| 2018 | A longitudinal cohort study on the retainment of test-driven development. Davide Fucci, Simone Romano, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Danilo Caivano, Giuseppe Scanniello, Burak Turhan, Natalia Juristo |
| 2018 | A preliminary study of agility in business and production: cases of early-stage hardware startups. Anh Nguyen-Duc, Xiaofeng Wang, Pekka Abrahamsson |
| 2018 | A scalable and efficient approach for compiling and analyzing commit history. Pooyan Behnamghader, Patavee Meemeng, Iordanis Fostiropoulos, Di Huang, Kamonphop Srisopha, Barry W. Boehm |
| 2018 | An empirical investigation of transferring research to software technology innovation: a case of data-driven national security software. Mansooreh Zahedi, Muhammad Ali Babar, Brenton Cooper |
| 2018 | An empirical perspective on security challenges in large-scale agile software development. Amber van der Heijden, Cosmin Broasca, Alexander Serebrenik |
| 2018 | An empirical study of WIP in kanban teams. Dag I. K. Sjøberg |
| 2018 | An empirical study of design discussions in code review. Farida Elzanaty, Toshiki Hirao, Shane McIntosh, Akinori Ihara, Kenichi Matsumoto |
| 2018 | An empirical study of inadequate and adequate test suite reduction approaches. Carmen Coviello, Simone Romano, Giuseppe Scanniello |
| 2018 | An empirical study of process policies and metrics to manage productivity and quality for maintenance of critical software systems at the jet propulsion laboratory. Dan Port, William Taber |
| 2018 | An exploratory study of software sustainability dimensions and characteristics: end user perspectives in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Sulaiman Aljarallah, Russell Lock |
| 2018 | Applying pattern-driven maintenance: a method to prevent latent unhandled exceptions in web applications. Diogo S. Mendonça, Tarcila G. da Silva, Daniel Ferreira de Oliveira, Julliany Sales Brandão, Hélio Lopes, Simone D. J. Barbosa, Marcos Kalinowski, Arndt von Staa |
| 2018 | Architecture, technologies and challenges for cyber-physical systems in industry 4.0: a systematic mapping study. Florian Hofer |
| 2018 | Are 20% of files responsible for 80% of defects? Neil Walkinshaw, Leandro L. Minku |
| 2018 | Are mutants really natural?: a study on how "naturalness" helps mutant selection. Matthieu Jimenez, Thierry Titcheu Chekam, Maxime Cordy, Mike Papadakis, Marinos Kintis, Yves Le Traon, Mark Harman |
| 2018 | Assessing the effect of data transformations on test suite compilation. Panagiotis Stratis, Vanya Yaneva, Ajitha Rajan |
| 2018 | Automatic topic classification of test cases using text mining at an Android smartphone vendor. Junji Shimagaki, Yasutaka Kamei, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Abram Hindle |
| 2018 | Building a collaborative culture: a grounded theory of well succeeded devops adoption in practice. Welder Pinheiro Luz, Gustavo Pinto, Rodrigo Bonifácio |
| 2018 | Calibrating use case points using bayesian analysis. Kan Qi, Anandi Hira, Elaine Venson, Barry W. Boehm |
| 2018 | Can app changelogs improve requirements classification from app reviews?: an exploratory study. Chong Wang, Fan Zhang, Peng Liang, Maya Daneva, Marten van Sinderen |
| 2018 | Comparing techniques for aggregating interrelated replications in software engineering. Adrian Santos, Natalia Juristo |
| 2018 | Comparing the effectiveness of goal-oriented languages: results from a controlled experiment. Silvia Abrahão, Emilio Insfrán, Fernando González-Ladrón-de-Guevara, Marta Fernández-Diego, Carlos Cano-Genoves, Raphael Pereira de Oliveira |
| 2018 | Computer games are serious business and so is their quality: particularities of software testing in game development from the perspective of practitioners. Ronnie E. S. Santos, Cleyton V. C. de Magalhães, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Jorge S. Correia Neto, Fabio Q. B. da Silva, Abdelrahman Saher |
| 2018 | Decision making and visualizations based on test results. Per Erik Strandberg, Wasif Afzal, Daniel Sundmark |
| 2018 | Defining, measuring and monitoring IT service goals and strategies: preliminary results and pitfalls from a qualitative study with IT service managers. Bianca Trinkenreich, Tayana Conte, Monalessa Perini Barcellos, Gleison Santos |
| 2018 | Development processes and practices in a small but growing software industry: a practitioner survey in New Zealand. Di Wang, Matthias Galster |
| 2018 | Domain-specific Hui Zhao, Jimin Liang, Xuezhen Yin, Lingfeng Yang, Peili Yang, Yuhang Wang |
| 2018 | Experimental validation of the suitability of virtualization-based replication for fault tolerance in real-time control of electric grids. Seyed Alireza Sanaee Kohroudi, Mostafa Jalal, Maaz Mohiuddin, Wajeb Saab, Jean-Yves Le Boudec |
| 2018 | Identifying bug-inducing changes for code additions. Emre Sahal, Ayse Tosun |
