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Volume 1, Number 1, 1996
Volume 1, Number 2, 1996
Volume 1, Number 3, 1996
Volume 2, Number 1, 1997
Volume 2, Number 2, 1997
Volume 2, Number 3, 1997
Volume 2, Number 4, 1997
Volume 3, Number 1, 1998
Volume 3, Number 2, 1998
Volume 3, Number 3, September, 1998
Volume 3, Number 4, December, 1998
Volume 4, Number 1, 1999
Volume 4, Number 2, June, 1999
Volume 4, Number 3, September, 1999
Volume 4, Number 4, December, 1999
Volume 5, Number 1, March, 2000
Volume 5, Number 2, June, 2000
Volume 5, Number 3, November, 2000
Volume 5, Number 4, December, 2000
Volume 6, Number 1, March, 2001
Volume 6, Number 2, June, 2001
Volume 6, Number 3, September, 2001
Volume 6, Number 4, December, 2001
Volume 7, Number 1, March, 2002
Volume 7, Number 2, June, 2002
Volume 7, Number 3, September, 2002
Volume 7, Number 4, December, 2002
Volume 8, Number 1, March, 2003
Volume 8, Number 2, June, 2003
Volume 8, Number 3, September, 2003
Volume 8, Number 4, December, 2003
Volume 9, Number 1--2, March, 2004
Volume 9, Number 3, September, 2004
Volume 9, Number 4, December, 2004
Volume 10, Number 1, January, 2005
Volume 10, Number 2, April, 2005
Volume 10, Number 3, July, 2005
Volume 10, Number 4, October, 2005
Volume 11, Number 1, March, 2006
Volume 11, Number 2, June, 2006
Volume 11, Number 3, September, 2006
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 2006
Volume 12, Number 1, February, 2007
Volume 12, Number 2, April, 2007
Volume 12, Number 3, June, 2007
Volume 12, Number 4, August, 2007
Volume 12, Number 5, October, 2007
Volume 12, Number 6, December, 2007
Volume 13, Number 1, February, 2008
Volume 13, Number 2, April, 2008
Volume 13, Number 3, June, 2008
Volume 13, Number 4, August, 2008
Volume 13, Number 5, October, 2008
Volume 13, Number 6, December, 2008
Volume 14, Number 1, February, 2009
Volume 14, Number 2, April, 2009
Volume 14, Number 3, June, 2009
Volume 14, Number 4, August, 2009
Volume 14, Number 5, October, 2009
Volume 14, Number 6, December, 2009
Volume 15, Number 1, February, 2010
Volume 15, Number 2, April, 2010
Volume 15, Number 3, June, 2010
Volume 15, Number 4, August, 2010
Volume 15, Number 5, October, 2010
Volume 15, Number 6, December, 2010
Volume 16, Number 1, February, 2011
Volume 16, Number 2, April, 2011
Volume 16, Number 3, June, 2011
Volume 16, Number 4, August, 2011
Volume 16, Number 5, October, 2011
Volume 16, Number 6, December, 2011
Volume 17, Number 1--2, February, 2012
Volume 17, Number 3, June, 2012
Volume 17, Number 4--5, August, 2012
Volume 17, Number 6, December, 2012
Volume 18, Number 1, February, 2013
Volume 18, Number 2, April, 2013
Volume 18, Number 3, June, 2013
Volume 18, Number 4, August, 2013
Volume 18, Number 5, October, 2013
Volume 18, Number 6, December, 2013
Volume 19, Number 1, February, 2014
Volume 19, Number 2, April, 2014
Volume 19, Number 3, June, 2014
Volume 19, Number 4, August, 2014
Volume 19, Number 5, October, 2014
Volume 19, Number 6, December, 2014
Volume 20, Number 1, February, 2015
Volume 20, Number 2, April, 2015
Volume 20, Number 3, June, 2015
Volume 20, Number 4, August, 2015
Volume 20, Number 5, October, 2015
Volume 20, Number 6, December, 2015
Volume 21, Number 1, February, 2016
Volume 21, Number 2, April, 2016
Volume 21, Number 3, June, 2016
Volume 21, Number 4, August, 2016
Volume 21, Number 5, October, 2016
Volume 21, Number 6, December, 2016
Volume 22, Number 1, February, 2017
Volume 22, Number 2, April, 2017
Volume 22, Number 3, June, 2017
Volume 22, Number 4, August, 2017
Volume 22, Number 5, October, 2017
Volume 22, Number 6, December, 2017
Volume 23, Number 1, February, 2018
Volume 23, Number 2, April, 2018
Volume 23, Number 3, June, 2018
Volume 23, Number 4, August, 2018
Volume 23, Number 5, October, 2018
Volume 23, Number 6, December, 2018
Volume 24, Number 1, February, 2019
Volume 24, Number 2, April, 2019
Volume 24, Number 3, June, 2019
Volume 24, Number 4, August, 2019
Volume 24, Number 5, October, 2019
Volume 24, Number 6, December, 2019
Volume 25, Number 1, January, 2020
Volume 25, Number 2, March, 2020
Volume 25, Number 3, May, 2020
Volume 25, Number 4, July, 2020
Volume 25, Number 5, September, 2020
Volume 25, Number 6, November, 2020
Volume 26, Number 1, January, 2021
Volume 26, Number 2, March, 2021
Volume 26, Number 3, May, 2021
Volume 26, Number 4, July, 2021
Volume 26, Number 5, September, 2021
Volume 26, Number 6, November, 2021
Volume 27, Number 1, January, 2022
Volume 27, Number 2, March, 2022
Volume 27, Number 3, May, 2022
Volume 27, Number 4, July, 2022
Volume 27, Number 5, September, 2022
Volume 27, Number 6, November, 2022
Volume 27, Number 7, December, 2022
Volume 28, Number 1, January, 2023
Volume 28, Number 2, March, 2023
Volume 28, Number 3, May, 2023
Volume 28, Number 4, July, 2023
Volume 28, Number 5, September, 2023
Volume 28, Number 6, November, 2023
Volume 29, Number 1, January, 2024
Volume 29, Number 2, March, 2024


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 1, Number 1, 1996

                      Anonymous   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--10
               Ross Jeffery and   
                   John Stathis   Function point sizing: Structure,
                                  validity and applicability . . . . . . . 11--30
      Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and   
            Edward B. Allen and   
      Kalai S. Kalaichelvan and   
                   Nishith Goel   The impact of software evolution and
                                  reuse on software quality  . . . . . . . 31--44
          Thomas P. Frazier and   
             John W. Bailey and   
               Melissa L. Corso   Comparing Ada and FORTRAN lines of code:
                                  Some experimental results  . . . . . . . 45--59
              Lionel Briand and   
             Khaled El Emam and   
                 Sandro Morasca   On the application of measurement theory
                                  in software engineering  . . . . . . . . 61--88

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 1, Number 2, 1996

                      Anonymous   ``In this issue''  . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
               Victor R. Basili   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--108
                  John Daly and   
              Andrew Brooks and   
               James Miller and   
                 Marc Roper and   
                    Murray Wood   Evaluating inheritance depth on the
                                  maintainability of object-oriented
                                  software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--132
           Victor R. Basili and   
                Scott Green and   
        Oliver Laitenberger and   
           Filippo Lanubile and   
              Forrest Shull and   
Sivert Sòrumgård and   
            Marvin V. Zelkowitz   The empirical investigation of
                                  Perspective-Based Reading  . . . . . . . 133--164
             Donald W. Sova and   
                   Carol Smidts   Increasing testing productivity and
                                  software quality: A comparison of
                                  software testing methodologies within
                                  NASA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--188

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 1, Number 3, 1996

            Warren Harrison and   
                  Victor Basili   In this issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
             Khaled El Emam and   
              Nazim H. Madhavji   An instrument for measuring the success
                                  of the requirements engineering process
                                  in information systems development . . . 201--240
        Christopher M. Lott and   
              H. Dieter Rombach   Repeatable software engineering
                                  experiments for comparing
                                  defect-detection techniques  . . . . . . 241--277
             John C. Munson and   
                Gregory A. Hall   Estimating test effectiveness with
                                  dynamic complexity measurement . . . . . 279--305


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 2, Number 1, 1997

            Warren Harrison and   
                  Victor Basili   ``In This Issue''  . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
                Warren Harrison   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--10
                David Jankowski   Computer-Aided Systems Engineering
                                  Methodology Support and Its Effect on
                                  the Output of Structured Analysis  . . . 11--38
       Pierfrancesco Fusaro and   
           Filippo Lanubile and   
              Giuseppe Visaggio   A Replicated Experiment to Assess
                                  Requirements Inspection Techniques . . . 39--57
           Alberto Avritzer and   
              Elaine J. Weyuker   Monitoring Smoothly Degrading Systems
                                  for Increased Dependability  . . . . . . 59--77

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 2, Number 2, 1997

           Victor R. Basili and   
                Warren Harrison   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
               Lionel C. Briand   Guest Editor's Introduction  . . . . . . 93--95
               Filippo Lanubile   Empirical Evaluation of Software
                                  Maintenance Technologies . . . . . . . . 97--108
           Chris F. Kemerer and   
               Sandra Slaughter   Methodologies for Performing Empirical
                                  Studies: Report from the International
                                  Workshop on Empirical Studies of
                                  Software Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . 109--118
                 Adam A. Porter   Fundamental Laws and Assumptions of
                                  Software Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . 119--131
                  Jon D. Valett   The Practical Use of Empirical Studies
                                  for Maintenance Process Improvement  . . 133--142
             Khaled El Emam and   
                   Dirk Hoeltje   Qualitative Analysis of a Requirements
                                  Change Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--152
                Mikael Lindvall   Evaluating Impact Analysis --- A Case
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--158
   Anneliese von Mayrhauser and   
                  A. Marie Vans   On Increasing Our Knowledge of
                                  Large-Scale Software Comprehension . . . 159--163
                 Sandro Morasca   Applying QIP/GQM in a Maintenance
                                  Project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--166
             Niclas Ohlsson and   
      Ann Christin Eriksson and   
                  Mary Helander   Early Risk-Management by Identification
                                  of Fault-prone Modules . . . . . . . . . 166--173
              Jarrett Rosenberg   Problems and Prospects in Quantifying
                                  Software Maintainability . . . . . . . . 173--177
            Gregg Rothermel and   
              Mary Jean Harrold   Experience With Regression Test
                                  Selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--188
         David S. Rosenblum and   
              Elaine J. Weyuker   Lessons Learned from a Regression
                                  Testing Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . 188--191
            Norman Schneidewind   NASA Shuttle Software Maintenance
                                  Evolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--196
          Carolyn B. Seaman and   
               Victor R. Basili   The Study of Software Maintenance
                                  Organizations and Processes  . . . . . . 197--201
               Eirik Tryggeseth   Report from an Experiment: Impact of
                                  Documentation on Maintenance . . . . . . 201--207

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 2, Number 3, 1997

            Warren Harrison and   
                  Victor Basili   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
         Robert W. Bowdidge and   
            William G. Griswold   How Software Engineering Tools Organize
                                  Programmer Behavior During the Task of
                                  Data Encapsulation . . . . . . . . . . . 221--267
            Christopher M. Lott   A Controlled Experiment to Evaluate
                                  On-Line Process Guidance . . . . . . . . 269--289
           Lionel C. Briand and   
            Christian Bunse and   
               John W. Daly and   
          Christiane Differding   An Experimental Comparison of the
                                  Maintainability of Object-Oriented and
                                  Structured Design Documents  . . . . . . 291--312
                     Horst Zuse   Comments to the Paper: Briand, Eman,
                                  Morasca: \booktitleOn the Application of
                                  Measurement Theory in Software
                                  Engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--316
              Lionel Briand and   
             Khaled El Emam and   
                 Sandro Morasca   Reply to ``Comments to the Paper:
                                  Briand, El Emam, Morasca: \booktitleOn
                                  the Application of Measurement Theory in
                                  Software Engineering'' . . . . . . . . . 317--322

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 2, Number 4, 1997

            Warren Harrison and   
                  Victor Basili   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
                    Andy Brooks   Meta Analysis --- A Silver Bullet ---
                                  for Meta-Analysts  . . . . . . . . . . . 333--338
         Barry G. Silverman and   
                  Toufic Mehzer   A Study of Strategies for Computerized
                                  Critiquing of Programmers  . . . . . . . 339--359
             James D. Kiper and   
          Brent Auernheimer and   
                Charles K. Ames   Visual Depiction of Decision Statements:
                                  What is Best for Programmers and
                                  Non-Programmers? . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--379
                R. Harrison and   
                  L. Briand and   
                    J. Daly and   
                 M. Kellner and   
                D. M. Raffo and   
                 M. J. Shepperd   Process Modelling and Empirical Studies
                                  of Software Evolution (PMESSE'97)
                                  Workshop Report  . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--403


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 3, Number 1, 1998

            Warren Harrison and   
                  Victor Basili   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
                Warren Harrison   Sharing the Wealth: Accumulating and
                                  Sharing Lessons Learned in Empirical
                                  Software Engineering Research  . . . . . 7--8
          Philip M. Johnson and   
                  Danu Tjahjono   Does Every Inspection Really Need a
                                  Meeting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--35
                  J. Miller and   
                    M. Wood and   
                       M. Roper   Further Experiences with Scenarios and
                                  Checklists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--64
           Lionel C. Briand and   
               John W. Daly and   
          Jürgen Wüst   A Unified Framework for Cohesion
                                  Measurement in Object-Oriented Systems   65--117

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 3, Number 2, 1998

                      Anonymous   ``In This Issue''  . . . . . . . . . . . 127--127
                      Anonymous   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
          James H. Cross II and   
            T. Dean Hendrix and   
              Saeed Maghsoodloo   The Control Structure Diagram: An
                                  Overview and Initial Evaluation  . . . . 131--158
            John G. Bilotta and   
                 John F. McGrew   A Guttman Scaling of CMM Level 2
                                  Practices: Investigating the
                                  Implementation Sequences Underlying
                                  Software Engineering Maturity  . . . . . 159--177
       Pierfrancesco Fusaro and   
             Khaled El Emam and   
                      Bob Smith   The Internal Consistencies of the 1987
                                  SEI Maturity Questionnaire and the SPICE
                                  Capability Dimension . . . . . . . . . . 179--201
          Mary Jean Harrold and   
             James A. Jones and   
                Gregg Rothermel   Empirical Studies of Control Dependence
                                  Graph Size for C Programs  . . . . . . . 203--211
               Susan Wiedenbeck   Conference Report: The Seventh Empirical
                                  Studies of Programmers Workshop  . . . . 213--216

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 3, Number 3, September, 1998

                      Anonymous   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
                      Anonymous   Viewpoint: Linking Education With
                                  Practice: Involving Software Engineering
                                  Educators and Researchers in the
                                  Profession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--231
               F. MacDonald and   
                      J. Miller   A Comparison of Tool-Based and
                                  Paper-Based Software Inspection  . . . . 233--253
                R. Harrison and   
             S. J. Counsell and   
                    R. V. Nithi   An Investigation into the Applicability
                                  and Validity of Object-Oriented Design
                                  Metrics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--273
      Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and   
                Edward B. Allen   Classification of Fault-Prone Software
                                  Modules: Prior Probabilities, Costs, and
                                  Model Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--298
              Lionel Briand and   
           Filippo Lanubile and   
          Shari L. Pfleeger and   
            Gregg Rothermel and   
            Norman Schneidewind   Empirical Studies of Software
                                  Maintenance: A Report from WESS '97  . . 299--307

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 3, Number 4, December, 1998

                      Anonymous   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
                   Ross Jeffery   Viewpoint: PhD Abstract Publication in
                                  Empirical Software Engineering . . . . . 325--326
           Kristian Sandahl and   
              Ola Blomkvist and   
           Joachim Karlsson and   
        Christian Krysander and   
            Mikael Lindvall and   
                 Niclas Ohlsson   An Extended Replication of an Experiment
                                  for Assessing Methods for Software
                                  Requirements Inspections . . . . . . . . 327--354
                Adam Porter and   
                 Lawrence Votta   Comparing Detection Methods For Software
                                  Requirements Inspections: A Replication
                                  Using Professional Subjects  . . . . . . 355--379
                Per Runeson and   
                   Claes Wohlin   An Experimental Evaluation of an
                                  Experience-Based Capture--Recapture
                                  Method in Software Code Inspections  . . 381--406
                    David Raffo   Software Process Simulation Modeling
                                  (ProSim'98): Workshop Report . . . . . . 407--412


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 4, Number 1, 1999

               Jean Scholtz and   
                Ben Shneiderman   Introduction to Special Issue on
                                  Usability Engineering  . . . . . . . . . 5--10
                 F. Paterno and   
                     C. Mancini   Engineering the Design of Usable
                                  Hypermedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--42
               Zhijun Zhang and   
              Victor Basili and   
                Ben Shneiderman   Perspective-based Usability Inspection:
                                  An Empirical Validation of Efficacy  . . 43--69
            Susan L. Keenan and   
             H. Rex Hartson and   
           Dennis G. Kafura and   
             Robert S. Schulman   The Usability Problem Taxonomy: A
                                  Framework for Classification and
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--104

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 4, Number 2, June, 1999

            Warren Harrison and   
                  Victor Basili   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
                 Khaled El Emam   Benchmarking Kappa: Interrater Agreement
                                  in Software Process Assessments  . . . . 113--133
            Fiona Walkerden and   
                   Ross Jeffery   An Empirical Study of Analogy-based
                                  Software Effort Estimation . . . . . . . 135--158
      Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and   
                Edward B. Allen   A Comparative Study of Ordering and
                                  Classification of Fault-Prone Software
                                  Modules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--186

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 4, Number 3, September, 1999

            William Agresti and   
               Marvin Zelkowitz   Introduction to the Special Issue:
                                  Papers from the Fifth International
                                  Symposium on Software Metrics  . . . . . 195--198
           Alberto Avritzer and   
              Elaine J. Weyuker   Metrics to Assess the Likelihood of
                                  Project Success Based on Architecture
                                  Reviews  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--215
           John D. McGregor and   
               Il-Hyung Cho and   
            Brian A. Malloy and   
             E. Lowry Curry and   
                 Chanika Hobatr   Collecting Metrics for CORBA-Based
                                  Distributed Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 217--240
        Sebastian G. Elbaum and   
                 John C. Munson   Software Evolution and the Code Fault
                                  Introduction Process . . . . . . . . . . 241--262
          Giuliano Antoniol and   
                Chris Lokan and   
         Gianluigi Caldiera and   
                 Roberto Fiutem   A Function Point-Like Measure for
                                  Object-Oriented Software . . . . . . . . 263--287

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 4, Number 4, December, 1999

            Warren Harrison and   
                  Victor Basili   ``In This Issue''  . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
             Andrew R. Gray and   
           Stephen G. MacDonell   Software Metrics Data Analysis ---
                                  Exploring the Relative Performance of
                                  Some Commonly Used Modeling Techniques   297--316
          Philip M. Johnson and   
                 Anne M. Disney   A Critical Analysis of PSP Data Quality:
                                  Results from a Case Study  . . . . . . . 317--349
                    R. Harrison   Empirical Studies of Software
                                  Development and Evolution (ESSDE 99)
                                  Workshop Report  . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--352
                David Raffo and   
                Timo Kaltio and   
            Derek Partridge and   
                Keith Phalp and   
                  Juan F. Ramil   Empirical Studies Applied to Software
                                  Process Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--369
                 K. Bennett and   
                    E. Burd and   
                 C. Kemerer and   
               M. M. Lehman and   
                     M. Lee and   
                 R. Madachy and   
                    C. Mair and   
                 D. Sjoberg and   
                   S. Slaughter   Empirical Studies of Evolving Systems    370--380
                  L. M. Ott and   
                 A. Kinnula and   
                  C. Seaman and   
                      C. Wohlin   The Role of Empirical Studies in Process
                                  Improvement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--386
                  L. Briand and   
                E. Arisholm and   
                S. Counsell and   
                  F. Houdek and   
      P. Thévenod--Fosse   Empirical Studies of Object-Oriented
                                  Artifacts, Methods, and Processes: State
                                  of the Art and Future Directions . . . . 387--404
                R. Harrison and   
                   N. Badoo and   
                   E. Barry and   
                   S. Biffl and   
                   A. Parra and   
                  B. Winter and   
                       J. Wuest   Directions and Methodologies for
                                  Empirical Software Engineering Research  405--410


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 5, Number 1, March, 2000

            Warren Harrison and   
                  Victor Basili   ``In This Issue''  . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
                Warren Harrison   Editorial: An Issue of Ethics:
                                  Responsibilities and Obligations of
                                  Empirical Software Engineering
                                  Researchers \ldots . . . . . . . . . . . 7--9
        Lesley Pek Wee Land and   
                Chris Sauer and   
                   Ross Jeffery   The Use of Procedural Roles in Code
                                  Inspections: An Experimental Study . . . 11--34
                 L. Angelis and   
                    I. Stamelos   A Simulation Tool for Efficient Analogy
                                  Based Cost Estimation  . . . . . . . . . 35--68
              Andrew Brooks and   
             Bruce Campbell and   
                   Louise Scott   The Human--Computer Interface
                                  Explanation: A Correspondence on
                                  Jankowski's Paper on Methodological
                                  Support for Structured Analysis  . . . . 69--71
                   Ross Jeffrey   An Introduction to
                                  ``\booktitleDissertation Abstracts'' . . 73--74
                  Austen Rainer   An Empirical Investigation of Software
                                  Project Schedule Behaviour . . . . . . . 75--77

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 5, Number 2, June, 2000

            Warren Harrison and   
                  Victor Basili   ``In This Issue''  . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
              Janice Singer and   
                  Norman Vinson   Ethics and Empirical Studies of Software
                                  Engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--91
          Anders Wesslén   A Replicated Empirical Study of the
                                  Impact of the Methods in the PSP on
                                  Individual Engineers . . . . . . . . . . 93--123
          A. von Mayrhauser and   
                  C. Wohlin and   
                  M. C. Ohlsson   Assessing and Understanding Efficiency
                                  and Success of Software Production . . . 125--154
        Michael G. Gonzales and   
             Seshadri Paravastu   Correction of the Software Science
                                  Length Estimator Skewness for `C'
                                  Language Programs  . . . . . . . . . . . 155--159

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 5, Number 3, November, 2000

                      Anonymous   EASE 2000 Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . 171--174
            Martin Shepperd and   
        Michelle Cartwright and   
                    Gada Kadoda   On Building Prediction Systems for
                                  Software Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . 175--182
              Michael Berry and   
                   Ross Jeffery   An Instrument for Assessing Software
                                  Measurement Programs . . . . . . . . . . 183--200
           Martin Höst and   
         Björn Regnell and   
                   Claes Wohlin   Using Students as Subjects --- A
                                  Comparative Study of Students and
                                  Professionals in Lead-Time Impact
                                  Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--214
                Keith Phalp and   
                       Karl Cox   Picking the Right Problem Frame --- An
                                  Empirical Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--228
              Luigi Lavazza and   
               Giuseppe Valetto   Requirements-Based Estimation of Change
                                  Costs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--243
                   Karl Cox and   
                    Keith Phalp   Replicating the CREWS Use Case Authoring
                                  Guidelines Experiment  . . . . . . . . . 245--267
              Andrew Brooks and   
             Fredrik Utbult and   
         Catherine Mulligan and   
                   Ross Jeffery   Early Lifecycle Work: Influence of
                                  Individual Characteristics,
                                  Methodological Constraints, and
                                  Interface Constraints  . . . . . . . . . 269--285
         Alessandro Maccari and   
                   Claudio Riva   Empirical Evaluation of CASE Tools Usage
                                  at Nokia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--299

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 5, Number 4, December, 2000

            Warren Harrison and   
                  Victor Basili   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
                Walter F. Tichy   Hints for Reviewing Empirical Work in
                                  Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 309--312
      Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and   
              Xiaojing Yuan and   
                Edward B. Allen   Balancing Misclassification Rates in
                                  Classification-Tree Models of Software
                                  Quality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--330
         Björn Regnell and   
                Per Runeson and   
                  Thomas Thelin   Are the Perspectives Really Different?
                                  --- Further Experimentation on
                                  Scenario-Based Reading of Requirements   331--356
                      Tore Dyba   An Instrument for Measuring the Key
                                  Factors of Success in Software Process
                                  Improvement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--390


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 6, Number 1, March, 2001

            Warren Harrison and   
                  Victor Basili   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
                      Anonymous   Welcome to the New Members of the
                                  Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--9
           Lionel C. Briand and   
      Jürgen Wüst and   
                   Hakim Lounis   Replicated Case Studies for
                                  Investigating Quality Factors in
                                  Object-Oriented Designs  . . . . . . . . 11--58
      Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and   
                Edward B. Allen   Controlling Overfitting in
                                  Classification-Tree Models of Software
                                  Quality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--79
            Oliver Laitenberger   Cost-effective Detection of Software
                                  Defects through Perspective-based
                                  Inspections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84
          Susan Elliott Sim and   
              Janice Singer and   
           Margaret-Anne Storey   Beg, Borrow, or Steal: Using
                                  Multidisciplinary Approaches in
                                  Empirical Software Engineering Research  85--93

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 6, Number 2, June, 2001

                      Anonymous   In this Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
 Anneliese Amschler Andrews and   
            Arundeep S. Pradhan   Ethical Issues in Empirical Software
                                  Engineering: The Limits of Policy  . . . 105--110
MÁrcio Eduardo Delamaro and   
JosÉ Carlos Maldonado and   
           Alberto Pasquini and   
               Aditya P. Mathur   Interface Mutation Test Adequacy
                                  Criterion: An Empirical Evaluation . . . 111--142
           Patrick d'Astous and   
        Pierre N. Robillard and   
Françoise Détienne and   
               Willemien Visser   Quantitative Measurements of the
                                  Influence of Participant Roles during
                                  Peer Review Meetings . . . . . . . . . . 143--159
                Andreas Zendler   A Preliminary Software Engineering
                                  Theory as Investigated by Published
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--180
                      Anonymous   3rd International Workshop on Learning
                                  Software Organizations (LSO'01)  . . . . 181--181

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 6, Number 3, September, 2001

                      Anonymous   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
                      Anonymous   Editorial: Open Source and Empirical
                                  Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
                  Norman Fenton   Viewpoint Article: Conducting and
                                  Presenting Empirical Software
                                  Engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--200
         Norman F. Schneidewind   Knowledge Requirements for Software
                                  Quality Measurement  . . . . . . . . . . 201--205
             Khaled El-Emam and   
           Dennis Goldenson and   
             James McCurley and   
                 James Herbsleb   Modelling the Likelihood of Software
                                  Process Improvement: An Exploratory
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--229
              Erik Arisholm and   
   Dag I. K. Sjòberg and   
         Magne Jòrgensen   Assessing the Changeability of two
                                  Object-Oriented Design Alternatives ---
                                  a Controlled Experiment  . . . . . . . . 231--277
                      Anonymous   Call for Papers  . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 6, Number 4, December, 2001

              Janice Singer and   
                  Norman Vinson   Why and How Research Ethics Matters to
                                  You. Yes, You! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--290
                 Khaled El-Emam   Ethics and Open Source . . . . . . . . . 291--292
              Norman Vinson and   
                  Janice Singer   Getting to the Source of Ethical Issues  293--297
              Carolyn B. Seaman   Ethics in Qualitative Studies of
                                  Commercial Software Enterprises: Case
                                  Description  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300
              Donald Gotterbarn   Ethics in Qualitative Studies of
                                  Commercial Software Enterprises: Ethical
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--304
                 Tracy Hall and   
                  Valerie Flynn   Ethical Issues in Software Engineering
                                  Research: A Survey of Current Practice   305--317
          Timothy C. Lethbridge   Mixing Software Engineering Research and
                                  Development --- What Needs Ethical
                                  Review and What Does Not?  . . . . . . . 319--321
                 Joan E. Sieber   Not Your Ordinary Research . . . . . . . 323--327
                 Joan E. Sieber   Protecting Research Subjects, Employees
                                  and Researchers: Implications for
                                  Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 329--341
            M.-A. D. Storey and   
                B. Phillips and   
                   M. Maczewski   Is it Ethical to Evaluate Web-based
                                  Learning Tools using Students? . . . . . 343--348
                  Michael Davis   When is a Volunteer Not a Volunteer? . . 349--352
       Ulrike Becker-Kornstaedt   Descriptive Software Process Modeling
                                  --- How to Deal with Sensitive Process
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--367


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 7, Number 1, March, 2002

            Warren Harrison and   
                  Victor Basili   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
             Lars Bratthall and   
         Magne Jòrgensen   Can you Trust a Single Data Source:
                                  Exploratory Software Engineering Case
                                  Study? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--26
          Mari Carmen Otero and   
      José Javier Dolado   An Initial Experimental Assessment of
                                  the Dynamic Modelling in UML . . . . . . 27--47
            Shinji Kusumoto and   
           Akira Nishimatsu and   
             Keisuke Nishie and   
                  Katsuro Inoue   Experimental Evaluation of Program
                                  Slicing for Fault Localization . . . . . 49--76
            Lesley Pek Wee Land   Software Group Reviews and the Impact of
                                  Procedural Roles on Defect Detection
                                  Performance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--79

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 7, Number 2, June, 2002

                      Anonymous   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
              Nathan Baddoo and   
                     Tracy Hall   Software Process Improvement Motivators:
                                  An Analysis using Multidimensional
                                  Scaling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--114
       Jean-Marie Burkhardt and   
Françoise Détienne and   
               Susan Wiedenbeck   Object-Oriented Program Comprehension:
                                  Effect of Expertise, Task and Phase  . . 115--156
            Hareton K. N. Leung   Estimating Maintenance Effort by Analogy 157--175
             Isabella Wieczorek   Improved Software Cost Estimation --- A
                                  Robust and Interpretable Modelling
                                  Method and a Comprehensive Empirical
                                  Investigation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180
                      Anonymous   2002 International Symposium on
                                  Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE
                                  2002)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--183

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 7, Number 3, September, 2002

                      Anonymous   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
    Ignatios S. Deligiannis and   
            Martin Shepperd and   
              Steve Webster and   
              Manos Roumeliotis   A Review of Experimental Investigations
                                  into Object-Oriented Technology  . . . . 193--231
          Helen C. Purchase and   
           David Carrington and   
                 Jo-Anne Allder   Empirical Evaluation of Aesthetics-based
                                  Graph Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--255
               Stefan Biffl and   
              Walter J. Gutjahr   Using a Reliability Growth Model to
                                  Control Software Inspection  . . . . . . 257--284

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 7, Number 4, December, 2002

                      Anonymous   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
      Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and   
              Xiaojing Yuan and   
            Edward B. Allen and   
           Wendell D. Jones and   
               John P. Hudepohl   Uncertain Classification of Fault-Prone
                                  Software Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--318
            C. Stringfellow and   
            A. Amschler Andrews   An Empirical Method for Selecting
                                  Software Reliability Growth Models . . . 319--343
        Oliver Laitenberger and   
                Thomas Beil and   
                  Thilo Schwinn   An Industrial Case Study to Examine a
                                  Non-Traditional Inspection
                                  Implementation for Requirements
                                  Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--374
         Magne Jòrgensen   Comments on \booktitleA Simulation Tool
                                  for Efficient Analogy Based Cost
                                  Estimation, by L. Angelis and I.
                                  Stamelos, published in Empirical
                                  Software Engineering, 5, 35--68 (2000)   375--376
                 L. Angelis and   
                    I. Stamelos   Reply to comments by M. Jorgensen, on
                                  the paper: \booktitleA Simulation Tool
                                  for Efficient Analogy Based Cost
                                  Estimation by L. Angelis and I.
                                  Stamelos, Published in Empirical
                                  Software Engineering, 5, 35--68 (2000)   377--381
        Torgeir Dingsòyr   Knowledge Management in Medium-Sized
                                  Software Consulting Companies  . . . . . 383--386
                Tore Dybå   Enabling Software Process Improvement:
                                  An Investigation of the Importance of
                                  Organizational Issues  . . . . . . . . . 387--390


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 8, Number 1, March, 2003

                      Anonymous   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
              Sarah Beecham and   
                 Tracy Hall and   
                  Austen Rainer   Software Process Improvement Problems in
                                  Twelve Software Companies: An Empirical
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--42
           Nadine Hanebutte and   
            Carol S. Taylor and   
                Reiner R. Dumke   Techniques of Successful Application of
                                  Factor Analysis in Software Measurement  43--57
           Griselda Giraudo and   
                  Paolo Tonella   Designing and Conducting an Empirical
                                  Study on Test Management Automation  . . 59--81
            Mikael Lindvall and   
   Roseanne Tesoriero Tvedt and   
                 Patricia Costa   An Empirically-Based Process for
                                  Software Architecture Evaluation . . . . 83--108

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 8, Number 2, June, 2003

              Lionel Briand and   
                  Victor Basili   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
            Maurizio Pighin and   
            Vili Podgorelec and   
                    Peter Kokol   Fault-Threshold Prediction with Linear
                                  Programming Methodologies  . . . . . . . 117--138
              Erik Stensrud and   
                  Tron Foss and   
         Barbara Kitchenham and   
                Ingunn Myrtveit   A Further Empirical Investigation of the
                                  Relationship Between MRE and Project
                                  Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--161
              Emilia Mendes and   
                 Ian Watson and   
               Chris Triggs and   
                Nile Mosley and   
                 Steve Counsell   A Comparative Study of Cost Estimation
                                  Models for Web Hypermedia Applications   163--196
            Giancarlo Succi and   
             Witold Pedrycz and   
         Milorad Stefanovic and   
                  Barbara Russo   An Investigation on the Occurrence of
                                  Service Requests in Commercial Software
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--215

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 8, Number 3, September, 2003

              Lionel Briand and   
                     Vic Basili   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
                G. Antoniol and   
                  R. Fiutem and   
                       C. Lokan   Object-Oriented Function Points: An
                                  Empirical Validation . . . . . . . . . . 225--254
      Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and   
                   Naeem Seliya   Fault Prediction Modeling for Software
                                  Quality Estimation: Comparing Commonly
                                  Used Techniques  . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--283
               Claes Wohlin and   
     Anneliese Amschler Andrews   Prioritizing and Assessing Software
                                  Project Success Factors and Project
                                  Characteristics using Subjective Data    285--308
                  Thomas Thelin   Empirical Evaluations of Usage-Based
                                  Reading and Fault Content Estimation for
                                  Software Inspections . . . . . . . . . . 309--313

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 8, Number 4, December, 2003

              Lionel Briand and   
                     Vic Basili   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--324
      Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and   
                   Naeem Seliya   Analogy-Based Practical Classification
                                  Rules for Software Quality Estimation    325--350
          Stephen R. Schach and   
                     Bo Jin and   
                   Liguo Yu and   
          Gillian Z. Heller and   
                    Jeff Offutt   Determining the Distribution of
                                  Maintenance Categories: Survey versus
                                  Measurement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--365
              Dietmar Pfahl and   
        Oliver Laitenberger and   
           Jörg Dorsch and   
              Günther Ruhe   An Externally Replicated Experiment for
                                  Evaluating the Learning Effectiveness of
                                  Using Simulations in Software Project
                                  Management Education . . . . . . . . . . 367--395


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 9, Number 1--2, March, 2004

                   Ross Jeffery   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
            Natalia Juristo and   
              Ana M. Moreno and   
                     Sira Vegas   Reviewing 25 Years of Testing Technique
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--44
             Daniela Damian and   
               Didar Zowghi and   
Lakshminarayanan Vaidyanathasamy and   
                   Yogendra Pal   An Industrial Case Study of Immediate
                                  Benefits of Requirements Engineering
                                  Process Improvement at the Australian
                                  Center for Unisys Software . . . . . . . 45--75
              Thomas Thelin and   
                Per Runeson and   
               Claes Wohlin and   
              Thomas Olsson and   
               Carina Andersson   Evaluation of Usage-Based Reading ---
                                  Conclusions after Three Experiments  . . 77--110
              Forrest Shull and   
 Manoel G. Mendoncça and   
              Victor Basili and   
             Jeffrey Carver and   
   José C. Maldonado and   
              Sandra Fabbri and   
  Guilherme Horta Travassos and   
        Maria Cristina Ferreira   Knowledge-Sharing Issues in Experimental
                                  Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 111--137

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 9, Number 3, September, 2004

                      Anonymous   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--148
       Marek Voká\vc and   
               Walter Tichy and   
   Dag I. K. SjÒberg and   
              Erik Arisholm and   
                   Magne Aldrin   A Controlled Experiment Comparing the
                                  Maintainability of Programs Designed
                                  with and without Design Patterns --- A
                                  Replication in a Real Programming
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--195
                   Kai Chen and   
          Stephen R. Schach and   
                   Liguo Yu and   
                Jeff Offutt and   
              Gillian Z. Heller   Open-Source Change Logs  . . . . . . . . 197--210
                   Claes Wohlin   Are Individual Differences in Software
                                  Development Performance Possible to
                                  Capture Using a Quantitative Survey? . . 211--228
      Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and   
                   Naeem Seliya   Comparative Assessment of Software
                                  Quality Classification Techniques: An
                                  Empirical Case Study . . . . . . . . . . 229--257
                    Jeff Carver   The Impact of Background and Experience
                                  on Software Inspections  . . . . . . . . 259--262

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 9, Number 4, December, 2004

               Marian Petre and   
               David Budgen and   
                   Jean Scholtz   A Focus on the Human Side of Software
                                  Engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--274
            Jarmo J. Ahonen and   
            Tuukka Junttila and   
                Markku Sakkinen   Impacts of the Organizational Model on
                                  Testing: Three Industrial Cases  . . . . 275--296
         Magne Jòrgensen   Regression Models of Software
                                  Development Effort Estimation Accuracy
                                  and Bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--314
Kjetil Molòkken-Òstvold and   
         Magne Jòrgensen   Group Processes in Software Effort
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--334
        Matthias M. Müller   Are Reviews an Alternative to Pair
                                  Programming? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--351
                Helen Sharp and   
                  Hugh Robinson   An Ethnographic Study of XP Practice . . 353--375


