Empirical Software Engineering

Article	Citations
Sampling in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines	114
Predictors of well-being and productivity among software professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic – a longitudinal study	90
Test case selection and prioritization using machine learning: a systematic literature review	57
Perceived diversity in software engineering: a systematic literature review	50
A comprehensive study of bloated dependencies in the Maven ecosystem	49
Automated patch assessment for program repair at scale	45
Enjoy your observability: an industrial survey of microservice tracing and analysis	43
Topic modeling in software engineering research	43
AI lifecycle models need to be revised	43
A teamwork effectiveness model for agile software development	40
A privacy and security analysis of early-deployed COVID-19 contact tracing Android apps	40
Promises and challenges of microservices: an exploratory study	38
Understanding and improving the quality and reproducibility of Jupyter notebooks	37
Predicting the objective and priority of issue reports in software repositories	35
Problems with SZZ and features: An empirical study of the state of practice of defect prediction data collection	33
Lags in the release, adoption, and propagation of npm vulnerability fixes	32
StateAFL: Greybox fuzzing for stateful network servers	31
Analysing app reviews for software engineering: a systematic literature review	29
An exploratory study on confusion in code reviews	28
Out of sight, out of mind? How vulnerable dependencies affect open-source projects	27
On the impact of security vulnerabilities in the npm and RubyGems dependency networks	27
How do i refactor this? An empirical study on refactoring trends and topics in Stack Overflow	27
The secret life of test smells - an empirical study on test smell evolution and maintenance	25
Software development with feature toggles: practices used by practitioners	25
Game-based Sprint retrospectives: multiple action research	24

Self-admitted technical debt practices: a comparison between industry and open-source	24
Is GitHub’s Copilot as bad as humans at introducing vulnerabilities in code?	24
Topic recommendation for software repositories using multi-label classification algorithms	24
World of code: enabling a research workflow for mining and analyzing the universe of open source VCS data	24
A large scale analysis of mHealth app user reviews	24
Industry practices and challenges for the evolvability assurance of microservices	23
Why are many businesses instilling a DevOps culture into their organization?	23
Can Offline Testing of Deep Neural Networks Replace Their Online Testing?	23
Finding the sweet spot for organizational control and team autonomy in large-scale agile software development	23
Empirical evaluation of tools for hairy requirements engineering tasks	22
An empirical study of IoT topics in IoT developer discussions on Stack Overflow	22
Understanding shared links and their intentions to meet information needs in modern code review:	22
A family of experiments on test-driven development	21
Locating faults with program slicing: an empirical analysis	21
How Scrum adds value to achieving software quality?	21
An empirical study on changing leadership in agile teams	21
On the privacy of mental health apps	21
GitHub Discussions: An exploratory study of early adoption	20
Development of recommendation systems for software engineering: the CROSSMINER experience	20
Publish or perish, but do not forget your software artifacts	20
Learning to recognize actionable static code warnings (is intrinsically easy)	20
Spearheading agile: the role of the scrum master in agile projects	19
Beyond the virus: a first look at coronavirus-themed Android malware	18
A longitudinal explanatory case study of coordination in a very large development programme: the impact of transitioning from a first- to a second-generation large-scale agile development method	18
Maintenance-related concerns for post-deployed Ethereum smart contract development: issues, techniques, and future challenges	18
Resource and dependency based test case generation for RESTful Web services	18
Breaking bad? Semantic versioning and impact of breaking changes in Maven Central	18
On systematically building a controlled natural language for functional requirements	17
Strategies to manage quality requirements in agile software development: a multiple case study	17
TaintBench: Automatic real-world malware benchmarking of Android taint analyses	17
Test smells 20 years later: detectability, validity, and reliability	17
An empirical study of automated unit test generation for Python	17
Can pre-trained code embeddings improve model performance? Revisiting the use of code embeddings in software engineering tasks	17
Predicting unstable software benchmarks using static source code features	17
Assessment of off-the-shelf SE-specific sentiment analysis tools: An extended replication study	16
On the usage, co-usage and migration of CI/CD tools: A qualitative analysis	16
Ethics in the mining of software repositories	16
Evaluating network embedding techniques’ performances in software bug prediction	16
