EMSE

Publication Year	Author	Title	Publication Title	DOI	Primary Category 1	Secondary Category 1	Tertiary Category 1	Primary Category 2	Secondary Category 2	Tertiary Category 2	Primary Category 3	Secondary Category 3	Tertiary Category 3	Notes
2015	Di Penta, Massimiliano; Xie, Tao	Guest editorial: special section on mining software repositories	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9383-7	no MSR study
2016	Pinzger, Martin; Kim, Sunghun	Guest editorial: mining software repositories	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9450-8	no MSR study
2016	Di Penta, Massimiliano; Kim, Sunghun	Guest editorial: Special section on mining software repositories	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9428-6	no MSR study
2016	Chen, Tse-Hsun; Thomas, Stephen W.; Hassan, Ahmed E.	A survey on the use of topic models when mining software repositories	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9402-8	no MSR study
2016	Abebe, Surafel Lemma; Ali, Nasir; Hassan, Ahmed E.	An empirical study of software release notes	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9377-5	development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling
2016	Bagheri, Ebrahim; Benavides, David; Schmid, Klaus; Runeson, Per	Foreword to the special issue on empirical evidence on software product line engineering	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9439-3	development support and automation	generation	release note generation							not AI-based
2016	Chen, Jie; Xiao, Junchao; Wang, Qing; Osterweil, Leon J.; Li, Mingshu	Perspectives on refactoring planning and practice: an empirical study	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9390-8	no MSR study
2016	McIlroy, Stuart; Ali, Nasir; Hassan, Ahmed E.	Fresh apps: an empirical study of frequently-updated mobile apps in the Google play store	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9388-2	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software usage	app stores
2016	German, Daniel M.; Adams, Bram; Hassan, Ahmed E.	Continuously mining distributed version control systems: an empirical study of how Linux uses Git	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-014-9356-2	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		collaboration and coordination						repository versions and interactions
2016	Adams, Bram; Kavanagh, Ryan; Hassan, Ahmed E.; German, Daniel M.	An empirical study of integration activities in distributions of open source software	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9371-y	software maintenance	integration		software maintenance	reuse and clones
2016	McIntosh, Shane; Kamei, Yasutaka; Adams, Bram; Hassan, Ahmed E.	An empirical study of the impact of modern code review practices on software quality	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9381-9	software quality	code reviews								Gerrit
2016	Tian, Yuan; Ali, Nasir; Lo, David; Hassan, Ahmed E.	On the unreliability of bug severity data	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9409-1	collaboration and coordination	communication		development support and automation	ticket and task resolution
2016	Nguyen, Viet Hung; Dashevskyi, Stanislav; Massacci, Fabio	An automatic method for assessing the versions affected by a vulnerability	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9408-2	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	detection
2016	Scholtes, Ingo; Mavrodiev, Pavlin; Schweitzer, Frank	From Aristotle to Ringelmann: a large-scale analysis of team productivity and coordination in Open Source Software projects	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9406-4	software maintenance	activity and productivity		collaboration and coordination
2016	Jaafar, Fehmi; Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël; Hamel, Sylvie; Khomh, Foutse; Zulkernine, Mohammad	Evaluating the impact of design pattern and anti-pattern dependencies on changes and faults	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9361-0	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns		software quality	defects
2016	Wu, Wei; Khomh, Foutse; Adams, Bram; Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël; Antoniol, Giuliano	An exploratory study of api changes and usages based on apache and eclipse ecosystems	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9411-7	software maintenance	updates and upgrades								POM mining
2016	Kalliamvakou, Eirini; Gousios, Georgios; Blincoe, Kelly; Singer, Leif; German, Daniel M.; Damian, Daniela	An in-depth study of the promises and perils of mining GitHub	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9393-5	MSR techniques	threats								GHTorrent threats
2016	Soetens, Quinten David; Demeyer, Serge; Zaidman, Andy; Pérez, Javier	Change-based test selection: an empirical evaluation	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9405-5	software quality	tests		MSR techniques	tool development					ChEOPSJ
2016	Maffort, Cristiano; Valente, Marco Tulio; Terra, Ricardo; Bigonha, Mariza; Anquetil, Nicolas; Hora, André	Mining architectural violations from version history	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-014-9348-2	software architecture and design	conformance and evolution		MSR techniques	tool development					ArchLint
2016	Alnaeli, Saleh M.; Maletic, Jonathan I.; Collard, Michael L.	An empirical examination of the prevalence of inhibitors to the parallelizability of open source software systems	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9385-5	software architecture and design	parallelisation								code
2016	Assar, Saïd; Borg, Markus; Pfahl, Dietmar	Using text clustering to predict defect resolution time: a conceptual replication and an evaluation of prediction accuracy	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9391-7	software quality	defects	fixes							RapidMiner, resolution time prediction
2016	Kamei, Yasutaka; Fukushima, Takafumi; McIntosh, Shane; Yamashita, Kazuhiro; Ubayashi, Naoyasu; Hassan, Ahmed E.	Studying just-in-time defect prediction using cross-project models	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9400-x	software quality	defects	prediction							keywords
2016	De França, Breno Bernard Nicolau; Travassos, Guilherme Horta	Experimentation with dynamic simulation models in software engineering: planning and reporting guidelines	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9386-4	no MSR study
2016	Herzig, Kim; Just, Sascha; Zeller, Andreas	The impact of tangled code changes on defect prediction models	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9376-6	software quality	defects	prediction	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software maintenance	refactoring
2016	Unterkalmsteiner, Michael; Gorschek, Tony; Feldt, Robert; Lavesson, Niklas	Large-scale information retrieval in software engineering - an experience report from industrial application	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9410-8	development support and automation	information retrieval
2016	Baysal, Olga; Kononenko, Oleksii; Holmes, Reid; Godfrey, Michael W.	Investigating technical and non-technical factors influencing modern code review	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9366-8	software quality	code reviews		collaboration and coordination
2017	Robbes, Romain; Kamei, Yasutaka; Pinzger, Martin	Guest Editorial: Mining software repositories	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9527-z	no MSR study
2017	Bezemer, Cor-Paul; McIntosh, Shane; Adams, Bram; German, Daniel M.; Hassan, Ahmed E.	An empirical study of unspecified dependencies in make-based build systems	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9510-8	software maintenance	development operations	builds	software maintenance	dependency management
2017	Malhotra, Ruchika; Khanna, Megha	An empirical study for software change prediction using imbalanced data	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9488-7	software maintenance	code and change prediction
2017	Behnamghader, Pooyan; Le, Duc Minh; Garcia, Joshua; Link, Daniel; Shahbazian, Arman; Medvidovic, Nenad	A large-scale study of architectural evolution in open-source software systems	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9466-0	software architecture and design	conformance and evolution		MSR techniques	tool development					ARCADE
2017	Park, Jihun; Kim, Miryung; Bae, Doo-Hwan	An empirical study of supplementary patches in open source projects	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9432-x	software quality	defects	fixes
2017	Spinellis, Diomidis	A repository of Unix history and evolution	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9445-5	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation
2017	Munaiah, Nuthan; Kroh, Steven; Cabrey, Craig; Nagappan, Meiyappan	Curating GitHub for engineered software projects	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9512-6	MSR techniques	tool development								reaper, research software for repository selection
2017	Joblin, Mitchell; Apel, Sven; Mauerer, Wolfgang	Evolutionary trends of developer coordination: a network approach	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9478-9	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures
2017	Munaiah, Nuthan; Camilo, Felivel; Wigham, Wesley; Meneely, Andrew; Nagappan, Meiyappan	Do bugs foreshadow vulnerabilities? An in-depth study of the chromium project	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9447-3	software quality	defects		software quality	vulnerabilities and security
2017	Zogaan, Waleed; Mujhid, Ibrahim; S. Santos, Joanna C.; Gonzalez, Danielle; Mirakhorli, Mehdi	Automated training-set creation for software architecture traceability problem	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9476-y	software architecture and design	conformance and evolution		MSR techniques	data set and benchmark creation		MSR techniques	tool development		BUDGET
2017	Sawant, Anand Ashok; Bacchelli, Alberto	fine-GRAPE: fine-grained APi usage extractor – an approach and dataset to investigate API usage	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9444-6	software architecture and design			software maintenance	reuse and clones		MSR techniques	tool development		GRAPE
2017	Mahmoud, Anas; Bradshaw, Gary	Semantic topic models for source code analysis	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9473-1	development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling
2017	Chen, Boyuan; (Jack) Jiang, Zhen Ming	Characterizing logging practices in Java-based open source software projects – a replication study in Apache Software Foundation	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9429-5	software maintenance	debugging and logging		software quality	defects	localisation
2017	Wu, Yuhao; Manabe, Yuki; Kanda, Tetsuya; German, Daniel M.; Inoue, Katsuro	Analysis of license inconsistency in large collections of open source projects	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9487-8	software governance	licensing
2017	Kessentini, Marouane; Mansoor, Usman; Wimmer, Manuel; Ouni, Ali; Deb, Kalyanmoy	Search-based detection of model level changes	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9442-8	software architecture and design	conformance and evolution
2017	Vendome, Christopher; Bavota, Gabriele; Penta, Massimiliano Di; Linares-Vásquez, Mario; German, Daniel; Poshyvanyk, Denys	License usage and changes: a large-scale study on gitHub	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9438-4	software governance	licensing
2017	Sharif, Bonita; Meinken, John; Shaffer, Timothy; Kagdi, Huzefa	Eye movements in software traceability link recovery	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9486-9	development support and automation	information retrieval								eye-tracking comparison
2017	Gil, Yossi; Lalouche, Gal	On the correlation between size and metric validity	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9513-5	software quality	code metrics								finds metrics are as valid as correlation with size
2017	Caneill, Matthieu; Germán, Daniel M.; Zacchiroli, Stefano	The Debsources Dataset: two decades of free and open source software	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9461-5	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation								Debsources
2017	Ó Cinnéide, Mel; Hemati Moghadam, Iman; Harman, Mark; Counsell, Steve; Tratt, Laurence	An experimental search-based approach to cohesion metric evaluation	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9427-7	software quality	code metrics								different cohesion metrics are conflicting
2017	Luo, Qi; Nair, Aswathy; Grechanik, Mark; Poshyvanyk, Denys	FOREPOST: finding performance problems automatically with feedback-directed learning software testing	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-015-9413-5	software quality	tests		software quality	performance
2017	Tosun, Ayse; Dieste, Oscar; Fucci, Davide; Vegas, Sira; Turhan, Burak; Erdogmus, Hakan; Santos, Adrian; Oivo, Markku; Toro, Kimmo; Jarvinen, Janne; Juristo, Natalia	An industry experiment on the effects of test-driven development on external quality and productivity	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9490-0	no MSR study
2017	Kuhrmann, Marco; Fernández, Daniel Méndez; Daneva, Maya	On the pragmatic design of literature studies in software engineering: an experience-based guideline	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-016-9492-y	no MSR study									literature review guidelines
2018	Robbes, Romain; Hill, Emily; Bird, Christian	Guest Editorial: Special section on mining software repositories	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9612-y	no MSR study
2018	Ajienka, Nemitari; Capiluppi, Andrea; Counsell, Steve	An empirical study on the interplay between semantic coupling and co-change of software classes	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9569-2	software maintenance	change impact analysis		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
2018	Dintzner, Nicolas; Van Deursen, Arie; Pinzger, Martin	FEVER: An approach to analyze feature-oriented changes and artefact co-evolution in highly configurable systems	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9557-6	software architecture and design	features and variants		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		MSR techniques	tool development		FEVER
2018	Squire, Megan	Data sets describing the circle of life in Ruby hosting, 2003–2016	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9581-6	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation
2018	Pinto, Gustavo; Steinmacher, Igor; Dias, Luiz Felipe; Gerosa, Marco	On the challenges of open-sourcing proprietary software projects	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9609-6	software governance	open-sourcing		collaboration and coordination
2018	Trautsch, Fabian; Herbold, Steffen; Makedonski, Philip; Grabowski, Jens	Addressing problems with replicability and validity of repository mining studies through a smart data platform	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9537-x	MSR techniques	tool development		MSR techniques	threats					SmartSHARK
2018	Moonen, Leon; Rolfsnes, Thomas; Binkley, Dave; Di Alesio, Stefano	What are the effects of history length and age on mining software change impact?	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9588-z	MSR techniques	threats								history length impact
2018	Accioly, Paola; Borba, Paulo; Cavalcanti, Guilherme	Understanding semi-structured merge conflict characteristics in open-source Java projects	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9586-1	software maintenance	code merge		software maintenance	productivity
2018	Gupta, Monika; Asadullah, Allahbaksh; Padmanabhuni, Srinivas; Serebrenik, Alexander	Reducing user input requests to improve IT support ticket resolution process	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9532-2	development support and automation	ticket and task resolution								user tickets
2018	Rolfsnes, Thomas; Moonen, Leon; Alesio, Stefano Di; Behjati, Razieh; Binkley, Dave	Aggregating Association Rules to Improve Change Recommendation	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9560-y	software maintenance	change impact analysis		development support and automation	recommendations
2018	Mondal, Manishankar; Rahman, Md Saidur; Roy, Chanchal K.; Schneider, Kevin A.	Is cloned code really stable?	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9528-y	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software maintenance	reuse and clones
2018	Li, Heng; Chen, Tse-Hsun; Shang, Weiyi; Hassan, Ahmed E.	Studying software logging using topic models	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9595-8	software maintenance	debugging and logging		development support and automation
2018	Calefato, Fabio; Lanubile, Filippo; Maiorano, Federico; Novielli, Nicole	Sentiment Polarity Detection for Software Development	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9546-9	collaboration and coordination	communication	sentiment analysis
2018	Sawant, Anand Ashok; Robbes, Romain; Bacchelli, Alberto	On the reaction to deprecation of clients of 4 + 1 popular Java APIs and the JDK	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9554-9	software maintenance	dependency management		software maintenance	technical debt
2018	Huang, Qiao; Shihab, Emad; Xia, Xin; Lo, David; Li, Shanping	Identifying self-admitted technical debt in open source projects using text mining	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9522-4	software maintenance	technical debt
2018	Costa, Daniel Alencar Da; McIntosh, Shane; Treude, Christoph; Kulesza, Uirá; Hassan, Ahmed E.	The impact of rapid release cycles on the integration delay of fixed issues	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9548-7	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	integration		software maintenance	activity and productivity
2018	Morrison, Patrick J.; Pandita, Rahul; Xiao, Xusheng; Chillarege, Ram; Williams, Laurie	Are vulnerabilities discovered and resolved like other defects?	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-017-9541-1	software quality	defects	fixes	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	patterns
2019	Tan, Lin; Hindle, Abram	Guest Editorial: Special Section on Mining Software Repositories	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09724-7	no MSR study
2019	Mazuera-Rozo, Alejandro; Bautista-Mora, Jairo; Linares-Vásquez, Mario; Rueda, Sandra; Bavota, Gabriele	The Android OS stack and its vulnerabilities: an empirical study	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09689-7	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	patterns
2019	Ghaleb, Taher Ahmed; Da Costa, Daniel Alencar; Zou, Ying	An empirical study of the long duration of continuous integration builds	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09695-9	software maintenance	development operations	builds	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD
2019	Shahin, Mojtaba; Zahedi, Mansooreh; Babar, Muhammad Ali; Zhu, Liming	An empirical study of architecting for continuous delivery and deployment	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9651-4	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software architecture and design	re-design and re-engineering
2019	Bavota, Gabriele; Marcus, Andrian	Introduction to the special issue on software analysis, evolution, and reengineering	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9678-6	no MSR study									SANER 2017 special issue
2019	Stevens, Reinout; Molderez, Tim; De Roover, Coen	Querying distilled code changes to extract executable transformations	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9644-3	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software maintenance	refactoring					example of SANER special issue
2019	Ruangwan, Shade; Thongtanunam, Patanamon; Ihara, Akinori; Matsumoto, Kenichi	The impact of human factors on the participation decision of reviewers in modern code review	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9646-1	software quality	code reviews		collaboration and coordination	human factors and values
2019	German, Daniel M.; Adams, Bram; Stewart, Kate	cregit: Token-level blame information in git version control repositories	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09704-x	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		MSR techniques	tool development					cregit
2019	Prana, Gede Artha Azriadi; Treude, Christoph; Thung, Ferdian; Atapattu, Thushari; Lo, David	Categorizing the Content of GitHub README Files	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9660-3	development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling		software governance	licensing
2019	Sawant, Anand Ashok; Robbes, Romain; Bacchelli, Alberto	To react, or not to react: Patterns of reaction to API deprecation	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09713-w	software maintenance	dependency management
2019	Garousi, Vahid; Pfahl, Dietmar; Fernandes, João M.; Felderer, Michael; Mäntylä, Mika V.; Shepherd, David; Arcuri, Andrea; Coşkunçay, Ahmet; Tekinerdogan, Bedir	Characterizing industry-academia collaborations in software engineering: evidence from 101 projects	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09711-y	no MSR study
2019	Medeiros, Flávio; Lima, Gabriel; Amaral, Guilherme; Apel, Sven; Kästner, Christian; Ribeiro, Márcio; Gheyi, Rohit	An investigation of misunderstanding code patterns in C open-source software projects	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9666-x	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns
2019	Cruz, Luis; Abreu, Rui; Lo, David	To the attention of mobile software developers: guess what, test your app!	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09701-0	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software quality	tests
2019	Gharehyazie, Mohammad; Ray, Baishakhi; Keshani, Mehdi; Zavosht, Masoumeh Soleimani; Heydarnoori, Abbas; Filkov, Vladimir	Cross-project code clones in GitHub	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9648-z	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	productivity		MSR techniques	tool development		CLONE-HUNTRESS
2019	Alexandru, Carol V.; Panichella, Sebastiano; Proksch, Sebastian; Gall, Harald C.	Redundancy-free analysis of multi-revision software artifacts	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9630-9	MSR techniques	tool development								LISA
2019	Yan, Meng; Xia, Xin; Lo, David; Hassan, Ahmed E.; Li, Shanping	Characterizing and identifying reverted commits	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09688-8	software maintenance	code and change prediction		MSR techniques	tool development					revert commit prediction
2019	Zolfagharinia, Mahdis; Adams, Bram; Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël	A study of build inflation in 30 million CPAN builds on 13 Perl versions and 10 operating systems	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09709-6	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software maintenance	development operations	builds
2019	Thongtanunam, Patanamon; Shang, Weiyi; Hassan, Ahmed E.	Will this clone be short-lived? Towards a better understanding of the characteristics of short-lived clones	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9645-2	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
2019	Nelson, Nicholas; Brindescu, Caius; McKee, Shane; Sarma, Anita; Dig, Danny	The life-cycle of merge conflicts: processes, barriers, and strategies	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9674-x	no MSR study
2019	Foucault, Matthieu; Blanc, Xavier; Falleri, Jean-Rémy; Storey, Margaret-Anne	Fostering good coding practices through individual feedback and gamification: an industrial case study	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09719-4	no MSR study
2019	Ragkhitwetsagul, Chaiyong; Krinke, Jens	Siamese: scalable and incremental code clone search via multiple code representations	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09697-7	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
2019	Pascarella, Luca; Bruntink, Magiel; Bacchelli, Alberto	Classifying code comments in Java software systems	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09694-w	development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling		software maintenance	productivity		collaboration and coordination
2019	Chaparro, Oscar; Florez, Juan Manuel; Marcus, Andrian	Using bug descriptions to reformulate queries during text-retrieval-based bug localization	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9672-z	software quality	defects	localisation	development support and automation
2019	Baum, Tobias; Schneider, Kurt; Bacchelli, Alberto	Associating working memory capacity and code change ordering with code review performance	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-018-9676-8	no MSR study
2020	Kamei, Yasutaka; Zaidman, Andy	Guest editorial: Mining software repositories 2018	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09817-8	no MSR study
2020	Abdellatif, Ahmad; Badran, Khaled; Shihab, Emad	MSRBot: Using bots to answer questions from software repositories	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09788-5	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance			development support and automation	information retrieval		MSRbot (chatbot)
2020	Lee, Daniel; Rajbahadur, Gopi Krishnan; Lin, Dayi; Sayagh, Mohammed; Bezemer, Cor-Paul; Hassan, Ahmed E.	An empirical study of the characteristics of popular Minecraft mods	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09840-9	software usage	popularity								actually not mining SR but games
2020	Piantadosi, Valentina; Fierro, Fabiana; Scalabrino, Simone; Serebrenik, Alexander; Oliveto, Rocco	How does code readability change during software evolution?	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09886-9	software quality	code metrics		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
2020	Das, Teerath; Di Penta, Massimiliano; Malavolta, Ivano	Characterizing the evolution of statically-detectable performance issues of Android apps	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09798-3	software quality	defects	detection	software quality	performance
2020	Kotti, Zoe; Kravvaritis, Konstantinos; Dritsa, Konstantina; Spinellis, Diomidis	Standing on shoulders or feet? An extended study on the usage of the MSR data papers	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09834-7	no MSR study
2020	Trautsch, Alexander; Herbold, Steffen; Grabowski, Jens	A longitudinal study of static analysis warning evolution and the effects of PMD on software quality in Apache open source projects	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09880-1	software quality	defects	detection	software maintenance	development operations	builds
2020	Nyamawe, Ally S.; Liu, Hui; Niu, Nan; Umer, Qasim; Niu, Zhendong	Feature requests-based recommendation of software refactorings	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09871-2	software maintenance	refactoring		development support and automation	recommendations
2020	Li, Shanshan; Niu, Xu; Jia, Zhouyang; Liao, Xiangke; Wang, Ji; Li, Tao	Guiding log revisions by learning from software evolution history	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09757-y	software maintenance	debugging and logging		development support and automation	recommendations
2020	Oliveira, Edson; Fernandes, Eduardo; Steinmacher, Igor; Cristo, Marco; Conte, Tayana; Garcia, Alessandro	Code and commit metrics of developer productivity: a study on team leaders perceptions	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09820-z	software maintenance	activity and productivity	metrics
2020	Hunsen, Claus; Siegmund, Janet; Apel, Sven	On the fulfillment of coordination requirements in open-source software projects: An exploratory study	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09833-8	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures
2020	Rousseau, Guillaume; Di Cosmo, Roberto; Zacchiroli, Stefano	Software provenance tracking at the scale of public source code	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09828-5	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
2020	Sharma, Tushar; Singh, Paramvir; Spinellis, Diomidis	An empirical investigation on the relationship between design and architecture smells	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09847-2	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns
2020	Nugroho, Yusuf Sulistyo; Hata, Hideaki; Matsumoto, Kenichi	How different are different diff algorithms in Git?: Use –histogram for code changes	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09772-z	MSR techniques	MSR threats
2020	Amreen, Sadika; Mockus, Audris; Zaretzki, Russell; Bogart, Christopher; Zhang, Yuxia	ALFAA: Active Learning Fingerprint based Anti-Aliasing for correcting developer identity errors in version control systems	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09786-7	MSR techniques	MSR threats								identity matching
2020	Storey, Margaret-Anne; Ernst, Neil A.; Williams, Courtney; Kalliamvakou, Eirini	The who, what, how of software engineering research: a socio-technical framework	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09858-z	no MSR study
2020	Li, Li; Gao, Jun; Bissyandé, Tegawendé F.; Ma, Lei; Xia, Xin; Klein, Jacques	CDA: Characterising Deprecated Android APIs	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09764-z	software maintenance	dependency management		software maintenance	updates and upgrades
2020	Scalabrino, Simone; Bavota, Gabriele; Linares-Vásquez, Mario; Piantadosi, Valentina; Lanza, Michele; Oliveto, Rocco	API compatibility issues in Android: Causes and effectiveness of data-driven detection techniques	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09877-w	software maintenance	dependency management		development support and automation	recommendations		MSR techniques	tool development		ACRYL
2020	Higo, Yoshiki; Hayashi, Shinpei; Hata, Hideaki; Nagappan, Meiyappan	Ammonia: an approach for deriving project-specific bug patterns	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09807-w	software quality	defects	detection	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		MSR techniques	tool development		Ammonia
2020	Salza, Pasquale; Palomba, Fabio; Di Nucci, Dario; De Lucia, Andrea; Ferrucci, Filomena	Third-party libraries in mobile apps: When, how, and why developers update them	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09754-1	software maintenance	dependency management		software maintenance	updates and upgrades
2020	Ponta, Serena Elisa; Plate, Henrik; Sabetta, Antonino	Detection, assessment and mitigation of vulnerabilities in open source dependencies	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09830-x	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	detection	MSR techniques	tool development
2020	Rodríguez-Pérez, Gema; Robles, Gregorio; Serebrenik, Alexander; Zaidman, Andy; Germán, Daniel M.; Gonzalez-Barahona, Jesus M.	How bugs are born: a model to identify how bugs are introduced in software components	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09781-y	software quality	defects	localisation
2020	Hübner, Paul; Paech, Barbara	Interaction-based creation and maintenance of continuously usable trace links between requirements and source code	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09831-w	no MSR study
2020	Mazuera-Rozo, Alejandro; Trubiani, Catia; Linares-Vásquez, Mario; Bavota, Gabriele	Investigating types and survivability of performance bugs in mobile apps	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09795-6	software quality	defects	detection	software quality	defects	fixes	software quality	performance
2020	Koyuncu, Anil; Liu, Kui; Bissyandé, Tegawendé F.; Kim, Dongsun; Klein, Jacques; Monperrus, Martin; Le Traon, Yves	FixMiner: Mining relevant fix patterns for automated program repair	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09780-z	software quality	defects	detection	software quality	defects	fixes	MSR techniques	tool development		FixMiner
2020	Herbold, Steffen; Trautsch, Alexander; Trautsch, Fabian	On the feasibility of automated prediction of bug and non-bug issues	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09885-w	development support and automation	recommendations		software maintenance
2020	Bangash, Abdul Ali; Sahar, Hareem; Hindle, Abram; Ali, Karim	On the time-based conclusion stability of cross-project defect prediction models	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09878-9	software quality	defects	prediction	MSR techniques	threats
2020	Berger, Thorsten; Steghöfer, Jan-Philipp; Ziadi, Tewfik; Robin, Jacques; Martinez, Jabier	The state of adoption and the challenges of systematic variability management in industry	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09787-6	no MSR study									"”lightweight”” literature review
2020	Agrawal, Amritanshu; Menzies, Tim; Minku, Leandro L.; Wagner, Markus; Yu, Zhe	Better software analytics via “DUO”: Data mining algorithms using/used-by optimizers	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09808-9	MSR techniques	tool development								DUO
2020	Ghanavati, Mohammadreza; Costa, Diego; Seboek, Janos; Lo, David; Andrzejak, Artur	Memory and resource leak defects and their repairs in Java projects	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09731-8	software quality	defects	localisation	software quality	defects	fixes
2020	Ralph, Paul; Baltes, Sebastian; Adisaputri, Gianisa; Torkar, Richard; Kovalenko, Vladimir; Kalinowski, Marcos; Novielli, Nicole; Yoo, Shin; Devroey, Xavier; Tan, Xin; Zhou, Minghui; Turhan, Burak; Hoda, Rashina; Hata, Hideaki; Robles, Gregorio; Milani Fard, Amin; Alkadhi, Rana	Pandemic programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09875-y	no MSR study
2020	Garousi, Vahid; Borg, Markus; Oivo, Markku	Practical relevance of software engineering research: synthesizing the community’s voice	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09803-0	no MSR study
2020	Sayagh, Mohammed; Kerzazi, Noureddine; Petrillo, Fabio; Bennani, Khalil; Adams, Bram	What should your run-time configuration framework do to help developers?	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09790-x	no MSR study
2020	Kondo, Masanari; German, Daniel M.; Mizuno, Osamu; Choi, Eun-Hye	The impact of context metrics on just-in-time defect prediction	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09736-3	software quality	defects	prediction
2020	Vassallo, Carmine; Panichella, Sebastiano; Palomba, Fabio; Proksch, Sebastian; Gall, Harald C.; Zaidman, Andy	How developers engage with static analysis tools in different contexts	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09750-5	software quality	defects	detection	software maintenance	debugging and logging
2020	Razzaq, Abdul; Le Gear, Andrew; Exton, Chris; Buckley, Jim	An empirical assessment of baseline feature location techniques	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09734-5	software architecture and design	features and variants		software maintenance
2020	Vassallo, Carmine; Proksch, Sebastian; Zemp, Timothy; Gall, Harald C.	Every build you break: developer-oriented assistance for build failure resolution	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09765-y	software maintenance	development operations	builds	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	development support and automation	summarisation	build log summarisation
2020	Zampetti, Fiorella; Vassallo, Carmine; Panichella, Sebastiano; Canfora, Gerardo; Gall, Harald; Di Penta, Massimiliano	An empirical characterization of bad practices in continuous integration	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09785-8	software maintenance	development operations	builds	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD				StackOverflow
2020	Marques, Rita; Costa, Gonçalo; Mira Da Silva, Miguel; Gonçalves, Daniel; Gonçalves, Pedro	A gamification solution for improving Scrum adoption	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09816-9	no MSR study
2020	Danglot, Benjamin; Monperrus, Martin; Rudametkin, Walter; Baudry, Benoit	An approach and benchmark to detect behavioral changes of commits in continuous integration	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-019-09794-7	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD
2020	Moslehi, Parisa; Adams, Bram; Rilling, Juergen	A feature location approach for mapping application features extracted from crowd-based screencasts to source code	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09874-z	software architecture and design	features and variants		software maintenance			development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling
2021	Kuutila, Miikka; Mäntylä, Mika; Claes, Maëlick; Elovainio, Marko; Adams, Bram	Individual differences limit predicting well-being and productivity using software repositories: a longitudinal industrial study	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-09977-1	software maintenance	activity and productivity		collaboration and coordination	communication
2021	Uddin, Gias; Sabir, Fatima; Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël; Alam, Omar; Khomh, Foutse	An empirical study of IoT topics in IoT developer discussions on Stack Overflow	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10021-5	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling							IoT, StackOverflow
2021	Kamienski, Arthur; Bezemer, Cor-Paul	An empirical study of Q&A websites for game developers	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10014-4	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling