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 10, Number 1, January, 2005

                      Anonymous   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
     Kjetil Molòkken and   
         Magne Jòrgensen   Expert Estimation of Web-Development
                                  Projects: Are Software Professionals in
                                  Technical Roles More Optimistic Than
                                  Those in Non-Technical Roles?  . . . . . 7--30
            Mira Kajko-Mattsson   A Survey of Documentation Practice
                                  within Corrective Maintenance  . . . . . 31--55
      Iris Reinhartz-Berger and   
                       Dov Dori   OPM vs. UML--Experimenting with
                                  Comprehension and Construction of Web
                                  Application Models . . . . . . . . . . . 57--80
            Giancarlo Succi and   
             Witold Pedrycz and   
             Snezana Djokic and   
              Paolo Zuliani and   
                  Barbara Russo   An Empirical Exploration of the
                                  Distributions of the Chidamber and
                                  Kemerer Object-Oriented Metrics Suite    81--104

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 10, Number 2, April, 2005

              Lionel Briand and   
                     Vic Basili   In this Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
  Amela Karahasanoviæ and   
                 Bente Anda and   
              Erik Arisholm and   
         Siw Elisabeth Hove and   
     Magne Jòrgensen and   
   Dag I. K. Sjòberg and   
                    Ray Welland   Collecting Feedback during Software
                                  Engineering Experiments  . . . . . . . . 113--147
           Mikael Svahnberg and   
                   Claes Wohlin   An Investigation of a Method for
                                  Identifying a Software Architecture
                                  Candidate with Respect to Quality
                                  Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--181
      Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and   
               Naeem Seliya and   
                      Kehan Gao   Assessment of a New Three-Group Software
                                  Quality Classification Technique: An
                                  Empirical Case Study . . . . . . . . . . 183--218
                 James McDonald   The Impact of Project Planning Team
                                  Experience on Software Project Cost
                                  Estimates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--234
                Qinbao Song and   
            Martin Shepperd and   
            Michelle Cartwright   A Short Note on Safest Default
                                  Missingness Mechanism Assumptions  . . . 235--243

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 10, Number 3, July, 2005

                      Anonymous   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253
             Daniela Damian and   
               James Chisan and   
Lakshminarayanan Vaidyanathasamy and   
                   Yogendra Pal   Requirements Engineering and Downstream
                                  Software Development: Findings from a
                                  Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--283
                 Bente Anda and   
       Dag I. K. Sjòberg   Investigating the Role of Use Cases in
                                  the Construction of Class Diagrams . . . 285--309
      Timothy C. Lethbridge and   
          Susan Elliott Sim and   
                  Janice Singer   Studying Software Engineers: Data
                                  Collection Techniques for Software Field
                                  Studies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--341
                Helen Sharp and   
               Mark Woodman and   
                 Fiona Hovenden   Using Metaphor to Analyse Qualitative
                                  Data: Vulcans and Humans in Software
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--365
               Jörg Zettel   Methodology Support in CASE Tools and
                                  Its Impact on Individual Acceptance and
                                  Use: A Controlled Experiment . . . . . . 367--394

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 10, Number 4, October, 2005

                      Anonymous   In this Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--404
                Hyunsook Do and   
           Sebastian Elbaum and   
                Gregg Rothermel   Supporting Controlled Experimentation
                                  with Testing Techniques: An
                                  Infrastructure and its Potential Impact  405--435
                 Sira Vegas and   
                  Victor Basili   A Characterisation Schema for Software
                                  Testing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . 437--466
                    Jan Verelst   The Influence of the Level of
                                  Abstraction on the Evolvability of
                                  Conceptual Models of Information Systems 467--494
            Yasunari Takagi and   
               Osamu Mizuno and   
                   Tohru Kikuno   An Empirical Approach to Characterizing
                                  Risky Software Projects Based on
                                  Logistic Regression Analysis . . . . . . 495--515
                   Judith Segal   When Software Engineers Met Research
                                  Scientists: A Case Study . . . . . . . . 517--536


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 11, Number 1, March, 2006

                      Anonymous   In This Issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
             Michael Ellims and   
              James Bridges and   
                 Darrel C. Ince   The Economics of Unit Testing  . . . . . 5--31
                Hyunsook Do and   
            Gregg Rothermel and   
                   Alex Kinneer   Prioritizing JUnit Test Cases: An
                                  Empirical Assessment and Cost--Benefits
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--70
Katerina Go\vseva-Popstojanova and   
            Ajay Deep Singh and   
             Sunil Mazimdar and   
                     Fengbin Li   Empirical Characterization of
                                  Session-Based Workload and Reliability
                                  for Web Servers  . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--117
   José C. Maldonado and   
             Jeffrey Carver and   
              Forrest Shull and   
              Sandra Fabbri and   
       Emerson Dória and   
         Luciana Martimiano and   
     Manoel Mendonça and   
                  Victor Basili   Perspective-Based Reading: A Replicated
                                  Experiment Focused on Individual
                                  Reviewer Effectiveness . . . . . . . . . 119--142
     Sharifah Syed-Abdullah and   
              Mike Holcombe and   
                 Marian Gheorge   The Impact of an Agile Methodology on
                                  the Well Being of Development Teams  . . 143--167

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 11, Number 2, June, 2006

                      Anonymous   In this issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172
                 Avik Sinha and   
                   Carol Smidts   An experimental evaluation of a
                                  higher-ordered-typed-functional
                                  specification-based test-generation
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--202
      Daniel Karlström and   
                    Per Runeson   Integrating Agile software development
                                  into stage-gate managed product
                                  development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--225
                Christian Bunse   Using patterns for the refinement and
                                  translation of UML models: A controlled
                                  experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--267
         Panagiotis Sfetsos and   
           Lefteris Angelis and   
               Ioannis Stamelos   Investigating the Extreme programming
                                  system --- an empirical study  . . . . . 269--301
         Johan Natt och Dag and   
              Thomas Thelin and   
             Björn Regnell   An experiment on linguistic tool support
                                  for consolidation of requirements from
                                  multiple sources in market-driven
                                  product development  . . . . . . . . . . 303--329

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 11, Number 3, September, 2006

                      Anonymous   EMSE special issue from ICSM and Metrics 333--334
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
                Richard C. Holt   Replaying development history to assess
                                  the effectiveness of change propagation
                                  tools  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--367
               Daniel M. German   An empirical study of fine-grained
                                  software modifications . . . . . . . . . 369--393
  Mika V. Mäntylä and   
               Casper Lassenius   Subjective evaluation of software
                                  evolvability using code smells: An
                                  empirical study  . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--431
                 Jingyue Li and   
  Finn Olav Bjòrnson and   
             Reidar Conradi and   
             Vigdis B. Kampenes   An empirical study of variations in
                                  COTS-based software development
                                  processes in the Norwegian IT industry   433--461
           Per Jönsson and   
                   Claes Wohlin   Benchmarking $k$-nearest neighbour
                                  imputation with homogeneous Likert data  ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 2006

              Lionel Briand and   
                  Victor Basili   In this issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--492
         Jane Huffman Hayes and   
                    Jeff Offutt   Input validation analysis and testing    493--522
             Jeffrey Carver and   
              Forrest Shull and   
                  Victor Basili   Can observational techniques help
                                  novices overcome the software inspection
                                  learning curve? An empirical
                                  investigation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--539
      Girish H. Subramanian and   
        Parag C. Pendharkar and   
                   Mary Wallace   An empirical study of the effect of
                                  complexity, platform, and program type
                                  on software development effort of
                                  business applications  . . . . . . . . . 541--553
                 Bente Anda and   
                 Kai Hansen and   
            Ingolf Gullesen and   
          Hanne Kristin Thorsen   Experiences from introducing UML-based
                                  development in a large safety-critical
                                  project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--581
               Mats Grindal and   
    Birgitta Lindström and   
                Jeff Offutt and   
                 Sten F. Andler   An evaluation of combination strategies
                                  for test case selection  . . . . . . . . 583--611
                      Anonymous   Empirical software engineering:
                                  Industrial experience reports  . . . . . 613--613


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 12, Number 1, February, 2007

              Lionel Briand and   
                  Victor Basili   In this issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
              Lena Karlsson and   
              Thomas Thelin and   
         Björn Regnell and   
            Patrik Berander and   
                   Claes Wohlin   Pair-wise comparisons versus planning
                                  game partitioning --- experiments on
                                  requirements prioritisation techniques   3--33
 Hél\`ene Waeselynck and   
Pascale Thévenod-Fosse and   
        Olfa Abdellatif-Kaddour   Simulated annealing applied to test
                                  generation: landscape characterization
                                  and stopping criteria  . . . . . . . . . 35--63
                Jingzhou Li and   
              Guenther Ruhe and   
             Ahmed Al-Emran and   
             Michael M. Richter   A flexible method for software effort
                                  estimation by analogy  . . . . . . . . . 65--106
           Victor R. Basili and   
        Marvin V. Zelkowitz and   
   Dag I. K. Sjòberg and   
             Philip Johnson and   
             Anthony J. Cowling   Protocols in the use of empirical
                                  software engineering artifacts . . . . . 107--119

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 12, Number 2, April, 2007

              Lionel Briand and   
                     Vic Basili   In this issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
                       Liguo Yu   Understanding component co-evolution
                                  with a study on Linux  . . . . . . . . . 123--141
              Xiangyu Zhang and   
               Neelam Gupta and   
                    Rajiv Gupta   A study of effectiveness of dynamic
                                  slicing in locating real faults  . . . . 143--160
                   Man Xiao and   
           Mohamed El-Attar and   
             Marek Reformat and   
                   James Miller   Empirical evaluation of optimization
                                  algorithms when used in goal-oriented
                                  automated test data generation
                                  techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--239
               Carina Andersson   A replicated empirical study of a
                                  selection method for software
                                  reliability growth models  . . . . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 12, Number 3, June, 2007

              Lionel Briand and   
                     Vic Basili   In this issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242
               Douglas Kirk and   
                 Marc Roper and   
                    Murray Wood   Identifying and addressing problems in
                                  object-oriented framework reuse  . . . . 243--274
             Steve Counsell and   
              George Loizou and   
                   Rajaa Najjar   Quality of manual data collection in
                                  Java software: an empirical
                                  investigation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--293
              Raimund Moser and   
              Barbara Russo and   
                Giancarlo Succi   Empirical analysis on the correlation
                                  between GCC compiler warnings and
                                  revision numbers of source files in five
                                  industrial software projects . . . . . . 295--310
              Allen E. Milewski   Global and task effects in
                                  information-seeking among software
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--326

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 12, Number 4, August, 2007

              Lionel Briand and   
                  Victor Basili   In this issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--329
                    Ping Li and   
                 Toan Huynh and   
             Marek Reformat and   
                   James Miller   A practical approach to testing GUI
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--357
                Dawn Lawrie and   
                Henry Feild and   
                  David Binkley   Quantifying identifier quality: an
                                  analysis of trends . . . . . . . . . . . 359--388
              Hayden Melton and   
                   Ewan Tempero   An empirical study of cycles among
                                  classes in Java  . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--415
            Mikael Lindvall and   
                  Ioana Rus and   
             Paolo Donzelli and   
                 Atif Memon and   
           Marvin Zelkowitz and   
             Aysu Betin-Can and   
              Tevfik Bultan and   
            Chris Ackermann and   
             Bettina Anders and   
                Sima Asgari and   
              Victor Basili and   
            Lorin Hochstein and   
         Jörg Fellmann and   
              Forrest Shull and   
             Roseanne Tvedt and   
                          et al   Experimenting with software testbeds for
                                  evaluating new technologies  . . . . . . 417--444

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 12, Number 5, October, 2007

              Lionel Briand and   
                  Victor Basili   In this issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--446
           Sebastian Elbaum and   
              Satya Kanduri and   
              Anneliese Andrews   Trace anomalies as precursors of field
                                  failures: an empirical study . . . . . . 447--469
        Parastoo Mohagheghi and   
                 Reidar Conradi   Quality, productivity and economic
                                  benefits of software reuse: a review of
                                  industrial studies . . . . . . . . . . . 471--516
             Marcela Genero and   
            Esperanza Manso and   
             Aaron Visaggio and   
            Gerardo Canfora and   
                 Mario Piattini   Building measure-based prediction models
                                  for UML class diagram maintainability    517--549
              Paolo Tonella and   
            Marco Torchiano and   
               Bart Du Bois and   
               Tarja Systä   Empirical studies in reverse
                                  engineering: state of the art and future
                                  trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--571

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 12, Number 6, December, 2007

              Lionel Briand and   
                  Victor Basili   In this issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--574
                Dowming Yeh and   
               Pei-chen Sun and   
                William Chu and   
             Chien-Lung Lin and   
                    Hongji Yang   An empirical study of a reverse
                                  engineering method for the aggregation
                                  relationship based on operation
                                  propagation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--592
    Matthias M. Müller and   
             Andreas Höfer   The effect of experience on the
                                  test-driven development process  . . . . 593--615
       Margaret A. Wojcicki and   
                  Paul Strooper   Maximising the information gained from a
                                  study of static analysis technologies
                                  for concurrent software  . . . . . . . . 617--645
               Rob Kommeren and   
          Päivi Parviainen   Philips experiences in global
                                  distributed software development . . . . 647--660


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 13, Number 1, February, 2008

      José Maldonado and   
                   Claes Wohlin   In this issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
              Emilia Mendes and   
                    Chris Lokan   Replicating studies on cross- vs
                                  single-company effort models using the
                                  ISBSG Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--37
         Muhammad Ali Babar and   
         Barbara Kitchenham and   
                   Ross Jeffery   Comparing distributed and face-to-face
                                  meetings for software architecture
                                  evaluation: A controlled experiment  . . 39--62
                Jingzhou Li and   
                  Guenther Ruhe   Analysis of attribute weighting
                                  heuristics for analogy-based software
                                  effort estimation method AQUA$^+$  . . . 63--96
         Barbara Kitchenham and   
          Hiyam Al-Khilidar and   
         Muhammed Ali Babar and   
                 Mike Berry and   
                   Karl Cox and   
                Jacky Keung and   
         Felicia Kurniawati and   
               Mark Staples and   
                   He Zhang and   
                     Liming Zhu   Evaluating guidelines for reporting
                                  empirical software engineering studies   97--121

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 13, Number 2, April, 2008

              Lionel Briand and   
                     Vic Basili   In this issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
                Ho-Won Jung and   
            Dennis R. Goldenson   The internal consistency and precedence
                                  of key process areas in the capability
                                  maturity model for software  . . . . . . 125--146
          Panagiotis Sentas and   
           Lefteris Angelis and   
               Ioannis Stamelos   A statistical framework for analyzing
                                  the duration of software projects  . . . 147--184
           Forrest J. Shull and   
          Jeffrey C. Carver and   
                 Sira Vegas and   
                Natalia Juristo   The role of replications in Empirical
                                  Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 211--218
             Barbara Kitchenham   The role of replications in empirical
                                  software engineering --- a word of
                                  warning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--221
                   James Miller   Triangulation as a basis for knowledge
                                  discovery in software engineering  . . . 223--228
   Adalberto Nobiato Crespo and   
                 Mario Jino and   
           Alberto Pasquini and   
   José Carlos Maldonado   A binomial software reliability model
                                  based on coverage of structural testing
                                  criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 13, Number 3, June, 2008

              Lionel Briand and   
                  Victor Basili   In this issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
            Yvonne Dittrich and   
      Kari Rönkkö and   
          Jeanette Eriksson and   
          Christina Hansson and   
                 Olle Lindeberg   Cooperative method development . . . . . 231--260
                 John Moses and   
                 Malcolm Farrow   Tests for consistent measurement of
                                  external subjective software quality
                                  attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--287
        Nachiappan Nagappan and   
      E. Michael Maximilien and   
           Thirumalesh Bhat and   
                Laurie Williams   Realizing quality improvement through
                                  test driven development: results and
                                  experiences of four industrial teams . . 289--302
             M. Pikkarainen and   
                 J. Haikara and   
                    O. Salo and   
             P. Abrahamsson and   
                       J. Still   The impact of Agile practices on
                                  communication in software development    303--337

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 13, Number 4, August, 2008

              Lionel Briand and   
                  Victor Basili   In this issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--342
              Mark Hennessy and   
                 James F. Power   Analysing the effectiveness of
                                  rule-coverage as a reduction criterion
                                  for test suites of grammar-based
                                  software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--368
               David Budgen and   
      Barbara A. Kitchenham and   
         Stuart M. Charters and   
                Mark Turner and   
             Pearl Brereton and   
             Stephen G. Linkman   Presenting software engineering results
                                  using structured abstracts: a randomised
                                  experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--468
     Silvia T. Acuña and   
         Marta Gómez and   
                Natalia Juristo   Towards understanding the relationship
                                  between team climate and software
                                  quality --- a quasi-experimental study   ??
                      Wes Masri   Exploiting the empirical characteristics
                                  of program dependences for improved
                                  forward computation of dynamic slices    ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 13, Number 5, October, 2008

                    Tim Menzies   Editorial, special issue, repeatable
                                  experiments in software engineering  . . 469--471
          Elaine J. Weyuker and   
          Thomas J. Ostrand and   
                 Robert M. Bell   Do too many cooks spoil the broth? Using
                                  the number of developers to enhance
                                  defect prediction models . . . . . . . . 539--559
                  Yue Jiang and   
                Bojan Cukic and   
                         Yan Ma   Techniques for evaluating fault
                                  prediction models  . . . . . . . . . . . 561--595
              Norman Fenton and   
                Martin Neil and   
              William Marsh and   
               Peter Hearty and   
        \Lukasz Radli\'nski and   
                    Paul Krause   On the effectiveness of early life cycle
                                  defect prediction with Bayesian Nets . . ??
       A. Güne\cs Koru and   
             Khaled El Emam and   
             Dongsong Zhang and   
               Hongfang Liu and   
                   Divya Mathew   Theory of relative defect proneness  . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 13, Number 6, December, 2008

          Susan Elliott Sim and   
          Massimiliano Di Penta   Guest Editors' introduction: special
                                  issue from the 13th Working Conference
                                  on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2006) . . . 597--600
               Raimar Falke and   
             Pierre Frenzel and   
                 Rainer Koschke   Empirical evaluation of clone detection
                                  using syntax suffix trees  . . . . . . . 601--643
                Jens Knodel and   
                Dirk Muthig and   
                  Matthias Naab   An experiment on the role of graphical
                                  elements in architecture visualization   693--726
              Marco Lormans and   
           Arie van Deursen and   
             Hans-Gerhard Gross   An industrial case study in
                                  reconstructing requirements views  . . . 727--760
             Cory J. Kapser and   
             Michael W. Godfrey   ``Cloning considered harmful''
                                  considered harmful: patterns of cloning
                                  in software  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 14, Number 1, February, 2009

              Letha Etzkorn and   
                    Tim Menzies   Special issue on information retrieval
                                  for program comprehension  . . . . . . . 1--4
           Denys Poshyvanyk and   
             Andrian Marcus and   
              Rudolf Ferenc and   
          Tibor Gyimóthy   Using information retrieval based
                                  coupling measures for impact analysis    5--32
              Robert Tairas and   
                      Jeff Gray   An information retrieval process to aid
                                  in the analysis of code clones . . . . . 33--56
            Andrea De Lucia and   
              Rocco Oliveto and   
              Genoveffa Tortora   Assessing IR-based traceability recovery
                                  tools through controlled experiments . . 57--92
             Brendan Cleary and   
                Chris Exton and   
                Jim Buckley and   
                Michael English   An empirical analysis of information
                                  retrieval based concept location
                                  techniques in software comprehension . . 93--130

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 14, Number 2, April, 2009

                Anita Gupta and   
                 Jingyue Li and   
             Reidar Conradi and   
    Harald Rònneberg and   
                   Einar Landre   A case study comparing defect profiles
                                  of a reused framework and of
                                  applications reusing it  . . . . . . . . 227--255
           Rattikorn Hewett and   
        Phongphun Kijsanayothin   On modeling software defect repair time  ??
                Per Runeson and   
               Martin Höst   Guidelines for conducting and reporting
                                  case study research in software
                                  engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
         Panagiotis Sfetsos and   
           Ioannis Stamelos and   
           Lefteris Angelis and   
           Ignatios Deligiannis   An experimental investigation of
                                  personality types impact on pair
                                  effectiveness in pair programming  . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 14, Number 3, June, 2009

              Stephan Diehl and   
             Harald C. Gall and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Guest Editors' introduction: special
                                  issue on mining software repositories    257--261
 Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and   
            Gregorio Robles and   
           Martin Michlmayr and   
      Juan José Amor and   
               Daniel M. German   Macro-level software evolution: a case
                                  study of a large software compilation    262--285
                    Kai Pan and   
                Sunghun Kim and   
        E. James Whitehead, Jr.   Toward an understanding of bug fix
                                  patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--315
              Lucian Voinea and   
                Alexandru Telea   Visual querying and analysis of large
                                  software repositories  . . . . . . . . . 316--340
               Ben H. Smith and   
                Laurie Williams   On guiding the augmentation of an
                                  automated test suite via mutation
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--369

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 14, Number 4, August, 2009

                 Toan Huynh and   
                   James Miller   Another viewpoint on ``Evaluating web
                                  software reliability based on workload
                                  and failure data extracted from server
                                  logs'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--396
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim and   
             Marcello Thiry and   
                Djone Kochanski   Empirical evaluation of an educational
                                  game on software measurement . . . . . . 418--452
                 Jihyun Lee and   
               Sungwon Kang and   
                   Chang-Ki Kim   Software architecture evaluation methods
                                  based on cost benefit analysis and
                                  quantitative decision making . . . . . . 453--475
                    Stefan Koch   Exploring the effects of SourceForge.net
                                  coordination and communication tools on
                                  the efficiency of open source projects
                                  using data envelopment analysis  . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 14, Number 5, October, 2009

               Oscar Dieste and   
         Anna Grimán and   
                Natalia Juristo   Developing search strategies for
                                  detecting relevant experiments . . . . . 513--539
               Burak Turhan and   
                Tim Menzies and   
            Ay\cse B. Bener and   
              Justin Di Stefano   On the relative value of cross-company
                                  and within-company data for defect
                                  prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540--578
              Alexander Lam and   
                    Barry Boehm   Experiences in developing and applying a
                                  software engineering technology testbed  579--601
           Mohamed El-Attar and   
                   James Miller   A subject-based empirical evaluation of
                                  SSUCD's performance in reducing
                                  inconsistencies in use case models . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 14, Number 6, December, 2009

                   Y. F. Li and   
                     M. Xie and   
                      T. N. Goh   A study of the non-linear adjustment for
                                  analogy based software cost estimation   603--643
            Andrea Herrmann and   
                  Barbara Paech   Practical challenges of requirements
                                  prioritization based on risk estimation  644--684
  José A. Cruz-Lemus and   
             Marcela Genero and   
         M. Esperanza Manso and   
             Sandro Morasca and   
                 Mario Piattini   Assessing the understandability of UML
                                  statechart diagrams with composite
                                  states --- A family of empirical studies 685--719
 Gürcan Güle\csir and   
         Klaas van den Berg and   
          Lodewijk Bergmans and   
                 Mehmet Ak\csit   Experimental evaluation of a tool for
                                  the verification and transformation of
                                  source code in event-driven systems  . . 720--777


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 15, Number 1, February, 2010

       Suresh Thummalapenta and   
               Luigi Cerulo and   
            Lerina Aversano and   
          Massimiliano Di Penta   An empirical study on the maintenance of
                                  source code clones . . . . . . . . . . . 1--34
          Jeffrey C. Carver and   
           Letizia Jaccheri and   
             Sandro Morasca and   
                  Forrest Shull   A checklist for integrating student
                                  empirical studies with research and
                                  teaching goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--59
             Mohammad Azzeh and   
               Daniel Neagu and   
               Peter I. Cowling   Fuzzy grey relational analysis for
                                  software effort estimation . . . . . . . 60--90
              Darja \vSmite and   
               Claes Wohlin and   
              Tony Gorschek and   
                   Robert Feldt   Empirical evidence in global software
                                  engineering: a systematic review . . . . 91--118

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 15, Number 2, April, 2010

                Xuchang Zou and   
          Raffaella Settimi and   
             Jane Cleland-Huang   Improving automated requirements trace
                                  retrieval: a study of term-based
                                  enhancement methods  . . . . . . . . . . 119--146
               Hideaki Hata and   
               Osamu Mizuno and   
                   Tohru Kikuno   Fault-prone module detection using
                                  large-scale text features based on spam
                                  filtering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--165
    Hans Christian Benestad and   
                 Bente Anda and   
                  Erik Arisholm   Understanding cost drivers of software
                                  evolution: a quantitative and
                                  qualitative investigation of change
                                  effort in two evolving software systems  166--203
               Seiyoung Lee and   
                Hwan-Seung Yong   Distributed Agile: project management in
                                  a global environment . . . . . . . . . . 204--217

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 15, Number 3, June, 2010

         Randy L. Hackbarth and   
              Audris Mockus and   
     John Douglas Palframan and   
                 David M. Weiss   Assessing the state of software in a
                                  large enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--249
             Davide Falessi and   
         Muhammad Ali Babar and   
           Giovanni Cantone and   
              Philippe Kruchten   Applying empirical software engineering
                                  to software architecture: challenges and
                                  lessons learned  . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--276
          Elaine J. Weyuker and   
          Thomas J. Ostrand and   
                 Robert M. Bell   Comparing the effectiveness of several
                                  modeling methods for fault prediction    277--295
          Swapna S. Gokhale and   
               Robert E. Mullen   A multiplicative model of software
                                  defect repair times  . . . . . . . . . . 296--319

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 15, Number 4, August, 2010

                Laurie Williams   Guest editorial: Special issue on
                                  software reliability engineering . . . . 321--322
                Zibin Zheng and   
                 Michael R. Lyu   An adaptive QoS-aware fault tolerance
                                  strategy for web services  . . . . . . . 323--345
   Eduardo Cunha de Almeida and   
        Gerson Sunyé and   
              Yves Le Traon and   
              Patrick Valduriez   Testing peer-to-peer systems . . . . . . 346--379
     Constantin Sârbu and   
   Andréas Johansson and   
                Neeraj Suri and   
            Nachiappan Nagappan   Profiling the operational behavior of OS
                                  device drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--422
          Michael Kläs and   
               Haruka Nakao and   
          Frank Elberzhager and   
         Jürgen Münch   Support planning and controlling of
                                  early quality assurance by combining
                                  expert judgment and defect data --- a
                                  case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--454

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 15, Number 5, October, 2010

            Andrea De Lucia and   
            Carmine Gravino and   
              Rocco Oliveto and   
              Genoveffa Tortora   An experimental comparison of ER and UML
                                  class diagrams for data modelling  . . . 455--492
      Gerardo Cepeda Porras and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc   An empirical study on the efficiency of
                                  different design pattern representations
                                  in UML class diagrams  . . . . . . . . . 493--522
            Nikolaos Mittas and   
               Lefteris Angelis   LSEbA: least squares regression and
                                  estimation by analogy in a
                                  semi-parametric model for software cost
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--555
                 Toan Huynh and   
                   James Miller   An empirical investigation into open
                                  source web applications' implementation
                                  vulnerabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . 556--576

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 15, Number 6, December, 2010

                 Gunes Koru and   
               Hongfang Liu and   
             Dongsong Zhang and   
                 Khaled El Emam   Testing the theory of relative defect
                                  proneness for closed-source software . . 577--598
         George Michaelides and   
              Chris Thomson and   
                   Stephen Wood   Measuring fidelity to Extreme
                                  programming: a psychometric approach . . 599--617
      Barbara A. Kitchenham and   
             Pearl Brereton and   
                Mark Turner and   
           Mahmood K. Niazi and   
            Stephen Linkman and   
         Rialette Pretorius and   
                   David Budgen   Refining the systematic literature
                                  review process --- two
                                  participant-observer case studies  . . . 618--653
               Kai Petersen and   
                   Claes Wohlin   The effect of moving from a plan-driven
                                  to an incremental software development
                                  approach with Agile practices  . . . . . 654--693


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 16, Number 1, February, 2011

      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
                 Simon Poulding   Introduction to the special issue on
                                  search based software engineering  . . . 1--4
                  Iain Bate and   
                     Usman Khan   WCET analysis of modern processors using
                                  multi-criteria optimisation  . . . . . . 5--28
            Juan J. Durillo and   
             Yuanyuan Zhang and   
               Enrique Alba and   
                Mark Harman and   
               Antonio J. Nebro   A study of the bi-objective next release
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--60
            Brady J. Garvin and   
              Myra B. Cohen and   
               Matthew B. Dwyer   Evaluating improvements to a
                                  meta-heuristic search for constrained
                                  interaction testing  . . . . . . . . . . 61--102
       Alessandro Marchetto and   
                  Paolo Tonella   Using search-based algorithms for Ajax
                                  event sequence generation during testing 103--140
             Segla Kpodjedo and   
              Filippo Ricca and   
          Philippe Galinier and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   Design evolution metrics for defect
                                  prediction in object oriented systems    141--175

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 16, Number 2, April, 2011

            Steve Bannerman and   
                  Andrew Martin   A multiple comparative study of
                                  test-with development product changes
                                  and their effects on team speed and
                                  product quality  . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--210
               Anna Corazza and   
          Sergio Di Martino and   
          Filomena Ferrucci and   
            Carmine Gravino and   
                  Emilia Mendes   Investigating the use of Support Vector
                                  Regression for web effort estimation . . 211--243
               David Budgen and   
               Andy J. Burn and   
             Barbara Kitchenham   Reporting computing projects through
                                  structured abstracts: a quasi-experiment 244--277
               Rados\law Hofman   Behavioral economics in software quality
                                  engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--293

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 16, Number 3, June, 2011

            Natalia Juristo and   
                     Sira Vegas   The role of non-exact replications in
                                  software engineering experiments . . . . 295--324
               Andy Zaidman and   
           Bart Van Rompaey and   
           Arie van Deursen and   
                  Serge Demeyer   Studying the co-evolution of production
                                  and test code in open source and
                                  industrial developer test processes
                                  through repository mining  . . . . . . . 325--364
            Martin Ivarsson and   
                  Tony Gorschek   A method for evaluating rigor and
                                  industrial relevance of technology
                                  evaluations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--395
              Daryl Posnett and   
             Christian Bird and   
                   Prem Devanbu   An empirical study on the influence of
                                  pattern roles on change-proneness  . . . 396--423

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 16, Number 4, August, 2011

            Tore Dybå and   
        Rafael Prikladnicki and   
      Kari Rönkkö and   
             Carolyn Seaman and   
               Jonathan Sillito   Qualitative research in software
                                  engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--429
              Laurie McLeod and   
       Stephen G. MacDonell and   
                    Bill Doolin   Qualitative research on software
                                  development: a longitudinal case study
                                  methodology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--459
          Susan Elliott Sim and   
             Thomas A. Alspaugh   Getting the whole story: an experience
                                  report on analyzing data elicited using
                                  the war stories procedure  . . . . . . . 460--486
               Steve Adolph and   
                 Wendy Hall and   
              Philippe Kruchten   Using grounded theory to study the
                                  experience of software development . . . 487--513
              Lutz Prechelt and   
             Christopher Oezbek   The search for a research method for
                                  studying OSS process innovation  . . . . 514--537

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 16, Number 5, October, 2011

      Trosky B. Callo Arias and   
        Pieter van der Spek and   
                 Paris Avgeriou   A practice-driven systematic review of
                                  dependency analysis solutions  . . . . . 544--586
               Anne Martens and   
             Heiko Koziolek and   
              Lutz Prechelt and   
                  Ralf Reussner   From monolithic to component-based
                                  performance evaluation of software
                                  architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--622
         Michel Wermelinger and   
                   Yijun Yu and   
              Angela Lozano and   
               Andrea Capiluppi   Assessing architectural evolution: a
                                  case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--666
                    Zude Li and   
          Nazim H. Madhavji and   
      Syed Shariyar Murtaza and   
           Mechelle Gittens and   
        Andriy V. Miranskyy and   
               David Godwin and   
                   Enzo Cialini   Characteristics of multiple-component
                                  defects and architectural hotspots: a
                                  large system case study  . . . . . . . . 667--702
         Muhammad Ali Babar and   
              Patricia Lago and   
               Arie Van Deursen   Empirical research in software
                                  architecture: opportunities, challenges,
                                  and approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 16, Number 6, December, 2011

        Martin P. Robillard and   
                  Robert DeLine   A field study of API learning obstacles  703--732
          Carol K. Gonzales and   
                    Gondy Leroy   Eliciting user requirements using
                                  Appreciative Inquiry . . . . . . . . . . 733--772
             Meghan Revelle and   
             Malcom Gethers and   
               Denys Poshyvanyk   Using structural and textual information
                                  to capture feature coupling in
                                  object-oriented software . . . . . . . . 773--811
            Steffen Herbold and   
             Jens Grabowski and   
                  Stephan Waack   Calculation and optimization of
                                  thresholds for sets of software metrics  812--841


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 17, Number 1--2, February, 2012

                Tim Menzies and   
                Martin Shepperd   Special issue on repeatable results in
                                  software engineering prediction  . . . . 1--17
                 Brendan Murphy   The difficulties of building generic
                                  reliability models for software  . . . . 18--22
            Ingunn Myrtveit and   
                  Erik Stensrud   Validity and reliability of evaluation
                                  procedures in comparative studies of
                                  effort prediction models . . . . . . . . 23--33
            Nikolaos Mittas and   
               Lefteris Angelis   A permutation test based on regression
                                  error characteristic curves for software
                                  cost estimation models . . . . . . . . . 34--61
                   Burak Turhan   On the dataset shift problem in software
                                  engineering prediction models  . . . . . 62--74
Jesús M. González-Barahona and   
                Gregorio Robles   On the reproducibility of empirical
                                  software engineering studies based on
                                  data retrieved from development
                                  repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--89
                 Mohammad Azzeh   A replicated assessment and comparison
                                  of adaptation techniques for
                                  analogy-based effort estimation  . . . . 90--127

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 17, Number 3, June, 2012

             Serdar Tasiran and   
       M. Erkan Keremo\uglu and   
          Kivanç Mu\cslu   Location pairs: a test coverage metric
                                  for shared-memory concurrent programs    129--165
                Renato Maia and   
           Renato Cerqueira and   
Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza and   
  Tomás Guisasola-Gorham   A qualitative human-centric evaluation
                                  of flexibility in middleware
                                  implementations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--199
                 Hongmin Lu and   
                Yuming Zhou and   
                  Baowen Xu and   
              Hareton Leung and   
                       Lin Chen   The ability of object-oriented metrics
                                  to predict change-proneness: a
                                  meta-analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--242
               Foutse Khomh and   
      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   An exploratory study of the impact of
                                  antipatterns on class change- and
                                  fault-proneness  . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--275
              Toma\vz Kosar and   
              Marjan Mernik and   
              Jeffrey C. Carver   Program comprehension of domain-specific
                                  and general-purpose languages:
                                  comparison using a family of experiments 276--304
             Krzysztof Wnuk and   
           Martin Höst and   
             Björn Regnell   Replication of an experiment on
                                  linguistic tool support for
                                  consolidation of requirements from
                                  multiple sources . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--344

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 17, Number 4--5, August, 2012

            Michael Godfrey and   
                  Jim Whitehead   Introduction to the special issue on
                                  software repository mining in 2009 . . . 345--347
         Jayalath Ekanayake and   
             Jonas Tappolet and   
             Harald C. Gall and   
              Abraham Bernstein   Time variance and defect prediction in
                                  software projects  . . . . . . . . . . . 348--389
               Yonghee Shin and   
             Robert M. Bell and   
          Thomas J. Ostrand and   
              Elaine J. Weyuker   On the use of calling structure
                                  information to improve fault prediction  390--423
 Sushil Krishna Bajracharya and   
         Cristina Videira Lopes   Analyzing and mining a code search
                                  engine usage log . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--466
         Lile Palma Hattori and   
              Michele Lanza and   
                  Romain Robbes   Refining code ownership with synchronous
                                  changes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--499
              Jim Whitehead and   
              Thomas Zimmermann   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  Mining Software Repositories in 2010 . . 500--502
              Foyzur Rahman and   
             Christian Bird and   
              Premkumar Devanbu   Clones: what is that smell?  . . . . . . 503--530
             Marco D'Ambros and   
              Michele Lanza and   
                  Romain Robbes   Evaluating defect prediction approaches:
                                  a benchmark and an extensive comparison  531--577
             Shane McIntosh and   
                 Bram Adams and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   The evolution of Java build systems  . . 578--608

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 17, Number 6, December, 2012

               Rashina Hoda and   
                James Noble and   
                Stuart Marshall   Developing a grounded theory to explain
                                  the practices of self-organizing Agile
                                  teams  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--639
             Fabio Calefato and   
             Daniela Damian and   
               Filippo Lanubile   Computer-mediated communication to
                                  support distributed requirements
                                  elicitations and negotiations tasks  . . 640--674
          Minna Pikkarainen and   
                  Outi Salo and   
              Raija Kuusela and   
              Pekka Abrahamsson   Strengths and barriers behind the
                                  successful Agile deployment --- insights
                                  from the three software intensive
                                  companies in Finland . . . . . . . . . . 675--702
           Martin Monperrus and   
           Michael Eichberg and   
                 Elif Tekes and   
                    Mira Mezini   What should developers be aware of? An
                                  empirical study on the directives of API
                                  documentation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--737
    Cuauhtemoc Lopez-Martin and   
              Claudia Isaza and   
                 Arturo Chavoya   Software development effort prediction
                                  of industrial projects applying a
                                  general regression neural network  . . . 738--756


