Software Engineering Empirical Research Radar

Human / Empirical / Socio-technical Papers

Papers tagged as Human / Empirical / Socio-technical.

PaperVenueYearTopics
Testing the Fault-Tolerance of Multi-sensor Fusion Perception in Autonomous Driving Systems.
Haoxiang Tian 0001; Wenqiang Ding; Xingshuo Han; Guoquan Wu; An Guo 0002; Junqi Zhang; Wei Chen 0018; Jun Wei 0001; Tianwei Zhang 0004		ISSTA2025Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
TerzoN: Human-in-the-Loop Software Testing with a Composite Oracle.
Matthew C. Davis; Amy Wei; Brad A. Myers; Joshua Sunshine		ISSTA2025Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Rethinking Performance Analysis for Configurable Software Systems: A Case Study from a Fitness Landscape Perspective.
Mingyu Huang; Peili Mao; Ke Li 0001		ISSTA2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability
OmniGIRL: A Multilingual and Multimodal Benchmark for GitHub Issue Resolution.
Lianghong Guo; Wei Tao 0003; Runhan Jiang; Yanlin Wang 0001; Jiachi Chen; Xilin Liu 0001; Yuchi Ma; Mingzhi Mao; Hongyu Zhang 0002; Zibin Zheng		ISSTA2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Gamifying Testing in IntelliJ: A Replicability Study.
Philipp Straubinger; Tommaso Fulcini; Giacomo Garaccione; Luca Ardito; Gordon Fraser 0001		ISSTA2025Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Can LLMs Replace Human Evaluators? An Empirical Study of LLM-as-a-Judge in Software Engineering.
Ruiqi Wang; Jiyu Guo; Cuiyun Gao 0001; Guodong Fan; Chun Yong Chong; Xin Xia 0001		ISSTA2025AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Unit Testing.
Ye Shang; Quanjun Zhang; Chunrong Fang; Siqi Gu; Jianyi Zhou; Zhenyu Chen 0001		ISSTA2025Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Who's Pushing the Code? An Exploration of GitHub Impersonation.
Yueke Zhang, Anda Liang, Xiaohan Wang, Pamela J. Wisniewski, Fengwei Zhang		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
When Quantum Meets Classical: Characterizing Hybrid Quantum-Classical Issues Discussed in Developer Forums.
Jake Zappin, Trevor Stalnaker, Oscar Chaparro, Denys Poshyvanyk		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
What Guides Our Choices? Modeling Developers' Trust and Behavioral Intentions Towards Genai.
Rudrajit Choudhuri, Bianca Trinkenreich, Rahul Pandita, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Igor Steinmacher		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture
User Personas Improve Social Sustainability by Encouraging Software Developers to Deprioritize Antisocial Features.
Bimpe Ayoola, Miikka Kuutila, Rina R. Wehbe, Paul Ralph		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Understanding Architectural Complexity, Maintenance Burden, and Developer Sentiment -A Large-Scale Study.
Yuanfang Cai, Lanting He, Jun Qian, Yony Kochinski, Nan Zhang		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture
UML is Back. Or is it? Investigating the Past, Present, and Future of UML in Open Source Software.
Joseph Romeo, Marco Raglianti, Csaba Nagy 0001, Michele Lanza 0001		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture
The Product Beyond the Model - An Empirical Study of Repositories of Open-Source ML Products.
Nadia Nahar, Haoran Zhang, Grace A. Lewis, Shurui Zhou, Christian Kästner		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Relationship Status: "It's Complicated" Developer-Security Expert Dynamics in Scrum.
Houda Naji, Marco Gutfleisch, Alena Naiakshina		ICSE2025Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Preserving Privacy in Software Composition Analysis: A Study of Technical Solutions and Enhancements.
Huaijin Wang 0001, Zhibo Liu, Yanbo Dai, Shuai Wang 0011, Qiyi Tang 0003		ICSE2025Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
On Prescription or Off Prescription? An Empirical Study of Community-Prescribed Security Configurations for Kubernetes.
Shazibul Islam Shamim, Hanyang Hu, Akond Rahman		ICSE2025Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems
Navigating the Testing of Evolving Deep Learning Systems: An Exploratory Interview Study.
Hanmo You, Zan Wang, Bin Lin 0008, Junjie Chen 0003		ICSE2025Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Measuring the Runtime Performance of C++ Code Written by Humans Using Github Copilot.
Daniel Erhabor, Sreeharsha Udayashankar, Meiyappan Nagappan, Samer Al-Kiswany		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability
From Bugs to Benefits: Improving User Stories by Leveraging Crowd Knowledge with CrUISE-AC.
Stefan Schwedt, Thomas Ströder		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Decoding the Issue Resolution Process in Practice via Issue Report Analysis: a Case Study of Firefox.
Antu Saha, Oscar Chaparro		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Code Today, Deadline Tomorrow: Procrastination Among Software Developers.
Zeinabsadat Saghi, Thomas Zimmermann 0001, Souti Chattopadhyay		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Closing the Gap: A User Study on the Real-world Usefulness of AI-powered Vulnerability Detection & Repair in the IDE.
Benjamin Steenhoek, Kalpathy Sivaraman, Renata Saldivar Gonzalez, Yevhen Mohylevskyy, Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam		ICSE2025AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Between Lines of Code: Unraveling the Distinct Patterns of Machine and Human Programmers.
Yuling Shi, Hongyu Zhang 0002, Chengcheng Wan 0001, Xiaodong Gu 0002		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Automating a Complete Software Test Process Using LLMs: An Automotive Case Study.
Shuai Wang, Yinan Yu, Robert Feldt, Dhasarathy Parthasarathy		ICSE2025Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Extensive Empirical Study of Nondeterministic Behavior in Static Analysis Tools.
Miao Miao 0001, Austin Mordahl, Dakota Soles, Alice Beideck, Shiyi Wei		ICSE2025Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Exploratory Study on the Engineering of Security Features.
Kevin Hermann, Sven Peldszus, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Thorsten Berger		ICSE2025Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Exploratory Study of ML Sketches and Visual Code Assistants.
Luís F. Gomes, Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Jonathan Aldrich, Rui Abreu 0001		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Reproducible Packaging in Open-Source Ecosystems.
Giacomo Benedetti, Oreofe Solarin, Courtney Miller, Greg Tystahl, William Enck		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Package-Level Deprecation in Python Ecosystem.
Zhiqing Zhong, Shilin He, Haoxuan Wang, Boxi Yu, Haowen Yang		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Commit Message Generation Using LLMs via In-Context Learning.
Yifan Wu 0002, Yunpeng Wang, Ying Li 0012, Wei Tao, Siyu Yu		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
An Empirical Study on Automatically Detecting AI-Generated Source Code: How Far are We?
Hyunjae Suh, Mahan Tafreshipour, Jiawei Li 0013, Adithya Bhattiprolu, Iftekhar Ahmed 0001		ICSE2025AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study of Proxy Contracts at the Ethereum Ecosystem Scale.
Mengya Zhang, Preksha Shukla, Wuqi Zhang, Zhuo Zhang 0002, Pranav Agrawal 0002		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Study of Undefined Behavior Across Foreign Function Boundaries in Rust Libraries.
Ian McCormack, Joshua Sunshine, Jonathan Aldrich		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Large-Scale Study of Model Integration in ML-Enabled Software Systems.
Yorick Sens, Henriette Knopp, Sven Peldszus, Thorsten Berger		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
"Get Me in the Groove": a Mixed Methods Study on Supporting Adhd Professional Programmers.
Kaia Newman, Sarah Snay, Madeline Endres, Manasvi Parikh, Andrew Begel		ICSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Why the Proof Fails in Different Versions of Theorem Provers: An Empirical Study of Compatibility Issues in Isabelle.
Xiaokun Luan; David Sanán; Zhe Hou; Qiyuan Xu; Chengwei Liu; Yufan Cai 0001; Yang Liu 0003; Meng Sun 0002		FSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Understanding Debugging as Episodes: A Case Study on Performance Bugs in Configurable Software Systems.
Max Weber; Alina Mailach; Sven Apel; Janet Siegmund; Raimund Dachselt; Norbert Siegmund		FSE2025Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability
The Landscape of Toxicity: An Empirical Investigation of Toxicity on GitHub.
Jaydeb Sarker; Asif Kamal Turzo; Amiangshu Bosu		FSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Prompts Are Programs Too! Understanding How Developers Build Software Containing Prompts.
Jenny T. Liang; Melissa Lin; Nikitha Rao; Brad A. Myers		FSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
NLP Libraries, Energy Consumption and Runtime: An Empirical Study.
Rajrupa Chattaraj; Sridhar Chimalakonda		FSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability
Core Developer Turnover in the Rust Package Ecosystem: Prevalence, Impact, and Awareness.
Meng Fan; Yuxia Zhang; Klaas-Jan Stol; Hui Liu 0003		FSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
CXXCrafter: An LLM-Based Agent for Automated C/C++ Open Source Software Building.
Zhengmin Yu; Yuan Zhang 0009; Ming Wen 0001; Yinan Nie; Wenhui Zhang; Min Yang 0002		FSE2025AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Automated Extraction and Analysis of Developer's Rationale in Open Source Software.
Mouna Dhaouadi; Bentley Oakes; Michalis Famelis		FSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Release-Wise Refactoring Patterns.
Shayan Noei; Heng Li 0007; Ying Zou 0001		FSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
An Empirical Study of Suppressed Static Analysis Warnings.
