Empirical Software Engineering

Article	Citations
Pandemic programming	143
Testing machine learning based systems: a systematic mapping	121
Predictors of well-being and productivity among software professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic – a longitudinal study	76
Sampling in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines	76
A practical guide on conducting eye tracking studies in software engineering	50
What do Programmers Discuss about Deep Learning Frameworks	50
The state of adoption and the challenges of systematic variability management in industry	48
The practitioners’ point of view on the concept of technical debt and its causes and consequences: a design for a global family of industrial surveys and its first results from Brazil	43
Detection, assessment and mitigation of vulnerabilities in open source dependencies	43
The who, what, how of software engineering research: a socio-technical framework	42
The impact of automated feature selection techniques on the interpretation of defect models	41
A comprehensive study of bloated dependencies in the Maven ecosystem	39
A privacy and security analysis of early-deployed COVID-19 contact tracing Android apps	36
Perceived diversity in software engineering: a systematic literature review	35
Code cloning in smart contracts: a case study on verified contracts from the Ethereum blockchain platform	34
Automated patch assessment for program repair at scale	34
Test case selection and prioritization using machine learning: a systematic literature review	34
Systematic mapping study on domain-specific language development tools	33
Understanding and improving the quality and reproducibility of Jupyter notebooks	31
Topic modeling in software engineering research	31
An empirical investigation on the relationship between design and architecture smells	31
Promises and challenges of microservices: an exploratory study	30
AI lifecycle models need to be revised	30
Formal methods in dependable systems engineering: a survey of professionals from Europe and North America	28
Enjoy your observability: an industrial survey of microservice tracing and analysis	28

Lags in the release, adoption, and propagation of npm vulnerability fixes	27
On the time-based conclusion stability of cross-project defect prediction models	26
How software engineering research aligns with design science: a review	26
An empirical investigation of performance overhead in cross-platform mobile development frameworks	25
On the feasibility of automated prediction of bug and non-bug issues	25
Out of sight, out of mind? How vulnerable dependencies affect open-source projects	24
On the need of preserving order of data when validating within-project defect classifiers	24
An exploratory study on confusion in code reviews	23
Evaluating the agreement among technical debt measurement tools: building an empirical benchmark of technical debt liabilities	23
Problems with SZZ and features: An empirical study of the state of practice of defect prediction data collection	23
A teamwork effectiveness model for agile software development	23
Predicting the objective and priority of issue reports in software repositories	23
Software development with feature toggles: practices used by practitioners	22
The secret life of test smells - an empirical study on test smell evolution and maintenance	22
How do i refactor this? An empirical study on refactoring trends and topics in Stack Overflow	22
Wait for it: identifying “On-Hold” self-admitted technical debt	22
Why are many businesses instilling a DevOps culture into their organization?	20
How does combinatorial testing perform in the real world: an empirical study	20
On the assessment of software defect prediction models via ROC curves	20
Automated demarcation of requirements in textual specifications: a machine learning-based approach	19
Empirical evaluation of tools for hairy requirements engineering tasks	19
An empirical study of IoT topics in IoT developer discussions on Stack Overflow	19
World of code: enabling a research workflow for mining and analyzing the universe of open source VCS data	19
Security analysis of permission re-delegation vulnerabilities in Android apps	19
The ‘as code’ activities: development anti-patterns for infrastructure as code	19
Self-admitted technical debt practices: a comparison between industry and open-source	19
Software provenance tracking at the scale of public source code	19
On the impact of security vulnerabilities in the npm and RubyGems dependency networks	18
A longitudinal study of static analysis warning evolution and the effects of PMD on software quality in Apache open source projects	18
Can Offline Testing of Deep Neural Networks Replace Their Online Testing?	18
Game-based Sprint retrospectives: multiple action research	17
Analysing app reviews for software engineering: a systematic literature review	17
Locating faults with program slicing: an empirical analysis	17
Topic recommendation for software repositories using multi-label classification algorithms	17
Code and commit metrics of developer productivity: a study on team leaders perceptions	17
PHANTOM: Curating GitHub for engineered software projects using time-series clustering	16
Development of recommendation systems for software engineering: the CROSSMINER experience	16
How agile teams make self-assignment work: a grounded theory study	16
Industry practices and challenges for the evolvability assurance of microservices	16
Finding the sweet spot for organizational control and team autonomy in large-scale agile software development	16
Spearheading agile: the role of the scrum master in agile projects	16
Strategies to manage quality requirements in agile software development: a multiple case study	15
A study of the performance of general compressors on log files	15
StateAFL: Greybox fuzzing for stateful network servers	15
Predicting unstable software benchmarks using static source code features	15
Beyond the virus: a first look at coronavirus-themed Android malware	15
The significance of bug report elements	15
Learning to recognize actionable static code warnings (is intrinsically easy)	15
A comprehensive study on software aging across android versions and vendors	14
A family of experiments on test-driven development	14

