1. Persistent code contribution: a ranking algorithm for code contribution in crowdsourced software

   • Michail Tsikerdekis

   OriginalPaper 21 November 2017 Pages: 1871 - 1894

   

2. Older adults and hackathons: a qualitative study

   • Wiesław Kopeć
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   OriginalPaper Open access 23 November 2017 Pages: 1895 - 1930

   

3. Analyzing the effects of test driven development in GitHub

   • Neil C. Borle
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   Original Article 25 November 2017 Pages: 1931 - 1958

   

4. An experience report on applying software testing academic results in industry: we need usable automated test generation

   • Andrea Arcuri

   Experience Report 27 November 2017 Pages: 1959 - 1981

   

5. Effect sizes and their variance for AB/BA crossover design studies

   • Lech Madeyski
   • Barbara Kitchenham

   OriginalPaper Open access 06 December 2017 Pages: 1982 - 2017

   

6. An empirical study on the impact of AspectJ on software evolvability

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   OriginalPaper Open access 06 December 2017 Pages: 2018 - 2050

   

7. Understanding semi-structured merge conflict characteristics in open-source Java projects

   • Paola Accioly
   • Paulo Borba
   • Guilherme Cavalcanti

   OriginalPaper 21 December 2017 Pages: 2051 - 2085

   

8. Correctness attraction: a study of stability of software behavior under runtime perturbation

   • Benjamin Danglot
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   OriginalPaper 21 December 2017 Pages: 2086 - 2119

   

9. Editor’s Note: Special Issue on Software Maintenance and Evolution

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10. Code smells for Model-View-Controller architectures

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    OriginalPaper Open access 12 September 2017 Pages: 2121 - 2157

    

11. On the reaction to deprecation of clients of 4 + 1 popular Java APIs and the JDK

    • Anand Ashok Sawant
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    OriginalPaper Open access 13 October 2017 Pages: 2158 - 2197

    

12. Evolving software trace links between requirements and source code

    • Mona Rahimi
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    OriginalPaper 03 November 2017 Pages: 2198 - 2231

    

13. Cloned and non-cloned Java methods: a comparative study

    • Vaibhav Saini
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    OriginalPaper 16 December 2017 Pages: 2232 - 2278

    

14. Fusing multi-abstraction vector space models for concern localization

    • Yun Zhang
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    OriginalPaper 27 December 2017 Pages: 2279 - 2322

    

15. ProMeTA: a taxonomy for program metamodels in program reverse engineering

    • Hironori Washizaki
    • Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc
    • Foutse Khomh

    OriginalPaper Open access 12 March 2018 Pages: 2323 - 2358

    

16. Introduction to the special issue on source code analysis and manipulation

    • Gabriele Bavota
    • Michaela Greiler

    EditorialNotes 20 March 2018 Pages: 2359 - 2361

17. What are the effects of history length and age on mining software change impact?

    • Leon Moonen
    • Thomas Rolfsnes
    • Stefano Di Alesio

    OriginalPaper 06 March 2018 Pages: 2362 - 2397

    

18. The need for software specific natural language techniques

    • Dave Binkley
    • Dawn Lawrie
    • Christopher Morrell

    OriginalPaper 25 November 2017 Pages: 2398 - 2425

    

19. How effective are mutation testing tools? An empirical analysis of Java mutation testing tools with manual analysis and real faults

    • Marinos Kintis
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    • Yves Le Traon

    OriginalPaper 21 December 2017 Pages: 2426 - 2463

    

20. A comparison of code similarity analysers

    • Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul
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    OriginalPaper Open access 25 October 2017 Pages: 2464 - 2519