Huimin Hu; Yingying Wang; Julia Rubin; Michael Pradel		FSE2025Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study of Code Clones from Commercial AI Code Generators.
Weibin Wu 0002; Haoxuan Hu; Zhaoji Fan; Yitong Qiao; Yizhan Huang; Yichen Li 0003; Zibin Zheng; Michael R. Lyu		FSE2025AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study of Bugs in Data Visualization Libraries.
Weiqi Lu; Yongqiang Tian 0001; Xiaohan Zhong; Haoyang Ma; Zhenyang Xu; Shing-Chi Cheung; Chengnian Sun		FSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Mixed-Methods Study of Model-Based GUI Testing in Real-World Industrial Settings.
Shaoheng Cao; Renyi Chen; Wenhua Yang 0001; Minxue Pan; Xuandong Li		FSE2025Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
A Comprehensive Study of Bug-Fix Patterns in Autonomous Driving Systems.
Yuntianyi Chen; Yuqi Huai; Yirui He; Shilong Li 0002; Changnam Hong; Qi Alfred Chen; Joshua Garcia		FSE2025Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
10 Years Later: Revisiting How Developers Search for Code.
Kathryn T. Stolee; Tobias Welp; Caitlin Sadowski; Sebastian G. Elbaum		FSE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Why AI Agents Still Need You: Findings from Developer-Agent Collaborations in the Wild.
Aayush Kumar, Yasharth Bajpai, Sumit Gulwani, Gustavo Soares, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill		ASE2025AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
When Autonomous Vehicle Meets V2X Cooperative Perception: How Far Are We?
An Guo 0002, Shuoxiao Zhang, Enyi Tang, Xinyu Gao, Haomin Pang		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
What Types of Code Review Comments Do Developers Most Frequently Resolve?
Saul Goldman, Hong Yi Lin, Jirat Pasuksmit, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Chakkrit Kla Tantithamthavorn		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Understanding Software Engineering Agents: A Study of Thought-Action-Result Trajectories.
Islem Bouzenia, Michael Pradel		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Understanding Feature Request Practice on GitHub via a Large-Scale Empirical Study.
Jiajun Li, Wenhua Yang, Minxue Pan, Yu Zhou		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Towards Automated Governance: A DSL for Human-Agent Collaboration in Software Projects.
Adem Ait, Gwendal Jouneaux, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
The Cost of Downgrading Build Systems : A Case Study of Kubernetes.
Gareema Ranjan, Mahmoud Alfadel, Gengyi Sun, Shane McIntosh		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems; Performance / Energy / Reliability
Streamlining Acceptance Test Generation for Mobile Applications Through Large Language Models: An Industrial Case Study.
Pedro Luís Fonseca, Bruno Lima, João Pascoal Faria		ASE2025Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
Should We Evaluate LLM Based Security Analysis Approaches on Open Source Systems?
Kohei Dozono, Jonas Engesser, Benjamin Hummel, Tobias Roehm, Alexander Pretschner		ASE2025AI / LLM for SE; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Security Debt in LLM Agent Applications: A Measurement Study of Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Trade-offs.
Zhuoxiang Shen, Jiarun Dai, Yuan Zhang 0009, Min Yang 0002		ASE2025AI / LLM for SE; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
SE-Jury: An LLM-as-Ensemble-Judge Metric for Narrowing the Gap with Human Evaluation in SE.
Xin Zhou 0014, Kisub Kim, Ting Zhang 0011, Martin Weyssow, Luís F. Gomes		ASE2025AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Rechecking Recheck Requests in Continuous Integration: An Empirical Study of OpenStack.
Yelizaveta Brus, Rungroj Maipradit, Earl T. Barr, Shane McIntosh		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
PrioTestCI: Efficient Test Case Prioritization in GitHub Workflows for CI Optimization.
Shubham Vasudeo Desai, Shonil Bhide, Souhaila Serbout, Luciano Marchezan, Wesley K. G. Assunção		ASE2025Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Performance / Energy / Reliability
Incremental Program Analysis in the Wild: An Empirical Study on Real-World Program Changes.
Xizao Wang, Xiangrong Bin, Lanxin Huang, Shangqing Liu, Jianhua Zhao		ASE2025Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Human-In-The-Loop Oracle Learning for Simulation-Based Testing.
Ben-Hau Chia, Eunsuk Kang, Christopher S. Timperley		ASE2025Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Human-Centered Evaluation of REST API Fuzzing Tools: Bridging Academia and Industry.
Fanny Febriani Susilo		ASE2025Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
How Can Infrastructure as Code Accelerate Data Center Bring-ups? A Case Study at ByteDance.
Xianhao Jin, Yifei Feng, Yufei Gao, Yongning Hu, Jie Huang		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Have We Solved Access Control Vulnerability Detection in Smart Contracts? A Benchmark Study.
Han Liu 0012, Daoyuan Wu, Yuqiang Sun 0001, Shuai Wang 0011, Yang Liu 0003		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Evaluating Large Language Models for Functional and Maintainable Code in Industrial Settings: A Case Study at ASML.
Yash Mundhra, Max Valk, Maliheh Izadi		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Don't Mess with Bro's Cheese! An Empirical Study of Resource Conflict in Android Multi-window.
Chenkai Guo, Huimin Zhao, Tianhong Wang 0010, Naipeng Dong, Qingqing Dong		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android; Performance / Energy / Reliability
Do LLMs Generate Useful Test Oracles? An Empirical Study with an Unbiased Dataset.
Davide Molinelli, Luca Di Grazia, Alberto Martin-Lopez, Michael D. Ernst, Mauro Pezzè		ASE2025Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Demystifying the Evolution of Neural Networks with BOM Analysis: Insights from a Large-Scale Study of 55,997 GitHub Repositories.
Xiaoning Ren, Yuhang Ye 0004, Xiongfei Wu, Yueming Wu 0001, Yinxing Xue		ASE2025AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
CodeACT-R: A Cognitive Simulation Framework for Human Attention in Code Reading.
Yueke Zhang, Zihan Fang, Greg Trafton, Daniel Levin, Kevin Leach		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Clara: A Developer's Companion for Code Comprehension and Analysis.
Ahmed Adnan, Mushfiqur Rahman, Saad Sakib Noor, Kazi Sakib		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Education / Program Comprehension
Automated Prompt Generation for Code Intelligence: An Empirical study and Experience in WeChat.
Kexing Ji, Shiyun Fu, Cuiyun Gao 0001, Yujia Chen, Zezhou Yang		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Are We SOLID Yet? An Empirical Study on Prompting LLMs to Detect Design Principle Violations.
Fatih Pehlivan, Arçin Ülkü Ergüzen, Sahand Moslemi Yengejeh, Mayasah Lami, Anil Koyuncu		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture
An Empirical Study on UI Overlap in OpenHarmony Applications.
Farong Liu, Mingyi Zhou, Li Li 0029		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
An Empirical Study of Python Library Migration Using Large Language Models.
Mohayeminul Islam, Ajay Kumar Jha, May Mahmoud, Ildar Akhmetov, Sarah Nadi		ASE2025Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
An Empirical Study of Knowledge Transfer in AI Pair Programming.
Alisa Welter, Niklas Schneider, Tobias Dick, Kallistos Weis, Christof Tinnes		ASE2025AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Large Scale Study of AI-based Binary Function Similarity Detection Techniques for Security Researchers and Practitioners.
Jingyi Shi, Yufeng Chen, Yang Xiao 0011, Yuekang Li, Zhengzi Xu		ASE2025AI / LLM for SE; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Characterization Study of Bugs in LLM Agent Workflow Orchestration Frameworks.
Ziluo Xue, Yanjie Zhao 0001, Shenao Wang 0001, Kai Chen 0012, Haoyu Wang 0001		ASE2025AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
"My productivity is boosted, but ..." Demystifying Users' Perception on AI Coding Assistants.
Yunbo Lyu, Zhou Yang 0003, Jieke Shi, Jianming Chang, Yue Liu 0011		ASE2025AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Your "Notice" Is Missing: Detecting and Fixing Violations of Modification Terms in Open Source Licenses during Forking.
Kaifeng Huang 0001, Yingfeng Xia, Bihuan Chen 0001, Siyang He, Huazheng Zeng		ISSTA2024Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Understanding Misconfigurations in ROS: An Empirical Study and Current Approaches.
Paulo Canelas, Bradley R. Schmerl, Alcides Fonseca, Christopher Steven Timperley		ISSTA2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Policy Testing with MDPFuzz (Replicability Study).
Quentin Mazouni, Helge Spieker, Arnaud Gotlieb, Mathieu Acher		ISSTA2024Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Interoperability in Deep Learning: A User Survey and Failure Analysis of ONNX Model Converters.
Purvish Jajal, Wenxin Jiang 0001, Arav Tewari, Erik Kocinare, Joseph Woo		ISSTA2024AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Evaluating Deep Neural Networks in Deployment: A Comparative Study (Replicability Study).
Eduard Pinconschi, Divya Gopinath, Rui Abreu 0001, Corina S. Pasareanu		ISSTA2024AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
Empirical Study of Move Smart Contract Security: Introducing MoveScan for Enhanced Analysis.
Shuwei Song, Jiachi Chen, Ting Chen 0002, Xiapu Luo, Teng Li		ISSTA2024Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Benchmarking Automated Program Repair: An Extensive Study on Both Real-World and Artificial Bugs.
