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This keynote discusses the need for more robust statistical methods. For visualizing data I suggest using Kernel density plots rather than box plots. For parametric analysis, I propose more robust measures of central location such as trimmed means, ...

Recent innovations in social media have led to a paradigm shift in software development, with highly tuned participatory development cultures contributing to crowdsourced content and being supported by media that have become increasingly more social and ...

Context: Software architecture documentation is used to communicate architectural knowledge. It is often difficult for document users to find all the architectural knowledge they need to do their tasks, and this results in wasted time and mistakes ...

Background: Anecdotal evidence suggests that software applications are usually implemented using a combination of (programming) languages. Aim: We want to provide empirical evidence on the phenomenon of multi-language programming. Methods: We use data ...

Context. Software Product Lines (SPL) has become one of the most prominents way to promote the systematic reuse of software artifacts. Like any other piece of software, with the SPL aging, it becomes necessary to manage their evolution. However, in this ...

Concurrency bugs are difficult to find and fix. To help with finding and fixing concurrency bugs, prior research has mostly focused on static or dynamic analyses for finding specific classes of bugs. We present an approach whose focus is understanding ...

As smartphones continue to increase in popularity, understanding how software processes associated with the smartphone platform differ from the traditional desktop platform is critical for improving user experience and facilitating software development ...

In empirical software engineering research there is an increased use of questionnaires and surveys to collect information from practitioners. Typically, such data is then analyzed based on overall, descriptive statistics. Even though this can capture ...

Context: The benefits of involving users in software development projects have been studied extensively in the last four decades and have been reported to contribute to user satisfaction thus leading to system success. However, the relationship between ...

Code cloning has been a typical practice during software development, by which code fragments are reused with or without changes by copying and pasting. It has been a questionable issue whether cloning has a destructive impact or not on software ...

Context: None of the published empirical studies on software traceability have comparatively examined the support for differently sized systems. Objective: This paper reports on two controlled experiments performed with two Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) ...

Context: There are numerous studies on effort estimation in Agile Software Development (ASD) and the state of the art in this area has been recently documented in a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). However, to date there are no studies on the state ...

Context: Software processes evolve over time and several approaches were proposed to support the required flexibility. Yet, little is known whether these approaches sufficiently support the development of large software processes. A software process ...

Context: The quality of an Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is as good as the quality of the reviewed papers. Hence, it is vital to rigorously assess the papers included in an SLR. There has been no tertiary study aimed at reporting the state of the ...

Context: Capture-recapture method has long been adopted in software engineering as a relatively objective way for defect estimation. While many relevant studies have been carried out to evaluate various capture-recapture models and estimators, there ...

Context: Today's safety critical systems are increasingly reliant on software. Software becomes responsible for most of the critical functions of systems. Many different safety analysis techniques have been developed to identify hazards of systems. FTA ...

Background: Systematic literature studies are commonly used in software engineering. There are two main ways of conducting the searches for these type of studies; they are snowballing and database searches. In snowballing, the reference list (backward ...

Context: Post-release user feedback plays an integral role in improving software quality and informing new features. Given its growing importance, feedback concerning security enhancements is particularly noteworthy. In considering the rapid uptake of ...

Data quality is an essential aspect in any empirical study, because the validity of models and/or analysis results derived from an empirical data is inherently influenced by its quality. In this empirical study, we focus on data consistency as a ...

Context: Clone benchmarks are essential to the assessment and improvement of clone detection tools and algorithms. Among existing benchmarks, Bellon's benchmark is widely used by the research community. However, a serious threat to the validity of this ...

The main idea of software architecture is to concentrate on the "big picture" of a software system. In the context of object-oriented software systems higher-level architectural structures or views above the level of classes are frequently used to ...

Context: Empirical studies are gaining recognition in the Software Engineering (SE) research community, allowing improved quality of research and accelerating the adoption of new technologies in the software market. However, empirical studies in this ...

Systematic review is a widely used research method in software engineering, and in other disciplines, for identifying and analysing empirical evidence. The method is data intensive and time consuming, and hence is usually supported by a wide range of ...

Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is a key tool for evidence-based practice as it combines results from multiple studies of a specific topic of research. Due its characteristics, it is a time consuming, hard process that requires a properly documented ...

Background: In previous studies, a model was proposed that investigated how the developers' unit testing effort impacted their productivity as well as the external quality of the software they developed.

Goal: The aim of this study is to enhance the ...

Background: A number of software tools are being developed to support systematic reviewers within the software engineering domain. However, at present, we are not sure which aspects of the review process can most usefully be supported by such tools or ...

Comments to describe the intent of the code is crucial to measure the program readability, especially for the methods and their comments in a program. Existing program readability techniques mainly focus on matching method and its comments on whether ...

In Off-the-shelf (OTS)-based custom software projects there are common and different processes between software developers and acquirers. Better understanding of these differences may help to initiate reconciling perspectives between these stakeholders ...

In empirical software engineering research, graduate students are often seen as legitimate substitutes for industry professionals. It has been also argued in the literature that the generalizability of empirical results from experiments with ...

In this paper, we describe a systematic literature review (SLR) on the use of environment models in model-based testing (MBT). By applying selection criteria, we narrowed down the identified studies from two hundred ninety seven papers to sixty one ...