2021	Quach, Sophia; Lamothe, Maxime; Kamei, Yasutaka; Shang, Weiyi	An empirical study on the use of SZZ for identifying inducing changes of non-functional bugs	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-09970-8	software quality	defects	detection	software quality	performance		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
2021	Gote, Christoph; Scholtes, Ingo; Schweitzer, Frank	Analysing Time-Stamped Co-Editing Networks in Software Development Teams using git2net	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09928-2	MSR techniques	tool development		collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		software maintenance	activity and productivity		git2net
2021	Yang, Nan; Cuijpers, Pieter; Schiffelers, Ramon; Lukkien, Johan; Serebrenik, Alexander	Single-state state machines in model-driven software engineering: an exploratory study	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10015-3	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns
2021	Ma, Yuxing; Dey, Tapajit; Bogart, Chris; Amreen, Sadika; Valiev, Marat; Tutko, Adam; Kennard, David; Zaretzki, Russell; Mockus, Audris	World of code: enabling a research workflow for mining and analyzing the universe of open source VCS data	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09905-9	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	bots					world of code
2021	Silva, Camila Costa; Galster, Matthias; Gilson, Fabian	Topic modeling in software engineering research	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10026-0	no MSR study	tool development		software maintenance	bots
2021	Moraes, João Pedro; Polato, Ivanilton; Wiese, Igor; Saraiva, Filipe; Pinto, Gustavo	From one to hundreds: multi-licensing in the JavaScript ecosystem	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09936-2	software governance	licensing
2021	Cashman, Mikaela; Firestone, Justin; Cohen, Myra B.; Thianniwet, Thammasak; Niu, Wei	An empirical investigation of organic software product lines	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-09940-0	software architecture and design	features and variants		software maintenance	reuse and clones
2021	Laaber, Christoph; Gall, Harald C.; Leitner, Philipp	Applying test case prioritization to software microbenchmarks	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10037-x	software quality	tests
2021	Liu, Jiakun; Huang, Qiao; Xia, Xin; Shihab, Emad; Lo, David; Li, Shanping	An exploratory study on the introduction and removal of different types of technical debt in deep learning frameworks	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09917-5	software maintenance	technical debt								self-admitted technical debt
2021	Prana, Gede Artha Azriadi; Sharma, Abhishek; Shar, Lwin Khin; Foo, Darius; Santosa, Andrew E.; Sharma, Asankhaya; Lo, David	Out of sight, out of mind? How vulnerable dependencies affect open-source projects	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-09959-3	software maintenance	dependency management		software quality	vulnerabilities and security
2021	Quach, Sophia; Lamothe, Maxime; Adams, Bram; Kamei, Yasutaka; Shang, Weiyi	Evaluating the impact of falsely detected performance bug-inducing changes in JIT models	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10004-6	software quality	defects	detection
2021	Aleti, Aldeida; Martinez, Matias	E-APR: Mapping the effectiveness of automated program repair techniques	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-09989-x	software quality	defects	detection	software quality	defects	fixes
2021	Zampetti, Fiorella; Fucci, Gianmarco; Serebrenik, Alexander; Di Penta, Massimiliano	Self-admitted technical debt practices: a comparison between industry and open-source	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10031-3	no MSR study
2021	Hoyos, Juan; Abdalkareem, Rabe; Mujahid, Suhaib; Shihab, Emad; Bedoya, Albeiro Espinosa	On the Removal of Feature Toggles: A Study of Python Projects and Practitioners Motivations	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09902-y	software architecture and design	features and variants
2021	Di Rocco, Juri; Di Ruscio, Davide; Di Sipio, Claudio; Nguyen, Phuong T.; Rubei, Riccardo	Development of recommendation systems for software engineering: the CROSSMINER experience	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-09963-7	development support and automation	recommendations		development support and automation	information retrieval		MSR techniques	tool development		CROSSMINER
2021	Mondal, Manishankar; Roy, Banani; Roy, Chanchal K.; Schneider, Kevin A.	ID-correspondence: a measure for detecting evolutionary coupling	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09921-9	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution								co-changes
2021	Ebert, Felipe; Castor, Fernando; Novielli, Nicole; Serebrenik, Alexander	An exploratory study on confusion in code reviews	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09909-5	no MSR study
2021	Tang, Henry; Nadi, Sarah	On using Stack Overflow comment-edit pairs to recommend code maintenance changes	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-09954-8	development support and automation	recommendations		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution					StackOverflow
2021	Pimentel, João Felipe; Murta, Leonardo; Braganholo, Vanessa; Freire, Juliana	Understanding and improving the quality and reproducibility of Jupyter notebooks	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-09961-9	software architecture and design	documentation
2021	Kuiter, Elias; Krieter, Sebastian; Krüger, Jacob; Saake, Gunter; Leich, Thomas	variED: an editor for collaborative, real-time feature modeling	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-020-09892-x	software architecture and design	features and variants		collaboration and coordination			MSR techniques	tool development		variED
2021	Yang, Xueqi; Chen, Jianfeng; Yedida, Rahul; Yu, Zhe; Menzies, Tim	Learning to recognize actionable static code warnings (is intrinsically easy)	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-09948-6	software maintenance	debugging and logging		software quality	defects	localisation
2022	Tsay, Jason; Braz, Alan; Hirzel, Martin; Shinnar, Avraham; Mummert, Todd	Extracting enhanced artificial intelligence model metadata from software repositories	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10206-6	software maintenance	reuse and clones		MSR techniques	tool development					AIMMX, AI model metadata extraction
2022	Wen, Fengcai; Nagy, Csaba; Lanza, Michele; Bavota, Gabriele	Quick remedy commits and their impact on mining software repositories	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10051-z	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
2022	Gold, Nicolas E.; Krinke, Jens	Ethics in the mining of software repositories	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10057-7	no MSR study
2022	Izadi, Maliheh; Akbari, Kiana; Heydarnoori, Abbas	Predicting the objective and priority of issue reports in software repositories	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10085-3	development support and automation	ticket and task resolution
2022	Kondo, Masanari; Kashiwa, Yutaro; Kamei, Yasutaka; Mizuno, Osamu	An empirical study of issue-link algorithms: which issue-link algorithms should we use?	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10120-x	software quality	defects	prediction
2022	Croft, Roland; Xie, Yongzheng; Zahedi, Mansooreh; Babar, M. Ali; Treude, Christoph	An empirical study of developers’ discussions about security challenges of different programming languages	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10054-w	software quality	vulnerabilities and security		collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling	development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling
2022	Sas, Darius; Avgeriou, Paris; Uyumaz, Umut	On the evolution and impact of architectural smells—an industrial case study	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10132-7	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns		MSR techniques	tool development					ARCAN (architecture smells)
2022	Herbold, Steffen; Trautsch, Alexander; Trautsch, Fabian; Ledel, Benjamin	Problems with SZZ and features: An empirical study of the state of practice of defect prediction data collection	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10092-4	software quality	defects	prediction	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation
2022	Mariani, Thainá; Kessentini, Marouane; Vergilio, Silvia Regina	Generation of refactoring algorithms by grammatical evolution	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10151-4	software maintenance	refactoring		development support and automation	recommendations		MSR techniques	tool development		Gorgeous
2022	Walunj, Vijay; Gharibi, Gharib; Alanazi, Rakan; Lee, Yugyung	Defect prediction using deep learning with Network Portrait Divergence for software evolution	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10147-0	software quality	defects	prediction	MSR techniques	tool development					GraphEvoDev
2022	Rehman, Ifraz; Wang, Dong; Kula, Raula Gaikovina; Ishio, Takashi; Matsumoto, Kenichi	Newcomer OSS-Candidates: Characterizing Contributions of Novice Developers to GitHub	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10163-0	collaboration and coordination	onboarding
2022	Basili, Victor; Briand, Lionel	Reflections on the Empirical Software Engineering journal	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10055-9	no MSR study
2022	Stol, Klaas-Jan; Schaarschmidt, Mario; Goldblit, Shelly	Gamification in software engineering: the mediating role of developer engagement and job satisfaction	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10062-w	no MSR study
2022	Rahman, Md Rayhanur; Imtiaz, Nasif; Storey, Margaret-Anne; Williams, Laurie	Why secret detection tools are not enough: It’s not just about false positives - An industrial case study	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10109-y	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	patterns
2022	Baltes, Sebastian; Ralph, Paul	Sampling in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10072-8	no MSR study
2022	Robles, Gregorio; Capiluppi, Andrea; Gonzalez-Barahona, Jesus M.; Lundell, Björn; Gamalielsson, Jonas	Development effort estimation in free/open source software from activity in version control systems	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10166-x	software maintenance	effort estimation
2022	Moreira, Rodrigo André Ferreira; Assunção, Wesley K. G.; Martinez, Jabier; Figueiredo, Eduardo	Open-source software product line extraction processes: the ArgoUML-SPL and Phaser cases	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10104-3	software architecture and design	re-design and re-engineering
2022	Jebnoun, Hadhemi; Rahman, Md Saidur; Khomh, Foutse; Muse, Biruk Asmare	Clones in deep learning code: what, where, and why?	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10099-x	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software quality	defects	detection
2022	Díaz, Oscar; Montalvillo, Leticia; Medeiros, Raul; Azanza, Maider; Fogdal, Thomas	Visualizing the customization endeavor in product-based-evolving software product lines: a case of action design research	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10101-6	software architecture and design	features and variants
2022	Calefato, Fabio; Gerosa, Marco Aurélio; Iaffaldano, Giuseppe; Lanubile, Filippo; Steinmacher, Igor	Will you come back to contribute? Investigating the inactivity of OSS core developers in GitHub	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10012-6	software maintenance	activity and productivity	patterns
2022	Businge, John; Openja, Moses; Nadi, Sarah; Berger, Thorsten	Reuse and maintenance practices among divergent forks in three software ecosystems	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10078-2	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software architecture and design	features and variants
2022	Herbold, Steffen; Trautsch, Alexander; Ledel, Benjamin; Aghamohammadi, Alireza; Ghaleb, Taher A.; Chahal, Kuljit Kaur; Bossenmaier, Tim; Nagaria, Bhaveet; Makedonski, Philip; Ahmadabadi, Matin Nili; Szabados, Kristof; Spieker, Helge; Madeja, Matej; Hoy, Nathaniel; Lenarduzzi, Valentina; Wang, Shangwen; Rodríguez-Pérez, Gema; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo; Verdecchia, Roberto; Singh, Paramvir; Qin, Yihao; Chakroborti, Debasish; Davis, Willard; Walunj, Vijay; Wu, Hongjun; Marcilio, Diego; Alam, Omar; Aldaeej, Abdullah; Amit, Idan; Turhan, Burak; Eismann, Simon; Wickert, Anna-Katharina; Malavolta, Ivano; Sulír, Matúš; Fard, Fatemeh; Henley, Austin Z.; Kourtzanidis, Stratos; Tuzun, Eray; Treude, Christoph; Shamasbi, Simin Maleki; Pashchenko, Ivan; Wyrich, Marvin; Davis, James; Serebrenik, Alexander; Albrecht, Ella; Aktas, Ethem Utku; Strüber, Daniel; Erbel, Johannes	A fine-grained data set and analysis of tangling in bug fixing commits	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10083-5	software quality	defects	prediction	software quality	defects	fixes	MSR techniques	threats
2022	Soares, Eliezio; Sizilio, Gustavo; Santos, Jadson; Da Costa, Daniel Alencar; Kulesza, Uirá	The effects of continuous integration on software development: a systematic literature review	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10114-1	no MSR study
2022	Lin, Jiahuei; Zhang, Haoxiang; Adams, Bram; Hassan, Ahmed E.	Upstream bug management in Linux distributions: An empirical study of Debian and Fedora practices	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10173-y	software quality	defects	fixes
2022	Michelon, Gabriela Karoline; Obermann, David; Assunção, Wesley K. G.; Linsbauer, Lukas; Grünbacher, Paul; Fischer, Stefan; Lopez-Herrejon, Roberto E.; Egyed, Alexander	Evolving software system families in space and time with feature revisions	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10108-z	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software architecture and design	features and variants
2022	Eisty, Nasir U.; Carver, Jeffrey C.	Testing research software: a survey	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10184-9	no MSR study
2022	Parra, Esteban; Alahmadi, Mohammad; Ellis, Ashley; Haiduc, Sonia	A comparative study and analysis of developer communications on Slack and Gitter	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10095-1	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling							Slack, Gitter
2022	Abidi, Mouna; Rahman, Md Saidur; Openja, Moses; Khomh, Foutse	Multi-language design smells: a backstage perspective	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10161-2	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns
2022	Uddin, Gias; Alam, Omar; Serebrenik, Alexander	A qualitative study of developers’ discussions of their problems and joys during the early COVID-19 months	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10156-z	collaboration and coordination	communication	sentiment analysis							devRant
2022	Foundjem, Armstrong; Constantinou, Eleni; Mens, Tom; Adams, Bram	A mixed-methods analysis of micro-collaborative coding practices in OpenStack	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10167-w	collaboration and coordination	mechanisms		software maintenance	code reviews
2022	Mahadi, Alvi; Ernst, Neil A.; Tongay, Karan	Conclusion stability for natural language based mining of design discussions	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10009-1	software architecture and design	documentation		MSR techniques	threats
2022	White, Robert; Krinke, Jens	TCTracer: Establishing test-to-code traceability links using dynamic and static techniques	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10079-1	software quality	tests		MSR techniques	tool development					TCTRACER
2022	Sawadogo, Arthur D.; Bissyandé, Tegawendé F.; Moha, Naouel; Allix, Kevin; Klein, Jacques; Li, Li; Le Traon, Yves	SSPCatcher: Learning to catch security patches	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10168-9	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	fixes	MSR techniques	tool development					SSPCATCHER
2022	Wijerathna, Laksri; Aleti, Aldeida; Bi, Tingting; Tang, Antony	Mining and relating design contexts and design patterns from Stack Overflow	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-021-10034-0	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns		collaboration and coordination	communication					StackOverflow
2023	Kaltenecker, Christian; Mühlbauer, Stefan; Grebhahn, Alexander; Siegmund, Norbert; Apel, Sven	Performance evolution of configurable software systems: an empirical study	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10338-3	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software quality	performance
2023	Zhong, Hao; Wang, Xiaoyin	An empirical study on API usages from code search engine and local library	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10304-z	software usage	popularity		MSR techniques	tool development					CODEEX
2023	Rahman, Akond; Bose, Dibyendu Brinto; Shakya, Raunak; Pandita, Rahul	Come for syntax, stay for speed, understand defects: an empirical study of defects in Julia programs	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10328-5	software quality	defects	detection	software quality	defects	patterns
2023	Caivano, Danilo; Cassieri, Pietro; Romano, Simone; Scanniello, Giuseppe	On the spread and evolution of dead methods in Java desktop applications: an exploratory study	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10303-0	software quality	defects	detection
2023	Ernst, Neil A.; Baldassarre, Maria Teresa	Registered reports in software engineering	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10277-5	no MSR study
2023	Hayashi, Shinpei; Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël; Chaudron, Michel R.V.	Introduction to the special issue on program comprehension	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10279-3	no MSR study
2023	Paramitha, Ranindya; Massacci, Fabio	Technical leverage analysis in the Python ecosystem	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10355-2	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	dependency management
2023	Francisco da Matta Vegi, Lucas; Valente, Marco Tulio	Understanding code smells in Elixir functional language	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10343-6	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells
2023	Pinto, Felipe Curty Do Rego; Murta, Leonardo Gresta Paulino	On the assignment of commits to releases	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10263-x	software governance	release management		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
2023	Härtel, Johannes; Lämmel, Ralf	Operationalizing validity of empirical software engineering studies	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10370-3	no MSR study									MSR threats
2023	Yang, Nan; Cuijpers, Pieter; Hendriks, Dennis; Schiffelers, Ramon; Lukkien, Johan; Serebrenik, Alexander	An interview study about the use of logs in embedded software engineering	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10258-8	no MSR study
2023	Lan, Jinpeng; Gong, Lina; Zhang, Jingxuan; Zhang, Haoxiang	BTLink : automatic link recovery between issues and commits based on pre-trained BERT model	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10342-7	MSR techniques	tool development								BTLink
2023	Nurwidyantoro, Arif; Shahin, Mojtaba; Chaudron, Michel; Hussain, Waqar; Perera, Harsha; Shams, Rifat Ara; Whittle, Jon	Integrating human values in software development using a human values dashboard	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10305-y	collaboration and coordination	human factors and values		MSR techniques	tool development					dashboard
2023	Izadi, Maliheh; Nejati, Mahtab; Heydarnoori, Abbas	Semantically-enhanced topic recommendation systems for software projects	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10272-w	development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling		development support and automation	recommendations
2023	Aghili, Roozbeh; Li, Heng; Khomh, Foutse	Studying the characteristics of AIOps projects on GitHub	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10382-z	software maintenance	development operations	MLOps	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells	software usage	popularity
2023	Iannone, Emanuele; Codabux, Zadia; Lenarduzzi, Valentina; De Lucia, Andrea; Palomba, Fabio	Rubbing salt in the wound? A large-scale investigation into the effects of refactoring on security	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10287-x	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	bad practices	software maintenance	refactoring		software maintenance	technical debt
2023	Wessel, Mairieli; Vargovich, Joseph; Gerosa, Marco A.; Treude, Christoph	GitHub Actions: The Impact on the Pull Request Process	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10369-w	software maintenance	development operations		software maintenance	activity and productivity
2023	Karmakar, Anjan; Allamanis, Miltiadis; Robbes, Romain	JEMMA: An extensible Java dataset for ML4Code applications	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10275-7	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation								JEMMA
2023	Alfadel, Mahmoud; Costa, Diego Elias; Shihab, Emad	Empirical analysis of security vulnerabilities in Python packages	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10278-4	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	detection	software maintenance	dependency management
2023	Morovati, Mohammad Mehdi; Nikanjam, Amin; Khomh, Foutse; Jiang, Zhen Ming	Bugs in machine learning-based systems: a faultload benchmark	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10291-1	software quality	defects	detection	software quality	defects	patterns	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		defect4ML
2023	Muse, Biruk Asmare; Khomh, Foutse; Antoniol, Giuliano	Refactoring practices in the context of data-intensive systems	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10271-x	software maintenance	refactoring
2023	Yu, Liang; Alégroth, Emil; Chatzipetrou, Panagiota; Gorschek, Tony	Automated NFR testing in continuous integration environments: a multi-case study of Nordic companies	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10356-1	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software quality	tests
2023	Trautsch, Alexander; Herbold, Steffen; Grabowski, Jens	Are automated static analysis tools worth it? An investigation into relative warning density and external software quality on the example of Apache open source projects	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10301-2	software quality	defects	detection	MSR techniques	threats
2023	Sun, Yiming; German, Daniel; Zacchiroli, Stefano	Using the uniqueness of global identifiers to determine the provenance of Python software source code	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10317-8	software maintenance	dependency management
2023	Bhatia, Aaditya; Eghan, Ellis E.; Grichi, Manel; Cavanagh, William G.; Jiang, Zhen Ming; Adams, Bram	Towards a change taxonomy for machine learning pipelines: Empirical study of ML pipelines and forks related to academic publications	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10282-8	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software maintenance	dependency management
2023	Sun, Yiming; German, Daniel; Zacchiroli, Stefano	Using the uniqueness of global identifiers to determine the provenance of Python software source code	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10317-8	software maintenance	dependency management
2023	Santos, Fabio; Vargovich, Joseph; Trinkenreich, Bianca; Santos, Italo; Penney, Jacob; Britto, Ricardo; Pimentel, João Felipe; Wiese, Igor; Steinmacher, Igor; Sarma, Anita; Gerosa, Marco A.	Tag that issue: applying API-domain labels in issue tracking systems	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10329-4	development support and automation	ticket and task resolution		collaboration and coordination	onboarding
2023	Gonzalez-Barahona, Jesus M.; Montes-Leon, Sergio; Robles, Gregorio; Zacchiroli, Stefano	The software heritage license dataset (2022 edition)	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10377-w	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software governance	licensing
2023	Obie, Humphrey O.; Du, Hung; Madampe, Kashumi; Shahin, Mojtaba; Ilekura, Idowu; Grundy, John; Li, Li; Whittle, Jon; Turhan, Burak; Khalajzadeh, Hourieh	Automated detection, categorisation and developers’ experience with the violations of honesty in mobile apps	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10361-4	collaboration and coordination	communication		software usage	end-user reviews
2023	Nadi, Sarah; Sakr, Nourhan	Selecting third-party libraries: the data scientist’s perspective	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10241-3	no MSR study
2023	Song, Liyan; Minku, Leandro L.; Yao, Xin	On the validity of retrospective predictive performance evaluation procedures in just-in-time software defect prediction	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10341-8	software quality	defects	prediction	MSR techniques	threats
2023	Cadavid, Héctor; Andrikopoulos, Vasilios; Avgeriou, Paris	Improving hardware/software interface management in systems of systems through documentation as code	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10350-7	no MSR study
2023	Bernardo, João Helis; Da Costa, Daniel Alencar; Kulesza, Uirá; Treude, Christoph	The impact of a continuous integration service on the delivery time of merged pull requests	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10327-6	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD
2023	Parry, Owain; Kapfhammer, Gregory M.; Hilton, Michael; McMinn, Phil	Empirically evaluating flaky test detection techniques combining test case rerunning and machine learning models	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10307-w	software quality	tests		software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	MSR techniques	tool development		CANNIER
2023	Rostami Mazrae, Pooya; Mens, Tom; Golzadeh, Mehdi; Decan, Alexandre	On the usage, co-usage and migration of CI/CD tools: A qualitative analysis	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-022-10285-5	no MSR study
2024	Kondo, Masanari; German, Daniel M.; Kamei, Yasutaka; Ubayashi, Naoyasu; Mizuno, Osamu	An empirical study of token-based micro commits	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10527-8	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software quality	code reviews
2024	Idowu, Samuel; Osman, Osman; Strüber, Daniel; Berger, Thorsten	Machine learning experiment management tools: a mixed-methods empirical study	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10444-w	no MSR study
2024	Rosa, Giovanni; Zappone, Federico; Scalabrino, Simone; Oliveto, Rocco	Fixing Dockerfile smells: an empirical study	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10471-7	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells
2024	Rua, Rui; Saraiva, João	A large-scale empirical study on mobile performance: energy, run-time and memory	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10391-y	software quality	performance		software quality	energy efficiency
2024	Arabat, Ali; Sayagh, Mohammed	An empirical study on cross-component dependent changes: A case study on the components of OpenStack	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10488-y	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software maintenance	dependency management		software architecture and design	conformance and evolution
2024	Soud, Majd; Liebel, Grischa; Hamdaqa, Mohammad	A fly in the ointment: an empirical study on the characteristics of Ethereum smart contract code weaknesses	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10398-5	software quality	defects	patterns	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	classification
2024	Jean de Dieu, Musengamana; Liang, Peng; Shahin, Mojtaba; Yang, Chen; Li, Zengyang	Mining architectural information: A systematic mapping study	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10480-6	no MSR study
2024	Borg, Markus; Jonsson, Leif; Engström, Emelie; Bartalos, Béla; Szabó, Attila	Adopting automated bug assignment in practice — a longitudinal case study at Ericsson	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10507-y	development support and automation	ticket and task resolution		MSR techniques	tool development					TRR
2024	Malcher, Paulo; Viana, Davi; Antonino, Pablo Oliveira; Dos Santos, Rodrigo Pereira	Investigating user feedback from a crowd in requirements management in software ecosystems	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10546-5	no MSR study
2024	Vale, Gustavo; Costa, Heitor; Apel, Sven	Predicting merge conflicts considering social and technical assets	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10395-8	software maintenance	code merge								conflict prediction
2024	Tan, Wen Siang; Wagner, Markus; Treude, Christoph	Detecting outdated code element references in software repository documentation	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10397-6	software maintenance	dependency management		software maintenance	updates and upgrades
2024	Khan, Arif Ali; Khan, Javed Ali; Akbar, Muhammad Azeem; Zhou, Peng; Fahmideh, Mahdi	Insights into software development approaches: mining Q &A repositories	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10417-5	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling
2024	Giordano, Giammaria; Festa, Gerardo; Catolino, Gemma; Palomba, Fabio; Ferrucci, Filomena; Gravino, Carmine	On the adoption and effects of source code reuse on defect proneness and maintenance effort	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10408-6	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	effort estimation		software quality	defects
2024	Babur, Önder; Constantinou, Eleni; Serebrenik, Alexander	Language usage analysis for EMF metamodels on GitHub	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10368-x	software usage	improvements								language
2024	Guerra, Eduardo; Gomes, Everaldo; Ferreira, Jeferson; Wiese, Igor; Lima, Phyllipe; Gerosa, Marco; Meirelles, Paulo	How do annotations affect Java code readability?	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10460-w	no MSR study
2024	Alami, Adam; Pardo, Raúl; Linåker, Johan	Free open source communities sustainability: Does it make a difference in software quality?	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10529-6	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		software quality	code metrics
2024	Bajaj, Rahul; Fernandes, Eduardo; Adams, Bram; Hassan, Ahmed E.	Unreproducible builds: time to fix, causes, and correlation with external ecosystem factors	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10399-4	software maintenance	development operations	builds
2024	Abidi, Mouna; Rahman, Md Saidur; Openja, Moses; Khomh, Foutse	Design smells in multi-language systems and bug-proneness: a survival analysis	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10476-2	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns		software quality	defects	patterns
2024	Kamath, Divya M.; Fernandes, Eduardo; Adams, Bram; Hassan, Ahmed E.	On combining commit grouping and build skip prediction to reduce redundant continuous integration activity	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10477-1	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software maintenance	development operations	builds
2024	Robati Shirzad, Mohammad; Lam, Patrick	A study of common bug fix patterns in Rust	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10437-1	software quality	defects	fixes	software quality	defects	patterns	MSR techniques	tool development		Roxanne
2024	Zhu, Wenhan; Proksch, Sebastian; German, Daniel M.; Godfrey, Michael W.; Li, Li; McIntosh, Shane	What is an app store? The software engineering perspective	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10362-3	software usage	app stores
2024	Nikolaidis, Nikolaos; Mittas, Nikolaos; Ampatzoglou, Apostolos; Feitosa, Daniel; Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander	A metrics-based approach for selecting among various refactoring candidates	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10412-w	software maintenance	refactoring		software quality	code metrics
2024	Timperley, Christopher S.; Van Der Hoorn, Gijs; Santos, André; Deshpande, Harshavardhan; Wąsowski, Andrzej	ROBUST: 221 bugs in the Robot Operating System	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10440-0	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software quality	patterns
2024	Jiang, Wenxin; Banna, Vishnu; Vivek, Naveen; Goel, Abhinav; Synovic, Nicholas; Thiruvathukal, George K.; Davis, James C.	Challenges and practices of deep learning model reengineering: A case study on computer vision	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10521-0	software architecture and design	re-design and re-engineering		software maintenance	reuse and clones					deep learning models
2024	Wu, Jianyu; He, Hao; Gao, Kai; Xiao, Wenxin; Li, Jingyue; Zhou, Minghui	A comprehensive analysis of challenges and strategies for software release notes on GitHub	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10486-0	development support and automation	generation	release note generation
2024	Danglot, Benjamin; Falleri, Jean-Rémy; Rouvoy, Romain	Can we spot energy regressions using developers tests?	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10429-1	software quality	tests		software quality	energy efficiency
2024	Moreno-Lumbreras, David; Robles, Gregorio; Izquierdo-Cortázar, Daniel; Gonzalez-Barahona, Jesus M.	Software development metrics: to VR or not to VR	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10435-3	no MSR study
2024	Sahar, Hareem; Bangash, Abdul Ali; Hindle, Abram; Barbosa, Denilson	IRJIT: A simple, online, information retrieval approach for just-in-time software defect prediction	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10514-z	software quality	defects	prediction	MSR techniques	tool development					IRJIT
2024	Sas, Cezar; Capiluppi, Andrea	Multi-granular software annotation using file-level weak labelling	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10423-7	development support and automation	generation	documentation generation
2024	Kudrjavets, Gunnar; Rastogi, Ayushi	Does code review speed matter for practitioners?	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10401-z	no MSR study
2024	Eng, Kalvin; Hindle, Abram; Stroulia, Eleni	Patterns of multi-container composition for service orchestration with Docker Compose	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10462-8	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns								Docker
2024	Khajezade, Mohamad; Fard, Fatemeh H.; Shehata, Mohamed S.	Evaluating few-shot and contrastive learning methods for code clone detection	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10441-z	software maintenance	reuse and clones								detection
2024	Reinhartz-Berger, Iris	Challenges in software model reuse: cross application domain vs. cross modeling paradigm	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-023-10386-9	no MSR study
2024	Ayala, Claudia; Gómez, Cristina; Manzano, Martí; Abherve, Antonin; Franch, Xavier	Forecasting software indicators: an industry-academia collaboration	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10508-x	MSR techniques	tool development		software quality	software maintenance	activity and productivity				FOSI
2024	Yu, Xueyao; Cogo, Filipe R.; McIntosh, Shane; Godfrey, Michael W.	Studying the impact of risk assessment analytics on risk awareness and code review performance	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10443-x	software quality	code reviews
2024	Niu, Feifei; Zhang, Enshuo; Mayr-Dorn, Christoph; Assunção, Wesley Klewerton Guez; Huang, Liguo; Ge, Jidong; Luo, Bin; Egyed, Alexander	An extensive replication study of the ABLoTS approach for bug localization	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10537-6	software quality	defects	localisation
2024	Rani, Pooja; Petrulio, Fernando; Bacchelli, Alberto	On Refining the SZZ Algorithm with Bug Discussion Data	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10511-2	software quality	defects	detection	software quality	defects	fixes
2025	Sundelin, Anders; Gonzalez-Huerta, Javier; Torkar, Richard; Wnuk, Krzysztof	Governing the commons: code ownership and code-clones in large-scale software development	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10598-7	collaboration and coordination			software maintenance	reuse and clones
2025	Zampetti, Fiorella; Zid, Cyrine; Antoniol, Giuliano; Penta, Massimiliano Di	The downside of functional constructs: a quantitative and qualitative analysis of their fix-inducing effects	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10568-z	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software quality	defects	fixes
2025	Wu, Yijian; Chen, Yuan; Peng, Xin; Hu, Bin; Wang, Xiaochen; Fu, Baiqiang; Zhao, Wenyun	CloneRipples: predicting change propagation between code clone instances by graph-based deep learning	Empirical Software Engineering	10.1007/s10664-024-10567-0	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	technical debt	code smells

