Business process management entails a multi-billion-dollar industry that is founded on modeling business processes to analyze, understand, improve, and automate them. Business processes consist of a set of interconnected activities that an ...

Libraries assist in accelerating the development of software applications by providing reusable functionalities. Libraries and applications that declare these libraries as dependencies become their clients. However, as libraries evolve, ...

Software development creates and relies on a large volume of information, yet the volume of this information can make it challenging for developers to maintain an overview of all goings-on that a team and external actors contribute to a ...

Code clones are recognized as a code smell that may require additional effort for simultaneous changes of multiple clone instances during software maintenance. To alleviate quality threats caused by inconsistent changes in clone instances, it is ...

A few years ago, rapid reviews (RR) were introduced in software engineering (SE) to address the problem that standard systematic reviews take too long and too much effort to be of value to practitioners. Prior to our study, few practice-...

The Python programming language features several functional constructs which can bring some benefits, e.g., fewer side effects, easier parallelization, or, in some cases, better comprehensibility due to concise code. This paper investigates the ...$\mathrm{}$

Effective ownership of software artifacts, particularly code, is crucial for accountability, knowledge sharing, and code quality enhancement. Researchers have proposed models linking ownership of software artifacts with developer performance and ...

Requirements management is a process that aims to ensure that the needs of stakeholders are met through delivering adequate and quality software products. However, requirements management becomes challenging in open and dynamic environments with ...

In software development, developers frequently apply maintenance activities to the source code that change a few lines by a single commit. A good understanding of the characteristics of such small changes can support quality assurance approaches (...

Developers must complete change tasks on large software systems for maintenance and development purposes. Having a custom software system with numerous instances that meet the growing client demand for features and functionalities increases the ...

Bug localization is the task of recommending source code locations (typically files) that contain the cause of a bug and hence need to be changed to fix the bug. Along these lines, information retrieval-based bug localization (IRBL) approaches ...

Empirical studies with human participants (e.g., controlled experiments) are established methods in Software Engineering (SE) research to understand developers’ activities or the pros and cons of a technique, tool, or practice. Various ...

Code smells (CS) are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices that may lead to increased defect incidence, decreased code comprehension, and longer times to release. Web applications and systems are seldom studied, probably due to ...

Despite the accuracy of machine learning (ML) techniques in predicting invalid bug reports, as shown in earlier research, and the importance of early identification of invalid bug reports in software maintenance, the adoption of ML techniques for ...

Building past snapshots of a software project has shown to be of interest both for researchers and practitioners. However, little attention has been devoted specifically to tests available in those past snapshots, which are fundamental for the ...

[Context] The continuous inflow of bug reports is a considerable challenge in large development projects. Inspired by contemporary work on mining software repositories, we designed a prototype bug assignment solution based on machine learning in ...

Representing the textual semantics of bug reports is a key component of bug report management (BRM) techniques. Existing studies mainly use classical information retrieval-based (IR-based) approaches, such as the vector space model (VSM) to ...

Researchers testing hypotheses related to factors leading to low-quality software often rely on historical data, specifically on details regarding when defects were introduced into a codebase of interest. The prevailing techniques to ...