böhme, Andreas Zeller
:
Locating faults with program slicing: an empirical analysis. 51 - Tao Ma, Shaukat Ali, Tao Yue
:
Testing self-healing cyber-physical systems under uncertainty with reinforcement learning: an empirical study. 52 - Rui Shu, Tianpei Xia, Jianfeng Chen, Laurie A. Williams, Tim Menzies
:
How to Better Distinguish Security Bug Reports (Using Dual Hyperparameter Optimization). 53 - Hamid Bagheri
, Jianghao Wang, Jarod Aerts, Negar Ghorbani, Sam Malek:
Flair: efficient analysis of Android inter-component vulnerabilities in response to incremental changes. 54 - Wellington Oliveira
, Renato Oliveira, Fernando Castor
, Gustavo Pinto, João Paulo Fernandes
:
Improving energy-efficiency by recommending Java collections. 55 - Xueqi Yang, Jianfeng Chen, Rahul Yedida
, Zhe Yu, Tim Menzies
:
Learning to recognize actionable static code warnings (is intrinsically easy). 56
Volume 26, Number 4, July 2021
- Jordan Samhi
, Kevin Allix, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Jacques Klein
:
A first look at Android applications in Google Play related to COVID-19. 57 - Andreea Vescan
, Adrian Pintea, Lukas Linsbauer, Alexander Egyed:
Genetic programming for feature model synthesis: a replication study. 58 - Gede Artha Azriadi Prana
, Abhishek Sharma, Lwin Khin Shar
, Darius Foo, Andrew E. Santosa, Asankhaya Sharma, David Lo
:
Out of sight, out of mind? How vulnerable dependencies affect open-source projects. 59 - Yu Qu
, Heng Yin
:
Evaluating network embedding techniques' performances in software bug prediction. 60 - Chen Lyu
, Ruyun Wang, Hongyu Zhang
, Hanwen Zhang, Songlin Hu
:
Embedding API dependency graph for neural code generation. 61 - Daniel Russo
, Paul H. P. Hanel, Seraphina Altnickel, Niels van Berkel:
Predictors of well-being and productivity among software professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic - a longitudinal study. 62 - Yingying Wang
, Harshavardhan Kadiyala
, Julia Rubin
:
Promises and challenges of microservices: an exploratory study. 63 - Suppawong Tuarob, Noppadol Assavakamhaenghan, Waralee Tanaphantaruk, Ponlakit Suwanworaboon, Saeed-Ul Hassan
, Morakot Choetkiertikul
:
Automatic team recommendation for collaborative software development. 64 - João Felipe Pimentel
, Leonardo Murta
, Vanessa Braganholo
, Juliana Freire
:
Understanding and improving the quality and reproducibility of Jupyter notebooks. 65 - Di Wu
, Xiao-Yuan Jing, Hongyu Zhang
, Bing Li, Yu Xie, Baowen Xu:
Generating API tags for tutorial fragments from Stack Overflow. 66 - Christopher Steven Timperley
, Lauren Herckis
, Claire Le Goues
, Michael Hilton
:
Understanding and improving artifact sharing in software engineering research. 67 - Henry Tang
, Sarah Nadi:
On using Stack Overflow comment-edit pairs to recommend code maintenance changes. 68 - Juri Di Rocco
, Davide Di Ruscio
, Claudio Di Sipio
, Phuong Thanh Nguyen
, Riccardo Rubei
:
Development of recommendation systems for software engineering: the CROSSMINER experience. 69 - Mazen Mohamad
, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Riccardo Scandariato:
Security assurance cases - state of the art of an emerging approach. 70 - Sophia Quach
, Maxime Lamothe, Yasutaka Kamei, Weiyi Shang:
An empirical study on the use of SZZ for identifying inducing changes of non-functional bugs. 71 - Laurence Duchien, Paul Grünbacher, Thomas Thüm:
Foreword to the Special Issue on Configurable Systems. 72 - N. C. Shrikanth
, William Nichols, Fahmid Morshed Fahid, Tim Menzies
:
Assessing practitioner beliefs about software engineering. 73 - Nadia Daoudi
, Kevin Allix, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Jacques Klein
:
Lessons Learnt on Reproducibility in Machine Learning Based Android Malware Detection. 74 - Christoph Gote
, Ingo Scholtes, Frank Schweitzer:
Analysing Time-Stamped Co-Editing Networks in Software Development Teams using git2net. 75 - Man Zhang
, Bogdan Marculescu, Andrea Arcuri:
Resource and dependency based test case generation for RESTful Web services. 76 - Nicole Novielli
, Fabio Calefato
, Filippo Lanubile
, Alexander Serebrenik
:
Assessment of off-the-shelf SE-specific sentiment analysis tools: An extended replication study. 77 - Andrea Di Sorbo
, Sebastiano Panichella
:
Exposed! A case study on the vulnerability-proneness of Google Play Apps. 78 - Alvaro Veizaga
, Mauricio Alférez, Damiano Torre
, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Lionel C. Briand:
On systematically building a controlled natural language for functional requirements. 79 - Marian Daun