On the privacy of mental health apps	14
Better software analytics via “DUO”: Data mining algorithms using/used-by optimizers	14
Test smells 20 years later: detectability, validity, and reliability	14
Publish or perish, but do not forget your software artifacts	14
API compatibility issues in Android: Causes and effectiveness of data-driven detection techniques	13
An empirical study on changing leadership in agile teams	13
Feature requests-based recommendation of software refactorings	13
GitHub Discussions: An exploratory study of early adoption	13
An empirical study of the characteristics of popular Minecraft mods	13
On systematically building a controlled natural language for functional requirements	13
On the relationship between bug reports and queries for text retrieval-based bug localization	13
Understanding shared links and their intentions to meet information needs in modern code review:	13
Resource and dependency based test case generation for RESTful Web services	13
A large scale analysis of mHealth app user reviews	13
To what extent do DNN-based image classification models make unreliable inferences?	12
Are datasets for information retrieval-based bug localization techniques trustworthy?	12
Assessment of off-the-shelf SE-specific sentiment analysis tools: An extended replication study	12
Software engineering whispers: The effect of textual vs. graphical software design descriptions on software design communication	12
The entrepreneurial logic of startup software development: A study of 40 software startups	12
A multi-dimensional analysis of technical lag in Debian-based Docker images	12
Automatically recommending components for issue reports using deep learning	12
An Empirical Investigation of Relevant Changes and Automation Needs in Modern Code Review	12
Can pre-trained code embeddings improve model performance? Revisiting the use of code embeddings in software engineering tasks	12
Reuse and maintenance practices among divergent forks in three software ecosystems	12
Automated end-to-end management of the modeling lifecycle in deep learning	12
Maintenance-related concerns for post-deployed Ethereum smart contract development: issues, techniques, and future challenges	12
From anecdote to evidence: the relationship between personality and need for cognition of developers	12
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	12
Ethics in the mining of software repositories	11
Evaluating network embedding techniques’ performances in software bug prediction	11
TaintBench: Automatic real-world malware benchmarking of Android taint analyses	11
CROKAGE: effective solution recommendation for programming tasks by leveraging crowd knowledge	11
Deep security analysis of program code	11
A configurable method for benchmarking scalability of cloud-native applications	11
Automated issue assignment: results and insights from an industrial case	11
Search-based fairness testing for regression-based machine learning systems	11
How to Better Distinguish Security Bug Reports (Using Dual Hyperparameter Optimization)	11
Uniform and scalable sampling of highly configurable systems	11
Breaking bad? Semantic versioning and impact of breaking changes in Maven Central	11
What makes a popular academic AI repository?	10
Lessons Learnt on Reproducibility in Machine Learning Based Android Malware Detection	10
How does code readability change during software evolution?	10
How Scrum adds value to achieving software quality?	10
CGT-FL: using cooperative game theory to effective fault localization in presence of coincidental correctness	10
A first look at Android applications in Google Play related to COVID-19	10
A comparative study and analysis of developer communications on Slack and Gitter	10
Characterizing the evolution of statically-detectable performance issues of Android apps	10
Developer-centric test amplification	10
Learning from what we know: How to perform vulnerability prediction using noisy historical data	10
SMBFL: slice-based cost reduction of mutation-based fault localization	10
An empirical study of Q&A websites for game developers	10
Demystifying the challenges and benefits of analyzing user-reported logs in bug reports	10
Standing on shoulders or feet? An extended study on the usage of the MSR data papers	10
Will you come back to contribute? Investigating the inactivity of OSS core developers in GitHub	10
Learning by sampling: learning behavioral family models from software product lines	9
Gamification in software engineering: the mediating role of developer engagement and job satisfaction	9
FeatCompare: Feature comparison for competing mobile apps leveraging user reviews	9
A unified multi-task learning model for AST-level and token-level code completion	9
The effects of continuous integration on software development: a systematic literature review	9
A fine-grained data set and analysis of tangling in bug fixing commits	9
Comparing the results of replications in software engineering	9
Systematic literature review on software quality for AI-based software	9
Improving energy-efficiency by recommending Java collections	9
Testing self-healing cyber-physical systems under uncertainty with reinforcement learning: an empirical study	9
An exploratory study on the introduction and removal of different types of technical debt in deep learning frameworks	9
Using code reviews to automatically configure static analysis tools	9
Understanding and improving artifact sharing in software engineering research	9
Automated test reuse for highly configurable software	9
Too many images on DockerHub! How different are images for the same system?	9
Software testing and Android applications: a large-scale empirical study	9
Automating system test case classification and prioritization for use case-driven testing in product lines	9
Automatic team recommendation for collaborative software development	9
A gamification solution for improving Scrum adoption	9
Identifying self-admitted technical debt in issue tracking systems using machine learning	8
An empirical study of question discussions on Stack Overflow	8
Efficient static analysis and verification of featured transition systems	8
The Teamwork Process Antecedents (TPA) questionnaire: developing and validating a comprehensive measure for assessing antecedents of teamwork process quality	8
Interaction-based creation and maintenance of continuously usable trace links between requirements and source code	8
Developers perception of peer code review in research software development	8
Is GitHub’s Copilot as bad as humans at introducing vulnerabilities in code?	8

Why and what happened? Aiding bug comprehension with automated category and causal link identification	8
An empirical study on release notes patterns of popular apps in the Google Play Store	8
An empirical study on self-admitted technical debt in Dockerfiles	8
Where were the repair ingredients for Defects4j bugs?	8
Pull request latency explained: an empirical overview	8
Towards effective assessment of steady state performance in Java software: are we there yet?	8
Using black-box performance models to detect performance regressions under varying workloads: an empirical study	8
Using a balanced scorecard to identify opportunities to improve code review effectiveness: an industrial experience report	8
Dynamical analysis of diversity in rule-based open source network intrusion detection systems	8
Do code review measures explain the incidence of post-release defects?	8
Do I really need all this work to find vulnerabilities?	8