Articles

1. CoRT: Transformer-based code representations with self-supervision by predicting reserved words for code smell detection

   • Amal Alazba
   • Hamoud Aljamaan
   • Mohammad Alshayeb

   OriginalPaper 08 April 2024 Article: 59

   

2. Taxonomy of inline code comment smells

   • Elgun Jabrayilzade
   • Ayda Yurtoğlu
   • Eray Tüzün

   OriginalPaper Open access 03 April 2024 Article: 58

   

3. ROBUST: 221 bugs in the Robot Operating System

   • Christopher S. Timperley
   • Gijs van der Hoorn
   • Andrzej Wąsowski

   OriginalPaper Open access 23 March 2024 Article: 57

   

4. An empirical study of untangling patterns of two-class dependency cycles

   • Qiong Feng
   • Shuwen Liu
   • Peng Liang

   OriginalPaper 12 March 2024 Article: 56

   

5. Machine learning-based test smell detection

   • Valeria Pontillo
   • Dario Amoroso d’Aragona
   • Fabio Palomba

   OriginalPaper Open access 05 March 2024 Article: 55

   

6. Quantifying and characterizing clones of self-admitted technical debt in build systems

   • Tao Xiao
   • Zhili Zeng
   • Kenichi Matsumoto

   OriginalPaper 26 February 2024 Article: 54

   

7. Investigating the readability of test code

   • Dietmar Winkler
   • Pirmin Urbanke
   • Rudolf Ramler

   OriginalPaper Open access 26 February 2024 Article: 53

   

8. Traceability and reuse mechanisms, the most important properties of model transformation languages

   • Stefan Höppner
   • Matthias Tichy

   OriginalPaper Open access 24 February 2024 Article: 52

   

9. When less is more: on the value of “co-training” for semi-supervised software defect predictors

   • Suvodeep Majumder
   • Joymallya Chakraborty
   • Tim Menzies

   OriginalPaper 24 February 2024 Article: 51

   

10. LineFlowDP: A Deep Learning-Based Two-Phase Approach for Line-Level Defect Prediction

    • Fengyu Yang
    • Fa Zhong
    • Wei Zheng

    OriginalPaper 23 February 2024 Article: 50

    

11. An empirical study of attack-related events in DeFi projects development

    • Dongming Xiang
    • Yuanchang Lin
    • Yang Liu

    OriginalPaper 23 February 2024 Article: 49

    

12. Analyzing source code vulnerabilities in the D2A dataset with ML ensembles and C-BERT

    • Saurabh Pujar
    • Yunhui Zheng
    • Zhong Su

    OriginalPaper Open access 22 February 2024 Article: 48

    

13. Evaluating the impact of flaky simulators on testing autonomous driving systems

    • Mohammad Hossein Amini
    • Shervin Naseri
    • Shiva Nejati

    OriginalPaper 21 February 2024 Article: 47

    

14. Studying the impact of risk assessment analytics on risk awareness and code review performance

    • Xueyao Yu
    • Filipe R. Cogo
    • Michael W. Godfrey

    OriginalPaper 17 February 2024 Article: 46

    

15. Demystifying API misuses in deep learning applications

    • Deheng Yang
    • Kui Liu
    • Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

    OriginalPaper 16 February 2024 Article: 45

    

16. A study of common bug fix patterns in Rust

    • Mohammad Robati Shirzad
    • Patrick Lam

    OriginalPaper 12 February 2024 Article: 44

    

17. Improving the quality of software issue report descriptions in Turkish: An industrial case study at Softtech

    • Ethem Utku Aktas
    • Ebru Cakmak
    • Cemal Yilmaz

    OriginalPaper 12 February 2024 Article: 43

    

18. Software development metrics: to VR or not to VR

    • David Moreno-Lumbreras
    • Gregorio Robles
    • Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona

    OriginalPaper Open access 03 February 2024 Article: 42

    

19. Evolution of automated weakness detection in Ethereum bytecode: a comprehensive study

    • Monika di Angelo
    • Thomas Durieux
    • Gernot Salzer

    OriginalPaper Open access 02 February 2024 Article: 41

    

20. Exploring Gender Bias In Remote Pair Programming Among Software Engineering Students: The twincode Original Study And First External Replication

    • Amador Durán Toro
    • Pablo Fernández
    • Armando Fox

    OriginalPaper Open access 01 February 2024 Article: 40

    

21. An empirical study on the usage of mocking frameworks in Apache software foundation

    • Lu Xiao
    • Gengwu Zhao
    • Xiaoyin Wang

    OriginalPaper Open access 23 January 2024 Article: 39

    

22. HyperPUT: generating synthetic faulty programs to challenge bug-finding tools

    • Riccardo Felici
    • Laura Pozzi
    • Carlo A. Furia

    OriginalPaper Open access 15 January 2024 Article: 38

    

23. Diversity in issue assignment: humans vs bots

    • Aniruddhan Murali
    • Gaurav Sahu
    • Meiyappan Nagappan

    OriginalPaper 09 January 2024 Article: 37

    

24. Search-based Automatic Repair for Fairness and Accuracy in Decision-making Software

    • Max Hort
    • Jie M. Zhang
    • Mark Harman

    OriginalPaper Open access 03 January 2024 Article: 36

    