, Jennifer Brings
, Patricia Aluko Obe
, Viktoria Stenkova
:
Reliability of self-rated experience and confidence as predictors for students' performance in software engineering. 80 - Jiayuan Zhou, Shaowei Wang
, Haoxiang Zhang, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen
, Ahmed E. Hassan:
Studying backers and hunters in bounty issue addressing process of open source projects. 81 - Liu Wang, Ren He, Haoyu Wang, Pengcheng Xia, Yuanchun Li, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Yulei Sui, Yao Guo
, Guoai Xu:
Beyond the virus: a first look at coronavirus-themed Android malware. 82 - Hayden Cheers
, Yuqing Lin, Shamus P. Smith
:
Evaluating the robustness of source code plagiarism detection tools to pervasive plagiarism-hiding modifications. 83 - Yongqiang Tian
, Shiqing Ma, Ming Wen
, Yepang Liu
, Shing-Chi Cheung
, Xiangyu Zhang:
To what extent do DNN-based image classification models make unreliable inferences? 84 - Luan P. Lima, Lincoln S. Rocha
, Carla I. M. Bezerra, Matheus Paixão
:
Assessing exception handling testing practices in open-source libraries. 85
Volume 26, Number 5, September 2021
- Maria Ulan
, Welf Löwe, Morgan Ericsson, Anna Wingkvist:
Weighted software metrics aggregation and its application to defect prediction. 86 - Arthur Vitui
, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen
:
MLASP: Machine learning assisted capacity planning. 87 - Miikka Kuutila
, Mika Mäntylä, Maëlick Claes, Marko Elovainio
, Bram Adams:
Individual differences limit predicting well-being and productivity using software repositories: a longitudinal industrial study. 88 - Filipe Roseiro Côgo, Gustavo Ansaldi Oliva, Cor-Paul Bezemer
, Ahmed E. Hassan:
An empirical study of same-day releases of popular packages in the npm ecosystem. 89 - Fitash Ul Haq
, Donghwan Shin
, Shiva Nejati
, Lionel Claude Briand
:
Can Offline Testing of Deep Neural Networks Replace Their Online Testing? 90 - Anh Nguyen-Duc
, Kai-Kristian Kemell
, Pekka Abrahamsson:
The entrepreneurial logic of startup software development: A study of 40 software startups. 91 - José Aldo Silva da Costa
, Rohit Gheyi, Márcio Ribeiro, Sven Apel
, Vander Alves, Baldoino Fonseca, Flávio Medeiros, Alessandro Garcia:
Evaluating refactorings for disciplining #ifdef annotations: An eye tracking study with novices. 92 - Maliheh Izadi
, Abbas Heydarnoori
, Georgios Gousios:
Topic recommendation for software repositories using multi-label classification algorithms. 93 - Maram Assi, Safwat Hassan, Yuan Tian, Ying Zou:
FeatCompare: Feature comparison for competing mobile apps leveraging user reviews. 94 - Mark Haakman, Luis Cruz
, Hennie Huijgens, Arie van Deursen
:
AI lifecycle models need to be revised. 95 - Dong Wang, Tao Xiao
, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Raula Gaikovina Kula
, Kenichi Matsumoto:
Understanding shared links and their intentions to meet information needs in modern code review. 96 - Sophia Quach
, Maxime Lamothe, Bram Adams
, Yasutaka Kamei, Weiyi Shang:
Evaluating the impact of falsely detected performance bug-inducing changes in JIT models. 97 - Florian Pellegrin, Zeynep Yücel
, Akito Monden, Pattara Leelaprute:
Task estimation for software company employees based on computer interaction logs. 98 - Aldeida Aleti, Matias Martinez
:
E-APR: Mapping the effectiveness of automated program repair techniques. 99 - Dong Jae Kim
, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen
, Jinqiu Yang:
The secret life of test smells - an empirical study on test smell evolution and maintenance. 100 - Nils Brede Moe
, Darja Smite
, Maria Paasivaara
, Casper Lassenius
:
Finding the sweet spot for organizational control and team autonomy in large-scale agile software development. 101 - Gema Rodríguez-Pérez
, Reza Nadri, Meiyappan Nagappan:
Perceived diversity in software engineering: a systematic literature review. 102 - Neil A. Ernst
, Jeffrey C. Carver
, Daniel Méndez
, Marco Torchiano
:
Understanding peer review of software engineering papers. 103 - Justus Bogner
, Jonas Fritzsch, Stefan Wagner
, Alfred Zimmermann
:
Industry practices and challenges for the evolvability assurance of microservices. 104 - Jesper Olsson
, Erik Risfelt, Terese Besker
, Antonio Martini, Richard Torkar:
Measuring affective states from technical debt. 105 - Amjed Tahir
, Kwabena Ebo Bennin, Xun Xiao, Stephen G. MacDonell:
Does class size matter? An in-depth assessment of the effect of class size in software defect prediction. 106 - Boni García