| 2018 | Identifying unmaintained projects in github. Jailton Coelho, Marco Túlio Valente, Luciana Lourdes Silva, Emad Shihab |
| 2018 | Implementing agile practices: the experience of TSol. María Cecilia Bastarrica, Germán Espinoza, Jacqueline Marín |
| 2018 | Improving problem identification via automated log clustering using dimensionality reduction. Carl Martin Rosenberg, Leon Moonen |
| 2018 | Is there a "golden" feature set for static warning identification?: an experimental evaluation. Junjie Wang, Song Wang, Qing Wang |
| 2018 | Maintaining systematic literature reviews: benefits and drawbacks. Vilmar Nepomuceno, Sérgio Soares |
| 2018 | Measuresoftgram: a future vision of software product quality. Hilmer Neri, Guilherme Horta Travassos |
| 2018 | Measuring LDA topic stability from clusters of replicated runs. Mika V. Mäntylä, Maëlick Claes, Umar Farooq |
| 2018 | Measuring human values in software engineering. Emily Winter, Stephen Forshaw, Maria Angela Ferrario |
| 2018 | Needs and challenges for a platform to support large-scale requirements engineering: a multiple-case study. Davide Fucci, Cristina Palomares, Xavier Franch, Dolors Costal, Mikko Raatikainen, Martin Stettinger, Zijad Kurtanovic, Tero Kojo, Lars Koenig, Andreas A. Falkner, Gottfried Schenner, Fabrizio Brasca, Tomi Männistö, Alexander Felfernig, Walid Maalej |
| 2018 | No search allowed: what risk modeling notation to choose? Katsiaryna Labunets |
| 2018 | On the use of emoticons in open source software development. Maëlick Claes, Mika Mäntylä, Umar Farooq |
| 2018 | Prediction of relatedness in stack overflow: deep learning vs. SVM: a reproducibility study. Bowen Xu, Amirreza Shirani, David Lo, Mohammad Amin Alipour |
| 2018 | Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2018, Oulu, Finland, October 11-12, 2018 Markku Oivo, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Audris Mockus |
| 2018 | Relationship between geographical location and evaluation of developer contributions in github. Ayushi Rastogi, Nachiappan Nagappan, Georgios Gousios, André van der Hoek |
| 2018 | Revisiting the size effect in software fault prediction models. Amjed Tahir, Kwabena Ebo Bennin, Stephen G. MacDonell, Stephen Marsland |
| 2018 | Simultaneous measurement of program comprehension with fMRI and eye tracking: a case study. Norman Peitek, Janet Siegmund, Chris Parnin, Sven Apel, Johannes C. Hofmeister, André Brechmann |
| 2018 | Software analytics in continuous delivery: a case study on success factors. Hennie Huijgens, Davide Spadini, Dick Stevens, Niels Visser, Arie van Deursen |
| 2018 | Software quality assessment in practice: a hypothesis-driven framework. Markus Schnappinger, Mohd Hafeez Osman, Alexander Pretschner, Markus Pizka, Arnaud Fietzke |
| 2018 | Speeding up mutation testing via the cloud: lessons learned for further optimisations. Sten Vercammen, Serge Demeyer, Markus Borg, Sigrid Eldh |
| 2018 | Standards of validity and the validity of standards in behavioral software engineering research: the perspective of psychological test theory. Lucas Gren |
| 2018 | The birth, growth, death and rejuvenation of software maintenance communities. Qiong Feng, Yuanfang Cai, Rick Kazman, Ran Mo |
| 2018 | The effect of noise on software engineers' performance. Simone Romano, Giuseppe Scanniello, Davide Fucci, Natalia Juristo, Burak Turhan |
| 2018 | The most common causes and effects of technical debt: first results from a global family of industrial surveys. Nicolli Souza Rios Alves, Rodrigo Oliveira Spínola, Manoel G. Mendonça, Carolyn B. Seaman |
| 2018 | Understanding the software development practices of blockchain projects: a survey. Partha Chakraborty, Rifat Shahriyar, Anindya Iqbal, Amiangshu Bosu |
| 2018 | Understanding what industry wants from requirements engineers: an exploration of RE jobs in Canada. Chong Wang, Pengwei Cui, Maya Daneva, Mohamad Kassab |
| 2018 | Using experience sampling to link software repositories with emotions and work well-being. Miikka Kuutila, Mika V. Mäntylä, Maëlick Claes, Marko Elovainio, Bram Adams |
| 2018 | Using semantic frames to identify related textual requirements: an initial validation. Waad Alhoshan, Liping Zhao, Riza Batista-Navarro |
| 2018 | Vulnerable open source dependencies: counting those that matter. Ivan Pashchenko, Henrik Plate, Serena Elisa Ponta, Antonino Sabetta, Fabio Massacci |
| 2018 | What do concurrency developers ask about?: a large-scale study using stack overflow. Syed Ahmed, Mehdi Bagherzadeh |
| 2018 | What if a bug has a different origin?: making sense of bugs without an explicit bug introducing change. Gema Rodríguez-Pérez, Andy Zaidman, Alexander Serebrenik, Gregorio Robles, Jesús M. González-Barahona |
| 2018 | When and who leaves matters: emerging results from an empirical study of employee turnover. Panagiota Chatzipetrou, Darja Smite, Rini van Solingen |