FSE

Publication Year	Author	Title	Publication Title	DOI	Primary Category 1	Secondary Category 1	Tertiary Category 1	Primary Category 2	Secondary Category 2	Tertiary Category 2	Primary Category 3	Secondary Category 3	Tertiary Category 3	Notes
2022	Shimmi, Samiha; Rahimi, Mona	Mining software repositories for patternizing attack-and-defense co-evolution	Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security	10.1145/3549035.3561181	software quality	vulnerabilities and security
2022		MSR4P&S 2022: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security			no MSR study
2022	Santos, Joanna C. S.; Zhang, Xueling; Mirakhorli, Mehdi	Counterfeit object-oriented programming vulnerabilities: an empirical study in Java	Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security	10.1145/3549035.3561183	software quality	vulnerabilities and security
2018	Spadini, Davide; Aniche, Maurício; Bacchelli, Alberto	PyDriller: Python framework for mining software repositories	Proceedings of the 2018 26th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3236024.3264598	MSR techniques	tool development								PyDriller, VCS
2023	Zhao, Lida; Chen, Sen; Xu, Zhengzi; Liu, Chengwei; Zhang, Lyuye; Wu, Jiahui; Sun, Jun; Liu, Yang	Software Composition Analysis for Vulnerability Detection: An Empirical Study on Java Projects	Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3611643.3616299	software quality	vulnerabilities and security		software maintenance	dependency management					tool comparison
2021	He, Hao; He, Runzhi; Gu, Haiqiao; Zhou, Minghui	A large-scale empirical study on Java library migrations: prevalence, trends, and rationales	Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3468264.3468571	software maintenance	dependency management		software maintenance	updates and upgrades
2020	Erlenhov, Linda; Neto, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira; Leitner, Philipp	An empirical study of bots in software development: characteristics and challenges from a practitioner’s perspective	Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3368089.3409680	software maintenance	bots		development support and automation
2022	OBrien, David; Biswas, Sumon; Imtiaz, Sayem; Abdalkareem, Rabe; Shihab, Emad; Rajan, Hridesh	23 shades of self-admitted technical debt: an empirical study on machine learning software	Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3540250.3549088	software maintenance	technical debt
2019	Hirao, Toshiki; McIntosh, Shane; Ihara, Akinori; Matsumoto, Kenichi	The review linkage graph for code review analytics: a recovery approach and empirical study	Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3338906.3338949	software quality	code reviews		development support and automation	recommendations
2020	Lamba, Hemank; Trockman, Asher; Armanios, Daniel; Kästner, Christian; Miller, Heather; Vasilescu, Bogdan	Heard it through the Gitvine: an empirical study of tool diffusion across the npm ecosystem	Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3368089.3409705	software maintenance	development operations		software maintenance	dependency management		collaboration and coordination	organisational structures
2019	Davis, James C.; Michael IV, Louis G.; Coghlan, Christy A.; Servant, Francisco; Lee, Dongyoon	Why aren’t regular expressions a lingua franca? an empirical study on the re-use and portability of regular expressions	Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3338906.3338909	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software quality	performance		software quality	defects
2018	Davis, James C.; Coghlan, Christy A.; Servant, Francisco; Lee, Dongyoon	The impact of regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) in practice: an empirical study at the ecosystem scale	Proceedings of the 2018 26th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3236024.3236027	software quality	vulnerabilities and security		software quality	performance					fixes
2018	Zhang, Yang; Vasilescu, Bogdan; Wang, Huaimin; Filkov, Vladimir	One size does not fit all: an empirical study of containerized continuous deployment workflows	Proceedings of the 2018 26th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3236024.3236033	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD
2018	Tu, Feifei; Zhu, Jiaxin; Zheng, Qimu; Zhou, Minghui	Be careful of when: an empirical study on time-related misuse of issue tracking data	Proceedings of the 2018 26th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3236024.3236054	MSR techniques	threats								3 replications
2015	Nagappan, Meiyappan; Robbes, Romain; Kamei, Yasutaka; Tanter, Éric; McIntosh, Shane; Mockus, Audris; Hassan, Ahmed E.	An empirical study of goto in C code from GitHub repositories	Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2786805.2786834	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software quality	defects
2022	Oishwee, Sahrima Jannat; Codabux, Zadia; Stakhanova, Natalia	An exploratory study on the relationship of smells and design issues with software vulnerabilities	Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security	10.1145/3549035.3561182	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells	software quality	vulnerabilities and security
2015	Cito, Jürgen; Leitner, Philipp; Fritz, Thomas; Gall, Harald C.	The making of cloud applications: an empirical study on software development for the cloud	Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2786805.2786826	software architecture and design			software maintenance	development operations
2024	Avula, Sai Krishna; Mondal, Shouvick	MineCPP: Mining Bug Fix Pairs and Their Structures	Companion Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3663529.3663797	MSR techniques	tool development		software quality	defects	detection	software quality	code metrics
2023	Reck, Julian; Bach, Thomas; Stoess, Jan	A Multidimensional Analysis of Bug Density in SAP HANA	Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3611643.3613875	software quality	defects	detection	software quality	code metrics
2020	Steinhauer, Martin; Palomba, Fabio	Speeding up the data extraction of machine learning approaches: a distributed framework	Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Machine-Learning Techniques for Software-Quality Evaluation	10.1145/3416505.3423562	MSR techniques	tool development		MSR techniques	threats					DisDrillery, parallelisation
2022	Lou, Guannan; Deng, Yao; Zheng, Xi; Zhang, Mengshi; Zhang, Tianyi	Testing of autonomous driving systems: where are we and where should we go?	Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3540250.3549111	no MSR study									survey, quality, tests
2022	Wang, Liang; Li, Ying; Zhang, Jierui; Tao, Xianping	Quantifying community evolution in developer social networks	Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3540250.3549106	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		software maintenance	activity and productivity					community evolution patterns
2020	Di Penta, Massimiliano; Bavota, Gabriele; Zampetti, Fiorella	On the relationship between refactoring actions and bugs: a differentiated replication	Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3368089.3409695	software quality	defects	patterns	software maintenance	refactoring
2022	Liang, Jenny T.; Zimmermann, Thomas; Ford, Denae	Understanding skills for OSS communities on GitHub	Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3540250.3549082	no MSR study									survey, human factors and values
2022	Maddila, Chandra; Shanbhogue, Suhas; Agrawal, Apoorva; Zimmermann, Thomas; Bansal, Chetan; Forsgren, Nicole; Agrawal, Divyanshu; Herzig, Kim; van Deursen, Arie	Nalanda: a socio-technical graph platform for building software analytics tools at enterprise scale	Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3540250.3558949	MSR techniques	tool development		collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		development support and automation	recommendations		Nalanda
2019	Vandenbogaerde, Bram	A graph-based framework for analysing the design of smart contracts	Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3338906.3342495	software architecture and design	documentation		development support and automation	visualisation
2020	Zhao, Yutong; Xiao, Lu; Babvey, Pouria; Sun, Lei; Wong, Sunny; Martinez, Angel A.; Wang, Xiao	Automatically identifying performance issue reports with heuristic linguistic patterns	Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3368089.3409674	development support and automation	ticket and task resolution		software quality	performance
2015	Zheng, Qimu; Mockus, Audris; Zhou, Minghui	A method to identify and correct problematic software activity data: exploiting capacity constraints and data redundancies	Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2786805.2786866	MSR techniques	threats
2018	Baltes, Sebastian; Knack, Jascha; Anastasiou, Daniel; Tymann, Ralf; Diehl, Stephan	(No) influence of continuous integration on the commit activity in GitHub projects	Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Software Analytics	10.1145/3278142.3278143	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software maintenance	activity and productivity
2018	Rahman, Akond; Agrawal, Amritanshu; Krishna, Rahul; Sobran, Alexander	Characterizing the influence of continuous integration: empirical results from 250+ open source and proprietary projects	Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Software Analytics	10.1145/3278142.3278149	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software maintenance	activity and productivity		collaboration and coordination
2016	Dam, Hoa Khanh; Tran, Truyen; Grundy, John; Ghose, Aditya	DeepSoft: a vision for a deep model of software	Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2950290.2983985	MSR techniques	tool development		development support and automation	recommendations					DeepSoft, evolutionary predictions
2015	Foucault, Matthieu; Palyart, Marc; Blanc, Xavier; Murphy, Gail C.; Falleri, Jean-Rémy	Impact of developer turnover on quality in open-source software	Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2786805.2786870	software quality	defects		collaboration and coordination
2017	Tamla, Philippe; Feja, Sven; Prause, Christian R.	Metadata-based code example embedding	Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Software Analytics	10.1145/3121257.3121258	software maintenance	reuse and clones		development support and automation	recommendations
2016	Dehghan, Ali; Blincoe, Kelly; Damian, Daniela	A hybrid model for task completion effort estimation	Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Analytics	10.1145/2989238.2989242	software maintenance	effort estimation
2015	Youssef, Ahmmad; Capiluppi, Andrea	The impact of developer team sizes on the structural attributes of software	Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution	10.1145/2804360.2804365	software quality	code metrics		collaboration and coordination	organisational structures					1000 projects, no evolutionary aspects
2015	Ruohonen, Jukka; Hyrynsalmi, Sami; Leppänen, Ville	Software evolution and time series volatility: an empirical exploration	Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution	10.1145/2804360.2804367	MSR techniques	threats		software maintenance	activity and productivity
2019	Krüger, Jacob	Tackling knowledge needs during software evolution	Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3338906.3342505	development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling		development support and automation	information retrieval
2021	Wu, Xiuheng; Zhu, Chenguang; Li, Yi	DIFFBASE: a differential factbase for effective software evolution management	Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3468264.3468605	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution					DiffBase
2020	Yang, Xingguang; Yu, Huiqun; Fan, Guisheng; Yang, Kang	A differential evolution-based approach for effort-aware just-in-time software defect prediction	Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Representation Learning for Software Engineering and Program Languages	10.1145/3416506.3423577	software quality	defects	prediction							no code available
2023	Fang, Hongbo; Herbsleb, James; Vasilescu, Bogdan	Matching Skills, Past Collaboration, and Limited Competition: Modeling When Open-Source Projects Attract Contributors	Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3611643.3616282	collaboration and coordination	expertise		collaboration and coordination	onboarding		collaboration and coordination	organisational structures
2020	Pârundefinedachi, Profir-Petru; Dash, Santanu Kumar; Allamanis, Miltiadis; Barr, Earl T.	Flexeme: untangling commits using lexical flows	Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3368089.3409693	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software maintenance	refactoring		Heddle, commit untangling
2016	Zhang, Hongyu; Jain, Anuj; Khandelwal, Gaurav; Kaushik, Chandrashekhar; Ge, Scott; Hu, Wenxiang	Bing developer assistant: improving developer productivity by recommending sample code	Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2950290.2983955	MSR techniques	tool development		development support and automation	recommendations		software maintenance	activity and productivity		Bing Developer Assistant
2016	Shakiba, Abbas; Green, Robert; Dyer, Robert	FourD: do developers discuss design? revisited	Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Analytics	10.1145/2989238.2989244	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns
2015	Matsuda, Jumpei; Hayashi, Shinpei; Saeki, Motoshi	Hierarchical categorization of edit operations for separately committing large refactoring results	Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution	10.1145/2804360.2804363	software maintenance	refactoring		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		MSR techniques	tool development		HistoRef
2024	Bittner, Paul Maximilian; Schultheiß, Alexander; Moosherr, Benjamin; Kehrer, Timo; Thüm, Thomas	Variability-Aware Differencing with DiffDetective	Companion Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3663529.3663813	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution					DiffDetective
2023	Win, Hsu Myat; Wang, Haibo; Tan, Shin Hwei	Towards Automated Detection of Unethical Behavior in Open-Source Software Projects	Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3611643.3616314	collaboration and coordination	human factors and values		software governance	licensing		software quality
2022	Svyatkovskiy, Alexey; Fakhoury, Sarah; Ghorbani, Negar; Mytkowicz, Todd; Dinella, Elizabeth; Bird, Christian; Jang, Jinu; Sundaresan, Neel; Lahiri, Shuvendu K.	Program merge conflict resolution via neural transformers	Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3540250.3549163	software maintenance	code merge		MSR techniques	tool development					MergeBERT
2015	Nam, Jaechang; Kim, Sunghun	Heterogeneous defect prediction	Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2786805.2786814	software quality	defects	prediction
2022	Li, Yi; Wang, Shaohua; Nguyen, Tien N.	UTANGO: untangling commits with context-aware, graph-based, code change clustering learning model	Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3540250.3549171	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		MSR techniques	tool development					Utango, untangling commits
2021	Gao, Zhipeng; Xia, Xin; Lo, David; Grundy, John; Zimmermann, Thomas	Automating the removal of obsolete TODO comments	Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3468264.3468553	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	refactoring		development support and automation
2022	Shanbhag, Shriram; Chimalakonda, Sridhar	Exploring the under-explored terrain of non-open source data for software engineering through the lens of federated learning	Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3540250.3560883	software governance	open-sourcing		MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation
2024	Cogo, Filipe Roseiro; Rajbahadur, Gopi Krishnan; Lin, Dayi; Hassan, Ahmed E.	A Tutorial on Software Engineering for FMware	Companion Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3663529.3663820	development support and automation	generation	code generation	development support and automation	information retrieval
2016	Silva, Danilo; Tsantalis, Nikolaos; Valente, Marco Tulio	Why we refactor? confessions of GitHub contributors	Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2950290.2950305	software maintenance	refactoring
2024	Huang, Li; Meyer, Bertrand; Mustafin, Ilgiz; Oriol, Manuel	Execution-Free Program Repair	Companion Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3663529.3663789	software quality	defects	fixes	development support and automation	ticket and task resolution
2020	Peruma, Anthony; Almalki, Khalid; Newman, Christian D.; Mkaouer, Mohamed Wiem; Ouni, Ali; Palomba, Fabio	tsDetect: an open source test smells detection tool	Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3368089.3417921	MSR techniques	tool development		software quality	tests		software maintenance	technical debt		tsDetect, test smell detection
2021	Robillard, Martin P.	Turnover-induced knowledge loss in practice	Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3468264.3473923	no MSR study
2016	Rolim, Reudismam	Automating repetitive code changes using examples	Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2950290.2983944	software maintenance	code and change prediction		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
2016	Zanjani, Motahareh Bahrami	Effective assignment and assistance to software developers and reviewers	Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2950290.2983960	software quality	code reviews		development support and automation	recommendations		collaboration and coordination			reviewer recommendation
2019	Maddila, Chandra; Bansal, Chetan; Nagappan, Nachiappan	Predicting pull request completion time: a case study on large scale cloud services	Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3338906.3340457	software maintenance	effort estimation		development support and automation	ticket and task resolution					time estimation
2022	Bittner, Paul Maximilian; Tinnes, Christof; Schultheiß, Alexander; Viegener, Sören; Kehrer, Timo; Thüm, Thomas	Classifying edits to variability in source code	Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3540250.3549108	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		MSR techniques	tool development					DiffDetective
2023	Liu, Xiaoyu; Jang, Jinu; Sundaresan, Neel; Allamanis, Miltiadis; Svyatkovskiy, Alexey	AdaptivePaste: Intelligent Copy-Paste in IDE	Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3611643.3613895	development support and automation	generation	code generation	software maintenance	reuse and clones		MSR techniques	tool development		AdaptivePaste, learn and predict copy paste adjustments
2022	Dong, Liming; Zhang, He; Liu, Wei; Weng, Zhiluo; Kuang, Hongyu	Semi-supervised pre-processing for learning-based traceability framework on real-world software projects	Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3540250.3549151	software maintenance	dependency management		MSR techniques	tool development		software architecture and design	conformance and evolution		SPLINT
2021	Bittner, Paul Maximilian; Schultheiß, Alexander; Thüm, Thomas; Kehrer, Timo; Young, Jeffrey M.; Linsbauer, Lukas	Feature trace recording	Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3468264.3468531	software architecture and design	features and variants		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software maintenance	dependency management
2019	Safwan, Khadijah Al; Servant, Francisco	Decomposing the rationale of code commits: the software developer’s perspective	Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3338906.3338979	no MSR study
2017	Labuschagne, Adriaan; Inozemtseva, Laura; Holmes, Reid	Measuring the cost of regression testing in practice: a study of Java projects using continuous integration	Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3106237.3106288	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software quality	tests
2019	Rigger, Manuel; Marr, Stefan; Adams, Bram; Mössenböck, Hanspeter	Understanding GCC builtins to develop better tools	Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3338906.3338907	software usage	popularity		software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns					compiler builtin usage patterns
2021	Pravilov, Mikhail; Bogomolov, Egor; Golubev, Yaroslav; Bryksin, Timofey	Unsupervised learning of general-purpose embeddings for code changes	Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning Techniques for Software Quality Evolution	10.1145/3472674.3473979	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		development support and automation	generation	commit message generation	MSR techniques	tool development		CodeChangeEmbedder
2022	Kula, Raula Gaikovina; Treude, Christoph	In war and peace: the impact of world politics on software ecosystems	Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3540250.3560882	software quality	vulnerabilities and security		collaboration and coordination	communication
2020	Mannan, Umme Ayda; Ahmed, Iftekhar; Jensen, Carlos; Sarma, Anita	On the relationship between design discussions and design quality: a case study of Apache projects	Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3368089.3409707	software architecture and design			software quality	code metrics		collaboration and coordination	communication
2016	Guo, Xinrui	SmartDebug: an interactive debug assistant for Java	Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2950290.2983971	software maintenance	debugging and logging		MSR techniques	tool development		development support and automation	recommendations		SmartDebug
2023	Shackleton, Will; Cohn-Gordon, Katriel; Rigby, Peter C.; Abreu, Rui; Gill, James; Nagappan, Nachiappan; Nakad, Karim; Papagiannis, Ioannis; Petre, Luke; Megreli, Giorgi; Riggs, Patrick; Saindon, James	Dead Code Removal at Meta: Automatically Deleting Millions of Lines of Code and Petabytes of Deprecated Data	Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3611643.3613871	MSR techniques	tool development		software quality	code metrics		development support and automation			SCARF, dead code deletion
2017	Kögel, Stefan	Recommender system for model driven software development	Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3106237.3119874	development support and automation	recommendations		software architecture and design
2015	Soetens, Quinten David; Pérez, Javier; Demeyer, Serge; Zaidman, Andy	Circumventing refactoring masking using fine-grained change recording	Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution	10.1145/2804360.2804362	software maintenance	refactoring		MSR techniques	tool development					PMD, Cruisecontrol, finer-granularity tool extension
2021	Bogomolov, Egor; Kovalenko, Vladimir; Rebryk, Yurii; Bacchelli, Alberto; Bryksin, Timofey	Authorship attribution of source code: a language-agnostic approach and applicability in software engineering	Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3468264.3468606	software governance	licensing
2021	Shen, Bo; Zhang, Wei; Kästner, Christian; Zhao, Haiyan; Wei, Zhao; Liang, Guangtai; Jin, Zhi	SmartCommit: a graph-based interactive assistant for activity-oriented commits	Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3468264.3468551	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution					SmartCommit, commit untangling
2019	Durieux, Thomas; Madeiral, Fernanda; Martinez, Matias; Abreu, Rui	Empirical review of Java program repair tools: a large-scale experiment on 2,141 bugs and 23,551 repair attempts	Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3338906.3338911	software quality	defects	fixes	development support and automation	ticket and task resolution
2024		FSE 2024: Companion Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering			no MSR study
2022		ESEC/FSE 2022: Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering			no MSR study
2023	Gao, Haoyu; Treude, Christoph; Zahedi, Mansooreh	Evaluating Transfer Learning for Simplifying GitHub READMEs	Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3611643.3616291	software architecture and design	documentation		development support and automation	generation	documentation generation	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		simplification
2016	Nejati, Shiva; Sabetzadeh, Mehrdad; Arora, Chetan; Briand, Lionel C.; Mandoux, Felix	Automated change impact analysis between SysML models of requirements and design	Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2950290.2950293	software maintenance	change impact analysis		software architecture and design	requirements		software architecture and design	conformance and evolution
2020	Hermann, Ben; Winter, Stefan; Siegmund, Janet	Community expectations for research artifacts and evaluation processes	Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3368089.3409767	no MSR study									replicability requirements and limitations
2020	Vassallo, Carmine; Proksch, Sebastian; Jancso, Anna; Gall, Harald C.; Di Penta, Massimiliano	Configuration smells in continuous delivery pipelines: a linter and a six-month study on GitLab	Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3368089.3409709	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	MSR techniques	tool development		software architecture and design	configuration		CD-LINTER
2016	Yang, Yibiao; Zhou, Yuming; Liu, Jinping; Zhao, Yangyang; Lu, Hongmin; Xu, Lei; Xu, Baowen; Leung, Hareton	Effort-aware just-in-time defect prediction: simple unsupervised models could be better than supervised models	Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2950290.2950353	software quality	defects	prediction							JIT, cross-project
2021	Golubev, Yaroslav; Kurbatova, Zarina; AlOmar, Eman Abdullah; Bryksin, Timofey; Mkaouer, Mohamed Wiem	One thousand and one stories: a large-scale survey of software refactoring	Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3468264.3473924	no MSR study
2023	Lin, Bo; Wang, Shangwen; Liu, Zhongxin; Liu, Yepang; Xia, Xin; Mao, Xiaoguang	CCT5: A Code-Change-Oriented Pre-trained Model	Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3611643.3616339	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		development support and automation			MSR techniques	tool development		CCT5, representation learning
2023		ESEC/FSE 2023: Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering			no MSR study
2017	Zhou, Minghui; Chen, Qingying; Mockus, Audris; Wu, Fengguang	On the scalability of Linux kernel maintainers’ work	Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3106237.3106287	software maintenance	activity and productivty		collaboration and coordination	organisational structures
2017	de Oliveira, Marcos César	DRACO: discovering refactorings that improve architecture using fine-grained co-change dependencies	Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3106237.3119872	software maintenance	refactoring		MSR techniques	tool development		software architecture and design			DRACO, architecture improving refactorings
2016	Nayebi, Maleknaz; Farrahi, Homayoon; Lee, Ada; Cho, Henry; Ruhe, Guenther	More insight from being more focused: analysis of clustered market apps	Proceedings of the International Workshop on App Market Analytics	10.1145/2993259.2993266	software usage	app stores		software usage	patterns					similar apps
2016	Sharif, Bonita; Clark, Benjamin; Maletic, Jonathan I.	Studying developer gaze to empower software engineering research and practice	Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2950290.2983988	software usage	patterns		development support and automation	visualisation		development support and automation	summarisation		eye-tracking
2019	Müller, Matthias	Managing the open cathedral	Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3338906.3341461	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		software maintenance	activity and productivity
2015	Xiao, Lu	Quantifying architectural debts	Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2786805.2803194	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns		software architecture and design	conformance and evolution
2023	Orrei, Vincenzo; Raglianti, Marco; Nagy, Csaba; Lanza, Michele	Contribution-Based Firing of Developers?	Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3611643.3613085	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		software maintenance	activity and productivity
2023	Bendimerad, Anes; Remil, Youcef; Mathonat, Romain; Kaytoue, Mehdi	On-Premise AIOps Infrastructure for a Software Editor SME: An Experience Report	Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3611643.3613876	software maintenance	development operations	MLOps
2021	An, Gabin; Yoo, Shin	Reducing the search space of bug inducing commits using failure coverage	Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3468264.3473129	software quality	defects	detection							SZZ
2021	Almarimi, Nuri; Ouni, Ali; Chouchen, Moataz; Mkaouer, Mohamed Wiem	csDetector: an open source tool for community smells detection	Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3468264.3473121	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		MSR techniques	tool development					CSDetector
2018	Hashimoto, Masatomo; Mori, Akira; Izumida, Tomonori	Automated patch extraction via syntax- and semantics-aware Delta debugging on source code changes	Proceedings of the 2018 26th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3236024.3236047	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	debugging and logging		DDJ
2016	Nguyen, Anh Tuan; Hilton, Michael; Codoban, Mihai; Nguyen, Hoan Anh; Mast, Lily; Rademacher, Eli; Nguyen, Tien N.; Dig, Danny	API code recommendation using statistical learning from fine-grained changes	Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2950290.2950333	development support and automation	recommendations		development support and automation	generation	code generation	MSR techniques	tool development		APIREC
2017	Debreceni, Csaba; Bergmann, Gábor; Búr, Márton; Ráth, István; Varró, Dániel	The MONDO collaboration framework: secure collaborative modeling over existing version control systems	Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3106237.3122829	software quality	vulnerabilities and security		software maintenance	code merge		MSR techniques	tool development		MONDO, secure collaboration and code merge
2016		FSE 2016: Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering			no MSR study
2020	El-Hajj, Rehab; Nadi, Sarah	LibComp: an IntelliJ plugin for comparing Java libraries	Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3368089.3417922	software maintenance	dependency management		development support and automation	recommendations		MSR techniques	tool development		LibComp
2015	Beller, Moritz; Gousios, Georgios; Panichella, Annibale; Zaidman, Andy	When, how, and why developers (do not) test in their IDEs	Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2786805.2786843	software quality	tests
2015	Chen, Fuxiang; Kim, Sunghun	Crowd debugging	Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2786805.2786819	software quality	defects		software maintenance	debugging and logging		collaboration and coordination	communication
2016	Jiang, Yanyan; Chen, Haicheng; Qin, Feng; Xu, Chang; Ma, Xiaoxing; Lu, Jian	Crash consistency validation made easy	Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2950290.2950327	software quality	defects	detection	MSR techniques	tool development					C³
2019	Ivanković, Marko; Petrović, Goran; Just, René; Fraser, Gordon	Code coverage at Google	Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3338906.3340459	software quality	tests
2017	Fielding, Roy T.; Taylor, Richard N.; Erenkrantz, Justin R.; Gorlick, Michael M.; Whitehead, Jim; Khare, Rohit; Oreizy, Peyman	Reflections on the REST architectural style and ““principled design of the modern web architecture”” (impact paper award)	Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/3106237.3121282	no MSR study
2016	Zhu, Jiaxin; Zhou, Minghui; Mockus, Audris	Effectiveness of code contribution: from patch-based to pull-request-based tools	Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2950290.2950364	collaboration and coordination	mechanisms		software maintenance	activity and productivity					pull request effectiveness
2016	Maoz, Shahar; Ringert, Jan Oliver	On well-separation of GR(1) specifications	Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2950290.2950300	no MSR study											Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering	10.1145/2950290.2950300	no MSR study