, Mario Muñoz Organero
, Carlos Alario-Hoyos, Carlos Delgado Kloos:
Automated driver management for selenium WebDriver. 107 - Boyuan Li, Xiaoxu Diao, Wei Gao, Carol S. Smidts:
A requirements inspection method based on scenarios generated by model mutation and the experimental validation. 108 - Arthur Vitui
, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen
:
Correction to: MLASP: Machine learning assisted capacity planning. An industrial experience report. 109 - Shamsa Abid
, Shafay Shamail
, Hamid Abdul Basit, Sarah Nadi:
FACER: An API usage-based code-example recommender for opportunistic reuse. 110 - Daniel M. Berry
:
Empirical evaluation of tools for hairy requirements engineering tasks. 111 - Pooja Rani
, Sebastiano Panichella
, Manuel Leuenberger, Mohammad Ghafari, Oscar Nierstrasz:
What do class comments tell us? An investigation of comment evolution and practices in Pharo Smalltalk. 112 - Kate Revoredo
, Djordje Djurica
, Jan Mendling:
A study into the practice of reporting software engineering experiments. 113 - Christoph Laaber
, Mikael Basmaci, Pasquale Salza
:
Predicting unstable software benchmarks using static source code features. 114 - Arthur V. Kamienski
, Cor-Paul Bezemer
:
An empirical study of Q&A websites for game developers. 115
Volume 26, Number 6, November 2021
- Mohammad Masudur Rahman
, Foutse Khomh, Shamima Yeasmin, Chanchal K. Roy:
The forgotten role of search queries in IR-based bug localization: an empirical study. 116 - Jiachi Chen
, Xin Xia
, David Lo
, John C. Grundy, Xiaohu Yang:
Maintenance-related concerns for post-deployed Ethereum smart contract development: issues, techniques, and future challenges. 117 - Cheng Zhou, Bin Li, Xiaobing Sun
, Lili Bo:
Why and what happened? Aiding bug comprehension with automated category and causal link identification. 118 - Haoran Liu, Yue Yu
, Shanshan Li, Mingyang Geng, Xiaoguang Mao, Xiangke Liao:
How to cherry pick the bug report for better summarization? 119 - Camila Mariane C. Silva
, Matthias Galster
, Fabian Gilson
:
Topic modeling in software engineering research. 120 - Gias Uddin
, Fatima Sabir
, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Omar Alam, Foutse Khomh:
An empirical study of IoT topics in IoT developer discussions on Stack Overflow. 121 - Deheng Yang, Kui Liu
, Dongsun Kim
, Anil Koyuncu, Kisub Kim, Haoye Tian
, Yan Lei, Xiaoguang Mao, Jacques Klein
, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé:
Where were the repair ingredients for Defects4j bugs? 122 - Renana Arizon-Peretz, Irit Hadar
, Gil Luria
, Sofia Sherman:
Understanding developers' privacy and security mindsets via climate theory. 123 - Nan Yang
, Pieter J. L. Cuijpers
, Ramon R. H. Schiffelers, Johan Lukkien, Alexander Serebrenik
:
Single-state state machines in model-driven software engineering: an exploratory study. 124 - Aline Brito
, André C. Hora, Marco Túlio Valente
:
Characterizing refactoring graphs in Java and JavaScript projects. 125 - Shayan Zamani, Hadi Hemmati
:
A pragmatic approach for hyper-parameter tuning in search-based test case generation. 126 - Sofia Reis
, Rui Abreu, Luis Cruz
:
Fixing vulnerabilities potentially hinders maintainability. 127 - Md Hasan Ibrahim, Mohammed Sayagh
, Ahmed E. Hassan:
A study of how Docker Compose is used to compose multi-component systems. 128 - Masum Hasan, Anindya Iqbal, Mohammad Rafid Ul Islam, A. J. M. Imtiajur Rahman, Amiangshu Bosu
:
Using a balanced scorecard to identify opportunities to improve code review effectiveness: an industrial experience report. 129 - Vincent Aranega, Julien Delplanque, Matias Martinez
, Andrew P. Black, Stéphane Ducasse, Anne Etien
, Christopher P. Fuhrman, Guillermo Polito:
Rotten green tests in Java, Pharo and Python. 130 - Fiorella Zampetti
, Gianmarco Fucci, Alexander Serebrenik
, Massimiliano Di Penta:
Self-admitted technical debt practices: a comparison between industry and open-source. 131 - Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho
, Syful Islam
, Keitaro Nakasai, Ifraz Rehman, Hideaki Hata
, Raula Gaikovina Kula
, Meiyappan Nagappan, Kenichi Matsumoto:
How are project-specific forums utilized? A study of participation, content, and sentiment in the Eclipse ecosystem. 132 - Christoph Laaber
, Harald C. Gall
, Philipp Leitner
:
Applying test case prioritization to software microbenchmarks. 133 - Fernando Petrulio, Anand Ashok Sawant
, Alberto Bacchelli:
The indolent lambdification of Java. 134

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