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 18, Number 1, February, 2013

           Ekrem Kocaguneli and   
                Tim Menzies and   
                 Jacky W. Keung   Kernel methods for software effort
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24
               Yonghee Shin and   
                Laurie Williams   Can traditional fault prediction models
                                  be used for vulnerability prediction?    25--59
           Andrea Capiluppi and   
Daniel Izquierdo-Cortázar   Effort estimation of FLOSS projects: a
                                  study of the Linux kernel  . . . . . . . 60--88
        Parastoo Mohagheghi and   
               Wasif Gilani and   
            Alin Stefanescu and   
            Miguel A. Fernandez   An empirical study of the state of the
                                  practice and acceptance of model-driven
                                  engineering in four industrial cases . . 89--116
                      Uzma Raja   All complaints are not created equal:
                                  text analysis of open source software
                                  defect reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--138
  Elizabeth Ashlee Holbrook and   
         Jane Huffman Hayes and   
              Alex Dekhtyar and   
                      Wenbin Li   A study of methods for textual
                                  satisfaction assessment  . . . . . . . . 139--176

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 18, Number 2, April, 2013

          Giuliano Antoniol and   
             Keith B. Gallagher   Preface to the special issue on program
                                  comprehension  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180
               Andy Zaidman and   
           Nick Matthijssen and   
       Margaret-Anne Storey and   
               Arie van Deursen   Understanding Ajax applications by
                                  connecting client and server-side
                                  execution traces . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--218
               Dave Binkley and   
               Marcia Davis and   
                Dawn Lawrie and   
        Jonathan I. Maletic and   
        Christopher Morrell and   
                  Bonita Sharif   The impact of identifier style on effort
                                  and comprehension  . . . . . . . . . . . 219--276
                 Bogdan Dit and   
             Meghan Revelle and   
               Denys Poshyvanyk   Integrating information retrieval,
                                  execution and link analysis algorithms
                                  to improve feature location in software  277--309
           Ralf Lämmel and   
                  Ekaterina Pek   Understanding privacy policies . . . . . 310--374
         Nicolas Bettenburg and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Studying the impact of social
                                  interactions on software quality . . . . 375--431

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 18, Number 3, June, 2013

                Tim Menzies and   
                     Gunes Koru   Predictive models in software
                                  engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434
              Thomas Schulz and   
        \Lukasz Radli\'nski and   
              Thomas Gorges and   
            Wolfgang Rosenstiel   Predicting the Flow of Defect Correction
                                  Effort using a Bayesian Network Model    435--477
             Robert M. Bell and   
          Thomas J. Ostrand and   
              Elaine J. Weyuker   The limited impact of individual
                                  developer data on software defect
                                  prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--505
                 A. Corazza and   
              S. Di Martino and   
                F. Ferrucci and   
                 C. Gravino and   
                   F. Sarro and   
                      E. Mendes   Using tabu search to configure support
                                  vector regression for effort estimation  506--546
Mel Ó Cinnéide and   
                  Myra B. Cohen   Introduction to the special issue on
                                  search based software engineering  . . . 547--549
                   Shin Yoo and   
                Mark Harman and   
                      Shmuel Ur   GPGPU test suite minimisation: search
                                  based software engineering performance
                                  improvement using graphics cards . . . . 550--593
              Andrea Arcuri and   
                  Gordon Fraser   Parameter tuning or default values? An
                                  empirical investigation in search-based
                                  software engineering . . . . . . . . . . 594--623

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 18, Number 4, August, 2013

         Gursimran S. Walia and   
              Jeffrey C. Carver   Using error abstraction and
                                  classification to improve requirement
                                  quality: conclusions from a family of
                                  four empirical studies . . . . . . . . . 625--658
             Yeong-Seok Seo and   
                   Doo-Hwan Bae   On the value of outlier elimination on
                                  software effort estimation research  . . 659--698
           Janet Feigenspan and   
     Christian Kästner and   
                  Sven Apel and   
           Jörg Liebig and   
            Michael Schulze and   
           Raimund Dachselt and   
           Maria Papendieck and   
               Thomas Leich and   
                   Gunter Saake   Do background colors improve program
                                  comprehension in the #ifdef hell?  . . . 699--745
             Heiko Koziolek and   
            Bastian Schlich and   
             Steffen Becker and   
                  Michael Hauck   Performance and reliability prediction
                                  for evolving service-oriented software
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746--790
            Neil Walkinshaw and   
            Bernard Lambeau and   
           Christophe Damas and   
            Kirill Bogdanov and   
                  Pierre Dupont   STAMINA: a competition to encourage the
                                  development and assessment of software
                                  model inference techniques . . . . . . . 791--824
         Marijn J. H. Heule and   
                   Sicco Verwer   Software model synthesis using
                                  satisfiability solvers . . . . . . . . . 825--856

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 18, Number 5, October, 2013

             Martin Pinzger and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   Guest editorial: reverse engineering . . 857--858
           Michaela Greiler and   
               Arie van Deursen   What your plug-in test suites really
                                  test: an integration perspective on test
                                  suite understanding  . . . . . . . . . . 859--900
            Gabriele Bavota and   
            Andrea De Lucia and   
             Andrian Marcus and   
                  Rocco Oliveto   Using structural and semantic measures
                                  to improve software modularization . . . 901--932
               Huzefa Kagdi and   
             Malcom Gethers and   
               Denys Poshyvanyk   Integrating conceptual and logical
                                  couplings for change impact analysis in
                                  software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933--969
                Fabian Beck and   
                  Stephan Diehl   On the impact of software evolution on
                                  software clustering  . . . . . . . . . . 970--1004
                Emad Shihab and   
              Akinori Ihara and   
             Yasutaka Kamei and   
           Walid M. Ibrahim and   
                Masao Ohira and   
                 Bram Adams and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
             Ken-ichi Matsumoto   Studying re-opened bugs in open source
                                  software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005--1042

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 18, Number 6, December, 2013

                    Tao Xie and   
          Thomas Zimmermann and   
               Arie van Deursen   Introduction to the special issue on
                                  mining software repositories . . . . . . 1043--1046
               Chris Parnin and   
             Christian Bird and   
            Emerson Murphy-Hill   Adoption and use of Java generics  . . . 1047--1089
              Dennis Pagano and   
                   Walid Maalej   How do open source communities blog? . . 1090--1124
               Abram Hindle and   
              Neil A. Ernst and   
         Michael W. Godfrey and   
                John Mylopoulos   Automated topic naming . . . . . . . . . 1125--1155
        Oscar Callaú and   
              Romain Robbes and   
         Éric Tanter and   
       David Röthlisberger   How (and why) developers use the dynamic
                                  features of programming languages: the
                                  case of smalltalk  . . . . . . . . . . . 1156--1194
              Julius Davies and   
           Daniel M. German and   
         Michael W. Godfrey and   
                   Abram Hindle   Software Bertillonage  . . . . . . . . . 1195--1237


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 19, Number 1, February, 2014

            Gerardo Canfora and   
               Luigi Cerulo and   
             Marta Cimitile and   
          Massimiliano Di Penta   How changes affect software entropy: an
                                  empirical study  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--38
       Rodrigo Pastl Pontes and   
Paulo Claudino Véras and   
         Ana Maria Ambrosio and   
          Emília Villani   Contributions of model checking and CoFI
                                  methodology to the development of space
                                  embedded software  . . . . . . . . . . . 39--68
                Jeff Offutt and   
    Vasileios Papadimitriou and   
        Upsorn Praphamontripong   A case study on bypass testing of web
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--104
              Darja \vSmite and   
               Claes Wohlin and   
             Zane Galvi\cna and   
            Rafael Prikladnicki   An empirically based terminology and
                                  taxonomy for global software engineering 105--153
               Ahmet Okutan and   
         Olcay Taner Y\i ld\i z   Software defect prediction using
                                  Bayesian networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 154--181
          Stephen W. Thomas and   
               Hadi Hemmati and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
              Dorothea Blostein   Static test case prioritization using
                                  topic models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--212
                  Taeho Lee and   
                  Taewan Gu and   
                  Jongmoon Baik   MND-SCEMP: an empirical study of a
                                  software cost estimation modeling
                                  process in the defense domain  . . . . . 213--240
        Özlem Albayrak and   
              Jeffrey C. Carver   Investigation of individual factors
                                  impacting the effectiveness of
                                  requirements inspections: a replicated
                                  experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--266

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 19, Number 2, April, 2014

          Jeffrey C. Carver and   
            Natalia Juristo and   
   Maria Teresa Baldassarre and   
                     Sira Vegas   Replications of software engineering
                                  experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--276
               Davide Fucci and   
                   Burak Turhan   On the role of tests in test-driven
                                  development: a differentiated and
                                  partial replication  . . . . . . . . . . 277--302
               Juha Itkonen and   
      Mika V. Mäntylä   Are test cases needed? Replicated
                                  comparison between exploratory and
                                  test-case-based software testing . . . . 303--342
      Marta N. Gómez and   
         Silvia T. Acuña   A replicated quasi-experimental study on
                                  the influence of personality and team
                                  climate in software development  . . . . 343--377
                Cecilia Apa and   
               Oscar Dieste and   
      Edison G. Espinosa G. and   
    Efraín R. Fonseca C.   Effectiveness for detecting faults
                                  within and outside the scope of testing
                                  techniques: an independent replication   378--417

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 19, Number 3, June, 2014

          Byron J. Williams and   
              Jeffrey C. Carver   Examination of the software architecture
                                  change characterization scheme using
                                  three empirical studies  . . . . . . . . 419--464
          Lauren R. Biggers and   
           Cecylia Bocovich and   
              Riley Capshaw and   
              Brian P. Eddy and   
           Letha H. Etzkorn and   
              Nicholas A. Kraft   Configuring latent Dirichlet allocation
                                  based feature location . . . . . . . . . 465--500
       Fabio Q. B. da Silva and   
            Marcos Suassuna and   
A. César C. França and   
            Alicia M. Grubb and   
         Tatiana B. Gouveia and   
    Cleviton V. F. Monteiro and   
        Igor Ebrahim dos Santos   Replication of empirical studies in
                                  software engineering research: a
                                  systematic mapping study . . . . . . . . 501--557
                Jeff Offutt and   
                 Chandra Alluri   An industrial study of applying input
                                  space partitioning to test financial
                                  calculation engines  . . . . . . . . . . 558--581
Mario Linares-Vásquez and   
            Collin McMillan and   
           Denys Poshyvanyk and   
                 Mark Grechanik   On using machine learning to
                                  automatically classify software
                                  applications into domain categories  . . 582--618
                Anton Barua and   
          Stephen W. Thomas and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   What are developers talking about? An
                                  analysis of topics and trends in Stack
                                  Overflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--654
          Oscar Ljungkrantz and   
         Knut Åkesson and   
              Martin Fabian and   
          Amir Hossein Ebrahimi   An empirical study of control logic
                                  specifications for programmable logic
                                  controllers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--677
      Iris Reinhartz-Berger and   
                    Arnon Sturm   Comprehensibility of UML-based software
                                  product line specifications  . . . . . . 678--713
          Norsaremah Salleh and   
              Emilia Mendes and   
                    John Grundy   Investigating the effects of personality
                                  traits on pair programming in a higher
                                  education setting through a family of
                                  experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714--752
                Roberto Latorre   A successful application of a
                                  Test-Driven Development strategy in the
                                  industrial environment . . . . . . . . . 753--773

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 19, Number 4, August, 2014

            Jehad Al Dallal and   
                 Sandro Morasca   Predicting object-oriented class
                                  reuse-proneness using internal quality
                                  attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--821
        Rafael Prikladnicki and   
            Alexander Boden and   
             Gabriela Avram and   
    Cleidson R. B. de Souza and   
                    Volker Wulf   Data collection in global software
                                  engineering research: learning from past
                                  experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822--856
     Vahid Khatibi Bardsiri and   
Dayang Norhayati Abang Jawawi and   
    Siti Zaiton Mohd Hashim and   
                  Elham Khatibi   A flexible method to estimate the
                                  software development effort based on the
                                  classification of projects and
                                  localization of comparisons  . . . . . . 857--884
           Georgios Gousios and   
             Diomidis Spinellis   Conducting quantitative software
                                  engineering studies with Alitheia Core   885--925
             Ariadi Nugroho and   
          Michel R. V. Chaudron   The impact of UML modeling on defect
                                  density and defect resolution time in a
                                  proprietary system . . . . . . . . . . . 926--954
           Bogdan Vasilescu and   
       Alexander Serebrenik and   
           Mathieu Goeminne and   
                       Tom Mens   On the variation and specialisation of
                                  workload --- A case study of the Gnome
                                  ecosystem community  . . . . . . . . . . 955--1008
               Jon Eyolfson and   
                    Lin Tan and   
                    Patrick Lam   Correlations between bugginess and
                                  time-based commit characteristics  . . . 1009--1039
            Mariano Ceccato and   
      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
             Paolo Falcarin and   
              Filippo Ricca and   
            Marco Torchiano and   
                  Paolo Tonella   A family of experiments to assess the
                                  effectiveness and efficiency of source
                                  code obfuscation techniques  . . . . . . 1040--1074
                  Luigi Lavazza   An evaluation of the statistical
                                  convertibility of Function Points into
                                  COSMIC Function Points . . . . . . . . . 1075--1110
                 Aiko Yamashita   Assessing the capability of code smells
                                  to explain maintenance problems: an
                                  empirical study combining quantitative
                                  and qualitative data . . . . . . . . . . 1111--1143
                Tuomas Ihme and   
          Minna Pikkarainen and   
            Susanna Teppola and   
Jukka Kääriäinen and   
                   Olivier Biot   Challenges and industry practices for
                                  managing software variability in small
                                  and medium sized enterprises . . . . . . 1144--1168
            Ammar Osaiweran and   
             Mathijs Schuts and   
                   Jozef Hooman   Experiences with incorporating formal
                                  techniques into industrial practice  . . 1169--1194

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 19, Number 5, October, 2014

           Filippo Lanubile and   
        Rafael Prikladnicki and   
               Erran Carmel and   
              Rini van Solingen   Resolving the challenges of time and
                                  distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195--1196
      Hans-Christian Estler and   
              Martin Nordio and   
             Carlo A. Furia and   
             Bertrand Meyer and   
             Johannes Schneider   Agile vs. structured distributed
                                  software development: A case study . . . 1197--1224
             Nils Brede Moe and   
              Darja \vSmite and   
        Geir Kjetil Hanssen and   
                  Hamish Barney   From offshore outsourcing to insourcing
                                  and partnerships: four failed
                                  outsourcing attempts . . . . . . . . . . 1225--1258
         Michael W. Godfrey and   
               Arie van Deursen   Special issue on program comprehension   1259--1260
                Ahmad Jbara and   
                 Adam Matan and   
              Dror G. Feitelson   High-MCC Functions in the Linux Kernel   1261--1298
             Janet Siegmund and   
     Christian Kästner and   
           Jörg Liebig and   
                  Sven Apel and   
               Stefan Hanenberg   Measuring and modeling programming
                                  experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299--1334
           Stefan Hanenberg and   
    Sebastian Kleinschmager and   
              Romain Robbes and   
         Éric Tanter and   
                 Andreas Stefik   An empirical study on the impact of
                                  static typing on software
                                  maintainability  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335--1382
            Andrea De Lucia and   
      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
              Rocco Oliveto and   
        Annibale Panichella and   
          Sebastiano Panichella   Labeling source code with information
                                  retrieval methods: an empirical study    1383--1420
              Gordon Fraser and   
    Jerffeson Teixeira de Souza   Guest editorial: Search-based software
                                  engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1421--1422
      Márcio de O.Barros   An experimental evaluation of the
                                  importance of randomness in hill
                                  climbing searches applied to software
                                  engineering problems . . . . . . . . . . 1423--1465
         Erik M. Fredericks and   
              Byron DeVries and   
              Betty H. C. Cheng   AutoRELAX: automatically RELAXing a goal
                                  model to address uncertainty . . . . . . 1466--1501
         Jonathan M. Aitken and   
              Rob Alexander and   
                  Tim Kelly and   
                 Simon Poulding   Evolving robust networks for
                                  systems-of-systems: is it viable for
                                  large networks?  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1502--1530

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 19, Number 6, December, 2014

                  Ning Chen and   
           Steven C. H. Hoi and   
                   Xiaokui Xiao   Software process evaluation: a machine
                                  learning framework with application to
                                  defect management process  . . . . . . . 1531--1564
                Markus Borg and   
                Per Runeson and   
               Anders Ardö   Recovering from a decade: a systematic
                                  mapping of information retrieval
                                  approaches to software traceability  . . 1565--1616
            Gabriele Bavota and   
            Andrea De Lucia and   
             Andrian Marcus and   
                  Rocco Oliveto   Automating extract class refactoring: an
                                  improved method and its evaluation . . . 1617--1664
                    Lin Tan and   
                   Chen Liu and   
                 Zhenmin Li and   
               Xuanhui Wang and   
              Yuanyuan Zhou and   
                Chengxiang Zhai   Bug characteristics in open source
                                  software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1665--1705
            Latifa Guerrouj and   
      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   An experimental investigation on the
                                  effects of context on source code
                                  identifiers splitting and expansion  . . 1706--1753
                 Emily Hill and   
              David Binkley and   
                Dawn Lawrie and   
               Lori Pollock and   
               K. Vijay-Shanker   An empirical study of identifier
                                  splitting techniques . . . . . . . . . . 1754--1780
                Per Runeson and   
             Andreas Stefik and   
              Anneliese Andrews   Variation factors in the design and
                                  analysis of replicated controlled
                                  experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1781--1808
        Elizabeth Bjarnason and   
                Per Runeson and   
                Markus Borg and   
   Michael Unterkalmsteiner and   
       Emelie Engström and   
         Björn Regnell and   
      Giedre Sabaliauskaite and   
        Annabella Loconsole and   
              Tony Gorschek and   
                   Robert Feldt   Challenges and practices in aligning
                                  requirements with verification and
                                  validation: a case study of six
                                  companies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1809--1855
                Jinqiu Yang and   
                        Lin Tan   SWordNet: Inferring semantically related
                                  words from software context  . . . . . . 1856--1886
   Yulkeidi Martínez and   
           Cristina Cachero and   
          Santiago Meliá   Empirical study on the maintainability
                                  of Web applications: Model-driven
                                  Engineering vs Code-centric  . . . . . . 1887--1920
        Andreas Jedlitschka and   
            Natalia Juristo and   
                 Dieter Rombach   Reporting experiments to satisfy
                                  professionals' information needs . . . . 1921--1955
                   Wen-Ming Han   Validating differential relationships
                                  between risk categories and project
                                  performance as perceived by managers . . 1956--1966
Elena Gómez-Martínez and   
     Rafael Gonzalez-Cabero and   
                 Jose Merseguer   Performance assessment of an
                                  architecture with adaptative interfaces
                                  for people with special needs  . . . . . 1967--2018
              Osama Al-Baik and   
                   James Miller   Waste identification and elimination in
                                  information technology organizations . . 2019--2061


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 20, Number 1, February, 2015

                Weiyi Shang and   
         Meiyappan Nagappan and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Studying the relationship between
                                  logging characteristics and the code
                                  quality of platform software . . . . . . 1--27
             Ulrike Abelein and   
                  Barbara Paech   Understanding the Influence of User
                                  Participation and Involvement on System
                                  Success --- a Systematic Mapping Study   28--81
           Jakub Jurkiewicz and   
             Jerzy Nawrocki and   
          Miros\law Ochodek and   
               Tomasz G\lowacki   HAZOP-based identification of events in
                                  use cases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--109
               Andrew J. Ko and   
           Thomas D. LaToza and   
            Margaret M. Burnett   A practical guide to controlled
                                  experiments of software engineering
                                  tools with human participants  . . . . . 110--141
        Gregor Polan\vci\vc and   
              Gregor Jo\vst and   
               Marjan Heri\vcko   An experimental investigation comparing
                                  individual and collaborative work
                                  productivity when using desktop and
                                  cloud modeling tools . . . . . . . . . . 142--175
            Matias Martinez and   
               Martin Monperrus   Mining software repair models for
                                  reasoning on the search space of
                                  automated program fixing . . . . . . . . 176--205
       Mohammed Misbhauddin and   
              Mohammad Alshayeb   UML model refactoring: a systematic
                                  literature review  . . . . . . . . . . . 206--251
         Nicolas Bettenburg and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
                 Bram Adams and   
               Daniel M. German   Management of community contributions    252--289

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 20, Number 2, April, 2015

      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
                        Tao Xie   Guest editorial: special section on
                                  mining software repositories . . . . . . 291--293
         Nicolas Bettenburg and   
         Meiyappan Nagappan and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Towards improving statistical modeling
                                  of software engineering data: think
                                  locally, act globally! . . . . . . . . . 294--335
               Foutse Khomh and   
                 Bram Adams and   
          Tejinder Dhaliwal and   
                       Ying Zou   Understanding the impact of rapid
                                  releases on software quality . . . . . . 336--373
                   Abram Hindle   Green mining: a methodology of relating
                                  software change and configuration to
                                  power consumption  . . . . . . . . . . . 374--409
      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
            Jonathan I. Maletic   Guest editorial: special section on
                                  software maintenance and evolution . . . 410--412
         Patrick Mäder and   
                Alexander Egyed   Do developers benefit from requirements
                                  traceability when evolving and
                                  maintaining a software system? . . . . . 413--441
                  Nasir Ali and   
             Zohreh Sharafi and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   An empirical study on the importance of
                                  source code entities for requirements
                                  traceability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--478
               Abram Hindle and   
             Christian Bird and   
          Thomas Zimmermann and   
            Nachiappan Nagappan   Do topics make sense to managers and
                                  developers?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--515
              Rafael Lotufo and   
              Zeeshan Malik and   
            Krzysztof Czarnecki   Modelling the `hurried' bug report
                                  reading process to summarize bug reports 516--548
           Felienne Hermans and   
             Martin Pinzger and   
               Arie van Deursen   Detecting and refactoring code smells in
                                  spreadsheet formulas . . . . . . . . . . 549--575

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 20, Number 3, June, 2015

    José del Sagrado and   
Isabel M. del Águila and   
          Francisco J. Orellana   Multi-objective ant colony optimization
                                  for requirements selection . . . . . . . 577--610
              Gordon Fraser and   
                  Andrea Arcuri   1600 faults in 100 projects:
                                  automatically finding faults while
                                  achieving high coverage with EvoSuite    611--639
            Ronald Jabangwe and   
  Jürgen Börstler and   
              Darja \vSmite and   
                   Claes Wohlin   Empirical evidence on the link between
                                  object-oriented measures and external
                                  quality attributes: a systematic
                                  literature review  . . . . . . . . . . . 640--693
       Emil Alégroth and   
               Robert Feldt and   
                   Lisa Ryrholm   Visual GUI testing in practice:
                                  challenges, problems and limitations . . 694--744
              Romain Robbes and   
   David Röthlisberger and   
             Éric Tanter   Object-oriented software extensions in
                                  practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745--782
              Gordon Fraser and   
                  Andrea Arcuri   Achieving scalable mutation-based
                                  generation of whole test suites  . . . . 783--812
           Ekrem Kocaguneli and   
                Tim Menzies and   
                  Emilia Mendes   Transfer learning in effort estimation   813--843
                Wasif Afzal and   
         Ahmad Nauman Ghazi and   
               Juha Itkonen and   
             Richard Torkar and   
          Anneliese Andrews and   
                 Khurram Bhatti   An experiment on the effectiveness and
                                  efficiency of exploratory testing  . . . 844--878

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 20, Number 4, August, 2015

              Barbara Russo and   
            Giancarlo Succi and   
                 Witold Pedrycz   Mining system logs to learn error
                                  predictors: a case study of a telemetry
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--927
        Nicholas DiGiuseppe and   
                 James A. Jones   Fault density, fault types, and
                                  spectra-based fault localization . . . . 928--967
               Kai Petersen and   
              Cigdem Gencel and   
              Negin Asghari and   
                  Stefanie Betz   An elicitation instrument for
                                  operationalising GQM$^+$ Strategies
                                  (GQM$^+$S-EI)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968--1005
             Viviane Santos and   
            Alfredo Goldman and   
        Cleidson R. B. de Souza   Fostering effective inter-team knowledge
                                  sharing in Agile software development    1006--1051
            Gabriele Bavota and   
             Abdallah Qusef and   
              Rocco Oliveto and   
            Andrea De Lucia and   
                   Dave Binkley   Are test smells really harmful? An
                                  empirical study  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1052--1094
               Jiachen Yang and   
              Keisuke Hotta and   
               Yoshiki Higo and   
              Hiroshi Igaki and   
                Shinji Kusumoto   Classification model for code clones
                                  based on machine learning  . . . . . . . 1095--1125
                     Wei Wu and   
            Adrien Serveaux and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   The impact of imperfect change rules on
                                  framework API evolution identification:
                                  an empirical study . . . . . . . . . . . 1126--1158
             Janet Siegmund and   
                  Jana Schumann   Confounding parameters on program
                                  comprehension: a literature survey . . . 1159--1192

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 20, Number 5, October, 2015

Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and   
                       Tom Mens   Introduction to the special issue on
                                  software maintenance and evolution
                                  research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193--1197
                 Bogdan Dit and   
                Evan Moritz and   
Mario Linares-Vásquez and   
           Denys Poshyvanyk and   
             Jane Cleland-Huang   Supporting and accelerating reproducible
                                  empirical research in software evolution
                                  and maintenance using TraceLab Component
                                  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1198--1236
             Tien-Duy B. Le and   
                   David Lo and   
                  Ferdian Thung   Should I follow this fault localization
                                  tool's output? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1237--1274
            Gabriele Bavota and   
            Gerardo Canfora and   
      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
              Rocco Oliveto and   
          Sebastiano Panichella   How the Apache community upgrades
                                  dependencies: an evolutionary study  . . 1275--1317
       Mohammad Gharehyazie and   
              Daryl Posnett and   
           Bogdan Vasilescu and   
                Vladimir Filkov   Developer initiation and social
                                  interactions in OSS: A case study of the
                                  Apache Software Foundation . . . . . . . 1318--1353
                  Yuan Tian and   
                   David Lo and   
                    Xin Xia and   
                  Chengnian Sun   Automated prediction of bug report
                                  priority using multi-factor analysis . . 1354--1383
  Mika V. Mäntylä and   
                 Bram Adams and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
       Emelie Engström and   
                   Kai Petersen   On rapid releases and software testing:
                                  a case study and a semi-systematic
                                  literature review  . . . . . . . . . . . 1384--1425

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 20, Number 6, December, 2015

               Claes Wohlin and   
              Aybüke Aurum   Towards a decision-making structure for
                                  selecting a research design in empirical
                                  software engineering . . . . . . . . . . 1427--1455
 Manuel J. Moreno-Lizaranzu and   
                Federico Cuesta   A framework and architecture for rapid
                                  software development: a success story    1456--1485
            Mariano Ceccato and   
           Andrea Capiluppi and   
             Paolo Falcarin and   
             Cornelia Boldyreff   A large study on the effect of code
                                  obfuscation on the quality of Java code  1486--1524
                 Julian M. Bass   How product owner teams scale Agile
                                  methods to large distributed enterprises 1525--1557
        Martin P. Robillard and   
                 Yam B. Chhetri   Recommending reference API documentation 1558--1586
             Shane McIntosh and   
         Meiyappan Nagappan and   
                 Bram Adams and   
              Audris Mockus and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   A Large-Scale Empirical Study of the
                                  Relationship between Build Technology
                                  and Build Maintenance  . . . . . . . . . 1587--1633
          Daniela S. Cruzes and   
            Tore Dybå and   
                Per Runeson and   
               Martin Höst   Case studies synthesis: a thematic,
                                  cross-case, and narrative synthesis
                                  worked example . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1634--1665
        Giuseppe Scanniello and   
             Andrian Marcus and   
                Daniele Pascale   Link analysis algorithms for static
                                  concept location: an empirical
                                  assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1666--1720
               Jason McZara and   
           Shahryar Sarkani and   
              Thomas Holzer and   
               Timothy Eveleigh   Software requirements prioritization and
                                  selection using linguistic tools and
                                  constraint solvers --- a controlled
                                  experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1721--1761
       Lise Tordrup Heeager and   
                    Jeremy Rose   Optimising Agile development practices
                                  for the maintenance operation: nine
                                  heuristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1762--1784
             Maria Kechagia and   
       Dimitris Mitropoulos and   
             Diomidis Spinellis   Charting the API minefield using
                                  software telemetry data  . . . . . . . . 1785--1830
     Elder Macedo Rodrigues and   
Flávio Moreira de Oliveira and   
      Leandro Teodoro Costa and   
          Maicon Bernardino and   
    Avelino Francisco Zorzo and   
Simone do Rocio Senger Souza and   
                   Rodrigo Saad   An empirical comparison of model-based
                                  and capture and replay approaches for
                                  performance testing  . . . . . . . . . . 1831--1860
              Osama Al-Baik and   
                   James Miller   The Kanban approach, between agility and
                                  leanness: a systematic review  . . . . . 1861--1897
  Fábio R. Octaviano and   
         Katia R. Felizardo and   
   José C. Maldonado and   
         Sandra C. P. F. Fabbri   Semi-automatic selection of primary
                                  studies in systematic literature
                                  reviews: is it reasonable? . . . . . . . 1898--1917


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 21, Number 1, February, 2016

                      Anonymous   Appreciation to empirical software
                                  engineering reviewers of 2015  . . . . . 1--3
           Abdullah Khalili and   
                Ashkan Sami and   
                Mahdi Azimi and   
              Sara Moshtari and   
               Zahra Salehi and   
            Mahboobe Ghiasi and   
               Ali Akbar Safavi   Employing secure coding practices into
                                  industrial applications: a case study    4--16
           Paul W. McBurney and   
                Collin McMillan   An empirical study of the textual
                                  similarity between source code and
                                  source code summaries  . . . . . . . . . 17--42
                 Duksan Ryu and   
                 Okjoo Choi and   
                  Jongmoon Baik   Value-cognitive boosting with a support
                                  vector machine for cross-project defect
                                  prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--71
               Anna Corazza and   
          Sergio Di Martino and   
             Valerio Maggio and   
            Giuseppe Scanniello   Weighing lexical information for
                                  software clustering in the context of
                                  architecture recovery  . . . . . . . . . 72--103
          Venera Arnaoudova and   
      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   Linguistic antipatterns: what they are
                                  and how developers perceive them . . . . 104--158
                  Yuepu Guo and   
Rodrigo Oliveira Spínola and   
                 Carolyn Seaman   Exploring the costs of technical debt
                                  management --- a case study  . . . . . . 159--182
                Kevin Allix and   
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and   
      Quentin Jérome and   
              Jacques Klein and   
                 Radu State and   
                  Yves Le Traon   Empirical assessment of machine
                                  learning-based malware detectors for
                                  Android  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--211
Ana M. Fernández-Sáez and   
             Marcela Genero and   
             Danilo Caivano and   
          Michel R. V. Chaudron   Does the level of detail of UML diagrams
                                  affect the maintainability of source
                                  code?: a family of experiments . . . . . 212--259
           Daniel M. German and   
                 Bram Adams and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Continuously mining distributed version
                                  control systems: an empirical study of
                                  how Linux uses Git . . . . . . . . . . . 260--299

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 21, Number 2, April, 2016

      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
                    Sunghun Kim   Guest editorial: Special section on
                                  mining software repositories . . . . . . 301--302
                 Kim Herzig and   
                Sascha Just and   
                 Andreas Zeller   The impact of tangled code changes on
                                  defect prediction models . . . . . . . . 303--336
               Shaohua Wang and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
                       Ying Zou   Improving bug management using
                                  correlations in crash reports  . . . . . 337--367
               Abram Hindle and   
            Anahita Alipour and   
                 Eleni Stroulia   A contextual approach towards more
                                  accurate duplicate bug report detection
                                  and ranking  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--410
             Heiko Koziolek and   
         Thomas Goldschmidt and   
         Thijmen de Gooijer and   
              Dominik Domis and   
          Stephan Sehestedt and   
               Thomas Gamer and   
                  Markus Aleksy   Assessing software product line
                                  potential: an exploratory industrial
                                  case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--448
               Claus Hunsen and   
                   Bo Zhang and   
             Janet Siegmund and   
     Christian Kästner and   
        Olaf Leßenich and   
              Martin Becker and   
                      Sven Apel   Preprocessor-based variability in
                                  open-source and industrial software
                                  systems: An empirical study  . . . . . . 449--482
          Santiago A. Vidal and   
           Alexandre Bergel and   
             Claudia Marcos and   
J. Andrés Díaz-Pace   Understanding and addressing
                                  exhibitionism in Java empirical research
                                  about method accessibility . . . . . . . 483--516
            Wai Ting Cheung and   
               Sukyoung Ryu and   
                    Sunghun Kim   Development nature matters: An empirical
                                  study of code clones in JavaScript
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--564
                 Suntae Kim and   
                    Dongsun Kim   Automatic identifier inconsistency
                                  detection using code dictionary  . . . . 565--604
         Ayse Tosun Misirli and   
                Emad Shihab and   
                 Yasukata Kamei   Studying high impact fix-inducing
                                  changes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--641
              Ingo Scholtes and   
           Pavlin Mavrodiev and   
               Frank Schweitzer   From Aristotle to Ringelmann: a
                                  large-scale analysis of team
                                  productivity and coordination in Open
                                  Source Software projects . . . . . . . . 642--683
               Hussan Munir and   
             Krzysztof Wnuk and   
                    Per Runeson   Open innovation in software engineering:
                                  a systematic mapping study . . . . . . . 684--723
          Kostadin Damevski and   
             David Shepherd and   
                   Lori Pollock   A field study of how developers locate
                                  features in source code  . . . . . . . . 724--747

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 21, Number 3, June, 2016

              Romain Robbes and   
              Rocco Oliveto and   
          Massimiliano Di Penta   Guest editorial: special section on
                                  software reverse engineering . . . . . . 749--752
                    Xi Chen and   
             Asia Slowinska and   
                    Herbert Bos   On the detection of custom memory
                                  allocators in C binaries . . . . . . . . 753--777
              Istvan Haller and   
             Asia Slowinska and   
                    Herbert Bos   Scalable data structure detection and
                                  classification for C/C++ binaries  . . . 778--810
            Neil Walkinshaw and   
              Ramsay Taylor and   
                   John Derrick   Inferring extended finite state machine
                                  models from software executions  . . . . 811--853
          Cristiano Maffort and   
        Marco Tulio Valente and   
              Ricardo Terra and   
             Mariza Bigonha and   
           Nicolas Anquetil and   
              André Hora   Mining architectural violations from
                                  version history  . . . . . . . . . . . . 854--895
               Fehmi Jaafar and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and   
               Sylvie Hamel and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
            Mohammad Zulkernine   Evaluating the impact of design pattern
                                  and anti-pattern dependencies on changes
                                  and faults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896--931
                Olga Baysal and   
          Oleksii Kononenko and   
                Reid Holmes and   
             Michael W. Godfrey   Investigating technical and
                                  non-technical factors influencing modern
                                  code review  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932--959
                 Bram Adams and   
              Ryan Kavanagh and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
               Daniel M. German   An empirical study of integration
                                  activities in distributions of open
                                  source software  . . . . . . . . . . . . 960--1001
             Fabio Calefato and   
           Filippo Lanubile and   
               Tayana Conte and   
            Rafael Prikladnicki   Assessing the impact of real-time
                                  machine translation on multilingual
                                  meetings in global software projects . . 1002--1034
                Yu-Cheng Tu and   
               Ewan Tempero and   
               Clark Thomborson   An experiment on the impact of
                                  transparency on the effectiveness of
                                  requirements documents . . . . . . . . . 1035--1066
             Stuart McIlroy and   
                  Nasir Ali and   
              Hammad Khalid and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Analyzing and automatically labelling
                                  the types of user issues that are raised
                                  in mobile app reviews  . . . . . . . . . 1067--1106
        Surafel Lemma Abebe and   
                  Nasir Ali and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   An empirical study of software release
                                  notes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1107--1142
  Francesca Arcelli Fontana and   
  Mika V. Mäntylä and   
               Marco Zanoni and   
              Alessandro Marino   Comparing and experimenting machine
                                  learning techniques for code smell
                                  detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143--1191
          Christoffer Rosen and   
                    Emad Shihab   What are mobile developers asking about?
                                  A large scale study using Stack Overflow 1192--1223
      Julián Grigera and   
          Alejandra Garrido and   
        Jose Ignacio Panach and   
           Damiano Distante and   
                  Gustavo Rossi   Assessing refactorings for usability in
                                  e-commerce applications  . . . . . . . . 1224--1271
           Saleh M. Alnaeli and   
        Jonathan I. Maletic and   
             Michael L. Collard   An empirical examination of the
                                  prevalence of inhibitors to the
                                  parallelizability of open source
                                  software systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1272--1301
Breno Bernard Nicolau de França and   
      Guilherme Horta Travassos   Experimentation with dynamic simulation
                                  models in software engineering: planning
                                  and reporting guidelines . . . . . . . . 1302--1345
             Stuart McIlroy and   
                  Nasir Ali and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Fresh apps: an empirical study of
                                  frequently-updated mobile apps in the
                                  Google Play store  . . . . . . . . . . . 1346--1370
              Jens Dietrich and   
                Kamil Jezek and   
                   Premek Brada   What Java developers know about
                                  compatibility, and why this matters  . . 1371--1396
                   Jie Chen and   
               Junchao Xiao and   
                  Qing Wang and   
          Leon J. Osterweil and   
                     Mingshu Li   Perspectives on refactoring planning and
                                  practice: an empirical study . . . . . . 1397--1436