ICSE

Document Title	Authors	Publication Title	Publication Year	DOI	Primary Category 1	Secondary Category 1	Tertiary Category 1	Primary Category 2	Secondary Category 2	Tertiary Category 2	Primary Category 3	Secondary Category 3	Tertiary Category 3	Notes
A Declarative Foundation for Comprehensive History Querying	R. Stevens	2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering	2015	10.1109/ICSE.2015.289	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution					QwalKeko
The List is the Process: Reliable Pre-Integration Tracking of Commits on Mailing Lists	R. Ramsauer; D. Lohmann; W. Mauerer	2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2019	10.1109/ICSE.2019.00088	software quality	code reviews		collaboration and coordination	communication		MSR techniques	tool development		PaStA, patch stack analysis, mapping commits and mails
Do You Remember This Source Code?	J. Krüger; J. Wiemann; W. Fenske; G. Saake; T. Leich	2018 IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2018	10.1145/3180155.3180215	no MSR study									expertise
How Do Companies Collaborate in Open Source Ecosystems? An Empirical Study of OpenStack	Y. Zhang; M. Zhou; K. -J. Stol; J. Wu; Z. Jin	2020 IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2020	10.1145/3377811.3380376	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		software maintenance	activity and productivity					company participation
Assessing the Threat of Untracked Changes in Software Evolution	A. Hora; D. Silva; M. T. Valente; R. Robbes	2018 IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2018	10.1145/3180155.3180212	MSR techniques	threats		software maintenance	refactoring					related work on threats
Classifying Developers into Core and Peripheral: An Empirical Study on Count and Network Metrics	M. Joblin; S. Apel; C. Hunsen; W. Mauerer	2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2017	10.1109/ICSE.2017.23	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures
Fast Feedback Cycles in Empirical Software Engineering Research	A. Vetrò; S. Ognawala; D. M. Fernández; S. Wagner	2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering	2015	10.1109/ICSE.2015.198	no MSR study
Rapid Multi-Purpose, Multi-Commit Code Analysis	C. V. Alexandru; H. C. Gall	2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering	2015	10.1109/ICSE.2015.211	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution					LISA
[Journal First] The Scent of a Smell: An Extensive Comparison Between Textual and Structural Smells	F. Palomba; A. Panichella; A. Zaidman; R. Oliveto; A. De Lucia	2018 IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2018	10.1145/3180155.3182530	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells
Too Quiet in the Library: An Empirical Study of Security Updates in Android Apps’ Native Code	S. Almanee; A. √únal; M. Payer; J. Garcia	2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2021	10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00122	software quality	vulnerabilities and security		software maintenance	dependency management		software maintenance	activity and productivity
Lessons from Eight Years of Operational Data from a Continuous Integration Service: An Exploratory Case Study of CircleCI	K. Gallaba; M. Lamothe; S. McIntosh	2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2022	10.1145/3510003.3510211	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software maintenance	builds		software usage	patterns
Commit Message Matters: Investigating Impact and Evolution of Commit Message Quality	J. Li; I. Ahmed	2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2023	10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00076	software architecture and design	documentation		software quality	defects	patterns	collaboration and coordination	communication
What Challenges Do Developers Face About Checked-in Secrets in Software Artifacts?	S. K. Basak; L. Neil; B. Reaves; L. Williams	2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2023	10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00141	software quality	vulnerabilities and security		collaboration and coordination	communication					StackOverflow
The Impact of Mislabelling on the Performance and Interpretation of Defect Prediction Models	C. Tantithamthavorn; S. McIntosh; A. E. Hassan; A. Ihara; K. Matsumoto	2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering	2015	10.1109/ICSE.2015.93	software quality	defects	prediction	MSR techniques	threats					mislabling in ML
Adding Sparkle to Social Coding: An Empirical Study of Repository Badges in the npm Ecosystem	A. Trockman; S. Zhou; C. Kästner; B. Vasilescu	2018 IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2018	10.1145/3180155.3180209	collaboration and coordination	mechanisms		software maintenance	activity and productivity		software quality			badges
Cascade: A Universal Programmer-Assisted Type Qualifier Inference Tool	M. Vakilian; A. Phaosawasdi; M. D. Ernst; R. E. Johnson	2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering	2015	10.1109/ICSE.2015.44	MSR techniques	tool development		development support and automation						CASCADE
9.6 Million Links in Source Code Comments: Purpose, Evolution, and Decay	H. Hata; C. Treude; R. G. Kula; T. Ishio	2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2019	10.1109/ICSE.2019.00123	software maintenance	dependency management		software architecture and design	documentation					links in commits
When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad	M. Tufano; F. Palomba; G. Bavota; R. Oliveto; M. Di Penta; A. De Lucia; D. Poshyvanyk	2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering	2015	10.1109/ICSE.2015.59	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
Gang of Eight: A Defect Taxonomy for Infrastructure as Code Scripts	A. Rahman; E. Farhana; C. Parnin; L. Williams	2020 IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2020	10.1145/3377811.3380409	software quality	defects	patterns	software architecture and design	configuration					infrastructure as code
Same File, Different Changes: The Potential of Meta-Maintenance on GitHub	H. Hata; R. G. Kula; T. Ishio; C. Treude	2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2021	10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00076	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software architecture and design	features and variants		cross-project clones
RAT: A Refactoring-Aware Traceability Model for Bug Localization	F. Niu; W. K. G. Assunção; L. Huang; C. Mayr-Dorn; J. Ge; B. Luo; A. Egyed	2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2023	10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00028	software maintenance	refactoring		software quality	defects	localisation
ViolationTracker: Building Precise Histories for Static Analysis Violations	P. Yu; Y. Wu; X. Peng; J. Peng; J. Zhang; P. Xie; W. Zhao	2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2023	10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00171	MSR techniques	tool development		software quality	defects	patterns				ViolationTracker
Discovering Repetitive Code Changes in Python ML Systems	M. Dilhara; A. Ketkar; N. Sannidhi; D. Dig	2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2022	10.1145/3510003.3510225	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software maintenance	refactoring		R-CPatMiner
IoT Bugs and Development Challenges	A. Makhshari; A. Mesbah	2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2021	10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00051	software quality	defects	patterns	collaboration and coordination	communication					IoT, issue reports
Tracking Static Analysis Violations over Time to Capture Developer Characteristics	P. Avgustinov; A. I. Baars; A. S. Henriksen; G. Lavender; G. Menzel; O. De Moor; M. Schafer; J. Tibble	2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering	2015	10.1109/ICSE.2015.62	software quality	defects	patterns	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		collaboration and coordination	human factors and values
Seamless Variability Management with the Virtual Platform	W. Mahmood; D. Strüber; T. Berger; R. Lämmel; M. Mukelabai	2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2021	10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00147	software architecture and design	features and variants		software architecture and design	configuration		software maintenance	effort estimation
Automatically Matching Bug Reports With Related App Reviews	M. Haering; C. Stanik; W. Maalej	2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2021	10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00092	MSR techniques	tool development		software usage	end-user reviews		software quality	defects		DeepMatcher
A Large Scale Study of License Usage on GitHub	C. Vendome	2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering	2015	10.1109/ICSE.2015.245	software governance	licensing
Big Data = Big Insights? Operationalising Brooks’ Law in a Massive GitHub Data Set	C. Gote; P. Mavrodiev; F. Schweitzer; I. Scholtes	2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2022	10.1145/3510003.3510619	software maintenance	activity and productivity		collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		MSR techniques	threats
Technical Leverage in a Software Ecosystem: Development Opportunities and Security Risks	F. Massacci; I. Pashchenko	2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2021	10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00125	software maintenance	dependency management		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software quality	vulnerabilities and security
Table of contents		2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)	2017	10.1109/ICSE.2017.4	no MSR study

