Issue 3/2018
Content (19 Articles)
On the diffuseness and the impact on maintainability of code smells: a large scale empirical investigation
Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Fausto Fasano, Rocco Oliveto, Andrea De Lucia
A multi-view context-aware approach to Android malware detection and malicious code localization
Annamalai Narayanan, Mahinthan Chandramohan, Lihui Chen, Yang Liu
Studying the dialogue between users and developers of free apps in the Google Play Store
Safwat Hassan, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Ahmed E. Hassan
Inference of development activities from interaction with uninstrumented applications
Lingfeng Bao, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia, David Lo, Ahmed E. Hassan
Sentiment Polarity Detection for Software Development
Fabio Calefato, Filippo Lanubile, Federico Maiorano, Nicole Novielli
Are vulnerabilities discovered and resolved like other defects?
Patrick J. Morrison, Rahul Pandita, Xusheng Xiao, Ram Chillarege, Laurie Williams
An exploratory study on assessing the energy impact of logging on Android applications
Shaiful Chowdhury, Silvia Di Nardo, Abram Hindle, Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang
General methods for software architecture recovery: a potential approach and its evaluation
Damian A. Tamburri, Rick Kazman
Empirical study on the discrepancy between performance testing results from virtual and physical environments
Muhammad Moiz Arif, Weiyi Shang, Emad Shihab
Analyzing a decade of Linux system calls
Mojtaba Bagherzadeh, Nafiseh Kahani, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Ahmed E. Hassan, Juergen Dingel, James R. Cordy
Understanding the factors for fast answers in technical Q&A websites
Shaowei Wang, Tse-Hsun Chen, Ahmed E. Hassan
Challenges and pitfalls on surveying evidence in the software engineering technical literature: an exploratory study with novices
Talita Vieira Ribeiro, Jobson Massollar, Guilherme Horta Travassos
Reducing user input requests to improve IT support ticket resolution process
Monika Gupta, Allahbaksh Asadullah, Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Alexander Serebrenik
Are tweets useful in the bug fixing process? An empirical study on Firefox and Chrome
Mariam El Mezouar, Feng Zhang, Ying Zou
On the impact of state-based model-driven development on maintainability: a family of experiments using UniMod
Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Maurizio Leotta, Alessandro Tiso, Giovanna Guerrini, Gianna Reggio
An empirical study on the interplay between semantic coupling and co-change of software classes
Nemitari Ajienka, Andrea Capiluppi, Steve Counsell
Data-efficient performance learning for configurable systems
Jianmei Guo, Dingyu Yang, Norbert Siegmund, Sven Apel, Atrisha Sarkar, Pavel Valov, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Andrzej Wasowski, Huiqun Yu
Erratum to: Architecture consistency: State of the practice, challenges and requirements
Nour Ali, Sean Baker, Ross O’Crowley, Sebastian Herold, Jim Buckley