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 21, Number 4, August, 2016

              Sa\"\id Assar and   
                Markus Borg and   
                  Dietmar Pfahl   Using text clustering to predict defect
                                  resolution time: a conceptual
                                  replication and an evaluation of
                                  prediction accuracy  . . . . . . . . . . 1437--1475
         Debarshi Chatterji and   
          Jeffrey C. Carver and   
              Nicholas A. Kraft   Code clones and developer behavior:
                                  results of two surveys of the clone
                                  research community . . . . . . . . . . . 1476--1508
        Makrina Viola Kosti and   
               Robert Feldt and   
               Lefteris Angelis   Archetypal personalities of software
                                  engineers and their work preferences: a
                                  new perspective for empirical studies    1509--1532
               Leif Jonsson and   
                Markus Borg and   
               David Broman and   
           Kristian Sandahl and   
                Sigrid Eldh and   
                    Per Runeson   Automated bug assignment: Ensemble-based
                                  machine learning in large scale
                                  industrial contexts  . . . . . . . . . . 1533--1578
            Ebrahim Bagheri and   
            David Benavides and   
               Klaus Schmid and   
                    Per Runeson   Foreword to the special issue on
                                  empirical evidence on software product
                                  line engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . 1579--1585
                 Shuai Wang and   
                Shaukat Ali and   
             Arnaud Gotlieb and   
                  Marius Liaaen   A systematic test case selection
                                  methodology for product lines: results
                                  and insights from an industrial case
                                  study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1586--1622
   Varvana Myllärniemi and   
            Juha Savolainen and   
          Mikko Raatikainen and   
        Tomi Männistö   Performance variability in software
                                  product lines: proposing theories from a
                                  case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1623--1669
            Stefan Sobernig and   
                  Sven Apel and   
          Sergiy Kolesnikov and   
               Norbert Siegmund   Quantifying structural attributes of
                                  system decompositions in 28
                                  feature-oriented software product lines  1670--1705
               Mohsen Asadi and   
            Samaneh Soltani and   
         Dragan Ga\vsevi\'c and   
                   Marek Hatala   The effects of visualization and
                                  interaction techniques on feature model
                                  configuration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1706--1743
            Leonardo Passos and   
          Leopoldo Teixeira and   
           Nicolas Dintzner and   
                  Sven Apel and   
         Andrzej W\kasowski and   
        Krzysztof Czarnecki and   
                Paulo Borba and   
                    Jianmei Guo   Coevolution of variability models and
                                  related software artifacts . . . . . . . 1744--1793
     Guillaume Bécan and   
              Mathieu Acher and   
              Benoit Baudry and   
                  Sana Ben Nasr   Breathing ontological knowledge into
                                  feature model synthesis: an empirical
                                  study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1794--1841

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 21, Number 5, October, 2016

              Tse-Hsun Chen and   
          Stephen W. Thomas and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   A survey on the use of topic models when
                                  mining software repositories . . . . . . 1843--1919
              Munawar Hafiz and   
                      Ming Fang   Game of detections: how are security
                                  vulnerabilities discovered in the wild?  1920--1959
         Mohamed Sami Rakha and   
                Weiyi Shang and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Studying the needed effort for
                                  identifying duplicate issues . . . . . . 1960--1989
      Quinten David Soetens and   
              Serge Demeyer and   
               Andy Zaidman and   
            Javier Pérez   Change-based test selection: an
                                  empirical evaluation . . . . . . . . . . 1990--2032
             Martin Pinzger and   
                    Sunghun Kim   Guest editorial: mining software
                                  repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2033--2034
        Eirini Kalliamvakou and   
           Georgios Gousios and   
              Kelly Blincoe and   
                Leif Singer and   
           Daniel M. German and   
                 Daniela Damian   An in-depth study of the promises and
                                  perils of mining GitHub  . . . . . . . . 2035--2071
             Yasutaka Kamei and   
         Takafumi Fukushima and   
             Shane McIntosh and   
         Kazuhiro Yamashita and   
           Naoyasu Ubayashi and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Studying just-in-time defect prediction
                                  using cross-project models . . . . . . . 2072--2106
                 Feng Zhang and   
              Audris Mockus and   
             Iman Keivanloo and   
                       Ying Zou   Towards building a universal defect
                                  prediction model with rank transformed
                                  predictors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2107--2145
             Shane McIntosh and   
             Yasutaka Kamei and   
                 Bram Adams and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   An empirical study of the impact of
                                  modern code review practices on software
                                  quality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2146--2189
            Luca Ponzanelli and   
            Gabriele Bavota and   
      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
              Rocco Oliveto and   
                  Michele Lanza   Prompter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2190--2231

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 21, Number 6, December, 2016

                    Yi Wang and   
                 David Redmiles   Cheap talk, cooperation, and trust in
                                  global software engineering  . . . . . . 2233--2267
           Viet Hung Nguyen and   
       Stanislav Dashevskyi and   
                 Fabio Massacci   An automatic method for assessing the
                                  versions affected by a vulnerability . . 2268--2297
                  Yuan Tian and   
                  Nasir Ali and   
                   David Lo and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   On the unreliability of bug severity
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2298--2323
   Michael Unterkalmsteiner and   
              Tony Gorschek and   
               Robert Feldt and   
                Niklas Lavesson   Large-scale information retrieval in
                                  software engineering- an experience
                                  report from industrial application . . . 2324--2365
                     Wei Wu and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
                 Bram Adams and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   An exploratory study of API changes and
                                  usages based on Apache and Eclipse
                                  ecosystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2366--2412
                   Xiang Li and   
               Chetan Mutha and   
                Carol S. Smidts   An automated software reliability
                                  prediction system for safety critical
                                  software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2413--2455
        Marouane Kessentini and   
              Günther Ruhe   A guest editorial: special section on
                                  search-based software engineering  . . . 2456--2458
                Shaukat Ali and   
      Muhammad Zohaib Iqbal and   
               Maham Khalid and   
                  Andrea Arcuri   Improving the performance of OCL
                                  constraint solving with novel heuristics
                                  for logical operations: a search-based
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2459--2502
       Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer and   
        Marouane Kessentini and   
               Slim Bechikh and   
Mel Ó Cinnéide and   
                  Kalyanmoy Deb   On the use of many quality attributes
                                  for software refactoring: a
                                  many-objective search-based software
                                  engineering approach . . . . . . . . . . 2503--2545
      Aurora Ramírez and   
José Raúl Romero and   
       Sebastián Ventura   A comparative study of many-objective
                                  evolutionary algorithms for the
                                  discovery of software architectures  . . 2546--2600


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 22, Number 1, February, 2017

                      Anonymous   Appreciation to \booktitleEmpirical
                                  Software Engineering reviewers of 2016   1--5
                     Qi Luo and   
               Aswathy Nair and   
             Mark Grechanik and   
               Denys Poshyvanyk   FOREPOST: finding performance problems
                                  automatically with feedback-directed
                                  learning software testing  . . . . . . . 6--56
               Padmal Vitharana   Defect propagation at the project-level:
                                  results and a post-hoc analysis on
                                  inspection efficiency  . . . . . . . . . 57--79
                Ali Niknafs and   
                   Daniel Berry   The impact of domain knowledge on the
                                  effectiveness of requirements
                                  engineering activities . . . . . . . . . 80--133
               Lingfeng Bao and   
                    Jing Li and   
             Zhenchang Xing and   
                 Xinyu Wang and   
                    Xin Xia and   
                        Bo Zhou   Extracting and analyzing time-series HCI
                                  data from screen-captured task videos    134--174
                     Yan Li and   
                    Tao Yue and   
                Shaukat Ali and   
                       Li Zhang   Zen-ReqOptimizer: a search-based
                                  approach for requirements assignment
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--234
           Alan Charpentier and   
   Jean-Rémy Falleri and   
    Floréal Morandat and   
       Elyas Ben Hadj Yahia and   
    Laurent Réveill\`ere   Raters' reliability in clone benchmarks
                                  construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--258
                 Haoran Niu and   
             Iman Keivanloo and   
                       Ying Zou   Learning to rank code examples for code
                                  search engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--291
Mel Ó Cinnéide and   
       Iman Hemati Moghadam and   
                Mark Harman and   
             Steve Counsell and   
                 Laurence Tratt   An experimental search-based approach to
                                  cohesion metric evaluation . . . . . . . 292--329
Mel Ó Cinnéide and   
       Iman Hemati Moghadam and   
                Mark Harman and   
             Steve Counsell and   
                 Laurence Tratt   An experimental search-based approach to
                                  cohesion metric evaluation . . . . . . . 292--329
                Boyuan Chen and   
         Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang   Characterizing logging practices in
                                  Java-based open source software projects
                                  --- a replication study in Apache
                                  Software Foundation  . . . . . . . . . . 330--374
                  Deheng Ye and   
             Zhenchang Xing and   
                 Nachiket Kapre   The structure and dynamics of knowledge
                                  network in domain-specific Q&A sites: a
                                  case study of stack overflow . . . . . . 375--406
              David Kavaler and   
                Vladimir Filkov   Stochastic actor-oriented modeling for
                                  studying homophily and social influence
                                  in OSS projects  . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--435
                 Jihun Park and   
                Miryung Kim and   
                   Doo-Hwan Bae   An empirical study of supplementary
                                  patches in open source projects  . . . . 436--473
     Passakorn Phannachitta and   
                Jacky Keung and   
               Akito Monden and   
              Kenichi Matsumoto   A stability assessment of solution
                                  adaptation techniques for analogy-based
                                  software effort estimation . . . . . . . 474--504
              Safwat Hassan and   
                Weiyi Shang and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   An empirical study of emergency updates
                                  for top Android mobile apps  . . . . . . 505--546
                 Jing Jiang and   
                   David Lo and   
                 Jiahuan He and   
                    Xin Xia and   
      Pavneet Singh Kochhar and   
                       Li Zhang   Why and how developers fork what from
                                  whom in GitHub . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--578

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 22, Number 2, April, 2017

         Barbara Kitchenham and   
              Lech Madeyski and   
               David Budgen and   
                Jacky Keung and   
             Pearl Brereton and   
            Stuart Charters and   
              Shirley Gibbs and   
                Amnart Pohthong   Robust Statistical Methods for Empirical
                                  Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 579--630
               Siyuan Jiang and   
            Collin McMillan and   
                Raul Santelices   Do Programmers do Change Impact Analysis
                                  in Debugging?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--669
        Marouane Kessentini and   
              Usman Mansoor and   
              Manuel Wimmer and   
                   Ali Ouni and   
                  Kalyanmoy Deb   Search-based detection of model level
                                  changes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670--715
                Chris Lokan and   
                  Emilia Mendes   Investigating the use of moving windows
                                  to improve software effort prediction: a
                                  replicated study . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--767
     Patanamon Thongtanunam and   
             Shane McIntosh and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
                    Hajimu Iida   Review participation in modern code
                                  review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768--817
      Carlos Henrique C. Duarte   Productivity paradoxes revisited . . . . 818--847
                 Ayse Tosun and   
                Emad Shihab and   
                 Yasutaka Kamei   Erratum to: Studying high impact
                                  fix-inducing changes . . . . . . . . . . 848--848
            Claire Le Goues and   
                       Shin Yoo   Guest editorial for special section on
                                  research in search-based software
                                  engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849--851
   José Miguel Rojas and   
             Mattia Vivanti and   
              Andrea Arcuri and   
                  Gordon Fraser   A detailed investigation of the
                                  effectiveness of whole test suite
                                  generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852--893
       Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer and   
        Marouane Kessentini and   
Mel Ó Cinnéide and   
            Shinpei Hayashi and   
                  Kalyanmoy Deb   A robust multi-objective approach to
                                  balance severity and importance of
                                  refactoring opportunities  . . . . . . . 894--927
    Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew and   
             Roberto Tiella and   
                  Paolo Tonella   Generating valid grammar-based test
                                  inputs by means of genetic programming
                                  and annotated grammars . . . . . . . . . 928--961

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 22, Number 3, June, 2017

         Patrick Mäder and   
             Rocco Olivetto and   
                 Andrian Marcus   Empirical studies in software and
                                  systems traceability . . . . . . . . . . 963--966
         Daniel Ståhl and   
    Kristofer Hallén and   
                      Jan Bosch   Achieving traceability in large scale
                                  continuous integration and delivery
                                  deployment, usage and validation of the
                                  Eiffel framework . . . . . . . . . . . . 967--995
             Davide Falessi and   
      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
            Gerardo Canfora and   
               Giovanni Cantone   Estimating the number of remaining links
                                  in traceability recovery . . . . . . . . 996--1027
              Waleed Zogaan and   
             Ibrahim Mujhid and   
        Joanna C. S. Santos and   
          Danielle Gonzalez and   
               Mehdi Mirakhorli   Automated training-set creation for
                                  software architecture traceability
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1028--1062
              Bonita Sharif and   
               John Meinken and   
            Timothy Shaffer and   
                   Huzefa Kagdi   Eye movements in software traceability
                                  link recovery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1102
                    Jin Guo and   
               Marek Gibiec and   
             Jane Cleland-Huang   Tackling the term-mismatch problem in
                                  automated trace retrieval  . . . . . . . 1103--1142
              Romain Robbes and   
             Yasutaka Kamei and   
                 Martin Pinzger   Guest Editorial: Mining software
                                  repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143--1145
        Pooyan Behnamghader and   
                Duc Minh Le and   
              Joshua Garcia and   
                Daniel Link and   
           Arman Shahbazian and   
               Nenad Medvidovic   A large-scale study of architectural
                                  evolution in open-source software
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1146--1193
                   Yuhao Wu and   
                Yuki Manabe and   
              Tetsuya Kanda and   
           Daniel M. German and   
                  Katsuro Inoue   Analysis of license inconsistency in
                                  large collections of open source
                                  projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194--1222
     Morakot Choetkiertikul and   
              Hoa Khanh Dam and   
                Truyen Tran and   
                   Aditya Ghose   Predicting the delay of issues with due
                                  dates in software projects . . . . . . . 1223--1263
             Roberta Coelho and   
              Lucas Almeida and   
           Georgios Gousios and   
           Arie van Deursen and   
               Christoph Treude   Exception handling bug hazards in
                                  Android  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1264--1304
             Nuthan Munaiah and   
             Felivel Camilo and   
              Wesley Wigham and   
             Andrew Meneely and   
             Meiyappan Nagappan   Do bugs foreshadow vulnerabilities? An
                                  in-depth study of the Chromium Project   1305--1347
         Anand Ashok Sawant and   
              Alberto Bacchelli   fine-GRAPE: fine-grained APi usage
                                  extractor --- an approach and dataset to
                                  investigate API usage  . . . . . . . . . 1348--1371
             Diomidis Spinellis   A repository of Unix history and
                                  evolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1372--1404
           Matthieu Caneill and   
    Daniel M. Germán and   
             Stefano Zacchiroli   The Debsources Dataset: two decades of
                                  free and open source software  . . . . . 1405--1437
              Rocco Oliveto and   
                 Christian Bird   Guest editorial: Program comprehension   1438--1439
                Ahmad Jbara and   
              Dror G. Feitelson   How programmers read regular code: a
                                  controlled experiment using eye tracking 1440--1477
              Laura MacLeod and   
             Andreas Bergen and   
           Margaret-Anne Storey   Documenting and sharing software
                                  knowledge using screencasts  . . . . . . 1478--1507
              Moritz Beller and   
               Andy Zaidman and   
              Andrey Karpov and   
                  Rolf A. Zwaan   The last line effect explained . . . . . 1508--1536
        Christopher Vendome and   
            Gabriele Bavota and   
      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
Mario Linares-Vásquez and   
              Daniel German and   
               Denys Poshyvanyk   License usage and changes: a large-scale
                                  study on gitHub  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1537--1577

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 22, Number 4, August, 2017

                   Ying Shi and   
                    Ming Li and   
               Steven Arndt and   
                   Carol Smidts   Metric-based software reliability
                                  prediction approach and its application  1579--1633
                      Ji Wu and   
                Shaukat Ali and   
                    Tao Yue and   
                   Jie Tian and   
                       Chao Liu   Assessing the quality of industrial
                                  avionics software: an extensive
                                  empirical evaluation . . . . . . . . . . 1634--1683
                    Heng Li and   
                Weiyi Shang and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Which log level should developers choose
                                  for a new logging statement? . . . . . . 1684--1716
        Ioanna Stavropoulou and   
           Marios Grigoriou and   
            Kostas Kontogiannis   Case study on which relations to use for
                                  clustering-based software architecture
                                  recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1717--1762
Wesley K. G. Assunção and   
  Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon and   
            Lukas Linsbauer and   
         Silvia R. Vergilio and   
                Alexander Egyed   Multi-objective reverse engineering of
                                  variability-safe feature models based on
                                  code dependencies of system variants . . 1763--1794
       Mohammad Gharehyazie and   
                Vladimir Filkov   Tracing distributed collaborative
                                  development in Apache software
                                  foundation projects  . . . . . . . . . . 1795--1830
                    Heng Li and   
                Weiyi Shang and   
                   Ying Zou and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Towards just-in-time suggestions for log
                                  changes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1831--1865
            Steffen Herbold and   
         Alexander Trautsch and   
                 Jens Grabowski   Global vs. local models for
                                  cross-project defect prediction  . . . . 1866--1902
                Tim Menzies and   
            William Nichols and   
              Forrest Shull and   
                   Lucas Layman   Are delayed issues harder to resolve?
                                  Revisiting cost-to-fix of defects
                                  throughout the lifecycle . . . . . . . . 1903--1935
            Matias Martinez and   
             Thomas Durieux and   
           Romain Sommerard and   
                Jifeng Xuan and   
               Martin Monperrus   Automatic repair of real bugs in Java: a
                                  large-scale experiment on the \tt
                                  defects4j dataset  . . . . . . . . . . . 1936--1964
               Anas Mahmoud and   
                  Gary Bradshaw   Semantic topic models for source code
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1965--2000
          Victoria Sakhnini and   
                 Luisa Mich and   
                Daniel M. Berry   Group versus individual use of
                                  power-only EPMcreate as a creativity
                                  enhancement technique for requirements
                                  elicitation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001--2049
            Mitchell Joblin and   
                  Sven Apel and   
               Wolfgang Mauerer   Evolutionary trends of developer
                                  coordination: a network approach . . . . 2050--2094
                   Dayi Lin and   
           Cor-Paul Bezemer and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Studying the urgent updates of popular
                                  games on the Steam platform  . . . . . . 2095--2126
                 Maria Riaz and   
                 Jason King and   
               John Slankas and   
            Laurie Williams and   
             Fabio Massacci and   
Christian Quesada-López and   
                Marcelo Jenkins   Identifying the implied: Findings from
                                  three differentiated replications on the
                                  use of security requirements templates   2127--2178
                Per Lenberg and   
Lars Göran Wallgren Tengberg and   
                   Robert Feldt   An initial analysis of software
                                  engineers' attitudes towards
                                  organizational change  . . . . . . . . . 2179--2205
           Arne N. Johanson and   
            Wilhelm Hasselbring   Effectiveness and efficiency of a
                                  domain-specific language for
                                  high-performance marine ecosystem
                                  simulation: a controlled experiment  . . 2206--2236
             Tien-Duy B. Le and   
              Ferdian Thung and   
                       David Lo   Will this localization tool be effective
                                  for this bug? Mitigating the impact of
                                  unreliability of information retrieval
                                  based bug localization tools . . . . . . 2237--2279

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 22, Number 5, October, 2017

  Mika V. Mäntylä and   
     Magne Jòrgensen and   
                 Paul Ralph and   
                 Hakan Erdogmus   Guest editorial for special section on
                                  success and failure in software
                                  engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2281--2297
D. Méndez Fernández and   
                  S. Wagner and   
              M. Kalinowski and   
                M. Felderer and   
                   P. Mafra and   
                 A. Vetr\`o and   
                   T. Conte and   
        M.-T. Christiansson and   
                   D. Greer and   
               C. Lassenius and   
      T. Männistö and   
                  M. Nayabi and   
                    M. Oivo and   
           B. Penzenstadler and   
                   D. Pfahl and   
                          et al   Naming the pain in requirements
                                  engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2298--2338
               Muneera Bano and   
               Didar Zowghi and   
            Francesca da Rimini   User satisfaction and system success: an
                                  empirical exploration of user
                                  involvement in software development  . . 2339--2372
        Sohaib Shahid Bajwa and   
              Xiaofeng Wang and   
             Anh Nguyen Duc and   
              Pekka Abrahamsson   ``Failures'' to be celebrated: an
                                  analysis of major pivots of software
                                  startups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2373--2408
        Timo O. A. Lehtinen and   
               Juha Itkonen and   
               Casper Lassenius   Recurring opinions or productive
                                  improvements --- what agile teams
                                  actually discuss in retrospectives . . . 2409--2452
           Richard F. Paige and   
                Jordi Cabot and   
                  Neil A. Ernst   Foreword to the special section on
                                  negative results in software engineering 2453--2456
               Oscar Dieste and   
      Alejandrina M. Aranda and   
          Fernando Uyaguari and   
               Burak Turhan and   
                 Ayse Tosun and   
               Davide Fucci and   
                Markku Oivo and   
                Natalia Juristo   Empirical evaluation of the effects of
                                  experience on code quality and
                                  programmer productivity: an exploratory
                                  study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2457--2542
          Robbert Jongeling and   
           Proshanta Sarkar and   
             Subhajit Datta and   
           Alexander Serebrenik   On negative results when using sentiment
                                  analysis tools for software engineering
                                  research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2543--2584
                  Yossi Gil and   
                   Gal Lalouche   On the correlation between size and
                                  metric validity  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2585--2611
      Aminata Sabané and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and   
          Venera Arnaoudova and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   Fragile base-class problem, problem? . . 2612--2657
                Tim Menzies and   
                    Ye Yang and   
              George Mathew and   
                Barry Boehm and   
                    Jairus Hihn   Negative results for software effort
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2658--2683
                 Jason King and   
              Jon Stallings and   
                 Maria Riaz and   
                Laurie Williams   To log, or not to log: using heuristics
                                  to identify mandatory log events --- a
                                  controlled experiment  . . . . . . . . . 2684--2717

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 22, Number 6, December, 2017

         Cristina Palomares and   
                 Carme Quer and   
                  Xavier Franch   Requirements reuse and requirement
                                  patterns: a state of the practice survey 2719--2762
                 Ayse Tosun and   
               Oscar Dieste and   
               Davide Fucci and   
                 Sira Vegas and   
               Burak Turhan and   
             Hakan Erdogmus and   
              Adrian Santos and   
                Markku Oivo and   
                 Kimmo Toro and   
             Janne Jarvinen and   
                Natalia Juristo   An industry experiment on the effects of
                                  test-driven development on external
                                  quality and productivity . . . . . . . . 2763--2805
           Ruchika Malhotra and   
                   Megha Khanna   An empirical study for software change
                                  prediction using imbalanced data . . . . 2806--2851
             Marco Kuhrmann and   
Daniel Méndez Fernández and   
                    Maya Daneva   On the pragmatic design of literature
                                  studies in software engineering: an
                                  experience-based guideline . . . . . . . 2852--2891
     Ville T. Heikkilä and   
           Maria Paasivaara and   
          Casper Lasssenius and   
             Daniela Damian and   
              Christian Engblom   Managing the requirements flow from
                                  strategy to release in large-scale agile
                                  development: a case study at Ericsson    2892--2936
       Emil Alégroth and   
                   Robert Feldt   On the long-term use of visual GUI
                                  testing in industrial practice: a case
                                  study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2937--2971
Wesley K. G. Assunção and   
  Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon and   
            Lukas Linsbauer and   
         Silvia R. Vergilio and   
                Alexander Egyed   Reengineering legacy applications into
                                  software product lines: a systematic
                                  mapping  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2972--3016
        Katsiaryna Labunets and   
             Fabio Massacci and   
              Federica Paci and   
            Sabrina Marczak and   
Flávio Moreira de Oliveira   Model comprehension for security risk
                                  assessment: an empirical comparison of
                                  tabular vs. graphical representations    3017--3056
              Vard Antinyan and   
           Miros\law Staron and   
                  Anna Sandberg   Evaluating code complexity triggers, use
                                  of complexity measures and the influence
                                  of code complexity on maintenance time   3057--3087
                 Ehsan Noei and   
               Mark D. Syer and   
                   Ying Zou and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
                 Iman Keivanloo   A study of the relation of mobile device
                                  attributes with the user-perceived
                                  quality of Android apps  . . . . . . . . 3088--3116
           Cor-Paul Bezemer and   
             Shane McIntosh and   
                 Bram Adams and   
           Daniel M. German and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   An empirical study of unspecified
                                  dependencies in make-based build systems 3117--3148
                    Xin Xia and   
               Lingfeng Bao and   
                   David Lo and   
      Pavneet Singh Kochhar and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
                 Zhenchang Xing   What do developers search for on the
                                  web? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3149--3185
                 Feng Zhang and   
             Iman Keivanloo and   
                       Ying Zou   Data Transformation in Cross-project
                                  Defect Prediction  . . . . . . . . . . . 3186--3218
             Nuthan Munaiah and   
                Steven Kroh and   
               Craig Cabrey and   
             Meiyappan Nagappan   Curating GitHub for engineered software
                                  projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3219--3253


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 23, Number 1, February, 2018

                  Xuelin Li and   
               W. Eric Wong and   
                 Ruizhi Gao and   
                Linghuan Hu and   
                 Shigeru Hosono   Genetic Algorithm-based Test Generation
                                  for Software Product Line with the
                                  Integration of Fault Localization
                                  Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--51
             Marco Scavuzzo and   
        Elisabetta Di Nitto and   
                 Danilo Ardagna   Experiences and challenges in building a
                                  data intensive system for data migration 52--86
               Huihui Zhang and   
                 Shuai Wang and   
                    Tao Yue and   
                Shaukat Ali and   
                       Chao Liu   Search and similarity based selection of
                                  use case scenarios: An empirical study   87--164
              Kaushal Chari and   
                 Manish Agrawal   Impact of incorrect and new requirements
                                  on waterfall software project outcomes   165--185
               Hussan Munir and   
        Johan Linåker and   
             Krzysztof Wnuk and   
                    Per Runeson   Open innovation using open source tools:
                                  a case study at Sony Mobile  . . . . . . 186--223
                   Nour Ali and   
                 Sean Baker and   
             Ross O'Crowley and   
           Sebastian Herold and   
                    Jim Buckley   Architecture consistency: State of the
                                  practice, challenges and requirements    224--258
                 Irit Hadar and   
               Tomer Hasson and   
              Oshrat Ayalon and   
                  Eran Toch and   
           Michael Birnhack and   
              Sofia Sherman and   
                   Arod Balissa   Privacy by designers: software
                                  developers' privacy mindset  . . . . . . 259--289
              Suhas Kabinna and   
           Cor-Paul Bezemer and   
                Weiyi Shang and   
               Mark D. Syer and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Examining the stability of logging
                                  statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--333
    Daniel Alencar da Costa and   
             Shane McIntosh and   
        Uirá Kulesza and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
            Surafel Lemma Abebe   An empirical study of the integration
                                  time of fixed issues . . . . . . . . . . 334--383
       Raula Gaikovina Kula and   
           Daniel M. German and   
                   Ali Ouni and   
              Takashi Ishio and   
                  Katsuro Inoue   Do developers update their library
                                  dependencies?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--417
                 Qiao Huang and   
                Emad Shihab and   
                    Xin Xia and   
                   David Lo and   
                    Shanping Li   Identifying self-admitted technical debt
                                  in open source projects using text
                                  mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--451
             Davide Falessi and   
            Natalia Juristo and   
               Claes Wohlin and   
               Burak Turhan and   
     Jürgen Münch and   
        Andreas Jedlitschka and   
                    Markku Oivo   Empirical software engineering experts
                                  on the use of students and professionals
                                  in experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--489
    Torgeir Dingsòyr and   
             Nils Brede Moe and   
     Tor Erlend Fægri and   
                Eva Amdahl Seim   Exploring software development at the
                                  very large-scale: a revelatory case
                                  study and research agenda for agile
                                  method adaptation  . . . . . . . . . . . 490--520
          Alessandro Murgia and   
                 Marco Ortu and   
           Parastou Tourani and   
                 Bram Adams and   
                  Serge Demeyer   An exploratory qualitative and
                                  quantitative analysis of emotions in
                                  issue report comments of open source
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--564

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 23, Number 2, April, 2018

                      Anonymous   Appreciation to \booktitleEmpirical
                                  Software Engineering Reviewers of 2017   565--569
                Arunava Roy and   
                     Hoang Pham   Toward the development of a conventional
                                  time series based web error forecasting
                                  framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--644
        Zéphyrin Soh and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   Noise in Mylyn interaction traces and
                                  its impact on developers and
                                  recommendation systems . . . . . . . . . 645--692
         Manishankar Mondal and   
           Md Saidur Rahman and   
            Chanchal K. Roy and   
             Kevin A. Schneider   Is cloned code really stable?  . . . . . 693--770
                   Dayi Lin and   
           Cor-Paul Bezemer and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   An empirical study of early access games
                                  on the Steam platform  . . . . . . . . . 771--799
               Shaowei Wang and   
                   David Lo and   
           Bogdan Vasilescu and   
           Alexander Serebrenik   EnTagRec $^{++}$: An enhanced tag
                                  recommendation system for software
                                  information sites  . . . . . . . . . . . 800--832
              Romain Robbes and   
                 Emily Hill and   
                 Christian Bird   Guest Editorial: Special section on
                                  mining software repositories . . . . . . 833--834
    Daniel Alencar da Costa and   
             Shane McIntosh and   
           Christoph Treude and   
        Uirá Kulesza and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   The impact of rapid release cycles on
                                  the integration delay of fixed issues    835--904
           Nicolas Dintzner and   
           Arie van Deursen and   
                 Martin Pinzger   FEVER: An approach to analyze
                                  feature-oriented changes and artefact
                                  co-evolution in highly configurable
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905--952
            Alexey Zagalsky and   
           Daniel M. German and   
       Margaret-Anne Storey and   
Carlos Gómez Teshima and   
Germán Poo-Caamaño   How the R community creates and curates
                                  knowledge: an extended study of Stack
                                  Overflow and mailing lists . . . . . . . 953--986
            Thomas Rolfsnes and   
                Leon Moonen and   
          Stefano Di Alesio and   
             Razieh Behjati and   
                   Dave Binkley   Aggregating Association Rules to Improve
                                  Change Recommendation  . . . . . . . . . 987--1035
            Fabian Trautsch and   
            Steffen Herbold and   
          Philip Makedonski and   
                 Jens Grabowski   Addressing problems with replicability
                                  and validity of repository mining
                                  studies through a smart data platform    1036--1083
                   Bowen Xu and   
             Zhenchang Xing and   
                    Xin Xia and   
                   David Lo and   
                    Shanping Li   Domain-specific cross-language relevant
                                  question retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . 1084--1122
                   Megan Squire   Data sets describing the circle of life
                                  in Ruby hosting, 2003--2016  . . . . . . 1123--1152

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 23, Number 3, June, 2018

                 Subhajit Datta   How does developer interaction relate to
                                  software quality? An examination of
                                  product development data . . . . . . . . 1153--1187
              Fabio Palomba and   
            Gabriele Bavota and   
      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
              Fausto Fasano and   
              Rocco Oliveto and   
                Andrea De Lucia   On the diffuseness and the impact on
                                  maintainability of code smells: a large
                                  scale empirical investigation  . . . . . 1188--1221
        Annamalai Narayanan and   
     Mahinthan Chandramohan and   
                 Lihui Chen and   
                       Yang Liu   A multi-view context-aware approach to
                                  Android malware detection and malicious
                                  code localization  . . . . . . . . . . . 1222--1274
              Safwat Hassan and   
  Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn and   
           Cor-Paul Bezemer and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Studying the dialogue between users and
                                  developers of free apps in the Google
                                  Play Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1275--1312
               Lingfeng Bao and   
             Zhenchang Xing and   
                    Xin Xia and   
                   David Lo and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Inference of development activities from
                                  interaction with uninstrumented
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313--1351
             Fabio Calefato and   
           Filippo Lanubile and   
          Federico Maiorano and   
                Nicole Novielli   Sentiment Polarity Detection for
                                  Software Development . . . . . . . . . . 1352--1382
        Patrick J. Morrison and   
              Rahul Pandita and   
               Xusheng Xiao and   
             Ram Chillarege and   
                Laurie Williams   Are vulnerabilities discovered and
                                  resolved like other defects? . . . . . . 1383--1421
          Shaiful Chowdhury and   
            Silvia Di Nardo and   
               Abram Hindle and   
         Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang   An exploratory study on assessing the
                                  energy impact of logging on Android
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1422--1456
         Damian A. Tamburri and   
                    Rick Kazman   General methods for software
                                  architecture recovery: a potential
                                  approach and its evaluation  . . . . . . 1457--1489
         Muhammad Moiz Arif and   
                Weiyi Shang and   
                    Emad Shihab   Empirical study on the discrepancy
                                  between performance testing results from
                                  virtual and physical environments  . . . 1490--1518
        Mojtaba Bagherzadeh and   
             Nafiseh Kahani and   
           Cor-Paul Bezemer and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
             Juergen Dingel and   
                 James R. Cordy   Analyzing a decade of Linux system calls 1519--1551
               Shaowei Wang and   
              Tse-Hsun Chen and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Understanding the factors for fast
                                  answers in technical Q&A websites . . . . 1552--1593
      Talita Vieira Ribeiro and   
           Jobson Massollar and   
      Guilherme Horta Travassos   Challenges and pitfalls on surveying
                                  evidence in the software engineering
                                  technical literature: an exploratory
                                  study with novices . . . . . . . . . . . 1594--1663
               Monika Gupta and   
       Allahbaksh Asadullah and   
      Srinivas Padmanabhuni and   
           Alexander Serebrenik   Reducing user input requests to improve
                                  IT support ticket resolution process . . 1664--1703
          Mariam El Mezouar and   
                 Feng Zhang and   
                       Ying Zou   Are tweets useful in the bug fixing
                                  process? An empirical study on Firefox
                                  and Chrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1704--1742
              Filippo Ricca and   
            Marco Torchiano and   
            Maurizio Leotta and   
            Alessandro Tiso and   
          Giovanna Guerrini and   
                  Gianna Reggio   On the impact of state-based
                                  model-driven development on
                                  maintainability: a family of experiments
                                  using UniMod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1743--1790
           Nemitari Ajienka and   
           Andrea Capiluppi and   
                 Steve Counsell   An empirical study on the interplay
                                  between semantic coupling and co-change
                                  of software classes  . . . . . . . . . . 1791--1825
                Jianmei Guo and   
                Dingyu Yang and   
           Norbert Siegmund and   
                  Sven Apel and   
             Atrisha Sarkar and   
                Pavel Valov and   
        Krzysztof Czarnecki and   
           Andrzej Wasowski and   
                      Huiqun Yu   Data-efficient performance learning for
                                  configurable systems . . . . . . . . . . 1826--1867
                   Nour Ali and   
                 Sean Baker and   
             Ross O'Crowley and   
           Sebastian Herold and   
                    Jim Buckley   Erratum to: Architecture consistency:
                                  State of the practice, challenges and
                                  requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1868--1869

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 23, Number 4, August, 2018

            Michail Tsikerdekis   Persistent code contribution: a ranking
                                  algorithm for code contribution in
                                  crowdsourced software  . . . . . . . . . 1871--1894
           Wies\law Kope\'c and   
      Bart\lomiej Balcerzak and   
           Rados\law Nielek and   
           Grzegorz Kowalik and   
            Adam Wierzbicki and   
                   Fabio Casati   Older adults and hackathons: a
                                  qualitative study  . . . . . . . . . . . 1895--1930
              Neil C. Borle and   
              Meysam Feghhi and   
             Eleni Stroulia and   
            Russell Greiner and   
                   Abram Hindle   Analyzing the effects of test driven
                                  development in GitHub  . . . . . . . . . 1931--1958
                  Andrea Arcuri   An experience report on applying
                                  software testing academic results in
                                  industry: we need usable automated test
                                  generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1959--1981
              Lech Madeyski and   
             Barbara Kitchenham   Effect sizes and their variance for
                                  AB/BA crossover design studies . . . . . 1982--2017
                Adam Przyby\lek   An empirical study on the impact of
                                  AspectJ on software evolvability . . . . 2018--2050
              Paola Accioly and   
                Paulo Borba and   
           Guilherme Cavalcanti   Understanding semi-structured merge
                                  conflict characteristics in open-source
                                  Java projects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2051--2085
           Benjamin Danglot and   
             Philippe Preux and   
              Benoit Baudry and   
               Martin Monperrus   Correctness attraction: a study of
                                  stability of software behavior under
                                  runtime perturbation . . . . . . . . . . 2086--2119
                      Anonymous   Editor's Note: Special Issue on Software
                                  Maintenance and Evolution  . . . . . . . 2120--2120
     Maurício Aniche and   
            Gabriele Bavota and   
           Christoph Treude and   
Marco Aurélio Gerosa and   
               Arie van Deursen   Code smells for Model--View-Controller
                                  architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2121--2157
         Anand Ashok Sawant and   
              Romain Robbes and   
              Alberto Bacchelli   On the reaction to deprecation of
                                  clients of $ 4 + 1 $ popular Java APIs
                                  and the JDK  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2158--2197
                Mona Rahimi and   
             Jane Cleland-Huang   Evolving software trace links between
                                  requirements and source code . . . . . . 2198--2231
              Vaibhav Saini and   
             Hitesh Sajnani and   
                 Cristina Lopes   Cloned and non-cloned Java methods: a
                                  comparative study  . . . . . . . . . . . 2232--2278
                  Yun Zhang and   
                   David Lo and   
                    Xin Xia and   
        Giuseppe Scanniello and   
             Tien-Duy B. Le and   
                   Jianling Sun   Fusing multi-abstraction vector space
                                  models for concern localization  . . . . 2279--2322
         Hironori Washizaki and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and   
                   Foutse Khomh   ProMeTA: a taxonomy for program
                                  metamodels in program reverse
                                  engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2323--2358
            Gabriele Bavota and   
               Michaela Greiler   Introduction to the special issue on
                                  source code analysis and manipulation    2359--2361
                Leon Moonen and   
            Thomas Rolfsnes and   
               Dave Binkley and   
              Stefano Di Alesio   What are the effects of history length
                                  and age on mining software change
                                  impact?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2362--2397
               Dave Binkley and   
                Dawn Lawrie and   
            Christopher Morrell   The need for software specific natural
                                  language techniques  . . . . . . . . . . 2398--2425
             Marinos Kintis and   
             Mike Papadakis and   
       Andreas Papadopoulos and   
           Evangelos Valvis and   
             Nicos Malevris and   
                  Yves Le Traon   How effective are mutation testing
                                  tools? An empirical analysis of Java
                                  mutation testing tools with manual
                                  analysis and real faults . . . . . . . . 2426--2463
   Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul and   
                Jens Krinke and   
                    David Clark   A comparison of code similarity
                                  analysers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2464--2519

