Accepted Papers

 

Technical Papers

Title


A large-scale comparative analysis of Coding Standard conformance in Open-Source Data Science projects
Andrew Simmons, Scott Barnett, Jessica Rivera-Villicana, Akshat Bajaj and Rajesh Vasa

Preprint      Replication package


A Survey on the Interplay between Software Engineering and Systems Engineering during Systems of Systems architecting
Héctor Cadavid, Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Paris Avgeriou and John Klein

Preprint      Replication package


Adoption and Effects of Software Engineering Best Practices in Machine Learning
Alex Serban, Joost Visser, Koen van der Blom and Holger Hoos

Preprint      Replication package


An Empirical Study of Software Exceptions in the Field using Search Logs
Foyzul Hassan, Chetan Bansal, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann and Ahmed Hassan Awadallah


An Empirical Validation of Cognitive Complexity as a Measure of Source Code Understandability
Marvin Muñoz Barón, Marvin Wyrich and Stefan Wagner

Preprint      Replication package


Case Survey Studies in Software Engineering Research
Jorge Melegati and Xiaofeng Wang

Preprint      Replication package


Challenges in Docker Development: A Large-scale Study Using Stack Overflow
Mubin Ul Haque, Leonardo Iwaya and Muhammad Ali Babar


Characterizing Energy Consumption of Third-Party API Libraries using API Utilization Profiles
Andreas Schuler and Gabriele Kotsis

Preprint      Replication package


DevOps in an ISO 13485 Regulated Environment: A Multivocal Literature Review
Martin Forsberg Lie, Mary Sánchez-Gordón and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios

Preprint      Replication package


funcGNN: A Graph Neural Network Approach to Program Similarity
Aravind Ashok Nair, Avijit Roy and Karl Meinke

Preprint      Replication package


Effect of Technical and Social Factors on Pull Request Quality for the NPM Ecosystem
Tapajit Dey and Audris Mockus

Preprint      Replication package


Learning Features that Predict Developer Responses for iOS App Store Reviews
Kamonphop Srisopha, Daniel Link, Devendra Swami and Barry Boehm


Long-Term Evaluation of Technical Debt in Open-Source Software
Arthur-Jozsef Molnar and Simona Motogna

Preprint      Replication package


On Reducing the Energy Consumption of Software: From Hurdles to Requirements
Zakaria Ournani, Romain Rouvoy, Pierre Rust and Joel Penhoat


On the adoption, usage and evolution of Kotlin features in Android development
Bruno Góis Mateus and Matias Martinez

Preprint      Replication package


Perf-AL: Performance Prediction for Configurable Software through Adversarial Learning
Yangyang Shu, Yulei Sui, Hongyu Zhang and Guandong Xu


Quest for the Golden Approach: An Experimental Evaluation of Duplicate Crowdtesting Reports Detection
Yuekai Huang, Junjie Wang, Song Wang, Zhe Liu, Yuanzhe Hu and Qing Wang

Preprint      Replication package


Spectrum-based Log Diagnosis
Carl Martin Rosenberg and Leon Moonen


Study on Patterns and Effect of Task Diversity in Software Crowdsourcing
Denisse Martinez Mejorado, Razieh Saremi, Ye Yang and Jose E. Ramirez-Marquez


Teamwork Quality and Team Success in Software Development: A Non-exact Replication Study
Any Caroliny Duarte Batista, Renata Maria Cardoso Rodrigues de Souza, Leandro de Almeida Melo, Fabio Queda Bueno da Silva and George Marsicano Corrêa


TopFilter: An Approach to Recommend Relevant GitHub Topics
Juri Di Rocco, Davide Di Ruscio, Claudio Di Sipio, Phuong Nguyen and Riccardo Rubei

Preprint      Replication package


Understanding The Impact of Solver Choice in Model-Based Test Generation
Ying Meng and Gregory Gay

Preprint      Replication package


Using Extremely Simplified Functional Size Measures for Effort Estimation: an Empirical Study
Luigi Lavazza, Geng Liu and Roberto Meli


What Industry Wants from Requirements Engineers in China? An Exploratory and Comparative Study on RE Job Ads
Chong Wang, Yaqian Tang, Peng Liang, Maya Daneva and Marten Sinderen


Why Research on Test-Driven Development is Inconclusive?
Mohammad Ghafari, Timm Gross, Davide Fucci and Michael Felderer


Work Practices and Perceptions from Women Core Developers in OSS Communities
Edna Dias Canedo, Rodrigo Bonifácio de Almeida, Márcio Vinicius Okimoto, Alexander Serebrenik, Gustavo Pinto and Eduardo Monteiro

Preprint      Replication package


 

Industry Papers

Title


What Makes Agile Test Artifacts Useful? An Activity-Based Quality Model from a Practitioners’ Perspective
Jannik Fischbach, Henning Femmer, Daniel Mendez, Davide Fucci and Andreas Vogelsang


A Taste of the Software Industry Perception of Technical Debt and its Management in Uruguay
Cecilia Apa, Martin Solari, Diego Vallespir and Guilherme Travassos


Getting Started with Chaos Engineering – design of an implementation framework in practice
Hugo Jernberg, Per Runeson and Emelie Engstrom


 

Emerging Results and Vision Papers

Title


Using Situational and Narrative Analysis for Investigating the Messiness of Software Security
Inger Anne Tøndel, Daniela S. Cruzes and Martin Gilje Jaatun


The impact of a proposal for innovation measurement in the software industry
Nauman Bin Ali, Henry Edison and Richard Torkar


Bug! Falha! Bachi! Fallo! Défaut! 程序错误! What about Internationalization Testing in the Software Industry?
Ronnie E. S. Santos, José Rafael Cordeiro, Yvan Labiche, Cleyton V. C. de Magalhães and Fabio Q. B. Da Silva


How long do Junior Developers take to Remove Technical Debt Items?
Valentina Lenarduzzi, Vladimir Mandić, Andrej Katin and Davide Taibi


Trustworthiness Perceptions in Code Review: An Eye-tracking Study
Ian Bertram, Jack Hong, Yu Huang, Westley Weimer and Zohreh Sharafi


Avoiding Plagiarism in Systematic Literature Reviews: An Update Concern
Vilmar Nepomuceno and Sergio Soares


Cohort Studies in Software Engineering: A Vision of the Future
Nyyti Saarimäki, Valentina Lenarduzzi, Sira Vegas, Natalia Juristo and Davide Taibi


Automatic Identification of Code Smell Discussions on Stack Overflow: A Preliminary Investigation
Sergei Shcherban, Peng Liang, Amjed Tahir and Xueying Li


Web Frameworks for Desktop Apps: an Exploratory Study
Gian Luca Scoccia and Marco Autili


GASSER: Genetic Algorithm for teSt Suite Reduction
Carmen Coviello, Simone Romano, Giuseppe Scanniello and Giuliano Antoniol


Beyond Accuracy: ROI-driven Data Analytics of Empirical Data
Gouri Deshpande and Guenther Ruhe


Profiling Developers Through the Lens of Technical Debt
Zadia Codabux and Christopher Dutchyn


On the use of C# Unsafe Code Context: An Empirical Study of Stack Overflow
Ehsan Firouzi, Ashkan Sami, Foutse Khomh and Gias Uddin


Java Cryptography Uses in the Wild
Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand, Mohammad Ghafari and Oscar Nierstrasz