Yicheng Ouyang, Jun Yang 0062, Lingming Zhang 0001		ISSTA2024Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An In-Depth Study of Runtime Verification Overheads during Software Testing.
Kevin Guan, Owolabi Legunsen		ISSTA2024Testing / QA; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Kubernetes Operator Bugs.
Qingxin Xu, Yu Gao 0002, Jun Wei 0001		ISSTA2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems
An Empirical Study of Static Analysis Tools for Secure Code Review.
Wachiraphan Charoenwet 0001, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Van-Thuan Pham, Christoph Treude		ISSTA2024Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
An Empirical Examination of Fuzzer Mutator Performance.
James Kukucka, Luís Pina, Paul Ammann, Jonathan Bell 0001		ISSTA2024Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability
A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Improving the Fairness of Image Classification Models.
Junjie Yang 0004, Jiajun Jiang, Zeyu Sun 0004, Junjie Chen 0003		ISSTA2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
When Contracts Meets Crypto: Exploring Developers' Struggles with Ethereum Cryptographic APIs.
Jiashuo Zhang 0001, Jiachi Chen, Zhiyuan Wan, Ting Chen 0002, Jianbo Gao 0003		ICSE2024Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Unraveling the Drivers of Sense of Belonging in Software Delivery Teams: Insights from a Large-Scale Survey.
Bianca Trinkenreich, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Igor Steinmacher		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Uncovering the Causes of Emotions in Software Developer Communication Using Zero-shot LLMs.
Mia Mohammad Imran, Preetha Chatterjee, Kostadin Damevski		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Toward Automatically Completing GitHub Workflows.
Antonio Mastropaolo, Fiorella Zampetti, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
The Classics Never Go Out of Style: An Empirical Study of Downgrades from the Bazel Build Technology.
Mahmoud Alfadel, Shane McIntosh		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
Ripples of a Mutation - An Empirical Study of Propagation Effects in Mutation Testing.
Hang Du, Vijay Krishna Palepu, James A. Jones		ICSE2024Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Revealing Hidden Threats: An Empirical Study of Library Misuse in Smart Contracts.
Mingyuan Huang, Jiachi Chen, Zigui Jiang, Zibin Zheng		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Resource Usage and Optimization Opportunities in Workflows of GitHub Actions.
Islem Bouzenia, Michael Pradel		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability
Predicting open source contributor turnover from value-related discussions: An analysis of GitHub issues.
Jack Jamieson, Naomi Yamashita, Eureka Foong		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
On the Helpfulness of Answering Developer Questions on Discord with Similar Conversations and Posts from the Past.
Alexander Lill, André N. Meyer, Thomas Fritz 0001		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
On Extracting Specialized Code Abilities from Large Language Models: A Feasibility Study.
Zongjie Li, Chaozheng Wang, Pingchuan Ma 0004, Chaowei Liu, Shuai Wang 0011		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
MultiTest: Physical-Aware Object Insertion for Testing Multi-sensor Fusion Perception Systems.
Xinyu Gao, Zhijie Wang 0014, Yang Feng 0003, Lei Ma 0003, Zhenyu Chen 0001		ICSE2024Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Mining Pull Requests to Detect Process Anomalies in Open Source Software Development.
Bohan Liu 0003, He Zhang 0001, Weigang Ma, Hongyu Kuang, Yi Yang		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Make LLM a Testing Expert: Bringing Human-like Interaction to Mobile GUI Testing via Functionality-aware Decisions.
Zhe Liu 0025, Chunyang Chen 0001, Junjie Wang 0001, Mengzhuo Chen, Boyu Wu		ICSE2024Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
MUT: Human-in-the-Loop Unit Test Migration.
Yi Gao, Xing Hu 0008, Tongtong Xu, Xin Xia 0001, David Lo 0001		ICSE2024Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Lost in Translation: A Study of Bugs Introduced by Large Language Models while Translating Code.
Rangeet Pan, Ali Reza Ibrahimzada, Rahul Krishna, Divya Sankar, Lambert Pouguem Wassi		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Less is More? An Empirical Study on Configuration Issues in Python PyPI Ecosystem.
Yun Peng 0003, Ruida Hu, Ruoke Wang, Cuiyun Gao 0001, Shuqing Li 0001		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
LLMParser: An Exploratory Study on Using Large Language Models for Log Parsing.
Zeyang Ma, An Ran Chen, Dong Jae Kim, Tse-Hsun Chen, Shaowei Wang 0002		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Is unsafe an Achilles' Heel? A Comprehensive Study of Safety Requirements in Unsafe Rust Programming.
Mohan Cui, Shuran Sun, Hui Xu 0009, Yangfan Zhou 0002		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture
Identifying Affected Libraries and Their Ecosystems for Open Source Software Vulnerabilities.
Susheng Wu, Wenyan Song, Kaifeng Huang 0001, Bihuan Chen 0001, Xin Peng 0001		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
How do Developers Talk about GitHub Actions? Evidence from Online Software Development Community.
Yang Zhang 0026, Yiwen Wu 0001, Tingting Chen, Tao Wang 0006, Hui Liu 0052		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
How Are Paid and Volunteer Open Source Developers Different? A Study of the Rust Project.
Yuxia Zhang, Mian Qin, Klaas-Jan Stol, Minghui Zhou 0001, Hui Liu 0003		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
High Expectations: An Observational Study of Programming and Cannabis Intoxication.
Wenxin He, Manasvi Parikh, Westley Weimer, Madeline Endres		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
GenderMag Improves Discoverability in the Field, Especially for Women: An Multi-Year Case Study of Suggest Edit, a Code Review Feature.
Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Alberto Elizondo, Ambar Murillo, Marian Harbach, Bogdan Vasilescu		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Exploring the Potential of ChatGPT in Automated Code Refinement: An Empirical Study.
Qi Guo, Junming Cao, Xiaofei Xie, Shangqing Liu, Xiaohong Li 0001		ICSE2024AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Evaluating Code Summarization Techniques: A New Metric and an Empirical Characterization.
Antonio Mastropaolo, Matteo Ciniselli, Massimiliano Di Penta, Gabriele Bavota		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Empirical Study of the Docker Smells Impact on the Image Size.
Thomas Durieux		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Empirical Analysis of Vulnerabilities Life Cycle in Golang Ecosystem.
Jinchang Hu, Lyuye Zhang, Chengwei Liu, Sen Yang, Song Huang		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Deep Learning or Classical Machine Learning? An Empirical Study on Log-Based Anomaly Detection.
Boxi Yu, Jiayi Yao, Qiuai Fu, Zhiqing Zhong, Haotian Xie		ICSE2024AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems
Breaking the Flow: A Study of Interruptions During Software Engineering Activities.
Yimeng Ma, Yu Huang 0015, Kevin Leach		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Block-based Programming for Two-Armed Robots: A Comparative Study.
Felipe Fronchetti, Nico Ritschel, Logan Schorr, Chandler Barfield, Gabriella Chang		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
BOMs Away! Inside the Minds of Stakeholders: A Comprehensive Study of Bills of Materials for Software Systems.
Trevor Stalnaker, Nathan Wintersgill, Oscar Chaparro, Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. Germán		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Attention! Your Copied Data is Under Monitoring: A Systematic Study of Clipboard Usage in Android Apps.
Yongliang Chen, Ruoqin Tang, Chaoshun Zuo, Xiaokuan Zhang, Lei Xue 0001		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
Are Prompt Engineering and TODO Comments Friends or Foes? An Evaluation on GitHub Copilot.
David O'Brien, Sumon Biswas, Sayem Mohammad Imtiaz, Rabe Abdalkareem, Emad Shihab		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Oculus Virtual Reality Applications: Security and Privacy Perspectives.
Hanyang Guo, Hong-Ning Dai, Xiapu Luo, Zibin Zheng, Gengyang Xu		ICSE2024Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Noisy Label Learning for Program Understanding.
Wenhan Wang, Yanzhou Li, Anran Li 0001, Jian Zhang 0087, Wei Ma 0014		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Low GPU Utilization of Deep Learning Jobs.
Yanjie Gao, Yichen He, Xinze Li, Bo Zhao, Haoxiang Lin		ICSE2024AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study of Data Disruption by Ransomware Attacks.
Yiwei Hou, Lihua Guo, Chijin Zhou, Yiwen Xu, Zijing Yin		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Study on the Pythonic Functional Constructs' Understandability.
Cyrine Zid, Fiorella Zampetti, Giuliano Antoniol, Massimiliano Di Penta		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Large-Scale Survey on the Usability of AI Programming Assistants: Successes and Challenges.
Jenny T. Liang, Chenyang Yang 0002, Brad A. Myers		ICSE2024AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Comprehensive Study of Learning-based Android Malware Detectors under Challenging Environments.
Cuiying Gao, Gaozhun Huang, Heng Li 0008, Bang Wu 0003, Yueming Wu 0001		ICSE2024AI / LLM for SE; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
"My GitHub Sponsors profile is live!" Investigating the Impact of Twitter/X Mentions on GitHub Sponsors.
Youmei Fan, Tao Xiao 0001, Hideaki Hata, Christoph Treude, Kenichi Matsumoto		ICSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Understanding Developers' Discussions and Perceptions on Non-functional Requirements: The Case of the Spring Ecosystem.