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 23, Number 5, October, 2018

                  Hao Zhong and   
                        Na Meng   Towards reusing hints from past fixes    2521--2549
           Maria Paasivaara and   
              Benjamin Behm and   
           Casper Lassenius and   
              Minna Hallikainen   Large-scale agile transformation at
                                  Ericsson: a case study . . . . . . . . . 2550--2596
         Mohamed Sami Rakha and   
           Cor-Paul Bezemer and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Revisiting the performance of automated
                                  approaches for the retrieval of
                                  duplicate reports in issue tracking
                                  systems that perform just-in-time
                                  duplicate retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . 2597--2621
             Raphael Sirres and   
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and   
                Dongsun Kim and   
                   David Lo and   
              Jacques Klein and   
                  Kisub Kim and   
                  Yves Le Traon   Augmenting and structuring user queries
                                  to support efficient free-form code
                                  search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2622--2654
                    Heng Li and   
      Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen and   
                Weiyi Shang and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Studying software logging using topic
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2655--2694
        Giuseppe Scanniello and   
            Carmine Gravino and   
             Marcela Genero and   
  José A. Cruz-Lemus and   
          Genoveffa Tortora and   
               Michele Risi and   
               Gabriella Dodero   Do software models based on the UML aid
                                  in source-code comprehensibility?
                                  Aggregating evidence from 12 controlled
                                  experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2695--2733
              Toma\vz Kosar and   
              Sa\vso Gaberc and   
          Jeffrey C. Carver and   
                  Marjan Mernik   Program comprehension of domain-specific
                                  and general-purpose languages:
                                  replication of a family of experiments
                                  using integrated development
                                  environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2734--2763
            Maleknaz Nayebi and   
                  Henry Cho and   
                  Guenther Ruhe   App store mining is not enough for app
                                  improvement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2764--2794
       Christoph Hannebauer and   
              Marc Hesenius and   
                   Volker Gruhn   Does syntax highlighting help
                                  programming novices? . . . . . . . . . . 2795--2828
      Rubén Saborido and   
            Rodrigo Morales and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   Getting the most from map data
                                  structures in Android  . . . . . . . . . 2829--2864
                      Anonymous   Editor's Note: Special Issue on
                                  Automatic Software Repair  . . . . . . . 2865--2865
                 Rongxin Wu and   
                   Ming Wen and   
           Shing-Chi Cheung and   
                   Hongyu Zhang   ChangeLocator: locate crash-inducing
                                  changes based on crash reports . . . . . 2866--2900
             Manish Motwani and   
   Sandhya Sankaranarayanan and   
           René Just and   
                     Yuriy Brun   Do automated program repair techniques
                                  repair hard and important bugs?  . . . . 2901--2947
                 Jooyong Yi and   
              Shin Hwei Tan and   
            Sergey Mechtaev and   
          Marcel Böhme and   
             Abhik Roychoudhury   A correlation study between automated
                                  program repair and test-suite metrics    2948--2979
 Vinicius Paulo L. Oliveira and   
     Eduardo Faria de Souza and   
            Claire Le Goues and   
         Celso G. Camilo-Junior   Improved representation and genetic
                                  operators for linear genetic programming
                                  for automated program repair . . . . . . 2980--3006
            Xuan Bach D. Le and   
              Ferdian Thung and   
                   David Lo and   
                Claire Le Goues   Overfitting in semantics-based automated
                                  program repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3007--3033
                Tingting Yu and   
                 Michael Pradel   Pinpointing and repairing performance
                                  bottlenecks in concurrent programs . . . 3034--3071

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 23, Number 6, December, 2018

              Claudia Ayala and   
             Anh Nguyen-Duc and   
              Xavier Franch and   
           Martin Höst and   
             Reidar Conradi and   
             Daniela Cruzes and   
             Muhammad Ali Babar   System requirements--OSS components:
                                  matching and mismatch resolution
                                  practices --- an empirical study . . . . 3073--3128
                  Deheng Ye and   
               Lingfeng Bao and   
             Zhenchang Xing and   
                  Shang-Wei Lin   APIReal: an API recognition and linking
                                  approach for online developer forums . . 3129--3160
                     Zhe Yu and   
          Nicholas A. Kraft and   
                    Tim Menzies   Finding better active learners for
                                  faster literature reviews  . . . . . . . 3161--3186
              Tomasz Kuchta and   
          Thibaud Lutellier and   
                Edmund Wong and   
                    Lin Tan and   
                 Cristian Cadar   On the correctness of electronic
                                  documents: studying, finding, and
                                  localizing inconsistency bugs in PDF
                                  readers and files  . . . . . . . . . . . 3187--3220
              Gustavo Pinto and   
           Igor Steinmacher and   
           Luiz Felipe Dias and   
                   Marco Gerosa   On the challenges of open-sourcing
                                  proprietary software projects  . . . . . 3221--3247
             Mehran Hassani and   
                Weiyi Shang and   
                Emad Shihab and   
             Nikolaos Tsantalis   Studying and detecting log-related
                                  issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3248--3280
Ana M. Fernández-Sáez and   
      Michel R. V. Chaudron and   
                 Marcela Genero   An industrial case study on the use of
                                  UML in software maintenance and its
                                  perceived benefits and hurdles . . . . . 3281--3345
                Yuanrui Fan and   
                    Xin Xia and   
                   David Lo and   
                    Shanping Li   Early prediction of merged code changes
                                  to prioritize reviewing tasks  . . . . . 3346--3393
            Simona Bernardi and   
   Juan L. Domínguez and   
          Abel Gómez and   
         Christophe Joubert and   
      José Merseguer and   
        Diego Perez-Palacin and   
     José I. Requeno and   
                  Alberto Romeu   A systematic approach for performance
                                  assessment using process mining  . . . . 3394--3441
                 Hanyang Hu and   
           Cor-Paul Bezemer and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Studying the consistency of star ratings
                                  and the complaints in $1$ & $2$-star user
                                  reviews for top free cross-platform
                                  Android and iOS apps . . . . . . . . . . 3442--3475
             Suhaib Mujahid and   
           Giancarlo Sierra and   
           Rabe Abdalkareem and   
                Emad Shihab and   
                    Weiyi Shang   An empirical study of Android Wear user
                                  complaints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3476--3502
               Amantia Pano and   
           Daniel Graziotin and   
              Pekka Abrahamsson   Factors and actors leading to the
                                  adoption of a JavaScript framework . . . 3503--3534
             Eero Laukkanen and   
           Maria Paasivaara and   
               Juha Itkonen and   
               Casper Lassenius   Comparison of release engineering
                                  practices in a large mature company and
                                  a startup  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3535--3577
          Srdjan Stevanetic and   
                       Uwe Zdun   Supporting the analyzability of
                                  architectural component models ---
                                  empirical findings and tool support  . . 3578--3625
       Paul Grünbacher and   
                    Anna Perini   Foreword to the special issue on
                                  empirical research in requirements
                                  engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3626--3629
          Thomas Quirchmayr and   
              Barbara Paech and   
                Roland Kohl and   
               Hannes Karey and   
                 Gunar Kasdepke   Semi-automatic rule-based domain
                                  terminology and software
                                  feature-relevant information extraction
                                  from natural language user manuals . . . 3630--3683
            Alessio Ferrari and   
                Gloria Gori and   
         Benedetta Rosadini and   
              Iacopo Trotta and   
          Stefano Bacherini and   
        Alessandro Fantechi and   
                 Stefania Gnesi   Detecting requirements defects with NLP
                                  patterns: an industrial experience in
                                  the railway domain . . . . . . . . . . . 3684--3733
                Nishant Jha and   
                   Anas Mahmoud   Using frame semantics for classifying
                                  and summarizing application store
                                  reviews  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3734--3767
                  Wenhua Hu and   
          Jeffrey C. Carver and   
                Vaibhav Anu and   
         Gursimran S. Walia and   
               Gary L. Bradshaw   Using human error information for error
                                  prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3768--3800
               Robert Feldt and   
          Thomas Zimmermann and   
        Gunnar R. Bergersen and   
             Davide Falessi and   
        Andreas Jedlitschka and   
            Natalia Juristo and   
     Jürgen Münch and   
                Markku Oivo and   
                Per Runeson and   
            Martin Shepperd and   
   Dag I. K. Sjòberg and   
                   Burak Turhan   Four commentaries on the use of students
                                  and professionals in empirical software
                                  engineering experiments  . . . . . . . . 3801--3820


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 24, Number 1, February, 2019

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

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 24, Number 2, April, 2019

                 Ruizhi Gao and   
                 Yabin Wang and   
                  Yang Feng and   
                Zhenyu Chen and   
                   W. Eric Wong   Successes, challenges, and rethinking
                                  --- an industrial investigation on
                                  crowdsourced mobile application testing  537--561
            Andrea McIntosh and   
              Safwat Hassan and   
                   Abram Hindle   What can Android mobile app developers
                                  do about the energy consumption of
                                  machine learning?  . . . . . . . . . . . 562--601
         Kwabena Ebo Bennin and   
             Jacky W. Keung and   
                   Akito Monden   On the relative value of data resampling
                                  approaches for software defect
                                  prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--636
                   Yuhao Wu and   
               Shaowei Wang and   
           Cor-Paul Bezemer and   
                  Katsuro Inoue   How do developers utilize source code
                                  from Stack Overflow? . . . . . . . . . . 637--673
                 Axel Halin and   
         Alexandre Nuttinck and   
              Mathieu Acher and   
             Xavier Devroey and   
            Gilles Perrouin and   
                  Benoit Baudry   Test them all, is it worth it? Assessing
                                  configuration sampling on the JHipster
                                  Web development stack  . . . . . . . . . 674--717
              Yonghui Huang and   
    Daniel Alencar da Costa and   
                 Feng Zhang and   
                       Ying Zou   An empirical study on the issue reports
                                  with questions raised during the issue
                                  resolving process  . . . . . . . . . . . 718--750
            Brian A. Malloy and   
                 James F. Power   An empirical analysis of the transition
                                  from Python 2 to Python 3  . . . . . . . 751--778
               Toshiki Mori and   
                Naoshi Uchihira   Balancing the trade-off between accuracy
                                  and interpretability in software defect
                                  prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--825
         Md Tajmilur Rahman and   
             Peter C. Rigby and   
                    Emad Shihab   The modular and feature toggle
                                  architectures of Google Chrome . . . . . 826--853
             Fabio Calefato and   
           Filippo Lanubile and   
                Nicole Novielli   An empirical assessment of best-answer
                                  prediction models in technical Q&A sites  854--901
               Abram Hindle and   
                 Curtis Onuczko   Preventing duplicate bug reports by
                                  continuously querying bug reports  . . . 902--936
     Patanamon Thongtanunam and   
                Weiyi Shang and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Will this clone be short-lived? Towards
                                  a better understanding of the
                                  characteristics of short-lived clones    937--972
             Shade Ruangwan and   
     Patanamon Thongtanunam and   
              Akinori Ihara and   
              Kenichi Matsumoto   The impact of human factors on the
                                  participation decision of reviewers in
                                  modern code review . . . . . . . . . . . 973--1016
             Onkar Malgonde and   
                  Kaushal Chari   An ensemble-based model for predicting
                                  agile software development effort  . . . 1017--1055

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 24, Number 3, June, 2019

Daniel Méndez Fernández and   
           Martin Monperrus and   
               Robert Feldt and   
              Thomas Zimmermann   The open science initiative of the
                                  \booktitleEmpirical Software Engineering
                                  journal  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057--1060
             Mojtaba Shahin and   
           Mansooreh Zahedi and   
         Muhammad Ali Babar and   
                     Liming Zhu   An empirical study of architecting for
                                  continuous delivery and deployment . . . 1061--1108
              Ian McChesney and   
                   Raymond Bond   Eye tracking analysis of computer
                                  program comprehension in programmers
                                  with dyslexia  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109--1154
              Chunyang Chen and   
             Zhenchang Xing and   
                       Yang Liu   What's Spain's Paris? Mining analogical
                                  libraries from Q&A discussions  . . . . . 1155--1194
Oscar Luis Vera-Pérez and   
           Benjamin Danglot and   
           Martin Monperrus and   
                  Benoit Baudry   A comprehensive study of pseudo-tested
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195--1225
   Alcemir Rodrigues Santos and   
      Ivan do Carmo Machado and   
 Eduardo Santana de Almeida and   
             Janet Siegmund and   
                      Sven Apel   Comparing the influence of using
                                  feature-oriented programming and
                                  conditional compilation on comprehending
                                  feature-oriented software  . . . . . . . 1226--1258
           Sebastian Baltes and   
                  Stephan Diehl   Usage and attribution of Stack Overflow
                                  code snippets in GitHub projects . . . . 1259--1295
   Gede Artha Azriadi Prana and   
           Christoph Treude and   
              Ferdian Thung and   
          Thushari Atapattu and   
                       David Lo   Categorizing the Content of GitHub
                                  README Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296--1327
                Tassio Vale and   
     Eduardo Santana de Almeida   Experimenting with information retrieval
                                  methods in the recovery of feature-code
                                  SPL traces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328--1368
         Damian A. Tamburri and   
              Fabio Palomba and   
       Alexander Serebrenik and   
                   Andy Zaidman   Discovering community patterns in
                                  open-source: a systematic approach and
                                  its evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1369--1417
        Sebastian Nielebock and   
        Dariusz Krolikowski and   
          Jacob Krüger and   
               Thomas Leich and   
                 Frank Ortmeier   Commenting source code: is it worth it
                                  for small programming tasks? . . . . . . 1418--1457
                    Lin Tan and   
                   Abram Hindle   Guest Editorial: Special Section on
                                  Mining Software Repositories . . . . . . 1458--1460
             Davide Spadini and   
   Maur\'ìcio Aniche and   
            Magiel Bruntink and   
              Alberto Bacchelli   Mock objects for testing Java systems    1461--1498
            Luca Pascarella and   
            Magiel Bruntink and   
              Alberto Bacchelli   Classifying code comments in Java
                                  software systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1499--1537
       Mohammad Gharehyazie and   
              Baishakhi Ray and   
              Mehdi Keshani and   
 Masoumeh Soleimani Zavosht and   
          Abbas Heydarnoori and   
                Vladimir Filkov   Cross-project code clones in GitHub  . . 1538--1573
       Josh G. M. Mengerink and   
               Jeroen Noten and   
           Alexander Serebrenik   Empowering OCL research: a large-scale
                                  corpus of open-source data from GitHub   1574--1609
              Kelly Blincoe and   
                Ali Dehghan and   
     Abdoul-Djawadou Salaou and   
                  Adam Neal and   
              Johan Linaker and   
                 Daniela Damian   High-level software requirements and
                                  iteration changes: a predictive model    1610--1648

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 24, Number 4, August, 2019

          Shaiful Chowdhury and   
            Stephanie Borle and   
           Stephen Romansky and   
                   Abram Hindle   GreenScaler: training software energy
                                  models with automatic test generation    1649--1692
     Flávio Medeiros and   
               Gabriel Lima and   
           Guilherme Amaral and   
                  Sven Apel and   
     Christian Kästner and   
      Márcio Ribeiro and   
                    Rohit Gheyi   An investigation of misunderstanding
                                  code patterns in C open-source software
                                  projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1693--1726
              Iflaah Salman and   
               Burak Turhan and   
                     Sira Vegas   A controlled experiment on time pressure
                                  and confirmation bias in functional
                                  software testing . . . . . . . . . . . . 1727--1761
                Tobias Baum and   
             Kurt Schneider and   
              Alberto Bacchelli   Associating working memory capacity and
                                  code change ordering with code review
                                  performance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1762--1798
                      Le An and   
         Marco Castelluccio and   
                   Foutse Khomh   An empirical study of DLL injection bugs
                                  in the Firefox ecosystem . . . . . . . . 1799--1822
           Casey Casalnuovo and   
                Kenji Sagae and   
                   Prem Devanbu   Studying the difference between natural
                                  and programming language corpora . . . . 1823--1868
         Mohammad M. Rahman and   
            Chanchal K. Roy and   
                       David Lo   Automatic query reformulation for code
                                  search using crowdsourced knowledge  . . 1869--1924
             Masanari Kondo and   
           Cor-Paul Bezemer and   
             Yasutaka Kamei and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
                   Osamu Mizuno   The impact of feature reduction
                                  techniques on defect prediction models   1925--1963
                 Ehsan Noei and   
                 Feng Zhang and   
               Shaohua Wang and   
                       Ying Zou   Towards prioritizing user-related issue
                                  reports of mobile applications . . . . . 1964--1996
                   Anna May and   
             Johannes Wachs and   
     Anikó Hannák   Gender differences in participation and
                                  reward on Stack Overflow . . . . . . . . 1997--2019
             Nauman bin Ali and   
       Emelie Engström and   
         Masoumeh Taromirad and   
      Mohammad Reza Mousavi and   
       Nasir Mehmood Minhas and   
           Daniel Helgesson and   
            Sebastian Kunze and   
                Mahsa Varshosaz   On the search for industry-relevant
                                  regression testing research  . . . . . . 2020--2055
     Alejandro Mazuera-Rozo and   
        Jairo Bautista-Mora and   
Mario Linares-Vásquez and   
               Sandra Rueda and   
                Gabriele Bavota   The Android OS stack and its
                                  vulnerabilities: an empirical study  . . 2056--2101
         Taher Ahmed Ghaleb and   
    Daniel Alencar da Costa and   
                       Ying Zou   An empirical study of the long duration
                                  of continuous integration builds . . . . 2102--2139
              Guoliang Zhao and   
    Daniel Alencar da Costa and   
                       Ying Zou   Improving the pull requests review
                                  process using learning-to-rank
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2140--2170
                   Meng Yan and   
                    Xin Xia and   
                   David Lo and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
                    Shanping Li   Characterizing and identifying reverted
                                  commits  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2171--2208
                  Luis Cruz and   
                      Rui Abreu   Catalog of energy patterns for mobile
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2209--2235
   Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul and   
                    Jens Krinke   Siamese: scalable and incremental code
                                  clone search via multiple code
                                  representations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2236--2284
                Boyuan Chen and   
         Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang   Extracting and studying the
                                  Logging--Code-Issue-Introducing changes
                                  in Java-based large-scale open source
                                  software systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 2285--2322
               Yangguang Li and   
         Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang   Assessing and optimizing the performance
                                  impact of the just-in-time configuration
                                  parameters --- a case study on PyPy  . . 2323--2363
        Elizabeth Bjarnason and   
                Helen Sharp and   
             Björn Regnell   Improving requirements-test alignment by
                                  prescribing practices that mitigate
                                  communication gaps . . . . . . . . . . . 2364--2409

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 24, Number 5, October, 2019

                      Anonymous   Editor's Note: Special Section on
                                  Software Maintenance and Evolution . . . 2821--2822
                 Qiao Huang and   
                    Xin Xia and   
                       David Lo   Revisiting supervised and unsupervised
                                  models for effort-aware just-in-time
                                  defect prediction  . . . . . . . . . . . 2823--2862
            Nicholas Nelson and   
            Caius Brindescu and   
                Shane McKee and   
                Anita Sarma and   
                      Danny Dig   The life-cycle of merge conflicts:
                                  processes, barriers, and strategies  . . 2863--2906
              Fabio Palomba and   
                   Andy Zaidman   The smell of fear: on the relation
                                  between test smells and flaky tests  . . 2907--2946
             Oscar Chaparro and   
         Juan Manuel Florez and   
                 Andrian Marcus   Using bug descriptions to reformulate
                                  queries during text-retrieval-based bug
                                  localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2947--3007
         Marco Castelluccio and   
                      Le An and   
                   Foutse Khomh   An empirical study of patch uplift in
                                  rapid release development pipelines  . . 3008--3044
                      Anonymous   Editor's Note: Special Section on Source
                                  Code Analysis and Manipulation . . . . . 3045--3045
             Pascal Gadient and   
           Mohammad Ghafari and   
       Patrick Frischknecht and   
               Oscar Nierstrasz   Security code smells in Android ICC  . . 3046--3076
              David Binkley and   
               Nicolas Gold and   
                 Syed Islam and   
                Jens Krinke and   
                       Shin Yoo   A comparison of tree- and line-oriented
                                  observational slicing  . . . . . . . . . 3077--3113
              Giovanni Liva and   
      Muhammad Taimoor Khan and   
                 Martin Pinzger   Semantics-driven extraction of timed
                                  automata from Java programs  . . . . . . 3114--3150
                David Bowes and   
                Emad Shihab and   
                   Burak Turhan   Guest editorial: special section on
                                  predictive models and data analytics in
                                  software engineering . . . . . . . . . . 3151--3152
               Leandro L. Minku   A novel online supervised hyperparameter
                                  tuning procedure applied to
                                  cross-company software effort estimation 3153--3204
           Riccardo Coppola and   
           Maurizio Morisio and   
            Marco Torchiano and   
                    Luca Ardito   Scripted GUI testing of Android
                                  open-source apps: evolution of test code
                                  and fragility causes . . . . . . . . . . 3205--3248

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 24, Number 6, December, 2019

      Sebastiano Panichella and   
              Fabio Palomba and   
                   David Lo and   
             Meiyappan Nagappan   Guest Editorial: Special Issue on
                                  Software Engineering for Mobile
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3249--3254
      Roselane Silva Farias and   
      Renata Maria de Souza and   
           John D. McGregor and   
     Eduardo Santana de Almeida   Designing smart city mobile applications 3255--3289
          Afnan Al-Subaihin and   
             Federica Sarro and   
                  Sue Black and   
                    Licia Capra   Empirical comparison of text-based
                                  mobile apps similarity measurement
                                  techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3290--3315
             Daniel Martens and   
                   Walid Maalej   Towards understanding and detecting fake
                                  reviews in app stores  . . . . . . . . . 3316--3355
   Bruno Góis Mateus and   
                Matias Martinez   An empirical study on quality of Android
                                  applications written in Kotlin language  3356--3393
                    Yi Zeng and   
                 Jinfu Chen and   
                Weiyi Shang and   
          Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen   Studying the characteristics of logging
                                  practices in mobile apps: a case study
                                  on F-Droid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3394--3434
                 Yepang Liu and   
                   Jue Wang and   
                   Lili Wei and   
                   Chang Xu and   
           Shing-Chi Cheung and   
                Tianyong Wu and   
                    Jun Yan and   
                     Jian Zhang   DroidLeaks: a comprehensive database of
                                  resource leaks in Android apps . . . . . 3435--3483
          Sara Seif Afjehei and   
      Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen and   
             Nikolaos Tsantalis   iPerfDetector: Characterizing and
                                  detecting performance anti-patterns in
                                  iOS applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 3484--3513
                    Xu Wang and   
              Chunyang Chen and   
                 Zhenchang Xing   Domain-specific machine translation with
                                  recurrent neural network for software
                                  localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3514--3545
   Suelen Goularte Carvalho and   
   Maur\'ìcio Aniche and   
Júlio Ver\'ìssimo and   
          Rafael S. Durelli and   
    Marco Aurélio Gerosa   An empirical catalog of code smells for
                                  the presentation layer of Android apps   3546--3586
        Kobra Khanmohammadi and   
              Neda Ebrahimi and   
     Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj and   
            Raphaël Khoury   Empirical study of Android repackaged
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3587--3629
          Domenico Cotroneo and   
       Antonio Ken Iannillo and   
                Roberto Natella   Evolutionary Fuzzing of Android OS
                                  Vendor System Services . . . . . . . . . 3630--3658
                Nishant Jha and   
                   Anas Mahmoud   Mining non-functional requirements from
                                  App store reviews  . . . . . . . . . . . 3659--3695
                 Sadeeq Jan and   
        Annibale Panichella and   
              Andrea Arcuri and   
                  Lionel Briand   Search-based multi-vulnerability testing
                                  of XML injections in web applications    3696--3729
                 Sadeeq Jan and   
        Annibale Panichella and   
              Andrea Arcuri and   
                  Lionel Briand   Correction to: Search-based
                                  multi-vulnerability testing of XML
                                  injections in web applications . . . . . 3730--3730
          Matthieu Foucault and   
               Xavier Blanc and   
   Jean-Rémy Falleri and   
           Margaret-Anne Storey   Fostering good coding practices through
                                  individual feedback and gamification: an
                                  industrial case study  . . . . . . . . . 3731--3754
            Maleknaz Nayebi and   
                 Liam Dicke and   
                Ron Ittyipe and   
              Chris Carlson and   
                  Guenther Ruhe   ESSMArT way to manage customer requests  3755--3789
          Mariam El Mezouar and   
                 Feng Zhang and   
                       Ying Zou   An empirical study on the teams
                                  structures in social coding using GitHub
                                  projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3790--3823
         Anand Ashok Sawant and   
              Romain Robbes and   
              Alberto Bacchelli   To react, or not to react: Patterns of
                                  reaction to API deprecation  . . . . . . 3824--3870
                 Weiqin Zou and   
                Jifeng Xuan and   
               Xiaoyuan Xie and   
                Zhenyu Chen and   
                      Baowen Xu   How does code style inconsistency affect
                                  pull request integration? An exploratory
                                  study on 117 GitHub projects . . . . . . 3871--3903


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 25, Number 1, January, 2020

   Alessio Viticchié and   
            Leonardo Regano and   
             Cataldo Basile and   
            Marco Torchiano and   
            Mariano Ceccato and   
                  Paolo Tonella   Empirical assessment of the effort
                                  needed to attack programs protected with
                                  client/server code splitting . . . . . . 1--48
             Gemma Catolino and   
              Fabio Palomba and   
  Francesca Arcelli Fontana and   
            Andrea De Lucia and   
               Andy Zaidman and   
              Filomena Ferrucci   Improving change prediction models with
                                  code smell-related information . . . . . 49--95
             Mozhan Soltani and   
       Pouria Derakhshanfar and   
             Xavier Devroey and   
               Arie van Deursen   A benchmark-based evaluation of
                                  search-based crash reproduction  . . . . 96--138
               Jiayuan Zhou and   
               Shaowei Wang and   
           Cor-Paul Bezemer and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Bounties on technical Q&A sites: a case
                                  study of Stack Overflow bounties . . . . 139--177
 Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath and   
                  Joydeep Mitra   Are free Android app security analysis
                                  tools effective in detecting known
                                  vulnerabilities? . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--219
           Miroslaw Ochodek and   
               Regina Hebig and   
             Wilhelm Meding and   
                 Gert Frost and   
                Miroslaw Staron   Recognizing lines of code violating
                                  company-specific coding guidelines using
                                  machine learning . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--265
               Abdul Razzaq and   
             Andrew Le Gear and   
                Chris Exton and   
                    Jim Buckley   An empirical assessment of baseline
                                  feature location techniques  . . . . . . 266--321
                Paul Luo Li and   
                  Amy J. Ko and   
                   Andrew Begel   What distinguishes great software
                                  engineers? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--352
         Barbara Kitchenham and   
              Lech Madeyski and   
                 Pearl Brereton   Meta-analysis for families of
                                  experiments in software engineering: a
                                  systematic review and reproducibility
                                  and validity assessment  . . . . . . . . 353--401
               Gustavo Vale and   
            Angelika Schmid and   
   Alcemir Rodrigues Santos and   
 Eduardo Santana de Almeida and   
                      Sven Apel   On the relation between Github
                                  communication activity and merge
                                  conflicts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--433
     Thierry Titcheu Chekam and   
             Mike Papadakis and   
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and   
              Yves Le Traon and   
                    Koushik Sen   Selecting fault revealing mutants  . . . 434--487
                  Kundi Yao and   
Guilherme B. de Pádua and   
                Weiyi Shang and   
             Catalin Sporea and   
                Andrei Toma and   
                   Sarah Sajedi   Log4Perf: suggesting and updating
                                  logging locations for web-based systems'
                                  performance monitoring . . . . . . . . . 488--531
                    Hui Guo and   
Özgür Kafalì and   
           Anne-Liz Jeukeng and   
            Laurie Williams and   
              Munindar P. Singh   Çorba: crowdsourcing to obtain
                                  requirements from regulations and
                                  breaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--561
            Caius Brindescu and   
             Iftekhar Ahmed and   
              Carlos Jensen and   
                    Anita Sarma   An empirical investigation into merge
                                  conflicts and their effect on software
                                  quality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562--590
                   Yi Xiang and   
               Xiaowei Yang and   
                 Yuren Zhou and   
                Zibin Zheng and   
                  Miqing Li and   
                      Han Huang   Going deeper with optimal software
                                  products selection using many-objective
                                  optimization and satisfiability solvers  591--626
          Jacob Krüger and   
       Christian Lausberger and   
Ivonne von Nostitz-Wallwitz and   
               Gunter Saake and   
                   Thomas Leich   Search. Review. Repeat? An empirical
                                  study of threats to replicating SLR
                                  searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--677
     Mohammadreza Ghanavati and   
                Diego Costa and   
               Janos Seboek and   
                   David Lo and   
                Artur Andrzejak   Memory and resource leak defects and
                                  their repairs in Java projects . . . . . 678--718
                 Jindae Kim and   
                Jeongho Kim and   
                Eunseok Lee and   
                    Sunghun Kim   The effectiveness of context-based
                                  change application on automatic program
                                  repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--754
                   Bowen Xu and   
                      Le An and   
              Ferdian Thung and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
                       David Lo   Why reinventing the wheels? An empirical
                                  study on library reuse and
                                  re-implementation  . . . . . . . . . . . 755--789
     Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho and   
               Hideaki Hata and   
              Kenichi Matsumoto   How different are different diff
                                  algorithms in Git? . . . . . . . . . . . 790--823

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 25, Number 2, March, 2020

                 Melissa Fearon   2019 Reviewer Acknowledgment . . . . . . 1031--1034
       Lise Tordrup Heeager and   
             Peter Axel Nielsen   Meshing agile and plan-driven
                                  development in safety-critical software:
                                  a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1062
                Luca Allodi and   
            Marco Cremonini and   
             Fabio Massacci and   
                   Woohyun Shim   Measuring the accuracy of software
                                  vulnerability assessments: experiments
                                  with students and professionals  . . . . 1063--1094
          Fiorella Zampetti and   
           Carmine Vassallo and   
      Sebastiano Panichella and   
            Gerardo Canfora and   
                Harald Gall and   
          Massimiliano Di Penta   An empirical characterization of bad
                                  practices in continuous integration  . . 1095--1135
              Sadika Amreen and   
              Audris Mockus and   
           Russell Zaretzki and   
         Christopher Bogart and   
                    Yuxia Zhang   ALFAA: Active Learning Fingerprint based
                                  Anti-Aliasing for correcting developer
                                  identity errors in version control
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136--1167
           Rabe Abdalkareem and   
               Vinicius Oda and   
             Suhaib Mujahid and   
                    Emad Shihab   On the impact of using trivial packages:
                                  an empirical case study on \pkgnpm and
                                  \pkgPyPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168--1204
         Nuno Amálio and   
              Lionel Briand and   
                  Pierre Kelsen   An experimental scrutiny of visual
                                  design modelling: VCL up against UML+OCL 1205--1258
            Mohammed Sayagh and   
         Noureddine Kerzazi and   
             Fabio Petrillo and   
             Khalil Bennani and   
                     Bram Adams   What should your run-time configuration
                                  framework do to help developers? . . . . 1259--1293
Gema Rodr\'ìguez-Pérez and   
            Gregorio Robles and   
       Alexander Serebrenik and   
               Andy Zaidman and   
    Daniel M. Germán and   
     Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona   How bugs are born: a model to identify
                                  how bugs are introduced in software
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1294--1340
         Sangameshwar Patil and   
                   B. Ravindran   Predicting software defect type using
                                  concept-based classification . . . . . . 1341--1378
      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
              David C. Shepherd   Guest editorial: special section on
                                  software analysis, evolution, and
                                  reengineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1379--1381
                   Xin Chen and   
                   He Jiang and   
                Xiaochen Li and   
                 Liming Nie and   
                 Dongjin Yu and   
                   Tieke He and   
                    Zhenyu Chen   A systemic framework for crowdsourced
                                  test report quality assessment . . . . . 1382--1418
           Carmine Vassallo and   
      Sebastiano Panichella and   
              Fabio Palomba and   
          Sebastian Proksch and   
             Harald C. Gall and   
                   Andy Zaidman   How developers engage with static
                                  analysis tools in different contexts . . 1419--1457
                Aline Brito and   
        Marco Tulio Valente and   
              Laerte Xavier and   
                     Andre Hora   You broke my code: understanding the
                                  motivations for breaking changes in APIs 1458--1492
           Md Ahasanuzzaman and   
       Muhammad Asaduzzaman and   
            Chanchal K. Roy and   
             Kevin A. Schneider   CAPS: a supervised technique for
                                  classifying Stack Overflow posts
                                  concerning API issues  . . . . . . . . . 1493--1532
                 Ayse Tosun and   
             Shane McIntosh and   
              Leandro Minku and   
                   Burak Turhan   Guest Editorial: Special Issue on
                                  Predictive Models and Data Analytics in
                                  Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 1533--1535
          Mohammad Alahmadi and   
          Abdulkarim Khormi and   
            Biswas Parajuli and   
            Jonathan Hassel and   
               Sonia Haiduc and   
                   Piyush Kumar   Code Localization in Programming
                                  Screencasts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1536--1572
                Sousuke Amasaki   Cross-version defect prediction: use
                                  historical data, cross-project data, or
                                  both?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1573--1595
                Tapajit Dey and   
                  Audris Mockus   Deriving a usage-independent software
                                  quality metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1596--1641

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 25, Number 3, May, 2020

                      Anonymous   Editor's Note: \booktitleEmpirical
                                  Software Engineering and COVID-19
                                  research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643--1643
     Alejandro Mazuera-Rozo and   
             Catia Trubiani and   
Mario Linares-Vásquez and   
                Gabriele Bavota   Investigating types and survivability of
                                  performance bugs in mobile apps  . . . . 1644--1686
              Vahid Garousi and   
                Markus Borg and   
                    Markku Oivo   Practical relevance of software
                                  engineering research: synthesizing the
                                  community's voice  . . . . . . . . . . . 1687--1754
            Thorsten Berger and   
 Jan-Philipp Steghöfer and   
               Tewfik Ziadi and   
              Jacques Robin and   
                Jabier Martinez   The state of adoption and the challenges
                                  of systematic variability management in
                                  industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755--1797
                 Andre Hora and   
                  Romain Robbes   Characteristics of method extractions in
                                  Java: a large scale empirical study  . . 1798--1833
           Ahmad Abdellatif and   
              Khaled Badran and   
                    Emad Shihab   MSRBot: Using bots to answer questions
                                  from software repositories . . . . . . . 1834--1863
           Gustavo A. Oliva and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
         Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang   An exploratory study of smart contracts
                                  in the Ethereum blockchain platform  . . 1864--1904
              Zhaoqiang Guo and   
                  Yanhui Li and   
             Wanwangying Ma and   
                Yuming Zhou and   
                 Hongmin Lu and   
                   Lin Chen and   
                      Baowen Xu   Boosting crash-inducing change
                                  localization with rank-performance-based
                                  feature subset selection . . . . . . . . 1905--1950
               Yoshiki Higo and   
            Shinpei Hayashi and   
               Hideaki Hata and   
             Meiyappan Nagappan   Ammonia: an approach for deriving
                                  project-specific bug patterns  . . . . . 1951--1979
               Anil Koyuncu and   
                    Kui Liu and   
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and   
                Dongsun Kim and   
              Jacques Klein and   
           Martin Monperrus and   
                  Yves Le Traon   FixMiner: Mining relevant fix patterns
                                  for automated program repair . . . . . . 1980--2024
      Clément Robert and   
       Thierry Sotiropoulos and   
 Hél\`ene Waeselynck and   
Jérémie Guiochet and   
                  Simon Vernhes   The virtual lands of Oz: testing an
                                  agribot in simulation  . . . . . . . . . 2025--2054
             Yasutaka Kamei and   
                   Andy Zaidman   Guest editorial: Mining software
                                  repositories 2018  . . . . . . . . . . . 2055--2057
                      Li Li and   
                    Jun Gao and   
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and   
                     Lei Ma and   
                    Xin Xia and   
                  Jacques Klein   CDA: Characterising Deprecated Android
                                  APIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2058--2098
         Amritanshu Agrawal and   
                Tim Menzies and   
           Leandro L. Minku and   
              Markus Wagner and   
                         Zhe Yu   Better software analytics via ``DUO'':
                                  Data mining algorithms using/used-by
                                  optimizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2099--2136
             Janet Siegmund and   
                Chanchal K. Roy   Preface to the special issue on program
                                  comprehension  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2137--2139
             Sarah Fakhoury and   
                Devjeet Roy and   
                  Yuzhan Ma and   
          Venera Arnaoudova and   
                Olusola Adesope   Measuring the impact of lexical and
                                  structural inconsistencies on
                                  developers' cognitive load during bug
                                  localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2140--2178
                    Xing Hu and   
                      Ge Li and   
                    Xin Xia and   
                   David Lo and   
                        Zhi Jin   Deep code comment generation with hybrid
                                  lexical and syntactical information  . . 2179--2217
           Carmine Vassallo and   
          Sebastian Proksch and   
               Timothy Zemp and   
                 Harald C. Gall   Every build you break:
                                  developer-oriented assistance for build
                                  failure resolution . . . . . . . . . . . 2218--2257
             Stefanie Beyer and   
            Christian Macho and   
      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
                 Martin Pinzger   What kind of questions do developers ask
                                  on Stack Overflow? A comparison of
                                  automated approaches to classify posts
                                  into question categories . . . . . . . . 2258--2301
                Shanshan Li and   
                     Xu Niu and   
               Zhouyang Jia and   
               Xiangke Liao and   
                    Ji Wang and   
                         Tao Li   Guiding log revisions by learning from
                                  software evolution history . . . . . . . 2302--2340

