Empirical Software Engineering

Title Publication Date Language Citations
Guidelines for conducting and reporting case study research in software engineering2008/12/19English1,051
Supporting Controlled Experimentation with Testing Techniques: An Infrastructure and its Potential Impact2005/10/01English327
On the relative value of cross-company and within-company data for defect prediction2009/01/07English302
Evaluating defect prediction approaches: a benchmark and an extensive comparison2011/08/17English254
Parameter tuning or default values? An empirical investigation in search-based software engineering2013/02/24English170
What are developers talking about? An analysis of topics and trends in Stack Overflow2012/11/01English163
Studying Software Engineers: Data Collection Techniques for Software Field Studies2005/07/01English156
Comparing and experimenting machine learning techniques for code smell detection2015/06/06English145
A method for evaluating rigor and industrial relevance of technology evaluations2010/10/06English133
Software defect prediction using Bayesian networks2012/08/01English130
The role of replications in Empirical Software Engineering2008/01/29English130
Techniques for evaluating fault prediction models2008/08/12English127
An exploratory study of the impact of antipatterns on class change- and fault-proneness2011/08/06English127
Empirical evidence in global software engineering: a systematic review2009/12/15English117
Studying just-in-time defect prediction using cross-project models2015/09/14English106
Value-cognitive boosting with a support vector machine for cross-project defect prediction2014/12/17English98
What are mobile developers asking about? A large scale study using stack overflow2015/04/21English98
A field study of API learning obstacles2010/12/14English98
The impact of agile practices on communication in software development2008/05/23English97
An empirical study of the impact of modern code review practices on software quality2015/04/25English93
On the diffuseness and the impact on maintainability of code smells: a large scale empirical investigation2017/08/07English91
Curating GitHub for engineered software projects2017/04/18English90
“Cloning considered harmful” considered harmful: patterns of cloning in software2008/07/24English83
Evaluating improvements to a meta-heuristic search for constrained interaction testing2010/07/13English79
Do developers update their library dependencies?2017/05/11English78
An in-depth study of the promises and perils of mining GitHub2015/09/05English77
Empirical software engineering experts on the use of students and professionals in experiments2017/06/08English76
Deep code comment generation with hybrid lexical and syntactical information2019/06/18English75
Bug characteristics in open source software2013/06/07English75
Pandemic programming2020/09/14English75