Empirical Software Engineering

Article	Citations
Pandemic programming	146
Testing machine learning based systems: a systematic mapping	122
Sampling in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines	78
Predictors of well-being and productivity among software professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic – a longitudinal study	77
A practical guide on conducting eye tracking studies in software engineering	50
Detection, assessment and mitigation of vulnerabilities in open source dependencies	44
The impact of automated feature selection techniques on the interpretation of defect models	43
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
The who, what, how of software engineering research: a socio-technical framework	42
A comprehensive study of bloated dependencies in the Maven ecosystem	41
A privacy and security analysis of early-deployed COVID-19 contact tracing Android apps	37
Automated patch assessment for program repair at scale	37
Test case selection and prioritization using machine learning: a systematic literature review	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	35
Systematic mapping study on domain-specific language development tools	33
Understanding and improving the quality and reproducibility of Jupyter notebooks	33
Topic modeling in software engineering research	33
Promises and challenges of microservices: an exploratory study	33
AI lifecycle models need to be revised	32
Enjoy your observability: an industrial survey of microservice tracing and analysis	32
An empirical investigation on the relationship between design and architecture smells	31
Formal methods in dependable systems engineering: a survey of professionals from Europe and North America	28
Lags in the release, adoption, and propagation of npm vulnerability fixes	28
On the feasibility of automated prediction of bug and non-bug issues	26

On the time-based conclusion stability of cross-project defect prediction models	26
On the need of preserving order of data when validating within-project defect classifiers	25
An exploratory study on confusion in code reviews	25
An empirical investigation of performance overhead in cross-platform mobile development frameworks	25
A teamwork effectiveness model for agile software development	25
Predicting the objective and priority of issue reports in software repositories	24
Out of sight, out of mind? How vulnerable dependencies affect open-source projects	24
Problems with SZZ and features: An empirical study of the state of practice of defect prediction data collection	23
Evaluating the agreement among technical debt measurement tools: building an empirical benchmark of technical debt liabilities	23
Software development with feature toggles: practices used by practitioners	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
The secret life of test smells - an empirical study on test smell evolution and maintenance	22
Security analysis of permission re-delegation vulnerabilities in Android apps	21
Why are many businesses instilling a DevOps culture into their organization?	21
The ‘as code’ activities: development anti-patterns for infrastructure as code	20
Software provenance tracking at the scale of public source code	20
On the assessment of software defect prediction models via ROC curves	20
Self-admitted technical debt practices: a comparison between industry and open-source	20
Automated demarcation of requirements in textual specifications: a machine learning-based approach	19
Empirical evaluation of tools for hairy requirements engineering tasks	19
World of code: enabling a research workflow for mining and analyzing the universe of open source VCS data	19
An empirical study of IoT topics in IoT developer discussions on Stack Overflow	19
Analysing app reviews for software engineering: a systematic literature review	19
A longitudinal study of static analysis warning evolution and the effects of PMD on software quality in Apache open source projects	19
StateAFL: Greybox fuzzing for stateful network servers	18
Industry practices and challenges for the evolvability assurance of microservices	18
Locating faults with program slicing: an empirical analysis	18
Topic recommendation for software repositories using multi-label classification algorithms	18
Can Offline Testing of Deep Neural Networks Replace Their Online Testing?	18
On the impact of security vulnerabilities in the npm and RubyGems dependency networks	18
Game-based Sprint retrospectives: multiple action research	17
PHANTOM: Curating GitHub for engineered software projects using time-series clustering	17
Finding the sweet spot for organizational control and team autonomy in large-scale agile software development	16
Beyond the virus: a first look at coronavirus-themed Android malware	16
Development of recommendation systems for software engineering: the CROSSMINER experience	16
How agile teams make self-assignment work: a grounded theory study	16
Spearheading agile: the role of the scrum master in agile projects	16
Learning to recognize actionable static code warnings (is intrinsically easy)	15
A large scale analysis of mHealth app user reviews	15
The significance of bug report elements	15
Strategies to manage quality requirements in agile software development: a multiple case study	15
Predicting unstable software benchmarks using static source code features	15
A study of the performance of general compressors on log files	15
An empirical study on changing leadership in agile teams	14
Publish or perish, but do not forget your software artifacts	14
Maintenance-related concerns for post-deployed Ethereum smart contract development: issues, techniques, and future challenges	14
On the privacy of mental health apps	14
On systematically building a controlled natural language for functional requirements	14
A family of experiments on test-driven development	14

