ESEM

The International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) is one of the most important forums at which to present and discuss empirical research on software engineering and measurement. Spain was the first country to host the ESEM in 2007. What, then, could be more natural than to return to Spain, this time in Ciudad Real, for the 10th ESEM conference?

The papers cover a variety of research topics and research methods in empirical software engineering and measurement, including agile development, verification and validation, the innovative behavior of software engineers, repository mining for defect predictions, productivity measurement and improvement, bug-fixing, system safety and security, shared code, eye tracking, continuous delivery, code analysis, improved methods for systematic reviews and the sampling of subjects, evidence briefing to transfer knowledge to practitioners, blind analysis of data to avoid research bias and software maintenance.

In addition to the research papers, we are delighted to include two very interesting keynote speeches. Prof. Claes Wohlin, from the Blekinge Institute of Technology (Karlskrona, Sweden), who presents a keynote about the need for more and better empirical software engineering research. He addresses the question of how to support an increased use of empirical evidence so as to guide important decisions in the software industry. Prof. Joe Peppard, from the European School of Management and Technology (Berlin, Germany), who tackles the importance of benefit management in software engineering, and how to ensure the usefulness and benefits of the software we build.