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Further Evidence on a Controversial Topic about Human-Based Experiments: Professionals vs. Students
Simone Romano, Francesco Paolo Sferratore, Giuseppe Scanniello
Most Software Engineering (SE) human-based controlled experiments rely on students as participants, raising concerns about their external validity. Specifically, the realism of res…
MBSR at Work: Perspectives from an Instructor and Software Developers
Simone Romano, Alberto Conforti, Gloria Guidetti +3
In this paper, we present the preliminary findings from a qualitative study (i.e., semi-structured interviews) on how a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, carried o…
Augmenting Software Bills of Materials with Software Vulnerability Description: A Preliminary Study on GitHub
Davide Fucci, Massimiliano Di Penta, Simone Romano +1
Software Bills of Material (SBOMs) are becoming a consolidated, often enforced by governmental regulations, way to describe software composition. However, based on recent studies,…
JavaScript Dead Code Identification, Elimination, and Empirical Assessment
Ivano Malavolta, Kishan Nirghin, Gian Luca Scoccia +4
Web apps are built by using a combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. While building modern web apps, it is common practice to make use of third-party libraries and frameworks, a…
CATTO: Just-in-time Test Case Selection and Execution
Dario Amoroso d'Aragona, Fabiano Pecorelli, Simone Romano +4
Regression testing ensures a System Under Test (SUT) still works as expected after changes to it. The simplest approach for regression testing consists of re-running the entire tes…
Studying Test-Driven Development and its Retainment Over a Six-month Time Span
Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Danilo Caivano, Davide Fucci +4
In this paper, we investigate the effect of TDD, as compared to a non-TDD approach, as well as its retainment (or retention) over a time span of (about) six months. To pursue these…
A Family of Experiments on Test-Driven Development
Adrian Santos, Sira Vegas, Oscar Dieste +18
Context: Test-driven development (TDD) is an agile software development approach that has been widely claimed to improve software quality. However, the extent to which TDD improves…
A Large Scale Empirical Study of the Impact of Spaghetti Code and Blob Anti-patterns on Program Comprehension
Cristiano Politowski, Foutse Khomh, Simone Romano +4
Context: Several studies investigated the impact of anti-patterns (i.e., "poor" solutions to recurring design problems) during maintenance activities and reported that anti-pattern…
Researcher Bias in Software Engineering Experiments: a Qualitative Investigation
Simone Romano, Davide Fucci, Giuseppe Scanniello +3
Researcher Bias (RB) occurs when researchers influence the results of an empirical study based on their expectations.RB might be due to the use of Questionable Research Practices(Q…
Results from a replicated experiment on the affective reactions of novice developers when applying test-driven development
Simone Romano, Giuseppe Scanniello, Maria Teresa Baldassarre +2
Test-driven Development (TDD) is an incremental approach to software development. Despite it is claimed to improve both quality of software and developers' productivity, the resear…
An Empirical Assessment on Affective Reactions of Novice Developers when Applying Test-Driven Development
Simone Romano, Davide Fucci, Maria Teresa Baldassarre +2
We study whether and in which phase Test-Driven Development (TDD) influences affective states of novice developers in terms of pleasure, arousal, dominance, and liking. We performe…
The Effect of Noise on Sofware Engineers' Performance
Simone Romano, Giuseppe Scanniello, Davide Fucci +2
Background: Noise, defined as an unwanted sound, is one of the commonest factors that could affect people's performance in their daily work activities. The software engineering res…
A Longitudinal Cohort Study on the Retainment of Test-Driven Development
Davide Fucci, Simone Romano, Maria Teresa Baldassarre +4
Background: Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an agile software development practice, which is claimed to boost both external quality of software products and developers' productivi…
Need for Sleep: the Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers' Performance
Davide Fucci, Giuseppe Scanniello, Simone Romano +1
We present a quasi-experiment to investigate whether, and to what extent, sleep deprivation impacts the performance of novice software developers using the agile practice of test-f…