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 25, Number 4, July, 2020

           Benjamin Danglot and   
           Martin Monperrus and   
          Walter Rudametkin and   
                  Benoit Baudry   An approach and benchmark to detect
                                  behavioral changes of commits in
                                  continuous integration . . . . . . . . . 2379--2415
           Thomas D. LaToza and   
                Maryam Arab and   
              Dastyni Loksa and   
                      Amy J. Ko   Explicit programming strategies  . . . . 2416--2449
            Marcello Cinque and   
       Raffaele Della Corte and   
                Antonio Pecchia   An empirical analysis of error
                                  propagation in critical software systems 2450--2484
                 Daniel Lee and   
                   Dayi Lin and   
           Cor-Paul Bezemer and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Building the perfect game --- an
                                  empirical study of game modifications    2485--2518
             Edson Oliveira and   
          Eduardo Fernandes and   
           Igor Steinmacher and   
               Marco Cristo and   
               Tayana Conte and   
              Alessandro Garcia   Code and commit metrics of developer
                                  productivity: a study on team leaders
                                  perceptions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2519--2549
        Seifeddine Bettaieb and   
            Seung Yeob Shin and   
         Mehrdad Sabetzadeh and   
           Lionel C. Briand and   
            Michael Garceau and   
                 Antoine Meyers   Using machine learning to assist with
                                  the selection of security controls
                                  during security assessment . . . . . . . 2550--2582
               Rita Marques and   
       Gonçalo Costa and   
       Miguel Mira da Silva and   
    Daniel Gonçalves and   
         Pedro Gonçalves   A gamification solution for improving
                                  Scrum adoption . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2583--2629
       Emelie Engström and   
       Margaret-Anne Storey and   
                Per Runeson and   
           Martin Höst and   
       Maria Teresa Baldassarre   How software engineering research aligns
                                  with design science: a review  . . . . . 2630--2660
                Linghuan Hu and   
               W. Eric Wong and   
            D. Richard Kuhn and   
                Raghu N. Kacker   How does combinatorial testing perform
                                  in the real world: an empirical study    2661--2693
                Junxiao Han and   
                Emad Shihab and   
                Zhiyuan Wan and   
             Shuiguang Deng and   
                        Xin Xia   What do Programmers Discuss about Deep
                                  Learning Frameworks  . . . . . . . . . . 2694--2747
                Teerath Das and   
      Massimiliano Di Penta and   
                Ivano Malavolta   Characterizing the evolution of
                                  statically-detectable performance issues
                                  of Android apps  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2748--2808
            Florian Pudlitz and   
         Florian Brokhausen and   
              Andreas Vogelsang   What am I testing and where? Comparing
                                  testing procedures based on lightweight
                                  requirements annotations . . . . . . . . 2809--2843
                 Sira Vegas and   
  Patricia Riofr\'ìo and   
           Esperanza Marcos and   
                Natalia Juristo   On (mis)perceptions of testing
                                  effectiveness: an empirical study  . . . 2844--2896
            Peter Pickerill and   
        Heiko Joshua Jungen and   
          Miros\law Ochodek and   
        Micha\l Ma\'ckowiak and   
                Miroslaw Staron   PHANTOM: Curating GitHub for engineered
                                  software projects using time-series
                                  clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2897--2929
         Guillaume Rousseau and   
           Roberto Di Cosmo and   
             Stefano Zacchiroli   Software provenance tracking at the
                                  scale of public source code  . . . . . . 2930--2959
            Rodrigo Morales and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   RePOR: Mimicking humans on refactoring
                                  tasks. Are we there yet? . . . . . . . . 2960--2996
Andreas Biòrn-Hansen and   
           Christoph Rieger and   
   Tor-Morten Grònli and   
           Tim A. Majchrzak and   
              Gheorghita Ghinea   An empirical investigation of
                                  performance overhead in cross-platform
                                  mobile development frameworks  . . . . . 2997--3040
              Fabio Palomba and   
                   Andy Zaidman   Retraction Note: Retraction note to: The
                                  smell of fear: on the relation between
                                  test smells and flaky tests  . . . . . . 3041--3041

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 25, Number 5, September, 2020

                  Kundi Yao and   
                    Heng Li and   
                Weiyi Shang and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   A study of the performance of general
                                  compressors on log files . . . . . . . . 3043--3085
                Chris Mills and   
              Esteban Parra and   
      Jevgenija Pantiuchina and   
            Gabriele Bavota and   
                   Sonia Haiduc   On the relationship between bug reports
                                  and queries for text retrieval-based bug
                                  localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3086--3127
             Zohreh Sharafi and   
              Bonita Sharif and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and   
               Andrew Begel and   
             Roman Bednarik and   
                  Martha Crosby   A practical guide on conducting eye
                                  tracking studies in software engineering 3128--3174
         Serena Elisa Ponta and   
               Henrik Plate and   
               Antonino Sabetta   Detection, assessment and mitigation of
                                  vulnerabilities in open source
                                  dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3175--3215
               Nicolli Rios and   
Rodrigo Oliveira Spínola and   
     Manoel Mendonça and   
                 Carolyn Seaman   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  . . . . . . . 3216--3287
                  Zoe Kotti and   
   Konstantinos Kravvaritis and   
         Konstantina Dritsa and   
             Diomidis Spinellis   Standing on shoulders or feet? An
                                  extended study on the usage of the MSR
                                  data papers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3288--3322
             Andrey Krutauz and   
                Tapajit Dey and   
             Peter C. Rigby and   
                  Audris Mockus   Do code review measures explain the
                                  incidence of post-release defects? . . . 3323--3356
          Domenico Cotroneo and   
       Antonio Ken Iannillo and   
            Roberto Natella and   
           Roberto Pietrantuono   A comprehensive study on software aging
                                  across Android versions and vendors  . . 3357--3395
                 Daniel Lee and   
   Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur and   
                   Dayi Lin and   
            Mohammed Sayagh and   
           Cor-Paul Bezemer and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   An empirical study of the
                                  characteristics of popular Minecraft
                                  mods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3396--3429
               Akond Rahman and   
              Effat Farhana and   
                Laurie Williams   The `as code' activities: development
                                  anti-patterns for infrastructure as code 3430--3467
              Rahul Krishna and   
                    Tim Menzies   Learning actionable analytics from
                                  multiple software projects . . . . . . . 3468--3500
    Wladmir Araujo Chapetta and   
      Guilherme Horta Travassos   Towards an evidence-based theoretical
                                  framework on factors influencing the
                                  software development productivity  . . . 3501--3543
           Ethem Utku Aktas and   
                   Cemal Yilmaz   Automated issue assignment: results and
                                  insights from an industrial case . . . . 3544--3589
         Jirayus Jiarpakdee and   
  Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn and   
               Christoph Treude   The impact of automated feature
                                  selection techniques on the
                                  interpretation of defect models  . . . . 3590--3638
                 Adam Alami and   
         Peter Axel Nielsen and   
             Andrzej Wa\csowski   A tailored participatory action research
                                  for FOSS communities . . . . . . . . . . 3639--3670
               Chunhui Wang and   
                  Wei Zhang and   
                Haiyan Zhao and   
                        Zhi Jin   Towards a fictional collective
                                  programming scenario: an approach based
                                  on the EIF loop  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3671--3710
                 Ines Hajri and   
                Arda Goknil and   
           Fabrizio Pastore and   
               Lionel C. Briand   Automating system test case
                                  classification and prioritization for
                                  use case-driven testing in product lines 3711--3769
          Rungroj Maipradit and   
           Christoph Treude and   
               Hideaki Hata and   
              Kenichi Matsumoto   Wait for it: identifying ``On-Hold''
                                  self-admitted technical debt . . . . . . 3770--3798
        Johan Linåker and   
             Björn Regnell   What to share, when, and where:
                                  balancing the objectives and
                                  complexities of open source software
                                  contributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3799--3840
                 Rasmus Ros and   
                  Mikael Hammar   Data-driven software design with
                                  Constraint Oriented Multi-variate Bandit
                                  Optimization (COMBO) . . . . . . . . . . 3841--3872

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 25, Number 6, November, 2020

               Claus Hunsen and   
             Janet Siegmund and   
                      Sven Apel   On the fulfillment of coordination
                                  requirements in open-source software
                                  projects: an exploratory study . . . . . 4379--4426
                 Rodi Jolak and   
      Maxime Savary-Leblanc and   
            Manuela Dalibor and   
           Andreas Wortmann and   
               Regina Hebig and   
               Juraj Vincur and   
               Ivan Polasek and   
           Xavier Le Pallec and   
Sébastien Gérard and   
          Michel R. V. Chaudron   Software engineering whispers: The
                                  effect of textual vs. graphical software
                                  design descriptions on software design
                                  communication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4427--4471
                 Rodi Jolak and   
      Maxime Savary-Leblanc and   
            Manuela Dalibor and   
           Andreas Wortmann and   
               Regina Hebig and   
               Juraj Vincur and   
               Ivan Polasek and   
           Xavier Le Pallec and   
Sébastien Gérard and   
          Michel R. V. Chaudron   Correction to: Software engineering
                                  whispers: The effect of textual vs.
                                  graphical software design descriptions
                                  on software design communication . . . . 4472--4472
           Mario Gleirscher and   
                Diego Marmsoler   Formal methods in dependable systems
                                  engineering: a survey of professionals
                                  from Europe and North America  . . . . . 4473--4546
                   Yisen Xu and   
                     Fan Wu and   
              Xiangyang Jia and   
                  Lingbo Li and   
                    Jifeng Xuan   Mining the use of higher-order
                                  functions: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4547--4584
      Robert Heumüller and   
        Sebastian Nielebock and   
          Jacob Krüger and   
                 Frank Ortmeier   Publish or perish, but do not forget
                                  your software artifacts  . . . . . . . . 4585--4616
             Masanari Kondo and   
           Gustavo A. Oliva and   
     Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
                   Osamu Mizuno   Code cloning in smart contracts: a case
                                  study on verified contracts from the
                                  Ethereum blockchain platform . . . . . . 4617--4675
                   Tao Wang and   
                    Xiao Yu and   
                Zhengyi Qiu and   
               Guoliang Jin and   
                  Frank Mueller   BarrierFinder: recognizing ad hoc
                                  barriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4676--4706
Rodrigo Fernandes Gomes da Silva and   
            Chanchal K. Roy and   
    Mohammad Masudur Rahman and   
         Kevin A. Schneider and   
Klérisson Paixão and   
Carlos Eduardo de Carvalho Dantas and   
        Marcelo de Almeida Maia   CROKAGE: effective solution
                                  recommendation for programming tasks by
                                  leveraging crowd knowledge . . . . . . . 4707--4758
                 Wasim Said and   
              Jochen Quante and   
                 Rainer Koschke   Mining understandable state machine
                                  models from embedded code  . . . . . . . 4759--4804
             Davide Falessi and   
                Jacky Huang and   
           Likhita Narayana and   
         Jennifer Fong Thai and   
                   Burak Turhan   On the need of preserving order of data
                                  when validating within-project defect
                                  classifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4805--4830
             Davide Falessi and   
                Jacky Huang and   
           Likhita Narayana and   
         Jennifer Fong Thai and   
                   Burak Turhan   Correction to: On the need of preserving
                                  order of data when validating
                                  within-project defect classifiers  . . . 4831--4832
      Sebastiano Panichella and   
                      Nik Zaugg   An Empirical Investigation of Relevant
                                  Changes and Automation Needs in Modern
                                  Code Review  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4833--4872
             Parisa Moslehi and   
                 Bram Adams and   
                Juergen Rilling   A feature location approach for mapping
                                  application features extracted from
                                  crowd-based screencasts to source code   4873--4926
                 Paul Ralph and   
           Sebastian Baltes and   
         Gianisa Adisaputri and   
             Richard Torkar and   
         Vladimir Kovalenko and   
          Marcos Kalinowski and   
            Nicole Novielli and   
                   Shin Yoo and   
             Xavier Devroey and   
                    Xin Tan and   
               Minghui Zhou and   
               Burak Turhan and   
               Rashina Hoda and   
               Hideaki Hata and   
            Gregorio Robles and   
                          et al   Pandemic programming . . . . . . . . . . 4927--4961
              Zainab Masood and   
               Rashina Hoda and   
                  Kelly Blincoe   How agile teams make self-assignment
                                  work: a grounded theory study  . . . . . 4962--5005
          Simone Scalabrino and   
            Gabriele Bavota and   
Mario Linares-Vásquez and   
       Valentina Piantadosi and   
              Michele Lanza and   
                  Rocco Oliveto   API compatibility issues in Android:
                                  Causes and effectiveness of data-driven
                                  detection techniques . . . . . . . . . . 5006--5046
          Abdul Ali Bangash and   
               Hareem Sahar and   
               Abram Hindle and   
                      Karim Ali   On the time-based conclusion stability
                                  of cross-project defect prediction
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5047--5083
    Biniam Fisseha Demissie and   
            Mariano Ceccato and   
                 Lwin Khin Shar   Security analysis of permission
                                  re-delegation vulnerabilities in Android
                                  apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5084--5136
         Alexander Trautsch and   
            Steffen Herbold and   
                 Jens Grabowski   A longitudinal study of static analysis
                                  warning evolution and the effects of PMD
                                  on software quality in Apache open
                                  source projects  . . . . . . . . . . . . 5137--5192


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 26, Number 1, January, 2021

               Felipe Ebert and   
            Fernando Castor and   
            Nicole Novielli and   
           Alexander Serebrenik   An exploratory study on confusion in
                                  code reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Belén Ramos-Gutiérrez and   
Ángel Jesús Varela-Vaca and   
     José A. Galindo and   
María Teresa Gómez-López and   
                David Benavides   Discovering configuration workflows from
                                  existing logs using process mining . . . ??
               Xiajing Wang and   
               Changzhen Hu and   
                     Rui Ma and   
               Donghai Tian and   
                     Jinyuan He   CMFuzz: context-aware adaptive mutation
                                  for fuzzers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
 Zeinab Azadeh Kermansaravi and   
           Md Saidur Rahman and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
               Fehmi Jaafar and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc   Investigating design anti-pattern and
                                  design pattern mutations and their
                                  change- and fault-proneness  . . . . . . ??
                An Ran Chen and   
      Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen and   
                   Shaowei Wang   Demystifying the challenges and benefits
                                  of analyzing user-reported logs in bug
                                  reports  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Daoyuan Wu and   
                  Debin Gao and   
                       David Lo   Scalable online vetting of Android apps
                                  for measuring declared SDK versions and
                                  their consistency with API calls . . . . ??
                Paul Temple and   
            Gilles Perrouin and   
              Mathieu Acher and   
            Battista Biggio and   
Jean-Marc Jézéquel and   
                     Fabio Roli   Empirical assessment of generating
                                  adversarial configurations for software
                                  product lines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
         Manishankar Mondal and   
                 Banani Roy and   
            Chanchal K. Roy and   
             Kevin A. Schneider   ID-correspondence: a measure for
                                  detecting evolutionary coupling  . . . . ??
Carlos Diego Nascimento Damasceno and   
      Mohammad Reza Mousavi and   
        Adenilso da Silva Simao   Learning by sampling: learning
                                  behavioral family models from software
                                  product lines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Yogeshwar Shastri and   
               Rashina Hoda and   
                    Robert Amor   Spearheading agile: the role of the
                                  scrum master in agile projects . . . . . ??
                Yuanrui Fan and   
                    Xin Xia and   
                   David Lo and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
                    Shanping Li   What makes a popular academic AI
                                  repository?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
     Rezvan Mahdavi-Hezaveh and   
              Jacob Dremann and   
                Laurie Williams   Software development with feature
                                  toggles: practices used by practitioners ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 26, Number 2, March, 2021

             Mathieu Nassif and   
            Martin P. Robillard   Wikifying software artifacts . . . . . . ??
             Robert Lindohf and   
          Jacob Krüger and   
                Erik Herzog and   
                Thorsten Berger   Software product-line evaluation in the
                                  large  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Toufique Ahmed and   
          Premkumar Devanbu and   
          Vincent J Hellendoorn   Learning lenient parsing & typing via
                                  indirect supervision . . . . . . . . . . ??
  Pertti Karhapää and   
          Woubshet Behutiye and   
     Pilar Rodríguez and   
                Markku Oivo and   
              Dolors Costal and   
              Xavier Franch and   
              Sanja Aaramaa and   
           Micha\l Chora\'s and   
              Jari Partanen and   
                Antonin Abherve   Strategies to manage quality
                                  requirements in agile software
                                  development: a multiple case study . . . ??
               Xiaowei Chen and   
           Rabe Abdalkareem and   
             Suhaib Mujahid and   
                Emad Shihab and   
                        Xin Xia   Helping or not helping? Why and how
                                  trivial packages impact the npm
                                  ecosystem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Thomas Olsson and   
             Krzysztof Wnuk and   
                 Slinger Jansen   A validated model for the scoping
                                  process of quality requirements: a
                                  multi-case study . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
        Jessica Díaz and   
Daniel López-Fernández and   
         Jorge Pérez and   
Ángel González-Prieto   Why are many businesses instilling a
                                  DevOps culture into their organization?  ??
               Elias Kuiter and   
          Sebastian Krieter and   
          Jacob Krüger and   
               Gunter Saake and   
                   Thomas Leich   variED: an editor for collaborative,
                                  real-time feature modeling . . . . . . . ??
         Alexander Grebhahn and   
      Christian Kaltenecker and   
           Christian Engwer and   
           Norbert Siegmund and   
                      Sven Apel   Lightweight, semi-automatic variability
                                  extraction: a case study on scientific
                                  computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                  Yuxing Ma and   
                Tapajit Dey and   
               Chris Bogart and   
              Sadika Amreen and   
               Marat Valiev and   
                 Adam Tutko and   
              David Kennard and   
           Russell Zaretzki and   
                  Audris Mockus   World of code: enabling a research
                                  workflow for mining and analyzing the
                                  universe of open source VCS data . . . . ??
              Rebecca Yates and   
                Norah Power and   
                    Jim Buckley   Correction to: Characterizing the
                                  transfer of program comprehension in
                                  onboarding: an information-push
                                  perspective  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      He Ye and   
            Matias Martinez and   
               Martin Monperrus   Automated patch assessment for program
                                  repair at scale  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Ahmed Zerouali and   
                   Tom Mens and   
            Alexandre Decan and   
    Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona and   
                Gregorio Robles   A multi-dimensional analysis of
                                  technical lag in Debian-based Docker
                                  images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Fabiano Pecorelli and   
              Fabio Palomba and   
                Andrea De Lucia   The Relation of Test--Related Factors to
                                  Software Quality: a Case Study on Apache
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Gharib Gharibi and   
               Vijay Walunj and   
                Raju Nekadi and   
                  Raj Marri and   
                    Yugyung Lee   Automated end-to-end management of the
                                  modeling lifecycle in deep learning  . . ??
                 Jiakun Liu and   
                 Qiao Huang and   
                    Xin Xia and   
                Emad Shihab and   
                   David Lo and   
                    Shanping Li   An exploratory study on the introduction
                                  and removal of different types of
                                  technical debt in deep learning
                                  frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Juan Hoyos and   
           Rabe Abdalkareem and   
             Suhaib Mujahid and   
                Emad Shihab and   
        Albeiro Espinosa Bedoya   On the Removal of Feature Toggles  . . . ??
     Morakot Choetkiertikul and   
              Hoa Khanh Dam and   
                Truyen Tran and   
                 Trang Pham and   
   Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul and   
                   Aditya Ghose   Automatically recommending components
                                  for issue reports using deep learning    ??
              Adrian Santos and   
                 Sira Vegas and   
                Markku Oivo and   
                Natalia Juristo   Comparing the results of replications in
                                  software engineering . . . . . . . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 26, Number 3, May, 2021

           Bodin Chinthanet and   
       Raula Gaikovina Kula and   
             Shane McIntosh and   
              Takashi Ishio and   
              Akinori Ihara and   
              Kenichi Matsumoto   Lags in the release, adoption, and
                                  propagation of npm vulnerability fixes   ??
        Timothé Riom and   
            Arthur Sawadogo and   
                Kevin Allix and   
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and   
                Naouel Moha and   
                  Jacques Klein   Revisiting the VCCFinder approach for
                                  the identification of
                                  vulnerability-contributing commits . . . ??
   César Soto-Valero and   
            Nicolas Harrand and   
           Martin Monperrus and   
                  Benoit Baudry   A comprehensive study of bloated
                                  dependencies in the Maven ecosystem  . . ??
            Mikaela Cashman and   
           Justin Firestone and   
              Myra B. Cohen and   
       Thammasak Thianniwet and   
                        Wei Niu   An empirical investigation of organic
                                  software product lines . . . . . . . . . ??
                Amin Sleimi and   
            Nicolas Sannier and   
         Mehrdad Sabetzadeh and   
              Lionel Briand and   
              Marcello Ceci and   
                      John Dann   An automated framework for the
                                  extraction of semantic legal metadata
                                  from legal texts . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Adrian Santos and   
                 Sira Vegas and   
               Oscar Dieste and   
          Fernando Uyaguari and   
               Ay\cse Tosun and   
               Davide Fucci and   
               Burak Turhan and   
        Giuseppe Scanniello and   
              Simone Romano and   
                 Itir Karac and   
             Marco Kuhrmann and   
          Vladimir Mandi\'c and   
             Robert Rama\vc and   
              Dietmar Pfahl and   
          Christian Engblom and   
                          et al   A family of experiments on test-driven
                                  development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
         Simone V. Spiegler and   
         Christoph Heinecke and   
                  Stefan Wagner   An empirical study on changing
                                  leadership in agile teams  . . . . . . . ??
             Grischa Liebel and   
            Shalini Chakraborty   Ethical issues in empirical studies
                                  using student subjects: Re-visiting
                                  practices and perceptions  . . . . . . . ??
   João Pedro Moraes and   
           Ivanilton Polato and   
                 Igor Wiese and   
             Filipe Saraiva and   
                  Gustavo Pinto   From one to hundreds: multi-licensing in
                                  the JavaScript ecosystem . . . . . . . . ??
                Rui Pereira and   
             Hugo Matalonga and   
                Marco Couto and   
            Fernando Castor and   
               Bruno Cabral and   
             Pedro Carvalho and   
 Simão Melo de Sousa and   
    João Paulo Fernandes   GreenHub: a large-scale collaborative
                                  dataset to battery consumption analysis
                                  of Android devices . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Appreciation to \booktitleEmpirical
                                  Software Engineering reviewers of 2020   ??
             Majid Hatamian and   
             Samuel Wairimu and   
                Nurul Momen and   
                 Lothar Fritsch   A privacy and security analysis of
                                  early-deployed COVID-19 contact tracing
                                  Android apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                  Misoo Kim and   
                    Eunseok Lee   Are datasets for information
                                  retrieval-based bug localization
                                  techniques trustworthy?  . . . . . . . . ??
         Armstrong Foundjem and   
                     Bram Adams   Release synchronization in software
                                  ecosystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Rungroj Maipradit and   
           Christoph Treude and   
               Hideaki Hata and   
              Kenichi Matsumoto   Correction to: Wait for it: identifying
                                  ``On-Hold'' self-admitted technical debt ??
            Christian Macho and   
             Stefanie Beyer and   
             Shane McIntosh and   
                 Martin Pinzger   The nature of build changes  . . . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 26, Number 4, July, 2021

                   Liu Wang and   
                     Ren He and   
                       Guoai Xu   Beyond the virus: a first look at
                                  coronavirus-themed Android malware . . . ??
               Jiayuan Zhou and   
               Shaowei Wang and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Studying backers and hunters in bounty
                                  issue addressing process of open source
                                  projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Marian Daun and   
            Jennifer Brings and   
              Viktoria Stenkova   Reliability of self-rated experience and
                                  confidence as predictors for students'
                                  performance in software engineering  . . ??
             Alvaro Veizaga and   
           Mauricio Alferez and   
                  Lionel Briand   On systematically building a controlled
                                  natural language for functional
                                  requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Andrea Di Sorbo and   
          Sebastiano Panichella   Exposed! A case study on the
                                  vulnerability-proneness of Google Play
                                  Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Nicole Novielli and   
             Fabio Calefato and   
           Alexander Serebrenik   Assessment of off-the-shelf SE-specific
                                  sentiment analysis tools: an extended
                                  replication study  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                  Man Zhang and   
          Bogdan Marculescu and   
                  Andrea Arcuri   Resource and dependency based test case
                                  generation for RESTful Web services  . . ??
             Christoph Gote and   
              Ingo Scholtes and   
               Frank Schweitzer   Analysing Time-Stamped Co-Editing
                                  Networks in Software Development Teams
                                  using \pkggit2net  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Nadia Daoudi and   
                Kevin Allix and   
                  Jacques Klein   Lessons Learnt on Reproducibility in
                                  Machine Learning Based Android Malware
                                  Detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            N. C. Shrikanth and   
            William Nichols and   
                    Tim Menzies   Assessing practitioner beliefs about
                                  software engineering . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Laurence Duchien and   
       Paul Grünbacher and   
               Thomas Thüm   Foreword to the Special Issue on
                                  Configurable Systems . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Sophia Quach and   
             Maxime Lamothe and   
                    Weiyi Shang   An empirical study on the use of SZZ for
                                  identifying inducing changes of
                                  non-functional bugs  . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Mazen Mohamad and   
 Jan-Philipp Steghöfer and   
           Riccardo Scandariato   Security assurance cases --- state of
                                  the art of an emerging approach  . . . . ??
              Juri Di Rocco and   
           Davide Di Ruscio and   
                 Riccardo Rubei   Development of recommendation systems
                                  for software engineering: the CROSSMINER
                                  experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Henry Tang and   
                     Sarah Nadi   On using Stack Overflow comment-edit
                                  pairs to recommend code maintenance
                                  changes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
   Christopher S. Timperley and   
             Lauren Herckis and   
                 Michael Hilton   Understanding and improving artifact
                                  sharing in software engineering research ??
                      Di Wu and   
             Xiao-Yuan Jing and   
                      Baowen Xu   Generating API tags for tutorial
                                  fragments from Stack Overflow  . . . . . ??
João Felipe Pimentel and   
             Leonardo Murta and   
                 Juliana Freire   Understanding and improving the quality
                                  and reproducibility of Jupyter notebooks ??
           Suppawong Tuarob and   
 Noppadol Assavakamhaenghan and   
         Morakot Choetkiertikul   Automatic team recommendation for
                                  collaborative software development . . . ??
              Yingying Wang and   
     Harshavardhan Kadiyala and   
                    Julia Rubin   Promises and challenges of
                                  microservices: an exploratory study  . . ??
               Daniel Russo and   
           Paul H. P. Hanel and   
               Niels van Berkel   Predictors of well-being and
                                  productivity among software
                                  professionals during the COVID-19
                                  pandemic --- a longitudinal study  . . . ??
                   Chen Lyu and   
                 Ruyun Wang and   
                     Songlin Hu   Embedding API dependency graph for
                                  neural code generation . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Yu Qu and   
                       Heng Yin   Evaluating network embedding techniques'
                                  performances in software bug prediction  ??
   Gede Artha Azriadi Prana and   
            Abhishek Sharma and   
                       David Lo   Out of sight, out of mind? How
                                  vulnerable dependencies affect
                                  open-source projects . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Andreea Vescan and   
              Adrian Pintea and   
                Alexander Egyed   Genetic programming for feature model
                                  synthesis: a replication study . . . . . ??
               Jordan Samhi and   
                Kevin Allix and   
                  Jacques Klein   A first look at Android applications in
                                  Google Play related to COVID-19  . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 26, Number 5, September, 2021

               Arthur Vitui and   
          Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen   Correction to: MLASP: Machine learning
                                  assisted capacity planning. An
                                  industrial experience report . . . . . . ??
                  Boyuan Li and   
                Xiaoxu Diao and   
                   Carol Smidts   A requirements inspection method based
                                  on scenarios generated by model mutation
                                  and the experimental validation  . . . . ??
         Boni García and   
       Mario Munoz-Organero and   
           Carlos Delgado Kloos   Automated driver management for Selenium
                                  WebDriver  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Amjed Tahir and   
          Kwabena E. Bennin and   
           Stephen G. MacDonell   Does class size matter? An in-depth
                                  assessment of the effect of class size
                                  in software defect prediction  . . . . . ??
              Jesper Olsson and   
               Erik Risfelt and   
                 Richard Torkar   Measuring affective states from
                                  technical debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Justus Bogner and   
             Jonas Fritzsch and   
              Alfred Zimmermann   Industry practices and challenges for
                                  the evolvability assurance of
                                  microservices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Neil A. Ernst and   
          Jeffrey C. Carver and   
                Marco Torchiano   Understanding peer review of software
                                  engineering papers . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Gema Rodríguez-Pérez and   
                 Reza Nadri and   
             Meiyappan Nagappan   Perceived diversity in software
                                  engineering: a systematic literature
                                  review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Nils Brede Moe and   
              Darja \vSmite and   
               Casper Lassenius   Finding the sweet spot for
                                  organizational control and team autonomy
                                  in large-scale agile software
                                  development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Dong Jae Kim and   
      Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen and   
                    Jinqiu Yang   The secret life of test smells --- an
                                  empirical study on test smell evolution
                                  and maintenance  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Aldeida Aleti and   
                Matias Martinez   E-APR: Mapping the effectiveness of
                                  automated program repair techniques  . . ??
          Florian Pellegrin and   
          Zeynep Yücel and   
             Pattara Leelaprute   Task estimation for software company
                                  employees based on computer interaction
                                  logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Sophia Quach and   
             Maxime Lamothe and   
                    Weiyi Shang   Evaluating the impact of falsely
                                  detected performance bug-inducing
                                  changes in JIT models  . . . . . . . . . ??
                  Dong Wang and   
                   Tao Xiao and   
              Kenichi Matsumoto   Understanding shared links and their
                                  intentions to meet information needs in
                                  modern code review:  . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Mark Haakman and   
           Luís Cruz and   
               Arie van Deursen   AI lifecycle models need to be revised   ??
                 Maram Assi and   
              Safwat Hassan and   
                       Ying Zou   \pkgFeatCompare: Feature comparison for
                                  competing mobile apps leveraging user
                                  reviews  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Maliheh Izadi and   
          Abbas Heydarnoori and   
               Georgios Gousios   Topic recommendation for software
                                  repositories using multi-label
                                  classification algorithms  . . . . . . . ??
José Aldo Silva da Costa and   
                Rohit Gheyi and   
              Alessandro Garcia   Evaluating refactorings for disciplining
                                  #ifdef annotations: an eye tracking
                                  study with novices . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Anh Nguyen-Duc and   
        Kai-Kristian Kemell and   
              Pekka Abrahamsson   The entrepreneurial logic of startup
                                  software development: a study of 40
                                  software startups  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Fitash Ul Haq and   
              Donghwan Shin and   
                  Lionel Briand   Can Offline Testing of Deep Neural
                                  Networks Replace Their Online Testing?   ??
             Filipe R. Cogo and   
           Gustavo A. Oliva and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   An empirical study of same-day releases
                                  of popular packages in the npm ecosystem ??
             Miikka Kuutila and   
     Mika Mäntylä and   
                     Bram Adams   Individual differences limit predicting
                                  well-being and productivity using
                                  software repositories: a longitudinal
                                  industrial study . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Arthur Vitui and   
          Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen   MLASP: Machine learning assisted
                                  capacity planning  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Maria Ulan and   
             Welf Löwe and   
                 Anna Wingkvist   Weighted software metrics aggregation
                                  and its application to defect prediction ??
               Luan P. Lima and   
           Lincoln S. Rocha and   
                 Matheus Paixao   Assessing exception handling testing
                                  practices in open-source libraries . . . ??
             Yongqiang Tian and   
                 Shiqing Ma and   
                  Xiangyu Zhang   To what extent do DNN-based image
                                  classification models make unreliable
                                  inferences?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Hayden Cheers and   
                 Yuqing Lin and   
                Shamus P. Smith   Evaluating the robustness of source code
                                  plagiarism detection tools to pervasive
                                  plagiarism-hiding modifications  . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 26, Number 6, November, 2021

          Fernando Petrulio and   
         Anand Ashok Sawant and   
              Alberto Bacchelli   The indolent lambdification of Java  . . ??
           Christoph Laaber and   
             Harald C. Gall and   
                Philipp Leitner   Applying test case prioritization to
                                  software microbenchmarks . . . . . . . . ??
     Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho and   
                Syful Islam and   
              Kenichi Matsumoto   How are project-specific forums
                                  utilized? A study of participation,
                                  content, and sentiment in the Eclipse
                                  ecosystem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Fiorella Zampetti and   
            Gianmarco Fucci and   
          Massimiliano Di Penta   Self-admitted technical debt practices:
                                  a comparison between industry and
                                  open-source  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Vincent Aranega and   
          Julien Delplanque and   
               Guillermo Polito   Rotten green tests in Java, Pharo and
                                  Python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Masum Hasan and   
              Anindya Iqbal and   
                 Amiangshu Bosu   Using a balanced scorecard to identify
                                  opportunities to improve code review
                                  effectiveness: an industrial experience
                                  report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Md Hasan Ibrahim and   
            Mohammed Sayagh and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   A study of how Docker Compose is used to
                                  compose multi-component systems  . . . . ??
                 Sofia Reis and   
                  Rui Abreu and   
                      Luis Cruz   Fixing vulnerabilities potentially
                                  hinders maintainability  . . . . . . . . ??
              Shayan Zamani and   
                   Hadi Hemmati   A pragmatic approach for hyper-parameter
                                  tuning in search-based test case
                                  generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Aline Brito and   
                 Andre Hora and   
            Marco Tulio Valente   Characterizing refactoring graphs in
                                  Java and JavaScript projects . . . . . . ??
                   Nan Yang and   
            Pieter Cuijpers and   
           Alexander Serebrenik   Single-state state machines in
                                  model-driven software engineering: an
                                  exploratory study  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
       Renana Arizon-Peretz and   
                 Irit Hadar and   
                  Sofia Sherman   Understanding developers' privacy and
                                  security mindsets via climate theory . . ??
                Deheng Yang and   
                    Kui Liu and   
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé   Where were the repair ingredients for
                                  Defects4j bugs?  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Gias Uddin and   
               Fatima Sabir and   
                   Foutse Khomh   An empirical study of IoT topics in IoT
                                  developer discussions on Stack Overflow  ??
         Camila Costa Silva and   
           Matthias Galster and   
                  Fabian Gilson   Topic modeling in software engineering
                                  research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Haoran Liu and   
                     Yue Yu and   
                   Xiangke Liao   How to cherry pick the bug report for
                                  better summarization?  . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Cheng Zhou and   
                     Bin Li and   
                        Lili Bo   Why and what happened? Aiding bug
                                  comprehension with automated category
                                  and causal link identification . . . . . ??
                Jiachi Chen and   
                    Xin Xia and   
                    Xiaohu Yang   Maintenance-related concerns for
                                  post-deployed Ethereum smart contract
                                  development: issues, techniques, and
                                  future challenges  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
    Mohammad Masudur Rahman and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
                Chanchal K. Roy   The forgotten role of search queries in
                                  IR-based bug localization: an empirical
                                  study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Arthur Kamienski and   
               Cor-Paul Bezemer   An empirical study of Q&A websites for
                                  game developers  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Christoph Laaber and   
             Mikael Basmaci and   
                 Pasquale Salza   Predicting unstable software benchmarks
                                  using static source code features  . . . ??
              Kate Revoredo and   
            Djordje Djurica and   
                   Jan Mendling   A study into the practice of reporting
                                  software engineering experiments . . . . ??
                 Pooja Rani and   
      Sebastiano Panichella and   
               Oscar Nierstrasz   What do class comments tell us? An
                                  investigation of comment evolution and
                                  practices in Pharo Smalltalk . . . . . . ??
                Daniel M. Berry   Empirical evaluation of tools for hairy
                                  requirements engineering tasks . . . . . ??
                Shamsa Abid and   
             Shafay Shamail and   
                     Sarah Nadi   FACER: an API usage-based code-example
                                  recommender for opportunistic reuse  . . ??