MSR

Document Title	Authors	Publication Title	Publication Year	DOI	Primary Category 1	Secondary Category 1	Tertiary Category 1	Primary Category 2	Secondary Category 2	Tertiary Category 2	Primary Category 3	Secondary Category 3	Tertiary Category 3	Notes
Structured Information on State and Evolution of Dockerfiles on GitHub	G. Schermann; S. Zumberi; J. Cito	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation								Android apps
Empirical Study in using Version Histories for Change Risk Classification	M. Kiehn; X. Pan; F. Camci	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00018	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software quality	defects	detection	software quality	defects	fixes
Crossflow: A Framework for Distributed Mining of Software Repositories	D. Kolovos; P. Neubauer; K. Barmpis; N. Matragkas; R. Paige	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00032	MSR techniques	tool development								Crossflow
Candoia: A Platform for Building and Sharing Mining Software Repositories Tools as Apps	N. M. Tiwari; G. Upadhyaya; H. A. Nguyen; H. Rajan	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.56	MSR techniques	tool development								Candoia, MSR app deployment
Half-Century of Unix: History, Preservation, and Lessons Learned	D. Spinellis	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.1	software architecture and design			software maintenance			collaboration and coordination
The Software Heritage Graph Dataset: Public Software Development Under One Roof	A. Pietri; D. Spinellis; S. Zacchiroli	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00030	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation								Software Heritage Graph
An Empirical Study of Multiple Names and Email Addresses in OSS Version Control Repositories	J. Zhu; J. Wei	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00068	MSR techniques	threats		collaboration and coordination
Software Evolution and Quality Data from Controlled, Multiple, Industrial Case Studies	A. Yamashita; S. A. Abtahizadeh; F. Khomh; Y. -G. Guéhéneuc	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.44	no MSR study									controlled experiment
CodeLL: A Lifelong Learning Dataset to Support the Co-Evolution of Data and Language Models of Code	M. Weyssow; C. Di Sipio; D. Di Ruscio; H. Sahraoui	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		development support and automation	generation	code generation
What Is the Gist? Understanding the Use of Public Gists on GitHub	W. Wang; G. Poo-Caamaño; E. Wilde; D. M. German	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.36	software usage	patterns								Gist
Co-evolution of Infrastructure and Source Code - An Empirical Study	Y. Jiang; B. Adams	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.12	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
Forking Without Clicking: on How to Identify Software Repository Forks	A. Pietri; G. Rousseau; S. Zacchiroli	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387450	software architecture and design	features and variants		software maintenance	reuse and clones
Empirical Standards for Repository Mining	P. Chatterjee; T. Sharma; P. Ralph	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3528032	MSR techniques	threats								empirical standards
An Architectural Evolution Dataset	M. Wermelinger; Y. Yu	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.74	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software architecture and design	features and variants		software architecture and design	conformance and evolution
AIMMX: Artificial Intelligence Model Metadata Extractor	J. Tsay; A. Braz; M. Hirzel; A. Shinnar; T. Mummert	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387448	MSR techniques	tool development								AIMMX
Availability and Usage of Platform-Specific APIs: A First Empirical Study	R. Job; A. Hora	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		software usage	popularity		software maintenance	dependency management
World of Code: An Infrastructure for Mining the Universe of Open Source VCS Data	Y. Ma; C. Bogart; S. Amreen; R. Zaretzki; A. Mockus	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00031	MSR techniques	tool development								World of Code
The Impact of Switching to a Rapid Release Cycle on the Integration Delay of Addressed Issues - An Empirical Study of the Mozilla Firefox Project	D. A. da Costa; S. McIntosh; U. Kulesza; A. E. Hassan	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		software governance	release management		software maintenance	integration
An Empirical Analysis of the Docker Container Ecosystem on GitHub	J. Cito; G. Schermann; J. E. Wittern; P. Leitner; S. Zumberi; H. C. Gall	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.67	software maintenance	development operations	builds	software maintenance	dependency management
Investigating Code Review Practices in Defective Files: An Empirical Study of the Qt System	P. Thongtanunam; S. McIntosh; A. E. Hassan; H. Iida	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.23	software quality	code reviews		software quality	defects	patterns
An Empirical Study of the Personnel Overhead of Continuous Integration	M. Manglaviti; E. Coronado-Montoya; K. Gallaba; S. McIntosh	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.31	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software maintenance	effort estimation
Andromeda: A Dataset of Ansible Galaxy Roles and Their Evolution	R. Opdebeeck; A. Zerouali; C. De Roover	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00078	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software maintenance	development operations					Andromeda dataset
A Time Series-Based Dataset of Open-Source Software Evolution	B. L. Sousa; M. A. S. Bigonha; K. A. M. Ferreira; G. C. Franco	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3528492	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software maintenance	activity and productivity		software quality	code metrics		time series data
Adressing Problems with External Validity of Repository Mining Studies Through a Smart Data Platform	F. Trautsch; S. Herbold; P. Makedonski; J. Grabowski	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016	10.1145/2901739.2901749	development support and automation	recommendations		software maintenance	code and change prediction
Mining API Interactions to Analyze Software Revisions for the Evolution of Energy Consumption	A. Schuler; G. Kotsis	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00043	software quality	energy efficiency		software maintenance	dependency management
Documented Unix Facilities over 48 Years	D. Spinellis	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution					inner source
An Empirical Analysis of Build Failures in the Continuous Integration Workflows of Java-Based Open-Source Software	T. Rausch; W. Hummer; P. Leitner; S. Schulte	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.54	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software maintenance	development operations	builds
A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution	D. Spinellis	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.64	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
EGAD: A moldable tool for GitHub Action analysis	P. Valenzuela-Toledo; A. Bergel; T. Kehrer; O. Nierstrasz	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00044	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD				EGAD
An Empirical Study of End-User Programmers in the Computer Music Community	G. Burlet; A. Hindle	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.34	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
SOTorrent: Studying the Origin, Evolution, and Usage of Stack Overflow Code Snippets	S. Baltes; C. Treude; S. Diehl	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00038	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		collaboration and coordination	communication		SOTorrent
Maintenance and Evolution: GrimoireLab Graal	W. Meijer; D. Visscher; E. De Haan; M. Schröder; L. Visscher; A. Capiluppi; I. Botez	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3528521	software quality	code metrics		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software architecture and design	conformance and evolution
How Android App Developers Manage Power Consumption? - An Empirical Study by Mining Power Management Commits	L. Bao; D. Lo; X. Xia; X. Wang; C. Tian	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		software quality	energy efficiency		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
An Empirical Study on the Survival Rate of GitHub Projects	A. Ait; J. L. C. Izquierdo; J. Cabot	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3527941	software maintenance	activity and productivity
Towards Mining Answer Edits to Extract Evolution Patterns in Stack Overflow	T. Diamantopoulos; M. I. Sifaki; A. Symeonidis	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00043	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling
An Exploratory Study of Project Activity Changepoints in Open Source Software Evolution	J. Walden; N. Burgin; K. Kaur	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00088	software maintenance	activity and productivity		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
Behind the Intents: An In-depth Empirical Study on Software Refactoring in Modern Code Review	M. Paixão; A. Uchôa; A. C. Bibiano; D. Oliveira; A. Garcia; J. Krinke; E. Arvonio	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387475	software quality	code reviews		software maintenance	refactoring		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
How do Machine Learning Projects use Continuous Integration Practices? An Empirical Study on GitHub Actions	J. H. Bernardo; D. Alencar Da Costa; S. Q. de Medeiros; U. Kulesza	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		software maintenance	development operations	MLOps	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD
Leveraging Historical Versions of Android Apps for Efficient and Precise Taint Analysis	J. Jenkins; H. Cai	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software quality	vulnerabilities and security	detection	MSR techniques	tool development					EvoTaint
An Empirical Study of the Copy and Paste Behavior during Development	T. M. Ahmed; W. Shang; A. E. Hassan	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.17	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
A dataset of GitHub Actions workflow histories	G. Cardoen; T. Mens; A. Decan	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	MSR techniques	tool development					gigawork
A Mutation-Guided Assessment of Acceleration Approaches for Continuous Integration: An Empirical Study of YourBase	Z. Zeng; T. Xiao; M. Lamothe; H. Hata; S. McIntosh	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software maintenance	development operations	builds
Do Customized Android Frameworks Keep Pace with Android?	P. Liu; M. Fazzini; J. Grundy; L. Li	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3527963	software maintenance	code merge								conflicts
Analyzing the Evolution and Maintenance of ML Models on Hugging Face	J. Castaño; S. Martínez-Fernández; X. Franch; J. Bogner	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		collaboration and coordination	communication								StackOverflow, edit patterns
Structure and Evolution of Package Dependency Networks	R. Kikas; G. Gousios; M. Dumas; D. Pfahl	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.55	software maintenance	dependency management
Exception Evolution in Long-Lived Java Systems	H. Osman; A. Chis; C. Corrodi; M. Ghafari; O. Nierstrasz	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.21	software architecture and design	patterns		software architecture and design	conformance and evolution		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
What Edits are Done on the Highly Answered Questions in Stack Overflow? An Empirical Study	X. Jin; F. Servant	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00045	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling							StackOverflow
Characterizing High-Quality Test Methods: A First Empirical Study	V. Veloso; A. Hora	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3529092	software quality	tests
An Empirical Study of Build Failures in the Docker Context	Y. Wu; Y. Zhang; T. Wang; H. Wang	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387483	software maintenance	development operations	builds
An Empirical Study on the Usage of BERT Models for Code Completion	M. Ciniselli; N. Cooper; L. Pascarella; D. Poshyvanyk; M. Di Penta; G. Bavota	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00024	development support and automation	generation	code generation							completion
Which Non-functional Requirements Do Developers Focus On? An Empirical Study on Stack Overflow Using Topic Analysis	J. Zou; L. Xu; W. Guo; M. Yan; D. Yang; X. Zhang	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.60	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling	software architecture and design	requirements					non-functional requirements
An Empirical Study of Activity, Popularity, Size, Testing, and Stability in Continuous Integration	A. Gautam; S. Vishwasrao; F. Servant	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.38	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	collaboration and coordination	onboarding
Empirical Study on the Relationship Between Developer’s Working Habits and Efficiency	A. Rodriguez; f. tanaka; y. kamei	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software maintenance	activity and productivity
Analysis of Exception Handling Patterns in Java Projects: An Empirical Study	S. Nakshatri; M. Hegde; S. Thandra	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		software architecture and design	patterns								exception handling
Which bugs are missed in code reviews: An empirical study on SmartSHARK dataset	F. Khoshnoud; A. R. Nasab; Z. Toudeji; A. Sami	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3527997	software quality	code reviews		software quality	defects	detection	software quality	defects	patterns
An Empirical Study to Investigate Collaboration Among Developers in Open Source Software (OSS)	W. Sun; S. Iwuchukwu; A. A. Bangash; A. Hindle	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00054	collaboration and coordination			software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
An Empirical Study on the Impact of Deimplicitization on Comprehension in Programs Using Application Frameworks	J. Cito; J. Shen; M. Rinard	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387507	development support and automation			software maintenance	refactoring		software maintenance	activity and productivity
A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Open Source License Usage: Practices and Challenges	J. Wu; L. Bao; X. Yang; X. Xia; X. Hu	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		software governance	licensing
Predicting Likelihood of Requirement Implementation within the Planned Iteration: An Empirical Study at IBM	A. Dehghan; A. Neal; K. Blincoe; J. Linaker; D. Damian	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.53	software architecture and design	requirements		software maintenance	effort estimation		software governance	release management		also interviews
Challenges in Chatbot Development: A Study of Stack Overflow Posts	A. Abdellatif; D. Costa; K. Badran; R. Abdalkareem; E. Shihab	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387472	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling							StackOverflow
Studying the Impact of Continuous Delivery Adoption on Bug-Fixing Time in Apache’s Open-Source Projects	C. D. A. de Almeida; D. N. Feij√≥; L. S. Rocha	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3528049	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software quality	defects	fixes	software maintenance	activity and productivity
A Study on the Role of Software Architecture in the Evolution and Quality of Software	E. Kouroshfar; M. Mirakhorli; H. Bagheri; L. Xiao; S. Malek; Y. Cai	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.30	software architecture and design	conformance and evolution		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software quality	defects	detection	module co-change metrics
Does Generative AI Generate Smells Related to Container Orchestration?: An Exploratory Study with Kubernetes Manifests	Y. Zhang; R. Meredith; W. Reeves; J. Coriolano; M. A. Babar; A. Rahman	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		software quality	defects	patterns	development support and automation	generation	code generation	software maintenance	development operations
Bug Characteristics in Blockchain Systems: A Large-Scale Empirical Study	Z. Wan; D. Lo; X. Xia; L. Cai	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.59	software quality	defects	patterns	software quality	defects	fixes				BlockChain
git2net - Mining Time-Stamped Co-Editing Networks from Large git Repositories	C. Gote; I. Scholtes; F. Schweitzer	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00070	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		MSR techniques	tool development					git2net
Analyzing Developer-ChatGPT Conversations for Software Refactoring: An Exploratory Study	S. Deo; D. Hinge; O. S. Chavan; Y. Olivia Wang; M. W. Mkaouer	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		development support and automation	generation	code generation	software maintenance	refactoring		collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling
An Empirical Study of Developer Discussions on Low-Code Software Development Challenges	M. A. Al Alamin; S. Malakar; G. Uddin; S. Afroz; T. B. Haider; A. Iqbal	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00018	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling
Understanding the Exception Handling Strategies of Java Libraries: An Empirical Study	D. Sena; R. Coelho; U. Kulesza; R. Bonif√°cio	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns								exceptions
An Empirical Study of OSS-Fuzz Bugs	Z. Y. Ding; C. Le Goues	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00026	software quality	tests		software maintenance	development operations		software quality	defects	detection
An Empirical Study of Architectural Change in Open-Source Software Systems	D. M. Le; P. Behnamghader; J. Garcia; D. Link; A. Shahbazian; N. Medvidovic	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.29	software architecture and design	conformance and evolution		MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance			ARCADE
What constitutes Software? An Empirical, Descriptive Study of Artifacts	R. -H. Pfeiffer	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387442	software architecture and design									definition of software based on MSR
On the Co-Occurrence of Refactoring of Test and Source Code	N. A. Nagy; R. Abdalkareem	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3528529	software maintenance	refactoring		software quality	tests
Chatting with AI: Deciphering Developer Conversations with ChatGPT	S. Mohamed; A. Parvin; E. Parra	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		development support and automation	generation	code generation	development support and automation	information retrieval		collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling
A Complete Set of Related Git Repositories Identified via Community Detection Approaches Based on Shared Commits	A. Mockus; D. Spinellis; Z. Kotti; G. J. Dusing	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387499	software architecture and design	features and variants		software maintenance	reuse and clones		software usage
Geographic Diversity in Public Code Contributions: An Exploratory Large-Scale Study Over 50 Years	D. Rossi; S. Zacchiroli	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3528471	collaboration and coordination	human factors and values
A Look at the Dynamics of the JavaScript Package Ecosystem	E. Wittern; P. Suter; S. Rajagopalan	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		software usage	popularity		software maintenance	dependency management
How Do Apps Evolve in Their Permission Requests? A Preliminary Study	P. Calciati; A. Gorla	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.64	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software architecture and design	conformance and evolution
TypeScript’s Evolution: An Analysis of Feature Adoption Over Time	J. D. Scarsbrook; M. Utting; R. K. L. Ko	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00027	software architecture and design	features and variants		software architecture and design	conformance and evolution
Evolution of the Practice of Software Testing in Java Projects	A. Islam; N. T. Hewage; A. Ali Bangash; A. Hindle	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00057	software quality	tests		software quality	defects					uses WoC
The Android Update Problem: An Empirical Study	M. Mahmoudi; S. Nadi	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software maintenance	updates and upgrades		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software architecture and design	features and variants
Data-Driven Solutions to Detect API Compatibility Issues in Android: An Empirical Study	S. Scalabrino; G. Bavota; M. Linares-V√°squez; M. Lanza; R. Oliveto	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00055	software maintenance	dependency management		MSR techniques	tool development		development support and automation	recommendations		ACRYL
Method Chaining Redux: An Empirical Study of Method Chaining in Java, Kotlin, and Python	A. M. Keshk; R. Dyer	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00080	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
An Empirical Study on the Performance of Individual Issue Label Prediction	J. Heo; S. Lee	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00041	development support and automation	ticket and task resolution
On the Effectiveness of Machine Learning-based Call Graph Pruning: An Empirical Study	A. M. Mir; M. Keshani; S. Proksch	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		software quality	vulnerabilities and security	detection	software quality	tests		development support and automation	visualisation
An Empirical Study of High Performance Computing (HPC) Performance Bugs	M. A. Kalam Azad; N. Iqbal; F. Hassan; P. Roy	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00037	software quality	performance		software quality	defects	patterns				manual sorting
Phylogenetic Analysis of Reticulate Software Evolution	A. Mori; M. Hashimoto	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00074	software maintenance	dependency management		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
Developer Interaction Traces Backed by IDE Screen Recordings from Think Aloud Sessions	A. Yamashita; F. Petrillo; F. Khomh; Y. -G. Guéhéneuc	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		no MSR study									video mining
SOTorrent: Reconstructing and Analyzing the Evolution of Stack Overflow Posts	S. Baltes; L. Dumani; C. Treude; S. Diehl	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		MSR techniques	tool development								SOTorrent
Profiling Call Changes Via Motif Mining	B. Russo	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		development support and automation	visualisation		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns
Locating Bugs without Looking Back	T. Dilshener; M. Wermelinger; Y. Yu	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		development support and automation	recommendations		software quality	defects	fixes
The Impact of Dynamics of Collaborative Software Engineering on Introverts: A Study Protocol	I. Nunes; C. Treude; F. Calefato	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387505	no MSR study									experiment
RefDiff: Detecting Refactorings in Version Histories	D. Silva; M. T. Valente	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.14	software maintenance	refactoring		MSR techniques	tool development					RefDiff
Impact of Stack Overflow Code Snippets on Software Cohesion: A Preliminary Study	M. Ahmad; M. Ó. Cinnéide	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00050	collaboration and coordination	communication		software maintenance	reuse and clones		software quality	code metrics
Fuse: A Reproducible, Extendable, Internet-Scale Corpus of Spreadsheets	T. Barik; K. Lubick; J. Smith; J. Slankas; E. Murphy-Hill	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.70	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation								Fuse (spreadsheets)
A Time Series Analysis of TravisTorrent Builds: To Everything There Is a Season	A. Atchison; C. Berardi; N. Best; E. Stevens; E. Linstead	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.29	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software maintenance	development operations	builds				patterns
The Uniqueness of Changes: Characteristics and Applications	B. Ray; M. Nagappan; C. Bird; N. Nagappan; T. Zimmermann	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.11	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
The Debsources Dataset: Two Decades of Debian Source Code Metadata	S. Zacchiroli	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.65	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation								Debsources
Challenges in Migrating Imperative Deep Learning Programs to Graph Execution: An Empirical Study	T. C. Vélez; R. Khatchadourian; M. Bagherzadeh; A. Raja	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3528455	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns		software quality	performance		software quality	defects	patterns
Improving Change Recommendation using Aggregated Association Rules	T. Rolfsnes; L. Moonen; S. Di Alesio; R. Behjati; D. Binkley	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		software maintenance	change impact analysis		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
Comparing Repositories Visually with RepoGrams	D. Rozenberg; I. Beschastnikh; F. Kosmale; V. Poser; H. Becker; M. Palyart; G. C. Murphy	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		development support and automation	visualisation		MSR techniques	tool development					RepoGrams, repository selection
Time Present and Time Past: Analyzing the Evolution of JavaScript Code in the Wild	D. Mitropoulos; P. Louridas; V. Salis; D. Spinellis	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00029	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software quality	defects	patterns
Helm Charts for Kubernetes Applications: Evolution, Outdatedness and Security Risks	A. Zerouali; R. Opdebeeck; C. De Roover	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00078	software maintenance	development operations		software usage	popularity		software quality	vulnerabilities and security
A Large-Scale Comparison of Python Code in Jupyter Notebooks and Scripts	K. Grotov; S. Titov; V. Sotnikov; Y. Golubev; T. Bryksin	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3528447	software architecture and design	documentation		software quality	code metrics		MSR techniques	tool development		MATROSKIN
A Dataset of Enterprise-Driven Open Source Software	D. Spinellis; Z. Kotti; K. Kravvaritis; G. Theodorou; P. Louridas	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387495	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation								company-driven OSS
How Do So ware Developers Use ChatGPT? An Exploratory Study on GitHub Pull Requests	M. Chouchen; N. Bessghaier; M. Begoug; A. Ouni; E. A. AlOmar; M. Wiem Mkaouer	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		software usage	patterns		development support and automation
Why Power Laws? An Explanation from Fine-Grained Code Changes	Z. Lin; J. Whitehead	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.14	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution								power-law model, preferential attachment
Detection and Analysis of Behavioral T-Patterns in Debugging Activities	C. Soto-Valero; J. Bourcier; B. Baudry	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software maintenance	debugging and logging		software usage	patterns
She Elicits Requirements and He Tests: Software Engineering Gender Bias in Large Language Models	C. Treude; H. Hata	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00088	collaboration and coordination	human factors and values
LAGOON: An Analysis Tool for Open Source Communities	S. Dey; W. Woods	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3528504	MSR techniques	tool development								LAGOON, developer disengagement prediction with GNN
A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Self-Admitted Technical Debt	G. Bavota; B. Russo	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		software maintenance	technical debt
Exploring the Use of Automated API Migrating Techniques in Practice: An Experience Report on Android	M. Lamothe; W. Shang	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software maintenance	dependency management		software maintenance	updates and upgrades					StackOverflow
How Often and What StackOverflow Posts Do Developers Reference in Their GitHub Projects?	S. S. Manes; O. Baysal	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00047	collaboration and coordination	communication		software architecture and design	documentation
Feature Toggle Usage Patterns: A Case Study on Google Chromium	T. Rahman	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00032	software architecture and design	features and variants		software usage	patterns
gawd: A Differencing Tool for GitHub Actions Workflows	P. R. Mazrae; A. Decan; T. Mens	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		gawd
Unveiling ChatGPT’s Usage in Open Source Projects: A Mining-based Study	R. Tufano; A. Mastropaolo; F. Pepe; O. Dabić; M. Di Penta; G. Bavota	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		software usage	patterns								ChatGPT, manual analysis
What Do Users Ask in Open-Source AI Repositories? An Empirical Study of GitHub Issues	Z. Yang; C. Wang; J. Shi; T. Hoang; P. Kochhar; Q. Lu; Z. Xing; D. Lo	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00024	collaboration and coordination	communication		development support and automation	ticket and task resolution
Was Self-Admitted Technical Debt Removal a Real Removal? An In-Depth Perspective	F. Zampetti; A. Serebrenik; M. Di Penta	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software maintenance	technical debt								self-admitted
Do Not Trust Build Results at Face Value - An Empirical Study of 30 Million CPAN Builds	M. Zolfagharinia; B. Adams; Y. -G. Guéhénuc	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.7	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software maintenance	development operations	builds				build failures
JITLine: A Simpler, Better, Faster, Finer-grained Just-In-Time Defect Prediction	C. Pornprasit; C. K. Tantithamthavorn	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00049	software quality	defects	localisation							line level
Developer Mistakes in Writing Android Manifests: An Empirical Study of Configuration Errors	A. K. Jha; S. Lee; W. J. Lee	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.41	software architecture and design	configuration		software quality	defects		MSR techniques	tool development		ManifestInspector
The Scent of Deep Learning Code: An Empirical Study	H. Jebnoun; H. Ben Braiek; M. M. Rahman; F. Khomh	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387479	software quality	code metrics		software quality	defects		software maintenance	technical debt	code smells	uses PySmell
Automatically Granted Permissions in Android apps: An Empirical Study on their Prevalence and on the Potential Threats for Privacy	P. Calciati; K. Kuznetsov; A. Gorla; A. Zeller	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387469	software quality	vulnerabilities and security		software usage	app stores		software maintenance	updates and upgrades
An Empirical Study on Regular Expression Bugs	P. Wang; C. Brown; J. A. Jennings; K. T. Stolee	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387464	software quality	defects	patterns	software maintenance	technical debt					uses pull requests
Keep Me Updated: An Empirical Study on Embedded JavaScript Engines in Android Apps	E. Wen; J. Zhou; X. Luo; G. Russello; J. Dietrich	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		software quality	vulnerabilities and security		software maintenance	updates and upgrades		MSR techniques	tool development		JS-Inspector
Does This Apply to Me? An Empirical Study of Technical Context in Stack Overflow	A. Galappaththi; S. Nadi; C. Treude	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3528435	collaboration and coordination	communication								StackOverflow
From Innovations to Prospects: What Is Hidden Behind Cryptocurrencies?	A. Jia; M. Fan; X. Xu; D. Cui; W. Wei; Z. Yang; K. Ye; T. Liu	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387439	software architecture and design	features and variants		software maintenance	reuse and clones					BlockChain
An Empirical Study on Maintainable Method Size in Java	S. A. Chowdhury; G. Uddin; R. Holmes	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3527975	software maintenance			software quality	code metrics		software quality	defects	patterns	uses CodeShovel
GuiEvo: Automated Evolution of Mobile Application GUIs	S. Salma; S. H. Mansur; Y. Zhang; K. Moran	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		development support and automation			GuiEvo
On the Prevalence, Impact, and Evolution of SQL Code Smells in Data-Intensive Systems	B. A. Muse; M. M. Rahman; C. Nagy; A. Cleve; F. Khomh; G. Antoniol	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387467	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells	software quality	defects	patterns				SQL code smells, uses PyDriller
Are Bullies More Productive? Empirical Study of Affectiveness vs. Issue Fixing Time	M. Ortu; B. Adams; G. Destefanis; P. Tourani; M. Marchesi; R. Tonelli	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.35	collaboration and coordination	communication	sentiment analysis	software maintenance	activity and productivity		software quality	defects	fixes
An Empirical Study on Android-Related Vulnerabilities	M. Linares-V√°squez; G. Bavota; C. Escobar-Vel√°squez	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.60	software quality	vulnerabilities and security
To Mock or Not to Mock? An Empirical Study on Mocking Practices	D. Spadini; M. Aniche; M. Bruntink; A. Bacchelli	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.61	software quality	tests		MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	dependency management		MockExtractor
Characteristics of Useful Code Reviews: An Empirical Study at Microsoft	A. Bosu; M. Greiler; C. Bird	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.21	software quality	code reviews		development support and automation	recommendations
Predicting Design Impactful Changes in Modern Code Review: A Large-Scale Empirical Study	A. Uchôa; C. Barbosa; D. Coutinho; W. Oizumi; W. K. G. Assunção; S. R. Vergilio; J. A. Pereira; A. Oliveira; A. Garcia	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00059	software quality	code reviews		software architecture and design	conformance and evolution		software maintenance	change impact analysis
Empirical Study of Restarted and Flaky Builds on Travis CI	T. Durieux; C. Le Goues; M. Hilton; R. Abreu	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387460	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software maintenance	development operations	builds
On Codex Prompt Engineering for OCL Generation: An Empirical Study	S. Abukhalaf; M. Hamdaqa; F. Khomh	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00033	software architecture and design	documentation		development support and automation	generation	documentation generation
Code Review Practices for Refactoring Changes: An Empirical Study on OpenStack	E. A. AlOmar; M. Chouchen; M. W. Mkaouer; A. Ouni	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3527932	software quality	code reviews		software maintenance	refactoring
An Empirical Study of Method Chaining in Java	T. Nakamaru; T. Matsunaga; T. Yamazaki; S. Akiyama; S. Chiba	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387441	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns
Enriching Source Code with Contextual Data for Code Completion Models: An Empirical Study	T. van Dam; M. Izadi; A. van Deursen	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00035	development support and automation	generation	code generation	software architecture and design	documentation
Why are Android Apps Removed From Google Play? A Large-Scale Empirical Study	H. Wang; H. Li; L. Li; Y. Guo; G. Xu	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software usage	app stores		software usage	patterns
Does Configuration Encoding Matter in Learning Software Performance? An Empirical Study on Encoding Schemes	J. Gong; T. Chen	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3528431	software quality	performance								modeling performance
An Empirical Study on the Practice of Maintaining Object-Relational Mapping Code in Java Systems	T. -H. Chen; W. Shang; J. Yang; A. E. Hassan; M. W. Godfrey; M. Nasser; P. Flora	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software architecture and design	conformance and evolution
Learning Off-By-One Mistakes: An Empirical Study	H. Sellik; O. van Paridon; G. Gousios; M. Aniche	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00019	software quality	defects	prediction
An Empirical Study on Just-in-time Conformal Defect Prediction	X. Shahini; A. Metzger; K. Pohl	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		software quality	defects	prediction
Are Latent Vulnerabilities Hidden Gems for Software Vulnerability Prediction? An Empirical Study	T. H. Minh Le; X. Du; M. A. Babar	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		software quality	vulnerabilities and security	prediction	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	localisation
Data Sets: The Circle of Life in Ruby Hosting, 2003-2015	M. Squire	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software maintenance	activity and productivity		software governance	licensing
A Historical Analysis of Debian Package Incompatibilities	M. Claes; T. Mens; R. Di Cosmo; J. Vouillon	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.27	software maintenance	dependency management
The State of the ML-universe: 10 Years of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Software Development on GitHub	D. Gonzalez; T. Zimmermann; N. Nagappan	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387473	software maintenance	activity and productivity		collaboration and coordination	mechanisms		software usage	popularity
Splitting APIs: An Exploratory Study of Software Unbundling	A. S. Matos; J. B. Ferreira Filho; L. S. Rocha	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00062	software usage	patterns		software usage	improvements		software architecture and design	redesign and reengineering
Googling for Software Development: What Developers Search For and What They Find	A. Hora	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00044	development support and automation	information retrieval								Google
Exploring the Effect of Multiple Natural Languages on Code Suggestion Using GitHub Copilot	K. Koyanagi; D. Wang; K. Noguchi; M. Kondo; A. Serebrenik; Y. Kamei; N. Ubayashi	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		development support and automation	generation	code generation
SpreadCluster: Recovering Versioned Spreadsheets through Similarity-Based Clustering	L. Xu; W. Dou; C. Gao; J. Wang; J. Wei; H. Zhong; T. Huang	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.28	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation					algorithm SpreadCluster
What did Really Change with the New Release of the App?	P. Calciati; K. Kuznetsov; X. Bai; A. Gorla	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software architecture and design	conformance and evolution		Cartographer
Exploratory Study of Slack Q&A Chats as a Mining Source for Software Engineering Tools	P. Chatterjee; K. Damevski; L. Pollock; V. Augustine; N. A. Kraft	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00075	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling							Slack, StackOverflow
Operationalizing Threats to MSR Studies by Simulation-Based Testing	J. Härtel; R. Lämmel	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3527960	MSR techniques	threats								sampling threats (repository choice), with replications
Going Green: An Exploratory Analysis of Energy-Related Questions	H. Malik; P. Zhao; M. Godfrey	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.53	software quality	energy efficiency		collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling				StackOverflow
The Impact of a Major Security Event on an Open Source Project: The Case of OpenSSL	J. Walden	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387465	software quality	vulnerabilities and security		software quality	code metrics		software maintenance	activity and productivity
Studying the Change Histories of Stack Overflow and GitHub Snippets	S. S. Manes; O. Baysal	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00040	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution					GitHub, StackOverflow
Comprehension Effort and Programming Activities: Related? Or Not Related?	A. Rahman	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software quality	code metrics		software maintenance	effort estimation
How Open Source Projects Use Static Code Analysis Tools in Continuous Integration Pipelines	F. Zampetti; S. Scalabrino; R. Oliveto; G. Canfora; M. Di Penta	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.2	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software quality	defects	detection	software quality	defects	patterns
An Evaluation of Open-Source Software Microbenchmark Suites for Continuous Performance Assessment	C. Laaber; P. Leitner	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software quality	performance		software quality	tests		software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD
Insights into Continuous Integration Build Failures	M. R. Islam; M. F. Zibran	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.30	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		software quality	code metrics
Snakes in Paradise?: Insecure Python-Related Coding Practices in Stack Overflow	A. Rahman; E. Farhana; N. Imtiaz	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00040	software quality	vulnerabilities and security		collaboration and coordination	communication					StackOverflow
Does UML Modeling Associate with Lower Defect Proneness?: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation	A. Raghuraman; T. Ho-Quang; M. R. V. Chaudron; A. Serebrenik; B. Vasilescu	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00024	software architecture and design	patterns		software architecture and design	documentation		software quality	defects	patterns	would require many changes (e.g. less variables and commits)
Intertwining Communities: Exploring Libraries that Cross Software Ecosystems	K. Kannee; R. G. Kula; S. Wattanakriengkrai; K. Matsumoto	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00077	software maintenance	dependency management		collaboration and coordination	organisational structures
Analyzing Developer Use of ChatGPT Generated Code in Open Source GitHub Projects	B. Grewal; W. Lu; S. Nadi; C. -P. Bezemer	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		development support and automation	generation	code generation	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		uses PyDriller
Tracking Hackathon Code Creation and Reuse	A. Imam; T. Dey	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00085	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software architecture and design	features and variants
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ChatGPT	P. Przymus; M. Fejzer; J. Narƒôbski; K. Stencel	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		development support and automation	generation	code generation	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution					custom tool and scripts
Investigating Next Steps in Static API-Misuse Detection	A. Sven; H. A. Nguyen; S. Nadi; T. N. Nguyen; M. Mezini	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00053	software maintenance	dependency management		MSR techniques	tool development		development support and automation	visualisation		MUDetect
Control and Data Flow in Security Smell Detection for Infrastructure as Code: Is It Worth the Effort?	R. Opdebeeck; A. Zerouali; C. De Roover	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00079	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	detection	MSR techniques	tool development					GASEL, security smell detection
Waiting around or job half-done? Sentiment in self-admitted technical debt	G. Fucci; N. Cassee; F. Zampetti; N. Novielli; A. Serebrenik; M. Di Penta	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00052	software maintenance	technical debt		collaboration and coordination	communication	sentiment analysis				self-admitted
Characterizing and Understanding Software Security Vulnerabilities in Machine Learning Libraries	N. S. Harzevili; J. Shin; J. Wang; S. Wang; N. Nagappan	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00018	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	detection	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	fixes	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	patterns	manual sorting
Don’t Forget the Exception! : Considering Robustness Changes to Identify Design Problems	A. Oliveira; J. Correia; L. Sousa; W. K. G. Assunção; D. Coutinho; A. Garcia; W. Oizumi; C. Barbosa; A. Uchôa; J. A. Pereira	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00064	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns
Unveiling the Relationship Between Continuous Integration and Code Coverage	D. Saraiva; D. A. Da Costa; U. Kulesza; G. Sizílio; J. G. Neto; R. Coelho; M. Nagappan	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00043	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software quality	code metrics
Smelly Variables in Ansible Infrastructure Code: Detection, Prevalence, and Lifetime	R. Opdebeeck; A. Zerouali; C. De Roover	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3527964	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells	software quality	defects	detection	software quality	defects	patterns
FEVER: Extracting Feature-oriented Changes from Commits	N. Dintzner; A. Van Deursen; M. Pinzger	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		MSR techniques	tool development		software architecture and design	features and variants		software architecture and design	configuration		FEVER
DaSEA - A Dataset for Software Ecosystem Analysis	P. Buchkova; J. H. Hinnerskov; K. Olsen; R. -H. Pfeiffer	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3528004	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	dependency management		DaSEA
The Impact of Code Ownership of DevOps Artefacts on the Outcome of DevOps CI Builds	A. Kola-Olawuyi; N. R. Weeraddana; M. Nagappan	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software maintenance	development operations	builds	collaboration and coordination
What Code Is Deliberately Excluded from Test Coverage and Why?	A. Hora	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00051	software quality	tests
Stack Overflow in Github: Any Snippets There?	D. Yang; P. Martins; V. Saini; C. Lopes	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.13	software maintenance	reuse and clones								StackOverflow
From Query to Usable Code: An Analysis of Stack Overflow Code Snippets	D. Yang; A. Hussain; C. V. Lopes	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		software maintenance	reuse and clones								StackOverflow
DistilKaggle: A Distilled Dataset of Kaggle Jupyter Notebooks	M. M. Ghahfarokhi; A. Asgari; M. Abolnejadian; A. Heydarnoori	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software quality	code metrics		software architecture and design	documentation
Grouping Android Tag Synonyms on Stack Overflow	S. Beyer; M. Pinzger	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling							StackOverflow
Need for Tweet: How Open Source Developers Talk About Their GitHub Work on Twitter	H. Fang; D. Klug; H. Lamba; J. Herbsleb; B. Vasilescu	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387466	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling	software maintenance	activity and productivity
An Exploratory Study on Energy Consumption of Dataframe Processing Libraries	S. Shanbhag; S. Chimalakonda	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00048	software quality	energy efficiency
RmvDroid: Towards A Reliable Android Malware Dataset with App Metadata	H. Wang; J. Si; H. Li; Y. Guo	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00067	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software quality	vulnerabilities and security
The Maven Dependency Graph: A Temporal Graph-Based Representation of Maven Central	A. Benelallam; N. Harrand; C. Soto-Valero; B. Baudry; O. Barais	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00060	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	dependency management		Maven Miner
A Dataset for API Usage	A. A. Sawant; A. Bacchelli	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.75	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software maintenance	dependency management
ConPan: A Tool to Analyze Packages in Software Containers	A. Zerouali; V. Cosentino; G. Robles; J. M. Gonzalez-Barahona; T. Mens	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00089	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	dependency management		software maintenance	effort estimation		ConPan
STRAIT: A Tool for Automated Software Reliability Growth Analysis	S. Chren; R. Micko; B. Buhnova; B. Rossi	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00025	MSR techniques	tool development		software quality			software maintenance	effort estimation		STRAIT
GIRT-Data: Sampling GitHub Issue Report Templates	N. Nikeghbal; A. Hossein Kargaran; A. Heydarnoori; H. Schütze	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00026	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation
A Mixed Graph-Relational Dataset of Socio-technical Interactions in Open Source Systems	U. Ashraf; C. Mayr-Dorn; A. Egyed; S. Panichella	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387492	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		software quality
AndroZoo: A Retrospective with a Glimpse into the Future	M. Alecci; P. J. Ruiz Jiménez; K. Allix; T. F. Bissyandé; J. Klein	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software usage	app stores
GitHub OSS Governance File Dataset	Y. Yan; S. Frey; A. Zhang; V. Filkov; L. Yin	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00089	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software governance
A Dataset of Atoms of Confusion in the Android Open Source Project	D. Tabosa; O. Pinheiro; L. Rocha; W. Viana	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software quality	defects					Android apps
A Design Structure Matrix Approach for Measuring Co-change-Modularity of Software Products	R. Benkoczi; D. Gaur; S. Hossain; M. A. Khan	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software architecture and design	conformance and evolution		software maintenance	dependency management		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
Leveraging GPT-like LLMs to Automate Issue Labeling	G. Colavito; F. Lanubile; N. Novielli; L. Quaranta	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		development support and automation	ticket and task resolution								with LLMs
Understanding the Origins of Mobile App Vulnerabilities: A Large-Scale Measurement Study of Free and Paid Apps	T. Watanabe; M. Akiyama; F. Kanei; E. Shioji; Y. Takata; B. Sun; Y. Ishi; T. Shibahara; T. Yagi; T. Mori	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.23	software quality	vulnerabilities and security		software maintenance	dependency management
Detecting and Characterizing Bots that Commit Code	T. Dey; S. Mousavi; E. Ponce; T. Fry; B. Vasilescu; A. Filippova; A. Mockus	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387478	software maintenance	bots		MSR techniques	tool development					BIMAN
500+ Times Faster than Deep Learning: (A Case Study Exploring Faster Methods for Text Mining StackOverflow)	T. Menzies; S. Majumder; N. Balaji; K. Brey; W. Fu	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling		collaboration and coordination	communication					StackOverflow
Inter-app Communication in Android: Developer Challenges	W. Ahmad; C. Kästner; J. Sunshine; J. Aldrich	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		software architecture and design	conformance and evolution		software usage	popularity		software maintenance	dependency management
Domain-Specific Cross-Language Relevant Question Retrieval	B. Xu; Z. Xing; X. Xia; D. Lo; Q. Wang; S. Li	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		development support and automation	information retrieval		collaboration and coordination	communication					StackOverflow
Do Bugs Foreshadow Vulnerabilities? A Study of the Chromium Project	F. Camilo; A. Meneely; M. Nagappan	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.32	software quality	defects	patterns	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	patterns
Developer-Driven Code Smell Prioritization	F. Pecorelli; F. Palomba; F. Khomh; A. De Lucia	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387457	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells
Extracting Build Changes with BUILDDIFF	C. Macho; S. McIntosh; M. Pinzger	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.65	software maintenance	development operations	builds	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		MSR techniques	tool development		BUILDDIFF
Anatomy of Functionality Deletion: An Exploratory Study on Mobile Apps	M. Nayebi; K. Kuznetsov; P. Chen; A. Zeller; G. Ruhe	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software architecture and design	features and variants		software usage	app stores					Lehman’s law, card sorting
The Secret Life of Hackathon Code Where does it come from and where does it go?	A. Imam; T. Dey; A. Nolte; A. Mockus; J. D. Herbsleb	2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2021	10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00020	software maintenance	reuse and clones
On the Impact of Security Vulnerabilities in the npm Package Dependency Network	A. Decan; T. Mens; E. Constantinou	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software quality	vulnerabilities and security	patterns	software maintenance	dependency management
Analyzing Conflict Predictors in Open-Source Java Projects	P. Accioly; P. Borba; L. Silva; G. Cavalcanti	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software maintenance	code merge		software maintenance	code and change prediction
Automatically Generating Documentation for Lambda Expressions in Java	A. Alqaimi; P. Thongtanunam; C. Treude	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00057	development support and automation	generation	documentation generation	MSR techniques	tool development					Lambda Doc
Using Developer-Interaction Trails to Triage Change Requests	M. B. Zanjani; H. Kagdi; C. Bird	2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	2015	10.1109/MSR.2015.16	development support and automation	ticket and task resolution		development support and automation	recommendations		MSR techniques	tool development		iHDev
Dealing with Popularity Bias in Recommender Systems for Third-party Libraries: How far Are We?	P. T. Nguyen; R. Rubei; J. Di Rocco; C. Di Sipio; D. Di Ruscio; M. Di Penta	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00016	development support and automation	recommendations		software usage	popularity		MSR techniques	threats
Understanding the Time to First Response in GitHub Pull Requests	K. A. Hasan; M. Macedo; Y. Tian; B. Adams; S. Ding	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00015	collaboration and coordination	communication		software maintenance	activity and productivity
Understanding the Role of Images on Stack Overflow	D. Wang; T. Xiao; C. Treude; R. G. Kula; H. Hata; Y. Kamei	2023 IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2023	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00059	collaboration and coordination	communication								StackOverflow
An Empirical Evaluation of GitHub Copilot’s Code Suggestions	N. Nguyen; S. Nadi	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3528470	development support and automation	generation	code generation	software quality	code metrics
Using Others’ Tests to Identify Breaking Updates	S. Mujahid; R. Abdalkareem; E. Shihab; S. McIntosh	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387476	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	dependency management		software quality	tests
A Study on the Accuracy of OCR Engines for Source Code Transcription from Programming Screencasts	A. Khormi; M. Alahmadi; S. Haiduc	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387468	development support and automation	generation	code generation							from scrrencasts
On the Relationship between User Churn and Software Issues	O. E. Zarif; D. A. Da Costa; S. Hassan; Y. Zou	2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2020	10.1145/3379597.3387456	software usage	improvements		software quality
CLEVER: Combining Code Metrics with Clone Detection for Just-in-Time Fault Prevention and Resolution in Large Industrial Projects	M. Nayrolles; A. Hamou-Lhadj	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software quality	defects	prediction	software quality	defects	fixes	MSR techniques	tool development		CLEVER
Characterising Deprecated Android APIs	L. Li; J. Gao; T. Bissyandé; L. Ma; X. Xia; J. Klein	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		software maintenance	dependency management		MSR techniques	tool development					CDA
Rationale in Development Chat Messages: An Exploratory Study	R. Alkadhi; T. Lata; E. Guzmany; B. Bruegge	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.43	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling
Analyzing Program Dependencies in Java EE Applications	A. Shatnawi; H. Mili; G. El Boussaidi; A. Boubaker; Y. -G. Guéhéneuc; N. Moha; J. Privat; M. Abdellatif	2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.6	software maintenance	dependency management		software architecture and design	documentation		MSR techniques	tool development		DeJEE
Characterizing the Roles of Contributors in Open-Source Scientific Software Projects	R. Milewicz; G. Pinto; P. Rodeghero	2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2019	10.1109/MSR.2019.00069	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		software maintenance	activity and productivity
Mining Performance Regression Inducing Code Changes in Evolving Software	Q. Luo; D. Poshyvanyk; M. Grechanik	2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2016		software quality	performance		software maintenance	change impact analysis		MSR techniques	tool development		PerfImpact
An Alternative Issue Tracking Dataset of Public Jira Repositories	L. Montgomery; C. Lüders; W. Maalej	2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2022	10.1145/3524842.3528486	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		software quality	defects		collaboration and coordination	communication
Large-Scale Analysis of the Co-commit Patterns of the Active Developers in GitHub’s Top Repositories	E. Cohen; M. P. Consens	2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2018		collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		software maintenance	activity and productivity
Encoding Version History Context for Better Code Representation	H. Nguyen; C. Treud; P. Thongtanunam	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		development support and automation	generation	code generation
What Can Self-Admitted Technical Debt Tell Us About Security? A Mixed-Methods Study	N. E. D. Ferreyra; M. Shahin; M. Zahedi; S. Quadri; R. Scandariato	2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2024		software maintenance	technical debt		software quality	vulnerabilities and security
Table of contents		2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)	2017	10.1109/MSR.2017.78	no MSR study

