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07/06/2023
Resist the Hype! Practical Recommendations to Cope With Résumé-Driven Development
Technology trends play an important role in the hiring process for softw...
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03/03/2023
The Type to Take Out a Loan? A Study of Developer Personality and Technical Debt
Background: Technical debt (TD) has been widely discussed in software en...
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01/25/2023
Evidence Profiles for Validity Threats in Program Comprehension Experiments
Searching for clues, gathering evidence, and reviewing case files are al...
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01/16/2023
Teaching Computer Science Students to Communicate Scientific Findings More Effectively
Science communication forms the bridge between computer science research...
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10/13/2022
Adopting Microservices and DevOps in the Cyber-Physical Systems Domain: A Rapid Review and Case Study
The domain of cyber-physical systems (CPS) has recently seen strong grow...
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07/07/2022
Towards Immediate Feedback for Security Relevant Code in Development Environments
Nowadays, the correct use of cryptography libraries is essential to ensu...
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07/04/2022
The Present and Future of Bots in Software Engineering
We are witnessing a massive adoption of software engineering bots, appli...
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07/01/2022
Towards an Architecture-centric Methodology for Migrating to Microservices
The euphoria around microservices has decreased over the years, but the ...
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06/22/2022
40 Years of Designing Code Comprehension Experiments: A Systematic Mapping Study
The relevance of code comprehension in a developer's daily work was reco...
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06/03/2022
Can Requirements Engineering Support Explainable Artificial Intelligence? Towards a User-Centric Approach for Explainability Requirements
With the recent proliferation of artificial intelligence systems, there ...
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05/26/2022
Learning in Feedback-driven Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks using full-FORCE Training
Feedback-driven recurrent spiking neural networks (RSNNs) are powerful c...
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05/03/2022
How Are Communication Channels on GitHub Presented to Their Intended Audience? – A Thematic Analysis
Communication is essential in software development, and even more in dis...
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04/12/2022
Text and Team: What Article Metadata Characteristics Drive Citations in Software Engineering?
Context: Citations are a key measure of scientific performance in most f...
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10/27/2021
Cybersecurity for Quantum Computing
With rising cyberattack frequency and range, Quantum Computing companies...
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09/28/2021
Code Comprehension Confounders: A Study of Intelligence and Personal
Literature and intuition suggest that a developer's intelligence and per...
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08/06/2021
Detecting Requirements Smells With Deep Learning: Experiences, Challenges and Future Work
Requirements Engineering (RE) is the initial step towards building a sof...
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06/18/2021
Learning to Plan via a Multi-Step Policy Regression Method
We propose a new approach to increase inference performance in environme...
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05/05/2021
Software Engineering for AI-Based Systems: A Survey
AI-based systems are software systems with functionalities enabled by at...
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05/01/2021
A systematic mapping study on security countermeasures of in-vehicle communication systems
The innovations of vehicle connectivity have been increasing dramaticall...
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03/15/2021
Extreme mutation testing in practice: An industrial case study
Mutation testing is used to evaluate the effectiveness of test suites. I...
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03/11/2021
Exploring the Mysteries of System-Level Test
System-level test, or SLT, is an increasingly important process step in ...
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02/01/2021
Using a Cyber Digital Twin for Continuous Automotive Security Requirements Verification
A Digital Twin (DT) is a digital representation of a physical object use...
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01/29/2021
Résumé-Driven Development: A Definition and Empirical Characterization
Technologies play an important role in the hiring process for software p...
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01/27/2021
Testing in Global Software Development – A Pattern Approach
Although testing is critical in GSD, its application in this context has...
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01/18/2021
Formal Verification of a Fail-Operational Automotive Driving System
A fail-operational system for highly automated driving must complete the...
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12/16/2020
The Mind Is a Powerful Place: How Showing Code Comprehensibility Metrics Influences Code Understanding
Static code analysis tools and integrated development environments prese...
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11/20/2020
Experiences from Large-Scale Model Checking: Verification of a Vehicle Control System
In the age of autonomously driving vehicles, functionality and complexit...
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10/31/2020
Stakeholder identification for a structured release planning approach in the automotive domain
Context: In regulated domains like automotive, release planning is a com...
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10/29/2020
Lessons Learned from the 1st ARIEL Machine Learning Challenge: Correcting Transiting Exoplanet Light Curves for Stellar Spots
The last decade has witnessed a rapid growth of the field of exoplanet d...
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07/24/2020
An Empirical Validation of Cognitive Complexity as a Measure of Source Code Understandability
Background: Developers spend a lot of their time on understanding source...
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07/20/2020
Collecting Service-Based Maintainability Metrics from RESTful API Descriptions: Static Analysis and Threshold Derivation
While many maintainability metrics have been explicitly designed for ser...
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06/16/2020
An STPA-based Approach for Systematic Security Analysis of In-vehicle Diagnostic and Software Update Systems
The in-vehicle diagnostic and software update system, which supports rem...
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06/04/2020
Data-Flow-Based Extension of the System-Theoretic Process Analysis for Security (STPA-Sec)
Security analysis is an essential activity in security engineering to id...
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05/20/2020
Psychometrics in Behavioral Software Engineering: A Methodological Introduction with Guidelines
Humans are what constitutes the most complex and complicated, yet fascin...
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05/20/2020
Behavioral Software Engineering: Methodological Introduction to Psychometrics
Humans are what constitutes the most complex and complicated, yet fascin...
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05/10/2020
Correct and Control Complex IoT Systems: Evaluation of a Classification for System Anomalies
In practice there are deficiencies in precise interteam communications a...
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04/21/2020
A Quantitative Exploration of the 9-Factor Theory: Distribution of Leadership Roles between Scrum Master and Agile Team
A number of qualitative studies find that team leadership is one essenti...
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04/08/2020
Fluid Intelligence Doesn't Matter! Effects of Code Examples on the Usability of Crypto APIs
Context: Programmers frequently look for the code of previously solved p...
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01/08/2020
Perception and Acceptance of an Autonomous Refactoring Bot
The use of autonomous bots for automatic support in software development...
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12/18/2019
Conversational Agents for Insurance Companies: From Theory to Practice
Advances in artificial intelligence have renewed interest in conversatio...
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08/16/2019
Challenges in Survey Research
While being an important and often used research method, survey research...
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07/29/2019
On Observability and Monitoring of Distributed Systems: An Industry Interview Study
Business success of companies heavily depends on the availability and pe...
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06/12/2019
Assuring the Evolvability of Microservices: Insights into Industry Practices and Challenges
While Microservices promise several beneficial characteristics for susta...
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06/11/2019
Microservices Migration in Industry: Intentions, Strategies, and Challenges
To remain competitive in a fast changing environment, many companies sta...
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04/13/2019
Open Science in Software Engineering
Open science describes the movement of making any research artefact avai...
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03/13/2019
Is the Stack Distance Between Test Case and Method Correlated With Test Effectiveness?
Mutation testing is a means to assess the effectiveness of a test suite ...
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02/01/2019
Do We Preach What We Practice? Investigating the Practical Relevance of Requirements Engineering Syllabi - The IREB Case
Nowadays, there exist a plethora of different educational syllabi for Re...
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12/19/2018
Leadership Gap in Agile Teams: How Teams and Scrum Masters Mature
Motivation: How immature teams can become agile is a question that puzzl...
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12/18/2018
Motivations, Classification and Model Trial of Conversational Agents for Insurance Companies
Advances in artificial intelligence have renewed interest in conversatio...
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12/04/2018