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 27, Number 1, January, 2022

          Fiorella Zampetti and   
            Saghan Mudbhari and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   Using code reviews to automatically
                                  configure static analysis tools  . . . . ??
               Roland Croft and   
              Yongzheng Xie and   
               Christoph Treude   An empirical study of developers'
                                  discussions about security challenges of
                                  different programming languages  . . . . ??
                    Rui Shu and   
                Tianpei Xia and   
                    Tim Menzies   Omni: automated ensemble with unexpected
                                  models against adversarial evasion
                                  attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   Bowen Li and   
                   Xin Peng and   
                    Xuanzhe Liu   Enjoy your observability: an industrial
                                  survey of microservice tracing and
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Jiayuan Zhou and   
               Shaowei Wang and   
               Naoyasu Ubayashi   Studying donations and their expenses in
                                  open source projects: a case study of
                                  GitHub projects collecting donations
                                  through open collectives . . . . . . . . ??
                      Yi Li and   
               Shaohua Wang and   
                      Xinyue Ye   Rap4DQ: Learning to recommend relevant
                                  API documentation for developer
                                  questions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Camilo Escobar-Velásquez and   
     Alejandro Mazuera-Rozo and   
                Gabriele Bavota   Studying eventual connectivity issues in
                                  Android apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Peipei Wang and   
                Chris Brown and   
              Kathryn T. Stolee   Demystifying regular expression bugs . . ??
           Henrique Marques and   
            Nuno Laranjeiro and   
               Jorge Bernardino   Injecting software faults in Python
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Jiakun Liu and   
             Haoxiang Zhang and   
                    Shanping Li   An exploratory study on the repeatedly
                                  shared external links on Stack Overflow  ??
Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo and   
                    Jordi Cabot   On the analysis of non-coding roles in
                                  open source development  . . . . . . . . ??
            Nicolas E. Gold and   
                    Jens Krinke   Ethics in the mining of software
                                  repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Linghui Luo and   
                Felix Pauck and   
                 Fabio Massacci   \pkgTaintBench: Automatic real-world
                                  malware benchmarking of Android taint
                                  analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   Chi Chen and   
                   Xin Peng and   
                    Wenyun Zhao   ``More Than Deep Learning'':
                                  post-processing for API sequence
                                  recommendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Fengcai Wen and   
                 Csaba Nagy and   
                Gabriele Bavota   Quick remedy commits and their impact on
                                  mining software repositories . . . . . . ??
             Nasir U. Eisty and   
              Jeffrey C. Carver   Developers perception of peer code
                                  review in research software development  ??
             Janet Siegmund and   
                Chanchal K. Roy   Correction to: Preface to the special
                                  issue on program comprehension . . . . . ??
             Anthony Peruma and   
             Steven Simmons and   
                       Ali Ouni   How do I refactor this? An empirical
                                  study on refactoring trends and topics
                                  in Stack Overflow  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
        Maurice H. ter Beek and   
          Ferruccio Damiani and   
                   Luca Paolini   Efficient static analysis and
                                  verification of featured transition
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Alvi Mahadi and   
              Neil A. Ernst and   
                   Karan Tongay   Conclusion stability for natural
                                  language based mining of design
                                  discussions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Laksri Wijerathna and   
              Aldeida Aleti and   
                    Antony Tang   Mining and relating design contexts and
                                  design patterns from Stack Overflow  . . ??
                 Yuan Huang and   
             Xingjian Liang and   
                  Xiaocong Zhou   Reviewing rounds prediction for code
                                  patches  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Victor Basili and   
                  Lionel Briand   Reflections on the \booktitleEmpirical
                                  Software Engineering journal . . . . . . ??
                Jinfeng Lin and   
                  Yalin Liu and   
             Jane Cleland-Huang   Information retrieval versus deep
                                  learning approaches for generating
                                  traceability links in bilingual projects ??
               Hafizul Asad and   
                     Ilir Gashi   Dynamical analysis of diversity in
                                  rule-based open source network intrusion
                                  detection systems  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Hideaki Hata and   
            Nicole Novielli and   
               Christoph Treude   GitHub Discussions: an exploratory study
                                  of early adoption  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Tim Sonnekalb and   
           Thomas S. Heinze and   
             Patrick Mäder   Deep security analysis of program code   ??
            Adam Przyby\lek and   
              Marta Albecka and   
              Wojciech Kowalski   Game-based Sprint retrospectives:
                                  multiple action research . . . . . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 27, Number 2, March, 2022

               Sikandar Ali and   
        Irshad Ahmed Abbasi and   
                    Jiwei Huang   Practitioner's view of the success
                                  factors for software outsourcing
                                  partnership formation: an empirical
                                  exploration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Wesley K. G. Assunção and   
       Thelma Elita Colanzi and   
                  Carlos Lucena   Analysis of a many-objective
                                  optimization approach for identifying
                                  microservices from legacy systems  . . . ??
              Maliheh Izadi and   
               Kiana Akbari and   
              Abbas Heydarnoori   Predicting the objective and priority of
                                  issue reports in software repositories   ??
              Hideaki Azuma and   
         Shinsuke Matsumoto and   
                Shinji Kusumoto   An empirical study on self-admitted
                                  technical debt in Dockerfiles  . . . . . ??
                 Yilin Yang and   
                Tianxing He and   
                      Baowen Xu   Mining Python fix patterns via analyzing
                                  fine-grained source code changes . . . . ??
                     Wei Li and   
                  Qingan Li and   
                  Mengting Yuan   An empirical study of the effectiveness
                                  of IR-based bug localization for
                                  large-scale industrial projects  . . . . ??
            Sousuke Amasaki and   
              Hirohisa Aman and   
              Tomoyuki Yokogawa   An extended study on applicability and
                                  performance of homogeneous cross-project
                                  defect prediction approaches under
                                  homogeneous cross-company effort
                                  estimation situation . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Steffen Herbold and   
                    Tobias Haar   Smoke testing for machine learning:
                                  simple tests to discover severe bugs . . ??
              Ruben Heradio and   
     David Fernandez-Amoros and   
                     Don Batory   Uniform and scalable sampling of highly
                                  configurable systems . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Jacek D\kabrowski and   
            Emmanuel Letier and   
                    Angelo Susi   Analysing app reviews for software
                                  engineering: a systematic literature
                                  review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Steffen Herbold and   
         Alexander Trautsch and   
                 Benjamin Ledel   Problems with SZZ and features: an
                                  empirical study of the state of practice
                                  of defect prediction data collection . . ??
                    Hui Gao and   
               Hongyu Kuang and   
                Alexander Egyed   Propagating frugal user feedback through
                                  closeness of code dependencies to
                                  improve IR-based traceability recovery   ??
              Esteban Parra and   
          Mohammad Alahmadi and   
                   Sonia Haiduc   A comparative study and analysis of
                                  developer communications on Slack and
                                  Gitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Matteo Camilli and   
                  Barbara Russo   Modeling Performance of Microservices
                                  Systems with Growth Theory . . . . . . . ??
            Hussein Almulla and   
                    Gregory Gay   Learning how to search: generating
                                  effective test cases through adaptive
                                  fitness function selection . . . . . . . ??
                    Da Xiao and   
                Dengji Hang and   
                Hongliang Liang   Path context augmented statement and
                                  network for learning programs  . . . . . ??
        Elizabeth Bjarnason and   
      Baldvin Gislason Bern and   
                 Linda Svedberg   Inter-team communication in large-scale
                                  co-located software engineering: a case
                                  study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Klaas-Jan Stol and   
        Mario Schaarschmidt and   
                Shelly Goldblit   Gamification in software engineering:
                                  the mediating role of developer
                                  engagement and job satisfaction  . . . . ??
                 Ehsan Noei and   
                    Kelly Lyons   A study of gender in user reviews on the
                                  Google Play Store  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Stefan Hanenberg and   
                  Nils Mehlhorn   Two $N$-of-1 self-trials on readability
                                  differences between anonymous inner
                                  classes (AICs) and lambda expressions
                                  (LEs) on Java code snippets  . . . . . . ??
                Linghuan Hu and   
               W. Eric Wong and   
                        Shuo Li   CT-IoT: a combinatorial testing-based
                                  path selection framework for effective
                                  IoT testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Fabiano Pecorelli and   
             Gemma Catolino and   
                  Fabio Palomba   Software testing and Android
                                  applications: a large-scale empirical
                                  study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
      Michael Schröder and   
               Jürgen Cito   An empirical investigation of
                                  command-line customization . . . . . . . ??
                 Rongqi Pan and   
        Mojtaba Bagherzadeh and   
                  Lionel Briand   Test case selection and prioritization
                                  using machine learning: a systematic
                                  literature review  . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 27, Number 3, May, 2022

              Anjana Perera and   
              Aldeida Aleti and   
                   Katie Walker   Search-based fairness testing for
                                  regression-based machine learning
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Eliezio Soares and   
            Gustavo Sizilio and   
            Uirá Kulesza   The effects of continuous integration on
                                  software development: a systematic
                                  literature review  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
    H. Alperen Çetin and   
           Eray Tüzün   Analyzing developer contributions using
                                  artifact traceability graphs . . . . . . ??
             Fabio Calefato and   
Marco Aurélio Gerosa and   
               Igor Steinmacher   Will you come back to contribute?
                                  Investigating the inactivity of OSS core
                                  developers in GitHub . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Oscar Díaz and   
        Leticia Montalvillo and   
                  Thomas Fogdal   Visualizing the customization endeavor
                                  in product-based-evolving software
                                  product lines: a case of action design
                                  research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                    Luca Traini   Exploring Performance Assurance
                                  Practices and Challenges in Agile
                                  Software Development: an Ethnographic
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
        Stefanus A. Haryono and   
              Ferdian Thung and   
                  Gilles Muller   AndroEvolve: automated Android API
                                  update with data flow analysis and
                                  variable denormalization . . . . . . . . ??
             Wardah Mahmood and   
        Daniel Strüber and   
                Thorsten Berger   Effects of variability in models: a
                                  family of experiments  . . . . . . . . . ??
               Daniel Russo and   
         Andres R. Masegosa and   
                 Klaas-Jan Stol   From anecdote to evidence: the
                                  relationship between personality and
                                  need for cognition of developers . . . . ??
         Sa\vso Karakati\vc and   
      Aleksej Milo\vsevi\vc and   
              Tja\vsa Heri\vcko   Software system comparison with semantic
                                  source code embeddings . . . . . . . . . ??
José Pereira dos Reis and   
     Fernando Brito e Abreu and   
  Glauco de Figueiredo Carneiro   Crowdsmelling: a preliminary study on
                                  using collective knowledge in code
                                  smells detection . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
      Christian Kröher and   
         Moritz Flöter and   
                   Klaus Schmid   Incremental software product line
                                  verification --- a performance analysis
                                  with dead variable code  . . . . . . . . ??
               Robert White and   
                    Jens Krinke   TCTracer: Establishing test-to-code
                                  traceability links using dynamic and
                                  static techniques  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Bahar Gezici and   
Ayça Kolukìsa Tarhan   Systematic literature review on software
                                  quality for AI-based software  . . . . . ??
        Michel Maes-Bermejo and   
             Micael Gallego and   
     Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona   Revisiting the building of past
                                  snapshots --- a replication and
                                  reproduction study . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Fabiano Pecorelli and   
              Savanna Lujan and   
                Andrea De Lucia   On the adequacy of static analysis
                                  warnings with respect to code smell
                                  prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Zishuo Ding and   
                    Heng Li and   
            Tse-Hsun Peter Chen   Can pre-trained code embeddings improve
                                  model performance? Revisiting the use of
                                  code embeddings in software engineering
                                  tasks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Saikat Mondal and   
    Mohammad Masudur Rahman and   
                Kevin Schneider   The reproducibility of
                                  programming-related issues in Stack
                                  Overflow questions . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Lina Ochoa and   
            Thomas Degueule and   
                   Jurgen Vinju   Breaking bad? Semantic versioning and
                                  impact of breaking changes in Maven
                                  Central  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Suvodeep Majumder and   
                Pranav Mody and   
                    Tim Menzies   Revisiting process versus product
                                  metrics: a large scale analysis  . . . . ??
         Md Rayhanur Rahman and   
               Nasif Imtiaz and   
                Laurie Williams   Why secret detection tools are not
                                  enough: It's not just about false
                                  positives --- an industrial case study   ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 27, Number 4, July, 2022

             Walter Cazzola and   
                   Luca Favalli   Correction to: Towards a recipe for
                                  language decomposition: quality
                                  assessment of language product lines . . ??
Pavlína Wurzel Gonçalves and   
             Enrico Fregnan and   
              Alberto Bacchelli   Do explicit review strategies improve
                                  code review performance? Towards
                                  understanding the role of cognitive load ??
       Birgit Penzenstadler and   
             Richard Torkar and   
       Cristina Martinez Montes   Take a deep breath: Benefits of
                                  neuroplasticity practices for software
                                  developers and computer workers in a
                                  family of experiments  . . . . . . . . . ??
             Davide Ginelli and   
            Matias Martinez and   
               Martin Monperrus   A comprehensive study of code-removal
                                  patches in automated program repair  . . ??
             Carolin Brandt and   
                   Andy Zaidman   Developer-centric test amplification . . ??
         Frolin S. Ocariza, Jr.   On the Effectiveness of Bisection in
                                  Performance Regression Localization  . . ??
           Sebastian Baltes and   
                     Paul Ralph   Sampling in software engineering
                                  research: a critical review and
                                  guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Manish Shetty and   
              Chetan Bansal and   
            Nachiappan Nagappan   SoftNER: Mining knowledge graphs from
                                  cloud incidents  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Ankur Tagra and   
             Haoxiang Zhang and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Revisiting reopened bugs in open source
                                  software systems . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   Fang Liu and   
                      Ge Li and   
                        Zhi Jin   A unified multi-task learning model for
                                  AST-level and token-level code
                                  completion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Kaifeng Huang and   
                Bihuan Chen and   
                       Yang Liu   Characterizing usages, updates and risks
                                  of third-party libraries in Java
                                  projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Enrico Fregnan and   
          Fernando Petrulio and   
              Alberto Bacchelli   What happens in my code reviews? An
                                  investigation on automatically
                                  classifying review changes . . . . . . . ??
        Rômulo Meloca and   
                   Ingrid Nunes   A comparative study of application-level
                                  caching recommendations at the method
                                  level  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Donghwan Shin and   
         Domenico Bianculli and   
                  Lionel Briand   PRINS: scalable model inference for
                                  component-based system logs  . . . . . . ??
                 Darius Sas and   
             Paris Avgeriou and   
                    Umut Uyumaz   On the evolution and impact of
                                  architectural smells --- an industrial
                                  case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rodrigo André Ferreira Moreira and   
Wesley K. G. Assunção and   
             Eduardo Figueiredo   Open-source software product line
                                  extraction processes: the ArgoUML-SPL
                                  and Phaser cases . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Hadhemi Jebnoun and   
           Md Saidur Rahman and   
              Biruk Asmare Muse   Clones in deep learning code: what,
                                  where, and why?  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Haonan Zhang and   
                Yiming Tang and   
                    Weiyi Shang   Studying logging practice in test code   ??
             Walter Cazzola and   
                   Luca Favalli   Towards a recipe for language
                                  decomposition: quality assessment of
                                  language product lines . . . . . . . . . ??
              Islem Saidani and   
                   Ali Ouni and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Tracking bad updates in mobile apps: a
                                  search-based approach  . . . . . . . . . ??
                     Huy Tu and   
                    Tim Menzies   DebtFree: minimizing labeling cost in
                                  self-admitted technical debt
                                  identification using semi-supervised
                                  learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 27, Number 5, September, 2022

               Vijay Walunj and   
             Gharib Gharibi and   
                    Yugyung Lee   Defect prediction using deep learning
                                  with Network Portrait Divergence for
                                  software evolution . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Gias Uddin and   
                  Omar Alam and   
           Alexander Serebrenik   A qualitative study of developers'
                                  discussions of their problems and joys
                                  during the early COVID-19 months . . . . ??
                Mouna Abidi and   
           Md Saidur Rahman and   
                   Foutse Khomh   Multi-language design smells: a
                                  backstage perspective  . . . . . . . . . ??
               Mateus Lopes and   
                     Andre Hora   How and why we end up with complex
                                  methods: a multi-language study  . . . . ??
          Milo\vs Ojdani\'c and   
                     Wei Ma and   
                 Mike Papadakis   On the use of commit-relevant mutants    ??
               James Callan and   
              Oliver Krauss and   
                 Federica Sarro   How do Android developers improve
                                  non-functional properties of software?   ??
 Gabriela Karoline Michelon and   
             David Obermann and   
                Alexander Egyed   Evolving software system families in
                                  space and time with feature revisions    ??
         Mohammad M. Rahman and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
             Marco Castelluccio   Works for Me! Cannot Reproduce --- a
                                  Large Scale Empirical Study of
                                  Non-reproducible Bugs  . . . . . . . . . ??
      Thainá Mariani and   
        Marouane Kessentini and   
         Silvia Regina Vergilio   Generation of refactoring algorithms by
                                  grammatical evolution  . . . . . . . . . ??
               Ifraz Rehman and   
                  Dong Wang and   
              Kenichi Matsumoto   Newcomer OSS-Candidates: Characterizing
                                  Contributions of Novice Developers to
                                  GitHub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Mairieli Wessel and   
       Alexander Serebrenik and   
                Marco A. Gerosa   Quality gatekeepers: investigating the
                                  effects of code review bots on pull
                                  request activities . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Ahmed Zerouali and   
                   Tom Mens and   
                 Coen De Roover   On the impact of security
                                  vulnerabilities in the npm and RubyGems
                                  dependency networks  . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Olga Springer and   
                    Jakub Miler   A comprehensive overview of software
                                  product management challenges  . . . . . ??
       Leonardo Fuchs Alves and   
Francisco J. S. Vasconcellos and   
Bruno Magalhães Nogueira   SeSG: a search string generator for
                                  Secondary Studies with hybrid search
                                  strategies using text mining . . . . . . ??
            Goran Piskachev and   
        Johannes Späth and   
                    Eric Bodden   Fluently specifying taint-flow queries
                                  with fluent TQL  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
       Emil Alégroth and   
              Kristian Karl and   
                    Nils Olsson   Practitioners' best practices to Adopt,
                                  Use or Abandon Model-based Testing with
                                  Graphical models for Software-intensive
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Joseph Hejderup and   
              Moritz Beller and   
               Georgios Gousios   Präzi: from package-based to call-based
                                  dependency networks  . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Sofia Ananieva and   
             Sandra Greiner and   
                  Ralf Reussner   A conceptual model for unifying
                                  variability in space and time:
                                  Rationale, validation, and illustrative
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 27, Number 6, November, 2022

        Stefan Höppner and   
                  Yves Haas and   
             Matthias Tichy and   
               Katharina Juhnke   Advantages and disadvantages of
                                  (dedicated) model transformation
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Shaiful Chowdhury and   
                Reid Holmes and   
               Andy Zaidman and   
                    Rick Kazman   Revisiting the debate: Are code metrics
                                  useful for measuring maintenance effort? ??
              Eriks Klotins and   
              Tony Gorschek and   
          Katarina Sundelin and   
                      Erik Falk   Towards cost-benefit evaluation for
                                  continuous software engineering
                                  activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Jirat Pasuksmit and   
     Patanamon Thongtanunam and   
           Shanika Karunasekera   Story points changes in agile iterative
                                  development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
         Mahmoud A. Bokhari and   
              Bradley Alexander   A Hybrid Distributed EA Approach for
                                  Energy Optimisation on Smartphones . . . ??
                Sarah Elder and   
               Nusrat Zahan and   
                    Rui Shu and   
               Monica Metro and   
             Valeri Kozarev and   
                Tim Menzies and   
                Laurie Williams   Do I really need all this work to find
                                  vulnerabilities? . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Keyur Patel and   
         João Faccin and   
     Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj and   
                   Ingrid Nunes   The sense of logging in the Linux kernel ??
        Jonida Çarka and   
            Matteo Esposito and   
                 Davide Falessi   On effort-aware metrics for defect
                                  prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
         Arthur D. Sawadogo and   
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and   
                Naouel Moha and   
                Kevin Allix and   
              Jacques Klein and   
                      Li Li and   
                  Yves Le Traon   SSPCatcher: Learning to catch security
                                  patches  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
      Ferenc Horváth and   
Árpád Beszédes and   
       Béla Vancsics and   
             Gergo\H Balogh and   
László Vidács and   
          Tibor Gyimóthy   Using contextual knowledge in
                                  interactive fault localization . . . . . ??
            Benjamin Loriot and   
          Fernanda Madeiral and   
               Martin Monperrus   Styler: learning formatting conventions
                                  to repair Checkstyle violations  . . . . ??
                 Wenhan Zhu and   
             Haoxiang Zhang and   
            Ahmed E. Hassan and   
             Michael W. Godfrey   An empirical study of question
                                  discussions on Stack Overflow  . . . . . ??
        Ratnadira Widyasari and   
   Gede Artha Azriadi Prana and   
      Stefanus Agus Haryono and   
               Shaowei Wang and   
                       David Lo   Real world projects, real faults:
                                  evaluating spectrum based fault
                                  localization techniques on Python
                                  projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Yassine Lamine and   
                  Jinghui Cheng   Understanding and supporting the design
                                  systems practice . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
       Marianna Di Gregorio and   
             Dario Di Nucci and   
              Fabio Palomba and   
              Giuliana Vitiello   The making of accessible Android
                                  applications: an empirical study on the
                                  state of the practice  . . . . . . . . . ??
                  Jiahui Wu and   
              Paolo Arcaini and   
                    Tao Yue and   
                Shaukat Ali and   
                   Huihui Zhang   On the preferences of quality indicators
                                  for multi-objective search algorithms in
                                  search-based software engineering  . . . ??
         Sören Henning and   
            Wilhelm Hasselbring   A configurable method for benchmarking
                                  scalability of cloud-native applications ??
                Jaekwon Lee and   
            Seung Yeob Shin and   
               Shiva Nejati and   
               Lionel C. Briand   Optimal priority assignment for
                                  real-time systems: a coevolution-based
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Fitash Ul Haq and   
              Donghwan Shin and   
               Shiva Nejati and   
                  Lionel Briand   Correction to: Can Offline Testing of
                                  Deep Neural Networks Replace Their
                                  Online Testing?  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                    Zhuo Li and   
                 Yuechen Wu and   
                     Lei Ma and   
                Xiaofei Xie and   
              Yingfeng Chen and   
                   Changjie Fan   GBGallery: a benchmark and framework for
                                  game testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Nathan Cassee and   
          Fiorella Zampetti and   
            Nicole Novielli and   
       Alexander Serebrenik and   
          Massimiliano Di Penta   Self-Admitted Technical Debt and
                                  comments' polarity: an empirical study   ??
             Nasir U. Eisty and   
              Jeffrey C. Carver   Testing research software: a survey  . . ??
                Hajra Naeem and   
                Manar H. Alalfi   Predicting sensitive information leakage
                                  in IoT applications using flows-aware
                                  machine learning approach  . . . . . . . ??
             Masanari Kondo and   
             Yutaro Kashiwa and   
             Yasutaka Kamei and   
                   Osamu Mizuno   An empirical study of issue-link
                                  algorithms: which issue-link algorithms
                                  should we use? . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Gregorio Robles and   
           Andrea Capiluppi and   
 Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and   
         Björn Lundell and   
             Jonas Gamalielsson   Development effort estimation in
                                  free/open source software from activity
                                  in version control systems . . . . . . . ??
                Jiahuei Lin and   
             Haoxiang Zhang and   
                 Bram Adams and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Upstream bug management in Linux
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
      Jackson A. Prado Lima and   
Willian D. F. Mendonça and   
         Silvia R. Vergilio and   
Wesley K. G. Assunção   Cost-effective learning-based strategies
                                  for test case prioritization in
                                  continuous integration of
                                  highly-configurable software . . . . . . ??
      Ana B. Sánchez and   
 Pedro Delgado-Pérez and   
     Inmaculada Medina-Bulo and   
                  Sergio Segura   Mutation testing in the wild: findings
                                  from GitHub  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   Yikun Li and   
            Mohamed Soliman and   
                 Paris Avgeriou   Identifying self-admitted technical debt
                                  in issue tracking systems using machine
                                  learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Biruk Asmare Muse and   
                 Csaba Nagy and   
              Anthony Cleve and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   FIXME: synchronize with database! An
                                  empirical study of data access
                                  self-admitted technical debt . . . . . . ??
        Karine Even-Mendoza and   
             Cristian Cadar and   
          Alastair F. Donaldson   CsmithEdge: more effective compiler
                                  testing by handling undefined behaviour
                                  less conservatively  . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Mehrdad Abdi and   
             Henrique Rocha and   
              Serge Demeyer and   
               Alexandre Bergel   Small-Amp: Test amplification in a
                                  dynamically typed language . . . . . . . ??
               Xiaofeng Han and   
                Amjed Tahir and   
                 Peng Liang and   
             Steve Counsell and   
              Kelly Blincoe and   
                    Bing Li and   
                     Yajing Luo   Code smells detection via modern code
                                  review: a study of the OpenStack and Qt
                                  communities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Xunhui Zhang and   
                     Yue Yu and   
                   Tao Wang and   
             Ayushi Rastogi and   
                   Huaimin Wang   Pull request latency explained: an
                                  empirical overview . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Steffen Herbold and   
         Alexander Trautsch and   
             Benjamin Ledel and   
      Alireza Aghamohammadi and   
            Taher A. Ghaleb and   
         Kuljit Kaur Chahal and   
            Tim Bossenmaier and   
            Bhaveet Nagaria and   
          Philip Makedonski and   
      Matin Nili Ahmadabadi and   
           Kristof Szabados and   
              Helge Spieker and   
               Matej Madeja and   
              Nathaniel Hoy and   
       Valentina Lenarduzzi and   
              Shangwen Wang and   
Gema Rodr\'ìguez-Pérez and   
    Ricardo Colomo-Palacios and   
         Roberto Verdecchia and   
             Paramvir Singh and   
                  Yihao Qin and   
       Debasish Chakroborti and   
              Willard Davis and   
               Vijay Walunj and   
                 Hongjun Wu and   
             Diego Marcilio and   
                  Omar Alam and   
           Abdullah Aldaeej and   
                  Idan Amit and   
               Burak Turhan and   
              Simon Eismann and   
     Anna-Katharina Wickert and   
            Ivano Malavolta and   
Matú\vs Sul\'ìr and   
               Fatemeh Fard and   
           Austin Z. Henley and   
       Stratos Kourtzanidis and   
                 Eray Tuzun and   
           Christoph Treude and   
      Simin Maleki Shamasbi and   
            Ivan Pashchenko and   
              Marvin Wyrich and   
                James Davis and   
       Alexander Serebrenik and   
              Ella Albrecht and   
           Ethem Utku Aktas and   
        Daniel Strüber and   
                 Johannes Erbel   A fine-grained data set and analysis of
                                  tangling in bug fixing commits . . . . . ??
             Sofien Boutaib and   
                Maha Elarbi and   
               Slim Bechikh and   
              Fabio Palomba and   
                Lamjed Ben Said   Handling uncertainty in SBSE: a
                                  possibilistic evolutionary approach for
                                  code smells detection  . . . . . . . . . ??
              Dror G. Feitelson   Considerations and Pitfalls for Reducing
                                  Threats to the Validity of Controlled
                                  Experiments on Code Comprehension  . . . ??
                Tianpei Xia and   
                     Wei Fu and   
                    Rui Shu and   
            Rishabh Agrawal and   
                    Tim Menzies   Predicting health indicators for open
                                  source projects (using hyperparameter
                                  optimization)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
       Pernilla Ågren and   
                  Eli Knoph and   
     Richard Berntsson Svensson   Agile software development one year into
                                  the COVID-19 pandemic  . . . . . . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 27, Number 7, December, 2022

                    Wei Tao and   
                Yanlin Wang and   
                Ensheng Shi and   
                     Lun Du and   
                    Shi Han and   
               Hongyu Zhang and   
              Dongmei Zhang and   
                 Wenqiang Zhang   A large-scale empirical study of commit
                                  message generation: models, datasets and
                                  evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Zhaoxuan Li and   
                    Siqi Lu and   
                  Rui Zhang and   
                    Rui Xue and   
                  Wenqiu Ma and   
                Rujin Liang and   
                Ziming Zhao and   
                      Sheng Gao   SmartFast: an accurate and robust formal
                                  analysis tool for Ethereum smart
                                  contracts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Omar Haggag and   
                John Grundy and   
         Mohamed Abdelrazek and   
                  Sherif Haggag   A large scale analysis of mHealth app
                                  user reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Daniel Oliveira and   
Wesley K. G. Assunção and   
          Alessandro Garcia and   
           Baldoino Fonseca and   
          Márcio Ribeiro   Developers' perception matters: machine
                                  learning to detect developer-sensitive
                                  smells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Samuel W. Flint and   
            Jigyasa Chauhan and   
                    Robert Dyer   Pitfalls and guidelines for using
                                  time-based Git data  . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Ahmed Haj Yahmed and   
         Houssem Ben Braiek and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
              Sonia Bouzidi and   
                  Rania Zaatour   DiverGet: a Search-Based Software
                                  Testing approach for Deep Neural Network
                                  Quantization assessment  . . . . . . . . ??
       Pouria Derakhshanfar and   
             Xavier Devroey and   
                   Andy Zaidman   Basic block coverage for search-based
                                  unit testing and crash reproduction  . . ??
                Roberto Natella   StateAFL: Greybox fuzzing for stateful
                                  network servers  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Marjane Namavar and   
                Noor Nashid and   
                     Ali Mesbah   A controlled experiment of different
                                  code representations for learning-based
                                  program repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Francesco Lomio and   
          Sergio Moreschini and   
           Valentina Lenarduzzi   A machine and deep learning analysis
                                  among SonarQube rules, product, and
                                  process metrics for fault prediction . . ??
   Ivaldir de Farias Junior and   
            Sabrina Marczak and   
             Rodrigo Santos and   
          Cleyton Rodrigues and   
                  Hermano Moura   C2M: a maturity model for the evaluation
                                  of communication in distributed software
                                  development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Valeria Pontillo and   
              Fabio Palomba and   
              Filomena Ferrucci   Static test flakiness prediction: How
                                  Far Can We Go? . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Hongliang Liang and   
                Dengji Hang and   
                     Xiangyu Li   Modeling function-level interactions for
                                  file-level bug localization  . . . . . . ??
              Luigi Lavazza and   
                 Sandro Morasca   Comparing $ \varphi $ and the
                                  $F$-measure as performance metrics for
                                  software-related classifications . . . . ??
     Andreina Cota Vidaurre and   
   Evelyn Cusi López and   
Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer and   
               Alexandre Bergel   TestEvoViz: visualizing
                                  genetically-based test coverage
                                  evolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Jung-Chieh Lee and   
                Chung-Yang Chen   Motivating members' involvement to
                                  effectually conduct collaborative
                                  software process tailoring . . . . . . . ??
             Steffen Tunkel and   
                Steffen Herbold   Exploring the relationship between
                                  performance metrics and cost saving
                                  potential of defect prediction models    ??
           Ethem Utku Aktas and   
                   Cemal Yilmaz   Using Screenshot Attachments in Issue
                                  Reports for Triaging . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Benjamin Hoffmann and   
              Neil Urquhart and   
             Kevin Chalmers and   
                Michael Guckert   An empirical evaluation of a novel
                                  domain-specific language --- modelling
                                  vehicle routing problems with Athos  . . ??
            Dimitri Prestat and   
                Naouel Moha and   
               Roger Villemaire   An empirical study of Android
                                  behavioural code smells detection  . . . ??
           Nemania Borovits and   
              Indika Kumara and   
             Dario Di Nucci and   
          Parvathy Krishnan and   
        Stefano Dalla Palma and   
              Fabio Palomba and   
         Damian A. Tamburri and   
      Willem-Jan van den Heuvel   FindICI: Using machine learning to
                                  detect linguistic inconsistencies
                                  between code and natural language
                                  descriptions in infrastructure-as-code   ??
             Enrico Fregnan and   
          Fernando Petrulio and   
              Alberto Bacchelli   The evolution of the code during review:
                                  an investigation on review changes . . . ??
                 Jason Tsay and   
                  Alan Braz and   
              Martin Hirzel and   
            Avraham Shinnar and   
                   Todd Mummert   Extracting enhanced artificial
                                  intelligence model metadata from
                                  software repositories  . . . . . . . . . ??
            Nick C. Bradley and   
               Thomas Fritz and   
                    Reid Holmes   Sources of software development task
                                  friction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Oscar Díaz and   
     Jeremías P. Contell   Developing research questions in
                                  conversation with the literature:
                                  operationalization & tool support . . . . ??
              James Dominic and   
                Brock Tubre and   
             Deborah Kunkel and   
                Paige Rodeghero   The human experience of comprehending
                                  source code in virtual reality . . . . . ??
                Xiongfei Wu and   
                Jinqiu Yang and   
                     Lei Ma and   
                Yinxing Xue and   
                   Jianjun Zhao   On the usage and development of deep
                                  learning compilers: an empirical study
                                  on TVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                  Zhou Zhou and   
                    Lili Bo and   
                 Xiaoxue Wu and   
               Xiaobing Sun and   
                  Tao Zhang and   
                     Bin Li and   
                Jiale Zhang and   
                     Sicong Cao   SPVF: security property assisted
                                  vulnerability fixing via attention-based
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
        Annibale Panichella and   
      Sebastiano Panichella and   
              Gordon Fraser and   
         Anand Ashok Sawant and   
         Vincent J. Hellendoorn   Test smells 20 years later:
                                  detectability, validity, and reliability ??
                Aayush Garg and   
           Renzo Degiovanni and   
           Matthieu Jimenez and   
               Maxime Cordy and   
             Mike Papadakis and   
                  Yves Le Traon   Learning from what we know: How to
                                  perform vulnerability prediction using
                                  noisy historical data  . . . . . . . . . ??
              Vlas Zyrianov and   
           Cole S. Peterson and   
           Drew T. Guarnera and   
              Joshua Behler and   
              Praxis Weston and   
              Bonita Sharif and   
            Jonathan I. Maletic   Deja Vu: semantics-aware recording and
                                  replay of high-speed eye tracking and
                                  interaction data to support cognitive
                                  studies of software engineering tasks
                                  --- methodology and analyses . . . . . . ??
   Ahmed Samir Imam Mahmoud and   
                Tapajit Dey and   
            Alexander Nolte and   
              Audris Mockus and   
              James D. Herbsleb   One-off events? An empirical study of
                                  hackathon code creation and reuse  . . . ??
   Diego Fernandes da Silva and   
        Luiz Fernando Okada and   
Wesley K. G. Assunção and   
           Thelma Elita Colanzi   Intensifying the search-based
                                  optimization of product line
                                  architectures with crossover operators   ??
                 Adam Alami and   
                Oliver Krancher   How Scrum adds value to achieving
                                  software quality?  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Renan G. Vieira and   
César Lincoln C. Mattos and   
           Lincoln S. Rocha and   
 João Paulo P. Gomes and   
          Matheus Paixão   The role of bug report evolution in
                                  reliable fixing estimation . . . . . . . ??
              Laerte Xavier and   
João Eduardo Montandon and   
             Fabio Ferreira and   
              Rodrigo Brito and   
            Marco Tulio Valente   On the documentation of self-admitted
                                  technical debt in issues . . . . . . . . ??
           Tanghaoran Zhang and   
                     Yue Yu and   
                 Xinjun Mao and   
                     Yao Lu and   
                 Zhixing Li and   
                   Huaimin Wang   FENSE: a feature-based ensemble modeling
                                  approach to cross-project just-in-time
                                  defect prediction  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Alexi Turcotte and   
               Ellen Arteca and   
              Ashish Mishra and   
             Saba Alimadadi and   
                      Frank Tip   Stubbifier: debloating dynamic
                                  server-side JavaScript applications  . . ??
              Davide Basile and   
        Maurice H. ter Beek and   
                Sami Lazreg and   
               Maxime Cordy and   
                     Axel Legay   Static detection of equivalent mutants
                                  in real-time model-based mutation
                                  testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 28, Number 1, January, 2023

