1. An empirical study on software understandability and its dependence on code characteristics

   • Luigi Lavazza
   • Sandro Morasca
   • Marco Gatto

   OriginalPaper Open access 15 November 2023 Article: 155

   

2. Analyzing the BizDev interface in an enterprise context: a case of developers acting in business

   • Caique G. Moreira
   • Breno B. N. de França
   • Tayana U. Conte

   OriginalPaper 13 November 2023 Article: 154

   

3. Operationalizing validity of empirical software engineering studies

   • Johannes Härtel
   • Ralf Lämmel

   OriginalPaper 13 November 2023 Article: 153

   

4. Performance evolution of configurable software systems: an empirical study

   • Christian Kaltenecker
   • Stefan Mühlbauer
   • Sven Apel

   OriginalPaper Open access 13 November 2023 Article: 152

   

5. On the coordination of vulnerability fixes

   • Jiahuei Lin
   • Bram Adams
   • Ahmed E. Hassan

   OriginalPaper 10 November 2023 Article: 151

   

6. An empirical comparison of ethnic and gender diversity of DevOps and non-DevOps contributions to open-source projects

   • Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana
   • Xiaoyan Xu
   • Meiyappan Nagappan

   OriginalPaper 10 November 2023 Article: 150

   

7. We do not understand what it says – studying student perceptions of software modelling

   • Shalini Chakraborty
   • Grischa Liebel

   OriginalPaper 09 November 2023 Article: 149

   

8. On the Investigation of Empirical Contradictions - Aggregated Results of Local Studies on Readability and Comprehensibility of Source Code

   • Talita Vieira Ribeiro
   • Paulo Sérgio Medeiros dos Santos
   • Guilherme Horta Travassos

   OriginalPaper 09 November 2023 Article: 148

   

9. The software heritage license dataset (2022 edition)

   • Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
   • Sergio Montes-Leon
   • Stefano Zacchiroli

   OriginalPaper 08 November 2023 Article: 147

   

10. Generating and detecting true ambiguity: a forgotten danger in DNN supervision testing

    • Michael Weiss
    • André García Gómez
    • Paolo Tonella

    OriginalPaper Open access 03 November 2023 Article: 146

    

11. Energy efficiency of the Visitor Pattern: contrasting Java and C++ implementations

    • Déaglán Connolly Bree
    • Mel Ó Cinnéide

    OriginalPaper Open access 28 October 2023 Article: 145

    

12. Automated NFR testing in continuous integration environments: a multi-case study of Nordic companies

    • Liang Yu
    • Emil Alégroth
    • Tony Gorschek

    OriginalPaper Open access 24 October 2023 Article: 144

    

13. Studying the characteristics of AIOps projects on GitHub

    • Roozbeh Aghili
    • Heng Li
    • Foutse Khomh

    OriginalPaper 18 October 2023 Article: 143

    

14. What kinds of contracts do ML APIs need?

    • Samantha Syeda Khairunnesa
    • Shibbir Ahmed
    • Gary T. Leavens

    OriginalPaper 17 October 2023 Article: 142

    

15. A syntax-guided multi-task learning approach for Turducken-style code generation

    • Guang Yang
    • Yu Zhou
    • Taolue Chen

    OriginalPaper 14 October 2023 Article: 141

    

16. Computation offloading for ground robotic systems communicating over WiFi – an empirical exploration on performance and energy trade-offs

    • Milica Ðorđević
    • Michel Albonico
    • Patricia Lago

    OriginalPaper Open access 13 October 2023 Article: 140

    

17. Technical leverage analysis in the Python ecosystem

    • Ranindya Paramitha
    • Fabio Massacci

    OriginalPaper Open access 13 October 2023 Article: 139

    

18. When conversations turn into work: a taxonomy of converted discussions and issues in GitHub

    • Dong Wang
    • Masanari Kondo
    • Naoyasu Ubayashi

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2023 Article: 138

    

19. On the effectiveness of log representation for log-based anomaly detection

    • Xingfang Wu
    • Heng Li
    • Foutse Khomh

    OriginalPaper 09 October 2023 Article: 137

    

20. Using gameplay videos for detecting issues in video games

    • Emanuela Guglielmi
    • Simone Scalabrino
    • Rocco Oliveto

    OriginalPaper 07 October 2023 Article: 136

    

21. CoCoAST: Representing Source Code via Hierarchical Splitting and Reconstruction of Abstract Syntax Trees

    • Ensheng Shi
    • Yanlin Wang
    • Hongbin Sun

    OriginalPaper 06 October 2023 Article: 135

    

22. Automated detection, categorisation and developers’ experience with the violations of honesty in mobile apps

    • Humphrey O. Obie
    • Hung Du
    • Hourieh Khalajzadeh

    OriginalPaper Open access 27 September 2023 Article: 134

    

23. Evaluating seed selection for fuzzing JavaScript engines

    • Ming Wen
    • Yongcong Wang
    • Hai Jin

    OriginalPaper 26 September 2023 Article: 133

    

24. Do RESTful API design rules have an impact on the understandability of Web APIs?

    • Justus Bogner
    • Sebastian Kotstein
    • Timo Pfaff

    OriginalPaper Open access 26 September 2023 Article: 132

    

25. GitHub Actions: The Impact on the Pull Request Process

    • Mairieli Wessel
    • Joseph Vargovich
    • Christoph Treude

    OriginalPaper Open access 26 September 2023 Article: 131

    

26. Experimental comparison of features, analyses, and classifiers for Android malware detection

    • Lwin Khin Shar
    • Biniam Fisseha Demissie
    • Christoph Bienert

    OriginalPaper 26 September 2023 Article: 130

    

27. Is GitHub’s Copilot as bad as humans at introducing vulnerabilities in code?

    • Owura Asare
    • Meiyappan Nagappan
    • N. Asokan

    OriginalPaper 23 September 2023 Article: 129

    

28. Developers talking about code quality

    • Jürgen Börstler
    • Kwabena E. Bennin
    • Jelle van Assema

    OriginalPaper Open access 21 September 2023 Article: 128