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A First Look at Human Values-Violation in App Reviews
Humphrey O. Obie, Waqar Hussain, Xin Xia +5
Ubiquitous technologies such as mobile software applications (mobile apps) have a tremendous influence on the evolution of the social, cultural, economic, and political facets of l…
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 Fine-grained Data Set and Analysis of Tangling in Bug Fixing Commits
Steffen Herbold, Alexander Trautsch, Benjamin Ledel +45
Context: Tangled commits are changes to software that address multiple concerns at once. For researchers interested in bugs, tangled commits mean that they actually study not only…
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…
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…
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…