    Torgeir Dingsòyr and   
  Finn Olav Bjòrnson and   
              Julian Schrof and   
                    Tor Sporsem   A longitudinal explanatory case study of
                                  coordination in a very large development
                                  programme: the impact of transitioning
                                  from a first- to a second-generation
                                  large-scale agile development method . . ??
        Leonardo Horn Iwaya and   
               M. Ali Babar and   
               Awais Rashid and   
           Chamila Wijayarathna   On the privacy of mental health apps . . ??
           Davide Dell'Anna and   
      Fatma Ba\csak Aydemir and   
                Fabiano Dalpiaz   Evaluating classifiers in SE research:
                                  the ECSER pipeline and two replication
                                  studies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
      Md Abdullah Al Alamin and   
                 Gias Uddin and   
             Sanjay Malakar and   
                Sadia Afroz and   
              Tameem Haider and   
                  Anindya Iqbal   Developer discussion topics on the
                                  adoption and barriers of low code
                                  software development platforms . . . . . ??
             Sahar Mehrpour and   
               Thomas D. LaToza   Can static analysis tools find more
                                  defects? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                    Ying Fu and   
                   Meng Yan and   
                    Zhou Xu and   
                    Xin Xia and   
             Xiaohong Zhang and   
                       Dan Yang   An empirical study of the impact of log
                                  parsers on the performance of log-based
                                  anomaly detection  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
    Dhivyabharathi Ramasamy and   
           Cristina Sarasua and   
          Alberto Bacchelli and   
              Abraham Bernstein   Workflow analysis of data science code
                                  in public GitHub repositories  . . . . . ??
                   Fang Hou and   
                 Slinger Jansen   A systematic literature review on trust
                                  in the software ecosystem  . . . . . . . ??
              Saikat Mondal and   
                 Gias Uddin and   
                   Chanchal Roy   Automatic prediction of rejected edits
                                  in Stack Overflow  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Emad Aghayi and   
               Thomas D. LaToza   A controlled experiment on the impact of
                                  microtasking on programming  . . . . . . ??
   Christian Schürhoff and   
           Stefan Hanenberg and   
                   Volker Gruhn   An empirical study on a single company's
                                  cost estimations of 338 software
                                  projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Di Wu and   
             Xiao-Yuan Jing and   
               Hongyu Zhang and   
                Yuming Zhou and   
                      Baowen Xu   Leveraging Stack Overflow to detect
                                  relevant tutorial fragments of APIs  . . ??
                Luca Traini and   
       Vittorio Cortellessa and   
          Daniele Di Pompeo and   
                  Michele Tucci   Towards effective assessment of steady
                                  state performance in Java software: are
                                  we there yet?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Jeffrey M. Young and   
    Paul Maximilian Bittner and   
           Eric Walkingshaw and   
               Thomas Thüm   Variational satisfiability solving:
                                  efficiently solving lots of related SAT
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Sarah Nadi and   
                   Nourhan Sakr   Selecting third-party libraries: the
                                  data scientist's perspective . . . . . . ??
                     Andre Hora   Excluding code from test coverage:
                                  practices, motivations, and impact . . . ??
           Arthur Kamienski and   
               Abram Hindle and   
               Cor-Paul Bezemer   Analyzing Techniques for Duplicate
                                  Question Detection on Q&A Websites for
                                  Game Developers  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          William G. Temple and   
                     Yue Wu and   
                Carmen Cheh and   
                    Yuan Li and   
                Binbin Chen and   
     Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk and   
         William H. Sanders and   
                    David Nicol   CyberSAGE: The cyber security argument
                                  graph evaluation tool  . . . . . . . . . ??
                     Di Liu and   
                  Yang Feng and   
                 Yanyan Yan and   
                      Baowen Xu   Towards understanding bugs in Python
                                  interpreters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Renaud Rwemalika and   
               Sarra Habchi and   
             Mike Papadakis and   
              Yves Le Traon and   
          Marie-Claude Brasseur   Smells in system user interactive tests  ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 28, Number 2, March, 2023

               Charles Weir and   
              Ingolf Becker and   
                    Lynne Blair   Incorporating software security: using
                                  developer workshops to engage product
                                  managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Nadia Daoudi and   
                Kevin Allix and   
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé and   
                  Jacques Klein   Assessing the opportunity of combining
                                  state-of-the-art Android malware
                                  detectors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Deeksha M. Arya and   
              Jin L. C. Guo and   
            Martin P. Robillard   How programmers find online learning
                                  resources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
     Sergio Garc\'ìa and   
        Daniel Strüber and   
             Davide Brugali and   
         Alessandro Di Fava and   
       Patrizio Pelliccione and   
                Thorsten Berger   Software variability in service robotics ??
        Stefan Höppner and   
                  Yves Haas and   
             Matthias Tichy and   
               Katharina Juhnke   Correction to: Advantages and
                                  disadvantages of (dedicated) model
                                  transformation languages . . . . . . . . ??
               Peter Devine and   
               Yun Sing Koh and   
                  Kelly Blincoe   Evaluating software user feedback
                                  classifier performance on unseen apps,
                                  datasets, and metadata . . . . . . . . . ??
         Thaís Rocha and   
                    Paulo Borba   Using acceptance tests to predict merge
                                  conflict risk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Sai Yerramreddy and   
             Austin Mordahl and   
                   Ugur Koc and   
                  Shiyi Wei and   
          Jeffrey S. Foster and   
             Marine Carpuat and   
                 Adam A. Porter   An empirical assessment of machine
                                  learning approaches for triaging reports
                                  of static analysis tools . . . . . . . . ??
           Chico Sundermann and   
           Tobias Heß and   
              Michael Nieke and   
    Paul Maximilian Bittner and   
           Jeffrey M. Young and   
           Thomas Thüm and   
                   Ina Schaefer   Evaluating state-of-the-art #SAT solvers
                                  on industrial configuration spaces . . . ??
         Alexander Trautsch and   
             Johannes Erbel and   
            Steffen Herbold and   
                 Jens Grabowski   What really changes when developers
                                  intend to improve their source code: a
                                  commit-level study of static metric
                                  value and static analysis warning
                                  changes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Zigui Jiang and   
                Xiuwen Tang and   
                Zibin Zheng and   
                 Jinyan Guo and   
                  Xiapu Luo and   
                         Yin Li   Calling relationship investigation and
                                  application on Ethereum Blockchain
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
 Felipe Curty do Rego Pinto and   
  Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta   On the assignment of commits to releases ??
              Johannes Dorn and   
                  Sven Apel and   
               Norbert Siegmund   Mastering uncertainty in performance
                                  estimations of configurable software
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Steffen Herbold and   
                 Steffen Tunkel   Differential testing for machine
                                  learning: an analysis for classification
                                  algorithms beyond deep learning  . . . . ??
               Reem Alfayez and   
                Yunyan Ding and   
                Robert Winn and   
             Ghaida Alfayez and   
         Christopher Harman and   
                    Barry Boehm   What is asked about technical debt (TD)
                                  on Stack Exchange question-and-answer
                                  (Q&A) websites? An observational study    ??
          Stephan Lukasczyk and   
        Florian Kroiß and   
                  Gordon Fraser   An empirical study of automated unit
                                  test generation for Python . . . . . . . ??
             Davide Falessi and   
    Simone Mesiano Laureani and   
        Jonida Çarka and   
            Matteo Esposito and   
        Daniel Alencar da Costa   Enhancing the defectiveness prediction
                                  of methods and classes via JIT . . . . . ??
              Kollin Napier and   
             Tanmay Bhowmik and   
                   Shaowei Wang   An empirical study of text-based machine
                                  learning models for vulnerability
                                  detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Michael Pacheco and   
           Gustavo A. Oliva and   
   Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   What makes Ethereum blockchain
                                  transactions be processed fast or slow?
                                  An empirical study . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Ramy Shahin and   
              Rafael Toledo and   
             Robert Hackman and   
                   Ramesh S and   
            Joanne M. Atlee and   
                 Marsha Chechik   Applying declarative analysis to
                                  industrial automotive software product
                                  line models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Mehran Meidani and   
             Maxime Lamothe and   
                 Shane McIntosh   Assessing the exposure of software
                                  changes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Rrezarta Krasniqi and   
                    Hyunsook Do   A multi-model framework for semantically
                                  enhancing detection of quality-related
                                  bug report descriptions  . . . . . . . . ??
                   Nan Yang and   
            Pieter Cuijpers and   
            Dennis Hendriks and   
          Ramon Schiffelers and   
              Johan Lukkien and   
           Alexander Serebrenik   An interview study about the use of logs
                                  in embedded software engineering . . . . ??
         Amin Eslami Abyane and   
                  Derui Zhu and   
              Roberto Souza and   
                     Lei Ma and   
                   Hadi Hemmati   Towards understanding quality challenges
                                  of the federated learning for neural
                                  networks: a first look from the lens of
                                  robustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
        Antonio Mastropaolo and   
              Emad Aghajani and   
            Luca Pascarella and   
                Gabriele Bavota   Automated variable renaming: are we
                                  there yet? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Biruk Asmare Muse and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   Refactoring practices in the context of
                                  data-intensive systems . . . . . . . . . ??
                Jiahuei Lin and   
             Haoxiang Zhang and   
                 Bram Adams and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Vulnerability management in Linux
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Ulf Kargén and   
                Noah Mauthe and   
                Nahid Shahmehri   Android decompiler performance on benign
                                  and malicious apps: an empirical study   ??
               Kunsong Zhao and   
                    Zhou Xu and   
                   Meng Yan and   
                  Tao Zhang and   
                    Lei Xue and   
                   Ming Fan and   
                    Jacky Keung   The impact of class imbalance techniques
                                  on crashing fault residence prediction
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Maliheh Izadi and   
              Mahtab Nejati and   
              Abbas Heydarnoori   Semantically-enhanced topic
                                  recommendation systems for software
                                  projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
        Elizabeth Bjarnason and   
         Patrik Åberg and   
                 Nauman bin Ali   Software selection in large-scale
                                  software engineering: a model and
                                  criteria based on interactive rapid
                                  reviews  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
       Pooya Rostami Mazrae and   
                   Tom Mens and   
             Mehdi Golzadeh and   
                Alexandre Decan   On the usage, co-usage and migration of
                                  CI/CD tools: a qualitative analysis  . . ??
               Daniel Russo and   
           Paul H. P. Hanel and   
        Seraphina Altnickel and   
               Niels van Berkel   Satisfaction and performance of software
                                  developers during enforced work from
                                  home in the COVID-19 pandemic  . . . . . ??
             Anjan Karmakar and   
        Miltiadis Allamanis and   
                  Romain Robbes   JEMMA: an extensible Java dataset for
                                  ML4Code applications . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Neil A. Ernst and   
       Maria Teresa Baldassarre   Registered reports in software
                                  engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Ibtissam Abnane and   
                   Ali Idri and   
              Imane Chlioui and   
                    Alain Abran   Evaluating ensemble imputation in
                                  software effort estimation . . . . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 28, Number 3, May, 2023

              Kelly Blincoe and   
                 Zhenchang Xing   Preface to the Special issue on the 36th
                                  IEEE International Conference on
                                  Software Maintenance and Evolution
                                  (ICSME 2020) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
    Dhivyabharathi Ramasamy and   
           Cristina Sarasua and   
          Alberto Bacchelli and   
              Abraham Bernstein   Visualising data science workflows to
                                  support third-party notebook
                                  comprehension: an empirical study  . . . ??
            Mahmoud Alfadel and   
          Diego Elias Costa and   
                    Emad Shihab   Empirical analysis of security
                                  vulnerabilities in Python packages . . . ??
             Aaditya Bhatia and   
             Ellis E. Eghan and   
               Manel Grichi and   
        William G. Cavanagh and   
            Zhen Ming Jiang and   
                     Bram Adams   Towards a change taxonomy for machine
                                  learning pipelines . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Kewen Peng and   
      Christian Kaltenecker and   
           Norbert Siegmund and   
                  Sven Apel and   
                    Tim Menzies   VEER: enhancing the interpretability of
                                  model-based optimizations  . . . . . . . ??
    Mohammad Mehdi Morovati and   
              Amin Nikanjam and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
                Zhen Ming Jiang   Bugs in machine learning-based systems:
                                  a faultload benchmark  . . . . . . . . . ??
                  Hao Zhong and   
                   Xiaoyin Wang   An empirical study on API usages from
                                  code search engine and local library . . ??
             Danilo Caivano and   
            Pietro Cassieri and   
              Simone Romano and   
            Giuseppe Scanniello   On the spread and evolution of dead
                                  methods in Java desktop applications: an
                                  exploratory study  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   Yikun Li and   
            Mohamed Soliman and   
                 Paris Avgeriou   Automatic identification of
                                  self-admitted technical debt from four
                                  different sources  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
         Alexander Trautsch and   
            Steffen Herbold and   
                 Jens Grabowski   Are automated static analysis tools
                                  worth it? An investigation into relative
                                  warning density and external software
                                  quality on the example of Apache open
                                  source projects  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
         Arif Nurwidyantoro and   
             Mojtaba Shahin and   
            Michel Chaudron and   
              Waqar Hussain and   
              Harsha Perera and   
            Rifat Ara Shams and   
                    Jon Whittle   Integrating human values in software
                                  development using a human values
                                  dashboard  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Shinpei Hayashi and   
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and   
          Michel R. V. Chaudron   Introduction to the special issue on
                                  program comprehension  . . . . . . . . . ??
    Daniel Alencar da Costa and   
            Natalie Grattan and   
              Nigel Stanger and   
           Sherlock A. Licorish   Studying the characteristics of
                                  SQL-related development tasks: an
                                  empirical study  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Osama Ehsan and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
                   Ying Zou and   
                       Dong Qiu   Ranking code clones to support
                                  maintenance activities . . . . . . . . . ??
         Christian Birchler and   
              Sajad Khatiri and   
              Bill Bosshard and   
              Alessio Gambi and   
          Sebastiano Panichella   Machine learning-based test selection
                                  for simulation-based testing of
                                  self-driving cars software . . . . . . . ??
                Owain Parry and   
      Gregory M. Kapfhammer and   
             Michael Hilton and   
                    Phil McMinn   Empirically evaluating flaky test
                                  detection techniques combining test case
                                  rerunning and machine learning models    ??
              Andrea Stocco and   
               Brian Pulfer and   
                  Paolo Tonella   Model vs system level testing of
                                  autonomous driving systems: a
                                  replication and extension study  . . . . ??
              Andrea Stocco and   
                Onn Shehory and   
          Gunel Jahangirova and   
            Vincenzo Riccio and   
                 Guy Barash and   
               Eitan Farchi and   
               Diptikalyan Saha   Software testing in the machine learning
                                  era  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
 Noppadol Assavakamhaenghan and   
Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai and   
           Naomichi Shimada and   
       Raula Gaikovina Kula and   
              Takashi Ishio and   
              Kenichi Matsumoto   Does the first response matter for
                                  future contributions? A study of first
                                  contributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Damiano Torre and   
           Frantzy Mesadieu and   
            Anitha Chennamaneni   Deep learning techniques to detect
                                  cybersecurity attacks: a systematic
                                  mapping study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Amal Alazba and   
            Hamoud Aljamaan and   
              Mohammad Alshayeb   Deep learning approaches for bad smell
                                  detection: a systematic literature
                                  review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   Yisi Han and   
              Zhendong Wang and   
                  Yang Feng and   
               Zhihong Zhao and   
                        Yi Wang   Cross-status communication and project
                                  outcomes in OSS development  . . . . . . ??
               Adina Deiner and   
           Patric Feldmeier and   
              Gordon Fraser and   
         Sebastian Schweikl and   
                   Wengran Wang   Automated test generation for Scratch
                                  programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Luciana Zaina and   
               Joelma Choma and   
                Jullia Saad and   
             Leonor Barroca and   
                Helen Sharp and   
            Leticia Machado and   
        Cleidson R. B. de Souza   What do software startups need from UX
                                  work?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 28, Number 4, July, 2023

José Aldo Silva da Costa and   
                Rohit Gheyi and   
            Fernando Castor and   
Pablo Roberto Fernandes de Oliveira and   
      Márcio Ribeiro and   
               Baldoino Fonseca   Seeing confusion through a new lens: on
                                  the impact of atoms of confusion on
                                  novices' code comprehension  . . . . . . ??
            Moataz Chouchen and   
                   Ali Ouni and   
           Jefferson Olongo and   
           Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer   Learning to Predict Code Review
                                  Completion Time In Modern Code Review    ??
              Sheik Shameer and   
Gema Rodríguez-Pérez and   
             Meiyappan Nagappan   Relationship between diversity of
                                  collaborative group members' race and
                                  ethnicity and the frequency of their
                                  collaborative contributions in GitHub    ??
      Vittunyuta Maeprasart and   
Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai and   
       Raula Gaikovina Kula and   
           Christoph Treude and   
              Kenichi Matsumoto   Understanding the role of external pull
                                  requests in the NPM ecosystem  . . . . . ??
         Hamdy Michael Ayas and   
            Philipp Leitner and   
                   Regina Hebig   An empirical study of the systemic and
                                  technical migration towards
                                  microservices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
         Adelina Ciurumelea and   
         Carol V. Alexandru and   
             Harald C. Gall and   
              Sebastian Proksch   Completing Function Documentation
                                  Comments Using Structural Information    ??
                    Qing Mi and   
                    Yi Zhan and   
                   Han Weng and   
               Qinghang Bao and   
                Longjie Cui and   
                         Wei Ma   A graph-based code representation method
                                  to improve code readability
                                  classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Mohammad A Hadi and   
                Fatemeh H. Fard   Evaluating pre-trained models for user
                                  feedback analysis in software
                                  engineering: a study on classification
                                  of app-reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Emanuele Iannone and   
              Zadia Codabux and   
       Valentina Lenarduzzi and   
            Andrea De Lucia and   
                  Fabio Palomba   Rubbing salt in the wound? A large-scale
                                  investigation into the effects of
                                  refactoring on security  . . . . . . . . ??
        Katsiaryna Labunets and   
             Fabio Massacci and   
              Federica Paci and   
                     Katja Tuma   A new, evidence-based, theory for
                                  knowledge reuse in security risk
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   Tao Xiao and   
           Sebastian Baltes and   
               Hideaki Hata and   
           Christoph Treude and   
       Raula Gaikovina Kula and   
              Takashi Ishio and   
              Kenichi Matsumoto   18 million links in commit messages:
                                  purpose, evolution, and decay  . . . . . ??
              Sayma Sultana and   
           Asif Kamal Turzo and   
                 Amiangshu Bosu   Code reviews in open source projects:
                                  how do gender biases affect
                                  participation and outcomes?  . . . . . . ??
               Akond Rahman and   
       Dibyendu Brinto Bose and   
              Raunak Shakya and   
                  Rahul Pandita   \em Come for syntax, stay for speed,
                                  understand defects: an empirical study
                                  of defects in Julia programs . . . . . . ??
            Ozan Özkan and   
           Önder Babur and   
             Mark van den Brand   Refactoring with domain-driven design in
                                  an industrial context  . . . . . . . . . ??
             Giovani Guizzo and   
         Francesco Califano and   
             Federica Sarro and   
          Filomena Ferrucci and   
                    Mark Harman   Inferring test models from user bug
                                  reports using multi-objective search . . ??
                 Aoyang Yan and   
                  Hao Zhong and   
                Daohan Song and   
                         Li Jia   How do programmers fix bugs as
                                  workarounds? An empirical study on
                                  Apache projects  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
 João Helis Bernardo and   
    Daniel Alencar da Costa and   
        Uirá Kulesza and   
               Christoph Treude   The impact of a continuous integration
                                  service on the delivery time of merged
                                  pull requests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Patr\'ìcia G. F. Matsubara and   
           Igor Steinmacher and   
              Bruno Gadelha and   
                   Tayana Conte   Much more than a prediction:
                                  Expert-based software effort estimation
                                  as a behavioral act  . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Jahanzaib Malik and   
               Fabrizio Pastore   An empirical study of vulnerabilities in
                                  edge frameworks to support security
                                  testing improvement  . . . . . . . . . . ??
      Héctor Cadavid and   
     Vasilios Andrikopoulos and   
                 Paris Avgeriou   Improving hardware/software interface
                                  management in systems of systems through
                                  documentation as code  . . . . . . . . . ??
     Théo Zimmermann and   
       Jean-Rémy Falleri   A grounded theory of community package
                                  maintenance organizations  . . . . . . . ??
Lucas Francisco da Matta Vegi and   
            Marco Tulio Valente   Understanding code smells in Elixir
                                  functional language  . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Jinpeng Lan and   
                  Lina Gong and   
             Jingxuan Zhang and   
                 Haoxiang Zhang   BTLink: automatic link recovery between
                                  issues and commits based on pre-trained
                                  BERT model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Justyna Petke and   
             Brad Alexander and   
               Earl T. Barr and   
   Alexander E. I. Brownlee and   
              Markus Wagner and   
                 David R. White   Program transformation landscapes for
                                  automated program modification using Gin ??
                David Itzik and   
                    Gelbard Roy   Does agile methodology fit all
                                  characteristics of software projects?
                                  Review and analysis  . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Melina Vidoni and   
                  Zadia Codabux   Towards a taxonomy of Roxygen
                                  documentation in R packages  . . . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 28, Number 5, September, 2023

                 Yiming Sun and   
              Daniel German and   
             Stefano Zacchiroli   Using the uniqueness of global
                                  identifiers to determine the provenance
                                  of Python software source code . . . . . ??
              Hirohisa Aman and   
            Sousuke Amasaki and   
          Tomoyuki Yokogawa and   
                Minoru Kawahara   An automated detection of confusing
                                  variable pairs with highly similar
                                  compound names in Java and Python
                                  programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Zainab Masood and   
              Kelly Blincoe and   
                 Daniela Damian   What have we learned? A conceptual
                                  framework on New Zealand software
                                  professionals and companies' response to
                                  COVID-19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
   José Carlos Pazos and   
Jean-Sébastien Légaré and   
              Ivan Beschastnikh   XSnare: application-specific client-side
                                  cross-site scripting protection  . . . . ??
Paulina Stevia Nouwou Mindom and   
              Amin Nikanjam and   
                   Foutse Khomh   A comparison of reinforcement learning
                                  frameworks for software testing tasks    ??
       Valentina Piantadosi and   
          Simone Scalabrino and   
       Alexander Serebrenik and   
            Nicole Novielli and   
                  Rocco Oliveto   Do attention and memory explain the
                                  performance of software developers?  . . ??
                 Yihao Chen and   
          Eduardo Fernandes and   
                 Bram Adams and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   On practitioners' concerns when adopting
                                  service mesh frameworks  . . . . . . . . ??
            Marthe Berntzen and   
             Viktoria Stray and   
             Nils Brede Moe and   
                   Rashina Hoda   Responding to change over time: a
                                  longitudinal case study on changes in
                                  coordination mechanisms in large-scale
                                  agile  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
        Elizabeth Bjarnason and   
                 Franz Lang and   
         Alexander Mjöberg   An empirically based model of software
                                  prototyping: a mapping study and a
                                  multi-case study . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Fabio Santos and   
           Joseph Vargovich and   
        Bianca Trinkenreich and   
               Italo Santos and   
               Jacob Penney and   
             Ricardo Britto and   
João Felipe Pimentel and   
                 Igor Wiese and   
           Igor Steinmacher and   
                Anita Sarma and   
                Marco A. Gerosa   Tag that issue: applying API-domain
                                  labels in issue tracking systems . . . . ??
         Abdulaziz Alaboudi and   
               Thomas D. LaToza   What constitutes debugging? An
                                  exploratory study of debugging episodes  ??
            Goran Piskachev and   
            Matthias Becker and   
                    Eric Bodden   Can the configuration of static analyses
                                  make resolving security vulnerabilities
                                  more effective? --- A user study . . . . ??
             Xiangping Chen and   
               Peiyong Liao and   
               Queping Kong and   
                 Yuan Huang and   
                  Xiaocong Zhou   Studying differentiated code to support
                                  smart contract update  . . . . . . . . . ??
              Tushar Sharma and   
          Stefanos Georgiou and   
             Maria Kechagia and   
            Taher A. Ghaleb and   
                 Federica Sarro   Investigating developers' perception on
                                  software testability and its effects . . ??
           George G. Cabral and   
           Leandro L. Minku and   
     Adriano L. I. Oliveira and   
          Dinaldo A. Pessoa and   
                 Sadia Tabassum   An investigation of online and offline
                                  learning models for online Just-in-Time
                                  Software Defect Prediction . . . . . . . ??
              Neil A. Ernst and   
            Martin P. Robillard   A study of documentation for software
                                  architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                  Dong Wang and   
                   Tao Xiao and   
                  Teyon Son and   
       Raula Gaikovina Kula and   
              Takashi Ishio and   
             Yasutaka Kamei and   
              Kenichi Matsumoto   More than React: Investigating the Role
                                  of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull
                                  Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Liyan Song and   
           Leandro L. Minku and   
                        Xin Yao   On the validity of retrospective
                                  predictive performance evaluation
                                  procedures in just-in-time software
                                  defect prediction  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
   Arut Prakash Kaleeswaran and   
              Arne Nordmann and   
               Thomas Vogel and   
                   Lars Grunske   A user study for evaluation of formal
                                  verification results and their
                                  explanation at Bosch . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Yuexiu Gao and   
               Hongyu Zhang and   
                       Chen Lyu   EnCoSum: enhanced semantic features for
                                  multi-scale multi-modal source code
                                  summarization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Hengjie Song and   
                  Guobin Wu and   
                      Le Ma and   
                  Yufei Pan and   
               Qingan Huang and   
                     Siyu Jiang   Adversarial domain adaptation for
                                  cross-project defect prediction  . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 28, Number 6, November, 2023

  Jürgen Börstler and   
          Kwabena E. Bennin and   
             Sara Hooshangi and   
              Johan Jeuring and   
              Hieke Keuning and   
            Carsten Kleiner and   
           Bonnie MacKellar and   
              Rodrigo Duran and   
        Harald Störrle and   
                Daniel Toll and   
               Jelle van Assema   Developers talking about code quality    ??
                Owura Asare and   
         Meiyappan Nagappan and   
                      N. Asokan   Is GitHub's Copilot as bad as humans at
                                  introducing vulnerabilities in code? . . ??
             Lwin Khin Shar and   
    Biniam Fisseha Demissie and   
            Mariano Ceccato and   
              Yan Naing Tun and   
                   David Lo and   
             Lingxiao Jiang and   
              Christoph Bienert   Experimental comparison of features,
                                  analyses, and classifiers for Android
                                  malware detection  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Mairieli Wessel and   
           Joseph Vargovich and   
            Marco A. Gerosa and   
               Christoph Treude   GitHub Actions: The Impact on the Pull
                                  Request Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Justus Bogner and   
         Sebastian Kotstein and   
                     Timo Pfaff   Do RESTful API design rules have an
                                  impact on the understandability of Web
                                  APIs?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   Ming Wen and   
              Yongcong Wang and   
                  Yifan Xia and   
                        Hai Jin   Evaluating seed selection for fuzzing
                                  JavaScript engines . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Humphrey O. Obie and   
                    Hung Du and   
            Kashumi Madampe and   
             Mojtaba Shahin and   
              Idowu Ilekura and   
                John Grundy and   
                      Li Li and   
                Jon Whittle and   
               Burak Turhan and   
            Hourieh Khalajzadeh   Automated detection, categorisation and
                                  developers' experience with the
                                  violations of honesty in mobile apps . . ??
                Ensheng Shi and   
                Yanlin Wang and   
                     Lun Du and   
               Hongyu Zhang and   
                    Shi Han and   
              Dongmei Zhang and   
                    Hongbin Sun   CoCoAST: Representing Source Code via
                                  Hierarchical Splitting and
                                  Reconstruction of Abstract Syntax Trees  ??
         Emanuela Guglielmi and   
          Simone Scalabrino and   
            Gabriele Bavota and   
                  Rocco Oliveto   Using gameplay videos for detecting
                                  issues in video games  . . . . . . . . . ??
                Xingfang Wu and   
                    Heng Li and   
                   Foutse Khomh   On the effectiveness of log
                                  representation for log-based anomaly
                                  detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                  Dong Wang and   
             Masanari Kondo and   
             Yasutaka Kamei and   
       Raula Gaikovina Kula and   
               Naoyasu Ubayashi   When conversations turn into work: a
                                  taxonomy of converted discussions and
                                  issues in GitHub . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
         Ranindya Paramitha and   
                 Fabio Massacci   Technical leverage analysis in the
                                  Python ecosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
  Milica \Dbaror\dbarevi\'c and   
            Michel Albonico and   
             Grace A. Lewis and   
            Ivano Malavolta and   
                  Patricia Lago   Computation offloading for ground
                                  robotic systems communicating over WiFi
                                  -- an empirical exploration on
                                  performance and energy trade-offs  . . . ??
                 Guang Yang and   
                    Yu Zhou and   
                 Xiang Chen and   
              Xiangyu Zhang and   
                   Yiran Xu and   
               Tingting Han and   
                    Taolue Chen   A syntax-guided multi-task learning
                                  approach for Turducken-style code
                                  generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
 Samantha Syeda Khairunnesa and   
              Shibbir Ahmed and   
      Sayem Mohammad Imtiaz and   
              Hridesh Rajan and   
                Gary T. Leavens   What kinds of contracts do ML APIs need? ??
             Roozbeh Aghili and   
                    Heng Li and   
                   Foutse Khomh   Studying the characteristics of AIOps
                                  projects on GitHub . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   Liang Yu and   
       Emil Alégroth and   
     Panagiota Chatzipetrou and   
                  Tony Gorschek   Automated NFR testing in continuous
                                  integration environments: a multi-case
                                  study of Nordic companies  . . . . . . . ??
Déaglán Connolly Bree and   
   Mel Ó Cinnéide   Energy efficiency of the Visitor
                                  Pattern: contrasting Java and C++
                                  implementations  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Michael Weiss and   
André García Gómez and   
                  Paolo Tonella   Generating and detecting true ambiguity:
                                  a forgotten danger in DNN supervision
                                  testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
 Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and   
         Sergio Montes-Leon and   
            Gregorio Robles and   
             Stefano Zacchiroli   The Software Heritage License Dataset
                                  (2022 edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
      Talita Vieira Ribeiro and   
Paulo Sérgio Medeiros dos Santos and   
      Guilherme Horta Travassos   On the Investigation of Empirical
                                  Contradictions --- Aggregated Results of
                                  Local Studies on Readability and
                                  Comprehensibility of Source Code . . . . ??
        Shalini Chakraborty and   
                 Grischa Liebel   We do not understand what it says --
                                  studying student perceptions of software
                                  modelling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
 Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana and   
                 Xiaoyan Xu and   
            Mahmoud Alfadel and   
             Shane McIntosh and   
             Meiyappan Nagappan   An empirical comparison of ethnic and
                                  gender diversity of DevOps and
                                  non-DevOps contributions to open-source
                                  projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Jiahuei Lin and   
                 Bram Adams and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   On the coordination of vulnerability
                                  fixes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
      Christian Kaltenecker and   
      Stefan Mühlbauer and   
         Alexander Grebhahn and   
           Norbert Siegmund and   
                      Sven Apel   Performance evolution of configurable
                                  software systems: an empirical study . . ??
       Johannes Härtel and   
               Ralf Lämmel   Operationalizing validity of empirical
                                  software engineering studies . . . . . . ??
          Caique G. Moreira and   
Breno B. N. de França and   
                Tayana U. Conte   Analyzing the BizDev interface in an
                                  enterprise context: a case of developers
                                  acting in business . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Luigi Lavazza and   
             Sandro Morasca and   
                    Marco Gatto   An empirical study on software
                                  understandability and its dependence on
                                  code characteristics . . . . . . . . . . ??


Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 29, Number 1, January, 2024

              Mehdi Keshani and   
           Georgios Gousios and   
              Sebastian Proksch   Frankenstein: fast and lightweight call
                                  graph generation for software builds . . ??
      Roger Creus Castanyer and   
Silverio Martínez-Fernández and   
                  Xavier Franch   Which design decisions in AI-enabled
                                  mobile applications contribute to
                                  greener AI?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
   Maria Teresa Baldassarre and   
              Marcos Kalinowski   Guest editorial: special issue on
                                  empirical software engineering and
                                  measurement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Michael Fu and   
  Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn and   
                   Trung Le and   
                  Yuki Kume and   
                 Van Nguyen and   
                 Dinh Phung and   
                    John Grundy   AIBugHunter: a Practical tool for
                                  predicting, classifying and repairing
                                  software vulnerabilities . . . . . . . . ??
              Wen Siang Tan and   
              Markus Wagner and   
               Christoph Treude   Detecting outdated code element
                                  references in software repository
                                  documentation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Asif Kamal Turzo and   
                 Amiangshu Bosu   What makes a code review useful to
                                  OpenDev developers? An empirical
                                  investigation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Gunnar Kudrjavets and   
                 Ayushi Rastogi   Does code review speed matter for
                                  practitioners? . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Arif Ali Khan and   
             Javed Ali Khan and   
       Muhammad Azeem Akbar and   
                  Peng Zhou and   
                 Mahdi Fahmideh   Insights into software development
                                  approaches: mining Q&A repositories . . . ??
            Carmine Ferrara and   
            Giulia Sellitto and   
          Filomena Ferrucci and   
              Fabio Palomba and   
                Andrea De Lucia   Fairness-aware machine learning
                                  engineering: how far are we? . . . . . . ??
             Florian Tambon and   
              Amin Nikanjam and   
                      Le An and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
              Giuliano Antoniol   Silent bugs in deep learning frameworks:
                                  an empirical study of Keras and
                                  TensorFlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Rahul Bajaj and   
          Eduardo Fernandes and   
                 Bram Adams and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Unreproducible builds: time to fix,
                                  causes, and correlation with external
                                  ecosystem factors  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                  Cezar Sas and   
               Andrea Capiluppi   Multi-granular software annotation using
                                  file-level weak labelling  . . . . . . . ??
                  Majd Soud and   
             Grischa Liebel and   
               Mohammad Hamdaqa   A fly in the ointment: an empirical
                                  study on the characteristics of Ethereum
                                  smart contract code weaknesses . . . . . ??
    Mohammad Mehdi Morovati and   
              Amin Nikanjam and   
             Florian Tambon and   
               Foutse Khomh and   
                Zhen Ming Jiang   Bug characterization in machine
                                  learning-based systems . . . . . . . . . ??
             Mihaela Tomova and   
             Martin Hofmann and   
   Constantin Hütterer and   
             Patrick Mäder   Assessing the utility of text-to-SQL
                                  approaches for satisfying software
                                  developer information needs  . . . . . . ??
          Iris Reinhartz-Berger   Challenges in software model reuse:
                                  cross application domain vs. cross
                                  modeling paradigm  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Emitzá Guzmán and   
  Ricarda Anna-Lena Fischer and   
                      Janey Kok   Mind the gap: gender, micro-inequities
                                  and barriers in software development . . ??
            Quang-Cuong Bui and   
         Ranindya Paramitha and   
                  Duc-Ly Vu and   
             Fabio Massacci and   
           Riccardo Scandariato   APR4Vul: an empirical study of automatic
                                  program repair techniques on real-world
                                  Java vulnerabilities . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Giovani Guizzo and   
               Jie M. Zhang and   
             Federica Sarro and   
           Christoph Treude and   
                    Mark Harman   Mutation analysis for evaluating code
                                  translation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
         Giammaria Giordano and   
              Gerardo Festa and   
             Gemma Catolino and   
              Fabio Palomba and   
          Filomena Ferrucci and   
                Carmine Gravino   On the adoption and effects of source
                                  code reuse on defect proneness and
                                  maintenance effort . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Rasmus Ros and   
        Elizabeth Bjarnason and   
                    Per Runeson   A theory of factors affecting continuous
                                  experimentation (FACE) . . . . . . . . . ??
               Moses Openja and   
            Gabriel Laberge and   
                   Foutse Khomh   Detection and evaluation of
                                  bias-inducing features in machine
                                  learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Önder Babur and   
         Eleni Constantinou and   
           Alexander Serebrenik   Language usage analysis for EMF
                                  metamodels on GitHub . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Gustavo Vale and   
               Heitor Costa and   
                      Sven Apel   Predicting merge conflicts considering
                                  social and technical assets  . . . . . . ??
        Nikolaos Nikolaidis and   
            Nikolaos Mittas and   
      Apostolos Ampatzoglou and   
             Daniel Feitosa and   
       Alexander Chatzigeorgiou   A metrics-based approach for selecting
                                  among various refactoring candidates . . ??
               Sotirios Liaskos   On the intuitive comprehensibility of
                                  contribution links in goal models: an
                                  experimental study . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Abheeshta Putta and   
           Maria Paasivaara and   
               Casper Lassenius   SAFe transformation in a large financial
                                  corporation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Alireza Ardalani and   
                Saeed Parsa and   
   Morteza Zakeri-Nasrabadi and   
       Alexander Chatzigeorgiou   Supporting single responsibility through
                                  automated extract method refactoring . . ??
            Moataz Chouchen and   
                       Ali Ouni   A multi-objective effort-aware approach
                                  for early code review prediction and
                                  prioritization . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Diego Marcilio and   
                 Carlo A. Furia   Lightweight precise automatic extraction
                                  of exception preconditions in Java
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                    Rui Rua and   
            João Saraiva   A large-scale empirical study on mobile
                                  performance: energy, run-time and memory ??
     Dulaji Hidellaarachchi and   
                John Grundy and   
               Rashina Hoda and   
                   Ingo Mueller   The Impact of Personality on
                                  Requirements Engineering Activities: a
                                  Mixed-Methods Study  . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Md Ahasanuzzaman and   
           Gustavo A. Oliva and   
                Ahmed E. Hassan   Using knowledge units of programming
                                  languages to recommend reviewers for
                                  pull requests: an empirical study  . . . ??
               Akond Rahman and   
       Dibyendu Brinto Bose and   
                  Yue Zhang and   
                  Rahul Pandita   An empirical study of task infections in
                                  Ansible scripts  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Wenhan Zhu and   
          Sebastian Proksch and   
           Daniel M. German and   
         Michael W. Godfrey and   
                      Li Li and   
                 Shane McIntosh   What is an app store? The software
                                  engineering perspective  . . . . . . . . ??
                   Max Hort and   
               Jie M. Zhang and   
             Federica Sarro and   
                    Mark Harman   Search-based Automatic Repair for
                                  Fairness and Accuracy in Decision-making
                                  Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Empirical Software Engineering
Volume 29, Number 2, March, 2024

          Aniruddhan Murali and   
                Gaurav Sahu and   
     Kishanthan Thangarajah and   
            Brian Zimmerman and   
Gema Rodríguez-Pérez and   
             Meiyappan Nagappan   Diversity in issue assignment: humans vs
                                  bots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Riccardo Felici and   
                Laura Pozzi and   
                 Carlo A. Furia   HyperPUT: generating synthetic faulty
                                  programs to challenge bug-finding tools  ??
                    Lu Xiao and   
                Gengwu Zhao and   
                  Xiao Wang and   
                    Keye Li and   
                  Erick Lim and   
                Chenhao Wei and   
                Tingting Yu and   
                   Xiaoyin Wang   An empirical study on the usage of
                                  mocking frameworks in Apache Software
                                  Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
   Amador Durán Toro and   
     Pablo Fernández and   
          Nathaniel Weinman and   
Aslìhan Akalìn and   
                    Armando Fox   Exploring Gender Bias In Remote Pair
                                  Programming Among Software Engineering
                                  Students: The twincode Original Study
                                  And First External Replication . . . . . ??