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Use and Misuse of the Term Experiment in Mining Software Repositories Research
Claudia Ayala, Burak Turhan, Xavier Franch +1
The significant momentum and importance of Mining Software Repositories (MSR) in Software Engineering (SE) has fostered new opportunities and challenges for extensive empirical res…
How Tertiary Studies perform Quality Assessment of Secondary Studies in Software Engineering
Dolors Costal, Carles Farré, Xavier Franch +1
Context: Tertiary studies are becoming increasingly popular in software engineering as an instrument to synthesise evidence on a research topic in a systematic way. In order to und…
Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria in Software Engineering Tertiary Studies: A Systematic Mapping and Emerging Framework
Dolors Costal, Carles Farré, Xavier Franch +1
Context: Tertiary studies in software engineering (TS@SE) are widely used to synthesise evidence on a research topic systematically. As part of their protocol, TS@SE define inclusi…
Which Design Decisions in AI-enabled Mobile Applications Contribute to Greener AI?
Roger Creus Castanyer, Silverio Martínez-Fernández, Xavier Franch
Background: The construction, evolution and usage of complex artificial intelligence (AI) models demand expensive computational resources. While currently available high-performanc…
Software-Based Dialogue Systems: Survey, Taxonomy and Challenges
Quim Motger, Xavier Franch, Jordi Marco
The use of natural language interfaces in the field of human-computer interaction is undergoing intense study through dedicated scientific and industrial research. The latest contr…
A Study about the Knowledge and Use of Requirements Engineering Standards in Industry
Xavier Franch, Martin Glinz, Daniel Mendez +1
Context: The use of standards is considered a vital part of any engineering discipline. So one could expect that standards play an important role in Requirements Engineering (RE) a…
Software Engineering for AI-Based Systems: A Survey
Silverio Martínez-Fernández, Justus Bogner, Xavier Franch +5
AI-based systems are software systems with functionalities enabled by at least one AI component (e.g., for image- and speech-recognition, and autonomous driving). AI-based systems…
Improving Web API Usage Logging
Rediana Koçi, Xavier Franch, Petar Jovanovic +1
A Web API (WAPI) is a type of API whose interaction with its consumers is done through the Internet. While being accessed through the Internet can be challenging, mostly when WAPIs…
Integration of Convolutional Neural Networks in Mobile Applications
Roger Creus Castanyer, Silverio Martínez-Fernández, Xavier Franch
When building Deep Learning (DL) models, data scientists and software engineers manage the trade-off between their accuracy, or any other suitable success criteria, and their compl…
The State-of-Practice in Requirements Elicitation: An Extended Interview Study at 12 Companies
Cristina Palomares, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer +3
Context. Requirements engineering remains a discipline that is faced with a large number of challenges, including the implementation of a requirements elicitation process in indust…
QFL: Data-Driven Feedback Loop to Manage Quality in Agile Development
Lidia López, Alessandra Bagnato, Antonin Ahbervé +1
Background: Quality requirements (QRs) describe desired system qualities, playing an important role in the success of software projects. In the context of agile software developmen…
Improved management of issue dependencies in issue trackers of large collaborative projects
Mikko Raatikainen, Quim Motger, Clara Marie Lüders +7
Issue trackers, such as Jira, have become the prevalent collaborative tools in software engineering for managing issues, such as requirements, development tasks, and software bugs.…