A unified multi-task learning model for AST-level and token-level code completion	16
A fine-grained data set and analysis of tangling in bug fixing commits	16
Systematic literature review on software quality for AI-based software	15
Dynamical analysis of diversity in rule-based open source network intrusion detection systems	15
To what extent do DNN-based image classification models make unreliable inferences?	15
Will you come back to contribute? Investigating the inactivity of OSS core developers in GitHub	15
Uniform and scalable sampling of highly configurable systems	15
Learning from what we know: How to perform vulnerability prediction using noisy historical data	15
Gamification in software engineering: the mediating role of developer engagement and job satisfaction	14
The entrepreneurial logic of startup software development: A study of 40 software startups	14
The effects of continuous integration on software development: a systematic literature review	14
A configurable method for benchmarking scalability of cloud-native applications	14

Reuse and maintenance practices among divergent forks in three software ecosystems	14
A multi-dimensional analysis of technical lag in Debian-based Docker images	14
API compatibility issues in Android: Causes and effectiveness of data-driven detection techniques	14
Empirical analysis of security vulnerabilities in Python packages	14
Automated end-to-end management of the modeling lifecycle in deep learning	14
On effort-aware metrics for defect prediction	13
Developer-centric test amplification	13
Automatically recommending components for issue reports using deep learning	13
Lessons Learnt on Reproducibility in Machine Learning Based Android Malware Detection	13
Machine learning-based test selection for simulation-based testing of self-driving cars software	13
Software testing and Android applications: a large-scale empirical study	13
An automated framework for the extraction of semantic legal metadata from legal texts	13
Do I really need all this work to find vulnerabilities?	13
Are datasets for information retrieval-based bug localization techniques trustworthy?	13
A comparative study and analysis of developer communications on Slack and Gitter	13
A first look at Android applications in Google Play related to COVID-19	12
Search-based fairness testing for regression-based machine learning systems	12
What makes a popular academic AI repository?	12
Demystifying the challenges and benefits of analyzing user-reported logs in bug reports	12
Understanding developers’ privacy and security mindsets via climate theory	12
Efficient static analysis and verification of featured transition systems	12
FENSE: A feature-based ensemble modeling approach to cross-project just-in-time defect prediction	12
Towards effective assessment of steady state performance in Java software: are we there yet?	12
Automated driver management for Selenium WebDriver	12
A systematic literature review on trust in the software ecosystem	12
GreenHub: a large-scale collaborative dataset to battery consumption analysis of android devices	12
From anecdote to evidence: the relationship between personality and need for cognition of developers	12
Identifying self-admitted technical debt in issue tracking systems using machine learning	12
Deep security analysis of program code	12
Automatic identification of self-admitted technical debt from four different sources	12
An empirical study on self-admitted technical debt in Dockerfiles	12
Model vs system level testing of autonomous driving systems: a replication and extension study	11
Where were the repair ingredients for Defects4j bugs?	11
An empirical study of text-based machine learning models for vulnerability detection	11
An empirical study of the impact of log parsers on the performance of log-based anomaly detection	11
Automatic team recommendation for collaborative software development	11
A study of how Docker Compose is used to compose multi-component systems	11
Learning by sampling: learning behavioral family models from software product lines	11
Embedding API dependency graph for neural code generation	11
Deep learning approaches for bad smell detection: a systematic literature review	11
Mutation testing in the wild: findings from GitHub	11
Understanding and improving artifact sharing in software engineering research	11
Developer discussion topics on the adoption and barriers of low code software development platforms	11
How to Better Distinguish Security Bug Reports (Using Dual Hyperparameter Optimization)	11
Characterizing usages, updates and risks of third-party libraries in Java projects	10
Why and what happened? Aiding bug comprehension with automated category and causal link identification	10
SPVF: security property assisted vulnerability fixing via attention-based models	10
Improving energy-efficiency by recommending Java collections	10
From one to hundreds: multi-licensing in the JavaScript ecosystem	10
Using code reviews to automatically configure static analysis tools	10
Exploring Performance Assurance Practices and Challenges in Agile Software Development: An Ethnographic Study	10
An empirical study of Q&A websites for game developers	10
An empirical study of question discussions on Stack Overflow	10
