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most citedContinuous integration in a social-coding world: Empirical evidence from GitHub. **Updated version with corrections**

92 citations · 154 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.SE2023

Reusability Challenges of Scientific Workflows: A Case Study for Galaxy

Khairul Alam, Banani Roy, Alexander Serebrenik

Scientific workflow has become essential in software engineering because it provides a structured approach to designing, executing, and analyzing scientific experiments. Software d…

cs.SE2023

Autonomy Is An Acquired Taste: Exploring Developer Preferences for GitHub Bots

Amir Ghorbani, Nathan Cassee, Derek Robinson +4

Software bots fulfill an important role in collective software development, and their adoption by developers promises increased productivity. Past research has identified that bots…

cs.SE2021★ 21 cited

Quality Gatekeepers: Investigating the Effects ofCode Review Bots on Pull Request Activities

Mairieli Wessel, Alexander Serebrenik, Igor Wiese +2

Software bots have been facilitating several development activities in Open Source Software (OSS) projects, including code review. However, these bots may bring unexpected impacts…

cs.SE2020

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…

cs.SE2020★ 22 cited

Assessment of Off-the-Shelf SE-specific Sentiment Analysis Tools: An Extended Replication Study

Nicole Novielli, Fabio Calefato, Filippo Lanubile +1

Sentiment analysis methods have become popular for investigating human communication, including discussions related to software projects. Since general-purpose sentiment analysis t…

cs.SE2020

Work Practices and Perceptions from Women Core Developers in OSS Communities

Edna Dias Canedo, Rodrigo Bonifácio, Márcio Vinícius Okimoto +3

The effect of gender diversity in open source communities has gained increasing attention from practitioners and researchers. For instance, organizations such as the Python Softwar…