25. What is an app store? The software engineering perspective

    • Wenhan Zhu
    • Sebastian Proksch
    • Shane McIntosh

    OriginalPaper 02 January 2024 Article: 35

    

26. An empirical study of task infections in Ansible scripts

    • Akond Rahman
    • Dibyendu Brinto Bose
    • Rahul Pandita

    OriginalPaper 29 December 2023 Article: 34

    

27. Using knowledge units of programming languages to recommend reviewers for pull requests: an empirical study

    • Md Ahasanuzzaman
    • Gustavo A. Oliva
    • Ahmed E. Hassan

    OriginalPaper 29 December 2023 Article: 33

    

28. The Impact of Personality on Requirements Engineering Activities: A Mixed-Methods Study

    • Dulaji Hidellaarachchi
    • John Grundy
    • Ingo Mueller

    OriginalPaper 28 December 2023 Article: 32

    

29. A large-scale empirical study on mobile performance: energy, run-time and memory

    • Rui Rua
    • João Saraiva

    OriginalPaper Open access 27 December 2023 Article: 31

    

30. Lightweight precise automatic extraction of exception preconditions in java methods

    • Diego Marcilio
    • Carlo A. Furia

    OriginalPaper Open access 26 December 2023 Article: 30

    

31. A multi-objective effort-aware approach for early code review prediction and prioritization

    • Moataz Chouchen
    • Ali Ouni

    OriginalPaper 23 December 2023 Article: 29

    

32. Supporting single responsibility through automated extract method refactoring

    • Alireza Ardalani
    • Saeed Parsa
    • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou

    OriginalPaper 22 December 2023 Article: 28

    

33. SAFe transformation in a large financial corporation

    • Abheeshta Putta
    • Maria Paasivaara
    • Casper Lassenius

    OriginalPaper Open access 16 December 2023 Article: 27

    

34. On the intuitive comprehensibility of contribution links in goal models: an experimental study

    • Sotirios Liaskos

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2023 Article: 26

    

35. A metrics-based approach for selecting among various refactoring candidates

    • Nikolaos Nikolaidis
    • Nikolaos Mittas
    • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2023 Article: 25

    

36. Predicting merge conflicts considering social and technical assets

    • Gustavo Vale
    • Heitor Costa
    • Sven Apel

    OriginalPaper Open access 15 December 2023 Article: 24

    

37. Language usage analysis for EMF metamodels on GitHub

    • Önder Babur
    • Eleni Constantinou
    • Alexander Serebrenik

    OriginalPaper Open access 13 December 2023 Article: 23

    

38. Detection and evaluation of bias-inducing features in machine learning

    • Moses Openja
    • Gabriel Laberge
    • Foutse Khomh

    OriginalPaper 13 December 2023 Article: 22

    

39. A theory of factors affecting continuous experimentation (FACE)

    • Rasmus Ros
    • Elizabeth Bjarnason
    • Per Runeson

    OriginalPaper Open access 13 December 2023 Article: 21

    

40. On the adoption and effects of source code reuse on defect proneness and maintenance effort

    • Giammaria Giordano
    • Gerardo Festa
    • Carmine Gravino

    OriginalPaper Open access 12 December 2023 Article: 20

    

41. Mutation analysis for evaluating code translation

    • Giovani Guizzo
    • Jie M. Zhang
    • Mark Harman

    OriginalPaper Open access 06 December 2023 Article: 19

    

42. APR4Vul: an empirical study of automatic program repair techniques on real-world Java vulnerabilities

    • Quang-Cuong Bui
    • Ranindya Paramitha
    • Riccardo Scandariato

    OriginalPaper Open access 06 December 2023 Article: 18

    

43. Mind the gap: gender, micro-inequities and barriers in software development

    • Emitzá Guzmán
    • Ricarda Anna-Lena Fischer
    • Janey Kok

    OriginalPaper Open access 05 December 2023 Article: 17

    

44. Challenges in software model reuse: cross application domain vs. cross modeling paradigm

    • Iris Reinhartz-Berger

    OriginalPaper 05 December 2023 Article: 16

    

45. Assessing the utility of text-to-SQL approaches for satisfying software developer information needs

    • Mihaela Tomova
    • Martin Hofmann
    • Patrick Mäder

    OriginalPaper Open access 05 December 2023 Article: 15

    

46. Bug characterization in machine learning-based systems

    • Mohammad Mehdi Morovati
    • Amin Nikanjam
    • Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang

    OriginalPaper 05 December 2023 Article: 14

    

47. A fly in the ointment: an empirical study on the characteristics of Ethereum smart contract code weaknesses

    • Majd Soud
    • Grischa Liebel
    • Mohammad Hamdaqa

    OriginalPaper 30 November 2023 Article: 13

    

48. Multi-granular software annotation using file-level weak labelling

    • Cezar Sas
    • Andrea Capiluppi

    OriginalPaper 30 November 2023 Article: 12

    

49. Unreproducible builds: time to fix, causes, and correlation with external ecosystem factors

    • Rahul Bajaj
    • Eduardo Fernandes
    • Ahmed E. Hassan

    OriginalPaper 29 November 2023 Article: 11

    

50. Silent bugs in deep learning frameworks: an empirical study of Keras and TensorFlow

    • Florian Tambon
    • Amin Nikanjam
    • Giuliano Antoniol

    OriginalPaper 29 November 2023 Article: 10