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    Public sector open source software projects - How is development organized?

    The adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) in Public Sector Organizations (PSOs) is on the rise, driven by benefits such as enhanced interoperability...

    Johan Linåker, Björn Lundell, ... Gregorio Robles in Empirical Software Engineering
    08 March 2025 Open access
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    User feedback in continuous software engineering: revealing the state-of-practice

    Organizations opt for continuous delivery of incremental updates to deal with uncertainty and minimize waste. However, applying continuous...

    Anastasiia Tkalich, Eriks Klotins, ... Astri Barbala in Empirical Software Engineering
    07 March 2025 Open access
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    Exploring data management challenges and solutions in agile software development: a literature review and practitioner survey

    Managing data related to a software product and its development poses significant challenges for software projects and agile development teams. These...

    Ahmed Fawzy, Amjed Tahir, ... Peng Liang in Empirical Software Engineering
    05 March 2025 Open access
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    Assessing the adoption of security policies by developers in terraform across different cloud providers

    Cloud computing has become popular thanks to the widespread use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, allowing the community to manage and configure...

    Alexandre Verdet, Mohammad Hamdaqa, ... Foutse Khomh in Empirical Software Engineering
    27 February 2025 Open access
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    Design pattern recognition: a study of large language models

    As Software Engineering (SE) practices evolve due to extensive increases in software size and complexity, the importance of tools to analyze and...

    Sushant Kumar Pandey, Sivajeet Chand, ... Darko Durisic in Empirical Software Engineering
    18 February 2025 Open access
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    Understanding security tactics in microservice APIs using annotated software architecture decomposition models – a controlled experiment

    While microservice architectures have become a widespread option for designing distributed applications, designing secure microservice systems...

    Patric Genfer, Souhaila Serbout, ... Cesare Pautasso in Empirical Software Engineering
    14 February 2025 Open access
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    Enhanced code reviews using pull request based change impact analysis

    Code reviewing is an essential yet challenging activity due to the potential repercussions associated with changes to the codebase. While version...

    Ismail Sergen Göçmen, Ahmed Salih Cezayir, Eray Tüzün in Empirical Software Engineering
    12 February 2025 Open access
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    Come for syntax, stay for speed, write secure code: an empirical study of security weaknesses in Julia programs

    Practitioners prefer to achieve performance without sacrificing productivity when developing scientific software. The Julia programming language is...

    Yue Zhang, Justin Murphy, Akond Rahman in Empirical Software Engineering
    20 January 2025 Open access
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    Developer reactions to protestware in open source software: the cases of color.js and es5.ext

    There is growing concern about maintainers self-sabotaging their work in order to take political or economic stances, a practice referred to as...

    Youmei Fan, Dong Wang, ... Raula Gaikovina Kula in Empirical Software Engineering
    18 January 2025 Open access
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    Negativity in self-admitted technical debt: how sentiment influences prioritization

    Self-Admitted Technical Debt, or SATD, is a self-admission of technical debt present in a software system. The presence of SATD in software systems...

    Nathan Cassee, Neil Ernst, ... Alexander Serebrenik in Empirical Software Engineering
    15 January 2025 Open access
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    An empirical study of business process models and model clones on GitHub

    Business process management entails a multi-billion-dollar industry that is founded on modeling business processes to analyze, understand, improve,...

    Mahdi Saeedi Nikoo, Sangeeth Kochanthara, ... Mark van den Brand in Empirical Software Engineering
    23 December 2024 Open access
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    Explainable automated debugging via large language model-driven scientific debugging

    Automated debugging techniques have the potential to reduce developer effort in debugging. However, while developers want rationales for the provided...

    Sungmin Kang, Bei Chen, ... Jian-Guang Lou in Empirical Software Engineering
    18 December 2024 Open access
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    Governing the commons: code ownership and code-clones in large-scale software development

    In software development organizations employing weak or collective ownership, different teams are allowed and expected to autonomously perform...

    Anders Sundelin, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta, ... Krzysztof Wnuk in Empirical Software Engineering
    14 December 2024 Open access
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    Collaboration failure analysis in cyber-physical system-of-systems using context fuzzy clustering

    A cyber-physical system-of-systems (CPSoS) facilitates the achievement of high-level goals, such as efficient traffic management on roads, by...

    Sangwon Hyun, Eunkyoung Jee, Doo-Hwan Bae in Empirical Software Engineering
    14 December 2024 Open access
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    An extended study of syntactic breaking changes in the wild

    Libraries assist in accelerating the development of software applications by providing reusable functionalities. Libraries and applications that...

    Dhanushka Jayasuriya, Samuel Ou, ... Kelly Blincoe in Empirical Software Engineering
    14 December 2024 Open access
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    Large scale reuse of microservices using CI/CD and InnerSource practices - a case study

    Contemporary practices such as InnerSource (adopting open source practices within an organization), continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and...

    Deepika Badampudi, Muhammad Usman, Xingru Chen in Empirical Software Engineering
    14 December 2024 Open access
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    Correction to: App review driven collaborative bug finding

    Xunzhu Tang, Haoye Tian, ... Tegawendé F. Bissyandé in Empirical Software Engineering
    10 December 2024 Open access
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    The well-being of software engineers: a systematic literature review and a theory

    For decades, software engineering research and practice has focused primarily on technological and process-related factors. Today, there is a growing...

    Povilas Godliauskas, Darja Šmite in Empirical Software Engineering
    03 December 2024 Open access
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    Applying bayesian data analysis for causal inference about requirements quality: a controlled experiment

    It is commonly accepted that the quality of requirements specifications impacts subsequent software engineering activities. However, we still lack...

    Julian Frattini, Davide Fucci, ... Daniel Mendez in Empirical Software Engineering
    22 November 2024 Open access
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    Can search-based testing with pareto optimization effectively cover failure-revealing test inputs?

    Search-based software testing (SBST) is a widely-adopted technique for testing complex systems with large input spaces, such as Deep Learning-enabled...

    Lev Sorokin, Damir Safin, Shiva Nejati in Empirical Software Engineering
    16 November 2024 Open access
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