Volume 24, Issue 1

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February 2019

Includes Special Sections on “Program Comprehension” and “Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering”

Issue Editors:

David Lo,
Alexander Serebrenik,
Gabriele Bavota,
Andrian Marcus

17 articles in this issue

Appreciation to Empirical Software Engineering Reviewers of 2018

News 25 January 2019 Pages: 1 - 6
Studying the consistency of star ratings and reviews of popular free hybrid Android and iOS apps
Hanyang Hu
Shaowei Wang
Ahmed E. Hassan
OriginalPaper 04 April 2018 Pages: 7 - 32
Alleviating patch overfitting with automatic test generation: a study of feasibility and effectiveness for the Nopol repair system
Zhongxing Yu
Matias Martinez
Martin Monperrus
OriginalPaper 12 May 2018 Pages: 33 - 67
Software engineering in start-up companies: An analysis of 88 experience reports
Eriks Klotins
Michael Unterkalmsteiner
Tony Gorschek
OriginalPaper Open access 21 May 2018 Pages: 68 - 102
Programmers do not favor lambda expressions for concurrent object-oriented code
Sebastian Nielebock
Robert Heumüller
Frank Ortmeier
OriginalPaper 02 May 2018 Pages: 103 - 138
Identification and prioritization of SLR search tool requirements: an SLR and a survey
Ahmed Al-Zubidy
Jeffrey C. Carver
OriginalPaper 24 May 2018 Pages: 139 - 169
An empirical study of game reviews on the Steam platform
Dayi Lin
Cor-Paul Bezemer
Ahmed E. Hassan
OriginalPaper 15 June 2018 Pages: 170 - 207
Preface to the Special Issue on Program Comprehension
David Lo
Alexander Serebrenik
EditorialNotes 17 October 2018 Pages: 208 - 210
Investigating whether and how software developers understand open source software licensing
Daniel A. Almeida
Gail C. Murphy
Michael Hoye
OriginalPaper 27 April 2018 Pages: 211 - 239
Understanding the behaviour of hackers while performing attack tasks in a professional setting and in a public challenge
Mariano Ceccato
Paolo Tonella
Bjorn De Sutter
OriginalPaper 26 May 2018 Pages: 240 - 286
Syntax, predicates, idioms — what really affects code complexity?
Shulamyt Ajami
Yonatan Woodbridge
Dror G. Feitelson
OriginalPaper 11 June 2018 Pages: 287 - 328
Introduction to the special issue on software analysis, evolution, and reengineering
Gabriele Bavota
Andrian Marcus
EditorialNotes 11 January 2019 Pages: 329 - 331
Redundancy-free analysis of multi-revision software artifacts
Carol V. Alexandru
Sebastiano Panichella
Harald C. Gall
OriginalPaper 05 July 2018 Pages: 332 - 380
An empirical comparison of dependency network evolution in seven software packaging ecosystems
Alexandre Decan
Tom Mens
Philippe Grosjean
OriginalPaper 10 February 2018 Pages: 381 - 416
Shorter identifier names take longer to comprehend
Johannes C. Hofmeister
Janet Siegmund
Daniel V. Holt
OriginalPaper 26 April 2018 Pages: 417 - 443
Effective fault localization of automotive Simulink models: achieving the trade-off between test oracle effort and fault localization accuracy
Bing Liu
Shiva Nejati
Lionel C. Briand
OriginalPaper 21 March 2018 Pages: 444 - 490
Querying distilled code changes to extract executable transformations
Reinout Stevens
Tim Molderez
Coen De Roover
OriginalPaper 30 August 2018 Pages: 491 - 535

Volume 24, Issue 1

Appreciation to Empirical Software Engineering Reviewers of 2018

Studying the consistency of star ratings and reviews of popular free hybrid Android and iOS apps

Alleviating patch overfitting with automatic test generation: a study of feasibility and effectiveness for the Nopol repair system

Software engineering in start-up companies: An analysis of 88 experience reports

Programmers do not favor lambda expressions for concurrent object-oriented code

Identification and prioritization of SLR search tool requirements: an SLR and a survey

An empirical study of game reviews on the Steam platform

Preface to the Special Issue on Program Comprehension

Investigating whether and how software developers understand open source software licensing

Understanding the behaviour of hackers while performing attack tasks in a professional setting and in a public challenge

Syntax, predicates, idioms — what really affects code complexity?

Introduction to the special issue on software analysis, evolution, and reengineering

Redundancy-free analysis of multi-revision software artifacts

An empirical comparison of dependency network evolution in seven software packaging ecosystems

Shorter identifier names take longer to comprehend

Effective fault localization of automotive Simulink models: achieving the trade-off between test oracle effort and fault localization accuracy

Querying distilled code changes to extract executable transformations

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