Journal: Empirical Software Engineering

Volume 23, Issue 6

3073 -- 3128Claudia P. Ayala, Nguyen Duc Anh, Xavier Franch, Martin Höst, Reidar Conradi, Daniela Cruzes, Muhammad Ali Babar. System requirements-OSS components: matching and mismatch resolution practices - an empirical study
3129 -- 3160Deheng Ye, Lingfeng Bao, Zhenchang Xing, Shang-Wei Lin. APIReal: an API recognition and linking approach for online developer forums
3161 -- 3186Zhe Yu, Nicholas A. Kraft, Tim Menzies. Finding better active learners for faster literature reviews
3187 -- 3220Tomasz Kuchta, Thibaud Lutellier, Edmund Wong, Lin Tan, Cristian Cadar. On the correctness of electronic documents: studying, finding, and localizing inconsistency bugs in PDF readers and files
3221 -- 3247Gustavo Pinto 0001, Igor Steinmacher, Luiz Felipe Dias, Marco Aurélio Gerosa. On the challenges of open-sourcing proprietary software projects
3248 -- 3280Mehran Hassani, Weiyi Shang, Emad Shihab, Nikolaos Tsantalis. Studying and detecting log-related issues
3281 -- 3345Ana M. Fernández-Sáez, Michel R. V. Chaudron, Marcela Genero. An industrial case study on the use of UML in software maintenance and its perceived benefits and hurdles
3346 -- 3393Yuanrui Fan, Xin Xia 0001, David Lo 0001, Shanping Li. Early prediction of merged code changes to prioritize reviewing tasks
3394 -- 3441Simona Bernardi, Juan L. Domínguez, Abel Gómez, Christophe Joubert, José Merseguer, Diego Perez-Palacin, José Ignacio Requeno, Alberto Romeu. A systematic approach for performance assessment using process mining - An industrial experience report
3442 -- 3475Hanyang Hu, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Ahmed E. Hassan. Studying the consistency of star ratings and the complaints in 1 & 2-star user reviews for top free cross-platform Android and iOS apps
3476 -- 3502Suhaib Mujahid, Giancarlo Sierra, Rabe Abdalkareem, Emad Shihab, Weiyi Shang. An empirical study of Android Wear user complaints
3503 -- 3534Amantia Pano, Daniel Graziotin, Pekka Abrahamsson. Factors and actors leading to the adoption of a JavaScript framework
3535 -- 3577Eero I. Laukkanen, Maria Paasivaara, Juha Itkonen, Casper Lassenius. Comparison of release engineering practices in a large mature company and a startup
3578 -- 3625Srdjan Stevanetic, Uwe Zdun. Supporting the analyzability of architectural component models - empirical findings and tool support
3626 -- 3629Paul Grünbacher, Anna Perini. Foreword to the special issue on empirical research in requirements engineering
3630 -- 3683Thomas Quirchmayr, Barbara Paech, Roland Kohl, Hannes Karey, Gunar Kasdepke. Semi-automatic rule-based domain terminology and software feature-relevant information extraction from natural language user manuals - An approach and evaluation at Roche Diagnostics GmbH
3684 -- 3733Alessio Ferrari, Gloria Gori, Benedetta Rosadini, Iacopo Trotta, Stefano Bacherini, Alessandro Fantechi, Stefania Gnesi. Detecting requirements defects with NLP patterns: an industrial experience in the railway domain
3734 -- 3767Nishant Jha, Anas Mahmoud. Using frame semantics for classifying and summarizing application store reviews
3768 -- 3800Wenhua Hu, Jeffrey C. Carver, Vaibhav K. Anu, Gursimran S. Walia, Gary L. Bradshaw. Using human error information for error prevention
3801 -- 3820Robert Feldt, Thomas Zimmermann 0001, Gunnar R. Bergersen, Davide Falessi, Andreas Jedlitschka, Natalia Juristo, Jürgen Münch, Markku Oivo, Per Runeson, Martin Shepperd, Dag I. K. Sjøberg, Burak Turhan. Four commentaries on the use of students and professionals in empirical software engineering experiments
3821 -- 0Mouna Hammoudi, Ali Alakeel, Brian Burg, Gigon Bae, Gregg Rothermel. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Facilitating debugging of web applications through recording reduction - A family of empirical studies