Anderson Oliveira; João Lucas Correia; Wesley K. G. Assunção; Juliana Alves Pereira; Rafael Maiani de Mello; Daniel Coutinho; Caio Barbosa; Paulo Vítor C. F. Libório; Alessandro Garcia 0001		FSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture
Shadows in the Interface: A Comprehensive Study on Dark Patterns.
Liming Nie; Yangyang Zhao; Chenglin Li; Xuqiong Luo; Yang Liu 0003		FSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Rocks Coding, Not Development: A Human-Centric, Experimental Evaluation of LLM-Supported SE Tasks.
Wei Wang 0353; Huilong Ning; Gaowei Zhang; Libo Liu; Yi Wang 0013		FSE2024AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Predicting Code Comprehension: A Novel Approach to Align Human Gaze with Code using Deep Neural Networks.
Tarek Alakmeh; David R. Reich; Lena A. Jäger; Thomas Fritz 0001		FSE2024AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Education / Program Comprehension
How to Gain Commit Rights in Modern Top Open Source Communities?
Xin Tan 0003; Yan Gong 0001; Geyu Huang; Haohua Wu; Li Zhang 0029		FSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
How Does Simulation-Based Testing for Self-Driving Cars Match Human Perception?
Christian Birchler; Tanzil Kombarabettu Mohammed; Pooja Rani 0001; Teodora Nechita; Timo Kehrer; Sebastiano Panichella		FSE2024Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Generative AI for Pull Request Descriptions: Adoption, Impact, and Developer Interventions.
Tao Xiao 0001; Hideaki Hata; Christoph Treude; Kenichi Matsumoto		FSE2024AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
EyeTrans: Merging Human and Machine Attention for Neural Code Summarization.
Yifan Zhang 0013; Jiliang Li; Zachary Karas; Aakash Bansal; Toby Jia-Jun Li; Collin McMillan; Kevin Leach; Yu Huang 0015		FSE2024AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Do Large Language Models Pay Similar Attention Like Human Programmers When Generating Code?
Bonan Kou; Shengmai Chen; Zhijie Wang 0014; Lei Ma 0003; Tianyi Zhang 0001		FSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Dependency-Induced Waste in Continuous Integration: An Empirical Study of Unused Dependencies in the npm Ecosystem.
Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana; Mahmoud Alfadel; Shane McIntosh		FSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
Component Security Ten Years Later: An Empirical Study of Cross-Layer Threats in Real-World Mobile Applications.
Keke Lian; Lei Zhang 0096; Guangliang Yang 0001; Shuo Mao; Xinjie Wang; Yuan Zhang 0009; Min Yang 0002		FSE2024Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
Code-Aware Prompting: A Study of Coverage-Guided Test Generation in Regression Setting using LLM.
Gabriel Ryan; Siddhartha Jain 0001; Mingyue Shang; Shiqi Wang 0002; Xiaofei Ma 0001; Murali Krishna Ramanathan; Baishakhi Ray		FSE2024Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research?
Jenny T. Liang; Carmen Badea; Christian Bird; Robert DeLine; Denae Ford; Nicole Forsgren; Thomas Zimmermann 0001		FSE2024AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Beyond Code Generation: An Observational Study of ChatGPT Usage in Software Engineering Practice.
Ranim Khojah; Mazen Mohamad; Philipp Leitner 0001; Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto		FSE2024AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Are Human Rules Necessary? Generating Reusable APIs with CoT Reasoning and In-Context Learning.
Yubo Mai; Zhipeng Gao 0002; Xing Hu 0008; Lingfeng Bao; Yu Liu 0146; Jianling Sun		FSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Focal Methods in Deep-Learning-Based Approaches for Assertion Generation.
Yibo He; Jiaming Huang; Hao Yu 0016; Tao Xie 0001		FSE2024Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Code Review Activity Prediction and Its Impact in Practice.
Doriane Olewicki; Sarra Habchi; Bram Adams		FSE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
A Transferability Study of Interpolation-Based Hardware Model Checking for Software Verification.
Dirk Beyer 0001; Po-Chun Chien; Marek Jankola; Nian-Ze Lee		FSE2024Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Vision: Identifying Affected Library Versions for Open Source Software Vulnerabilities.
Susheng Wu, Ruisi Wang, Kaifeng Huang 0001, Yiheng Cao, Wenyan Song		ASE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Understanding Developer-Analyzer Interactions in Code Reviews.
Martin Schäf, Berk Çirisci, Linghui Luo, Muhammad Numair Mansur, Omer Tripp		ASE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Towards Robust Detection of Open Source Software Supply Chain Poisoning Attacks in Industry Environments.
Xinyi Zheng, Chen Wei, Shenao Wang 0001, Yanjie Zhao 0001, Peiming Gao		ASE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability
Towards Leveraging LLMs for Reducing Open Source Onboarding Information Overload.
Elijah Kayode Adejumo, Brittany Johnson		ASE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Seeding and Mocking in White-Box Fuzzing Enterprise RPC APIs: An Industrial Case Study.
Man Zhang 0001, Andrea Arcuri, Piyun Teng, Kaiming Xue, Wenhao Wang		ASE2024Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
NeuroJIT: Improving Just-In-Time Defect Prediction Using Neurophysiological and Empirical Perceptions of Modern Developers.
Gichan Lee, Hansae Ju, Scott Uk-Jin Lee		ASE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Integrating Mutation Testing Into Developer Workflow: An Industrial Case Study.
Stefan Alexander van Heijningen, Theo Wiik, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto, Gregory Gay 0002, Kim Viggedal		ASE2024Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
From Logging to Leakage: A Study of Privacy Leakage in Android App Logs.
Zhiyuan Chen, Soham Sanjay Deo, Poorna Chander Reddy Puttaparthi, Yiming Tang 0002, Xueling Zhang		ASE2024Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems
Enhancing Software Design and Developer Experience Via LLMs.
Simin Sun		ASE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture
Enabling Cost-Effective UI Automation Testing with Retrieval-Based LLMs: A Case Study in WeChat.
Sidong Feng, Haochuan Lu, Jianqin Jiang, Ting Xiong, Likun Huang		ASE2024Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android; Performance / Energy / Reliability
Developer-Applied Accelerations in Continuous Integration: A Detection Approach and Catalog of Patterns.
Mingyang Yin, Yutaro Kashiwa, Keheliya Gallaba, Mahmoud Alfadel, Yasutaka Kamei		ASE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
DevMuT: Testing Deep Learning Framework via Developer Expertise-Based Mutation.
Yanzhou Mu, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Xiang Chen 0005, Zhixiang Cao		ASE2024Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Challenges & Opportunities in Automating DBMS: A Qualitative Study.
Yifan Wang, Pierre Bourhis, Romain Rouvoy, Patrick Royer		ASE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Can Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Boost Automatic Web Testing? An Exploratory Study.
Yujia Fan, Sinan Wang, Zebang Fei, Yao Qin, Huaxuan Li		ASE2024Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
Automatically Deriving Developers' Technical Expertise from the GitHub Social Network.
Yanchun Sun, Jiawei Wu, Xiaohan Zhao, Haizhou Xu, Sihan Wang		ASE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Assessing Open Source Software Survivability using Kaplan-Meier Survival Function and Polynomial Regression.
Sohee Park, Ryeonggu Kwon, Gihwon Kwon		ASE2024Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study to Evaluate AIGC Detectors on Code Content.
Jian Wang 0067, Shangqing Liu, Xiaofei Xie, Yi Li 0008		ASE2024Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Learning-based Techniques for Explicit and Implicit Commit Messages Generation.
Zhiquan Huang, Yuan Huang 0002, Xiangping Chen, Xiaocong Zhou, Changlin Yang		ASE2024AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
A Comprehensive Study of Privacy Leakage Vulnerability in Android App Logs.
Zhiyuan Chen		ASE2024Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems
Who Judges the Judge: An Empirical Study on Online Judge Tests.
Kaibo Liu, Yudong Han 0001, Jie M. Zhang, Zhenpeng Chen, Federica Sarro		ISSTA2023Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Virtual Reality (VR) Automated Testing in the Wild: A Case Study on Unity-Based VR Applications.
Dhia Elhaq Rzig, Nafees Iqbal, Isabella Attisano, Xue Qin, Foyzul Hassan		ISSTA2023Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Towards Efficient Fine-Tuning of Pre-trained Code Models: An Experimental Study and Beyond.
Ensheng Shi, Yanlin Wang 0001, Hongyu Zhang 0002, Lun Du, Shi Han		ISSTA2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
To Kill a Mutant: An Empirical Study of Mutation Testing Kills.
Hang Du, Vijay Krishna Palepu, James A. Jones		ISSTA2023Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Testing the Compiler for a New-Born Programming Language: An Industrial Case Study (Experience Paper).
Yingquan Zhao, Junjie Chen 0003, Ruifeng Fu, Haojie Ye, Zan Wang		ISSTA2023Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Tai-e: A Developer-Friendly Static Analysis Framework for Java by Harnessing the Good Designs of Classics.
Tian Tan 0001, Yue Li 0006		ISSTA2023Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Synthesizing Speech Test Cases with Text-to-Speech? An Empirical Study on the False Alarms in Automated Speech Recognition Testing.
Julia Kaiwen Lau, Kelvin Kai Wen Kong, Julian Hao Yong, Per Hoong Tan, Zhou Yang 0003		ISSTA2023Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
LiResolver: License Incompatibility Resolution for Open Source Software.