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Document Title	Authors	Publication Title	DOI	Primary Category 1	Secondary Category 1	Tertiary Category 1	Primary Category 2	Secondary Category 2	Tertiary Category 2	Primary Category 3	Secondary Category 3	Tertiary Category 3	Notes
Mining Version Control Systems and Issue Trackers with LibVCS4j	M. Steinbeck	2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054841	MSR techniques	tool development								LibVCS4j
Modeling the evolution of development topics using Dynamic Topic Models	J. Hu; X. Sun; D. Lo; B. Li	2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081810	development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling
PR-SZZ: How pull requests can support the tracing of defects in software repositories	P. Bludau; A. Pretschner	2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00012	software quality	defects	detection	software quality	defects	fixes
Explore the evolution of development topics via on-line LDA	J. Hu; X. Sun; Bin Li	2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081876	development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling
Enhancing Just-in-Time Defect Prediction Using Change Request-based Metrics	H. D. Tessema; S. L. Abebe	2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER50967.2021.00056	software quality	defects	prediction
Knowledge Graphing Git Repositories: A Preliminary Study	Y. Zhao; H. Wang; L. Ma; Y. Liu; L. Li; J. Grundy	2019 IEEE 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2019.8668034	development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling		MSR techniques	tool development					GitGraph
Improving the integration process of large software systems	Y. Jiang	2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081888	software maintenance	integration		software maintenance	effort estimation
Using Large Language Models for Commit Message Generation: A Preliminary Study	L. Zhang; J. Zhao; C. Wang; P. Liang	2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER60148.2024.00020	development support and automation	generation	commit message generation
Understanding and Facilitating the Co-Evolution of Production and Test Code	S. Wang; M. Wen; Y. Liu; Y. Wang; R. Wu	2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER50967.2021.00033	software quality	tests
Ultra-Large-Scale Repository Analysis via Graph Compression	P. Boldi; A. Pietri; S. Vigna; S. Zacchiroli	2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054827	development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling
Reducing redundancies in multi-revision code analysis	C. V. Alexandru; S. Panichella; H. C. Gall	2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2017.7884617	MSR techniques	tool development								LISA
On the Co-evolution of ML Pipelines and Source Code - Empirical Study of DVC Projects	A. Barrak; E. E. Eghan; B. Adams	2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER50967.2021.00046	software maintenance	development operations	MLOps	software maintenance	dependency management
PANDORA: Continuous Mining Software Repository and Dataset Generation	H. Nguyen; F. Lomio; F. Pecorelli; V. Lenarduzzi	2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00041	MSR techniques	tool development								PANDORA for continuous mining
Summarizing Evolutionary Trajectory by Grouping and Aggregating relevant code changes	Qingtao Jiang; X. Peng; Hai Wang; Z. Xing; W. Zhao	2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081846	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		MSR techniques	tool development					SETGA
Analysis and Propagation of Feature Revisions in Preprocessor-based Software Product Lines	G. K. Michelon; W. K. G. Assunção; P. Grünbacher; A. Egyed	2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER56733.2023.00035	software architecture and design	features and variants
The Impact of Human Discussions on Just-in-Time Quality Assurance: An Empirical Study on OpenStack and Eclipse	P. Tourani; B. Adams	2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2016.113	software quality	defects	detection	collaboration and coordination	communication
Towards a Robust Approach to Analyze Time-Dependent Data in Software Engineering	N. Saarimäki; S. Moreschini; F. Lomio; R. Penaloza; V. Lenarduzzi	2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00015	MSR techniques	threats
Understanding developers’ natural language queries with interactive clarification	S. Jiang; L. Shen; X. Peng; L. V. Zhaojin; W. Zhao	2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081811	development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling		development support and automation	information retrieval		MSR techniques	tool development		QAforNatural
We Are Family: Analyzing Communication in GitHub Software Repositories and Their Forks	S. Brisson; E. Noei; K. Lyons	2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054834	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling	software usage	popularity
Are Refactorings to Blame? An Empirical Study of Refactorings in Merge Conflicts	M. Mahmoudi; S. Nadi; N. Tsantalis	2019 IEEE 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2019.8668012	software maintenance	code merge		software maintenance	refactoring
On the Relationship of Inconsistent Software Clones and Faults: An Empirical Study	S. Wagner; A. Abdulkhaleq; K. Kaya; A. Paar	2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2016.94	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software quality	defects	patterns
Supporting Merge Conflict Resolution by Using Fine-Grained Code Change History	Y. Nishimura; K. Maruyama	2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2016.46	software maintenance	code merge
Which review feedback did long-term contributors get on OSS projects?	T. Norikane; A. Ihara; K. Matsumoto	2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2017.7884682	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		collaboration and coordination	onboarding		software maintenance	activity
Diggit: Automated code review via software repository mining	R. Chatley; L. Jones	2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2018.8330261	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	code reviews					diggit
BUMPER: A Tool for Coping with Natural Language Searches of Millions of Bugs and Fixes	M. Nayrolles; A. Hamou-Lhadj	2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2016.71	MSR techniques	tool development		software quality	defects					BUMPER
Javadoc Violations and Their Evolution in Open-Source Software	M. Steinbeck; R. Koschke	2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER50967.2021.00031	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells	software architecture and design	documentation
Use the Forks, Look! Visualizations for Exploring Fork Ecosystems	S. Chen; L. Cleophas; S. Schulze; J. Krüger	2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER60148.2024.00107	MSR techniques	tool development		software architecture and design	features and variants		software maintenance	reuse and clones		VisFork
HFCommunity: A Tool to Analyze the Hugging Face Hub Community	A. Ait; J. L. C. Izquierdo; J. Cabot	2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER56733.2023.00080	MSR techniques	tool development								HFCommunity
Reuse (or Lack Thereof) in Travis CI Specifications: An Empirical Study of CI Phases and Commands	P. K. Sidhu; G. Mussbacher; S. McIntosh	2019 IEEE 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2019.8668029	software maintenance	integration	CI/CD
G-Repo: a Tool to Support MSR Studies on GitHub	S. Romano; M. Caulo; M. Buompastore; L. Guerra; A. Mounsif; M. Telesca; M. T. Baldassarre; G. Scanniello	2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER50967.2021.00064	MSR techniques	tool development		MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation					G-Repo
Mining Unstructured Data in Software Repositories: Current and Future Trends	G. Bavota	2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2016.47	MSR techniques	threats								mining unstructured data (text)
Towards continuous software release planning	D. Ameller; C. Farré; X. Franch; D. Valerio; A. Cassarino	2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2017.7884642	software governance	release management								release planning
SpojitR: Intelligently Link Development Artifacts	M. Rath; M. T. Tomova; P. Mäder	2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054839	MSR techniques	tool development		collaboration and coordination						SpojitR
Regression Test Selection Tool for Python in Continuous Integration Process	E. Kauhanen; J. K. Nurminen; T. Mikkonen; M. Pashkovskiy	2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER50967.2021.00077	software quality	tests		software maintenance	integration	CI/CD
The relationship between evolutionary coupling and defects in large industrial software (journal-first abstract)	S. Kirbas; B. Caglayan; T. Hall; S. Counsell; D. Bowes; A. Sen; A. Bener	2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2018.8330237	software quality	defects	patterns	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
Towards an ontology-based context-aware meta-model for the software domain	M. Erfani	2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081892	software architecture and design	documentation
Towards Implementation of an Integrated Clone Management Infrastructure	M. F. Zibran	2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2016.89	software maintenance	reuse and clones		MSR techniques	tool development
MSR4ML: Reconstructing Artifact Traceability in Machine Learning Repositories	A. T. Njomou; A. Johanne Bifona Africa; B. Adams; M. Fokaefs	2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER50967.2021.00061	software maintenance	integration	MLOps	MSR techniques	tool development					MSR4ML
APIDiff: Detecting API breaking changes	A. Brito; L. Xavier; A. Hora; M. T. Valente	2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2018.8330249	software maintenance	dependency management		MSR techniques	tool development					APIDIFF
GoCity: Code City for Go	R. Brito; A. Brito; G. Brito; M. T. Valente	2019 IEEE 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2019.8668008	MSR techniques	tool development		development support and automation	visualisation					GoCity
The impact of refactoring changes on the SZZ algorithm: An empirical study	E. C. Neto; D. A. da Costa; U. Kulesza	2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2018.8330225	software quality	defects	detection	software maintenance	refactoring
Code coverage and test suite effectiveness: Empirical study with real bugs in large systems	P. S. Kochhar; F. Thung; D. Lo	2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081877	software quality	tests
Niche vs. breadth: Calculating expertise over time through a fine-grained analysis	J. R. da Silva; E. Clua; L. Murta; A. Sarma	2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081851	collaboration and coordination	expertise								uses Dominoes
How do developers fix issues and pay back technical debt in the Apache ecosystem?	G. Digkas; M. Lungu; P. Avgeriou; A. Chatzigeorgiou; A. Ampatzoglou	2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2018.8330205	software maintenance	technical debt		software quality	defects	fixes
Would static analysis tools help developers with code reviews?	S. Panichella; V. Arnaoudova; M. Di Penta; G. Antoniol	2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081826	software quality	defects	patterns	software quality	code reviews		software maintenance	effort estimation
Towards Understanding Tool-chain Bugs in the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure	X. Xie; H. Yang; Q. He; L. Chen	2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER50967.2021.00010	software quality	defects	detection	software quality	defects	fixes	software quality	defects	patterns
Enriching in-IDE process information with fine-grained source code history	S. Proksch; S. Nadi; S. Amann; M. Mezini	2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2017.7884626	development support and automation	visualisation		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		MSR techniques	tool development		CARET
An Exploratory Study on Self-Fixed Software Vulnerabilities in OSS Projects	S. Forootani; A. Di Sorbo; C. A. Visaggio	2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00023	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	fixes
Extracting executable transformations from distilled code changes	R. Stevens; C. De Roover	2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2017.7884619	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution								uses ChangeNodes
Weak Labelling for File-level Source Code Classification	C. Sas; A. Capiluppi	2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER56733.2023.00074	development support and automation	generation	documentation generation	software maintenance	dependency management		software architecture and design	documentation		uses Arcan
Understanding the Archived Projects on GitHub	X. Xia; S. Zhao; X. Zhang; Z. Lou; W. Wang; F. Bi	Tongji University	10.1109/SANER56733.2023.00012	software maintenance	activity and productivity								many manual steps
Documentation of Machine Learning Software	Y. Hashemi; M. Nayebi; G. Antoniol	2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054844	software architecture and design	documentation		development support and automation	generation	documentation generation	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling
Untangling fine-grained code changes	M. Dias; A. Bacchelli; G. Gousios; D. Cassou; S. Ducasse	2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081844	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		development support and automation	recommendations		MSR techniques	tool development		EiceaUntangler
SQA-Profiles: Rule-based activity profiles for Continuous Integration environments	M. Brandtner; S. C. Müller; P. Leitner; H. C. Gall	2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081840	software maintenance	integration	CI/CD	software quality
DAPSTEP: Deep Assignee Prediction for Stack Trace Error rePresentation	D. Sushentsev; A. Khvorov; R. Vasiliev; Y. Golubev; T. Bryksin	2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00033	software quality	defects	fixes	collaboration and coordination						bug triage problem (person to fix)
Towards just-in-time suggestions for log changes (journal-first abstract)	H. Li; W. Shang; Y. Zou; A. E. Hassan	2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2018.8330233	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software maintenance	debugging and logging
Refactoring Graphs: Assessing Refactoring over Time	A. Brito; A. Hora; M. T. Valente	2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054864	software maintenance	refactoring
Code of conduct in open source projects	P. Tourani; B. Adams; A. Serebrenik	2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2017.7884606	collaboration and coordination	human factors and values								codes of conduct
Assessing time-based and range-based strategies for commit assignment to releases	F. C. do Rego Pinto; B. Costa; L. Murta	2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER50967.2021.00022	software governance	release management
Constructing Temporal Networks of OSS Programming Language Ecosystems	A. Agroskin; E. Lyulina; S. Titov; V. Kovalenko	2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER56733.2023.00067	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation
On Relating Technical, Social Factors, and the Introduction of Bugs	F. Falcão; C. Barbosa; B. Fonseca; A. Garcia; M. Ribeiro; R. Gheyi	2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054824	software quality	defects	patterns	collaboration and coordination	communication		collaboration and coordination	experience		socio-technical
How do scientists develop scientific software? An external replication	G. Pinto; I. Wiese; L. F. Dias	2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2018.8330263	no MSR study									research software engineering
Modern Release Engineering in a Nutshell – Why Researchers Should Care	B. Adams; S. McIntosh	2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2016.108	no MSR study
Generalizing the Analysis of Evolutionary Coupling for Software Change Impact Analysis	T. Rolfsnes; S. Di Alesio; R. Behjati; L. Moonen; D. W. Binkley	2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2016.101	software maintenance	change impact analysis		development support and automation	recommendations		MSR techniques	tool development		TARMAQ
Forking and the Sustainability of the Developer Community Participation – An Empirical Investigation on Outcomes and Reasons	A. Rastogi; N. Nagappan	2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2016.27	software architecture and design	features and variants		software maintenance	reuse and clones		software maintenance	activity and productivity
A Multi-Step Learning Approach to Assist Code Review	O. B. Sghaier; H. Sahraoui	2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER56733.2023.00049	software quality	code reviews		software quality	defects	localisation	development support and automation	recommendations
Identifying the exact fixing actions of static rule violation	H. Oumarou; N. Anquetil; A. Etien; S. Ducasse; K. D. Taiwe	2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081847	software quality	defects	detection	software quality	defects	fixes	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
Exploring Relevant Artifacts of Release Notes: The Practitioners’ Perspective	S. S. Nath; B. Roy	2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00152	software governance	release management		development support and automation	generation	release note generation				not GenAI but guidelines
Variant Forks - Motivations and Impediments	J. Businge; A. Zerouali; A. Decan; T. Mens; S. Demeyer; C. De Roover	2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00105	software architecture and design	features and variants								mainly survey
Learning CI Configuration Correctness for Early Build Feedback	M. Santolucito; J. Zhang; E. Zhai; J. Cito; R. Piskac	2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00118	software maintenance	integration	CI/CD	software maintenance	development operations	builds
CommitBench: A Benchmark for Commit Message Generation	M. Schall; T. Czinczoll; G. De Melo	2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER60148.2024.00080	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation		development support and automation	generation	commit message generation				CommitBench
Searching for Technical Debt - An Empirical, Exploratory, and Descriptive Case Study	R. -H. Pfeiffer	2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00119	software maintenance	technical debt		software maintenance	refactoring		collaboration and coordination
COLARE: Commit Classification via Fine-grained Context-aware Representation of Code Changes	Q. Zeng; Y. Zhang; Z. Sun; Y. Guo; H. Liu	2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER60148.2024.00082	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		MSR techniques	tool development					COLARE, commit classification
CloCom: Mining existing source code for automatic comment generation	E. Wong; Taiyue Liu; L. Tan	2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081848	development support and automation	generation	documentation generation	MSR techniques	tool development					CloCom
On the rise and fall of CI services in GitHub	M. Golzadeh; A. Decan; T. Mens	2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00084	software maintenance	integration	CI/CD
A Multi-Metric Ranking Approach for Library Migration Recommendations	H. He; Y. Xu; Y. Ma; Y. Xu; G. Liang; M. Zhou	2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER50967.2021.00016	software maintenance	dependency management		software maintenance	updates and upgrades		development support and automation	recommendations
Incremental Map-Reduce on Repository History	J. Härtel; R. Lämmel	2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054811	MSR techniques	tool development								Topleet, scalability
Defect Prediction: Accomplishments and Future Challenges	Y. Kamei; E. Shihab	2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2016.56	no MSR study
Mining Software Information Sites to Recommend Cross-Language Analogical Libraries	K. W. Nafi; M. Asaduzzaman; B. Roy; C. K. Roy; K. A. Schneider	2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00109	software maintenance	dependency management		development support and automation	recommendations		MSR techniques	tool development		XLibRec
Software-Specific Named Entity Recognition in Software Engineering Social Content	D. Ye; Z. Xing; C. Y. Foo; Z. Q. Ang; J. Li; N. Kapre	2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2016.10	collaboration and coordination	communication		MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation
Stack Overflow: A code laundering platform?	L. An; O. Mlouki; F. Khomh; G. Antoniol	2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2017.7884629	software governance	licensing		software maintenance	reuse and clones
DeepWeak: Reasoning common software weaknesses via knowledge graph embedding	Z. Han; X. Li; H. Liu; Z. Xing; Z. Feng	2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2018.8330232	software quality	vulnerabilities and security		development support and automation	topic and knowledge modeling
Client-Side Energy Efficiency of HTTP/2 for Web and Mobile App Developers	S. A. Chowdhury; V. Sapra; A. Hindle	2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2016.77	no MSR study
LibDX: A Cross-Platform and Accurate System to Detect Third-Party Libraries in Binary Code	W. Tang; P. Luo; J. Fu; D. Zhang	2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054845	software maintenance	dependency management		software governance	licensing		MSR techniques	tool development		LibDX
Automatically Extracting Subroutine Summary Descriptions from Unstructured Comments	Z. Eberhart; A. LeClair; C. McMillan	2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054789	development support and automation	summarisation		development support and automation	generation	documentation generation
Underproduction: An Approach for Measuring Risk in Open Source Software	K. Champion; B. M. Hill	University of Washington	10.1109/SANER50967.2021.00043	software maintenance	activity and productivity
Slice-Based Cognitive Complexity Metrics for Defect Prediction	B. S. Alqadi; J. I. Maletic	2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054836	software quality	defects	patterns	software quality	code metrics					program slicing
Self-Admitted Library Migrations in Java, JavaScript, and Python Packaging Ecosystems: A Comparative Study	H. Gu; H. He; M. Zhou	2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER56733.2023.00064	software maintenance	dependency management
Navigating Expertise in Configurable Software Systems through the Maze of Variability	K. Milano; B. Cafeo	2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER60148.2024.00053	collaboration and coordination	expertise								metrics
More Common Than You Think: An In-depth Study of Casual Contributors	G. Pinto; I. Steinmacher; M. A. Gerosa	2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER.2016.68	software maintenance	activity and productivity		collaboration and coordination	organisational structures
VELVET: a noVel Ensemble Learning approach to automatically locate VulnErable sTatements	Y. Ding; S. Suneja; Y. Zheng; J. Laredo; A. Morari; G. Kaiser; B. Ray	IBM Research	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00114	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	localisation	MSR techniques	tool development					Velvet, transformer
On the Impact of Flaky Tests in Automated Program Repair	Y. Qin; S. Wang; K. Liu; X. Mao; T. F. Bissyandé	2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER50967.2021.00035	software quality	tests		software quality	performance
Pull Requests or Commits? Which Method Should We Use to Study Contributors’ Behavior?	M. V. Bertoncello; G. Pinto; I. S. Wiese; I. Steinmacher	2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054855	MSR techniques	threats								pull request vs. Commits
Documentation-Guided API Sequence Search without Worrying about the Text-API Semantic Gap	H. Wei; X. Su; W. Zheng; W. Tao	2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)	10.1109/SANER56733.2023.00040	software maintenance	dependency management		software usage						API sequence search