An empirical study of developers’ discussions about security challenges of different programming languages	10
Training students in evidence-based software engineering and systematic reviews: a systematic review and empirical study	10
An exploratory study on the introduction and removal of different types of technical debt in deep learning frameworks	10
Security assurance cases—state of the art of an emerging approach	10
FACER: An API usage-based code-example recommender for opportunistic reuse	10
Using a balanced scorecard to identify opportunities to improve code review effectiveness: an industrial experience report	10
Evaluating pre-trained models for user feedback analysis in software engineering: a study on classification of app-reviews	10
Flair: efficient analysis of Android inter-component vulnerabilities in response to incremental changes	10
Revisiting reopened bugs in open source software systems	10
Weighted software metrics aggregation and its application to defect prediction	9
CsmithEdge: more effective compiler testing by handling undefined behaviour less conservatively	9
Comparing the results of replications in software engineering	9
Learning how to search: generating effective test cases through adaptive fitness function selection	9
On the evolution and impact of architectural smells—an industrial case study	9
Towards cost-benefit evaluation for continuous software engineering activities	9
Pull request latency explained: an empirical overview	9
A conceptual model for unifying variability in space and time: Rationale, validation, and illustrative applications	9
FeatCompare: Feature comparison for competing mobile apps leveraging user reviews	9
Testing self-healing cyber-physical systems under uncertainty with reinforcement learning: an empirical study	9
An empirical study on release notes patterns of popular apps in the Google Play Store	9
The sense of logging in the Linux kernel	9
Developers perception of peer code review in research software development	9
Real world projects, real faults: evaluating spectrum based fault localization techniques on Python projects	9
Generating API tags for tutorial fragments from Stack Overflow	8
The Relation of Test-Related Factors to Software Quality: A Case Study on Apache Systems	8
Considerations and Pitfalls for Reducing Threats to the Validity of Controlled Experiments on Code Comprehension	8
Open-source software product line extraction processes: the ArgoUML-SPL and Phaser cases	8

Learning lenient parsing & typing via indirect supervision	8
Comparing ϕ and the F-measure as performance metrics for software-related classifications	8
Practitioner’s view of the success factors for software outsourcing partnership formation: an empirical exploration	8
Bugs in machine learning-based systems: a faultload benchmark	8
An empirical study of same-day releases of popular packages in the npm ecosystem	8
Revisiting process versus product metrics: a large scale analysis	8
Evolving software system families in space and time with feature revisions	8
AndroEvolve: automated Android API update with data flow analysis and variable denormalization	8
Advantages and disadvantages of (dedicated) model transformation languages	8
A large-scale empirical study of commit message generation: models, datasets and evaluation	8
FIXME: synchronize with database! An empirical study of data access self-admitted technical debt	8
Agile software development one year into the COVID-19 pandemic	8
E-APR: Mapping the effectiveness of automated program repair techniques	8
Präzi: from package-based to call-based dependency networks	8
SSPCatcher: Learning to catch security patches	8
FindICI: Using machine learning to detect linguistic inconsistencies between code and natural language descriptions in infrastructure-as-code	8
Evaluating classifiers in SE research: the ECSER pipeline and two replication studies	8
What do class comments tell us? An investigation of comment evolution and practices in Pharo Smalltalk	8
Responding to change over time: A longitudinal case study on changes in coordination mechanisms in large-scale agile	8
Revisiting the debate: Are code metrics useful for measuring maintenance effort?	8
Predicting health indicators for open source projects (using hyperparameter optimization)	8
DebtFree: minimizing labeling cost in self-admitted technical debt identification using semi-supervised learning	8
Software product-line evaluation in the large	8
A qualitative study of developers’ discussions of their problems and joys during the early COVID-19 months	7
SoftNER: Mining knowledge graphs from cloud incidents	7
Propagating frugal user feedback through closeness of code dependencies to improve IR-based traceability recovery	7
GitHub Actions: The Impact on the Pull Request Process	7
CMFuzz: context-aware adaptive mutation for fuzzers	7
Does class size matter? An in-depth assessment of the effect of class size in software defect prediction	7
Understanding peer review of software engineering papers	7
Mining and relating design contexts and design patterns from Stack Overflow	7
Omni: automated ensemble with unexpected models against adversarial evasion attack	7