Sihan Xu, Ya Gao, Lingling Fan 0003, Linyu Li 0002, Xiangrui Cai		ISSTA2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Beyond "Protected" and "Private": An Empirical Security Analysis of Custom Function Modifiers in Smart Contracts.
Yuzhou Fang, Daoyuan Wu, Xiao Yi, Shuai Wang 0011, Yufan Chen		ISSTA2023Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on the Effects of Obfuscation on Static Machine Learning-Based Malicious JavaScript Detectors.
Kunlun Ren, Weizhong Qiang, Yueming Wu 0001, Yi Zhou, Deqing Zou		ISSTA2023AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Concurrency Bugs in Interrupt-Driven Embedded Software.
Chao Li 0078, Rui Chen 0042, Boxiang Wang, Zhixuan Wang, Tingting Yu		ISSTA2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study of Functional Bugs in Android Apps.
Yiheng Xiong, Mengqian Xu, Ting Su 0001, Jingling Sun, Jue Wang		ISSTA2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
A Comprehensive Study on Quality Assurance Tools for Java.
Han Liu 0012, Sen Chen 0001, Ruitao Feng, Chengwei Liu, Kaixuan Li 0002		ISSTA2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
When and Why Test Generators for Deep Learning Produce Invalid Inputs: an Empirical Study.
Vincenzo Riccio, Paolo Tonella		ICSE2023Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
What Challenges Do Developers Face About Checked-in Secrets in Software Artifacts?
Setu Kumar Basak, Lorenzo Neil, Bradley Reaves, Laurie A. Williams		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Using Reactive Synthesis: An End-to-End Exploratory Case Study.
Dor Ma'ayan, Shahar Maoz		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Twins or False Friends? A Study on Energy Consumption and Performance of Configurable Software.
Max Weber, Christian Kaltenecker, Florian Sattler, Sven Apel, Norbert Siegmund		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability
The Smelly Eight: An Empirical Study on the Prevalence of Code Smells in Quantum Computing.
Qihong Chen, Rúben Câmara, José Campos 0001, André Souto, Iftekhar Ahmed 0001		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Predicting Bugs by Monitoring Developers During Task Execution.
Gennaro Laudato, Simone Scalabrino, Nicole Novielli, Filippo Lanubile, Rocco Oliveto		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
On the Self-Governance and Episodic Changes in Apache Incubator Projects: An Empirical Study.
Likang Yin, Xiyu Zhang 0002, Vladimir Filkov		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
On the Robustness of Code Generation Techniques: An Empirical Study on GitHub Copilot.
Antonio Mastropaolo, Luca Pascarella, Emanuela Guglielmi, Matteo Ciniselli, Simone Scalabrino		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Improving API Knowledge Discovery with ML: A Case Study of Comparable API Methods.
Daye Nam, Brad A. Myers, Bogdan Vasilescu, Vincent J. Hellendoorn		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
How Do Developers' Profiles and Experiences Influence their Logging Practices? An Empirical Study of Industrial Practitioners.
Guoping Rong, Shenghui Gu, Haifeng Shen, He Zhang 0001, Hongyu Kuang		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Generating Realistic and Diverse Tests for LiDAR-Based Perception Systems.
Garrett Christian, Trey Woodlief, Sebastian G. Elbaum		ICSE2023Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Faster or Slower? Performance Mystery of Python Idioms Unveiled with Empirical Evidence.
Zejun Zhang 0006, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia 0001, Xiwei Xu 0001, Liming Zhu 0001		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability
Developers' Visuo-spatial Mental Model and Program Comprehension.
Abir Bouraffa, Gian-Luca Fuhrmann, Walid Maalej		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Education / Program Comprehension
Developer-Intent Driven Code Comment Generation.
Fangwen Mu, Xiao Chen 0015, Lin Shi 0006, Song Wang 0009, Qing Wang 0001		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Data Quality Matters: A Case Study of Obsolete Comment Detection.
Shengbin Xu, Yuan Yao 0001, Feng Xu 0007, Tianxiao Gu, Jingwei Xu 0001		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Autonomy Is An Acquired Taste: Exploring Developer Preferences for GitHub Bots.
Amir Ghorbani, Nathan Cassee, Derek Robinson, Adam Alami, Neil A. Ernst		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Software Bill of Materials: Where We Stand and the Road Ahead.
Boming Xia, Tingting Bi, Zhenchang Xing, Qinghua Lu 0001, Liming Zhu 0001		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study of Pre-Trained Model Reuse in the Hugging Face Deep Learning Model Registry.
Wenxin Jiang 0001, Nicholas Synovic, Matt Hyatt, Taylor R. Schorlemmer, Rohan Sethi		ICSE2023AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study of Deep Learning Models for Vulnerability Detection.
Benjamin Steenhoek, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Richard Jiles, Wei Le		ICSE2023AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Comparison of Pre-Trained Models of Source Code.
Changan Niu, Chuanyi Li, Vincent Ng 0001, Dongxiao Chen, Jidong Ge		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Qualitative Study on the Implementation Design Decisions of Developers.
Jenny T. Liang, Maryam Arab, Minhyuk Ko, Amy J. Ko, Thomas D. LaToza		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture
A Comprehensive Study of Real-World Bugs in Machine Learning Model Optimization.
Hao Guan 0001, Ying Xiao, Jiaying Li 0001, Yepang Liu 0001, Guangdong Bai		ICSE2023AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability
"STILL AROUND": Experiences and Survival Strategies of Veteran Women Software Developers.
Sterre van Breukelen, Ann Barcomb, Sebastian Baltes, Alexander Serebrenik		ICSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Understanding Hackers' Work: An Empirical Study of Offensive Security Practitioners.
Andreas Happe, Jürgen Cito		FSE2023Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Towards Understanding Emotions in Informal Developer Interactions: A Gitter Chat Study.
Amirali Sajadi, Kostadin Damevski, Preetha Chatterjee		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Towards Greener Yet Powerful Code Generation via Quantization: An Empirical Study.
Xiaokai Wei, Sujan Kumar Gonugondla, Shiqi Wang 0002, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Baishakhi Ray		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Towards Efficient Record and Replay: A Case Study in WeChat.
Sidong Feng, Haochuan Lu, Ting Xiong, Yuetang Deng, Chunyang Chen 0001		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Software Composition Analysis for Vulnerability Detection: An Empirical Study on Java Projects.
Lida Zhao, Sen Chen 0001, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu, Lyuye Zhang		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Reflecting on the Use of the Policy-Process-Product Theory in Empirical Software Engineering.
Kelechi G. Kalu, Taylor R. Schorlemmer, Sophie Chen, Kyle A. Robinson, Erik Kocinare		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Ownership in the Hands of Accountability at Brightsquid: A Case Study and a Developer Survey.
Umme Ayman Koana, Francis Chew, Chris Carlson, Maleknaz Nayebi		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Modeling the Centrality of Developer Output with Software Supply Chains.
Audris Mockus, Peter C. Rigby, Rui Abreu 0001, Parth Suresh, Yifen Chen		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture
How Early Participation Determines Long-Term Sustained Activity in GitHub Projects?
Wenxin Xiao, Hao He 0012, Weiwei Xu 0001, Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou 0001		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Exploring Moral Principles Exhibited in OSS: A Case Study on GitHub Heated Issues.
Ramtin Ehsani, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Preetha Chatterjee		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Evaluating Transfer Learning for Simplifying GitHub READMEs.
Haoyu Gao, Christoph Treude, Mansooreh Zahedi		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Do All Software Projects Die When Not Maintained? Analyzing Developer Maintenance to Predict OSS Usage.
Emily Nguyen		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Contribution-Based Firing of Developers?
Vincenzo Orrei, Marco Raglianti, Csaba Nagy 0001, Michele Lanza 0001		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Building and Sustaining Ethnically, Racially, and Gender Diverse Software Engineering Teams: A Study at Google.
Ella Dagan, Anita Sarma, Alison Chang, Sarah D'Angelo, Jill Dicker		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
Automated Test Generation for Medical Rules Web Services: A Case Study at the Cancer Registry of Norway.
Christoph Laaber, Tao Yue 0002, Shaukat Ali 0001, Thomas Schwitalla, Jan Nygård		FSE2023Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
Appaction: Automatic GUI Interaction for Mobile Apps via Holistic Widget Perception.
Yongxiang Hu 0003, Jiazhen Gu, Shuqing Hu, Yu Zhang 0165, Wenjie Tian		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
An Extensive Study on Adversarial Attack against Pre-trained Models of Code.
Xiaohu Du, Ming Wen 0001, Zichao Wei, Shangwen Wang, Hai Jin 0001		FSE2023Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Practical Human Labeling Method for Online Just-in-Time Software Defect Prediction.
Liyan Song, Leandro L. Minku, Cong Teng, Xin Yao 0001		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Large-Scale Empirical Review of Patch Correctness Checking Approaches.
Jun Yang 0062, Yuehan Wang, Yiling Lou, Ming Wen 0001, Lingming Zhang 0001		FSE2023Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Four-Year Study of Student Contributions to OSS vs. OSS4SG with a Lightweight Intervention.
Zihan Fang, Madeline Endres, Thomas Zimmermann 0001, Denae Ford, Westley Weimer		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Education / Program Comprehension
A Case Study of Developer Bots: Motivations, Perceptions, and Challenges.
Sumit Asthana, Hitesh Sajnani, Elena Voyloshnikova, Birendra Acharya, Kim Herzig		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
"We Feel Like We're Winging It: " A Study on Navigating Open-Source Dependency Abandonment.