TOSEM

Publication Year	Author	Title	Publication Title	DOI	Primary Category 1	Secondary Category 1	Tertiary Category 1	Primary Category 2	Secondary Category 2	Tertiary Category 2	Primary Category 3	Secondary Category 3	Tertiary Category 3	Notes
2024	De Santana, Taijara Loiola; Neto, Paulo Anselmo Da Mota Silveira; De Almeida, Eduardo Santana; Ahmed, Iftekhar	Bug Analysis in Jupyter Notebook Projects: An Empirical Study	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3641539	software quality	defects	patterns	software maintenance
2023	Rahman, Akond; Shamim, Shazibul Islam; Bose, Dibyendu Brinto; Pandita, Rahul	Security Misconfigurations in Open Source Kubernetes Manifests: An Empirical Study	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3579639	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	patterns	software maintenance	development operations		software architecture and design	configuration
2023	Batoun, Mohamed Amine; Yung, Ka Lai; Tian, Yuan; Sayagh, Mohammed	An Empirical Study on GitHub Pull Requests’ Reactions	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3597208	collaboration and coordination	communication	sentiment analysis	collaboration and coordination	mechanisms					reactions in GitHub pull requests
2021	Abidi, Mouna; Rahman, Md Saidur; Openja, Moses; Khomh, Foutse	Are Multi-Language Design Smells Fault-Prone? An Empirical Study	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3432690	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns		software quality	defects	patterns
2020	Chen, Lin; Wu, Di; Ma, Wanwangying; Zhou, Yuming; Xu, Baowen; Leung, Hareton	How C++ Templates Are Used for Generic Programming: An Empirical Study on 50 Open Source Systems	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3356579	development support and automation	generation	code generation	software maintenance	reuse and clones					templates
2024	Yang, Yanming; Hu, Xing; Xia, Xin; Yang, Xiaohu	The Lost World: Characterizing and Detecting Undiscovered Test Smells	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3631973	software quality	tests		collaboration and coordination	communication	sentiment analysis	software maintenance	refactoring		StackOverflow
2023	Sun, Weifeng; Yan, Meng; Liu, Zhongxin; Xia, Xin; Lei, Yan; Lo, David	Revisiting the Identification of the Co-evolution of Production and Test Code	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3607183	software quality	tests		MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		CHOSEN (identifiCation metHod Of production-teSt co-EvolutioN)
2024	Bi, Tingting; Xia, Boming; Xing, Zhenchang; Lu, Qinghua; Zhu, Liming	On the Way to SBOMs: Investigating Design Issues and Solutions in Practice	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3654442	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling	software architecture and design	documentation					SBOM
2024	Fan, Lishui; Liu, Jiakun; Liu, Zhongxin; Lo, David; Xia, Xin; Li, Shanping	Exploring the Capabilities of LLMs for Code Change Related Tasks	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3709358	development support and automation	generation	code generation	development support and automation	generation	commit message generation	development support and automation	generation	code review generation
2025	Zhong, Wenkang; Li, Chuanyi; Liu, Kui; Ge, Jidong; Luo, Bin; Bissyandé, Tegawendé F.; Ng, Vincent	Benchmarking and Categorizing the Performance of Neural Program Repair Systems for Java	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3688834	software quality	defects	fixes	development support and automation	ticket and task resolution		MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation
2025	Zhang, Jierui; Wang, Liang; Li, Ying; Jiang, Jing; Wang, Tao; Tao, Xianping	Measuring and Mining Community Evolution in Developer Social Networks with Entropy-Based Indices	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3688832	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures								community evolution
2022	Ni, Chao; Xia, Xin; Lo, David; Yang, Xiaohu; Hassan, Ahmed E.	Just-In-Time Defect Prediction on JavaScript Projects: A Replication Study	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3508479	software quality	defects	prediction	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
2024	Sülün, Emre; Saçakçı, Metehan; Tüzün, Eray	An Empirical Analysis of Issue Templates Usage in Large-Scale Projects on GitHub	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3643673	software usage	popularity		software usage	patterns		development support and automation	ticket and task resolution		issue templates
2021	Rahman, Akond; Rahman, Md Rayhanur; Parnin, Chris; Williams, Laurie	Security Smells in Ansible and Chef Scripts: A Replication Study	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3408897	software quality	vulnerabilities and security		software maintenance	technical debt	code smells				security smells
2022	Hu, Xing; Chen, Qiuyuan; Wang, Haoye; Xia, Xin; Lo, David; Zimmermann, Thomas	Correlating Automated and Human Evaluation of Code Documentation Generation Quality	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3502853	development support and automation	generation	documentation generation
2023	Ojdanic, Milos; Soremekun, Ezekiel; Degiovanni, Renzo; Papadakis, Mike; Le Traon, Yves	Mutation Testing in Evolving Systems: Studying the Relevance of Mutants to Code Evolution	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3530786	software quality	tests		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
2023	Rombaut, Benjamin; Cogo, Filipe R.; Adams, Bram; Hassan, Ahmed E.	There’s no Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Lessons Learned from Exploring the Overhead Introduced by the Greenkeeper Dependency Bot in Npm	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3522587	software maintenance	dependency management		software maintenance	bots		development support and automation	recommendations
2021	Liu, Chao; Xia, Xin; Lo, David; Liu, Zhiwe; Hassan, Ahmed E.; Li, Shanping	CodeMatcher: Searching Code Based on Sequential Semantics of Important Query Words	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3465403	development support and automation	information retrieval		software maintenance	reuse and clones		MSR techniques	tool development		CodeMatcher
2024	Hommersom, Daan; Sabetta, Antonino; Coppola, Bonaventura; Nucci, Dario Di; Tamburri, Damian A.	Automated Mapping of Vulnerability Advisories onto their Fix Commits in Open Source Repositories	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3649590	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	detection	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	fixes	MSR techniques	tool development		FixFinder
2024	Wan, Xiaohui; Zheng, Zheng; Qin, Fangyun; Lu, Xuhui	Data Complexity: A New Perspective for Analyzing the Difficulty of Defect Prediction Tasks	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3649596	software quality	defects	prediction	MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation					data distribution (imbalance)
2023	Rosa, Giovanni; Scalabrino, Simone; Bavota, Gabriele; Oliveto, Rocco	What Quality Aspects Influence the Adoption of Docker Images?	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3603111	software maintenance	development operations		software quality	vulnerabilities and security		software usage	popularity		Docker image properties
2022	Joblin, Mitchell; Apel, Sven	How Do Successful and Failed Projects Differ? A Socio-Technical Analysis	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3504003	software governance	project success		collaboration and coordination	organisational structures
2021	Dilhara, Malinda; Ketkar, Ameya; Dig, Danny	Understanding Software-2.0: A Study of Machine Learning Library Usage and Evolution	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3453478	software maintenance	dependency management		software maintenance	updates and upgrades		software usage	popularity		ML library updates
2023	Mo, Ran; Zhang, Yao; Wang, Yushuo; Zhang, Siyuan; Xiong, Pu; Li, Zengyang; Zhao, Yang	Exploring the Impact of Code Clones on Deep Learning Software	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3607181	software maintenance	reuse and clones		software quality	defects	patterns				DL clones
2024	Jiang, Muhui; Jiang, Jinan; Wu, Tao; Ma, Zuchao; Luo, Xiapu; Zhou, Yajin	Understanding Vulnerability Inducing Commits of the Linux Kernel	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3672452	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	patterns	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		collaboration and coordination	expertise
2023	Bock, Thomas; Alznauer, Nils; Joblin, Mitchell; Apel, Sven	Automatic Core-Developer Identification on GitHub: A Validation Study	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3593803	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures
2023	Assi, Maram; Hassan, Safwat; Georgiou, Stefanos; Zou, Ying	Predicting the Change Impact of Resolving Defects by Leveraging the Topics of Issue Reports in Open Source Software Systems	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3593802	development support and automation	ticket and task resolution		software maintenance	change impact analysis					issue assignment
2024	Wang, Haoye; Gao, Zhipeng; Bi, Tingting; Grundy, John; Wang, Xinyu; Wu, Minghui; Yang, Xiaohu	What Makes a Good TODO Comment?	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3664811	software maintenance	technical debt		development support and automation	ticket and task resolution					TODO quality classification
2024	Gao, Zhipeng; Su, Yanqi; Hu, Xing; Xia, Xin	Automating TODO-missed Methods Detection and Patching	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3700793	software maintenance	technical debt		MSR techniques	tool development					TDPatcher for TODOs
2024	Vitale, Antonio; Oliveto, Rocco; Scalabrino, Simone	A Catalog of Data Smells for Coding Tasks	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3707457	no MSR study
2025	Roychoudhury, Abhik	Editorial: TOSEM Journal in 2025 and Beyond	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3708477	no MSR study
2024	Graf-Vlachy, Lorenz; Wagner, Stefan	Cleaning Up Confounding: Accounting for Endogeneity Using Instrumental Variables and Two-Stage Models	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3674730	MSR techniques	threats								correlation, causality, endogeneity
2022	Yang, Yanming; Xia, Xin; Lo, David; Bi, Tingting; Grundy, John; Yang, Xiaohu	Predictive Models in Software Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3503509	no MSR study									SLR
2024	Wang, Qing; Wang, Junjie; Li, Mingyang; Wang, Yawen; Liu, Zhe	A Roadmap for Software Testing in Open-Collaborative and AI-Powered Era	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3709355	no MSR study									tests, collaboration
2024	Sun, Weisong; Fang, Chunrong; Ge, Yifei; Hu, Yuling; Chen, Yuchen; Zhang, Quanjun; Ge, Xiuting; Liu, Yang; Chen, Zhenyu	A Survey of Source Code Search: A 3-Dimensional Perspective	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3656341	no MSR study									SLR
2023	Rahman, Mohammad Masudur; Roy, Chanchal K.	A Systematic Review of Automated Query Reformulations in Source Code Search	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3607179	no MSR study									SLR
2023	Shen, Bowen; Gulzar, Muhammad Ali; He, Fei; Meng, Na	A Characterization Study of Merge Conflicts in Java Projects	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3546944	software maintenance	merge conflicts
2022	Trinkenreich, Bianca; Wiese, Igor; Sarma, Anita; Gerosa, Marco; Steinmacher, Igor	Women’s Participation in Open Source Software: A Survey of the Literature	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3510460	no MSR study									SLR
2024	Hämäläinen, Joonas; Das, Teerath; Mikkonen, Tommi	A Systematic Literature Review of Multi-Label Learning in Software Engineering	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3708532	no MSR study									SLR
2024	Mastropaolo, Antonio; Escobar-Velásquez, Camilo; Linares-Vásquez, Mario	From Triumph to Uncertainty: The Journey of Software Engineering in the AI Era	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3709360	no MSR study									AI and SE history
2023	Wolter, Thomas; Barcomb, Ann; Riehle, Dirk; Harutyunyan, Nikolay	Open Source License Inconsistencies on GitHub	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3571852	software governance	licensing
2023	Gao, Zhipeng; Xia, Xin; Lo, David; Grundy, John; Zhang, Xindong; Xing, Zhenchang	I Know What You Are Searching for: Code Snippet Recommendation from Stack Overflow Posts	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3550150	development support and automation	information retrieval		development support and automation	recommendations		MSR techniques	tool development		Que2Code
2023	Sattler, Florian; Böhm, Sebastian; Schubert, Philipp Dominik; Siegmund, Norbert; Apel, Sven	SEAL: Integrating Program Analysis and Repository Mining	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3585008	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		SEAL
2024	Hou, Xinyi; Zhao, Yanjie; Liu, Yue; Yang, Zhou; Wang, Kailong; Li, Li; Luo, Xiapu; Lo, David; Grundy, John; Wang, Haoyu	Large Language Models for Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3695988	no MSR study									SLR, LLMs for SE
2023	Nourry, Olivier; Kashiwa, Yutaro; Lin, Bin; Bavota, Gabriele; Lanza, Michele; Kamei, Yasutaka	The Human Side of Fuzzing: Challenges Faced by Developers during Fuzzing Activities	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3611668	software quality	tests								manual analysis, survey
2023	Joblin, Mitchell; Eckl, Barbara; Bock, Thomas; Schmid, Angelika; Siegmund, Janet; Apel, Sven	Hierarchical and Hybrid Organizational Structures in Open-source Software Projects: A Longitudinal Study	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3569949	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures
2023	Furia, Carlo A.; Torkar, Richard; Feldt, Robert	Towards Causal Analysis of Empirical Software Engineering Data: The Impact of Programming Languages on Coding Competitions	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3611667	MSR techniques	threats		collaboration and coordination	expertise					cuasality instead of correlation
2024	Zhou, Xin; Cao, Sicong; Sun, Xiaobing; Lo, David	Large Language Model for Vulnerability Detection and Repair: Literature Review and the Road Ahead	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3708522	no MSR study									SLR, vulnerabilities
2018	Razzaq, Abdul; Wasala, Asanka; Exton, Chris; Buckley, Jim	The State of Empirical Evaluation in Static Feature Location	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3280988	no MSR study									SLR, development support
2024	Misu, Md Rakib Hossain; Achar, Rohan; Lopes, Cristina V.	SourcererJBF: A Java Build Framework For Large-Scale Compilation	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3635710	MSR techniques	tool development		software maintenance	development operations	builds				SourcererJBF
2022	Yang, Wenhua; Zhang, Chong; Pan, Minxue; Xu, Chang; Zhou, Yu; Huang, Zhiqiu	Do Developers Really Know How to Use Git Commands? A Large-scale Study Using Stack Overflow	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3494518	software usage	popularity		software usage	patterns		collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling	git command usage
2021	Siegmund, Janet; Peitek, Norman; Apel, Sven; Siegmund, Norbert	Mastering Variation in Human Studies: The Role of Aggregation	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3406544	no MSR study									survey, threats
2022	Watson, Cody; Cooper, Nathan; Palacio, David Nader; Moran, Kevin; Poshyvanyk, Denys	A Systematic Literature Review on the Use of Deep Learning in Software Engineering Research	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3485275	no MSR study									SLR, deep learning in SE
2018	Stol, Klaas-Jan; Fitzgerald, Brian	The ABC of Software Engineering Research	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3241743	no MSR study									SLR, survey
2024	Böhme, Marcel; Bodden, Eric; Bultan, Tevfik; Cadar, Cristian; Liu, Yang; Scanniello, Giuseppe	Software Security Analysis in 2030 and Beyond: A Research Roadmap	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3708533	no MSR study									SLR, survey, AI in SE and security
2024	Chowdhury, Shaiful; Uddin, Gias; Hemmati, Hadi; Holmes, Reid	Method-level Bug Prediction: Problems and Promises	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3640331	MSR techniques	threats		software quality	defects	prediction
2023	Badampudi, Deepika; Unterkalmsteiner, Michael; Britto, Ricardo	Modern Code Reviews—Survey of Literature and Practice	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3585004	no MSR study									SLR, software quality
2024	Latendresse, Jasmine; Abedu, Samuel; Abdellatif, Ahmad; Shihab, Emad	An Exploratory Study on Machine Learning Model Management	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3688841	software maintenance	development operations	MLOps
2018	Rosenblum, David S.	Editorial	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3205909	no MSR study
2024	Cañizares, Pablo C.; López-Morales, Jose María; Pérez-Soler, Sara; Guerra, Esther; de Lara, Juan	Measuring and Clustering Heterogeneous Chatbot Designs	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3637228	development support and automation	information retrieval		software architecture and design			MSR techniques	dataset and benchmark creation
2021	Ohrndorf, Manuel; Pietsch, Christopher; Kelter, Udo; Grunske, Lars; Kehrer, Timo	History-based Model Repair Recommendations	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3419017	development support and automation	recommendations		software architecture and design	re-design and re-engineering					repair models
2016	Candela, Ivan; Bavota, Gabriele; Russo, Barbara; Oliveto, Rocco	Using Cohesion and Coupling for Software Remodularization: Is It Enough?	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/2928268	software architecture and design	re-design and re-engineering		software maintenance	refactoring					modularisation
2021	Bogart, Chris; Kästner, Christian; Herbsleb, James; Thung, Ferdian	When and How to Make Breaking Changes: Policies and Practices in 18 Open Source Software Ecosystems	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3447245	collaboration and coordination	human factors and values		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
2021	Parry, Owain; Kapfhammer, Gregory M.; Hilton, Michael; McMinn, Phil	A Survey of Flaky Tests	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3476105	no MSR study									survey, SLR, tests
2024	Abualhaija, Sallam; Aydemir, F. Basak; Dalpiaz, Fabiano; Dell’Anna, Davide; Ferrari, Alessio; Franch, Xavier; Fucci, Davide	Replication in Requirements Engineering: The NLP for RE Case	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3658669	no MSR study									MSR techniques, threats, replication
2024	Guo, Shikai; Li, Dongmin; Huang, Lin; Lv, Sijia; Chen, Rong; Li, Hui; Li, Xiaochen; Jiang, He	Estimating Uncertainty in Labeled Changes by SZZ Tools on Just-In-Time Defect Prediction	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3637226	software quality	defects	prediction	MSR techniques	threats					class imbalance
2023	Wang, Chao; He, Hao; Pal, Uma; Marinov, Darko; Zhou, Minghui	Suboptimal Comments in Java Projects: From Independent Comment Changes to Commenting Practices	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3546949	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software architecture and design	documentation		development support and automation	generation	documentation generation
2016	Cai, Haipeng; Santelices, Raul; Thain, Douglas	DiaPro: Unifying Dynamic Impact Analyses for Improved and Variable Cost-Effectiveness	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/2894751	software maintenance	change impact analysis		MSR techniques	tool development					DiaPro
2018	Zhou, Yuming; Yang, Yibiao; Lu, Hongmin; Chen, Lin; Li, Yanhui; Zhao, Yangyang; Qian, Junyan; Xu, Baowen	How Far We Have Progressed in the Journey? An Examination of Cross-Project Defect Prediction	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3183339	software quality	defects	prediction							cross-project, comparison
2021	Bock, Thomas; Schmid, Angelika; Apel, Sven	Measuring and Modeling Group Dynamics in Open-Source Software Development: A Tensor Decomposition Approach	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3473139	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures		collaboration and coordination	communication					collaboration prediction
2021	Sundelin, Anders; Gonzalez-huerta, Javier; Wnuk, Krzysztof; Gorschek, Tony	Towards an Anatomy of Software Craftsmanship	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3468504	no MSR study
2021	Liu, Chao; Gao, Cuiyun; Xia, Xin; Lo, David; Grundy, John; Yang, Xiaohu	On the Reproducibility and Replicability of Deep Learning in Software Engineering	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/3477535	MSR techniques	threats								reproducibility and replicability of deep learning
2015	Yi, Jooyong; Qi, Dawei; Tan, Shin Hwei; Roychoudhury, Abhik	Software Change Contracts	ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.	10.1145/2729973	software architecture and design	conformance and evolution		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution		software quality	tests