Static detection of equivalent mutants in real-time model-based mutation testing	7
Crowdsmelling: A preliminary study on using collective knowledge in code smells detection	7
Two N-of-1 self-trials on readability differences between anonymous inner classes (AICs) and lambda expressions (LEs) on Java code snippets	7
A machine and deep learning analysis among SonarQube rules, product, and process metrics for fault prediction	7
Evaluating the robustness of source code plagiarism detection tools to pervasive plagiarism-hiding modifications	7
Evaluating state-of-the-art # SAT solvers on industrial configuration spaces	7
AIBugHunter: A Practical tool for predicting, classifying and repairing software vulnerabilities	7
Empirical assessment of generating adversarial configurations for software product lines	7
An empirical study of data constraint implementations in Java	7
Information retrieval versus deep learning approaches for generating traceability links in bilingual projects	7
Individual differences limit predicting well-being and productivity using software repositories: a longitudinal industrial study	7
On the adequacy of static analysis warnings with respect to code smell prediction	7
On the fulfillment of coordination requirements in open-source software projects: An exploratory study	7
A comprehensive overview of software product management challenges	7
CT-IoT: a combinatorial testing-based path selection framework for effective IoT testing	7
The nature of build changes	7
On the analysis of non-coding roles in open source development	7
Mining Python fix patterns via analyzing fine-grained source code changes	7
Revisiting the VCCFinder approach for the identification of vulnerability-contributing commits	7
Investigating design anti-pattern and design pattern mutations and their change- and fault-proneness	6
TraceSim: An Alignment Method for Computing Stack Trace Similarity	6
Assessing exception handling testing practices in open-source libraries	6
Analysing Time-Stamped Co-Editing Networks in Software Development Teams using git2net	6
An empirical study on the use of SZZ for identifying inducing changes of non-functional bugs	6
SmartFast: an accurate and robust formal analysis tool for Ethereum smart contracts	6
Modeling Performance of Microservices Systems with Growth Theory	6
Discovering configuration workflows from existing logs using process mining	6
Evolution of automated weakness detection in Ethereum bytecode: a comprehensive study	6
What really changes when developers intend to improve their source code: a commit-level study of static metric value and static analysis warning changes	6
An empirical study of the systemic and technical migration towards microservices	6
Characterizing refactoring graphs in Java and JavaScript projects	6
Evaluating refactorings for disciplining #ifdef annotations: An eye tracking study with novices	6
Newcomer OSS-Candidates: Characterizing Contributions of Novice Developers to GitHub	6
Helping or not helping? Why and how trivial packages impact the npm ecosystem	6
An empirical study of issue-link algorithms: which issue-link algorithms should we use?	6
A fly in the ointment: an empirical study on the characteristics of Ethereum smart contract code weaknesses	6
How are project-specific forums utilized? A study of participation, content, and sentiment in the Eclipse ecosystem	6
Self-Admitted Technical Debt and comments’ polarity: an empirical study	6
Revisiting the building of past snapshots — a replication and reproduction study	6
An exploratory study on the repeatedly shared external links on Stack Overflow	6
A mixed-methods analysis of micro-collaborative coding practices in OpenStack	6
How do Android developers improve non-functional properties of software?	6
Exposed! A case study on the vulnerability-proneness of Google Play Apps	6
An empirical study of the effectiveness of IR-based bug localization for large-scale industrial projects	6
Static test flakiness prediction: How Far Can We Go?	6
On the effectiveness of log representation for log-based anomaly detection	6
Styler: learning formatting conventions to repair Checkstyle violations	6
Understanding large-scale software systems – structure and flows	6
Applying test case prioritization to software microbenchmarks	6
Small-Amp: Test amplification in a dynamically typed language	6
Software variability in service robotics	6
Release synchronization in software ecosystems	6
Quality gatekeepers: investigating the effects of code review bots on pull request activities	6
Code smells detection via modern code review: a study of the OpenStack and Qt communities	5
Measuring affective states from technical debt	5
TCTracer: Establishing test-to-code traceability links using dynamic and static techniques	5
Path context augmented statement and network for learning programs	5
On the use of commit-relevant mutants	5
On the preferences of quality indicators for multi-objective search algorithms in search-based software engineering	5
CyberSAGE: The cyber security argument graph evaluation tool	5
Conclusion stability for natural language based mining of design discussions	5
On the Removal of Feature Toggles	5
“More Than Deep Learning”: post-processing for API sequence recommendation	5