1. Appreciation to Empirical Software Engineering reviewers of 2016

   News Item 28 December 2016 Pages: 1 - 5

2. FOREPOST: finding performance problems automatically with feedback-directed learning software testing

   • Qi Luo
   • Aswathy Nair
   • Denys Poshyvanyk

   OriginalPaper 11 December 2015 Pages: 6 - 56

   

3. Defect propagation at the project-level: results and a post-hoc analysis on inspection efficiency

   • Padmal Vitharana

   OriginalPaper 20 November 2015 Pages: 57 - 79

   

4. The impact of domain knowledge on the effectiveness of requirements engineering activities

   • Ali Niknafs
   • Daniel Berry

   OriginalPaper 30 April 2016 Pages: 80 - 133

   

5. Extracting and analyzing time-series HCI data from screen-captured task videos

   • Lingfeng Bao
   • Jing Li
   • Bo Zhou

   OriginalPaper 19 January 2016 Pages: 134 - 174

   

6. Zen-ReqOptimizer: a search-based approach for requirements assignment optimization

   • Yan Li
   • Tao Yue
   • Li Zhang

   OriginalPaper 05 March 2016 Pages: 175 - 234

   

7. Raters’ reliability in clone benchmarks construction

   • Alan Charpentier
   • Jean-Rémy Falleri
   • Laurent Réveillère

   OriginalPaper 09 February 2016 Pages: 235 - 258

   

8. Learning to rank code examples for code search engines

   • Haoran Niu
   • Iman Keivanloo
   • Ying Zou

   OriginalPaper 21 January 2016 Pages: 259 - 291

   

9. An experimental search-based approach to cohesion metric evaluation

   • Mel Ó Cinnéide
   • Iman Hemati Moghadam
   • Laurence Tratt

   OriginalPaper Open access 13 April 2016 Pages: 292 - 329

   

10. Characterizing logging practices in Java-based open source software projects – a replication study in Apache Software Foundation

    • Boyuan Chen
    • Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang

    OriginalPaper 07 May 2016 Pages: 330 - 374

    

11. The structure and dynamics of knowledge network in domain-specific Q&A sites: a case study of stack overflow

    • Deheng Ye
    • Zhenchang Xing
    • Nachiket Kapre

    OriginalPaper 19 April 2016 Pages: 375 - 406

    

12. Stochastic actor-oriented modeling for studying homophily and social influence in OSS projects

    • David Kavaler
    • Vladimir Filkov

    OriginalPaper 02 May 2016 Pages: 407 - 435

    

13. An empirical study of supplementary patches in open source projects

    • Jihun Park
    • Miryung Kim
    • Doo-Hwan Bae

    OriginalPaper 07 May 2016 Pages: 436 - 473

    

14. A stability assessment of solution adaptation techniques for analogy-based software effort estimation

    • Passakorn Phannachitta
    • Jacky Keung
    • Kenichi Matsumoto

    OriginalPaper 31 May 2016 Pages: 474 - 504

    

15. An empirical study of emergency updates for top android mobile apps

    • Safwat Hassan
    • Weiyi Shang
    • Ahmed E. Hassan

    OriginalPaper 25 June 2016 Pages: 505 - 546

    

16. Why and how developers fork what from whom in GitHub

    • Jing Jiang
    • David Lo
    • Li Zhang

    OriginalPaper 31 May 2016 Pages: 547 - 578