Learning to recognize actionable static code warnings (is intrinsically easy) Xueqi YangJianfeng ChenTim Menzies OriginalPaper 12 April 2021 Article: 56
Improving energy-efficiency by recommending Java collections Wellington OliveiraRenato OliveiraJoão Paulo Fernandes OriginalPaper 12 April 2021 Article: 55
Flair: efficient analysis of Android inter-component vulnerabilities in response to incremental changes Hamid BagheriJianghao WangSam Malek OriginalPaper 09 April 2021 Article: 54
How to Better Distinguish Security Bug Reports (Using Dual Hyperparameter Optimization) Rui ShuTianpei XiaTim Menzies OriginalPaper 05 April 2021 Article: 53
Testing self-healing cyber-physical systems under uncertainty with reinforcement learning: an empirical study Tao MaShaukat AliTao Yue OriginalPaper 01 April 2021 Article: 52
Locating faults with program slicing: an empirical analysis Ezekiel SoremekunLukas KirschnerAndreas Zeller OriginalPaper 01 April 2021 Article: 51
Training students in evidence-based software engineering and systematic reviews: a systematic review and empirical study Sebastián PizardFernando AcerenzaBarbara Kitchenham OriginalPaper 31 March 2021 Article: 50
Correction to: An empirical assessment of baseline feature location techniques Abdul RazzaqAndrew Le GearJim Buckley Correction Open access 31 March 2021 Article: 49
Understanding large-scale software systems – structure and flows Omer LevyDror G. Feitelson OriginalPaper 31 March 2021 Article: 48
Lags in the release, adoption, and propagation of npm vulnerability fixes Bodin ChinthanetRaula Gaikovina KulaKenichi Matsumoto OriginalPaper Open access 30 March 2021 Article: 47
Revisiting the VCCFinder approach for the identification of vulnerability-contributing commits Timothé RiomArthur SawadogoJacques Klein OriginalPaper Open access 29 March 2021 Article: 46
A comprehensive study of bloated dependencies in the Maven ecosystem César Soto-ValeroNicolas HarrandBenoit Baudry OriginalPaper Open access 25 March 2021 Article: 45
An empirical investigation of organic software product lines Mikaela CashmanJustin FirestoneWei Niu OriginalPaper Open access 25 March 2021 Article: 44
An automated framework for the extraction of semantic legal metadata from legal texts Amin SleimiNicolas SannierJohn Dann OriginalPaper 24 March 2021 Article: 43
A family of experiments on test-driven development Adrian SantosSira VegasNatalia Juristo OriginalPaper 23 March 2021 Article: 42
An empirical study on changing leadership in agile teams Simone V. SpieglerChristoph HeineckeStefan Wagner OriginalPaper Open access 22 March 2021 Article: 41
Ethical issues in empirical studies using student subjects: Re-visiting practices and perceptions Grischa LiebelShalini Chakraborty OriginalPaper 20 March 2021 Article: 40
From one to hundreds: multi-licensing in the JavaScript ecosystem João Pedro MoraesIvanilton PolatoGustavo Pinto OriginalPaper 20 March 2021 Article: 39
GreenHub: a large-scale collaborative dataset to battery consumption analysis of android devices Rui PereiraHugo MatalongaJoão Paulo Fernandes OriginalPaper 20 March 2021 Article: 38
Appreciation to Empirical Software Engineering reviewers of 2020 Acknowledgments 19 March 2021 Article: 37
A privacy and security analysis of early-deployed COVID-19 contact tracing Android apps Majid HatamianSamuel WairimuLothar Fritsch OriginalPaper Open access 19 March 2021 Article: 36
Are datasets for information retrieval-based bug localization techniques trustworthy? Misoo KimEunseok Lee OriginalPaper 19 March 2021 Article: 35
Release synchronization in software ecosystems Armstrong FoundjemBram Adams OriginalPaper 18 March 2021 Article: 34
Correction to: Wait for it: identifying “On-Hold” self-admitted technical debt Rungroj MaipraditChristoph TreudeKenichi Matsumoto Correction Open access 16 March 2021 Article: 33
The nature of build changes Christian MachoStefanie BeyerMartin Pinzger OriginalPaper Open access 16 March 2021 Article: 32