Courtney Miller, Christian Kästner, Bogdan Vasilescu		FSE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Who is the Real Hero? Measuring Developer Contribution via Multi-Dimensional Data Integration.
Yuqiang Sun 0001, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu, Yiran Zhang, Yang Liu 0003		ASE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Understanding and Enhancing Issue Prioritization in GitHub.
Yingying He, Wenhua Yang 0001, Minxue Pan, Yasir Hussain, Yu Zhou 0010		ASE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
SCPatcher: Mining Crowd Security Discussions to Enrich Secure Coding Practices.
Ziyou Jiang, Lin Shi 0006, Guowei Yang 0001, Qing Wang 0001		ASE2023Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Repeated Builds During Code Review: An Empirical Study of the OpenStack Community.
Rungroj Maipradit, Dong Wang 0044, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Yasutaka Kamei		ASE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Personalized First Issue Recommender for Newcomers in Open Source Projects.
Wenxin Xiao, Jingyue Li, Hao He 0012, Ruiqiao Qiu, Minghui Zhou 0001		ASE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Open Source Software Tools for Data Management and Deep Model Training Automation.
Umut Tirasoglu, Abdussamet Türker, Adnan Ekici, Hayri Yigit, Yusuf Enes Bölükbasi		ASE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
LiSum: Open Source Software License Summarization with Multi-Task Learning.
Linyu Li 0002, Sihan Xu, Yang Liu 0003, Ya Gao, Xiangrui Cai		ASE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Let's Chat to Find the APIs: Connecting Human, LLM and Knowledge Graph through AI Chain.
Qing Huang, Zhenyu Wan, Zhenchang Xing, Changjing Wang, Jieshan Chen		ASE2023AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
How Android Apps Break the Data Minimization Principle: An Empirical Study.
Shaokun Zhang, Hanwen Lei, Yuanpeng Wang, Ding Li 0001, Yao Guo 0001		ASE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
Fork Entropy: Assessing the Diversity of Open Source Software Projects' Forks.
Liang Wang 0006, Zhiwen Zheng, Xiangchen Wu, Baihui Sang, Jierui Zhang		ASE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
DroneReqValidator: Facilitating High Fidelity Simulation Testing for Uncrewed Aerial Systems Developers.
Bohan Zhang, Yashaswini Shivalingaiah, Ankit Agrawal 0002		ASE2023Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Assessing the Impact of Refactoring Energy-Inefficient Code Patterns on Software Sustainability: An Industry Case Study.
Rohit Mehra, Priyavanshi Pathania, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud, Sanjay Podder		ASE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Performance / Energy / Reliability
An Empirical Study on Fine-Tuning Large Language Models of Code for Automated Program Repair.
Kai Huang, Xiangxin Meng, Jian Zhang 0087, Yang Liu 0003, Wenjie Wang		ASE2023Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Methods for Pre-Trained Code Models.
Jiaxing Liu, Chaofeng Sha, Xin Peng 0001		ASE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study of Malicious Code In PyPI Ecosystem.
Wenbo Guo 0011, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu, Cheng Huang 0003, Yong Fang 0002		ASE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Semantic Versioning in Golang Ecosystem.
Wenke Li, Feng Wu, Cai Fu, Fan Zhou		ASE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Comprehensive Study on Code Clones in Automated Driving Software.
Ran Mo, Yingjie Jiang, Wenjing Zhan, Dongyu Wang, Zengyang Li		ASE2023Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Comparative Study of Transformer-Based Neural Text Representation Techniques on Bug Triaging.
Atish Kumar Dipongkor, Kevin Moran		ASE2023AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Simple techniques work surprisingly well for neural network test prioritization and active learning (replicability study).
Michael Weiss 0004, Paolo Tonella		ISSTA2022Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
Human-in-the-loop oracle learning for semantic bugs in string processing programs.
Charaka Geethal Kapugama, Van-Thuan Pham, Aldeida Aleti, Marcel Böhme		ISSTA2022Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Automatically detecting API-induced compatibility issues in Android apps: a comparative analysis (replicability study).
Pei Liu, Yanjie Zhao 0001, Haipeng Cai, Mattia Fazzini, John C. Grundy		ISSTA2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
An extensive study on pre-trained models for program understanding and generation.
Zhengran Zeng, Hanzhuo Tan, Haotian Zhang, Jing Li 0049, Yuqun Zhang		ISSTA2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An empirical study on the effectiveness of static C code analyzers for vulnerability detection.
Stephan Lipp, Sebastian Banescu, Alexander Pretschner		ISSTA2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A large-scale study of usability criteria addressed by static analysis tools.
Marcus Nachtigall, Michael Schlichtig, Eric Bodden		ISSTA2022Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A large-scale empirical analysis of the vulnerabilities introduced by third-party components in IoT firmware.
Binbin Zhao, Shouling Ji, Jiacheng Xu, Yuan Tian 0001, Qiuyang Wei		ISSTA2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
The Extent of Orphan Vulnerabilities from Code Reuse in Open Source Software.
David Reid, Mahmoud Jahanshahi, Audris Mockus		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
The Art and Practice of Data Science Pipelines: A Comprehensive Study of Data Science Pipelines In Theory, In-The-Small, and In-The-Large.
Sumon Biswas, Mohammad Wardat, Hridesh Rajan		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Semantic Image Fuzzing of AI Perception Systems.
Trey Woodlief, Sebastian G. Elbaum, Kevin Sullivan		ICSE2022Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
SAPIENTML: Synthesizing Machine Learning Pipelines by Learning from Human-Written Solutions.
Ripon K. Saha, Akira Ura, Sonal Mahajan, Chenguang Zhu 0002, Linyi Li 0001		ICSE2022AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Recommending Good First Issues in GitHub OSS Projects.
Wenxin Xiao, Hao He 0012, Weiwei Xu 0001, Xin Tan 0003, Jinhao Dong		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
On the Benefits and Limits of Incremental Build of Software Configurations: An Exploratory Study.
Georges Aaron Randrianaina, Xhevahire Tërnava, Djamel Eddine Khelladi, Mathieu Acher		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
On Debugging the Performance of Configurable Software Systems: Developer Needs and Tailored Tool Support.
Miguel Velez, Pooyan Jamshidi, Norbert Siegmund, Sven Apel, Christian Kästner		ICSE2022Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability
Lessons from Eight Years of Operational Data from a Continuous Integration Service: An Exploratory Case Study of CircleCI.
Keheliya Gallaba, Maxime Lamothe, Shane McIntosh		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
Less is More: Supporting Developers in Vulnerability Detection during Code Review.
Larissa Braz, Christian Aeberhard, Gül Çalikli, Alberto Bacchelli		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Learning and Programming Challenges of Rust: A Mixed-Methods Study.
Shuofei Zhu, Ziyi Zhang, Boqin Qin, Aiping Xiong, Linhai Song		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
If a Human Can See It, So Should Your System: Reliability Requirements for Machine Vision Components.
Boyue Caroline Hu, Lina Marsso, Krzysztof Czarnecki 0001, Rick Salay, Huakun Shen		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture; Performance / Energy / Reliability
Hashing It Out: A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and Motivation.
Madeline Endres, Kevin Boehnke, Westley Weimer		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source.
Naomichi Shimada, Tao Xiao 0001, Hideaki Hata, Christoph Treude, Kenichi Matsumoto		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Free Lunch for Testing: Fuzzing Deep-Learning Libraries from Open Source.
Anjiang Wei, Yinlin Deng, Chenyuan Yang, Lingming Zhang 0001		ICSE2022Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
DeepStability: A Study of Unstable Numerical Methods and Their Solutions in Deep Learning.
Eliska Kloberdanz, Kyle G. Kloberdanz, Wei Le		ICSE2022AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Big Data = Big Insights? Operationalising Brooks' Law in a Massive GitHub Data Set.
Christoph Gote, Pavlin Mavrodiev, Frank Schweitzer, Ingo Scholtes		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Automated Handling of Anaphoric Ambiguity in Requirements: A Multi-solution Study.
Saad Ezzini, Sallam Abualhaija, Chetan Arora 0002, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture
Automated Detection of Password Leakage from Public GitHub Repositories.
Runhan Feng, Ziyang Yan, Shiyan Peng, Yuanyuan Zhang 0002		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Exploratory Study of Productivity Perceptions in Software Teams.
Anastasia Ruvimova, Alexander Lill, Jan Gugler, Lauren C. Howe, Elaine Huang		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Exploratory Study of Deep learning Supply Chain.
Xin Tan 0003, Kai Gao 0008, Minghui Zhou 0001, Li Zhang 0029		ICSE2022AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
"This Is Damn Slick!" Estimating the Impact of Tweets on Open Source Project Popularity and New Contributors.
Hongbo Fang, Hemank Lamba, James D. Herbsleb, Bogdan Vasilescu		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
"Did You Miss My Comment or What?" Understanding Toxicity in Open Source Discussions.
Courtney Miller, Sophie Cohen, Daniel Klug, Bogdan Vasilescu, Christian Kästner		ICSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
What improves developer productivity at google? code quality.
Lan Cheng, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Mark Canning, Ciera Jaspan, Collin Green		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Understanding why we cannot model how long a code review will take: an industrial case study.
Lawrence Chen 0002, Peter C. Rigby, Nachiappan Nagappan		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Understanding skills for OSS communities on GitHub.