Volume 23, Issue 5

2521 -- 2549Hao Zhong, Na Meng. Towards reusing hints from past fixes - An exploratory study on thousands of real samples
2550 -- 2596Maria Paasivaara, Benjamin Behm, Casper Lassenius, Minna Hallikainen. Large-scale agile transformation at Ericsson: a case study
2597 -- 2621Mohamed Sami Rakha, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Ahmed E. Hassan. Revisiting the performance of automated approaches for the retrieval of duplicate reports in issue tracking systems that perform just-in-time duplicate retrieval
2622 -- 2654Raphael Sirres, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Dongsun Kim 0001, David Lo 0001, Jacques Klein, Kisub Kim, Yves Le Traon. Augmenting and structuring user queries to support efficient free-form code search
2655 -- 2694Heng Li, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Weiyi Shang, Ahmed E. Hassan. Studying software logging using topic models
2695 -- 2733Giuseppe Scanniello, Carmine Gravino, Marcela Genero, José A. Cruz-Lemus, Genoveffa Tortora, Michele Risi, Gabriella Dodero. Do software models based on the UML aid in source-code comprehensibility? Aggregating evidence from 12 controlled experiments
2734 -- 2763Tomaz Kosar, Saso Gaberc, Jeffrey C. Carver, Marjan Mernik. Program comprehension of domain-specific and general-purpose languages: replication of a family of experiments using integrated development environments
2764 -- 2794Maleknaz Nayebi, Henry Cho, Guenther Ruhe. App store mining is not enough for app improvement
2795 -- 2828Christoph Hannebauer, Marc Hesenius, Volker Gruhn. Does syntax highlighting help programming novices?
2829 -- 2864Rubén Saborido, Rodrigo Morales, Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol. Getting the most from map data structures in Android
2865 -- 0. Editor's Note: Special Issue on Automatic Software Repair
2866 -- 2900Rongxin Wu, Ming Wen, Shing-Chi Cheung, Hongyu Zhang. ChangeLocator: locate crash-inducing changes based on crash reports
2901 -- 2947Manish Motwani, Sandhya Sankaranarayanan, René Just, Yuriy Brun. Do automated program repair techniques repair hard and important bugs?
2948 -- 2979Jooyong Yi, Shin Hwei Tan, Sergey Mechtaev, Marcel Böhme, Abhik Roychoudhury. A correlation study between automated program repair and test-suite metrics
2980 -- 3006Vinicius Paulo L. Oliveira, Eduardo Faria de Souza, Claire Le Goues, Celso G. Camilo-Junior. Improved representation and genetic operators for linear genetic programming for automated program repair
3007 -- 3033Xuan-Bach D. Le, Ferdian Thung, David Lo 0001, Claire Le Goues. Overfitting in semantics-based automated program repair
3034 -- 3071Tingting Yu, Michael Pradel. Pinpointing and repairing performance bottlenecks in concurrent programs

Volume 23, Issue 4

1871 -- 1894Michail Tsikerdekis. Persistent code contribution: a ranking algorithm for code contribution in crowdsourced software
1895 -- 1930Wieslaw Kopec, Bartlomiej Balcerzak, Radoslaw Nielek, Grzegorz Kowalik, Adam Wierzbicki, Fabio Casati. Older adults and hackathons: a qualitative study
1931 -- 1958Neil C. Borle, Meysam Feghhi, Eleni Stroulia, Russell Greiner, Abram Hindle. Analyzing the effects of test driven development in GitHub
1959 -- 1981Andrea Arcuri. An experience report on applying software testing academic results in industry: we need usable automated test generation
1982 -- 2017Lech Madeyski, Barbara Kitchenham. Effect sizes and their variance for AB/BA crossover design studies
2018 -- 2050Adam Przybylek. An empirical study on the impact of AspectJ on software evolvability
2051 -- 2085Paola R. G. Accioly, Paulo Borba, Guilherme Cavalcanti. Understanding semi-structured merge conflict characteristics in open-source Java projects
2086 -- 2119Benjamin Danglot, Philippe Preux, Benoit Baudry, Martin Monperrus. Correctness attraction: a study of stability of software behavior under runtime perturbation
2120 -- 0. Editor's Note: Special Issue on Software Maintenance and Evolution
2121 -- 2157Mauricio Finavaro Aniche, Gabriele Bavota, Christoph Treude, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Arie van Deursen. Code smells for Model-View-Controller architectures
2158 -- 2197Anand Ashok Sawant, Romain Robbes, Alberto Bacchelli. On the reaction to deprecation of clients of 4 + 1 popular Java APIs and the JDK
2198 -- 2231Mona Rahimi, Jane Cleland-Huang. Evolving software trace links between requirements and source code
2232 -- 2278Vaibhav Saini, Hitesh Sajnani, Cristina V. Lopes. Cloned and non-cloned Java methods: a comparative study
2279 -- 2322Yun Zhang, David Lo, Xin Xia, Giuseppe Scanniello, Tien-Duy B. Le, Jianling Sun. Fusing multi-abstraction vector space models for concern localization
2323 -- 2358Hironori Washizaki, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Foutse Khomh. ProMeTA: a taxonomy for program metamodels in program reverse engineering
2359 -- 2361Gabriele Bavota, Michaela Greiler. Introduction to the special issue on source code analysis and manipulation
2362 -- 2397Leon Moonen, Thomas Rolfsnes, Dave W. Binkley, Stefano Di Alesio. What are the effects of history length and age on mining software change impact?
2398 -- 2425Dave W. Binkley, Dawn J. Lawrie, Christopher Morrell. The need for software specific natural language techniques
2426 -- 2463Marinos Kintis, Mike Papadakis, Andreas Papadopoulos, Evangelos Valvis, Nicos Malevris, Yves Le Traon. How effective are mutation testing tools? An empirical analysis of Java mutation testing tools with manual analysis and real faults
2464 -- 2519Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Jens Krinke, David Clark. A comparison of code similarity analysers

