Appreciation to Empirical Software Engineering reviewers of 2016 News Item 28 December 2016 Pages: 1 - 5
FOREPOST: finding performance problems automatically with feedback-directed learning software testing Qi LuoAswathy NairDenys Poshyvanyk OriginalPaper 11 December 2015 Pages: 6 - 56
Defect propagation at the project-level: results and a post-hoc analysis on inspection efficiency Padmal Vitharana OriginalPaper 20 November 2015 Pages: 57 - 79
The impact of domain knowledge on the effectiveness of requirements engineering activities Ali NiknafsDaniel Berry OriginalPaper 30 April 2016 Pages: 80 - 133
Extracting and analyzing time-series HCI data from screen-captured task videos Lingfeng BaoJing LiBo Zhou OriginalPaper 19 January 2016 Pages: 134 - 174
Zen-ReqOptimizer: a search-based approach for requirements assignment optimization Yan LiTao YueLi Zhang OriginalPaper 05 March 2016 Pages: 175 - 234
Raters’ reliability in clone benchmarks construction Alan CharpentierJean-Rémy FalleriLaurent Réveillère OriginalPaper 09 February 2016 Pages: 235 - 258
Learning to rank code examples for code search engines Haoran NiuIman KeivanlooYing Zou OriginalPaper 21 January 2016 Pages: 259 - 291
An experimental search-based approach to cohesion metric evaluation Mel Ó CinnéideIman Hemati MoghadamLaurence Tratt OriginalPaper Open access 13 April 2016 Pages: 292 - 329
Characterizing logging practices in Java-based open source software projects – a replication study in Apache Software Foundation Boyuan ChenZhen Ming (Jack) Jiang OriginalPaper 07 May 2016 Pages: 330 - 374
The structure and dynamics of knowledge network in domain-specific Q&A sites: a case study of stack overflow Deheng YeZhenchang XingNachiket Kapre OriginalPaper 19 April 2016 Pages: 375 - 406
Stochastic actor-oriented modeling for studying homophily and social influence in OSS projects David KavalerVladimir Filkov OriginalPaper 02 May 2016 Pages: 407 - 435
An empirical study of supplementary patches in open source projects Jihun ParkMiryung KimDoo-Hwan Bae OriginalPaper 07 May 2016 Pages: 436 - 473
A stability assessment of solution adaptation techniques for analogy-based software effort estimation Passakorn PhannachittaJacky KeungKenichi Matsumoto OriginalPaper 31 May 2016 Pages: 474 - 504
An empirical study of emergency updates for top android mobile apps Safwat HassanWeiyi ShangAhmed E. Hassan OriginalPaper 25 June 2016 Pages: 505 - 546
Why and how developers fork what from whom in GitHub Jing JiangDavid LoLi Zhang OriginalPaper 31 May 2016 Pages: 547 - 578