Test smells 20 years later: detectability, validity, and reliability	14
A comprehensive study on software aging across android versions and vendors	14
Feature requests-based recommendation of software refactorings	14
Understanding shared links and their intentions to meet information needs in modern code review:	13
Software engineering whispers: The effect of textual vs. graphical software design descriptions on software design communication	13
TaintBench: Automatic real-world malware benchmarking of Android taint analyses	13
On the relationship between bug reports and queries for text retrieval-based bug localization	13
API compatibility issues in Android: Causes and effectiveness of data-driven detection techniques	13
To what extent do DNN-based image classification models make unreliable inferences?	13
Automated end-to-end management of the modeling lifecycle in deep learning	13
An empirical study of the characteristics of popular Minecraft mods	13
Resource and dependency based test case generation for RESTful Web services	13
GitHub Discussions: An exploratory study of early adoption	13
Assessment of off-the-shelf SE-specific sentiment analysis tools: An extended replication study	13
Can pre-trained code embeddings improve model performance? Revisiting the use of code embeddings in software engineering tasks	12
The entrepreneurial logic of startup software development: A study of 40 software startups	12
Are datasets for information retrieval-based bug localization techniques trustworthy?	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
Reuse and maintenance practices among divergent forks in three software ecosystems	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
Evaluating network embedding techniques’ performances in software bug prediction	12
A multi-dimensional analysis of technical lag in Debian-based Docker images	12
A first look at Android applications in Google Play related to COVID-19	11
Deep security analysis of program code	11
Too many images on DockerHub! How different are images for the same system?	11
Uniform and scalable sampling of highly configurable systems	11
Will you come back to contribute? Investigating the inactivity of OSS core developers in GitHub	11
SMBFL: slice-based cost reduction of mutation-based fault localization	11
CROKAGE: effective solution recommendation for programming tasks by leveraging crowd knowledge	11
How to Better Distinguish Security Bug Reports (Using Dual Hyperparameter Optimization)	11
How does code readability change during software evolution?	11
Automated issue assignment: results and insights from an industrial case	11
Search-based fairness testing for regression-based machine learning systems	11
Ethics in the mining of software repositories	11
Characterizing the evolution of statically-detectable performance issues of Android apps	11
A configurable method for benchmarking scalability of cloud-native applications	11
Breaking bad? Semantic versioning and impact of breaking changes in Maven Central	11
CGT-FL: using cooperative game theory to effective fault localization in presence of coincidental correctness	10
What makes a popular academic AI repository?	10
A comparative study and analysis of developer communications on Slack and Gitter	10
Developer-centric test amplification	10
The effects of continuous integration on software development: a systematic literature review	10
Learning from what we know: How to perform vulnerability prediction using noisy historical data	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
A unified multi-task learning model for AST-level and token-level code completion	10
Dynamical analysis of diversity in rule-based open source network intrusion detection systems	10
Standing on shoulders or feet? An extended study on the usage of the MSR data papers	10
Where were the repair ingredients for Defects4j bugs?	10
Lessons Learnt on Reproducibility in Machine Learning Based Android Malware Detection	10
Systematic literature review on software quality for AI-based software	10
Software testing and Android applications: a large-scale empirical study	10
How Scrum adds value to achieving software quality?	10
Is GitHub’s Copilot as bad as humans at introducing vulnerabilities in code?	9
Gamification in software engineering: the mediating role of developer engagement and job satisfaction	9
Why and what happened? Aiding bug comprehension with automated category and causal link identification	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
A fine-grained data set and analysis of tangling in bug fixing commits	9
Learning by sampling: learning behavioral family models from software product lines	9
Characterizing usages, updates and risks of third-party libraries in Java projects	9
Identifying self-admitted technical debt in issue tracking systems using machine learning	9
Improving energy-efficiency by recommending Java collections	9
Automating system test case classification and prioritization for use case-driven testing in product lines	9
The Teamwork Process Antecedents (TPA) questionnaire: developing and validating a comprehensive measure for assessing antecedents of teamwork process quality	9
An empirical study on self-admitted technical debt in Dockerfiles	9
Do code review measures explain the incidence of post-release defects?	9
Understanding and improving artifact sharing in software engineering research	9
Automated test reuse for highly configurable software	9
FeatCompare: Feature comparison for competing mobile apps leveraging user reviews	9
On the usage, co-usage and migration of CI/CD tools: A qualitative analysis	9
Automatic team recommendation for collaborative software development	9
Using code reviews to automatically configure static analysis tools	9
Comparing the results of replications in software engineering	9
Pull request latency explained: an empirical overview	8
Developers perception of peer code review in research software development	8
Using black-box performance models to detect performance regressions under varying workloads: an empirical study	8
Practitioner’s view of the success factors for software outsourcing partnership formation: an empirical exploration	8

Efficient static analysis and verification of featured transition systems	8
Interaction-based creation and maintenance of continuously usable trace links between requirements and source code	8
Do I really need all this work to find vulnerabilities?	8
Using a balanced scorecard to identify opportunities to improve code review effectiveness: an industrial experience report	8
FACER: An API usage-based code-example recommender for opportunistic reuse	8
An empirical study on release notes patterns of popular apps in the Google Play Store	8
A study of how Docker Compose is used to compose multi-component systems	8
Automated driver management for Selenium WebDriver	8
An empirical study of question discussions on Stack Overflow	8
Flair: efficient analysis of Android inter-component vulnerabilities in response to incremental changes	8
Mutation testing in the wild: findings from GitHub	8