1. A study of the performance of general compressors on log files

   • Kundi Yao
   • Heng Li
   • Ahmed E. Hassan

   OriginalPaper 12 August 2020 Pages: 3043 - 3085

   

2. On the relationship between bug reports and queries for text retrieval-based bug localization

   • Chris Mills
   • Esteban Parra
   • Sonia Haiduc

   OriginalPaper 13 July 2020 Pages: 3086 - 3127

   

3. A practical guide on conducting eye tracking studies in software engineering

   • Zohreh Sharafi
   • Bonita Sharif
   • Martha Crosby

   Experience Reports 12 June 2020 Pages: 3128 - 3174

   

4. Detection, assessment and mitigation of vulnerabilities in open source dependencies

   • Serena Elisa Ponta
   • Henrik Plate
   • Antonino Sabetta

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 June 2020 Pages: 3175 - 3215

   

5. 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

   • Nicolli Rios
   • Rodrigo Oliveira Spínola
   • Carolyn Seaman

   OriginalPaper 13 June 2020 Pages: 3216 - 3287

   

6. Standing on shoulders or feet? An extended study on the usage of the MSR data papers

   • Zoe Kotti
   • Konstantinos Kravvaritis
   • Diomidis Spinellis

   OriginalPaper 18 July 2020 Pages: 3288 - 3322

   

7. Do code review measures explain the incidence of post-release defects?

   • Andrey Krutauz
   • Tapajit Dey
   • Audris Mockus

   OriginalPaper 29 June 2020 Pages: 3323 - 3356

   

8. A comprehensive study on software aging across android versions and vendors

   • Domenico Cotroneo
   • Antonio Ken Iannillo
   • Roberto Pietrantuono

   OriginalPaper 15 July 2020 Pages: 3357 - 3395

   

9. An empirical study of the characteristics of popular Minecraft mods

   • Daniel Lee
   • Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur
   • Ahmed E. Hassan

   OriginalPaper 22 August 2020 Pages: 3396 - 3429

   

10. The ‘as code’ activities: development anti-patterns for infrastructure as code

    • Akond Rahman
    • Effat Farhana
    • Laurie Williams

    OriginalPaper 17 August 2020 Pages: 3430 - 3467

    

11. Learning actionable analytics from multiple software projects

    • Rahul Krishna
    • Tim Menzies

    OriginalPaper 24 July 2020 Pages: 3468 - 3500

    

12. Towards an evidence-based theoretical framework on factors influencing the software development productivity

    • Wladmir Araujo Chapetta
    • Guilherme Horta Travassos

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2020 Pages: 3501 - 3543

    

13. Automated issue assignment: results and insights from an industrial case

    • Ethem Utku Aktas
    • Cemal Yilmaz

    Experience Reports 10 July 2020 Pages: 3544 - 3589

    

14. The impact of automated feature selection techniques on the interpretation of defect models

    • Jirayus Jiarpakdee
    • Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn
    • Christoph Treude

    OriginalPaper 01 August 2020 Pages: 3590 - 3638

    

15. A tailored participatory action research for foss communities

    • Adam Alami
    • Peter Axel Nielsen
    • Andrzej Wa̧sowski

    OriginalPaper 04 August 2020 Pages: 3639 - 3670

    

16. Towards a fictional collective programming scenario: an approach based on the EIF loop

    • Chunhui Wang
    • Wei Zhang
    • Zhi Jin

    OriginalPaper 19 August 2020 Pages: 3671 - 3710

    

17. Automating system test case classification and prioritization for use case-driven testing in product lines

    • Ines Hajri
    • Arda Goknil
    • Lionel C. Briand

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2020 Pages: 3711 - 3769

    

18. Wait for it: identifying “On-Hold” self-admitted technical debt

    • Rungroj Maipradit
    • Christoph Treude
    • Kenichi Matsumoto

    OriginalPaper Open access 04 August 2020 Pages: 3770 - 3798

    

19. What to share, when, and where: balancing the objectives and complexities of open source software contributions

    • Johan Linåker
    • Björn Regnell

    OriginalPaper Open access 12 August 2020 Pages: 3799 - 3840

    

20. Data-driven software design with Constraint Oriented Multi-variate Bandit Optimization (COMBO)

    • Rasmus Ros
    • Mikael Hammar

    OriginalPaper Open access 18 August 2020 Pages: 3841 - 3872

    

21. CGT-FL: using cooperative game theory to effective fault localization in presence of coincidental correctness

    • Farid Feyzi

    OriginalPaper 17 August 2020 Pages: 3873 - 3927

    

22. The Teamwork Process Antecedents (TPA) questionnaire: developing and validating a comprehensive measure for assessing antecedents of teamwork process quality

    • George Marsicano
    • Fabio Q. B. da Silva
    • Breno Giovanni Adaid-Castro

    OriginalPaper 23 August 2020 Pages: 3928 - 3976

    

23. On the assessment of software defect prediction models via ROC curves

    • Sandro Morasca
    • Luigi Lavazza

    OriginalPaper Open access 19 August 2020 Pages: 3977 - 4019

    

24. An empirical investigation on the relationship between design and architecture smells

    • Tushar Sharma
    • Paramvir Singh
    • Diomidis Spinellis

    OriginalPaper 28 August 2020 Pages: 4020 - 4068

    

25. Information correspondence between types of documentation for APIs

    • Deeksha M. Arya
    • Jin L. C. Guo
    • Martin P. Robillard

    OriginalPaper 26 August 2020 Pages: 4069 - 4096

    

26. The who, what, how of software engineering research: a socio-technical framework

    • Margaret-Anne Storey
    • Neil A. Ernst
    • Eirini Kalliamvakou

    OriginalPaper 28 August 2020 Pages: 4097 - 4129

    

27. Using black-box performance models to detect performance regressions under varying workloads: an empirical study

    • Lizhi Liao
    • Jinfu Chen
    • Sarah Sajedi

    OriginalPaper 28 August 2020 Pages: 4130 - 4160

    

28. Evaluating the agreement among technical debt measurement tools: building an empirical benchmark of technical debt liabilities

    • Theodoros Amanatidis
    • Nikolaos Mittas
    • Lefteris Angelis

    OriginalPaper 26 August 2020 Pages: 4161 - 4204

    

29. Systematic mapping study on domain-specific language development tools

    • Aníbal Iung
    • João Carbonell
    • Bruno Medeiros

    OriginalPaper 28 August 2020 Pages: 4205 - 4249

    

30. Too many images on DockerHub! How different are images for the same system?

    • Md Hasan Ibrahim
    • Mohammed Sayagh
    • Ahmed E Hassan

    OriginalPaper 28 August 2020 Pages: 4250 - 4281

    

31. SMBFL: slice-based cost reduction of mutation-based fault localization

    • Nazanin Bayati Chaleshtari
    • Saeed Parsa

    OriginalPaper 27 August 2020 Pages: 4282 - 4314

    

32. Feature requests-based recommendation of software refactorings

    • Ally S. Nyamawe
    • Hui Liu
    • Zhendong Niu

    OriginalPaper 28 August 2020 Pages: 4315 - 4347

    

33. Foreword to the Special Issue in Empirical Software Engineering: Best Papers of REFSQ 2019

    • Eric Knauss
    • Michael Goedicke
    • Paul Grünbacher

    Editorial 13 June 2020 Pages: 4348 - 4349

34. Interaction-based creation and maintenance of continuously usable trace links between requirements and source code

    • Paul Hübner
    • Barbara Paech

    OriginalPaper Open access 11 August 2020 Pages: 4350 - 4377