Jenny T. Liang, Thomas Zimmermann 0001, Denae Ford		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Understanding automated code review process and developer experience in industry.
Hyungjin Kim, Yonghwi Kwon 0003, Sangwoo Joh, Hyukin Kwon, Yeonhee Ryou		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Tracking patches for open source software vulnerabilities.
Congying Xu, Bihuan Chen 0001, Chenhao Lu, Kaifeng Huang 0001, Xin Peng 0001		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Towards developer-centered automatic program repair: findings from Bloomberg.
Emily Rowan Winter, Vesna Nowack, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall		FSE2022Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
The evolution of type annotations in python: an empirical study.
Luca Di Grazia, Michael Pradel		FSE2022Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Software security during modern code review: the developer's perspective.
Larissa Braz, Alberto Bacchelli		FSE2022Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Quantifying community evolution in developer social networks.
Liang Wang 0006, Ying Li 0114, Jierui Zhang, Xianping Tao		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Pair programming conversations with agents vs. developers: challenges and opportunities for SE community.
Peter Robe, Sandeep Kaur Kuttal, Jake AuBuchon, Jacob C. Hart		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Generating realistic vulnerabilities via neural code editing: an empirical study.
Yu Nong, Yuzhe Ou, Michael Pradel, Feng Chen 0001, Haipeng Cai		FSE2022AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
GFI-bot: automated good first issue recommendation on GitHub.
Hao He 0012, Haonan Su, Wenxin Xiao, Runzhi He, Minghui Zhou 0001		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Exploring the under-explored terrain of non-open source data for software engineering through the lens of federated learning.
Shriram Shanbhag, Sridhar Chimalakonda		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Correlates of programmer efficacy and their link to experience: a combined EEG and eye-tracking study.
Norman Peitek, Annabelle Bergum, Maurice Rekrut, Jonas Mucke, Matthias Nadig		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Corporate dominance in open source ecosystems: a case study of OpenStack.
Yuxia Zhang, Klaas-Jan Stol, Hui Liu 0003, Minghui Zhou 0001		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
CORMS: a GitHub and Gerrit based hybrid code reviewer recommendation approach for modern code review.
Prahar Pandya, Saurabh Tiwari 0001		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Are elevator software robust against uncertainties? results and experiences from an industrial case study.
Liping Han, Tao Yue 0002, Shaukat Ali 0001, Aitor Arrieta, Maite Arratibel		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability
An exploratory study on the predominant programming paradigms in Python code.
Robert Dyer 0001, Jigyasa Chauhan		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An empirical study of log analysis at Microsoft.
Shilin He, Xu Zhang 0024, Pinjia He, Yong Xu 0010, Liqun Li		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An empirical study of deep transfer learning-based program repair for Kotlin projects.
Misoo Kim, Youngkyoung Kim, Hohyeon Jeong, Jinseok Heo, Sungoh Kim		FSE2022AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An empirical study of blockchain system vulnerabilities: modules, types, and patterns.
Xiao Yi, Daoyuan Wu, Lingxiao Jiang, Yuzhou Fang, Kehuan Zhang		FSE2022Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An empirical investigation of missing data handling in cloud node failure prediction.
Minghua Ma, Yudong Liu, Yuang Tong, Haozhe Li, Pu Zhao 0004		FSE2022Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems
Achievement unlocked: a case study on gamifying DevOps practices in industry.
Patrick Ayoup, Diego Elias Costa, Emad Shihab		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
A study on identifying code author from real development.
Siyi Gong, Hao Zhong 0001		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A retrospective study of one decade of artifact evaluations.
Stefan Winter 0001, Christopher Steven Timperley, Ben Hermann, Jürgen Cito, Jonathan Bell 0001		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A case study of implicit mentoring, its prevalence, and impact in Apache.
Zixuan Feng, Amreeta Chatterjee, Anita Sarma, Iftekhar Ahmed 0001		FSE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
23 shades of self-admitted technical debt: an empirical study on machine learning software.
David O'Brien, Sumon Biswas, Sayem Imtiaz, Rabe Abdalkareem, Emad Shihab		FSE2022AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Understanding and Predicting Docker Build Duration: An Empirical Study of Containerized Workflow of OSS Projects.
Yiwen Wu 0001, Yang Zhang 0026, Kele Xu, Tao Wang 0006, Huaimin Wang 0001		ASE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
Towards the Integration of Human Factors in Collaborative Decision Making for Secure Architecture Design.
Jason Jaskolka, Brahim Hamid		ASE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture
Right to Know, Right to Refuse: Towards UI Perception-Based Automated Fine-Grained Permission Controls for Android Apps.
Vikas Kumar Malviya, Chee Wei Leow, Ashok Kasthuri, Yan Naing Tun, Lwin Khin Shar		ASE2022Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
Not All Dependencies are Equal: An Empirical Study on Production Dependencies in NPM.
Jasmine Latendresse, Suhaib Mujahid, Diego Elias Costa, Emad Shihab		ASE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Intelligent Code Review Assignment for Large Scale Open Source Software Stacks.
Ishan Aryendu, Ying Wang 0113, Farah Elkourdi, Eman Abdullah AlOmar		ASE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Identification and Mitigation of Toxic Communications Among Open Source Software Developers.
Jaydeb Sarker		ASE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Identification and Mitigation of Gender Biases to Promote Diversity and Inclusion among Open Source Communities.
Sayma Sultana		ASE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
How students choose names: A replication study.
Qing Mi, Xiaoke Wang, Bingnuo Chen		ASE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
How Readable is Model-generated Code? Examining Readability and Visual Inspection of GitHub Copilot.
Naser Al Madi		ASE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Education / Program Comprehension
Empirical Study of System Resources Abused by IoT Attackers.
Zijing Yin, Yiwen Xu, Chijin Zhou, Yu Jiang 0001		ASE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
B-AIS: An Automated Process for Black-box Evaluation of Visual Perception in AI-enabled Software against Domain Semantics.
Hamed Barzamini, Mona Rahimi		ASE2022AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Are Neural Bug Detectors Comparable to Software Developers on Variable Misuse Bugs?
Cedric Richter, Jan Haltermann, Marie-Christine Jakobs, Felix Pauck, Stefan Schott		ASE2022AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Numerical Bugs in Deep Learning Programs.
Gan Wang, Zan Wang, Junjie Chen 0003, Xiang Chen 0005, Ming Yan 0010		ASE2022AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study of Automation in Software Security Patch Management.
Nesara Dissanayake, Asangi Jayatilaka, Mansooreh Zahedi, Muhammad Ali Babar 0001		ASE2022Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A real-world case study for automated ticket team assignment using natural language processing and explainable models.
Lucas Marcondes Pavelski, Rodrigo de Souza Braga		ASE2022Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A Study of User Privacy in Android Mobile AR Apps.
Xiaoyi Yang, Xueling Zhang		ASE2022Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
Empirical evaluation of smart contract testing: what is the best choice?
Meng Ren, Zijing Yin, Fuchen Ma, Zhenyang Xu, Yu Jiang 0001		ISSTA2021Testing / QA; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Challenges and opportunities: an in-depth empirical study on configuration error injection testing.
Wang Li 0003, Zhouyang Jia, Shanshan Li 0001, Yuanliang Zhang, Teng Wang 0004		ISSTA2021Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
Why Security Defects Go Unnoticed during Code Reviews? A Case-Control Study of the Chromium OS Project.
Rajshakhar Paul, Asif Kamal Turzo, Amiangshu Bosu		ICSE2021Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Why Don't Developers Detect Improper Input Validation? '; DROP TABLE Papers; -.
Larissa Braz, Enrico Fregnan, Gül Çalikli, Alberto Bacchelli		ICSE2021Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
What Makes a Great Maintainer of Open Source Projects?
Edson Dias, Paulo Meirelles, Fernando Castor, Igor Steinmacher, Igor Wiese		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Too Quiet in the Library: An Empirical Study of Security Updates in Android Apps' Native Code.
Sumaya Almanee, Arda Ünal, Mathias Payer, Joshua Garcia		ICSE2021Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
The Shifting Sands of Motivation: Revisiting What Drives Contributors in Open Source.
Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Igor Wiese, Bianca Trinkenreich, Georg Link, Gregorio Robles		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Shipwright: A Human-in-the-Loop System for Dockerfile Repair.
Jordan Henkel, Denini Silva, Leopoldo Teixeira, Marcelo d'Amorim, Thomas W. Reps		ICSE2021Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Same File, Different Changes: The Potential of Meta-Maintenance on GitHub.
Hideaki Hata, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Takashi Ishio, Christoph Treude		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Representation of Developer Expertise in Open Source Software.
Tapajit Dey, Andrey Karnauch, Audris Mockus		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Relating Reading, Visualization, and Coding for New Programmers: A Neuroimaging Study.
Madeline Endres, Zachary Karas, Xiaosu Hu, Ioulia Kovelman, Westley Weimer		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Program Comprehension and Code Complexity Metrics: An fMRI Study.
Norman Peitek, Sven Apel, Chris Parnin, André Brechmann, Janet Siegmund		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Education / Program Comprehension
Playing Planning Poker in Crowds: Human Computation of Software Effort Estimates.
Mohammed Alhamed, Tim Storer		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Onboarding vs. Diversity, Productivity, and Quality - Empirical Study of the OpenStack Ecosystem.
