Reflecting on the limitations of a study is a crucial part of the research process. In software engineering studies, this reflection is typically conveyed through discussions of study limitations or threats to validity. In current practice, such ...

This edition of the “Practitioners’ Digest” brings you recent articles on approaches to addressing selected human and technical aspects of software development, from finding security vulnerabilities, system-level testing, to understanding the impact of ...

Sentiment analysis has been used to study aspects of software engineering, such as issue resolution, toxicity, and self-admitted technical debt. To address the peculiarities of software engineering texts, sentiment analysis tools often consider ...

Finding code changes that introduced bugs is important both for practitioners and researchers, but doing it precisely is a manual, effort-intensive process. The perfect test method is a theoretical construct aimed at detecting Bug-...

GitHub Copilot is an AI-enabled tool that automates program synthesis. It has gained significant attention since its launch in 2021. Recent studies have extensively examined Copilot's capabilities in various programming tasks, as well as its security ...

In the rapidly evolving global business landscape, the demand for software has intensified competition among organizations, leading to challenges in retaining highly qualified IT members in software organizations. One of the problems faced by IT ...

This edition of the “Practitioners’ Digest” covers recent papers employing generative artificial intelligence in support of testing, debugging, and log analysis that were presented at the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software ...

This edition of the “Practitioner’s Digest” department focuses on an initiative for reviewing papers reporting empirical research, along with recent papers about empirical studies with implications for software practice.

EMF metamodels lie at the heart of model-based approaches for a variety of tasks, notably for defining the abstract syntax of modeling languages. The language design of EMF metamodels itself is part of a design process, where the needs of ...

This edition of the “Practitioners’ Digest” covers recent articles and/or papers on novel approaches and tools to support developers and communities in the era of artificial intelligence from the Technical Track and the Software Engineering in Practice ...

Writing and modifying source code are core activities in software development and evolution. The outcome of a coding task in terms of quality may depend on several aspects, such as the difficulty of the task or the complexity of the system. ...

This edition of the “Practitioner’s Digest” features recent papers on open source software related to toxicity in open source discussions, newcomers in open source projects, quality of ansible scripts, code review practices, orphan vulnerabilities in open ...

Emotion awareness is a key antecedent to team effectiveness and the use of biometrics can help software developers in gaining awareness of emotions at the individual and team level. In this paper, we propose an approach to include emotional feedback ...

We are delighted to introduce the Software Engineering in Society (SEIS) track program as part of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, to be held in Melbourne, Australia, on May 14-20, 2023. The aim of the track is to ...

Software bots fulfill an important role in collective software development, and their adoption by developers promises increased productivity. Past research has identified that bots that communicate too often can irritate developers, which affects the ...

The intersection of ageism and sexism can create a hostile environment for veteran software developers belonging to marginalized genders. In this study, we conducted 14 interviews to examine the experiences of people at this intersection, primarily ...

Peer code review is a widely practiced software engineering process in which software developers collaboratively evaluate and improve source code quality. Whether developers can perform good reviews depends on whether they have sufficient competence and ...

Execution logs capture the run-time behavior of software systems. To assist developers in their maintenance tasks, many studies have proposed tools to analyze execution information from logs. However, it is as yet unknown how industry ...

In honor of this issue’s theme of “Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineering—Realizing the Potential of AI,” this edition of the “Practitioners’ Digest” brings you recent papers on AI and machine learning (ML) engineering, which we believe will be of ...

Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) consists of annotations—typically, but not only, source code comments—pointing out incomplete features, maintainability problems, or, in general, portions of a program not-ready yet. The way a SATD comment is ...$$$$