Volume 25, Issue 3 | Empirical Software Engineering

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Volume 25, Issue 3

May 2020

Includes Special Sections on Mining Software Repositories 2018 and Program Comprehension 2018

Issue Editors:

Yasutaka Kamei,
Andy Zaidman,
Janet Siegmund,
Chanchal K. Roy

21 articles in this issue

Editor’s Note: Empirical Software Engineering and COVID-19 research
News 27 April 2020 Pages: 1643 - 1643
Part of 1 collection:

Software Engineering and COVID-19
Investigating types and survivability of performance bugs in mobile apps
Alejandro Mazuera-Rozo
Catia Trubiani
Gabriele Bavota
OriginalPaper 05 March 2020 Pages: 1644 - 1686
Practical relevance of software engineering research: synthesizing the community’s voice
Vahid Garousi
Markus Borg
Markku Oivo
OriginalPaper Open access 05 March 2020 Pages: 1687 - 1754
The state of adoption and the challenges of systematic variability management in industry
Thorsten Berger
Jan-Philipp Steghöfer
Jabier Martinez
OriginalPaper Open access 04 April 2020 Pages: 1755 - 1797
Characteristics of method extractions in Java: a large scale empirical study
Andre Hora
Romain Robbes
OriginalPaper 10 March 2020 Pages: 1798 - 1833
MSRBot: Using bots to answer questions from software repositories
Ahmad Abdellatif
Khaled Badran
Emad Shihab
OriginalPaper 03 March 2020 Pages: 1834 - 1863
An exploratory study of smart contracts in the Ethereum blockchain platform
Gustavo A. Oliva
Ahmed E. Hassan
Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang
OriginalPaper 12 March 2020 Pages: 1864 - 1904
Boosting crash-inducing change localization with rank-performance-based feature subset selection
Zhaoqiang Guo
Yanhui Li
Baowen Xu
OriginalPaper 02 March 2020 Pages: 1905 - 1950
Ammonia: an approach for deriving project-specific bug patterns
Yoshiki Higo
Shinpei Hayashi
Meiyappan Nagappan
OriginalPaper Open access 07 March 2020 Pages: 1951 - 1979
FixMiner: Mining relevant fix patterns for automated program repair
Anil Koyuncu
Kui Liu
Yves Le Traon
OriginalPaper 14 March 2020 Pages: 1980 - 2024
The virtual lands of Oz: testing an agribot in simulation
Clément Robert
Thierry Sotiropoulos
Simon Vernhes
OriginalPaper 25 February 2020 Pages: 2025 - 2054
Guest editorial: Mining software repositories 2018
Yasutaka Kamei
Andy Zaidman
EditorialNotes 20 March 2020 Pages: 2055 - 2057
Part of 1 collection:

Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
CDA: Characterising Deprecated Android APIs
Li Li
Jun Gao
Jacques Klein
OriginalPaper 11 January 2020 Pages: 2058 - 2098
Part of 1 collection:

Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
Better software analytics via “DUO”: Data mining algorithms using/used-by optimizers
Amritanshu Agrawal
Tim Menzies
Zhe Yu
OriginalPaper 22 April 2020 Pages: 2099 - 2136
Preface to the special issue on program comprehension
Janet Siegmund
Chanchal K. Roy
EditorialNotes Open access 13 April 2020 Pages: 2137 - 2139
Measuring the impact of lexical and structural inconsistencies on developers’ cognitive load during bug localization
Sarah Fakhoury
Devjeet Roy
Olusola Adesope
OriginalPaper 08 August 2019 Pages: 2140 - 2178
Deep code comment generation with hybrid lexical and syntactical information
Xing Hu
Ge Li
Zhi Jin
OriginalPaper 18 June 2019 Pages: 2179 - 2217
Every build you break: developer-oriented assistance for build failure resolution
Carmine Vassallo
Sebastian Proksch
Harald C. Gall
OriginalPaper 09 October 2019 Pages: 2218 - 2257
What kind of questions do developers ask on Stack Overflow? A comparison of automated approaches to classify posts into question categories
Stefanie Beyer
Christian Macho
Martin Pinzger
OriginalPaper Open access 28 August 2019 Pages: 2258 - 2301
Guiding log revisions by learning from software evolution history
Shanshan Li
Xu Niu
Tao Li
OriginalPaper 09 September 2019 Pages: 2302 - 2340
Third-party libraries in mobile apps
Pasquale Salza
Fabio Palomba
Filomena Ferrucci
OriginalPaper 24 August 2019 Pages: 2341 - 2377