Armstrong Foundjem, Ellis E. Eghan, Bram Adams		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
On the Naming of Methods: A Survey of Professional Developers.
Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Christian D. Newman, Michael John Decker, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
On Indirectly Dependent Documentation in the Context of Code Evolution: A Study.
Devika Sondhi, Avyakt Gupta, Salil Purandare, Ankit Rana, Deepanshu Kaushal		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
How Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evidence from a Natural Experiment on GitHub.
Lukas Moldon, Markus Strohmaier, Johannes Wachs		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
How Developers Optimize Virtual Reality Applications: A Study of Optimization Commits in Open Source Unity Projects.
Fariha Nusrat, Foyzul Hassan, Hao Zhong 0001, Xiaoyin Wang		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability
Extracting Rationale for Open Source Software Development Decisions - A Study of Python Email Archives.
Pankajeshwara Nand Sharma, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Nigel Stanger		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Extracting Concise Bug-Fixing Patches from Human-Written Patches in Version Control Systems.
Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu 0003, Nan Niu, Lu Zhang 0023, Yamin Hu		ICSE2021Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release
Evaluating SZZ Implementations Through a Developer-informed Oracle.
Giovanni Rosa, Luca Pascarella, Simone Scalabrino, Rosalia Tufano, Gabriele Bavota		ICSE2021Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Can Program Synthesis be Used to Learn Merge Conflict Resolutions? An Empirical Analysis.
Rangeet Pan, Vu Le 0002, Nachiappan Nagappan, Sumit Gulwani, Shuvendu K. Lahiri		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Automatic Extraction of Opinion-based Q&A from Online Developer Chats.
Preetha Chatterjee, Kostadin Damevski, Lori L. Pollock		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Evolutionary Study of Configuration Design and Implementation in Cloud Systems.
Yuanliang Zhang, Haochen He, Owolabi Legunsen, Shanshan Li 0001, Wei Dong 0006		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems
An Empirical Study on Deployment Faults of Deep Learning Based Mobile Applications.
Zhenpeng Chen, Huihan Yao, Yiling Lou, Yanbin Cao, Yuanqiang Liu		ICSE2021AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
An Empirical Study of Refactorings and Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems.
Yiming Tang 0002, Raffi Khatchadourian, Mehdi Bagherzadeh 0001, Rhia Singh, Ajani Stewart		ICSE2021AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
An Empirical Assessment of Global COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications.
Ruoxi Sun 0001, Wei Wang 0334, Minhui Xue 0001, Gareth Tyson, Seyit Camtepe		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Analysis of UI-based Flaky Tests.
Alan Romano, Zihe Song, Sampath Grandhi, Wei Yang 0013, Weihang Wang 0001		ICSE2021Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
A Case Study of Onboarding in Software Teams: Tasks and Strategies.
An Ju, Hitesh Sajnani, Scot Kelly, Kim Herzig		ICSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
csDetector: an open source tool for community smells detection.
Nuri Almarimi, Ali Ouni 0001, Moataz Chouchen, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
XAI tools in the public sector: a case study on predicting combined sewer overflows.
Nicholas Maltbie, Nan Niu, Matthew Van Doren, Reese Johnson		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Software robustness: a survey, a theory, and prospects.
Justyna Petke, David Clark 0001, William B. Langdon		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Reel life vs. real life: how software developers share their daily life through vlogs.
Souti Chattopadhyay, Thomas Zimmermann 0001, Denae Ford		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Overcoming metric diversity in meta-analysis for software engineering: proposed approach and a case study on its usage on the effects of software reuse.
Kirill Daniakin		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Organizational implications of agile adoption: a case study from the public sector.
Parastoo Mohagheghi, Casper Lassenius		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
One thousand and one stories: a large-scale survey of software refactoring.
Yaroslav Golubev, Zarina Kurbatova, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Timofey Bryksin, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Infiltrating security into development: exploring the world's largest software security study.
Charles Weir, Sammy Migues, Mike Ware, Laurie A. Williams		FSE2021Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
How can manual testing processes be optimized? developer survey, optimization guidelines, and case studies.
Roman Haas, Daniel Elsner, Elmar Jürgens, Alexander Pretschner, Sven Apel		FSE2021Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability
Hazard analysis for human-on-the-loop interactions in sUAS systems.
Michael Vierhauser, Md Nafee Al Islam, Ankit Agrawal 0002, Jane Cleland-Huang, James Mason		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Generating metamorphic relations for cyber-physical systems with genetic programming: an industrial case study.
Jon Ayerdi, Valerio Terragni, Aitor Arrieta, Paolo Tonella, Goiuria Sagardui		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Empirical study of transformers for source code.
Nadezhda Chirkova, Sergey Troshin 0001		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Documenting evidence of a reuse of 'what is a feature? a qualitative study of features in industrial software product lines'.
Kewen Peng, Tim Menzies		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Documenting evidence of a reuse of 'a systematic study of the class imbalance problem in convolutional neural networks'.
Rahul Yedida, Tim Menzies		FSE2021AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Data-driven extract method recommendations: a study at ING.
David van der Leij, Jasper Binda, Robbert van Dalen, Pieter Vallen, Yaping Luo		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Contextualizing toxicity in open source: a qualitative study.
Sophie Cohen		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An exploratory study of autopilot software bugs in unmanned aerial vehicles.
Dinghua Wang, Shuqing Li 0001, Guanping Xiao, Yepang Liu 0001, Yulei Sui		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An empirical study on challenges of application development in serverless computing.
Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen, Yi Liu 0014, Yiling Lou, Yun Ma 0002		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems
An empirical study of GUI widget detection for industrial mobile games.
Jiaming Ye, Ke Chen, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma 0003, Ruochen Huang		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android
An empirical investigation of practical log anomaly detection for online service systems.
Nengwen Zhao, Honglin Wang, Zeyan Li, Xiao Peng, Gang Wang		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A qualitative study of cleaning in Jupyter notebooks.
Helen Dong		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A large-scale empirical study on Java library migrations: prevalence, trends, and rationales.
Hao He 0012, Runzhi He, Haiqiao Gu, Minghui Zhou 0001		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A first look at developers' live chat on Gitter.
Lin Shi 0006, Xiao Chen 0015, Ye Yang, Hanzhi Jiang, Ziyou Jiang		FSE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A comprehensive study on learning-based PE malware family classification methods.
Yixuan Ma, Shuang Liu 0007, Jiajun Jiang, Guanhong Chen, Keqiu Li		FSE2021AI / LLM for SE; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
A comprehensive study of deep learning compiler bugs.
Qingchao Shen, Haoyang Ma, Junjie Chen 0003, Yongqiang Tian 0001, Shing-Chi Cheung		FSE2021AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Why Do Developers Remove Lambda Expressions in Java?
Mingwei Zheng, Jun Yang 0062, Ming Wen 0001, Hengcheng Zhu 0001, Yepang Liu 0001		ASE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Towards Fluid Software Architectures: Bidirectional Human-AI Interaction.
Ammar Yasser, Mervat Abu-Elkheir		ASE2021AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Towards Exploring the Limitations of Active Learning: An Empirical Study.
Qiang Hu, Yuejun Guo 0001, Maxime Cordy, Xiaofei Xie, Wei Ma 0014		ASE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Thinking Like a Developer? Comparing the Attention of Humans with Neural Models of Code.
Matteo Paltenghi, Michael Pradel		ASE2021AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
SATune: A Study-Driven Auto-Tuning Approach for Configurable Software Verification Tools.
Ugur Koc, Austin Mordahl, Shiyi Wei, Jeffrey S. Foster, Adam A. Porter		ASE2021Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Refactorings and Technical Debt in Docker Projects: An Empirical Study.
Emna Ksontini, Marouane Kessentini, Thiago do Nascimento Ferreira, Foyzul Hassan		ASE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Is Historical Data an Appropriate Benchmark for Reviewer Recommendation Systems? : A Case Study of the Gerrit Community.
Ian X. Gauthier, Maxime Lamothe, Gunter Mussbacher, Shane McIntosh		ASE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Infrastructure in Code: Towards Developer-Friendly Cloud Applications.
Vladislav Tankov, Dmitriy Valchuk, Yaroslav Golubev, Timofey Bryksin		ASE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems
Improving Configurability of Unit-level Continuous Fuzzing: An Industrial Case Study with SAP HANA.
Hanyoung Yoo, Jingun Hong, Lucas Bader, Dongwon Hwang, Shin Hong		ASE2021Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
Human-in-the-Loop XAI-enabled Vulnerability Detection, Investigation, and Mitigation.
Tien N. Nguyen, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo		ASE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
FixMe: A GitHub Bot for Detecting and Monitoring On-Hold Self-Admitted Technical Debt.
Saranphon Phaithoon, Supakarn Wongnil, Patiphol Pussawong, Morakot Choetkiertikul, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul		ASE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review
Automating Developer Chat Mining.
Shengyi Pan, Lingfeng Bao, Xiaoxue Ren, Xin Xia 0001, David Lo 0001		ASE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study on Obsolete Issue Reports.
Zexuan Li, Hao Zhong 0001		ASE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
An Empirical Study of Bugs in WebAssembly Compilers.
Alan Romano, Xinyue Liu 0005, Yonghwi Kwon 0001, Weihang Wang 0001		ASE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical
APIzation: Generating Reusable APIs from StackOverflow Code Snippets.
Valerio Terragni, Pasquale Salza		ASE2021Human / Empirical / Socio-technical