Volume 23, Issue 3

1153 -- 1187Subhajit Datta. How does developer interaction relate to software quality? an examination of product development data
1188 -- 1221Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Fausto Fasano, Rocco Oliveto, Andrea De Lucia. On the diffuseness and the impact on maintainability of code smells: a large scale empirical investigation
1222 -- 1274Annamalai Narayanan, Mahinthan Chandramohan, Lihui Chen, Yang Liu. A multi-view context-aware approach to Android malware detection and malicious code localization
1275 -- 1312Safwat Hassan, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Ahmed E. Hassan. Studying the dialogue between users and developers of free apps in the Google Play Store
1313 -- 1351Lingfeng Bao, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia, David Lo, Ahmed E. Hassan. Inference of development activities from interaction with uninstrumented applications
1352 -- 1382Fabio Calefato, Filippo Lanubile, Federico Maiorano, Nicole Novielli. Sentiment Polarity Detection for Software Development
1383 -- 1421Patrick Morrison, Rahul Pandita, Xusheng Xiao, Ram Chillarege, Laurie Williams. Are vulnerabilities discovered and resolved like other defects?
1422 -- 1456Shaiful Alam Chowdhury, Silvia Di Nardo, Abram Hindle, Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang. An exploratory study on assessing the energy impact of logging on Android applications
1457 -- 1489Damian Andrew Tamburri, Rick Kazman. General methods for software architecture recovery: a potential approach and its evaluation
1490 -- 1518Muhammad Moiz Arif, Weiyi Shang, Emad Shihab. Empirical study on the discrepancy between performance testing results from virtual and physical environments
1519 -- 1551Mojtaba Bagherzadeh, Nafiseh Kahani, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Ahmed E. Hassan, Juergen Dingel, James R. Cordy. Analyzing a decade of Linux system calls
1552 -- 1593Shaowei Wang, Tse-Hsun Chen, Ahmed E. Hassan. Understanding the factors for fast answers in technical Q&A websites - An empirical study of four stack exchange websites
1594 -- 1663Talita Vieira Ribeiro, Jobson L. Massollar, Guilherme Horta Travassos. Challenges and pitfalls on surveying evidence in the software engineering technical literature: an exploratory study with novices
1664 -- 1703Monika Gupta 0003, Allahbaksh M. Asadullah, Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Alexander Serebrenik. Reducing user input requests to improve IT support ticket resolution process
1704 -- 1742Mariam El Mezouar, Feng Zhang 0001, Ying Zou. Are tweets useful in the bug fixing process? An empirical study on Firefox and Chrome
1743 -- 1790Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Maurizio Leotta, Alessandro Tiso, Giovanna Guerrini, Gianna Reggio. On the impact of state-based model-driven development on maintainability: a family of experiments using UniMod
1791 -- 1825Nemitari Ajienka, Andrea Capiluppi, Steve Counsell. An empirical study on the interplay between semantic coupling and co-change of software classes
1826 -- 1867Jianmei Guo, Dingyu Yang, Norbert Siegmund, Sven Apel, Atrisha Sarkar, Pavel Valov, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Andrzej Wasowski, Huiqun Yu. Data-efficient performance learning for configurable systems
1868 -- 1869Nour Ali, Seán Baker, Ross O'Crowley, Sebastian Herold, Jim Buckley. Erratum to: Architecture consistency: State of the practice, challenges and requirements

