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On the diversity and frequency of code related to mathematical formulas in real-world Java projects
Oliver Moseler, Felix Lemmer, Sebastian Baltes +1
In this paper, the term formula code refers to fragments of source code that implement a mathematical formula. We present empirical studies that analyze the diversity and frequency…
Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research
Paul Ralph, Nauman bin Ali, Sebastian Baltes +39
Empirical Standards are natural-language models of a scientific community's expectations for a specific kind of study (e.g. a questionnaire survey). The ACM SIGSOFT Paper and Peer…
An Annotated Dataset of Stack Overflow Post Edits
Sebastian Baltes, Markus Wagner
To improve software engineering, software repositories have been mined for code snippets and bug fixes. Typically, this mining takes place at the level of files or commits. To be a…
Pandemic Programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help
Paul Ralph, Sebastian Baltes, Gianisa Adisaputri +14
Context. As a novel coronavirus swept the world in early 2020, thousands of software developers began working from home. Many did so on short notice, under difficult and stressful…
Is 40 the new 60? How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers
Sebastian Baltes, George Park, Alexander Serebrenik
Alerted by our previous research as well as media reports and discussions in online forums about ageism in the software industry, we set out to study the public discourse around ag…
Code Duplication on Stack Overflow
Sebastian Baltes, Christoph Treude
Despite the unarguable importance of Stack Overflow (SO) for the daily work of many software developers and despite existing knowledge about the impact of code duplication on softw…
Sampling in Software Engineering Research: A Critical Review and Guidelines
Sebastian Baltes, Paul Ralph
Representative sampling appears rare in empirical software engineering research. Not all studies need representative samples, but a general lack of representative sampling undermin…