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On the relationship between bug reports and queries for text retrieval-based bug localization Chris MillsEsteban ParraSonia Haiduc OriginalPaper 13 July 2020 Pages: 3086 - 3127
A practical guide on conducting eye tracking studies in software engineering Zohreh SharafiBonita SharifMartha Crosby Experience Reports 12 June 2020 Pages: 3128 - 3174
Detection, assessment and mitigation of vulnerabilities in open source dependencies Serena Elisa PontaHenrik PlateAntonino Sabetta OriginalPaper Open access 30 June 2020 Pages: 3175 - 3215
The practitioners’ point of view on the concept of technical debt and its causes and consequences: a design for a global family of industrial surveys and its first results from Brazil Nicolli RiosRodrigo Oliveira SpínolaCarolyn Seaman OriginalPaper 13 June 2020 Pages: 3216 - 3287
Standing on shoulders or feet? An extended study on the usage of the MSR data papers Zoe KottiKonstantinos KravvaritisDiomidis Spinellis OriginalPaper 18 July 2020 Pages: 3288 - 3322
Do code review measures explain the incidence of post-release defects? Andrey KrutauzTapajit DeyAudris Mockus OriginalPaper 29 June 2020 Pages: 3323 - 3356
A comprehensive study on software aging across android versions and vendors Domenico CotroneoAntonio Ken IannilloRoberto Pietrantuono OriginalPaper 15 July 2020 Pages: 3357 - 3395
An empirical study of the characteristics of popular Minecraft mods Daniel LeeGopi Krishnan RajbahadurAhmed E. Hassan OriginalPaper 22 August 2020 Pages: 3396 - 3429
The ‘as code’ activities: development anti-patterns for infrastructure as code Akond RahmanEffat FarhanaLaurie Williams OriginalPaper 17 August 2020 Pages: 3430 - 3467
Learning actionable analytics from multiple software projects Rahul KrishnaTim Menzies OriginalPaper 24 July 2020 Pages: 3468 - 3500
Towards an evidence-based theoretical framework on factors influencing the software development productivity Wladmir Araujo ChapettaGuilherme Horta Travassos OriginalPaper 18 August 2020 Pages: 3501 - 3543
Automated issue assignment: results and insights from an industrial case Ethem Utku AktasCemal Yilmaz Experience Reports 10 July 2020 Pages: 3544 - 3589
The impact of automated feature selection techniques on the interpretation of defect models Jirayus JiarpakdeeChakkrit TantithamthavornChristoph Treude OriginalPaper 01 August 2020 Pages: 3590 - 3638
A tailored participatory action research for foss communities Adam AlamiPeter Axel NielsenAndrzej Wa̧sowski OriginalPaper 04 August 2020 Pages: 3639 - 3670
Towards a fictional collective programming scenario: an approach based on the EIF loop Chunhui WangWei ZhangZhi Jin OriginalPaper 19 August 2020 Pages: 3671 - 3710
Automating system test case classification and prioritization for use case-driven testing in product lines Ines HajriArda GoknilLionel C. Briand OriginalPaper 18 August 2020 Pages: 3711 - 3769
Wait for it: identifying “On-Hold” self-admitted technical debt Rungroj MaipraditChristoph TreudeKenichi Matsumoto OriginalPaper Open access 04 August 2020 Pages: 3770 - 3798
What to share, when, and where: balancing the objectives and complexities of open source software contributions Johan LinåkerBjörn Regnell OriginalPaper Open access 12 August 2020 Pages: 3799 - 3840
Data-driven software design with Constraint Oriented Multi-variate Bandit Optimization (COMBO) Rasmus RosMikael Hammar OriginalPaper Open access 18 August 2020 Pages: 3841 - 3872
CGT-FL: using cooperative game theory to effective fault localization in presence of coincidental correctness Farid Feyzi OriginalPaper 17 August 2020 Pages: 3873 - 3927
The Teamwork Process Antecedents (TPA) questionnaire: developing and validating a comprehensive measure for assessing antecedents of teamwork process quality George MarsicanoFabio Q. B. da SilvaBreno Giovanni Adaid-Castro OriginalPaper 23 August 2020 Pages: 3928 - 3976
On the assessment of software defect prediction models via ROC curves Sandro MorascaLuigi Lavazza OriginalPaper Open access 19 August 2020 Pages: 3977 - 4019
An empirical investigation on the relationship between design and architecture smells Tushar SharmaParamvir SinghDiomidis Spinellis OriginalPaper 28 August 2020 Pages: 4020 - 4068
Information correspondence between types of documentation for APIs Deeksha M. AryaJin L. C. GuoMartin P. Robillard OriginalPaper 26 August 2020 Pages: 4069 - 4096
The who, what, how of software engineering research: a socio-technical framework Margaret-Anne StoreyNeil A. ErnstEirini Kalliamvakou OriginalPaper 28 August 2020 Pages: 4097 - 4129
Using black-box performance models to detect performance regressions under varying workloads: an empirical study Lizhi LiaoJinfu ChenSarah Sajedi OriginalPaper 28 August 2020 Pages: 4130 - 4160
Evaluating the agreement among technical debt measurement tools: building an empirical benchmark of technical debt liabilities Theodoros AmanatidisNikolaos MittasLefteris Angelis OriginalPaper 26 August 2020 Pages: 4161 - 4204
Systematic mapping study on domain-specific language development tools Aníbal IungJoão CarbonellBruno Medeiros OriginalPaper 28 August 2020 Pages: 4205 - 4249
Too many images on DockerHub! How different are images for the same system? Md Hasan IbrahimMohammed SayaghAhmed E Hassan OriginalPaper 28 August 2020 Pages: 4250 - 4281
SMBFL: slice-based cost reduction of mutation-based fault localization Nazanin Bayati ChaleshtariSaeed Parsa OriginalPaper 27 August 2020 Pages: 4282 - 4314
Feature requests-based recommendation of software refactorings Ally S. NyamaweHui LiuZhendong Niu OriginalPaper 28 August 2020 Pages: 4315 - 4347
Foreword to the Special Issue in Empirical Software Engineering: Best Papers of REFSQ 2019 Eric KnaussMichael GoedickePaul Grünbacher Editorial 13 June 2020 Pages: 4348 - 4349
Interaction-based creation and maintenance of continuously usable trace links between requirements and source code Paul HübnerBarbara Paech OriginalPaper Open access 11 August 2020 Pages: 4350 - 4377