TSE

Document Title	Authors	Publication Title	DOI	Primary Category 1	Secondary Category 1	Tertiary Category 1	Primary Category 2	Secondary Category 2	Tertiary Category 2	Primary Category 3	Secondary Category 3	Tertiary Category 3	Notes
Dominoes: An Interactive Exploratory Data Analysis Tool for Software Relationships	J. R. da Silva Junior; D. P. Campagna; E. Clua; A. Sarma; L. Murta	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2020.2988241	MSR techniques	tool development		collaboration and coordination						Dominoes
Evaluating SZZ Implementations: An Empirical Study on the Linux Kernel	Y. Lyu; H. J. Kang; R. Widyasari; J. Lawall; D. Lo	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2024.3406718	software quality	defects	detection							commit level, SZZ
Use and Misuse of Continuous Integration Features: An Empirical Study of Projects That (Mis)Use Travis CI	K. Gallaba; S. McIntosh	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2018.2838131	software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD
The Ghost Commit Problem When Identifying Fix-Inducing Changes: An Empirical Study of Apache Projects	C. Rezk; Y. Kamei; S. McIntosh	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2021.3087419	software quality	defects	detection
Automated Commit Message Generation With Large Language Models: An Empirical Study and Beyond	P. Xue; L. Wu; Z. Yu; Z. Jin; Z. Yang; X. Li; Z. Yang; Y. Tan	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2024.3478317	development support and automation	generation	commit message generation
An Empirical Study of Refactoring Rhythms and Tactics in the Software Development Process	S. Noei; H. Li; S. Georgiou; Y. Zou	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2023.3326775	software maintenance	refactoring		software maintenance	change patterns and evolution
An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples	M. Verdi; A. Sami; J. Akhondali; F. Khomh; G. Uddin; A. K. Motlagh	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2020.3023664	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	patterns							StackOverflow
Exploring the Use of Chatrooms by Developers: An Empirical Study on Slack and Gitter	M. E. Mezouar; D. A. da Costa; D. M. German; Y. Zou	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2021.3109617	collaboration and coordination	communication	topic modeling							survey chat topics
Companies’ Participation in OSS Development–An Empirical Study of OpenStack	Y. Zhang; M. Zhou; A. Mockus; Z. Jin	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2019.2946156	software maintenance	activity and productivity								company contributions, Bitergia
Leveraging Structure in Software Merge: An Empirical Study	G. Seibt; F. Heck; G. Cavalcanti; P. Borba; S. Apel	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2021.3123143	software maintenance	code merge								algorithms
The Impact of Mislabeled Changes by SZZ on Just-in-Time Defect Prediction	Y. Fan; X. Xia; D. A. da Costa; D. Lo; A. E. Hassan; S. Li	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2019.2929761	software quality	defects	detection							SZZ, JIT
Automating Dependency Updates in Practice: An Exploratory Study on GitHub Dependabot	R. He; H. He; Y. Zhang; M. Zhou	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2023.3278129	software maintenance	bots
Moving from Closed to Open Source: Observations from Six Transitioned Projects to GitHub	P. S. Kochhar; E. Kalliamvakou; N. Nagappan; T. Zimmermann; C. Bird	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2019.2937025	no MSR study									interviews, surveys
Bringing Open Source Communication and Development Together: A Cross-Platform Study on Gitter and GitHub	H. Jiang; L. Shi; M. Che; Y. Zhang; Q. Wang	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2024.3410292	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures								socio-technical
Operation-Based Refactoring-Aware Merging: An Empirical Evaluation	M. Ellis; S. Nadi; D. Dig	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2022.3228851	software maintenance	code merge		MSR techniques	tool development					IntelliMerge
How Social and Communication Channels Shape and Challenge a Participatory Culture in Software Development	M. -A. Storey; A. Zagalsky; F. F. Filho; L. Singer; D. M. German	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2016.2584053	no MSR study									survey
Code Review Knowledge Perception: Fusing Multi-Features for Salient-Class Location	Y. Huang; N. Jia; X. Chen; K. Hong; Z. Zheng	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2020.3021902	software quality	code reviews
ARENA: An Approach for the Automated Generation of Release Notes	L. Moreno; G. Bavota; M. D. Penta; R. Oliveto; A. Marcus; G. Canfora	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2016.2591536	development support and automation	generation	release note generation
T-Evos: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study on CI Test Execution and Failure	A. R. Chen; T. -H. P. Chen; S. Wang	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2022.3218264	software maintenance	integration		software maintenance	development operations	CI/CD	software quality	tests
The Secret Life of Software Vulnerabilities: A Large-Scale Empirical Study	E. Iannone; R. Guadagni; F. Ferrucci; A. De Lucia; F. Palomba	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2022.3140868	software quality	vulnerabilities and security	patterns							keywords, manual analysis
When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad (and Whether the Smells Go Away)	M. Tufano; F. Palomba; G. Bavota; R. Oliveto; M. D. Penta; A. De Lucia; D. Poshyvanyk	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2017.2653105	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells	software maintenance	refactoring
Supporting Change Impact Analysis Using a Recommendation System: An Industrial Case Study in a Safety-Critical Context	M. Borg; K. Wnuk; B. Regnell; P. Runeson	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2016.2620458	software maintenance	change impact analysis		development support and automation	recommendations
A Deep Dive into the Impact of COVID-19 on Software Development	P. A. da Mota Silveira Neto; U. A. Mannan; E. S. de Almeida; N. Nagappan; D. Lo; P. Singh Kochhar; C. Gao; I. Ahmed	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2021.3088759	software maintenance	activity and productivity								MSR, survey
The Scent of a Smell: An Extensive Comparison Between Textual and Structural Smells	F. Palomba; A. Panichella; A. Zaidman; R. Oliveto; A. De Lucia	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2017.2752171	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells
Can Clean New Code Reduce Technical Debt Density?	G. Digkas; A. Chatzigeorgiou; A. Ampatzoglou; P. Avgeriou	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2020.3032557	software maintenance	technical debt								SonarQube
A Mixed-Method Approach to Recommend Corrections and Correct REST Antipatterns	F. Sabir; Y. -G. Guéhéneuc; F. Palma; N. Moha; G. Rasool; H. Akhtar	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2021.3117023	software architecture and design	patterns and anti-patterns
In Search of Socio-Technical Congruence: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study	W. Mauerer; M. Joblin; D. A. Tamburri; C. Paradis; R. Kazman; S. Apel	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2021.3082074	collaboration and coordination	organisational structures								socio-technical
Automatic Commit Message Generation: A Critical Review and Directions for Future Work	Y. Zhang; Z. Qiu; K. -J. Stol; W. Zhu; J. Zhu; Y. Tian; H. Liu	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2024.3364675	development support and automation	generation	commit message generation							comparison of appraoches
A Developer Centered Bug Prediction Model	D. Di Nucci; F. Palomba; G. De Rosa; G. Bavota; R. Oliveto; A. De Lucia	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2017.2659747	software quality	defects	prediction
Toward a Smell-Aware Bug Prediction Model	F. Palomba; M. Zanoni; F. A. Fontana; A. De Lucia; R. Oliveto	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2017.2770122	software quality	defects	prediction	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells
Self-Admitted Technical Debt in the Embedded Systems Industry: An Exploratory Case Study	Y. Li; M. Soliman; P. Avgeriou; L. Somers	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2022.3224378	software maintenance	technical debt
Historical Spectrum Based Fault Localization	M. Wen; J. Chen; Y. Tian; R. Wu; D. Hao; S. Han; S. -C. Cheung	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2019.2948158	software quality	defects	localisation
RefDiff 2.0: A Multi-Language Refactoring Detection Tool	D. Silva; J. P. da Silva; G. Santos; R. Terra; M. T. Valente	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2020.2968072	software maintenance	refactoring		MSR techniques	tool development					RefDiff 2.0
A Multi-Study Investigation into Dead Code	S. Romano; C. Vendome; G. Scanniello; D. Poshyvanyk	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2018.2842781	software maintenance	technical debt	code smells
Graph Based Mining of Code Change Patterns From Version Control Commits	M. Janke; P. Mäder	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2020.3004892	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution								AST
Learning the Relation Between Code Features and Code Transforms With Structured Prediction	Z. Yu; M. Martinez; Z. Chen; T. F. Bissyandé; M. Monperrus	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2023.3275380	software maintenance	code and change prediction		software quality	defects	fixes				AST
FeatRacer: Locating Features Through Assisted Traceability	M. Mukelabai; K. Hermann; T. Berger; J. -P. Steghöfer	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2023.3324719	software architecture and design	features and variants		MSR techniques	tool development					FeatRacer, location prediction
Supporting Developers in Addressing Human-Centric Issues in Mobile Apps	H. Khalajzadeh; M. Shahin; H. O. Obie; P. Agrawal; J. Grundy	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2022.3212329	collaboration and coordination	human factors and values		software usage						human-centric issues (end-user)
A3: Assisting Android API Migrations Using Code Examples	M. Lamothe; W. Shang; T. -H. P. Chen	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2020.2988396	software maintenance	change patterns and evolution								API migration
Just-In-Time Defect Identification and Localization: A Two-Phase Framework	M. Yan; X. Xia; Y. Fan; A. E. Hassan; D. Lo; S. Li	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2020.2978819	software quality	defects	localisation							JIT
Hybrid Program Dependence Approximation for Effective Dynamic Impact Prediction	H. Cai	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	10.1109/TSE.2017.2692783	software maintenance	change impact analysis

Tools

Tool	Primary purpose	Repository	Paper	Notes
	Mining software repositories, general purpose
Codeface	mining and visualising software repositories and related sources	https://github.com/lfd/codeface	10.1007/s10664-016-9478-9
Kaiaulu	mining software repositories and related sources	https://github.com/sailuh/kaiaulu	10.1007/978-3-031-15116-3_6
Dominoes	mining software repositories and related sources	https://github.com/gems-uff/dominoes	10.1109/TSE.2020.2988241
Bitergia/GrimoireLab	mining and visualising software repositories and related sources	https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab	https://peerj.com/articles/cs-601/
GHTorrent	mining GitHub repositories, repository database	https://github.com/ghtorrent/ghtorrent.org	10.5555/2487085.2487132
git2net	mining collaboration networks from software repositories	https://github.com/gotec/git2net	10.1109/MSR.2019.00070 10.1007/s10664-020-09928-2
LibVCS4j	mining and visualising software repositories and related sources	https://github.com/uni-bremen-agst/libvcs4j	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054841
LISA	performant git mining	https://bitbucket.org/sealuzh/lisa/src/master/	10.1007/s10664-018-9630-9, 10.1109/ICSE.2015.211
PANDORA	continuous mining	https://github.com/clowee/PANDORA	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00041
SmartSHARK	mining software repositories and related sources	https://github.com/smartshark	10.1007/s10664-017-9537-x
PyDriller	mining software repositories	https://github.com/ishepard/pydriller/	10.1145/3236024.3264598
LAGOON	open source community analysis	https://github.com/GaloisInc/SocialCyberLAGOON	10.1145/3524842.3528504
QwalKeko	general purpose VCS querying	https://github.com/ReinoutStevens/damp.qwalkeko	10.1109/ICSE.2015.289
Diggit	evolutionary analyses for code changes	https://github.com/lawrencejones/diggit	10.1109/SANER.2018.8330261
Crossflow	distributed mining	https://github.com/crossminer/scava/tree/crossflow/crossflow	10.1109/MSR.2019.00032
Candoia	deployment of MSR apps	https://github.com/candoia	10.1109/MSR.2017.56
MSRBot	MSR question aswering from software repositories	https://github.com/ahmad-abdellatif/MSRBot	10.1007/s10664-019-09788-5
reaper	software repository selection for research	https://github.com/reporeapers/reaper	10.1007/s10664-017-9512-6
cregit	token-level blame information	https://github.com/cregit/cregit	10.1007/s10664-019-09704-x
CROSSMINER	knowledge mining from OSS repositories	https://github.com/crossminer/crossminer	10.1007/s10664-021-09963-7
BTLink	issue and commit link recovery with BERT	https://github.com/OpenSELab/BTLink	10.1007/s10664-023-10342-7
GitGraph	knowledge graphing git repositories	https://github.com/xuanyi531/GitGraph	10.1109/SANER.2019.8668034
VisFork	fork visualisation	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10462693	10.1109/SANER60148.2024.00107
HFCommunity	hugging face hub mining	https://github.com/SOM-Research/HFCommunity	10.1109/SANER56733.2023.00080	https://som-research.github.io/HFCommunity/
G-Repo	github repository mining (repository selection for datasets)	https://github.com/MatHeartGaming/G-Repo	10.1109/SANER50967.2021.00064
SpojitR	linking artefacts from issue tracking and version control systems	https://github.com/SECSY-Group/spojitr	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054839
Topleet	scalable software repository mining with incremental Map-Reduce	https://github.com/topleet/topleet	10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054811
World of Code	software project ecosystem mining	https://github.com/ssc-oscar/Analytics, https://bitbucket.org/swsc/workspace/repositories/	10.1109/MSR.2019.00031	not fully available/open-source?
SOTorrent	mining Stack Overflow posts	https://github.com/sotorrent	10.1007/s10664-021-10028-y
PaStA	mapping commits and mailing list messages	https://github.com/lfd/PaStA	10.1109/ICSE.2019.00088
	Collaboration and coordination
CSDetector	community smells detection	https://github.com/Nuri22/csDetector	10.1145/3468264.3473121
	Software quality
PMD	static code analysis	https://github.com/pmd/pmd
aDoctor	Android-specific code smell detection	http://tinyurl.com/hnm2sla	10.1109/SANER.2017.7884659	JAR file
PerfChecker	code performance checking for Julia packages	https://github.com/JuliaConstraints/PerfChecker.jl
FindBugs	static code analysis	https://github.com/findbugsproject/findbugs
SonarQube	continuous static code analysis	https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube
Splint	static code analysis	https://github.com/splintchecker/splint	10.1109/52.976940
cppcheck	static code analysis for C/C++	https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck
Eclipse Steady	vulnerability analysis for Java projects	https://github.com/eclipse-steady/steady	10.1007/s10664-020-09830-x
OWASP DC	vulnerability detection in dependencies	https://github.com/dependency-check/DependencyCheck
Defects4J	software bug dataset	https://github.com/rjust/defects4j	10.1145/2610384.2628055
FixMiner	mining fix patterns for automated program repair	https://github.com/TruX-DTF/fixminer_source	10.1007/s10664-019-09780-z
Checkstyle	static code analysis, coding style check	https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle
GraphEvoDef	software evolution visualisation with call graphs, metrics, defect detection	https://github.com/vijaybw/graphevodef	10.1007/s10664-022-10147-0	https://vijaybw.github.io/graphevodef/
TCTRACER	tracing Junit tests and test classes and their tested functions and classes	https://github.com/RRGWhite/tctracer, https://zenodo.org/records/4608587	10.1007/s10664-021-10079-1
SSPCATCHER/VulnCatcher	security/vulnerability patch detection	https://github.com/vulnCatcher/vulnCatcher	10.1007/s10664-022-10168-9
CANNIER	flaky test detection	https://github.com/flake-it/cannier-experiment	10.1007/s10664-023-10307-w
Ruxanne	analysing and extracting bug fix patterns in Rust	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7388617	10.1007/s10664-023-10437-1
IRJIT	information retrieval for just in-time defect detection	https://github.com/Hareem-E-Sahar/eseval_online	10.1007/s10664-024-10514-z
ABLoTS	defect localisation with requirements and traceability information	https://github.com/feifeiniu-se/Replication2/tree/master	10.1145/3196398.3196415, 10.1007/s10664-024-10537-6
Velvet	vulnerable statement localisation with transformer	https://github.com/ARiSE-Lab/VELVET	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00114
EvoTaint	static taint analysis in Android apps	https://bitbucket.org/wsucailab/iterative-taint-analysis/src/v1.0-Evotaint/	10.1145/3196398.3196433, 10.1145/3743132
ViolationTracker	static analysis violation detection and tracking	https://github.com/FudanSELab/violationTracker	10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00171
MATROSKIN	static analysis for Jupyter notebooks	https://github.com/JetBrains-Research/Matroskin	10.1145/3524842.3528447
ManifestInspector	static analysis for detecting developer mistakes in Android manifests	https://github.com/HiFromAjay/ManifestInspector	10.1109/MSR.2017.41
C³	crash consistency (file system data safety) validation	https://github.com/jiangyy/c3	10.1145/2950290.2950327
GASEL (scansible)	security smell detection for Ansible code	https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21929856	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00079
PerfImpact	identifying code changes responsible for performance regressions	https://www.cs.wm.edu/semeru/data/MSR16-PerfImpact/	https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2901739.2901765
FixFinder	finding fixing commit for a vulnerability inducing commit	https://github.com/sap/project-kb	10.1145/3649590
SEAL	repository mining and program analysis	https://github.com/se-sic/VaRA-Tool-Suite	10.1145/3585008
Minecraft/MineCPP	bug-fixing dataset generation	https://github.com/SET-IITGN/MineCPP	10.1145/3663529.3663797
tsDetect	test smell detection	https://github.com/TestSmells/TestSmellDetector	10.1145/3368089.3417921
	Software architecture
ArchLint	architecture violations and conformance detection	http://aserg.labsoft.dcc.ufmg.br/archlint/	10.1007/s10664-014-9348-2
variED	collaborative feature modeling editor	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4259911	10.1007/s10664-020-09892-x
ARCAN	architecture smell detection in Java projects	https://gitlab.com/essere.lab.public/arcan, https://www.arcan.tech	10.1109/ICSAW.2017.16
SPLINT	trace link classification for software artefact tracability	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7081515	10.1145/3540250.3549151
	Data science and machine learning
RapidMiner	data analytics platform	https://github.com/rapidminer	10.5555/2543538
AIMMX	AI model and metadata extraction	https://github.com/ibm/aimmx	10.1145/3379597.338744, 10.1007/s10664-022-10206-6
	Software maintenance
APIDiff	identifying API-breaking and non-breaking changes	https://github.com/aserg-ufmg/apidiff	10.1109/SANER.2018.8330249
CARET	platform around event streams and simplified syntax trees	https://www.st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/artifacts/caret/	10.1109/SANER.2017.7884626
COLARE	commit classification	https://zenodo.org/records/10500219	10.1109/SANER60148.2024.00082
XLibRec	recommending similar libraries	https://github.com/Kawser-nerd/XLibRec	10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00109
EGAD	GitHub action analysis	https://github.com/pavt/egad, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7714219	10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00044
gigawork	mining GitHub actions workflow histories	https://github.com/cardoeng/gigawork	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10555756
ACRYL	detecting compatibility issues in Android apps	https://github.com/intersimone999/acryl	10.1109/MSR.2019.00055
gawd	change detection in GitHub action workflows	https://github.com/pooya-rostami/gawd	10.1145/3643991.3644873
MockExtractor	mocked and non-mocked dependency extraction in test units	https://github.com/ishepard/MockExtractor	10.1109/MSR.2017.61
LibComp	IntelliJ plugin for library comparison	https://github.com/ualberta-smr/LibCompPlugin	10.1145/3368089.3417922
MONDO	secure collaboration and merge	https://github.com/FTSRG/mondo-collab-framework	10.1145/3368089.3417922
Cartographer	Android app analysis (change evolution, dependencies)	https://github.com/gorla/appmining	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8595197
MUDetect	API misuse detection	https://github.com/stg-tud/MUDetect	10.1109/MSR.2019.00053
DaSEA	software ecosystem dependency network analysis	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.808272, https://github.com/DaSEA-project/DASEA/blob/main/README.adoc	10.1145/3524842.3528004
Maven Miner	mining and visualising Maven Central dependencies	https://github.com/diverse-project/maven-miner	10.1109/MSR.2019.00060
DDJ	delta debugging	https://hub.docker.com/u/codecontinuum	10.1145/3236024.3236047
ConPan	Docker container inspection for package extraction	https://github.com/AhmedZerouali/ConPan	10.1109/MSR.2019.00089
STRAIT	software reliability growth analysis	https://github.com/stanozm/STRAIT	10.1109/MSR.2019.00025
BIMAN	bot detection	https://github.com/ssc-oscar/BIMAN_bot_detection	10.1145/3379597.3387478
BUILDDIFF	differencing between Maven configuration files	https://mitschi.github.io/preprints/differ-maven-differ-0.0.6.jar	10.1109/MSR.2017.65
CD-LINTER	configuration smell detection in CI/CD pipelines	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3861003	10.1145/3368089.3409709
CDA	characterising deprecated Android APIs	https://github.com/lilicoding/CDA	https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3196398.3196419
TDPatcher	automatically patching TODO-missed methods	https://github.com/TDPatcher/TDPatcher	10.1145/3700793
SourcererJBF	Java build framework	https://github.com/Mondego/SourcererJBF	10.1145/3635710
Heddle (Flexeme)	commit untangling	https://zenodo.org/records/3894559	10.1145/3368089.3409693
SmartCommit	commit untangling	https://github.com/Symbolk/SmartCommitEvaluation-Viz	10.1145/3468264.3468551
Epicea Task Clusterer	commit untangling	http://smalltalkhub.com/MartinDias/EpiceaTaskClusterer/	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081844
Utangle	commit untangling	https://github.com/Commit-Untangling/commit-untangling	10.1145/3540250.3549171
	Refactoring and code change
RefDiff	multi-language refactoring detection	https://github.com/aserg-ufmg/RefDiff	10.1109/MSR.2017.14
RefDiff 2.0	refactoring detection	https://github.com/aserg-ufmg/RefDiff	10.1109/TSE.2020.2968072
RefactoringMiner 2.0	refactoring detection	https://github.com/tsantalis/RefactoringMiner	10.1109/TSE.2020.3007722
R-CPatMiner	discovering repetitive code changes in ML	https://github.com/maldil/R-CPATMiner	10.1145/3510003.3510225
TARMAQ	mining evolutionary coupling for change impact analysis	https://bitbucket.org/evolveit/tarma/src/master/	10.1109/SANER.2016.101
DRACO	finding architecture-improving refactorings	https://github.com/project-draco	10.1145/3106237.3119872
CCT5	pre-trained model for code change representation	https://github.com/Ringbo/CCT5	10.1145/3611643.3616339
CodeChangeEmbedder	embedding code changes (e.g. for commit messages)	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5082683	10.1145/3472674.3473979
DiffDetective	variability-aware differencing	https://github.com/VariantSync/DiffDetective	10.1145/3663529.3663813, 10.1145/3540250.3549108
	Development support
GoCity	visualising Go software projects as cities	https://github.com/rodrigo-brito/gocity	10.1109/SANER.2019.8668008
CloCom	code comment generation by code clone detection	https://github.com/e32wong/clocom	10.1109/SANER.2015.7081848
CASCADE	Java 8 type qualifier inference	https://github.com/reprogrammer/cascade	10.1109/ICSE.2015.44
GuiEvo	GUI evolution analysis and change detection	https://github.com/SageSELab/GuiEvo	10.1145/3643991.3644936
CodeMatcher	code search	https://github.com/liuchaoss/codematcher-demo	10.1145/3465403
Que2Code	code snippet recommendation from Stack Overflow	https://github.com/beyondacm/Que2Code	10.1145/3550150

Studies per category

Primary	Secondary	Tertiary	Count
Software governance			1
Software governance	Licensing		13
Software governance	Open-sourcing		2
Software governance	Release management		6
Software architecture and design			9
Software architecture and design	Conformance and evolution		21
Software architecture and design	Patterns and anti-patterns		20
Software architecture and design	Redesign and reengineering		6
Software architecture and design	Features and variants		27
Software architecture and design	Documentation		19
Software architecture and design	Requirements		3
Software architecture and design	Configuration		6
Software quality			6
Software quality	Code reviews		17
Software quality	Code metrics		23
Software quality	Defects		14
Software quality	Defects	Detection	33
Software quality	Defects	Prediction	25
Software quality	Defects	Localisation	11
Software quality	Defects	Fixes	27
Software quality	Defects	Patterns	34
Software quality	Vulnerabilities and security	Detection, prediction and localisation	11
Software quality	Vulnerabilities and security	Fixes	4
Software quality	Vulnerabilities and security	Patterns	12
Software quality	Tests		31
Software quality	Performance		15
Software quality	Energy efficiency		6
Collaboration and coordination	Organisational structures		34
Collaboration and coordination	Communication		27
Collaboration and coordination	Communication	Topic modeling	22
Collaboration and coordination	Communication	Sentiment analysis	6
Collaboration and coordination	Human factors and values		9
Collaboration and coordination	Onboarding		5
Collaboration and coordination	Mechanisms		5
Collaboration and coordination	Expertise		6
Software maintenance			8
Software maintenance	Reuse and clones		43
Software maintenance	Integration		5
Software maintenance	Development operations		9
Software maintenance	Development operations	CI/CD	36
Software maintenance	Development operations	MLOps	5
Software maintenance	Development operations	Builds	19
Software maintenance	Dependency management		56
Software maintenance	Updates and upgrades		11
Software maintenance	Debugging and logging		10
Software maintenance	Refactoring		32
Software maintenance	Change patterns and evolution		99
Software maintenance	Change impact analysis		11
Software maintenance	Code and change prediction		6
Software maintenance	Code merge		11
Software maintenance	Bots		6
Software maintenance	Technical debt		17
Software maintenance	Technical debt	Code smells	18
Software maintenance	Activity and productivity		44
Software maintenance	Effort estimation		12
Development support and automation			10
Development support and automation	Generation		1
Development support and automation	Generation	Code generation	17
Development support and automation	Generation	Release note generation	4
Development support and automation	Generation	Commit message generation	6
Development support and automation	Generation	Documentation generation	10
Development support and automation	Topic and knowledge modeling		15
Development support and automation	Information retrieval		13
Development support and automation	Recommendations		34
Development support and automation	Ticket and task resolution		17
Development support and automation	Summarisation		3
Development support and automation	Visualisation		8
MSR techniques			0
MSR techniques	Tool development		148
MSR techniques	Threats		29
MSR techniques	Dataset and benchmark creation		41
Software usage			3
Software usage	Popularity		15
Software usage	App stores		7
Software usage	End-user reviews		2
Software usage	Improvements		3
Software usage	Patterns		12
No MSR study			94