Volume 23, Issue 2

565 -- 569. Appreciation to Empirical Software Engineering Reviewers of 2017
570 -- 644Arunava Roy, Hoang Pham. Toward the development of a conventional time series based web error forecasting framework
645 -- 692Zéphyrin Soh, Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol. Noise in Mylyn interaction traces and its impact on developers and recommendation systems
693 -- 770Manishankar Mondal, Md. Saidur Rahman 0002, Chanchal K. Roy, Kevin A. Schneider. Is cloned code really stable?
771 -- 799Dayi Lin, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Ahmed E. Hassan. An empirical study of early access games on the Steam platform
800 -- 832Shaowei Wang, David Lo, Bogdan Vasilescu, Alexander Serebrenik. EnTagRec ++: An enhanced tag recommendation system for software information sites
833 -- 834Romain Robbes, Emily Hill, Christian Bird. Guest Editorial: Special section on mining software repositories
835 -- 904Daniel Alencar da Costa, Shane McIntosh, Christoph Treude, Uirá Kulesza, Ahmed E. Hassan. The impact of rapid release cycles on the integration delay of fixed issues
905 -- 952Nicolas Dintzner, Arie van Deursen, Martin Pinzger 0001. FEVER: An approach to analyze feature-oriented changes and artefact co-evolution in highly configurable systems
953 -- 986 Alexey Zagalsky, Daniel M. Germán, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Carlos Gómez Teshima, Germán Poo-Caamaño. How the R community creates and curates knowledge: an extended study of stack overflow and mailing lists
987 -- 1035Thomas Rolfsnes, Leon Moonen, Stefano Di Alesio, Razieh Behjati, Dave W. Binkley. Aggregating Association Rules to Improve Change Recommendation
1036 -- 1083Fabian Trautsch, Steffen Herbold, Philip Makedonski, Jens Grabowski. Addressing problems with replicability and validity of repository mining studies through a smart data platform
1084 -- 1122Bowen Xu, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia, David Lo, Shanping Li. Domain-specific cross-language relevant question retrieval
1123 -- 1152Megan Squire. Data sets describing the circle of life in Ruby hosting, 2003-2016

Volume 23, Issue 1

1 -- 51Xue-Lin Li, W. Eric Wong, Ruizhi Gao, Linghuan Hu, Shigeru Hosono. Genetic Algorithm-based Test Generation for Software Product Line with the Integration of Fault Localization Techniques
52 -- 86Marco Scavuzzo, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Danilo Ardagna. Experiences and challenges in building a data intensive system for data migration
87 -- 164HuiHui Zhang, Shuai Wang 0001, Tao Yue 0002, Shaukat Ali 0001, Chao Liu. Search and similarity based selection of use case scenarios: An empirical study
165 -- 185Kaushal Chari, Manish Agrawal. Impact of incorrect and new requirements on waterfall software project outcomes
186 -- 223Hussan Munir, Johan Linåker, Krzysztof Wnuk, Per Runeson, Björn Regnell. Open innovation using open source tools: a case study at Sony Mobile
224 -- 258Nour Ali, Seán Baker, Ross O'Crowley, Sebastian Herold, Jim Buckley. Architecture consistency: State of the practice, challenges and requirements
259 -- 289Irit Hadar, Tomer Hasson, Oshrat Ayalon, Eran Toch, Michael Birnhack, Sofia Sherman, Arod Balissa. Privacy by designers: software developers' privacy mindset
290 -- 333Suhas Kabinna, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Weiyi Shang, Mark D. Syer, Ahmed E. Hassan. Examining the stability of logging statements
334 -- 383Daniel Alencar da Costa, Shane McIntosh, Uirá Kulesza, Ahmed E. Hassan, Surafel Lemma Abebe. An empirical study of the integration time of fixed issues
384 -- 417Raula Gaikovina Kula, Daniel M. Germán, Ali Ouni 0001, Takashi Ishio, Katsuro Inoue. Do developers update their library dependencies? - An empirical study on the impact of security advisories on library migration
418 -- 451Qiao Huang, Emad Shihab, Xin Xia, David Lo, Shanping Li. Identifying self-admitted technical debt in open source projects using text mining
452 -- 489Davide Falessi, Natalia Juristo, Claes Wohlin, Burak Turhan, Jürgen Münch, Andreas Jedlitschka, Markku Oivo. Empirical software engineering experts on the use of students and professionals in experiments
490 -- 520Torgeir Dingsøyr, Nils Brede Moe, Tor Erlend Fægri, Eva Amdahl Seim. Exploring software development at the very large-scale: a revelatory case study and research agenda for agile method adaptation
521 -- 564Alessandro Murgia, Marco Ortu, Parastou Tourani, Bram Adams, Serge Demeyer. An exploratory qualitative and quantitative analysis of emotions in issue report comments of open source systems