ESEM '14- Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

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SESSION: Testing

What do game developers test in their products?

The impact of test ownership and team structure on the reliability and effectiveness of quality test runs

A systematic mapping study on testing technique experiments: has the situation changed since 2000?

Evaluating the TESTAR tool in an industrial case study

SESSION: Defects

How is exploratory testing used?: a state-of-the-practice survey

The effect of evolutionary coupling on software defects: an industrial case study on a legacy system

Empirical and face validity of software maintenance defect models used at the jet propulsion laboratory

A replicated study on duplicate detection: using apache lucene to search among Android defects

Evaluating capture and replay and model-based performance testing tools: an empirical comparison

SESSION: Agile methods

Impact of process conformance on the effects of test-driven development

On knowledge transfer skill in pair programming

Networking in a large-scale distributed agile project

Sampling improvement in software engineering surveys

SESSION: Modeling

Comparing and contrasting model-driven engineering at three large companies

Productivity for proof engineering

An UML-based approach to software development cost estimation

A controlled experiment to evaluate the effects of mindfulness in software engineering

SESSION: Requirements

Improving requirements glossary construction via clustering: approach and industrial case studies

Engineering of quality requirements as perceived by near-shore development centers' architects in eastern Europe: the hole in the whole

Evaluation in practice: artifact-based requirements engineering and scenarios in smart mobility domains

On the impact of passive voice requirements on domain modelling

SESSION: Security

Using templates to elicit implied security requirements from functional requirements - a controlled experiment

Discovering buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the wild: an empirical study

Security triage: an industrial case study on the effectiveness of a lean methodology to identify security requirements

SESSION: Maintenance

FixerCache: unsupervised caching active developers for diverse bug triage

What's in a bug report?

Effect of temporal collaboration network, maintenance activity, and experience on defect exposure

SESSION: Evolution

Debsources: live and historical views on macro-level software evolution

A qualitative analysis of software build system changes and build ownership styles

Patterns of folder use and project popularity: a case study of github repositories

A replication case study to measure the architectural quality of a commercial system

SESSION: Social/human aspects

Motivated software engineers are engaged and focused, while satisfied ones are happy

Impact of developer reputation on code review outcomes in OSS projects: an empirical investigation

Software population pyramids: the current and the future of OSS development communities

Estimation of student's programming expertise

SESSION: Patterns

How do code refactorings affect energy usage?

Impacts of design pattern decay on system quality

Evolution of design patterns: a replication study

Design pattern decay: the case for class grime

Mining energy traces to aid in software development: an empirical case study

SESSION: Measurement

Measuring shared understanding in software project teams using pathfinder networks

ISBSG variables most frequently used for software effort estimation: a mapping review

Simple empirical software effort estimation model

An approach for effort estimation in incremental software development using cosmic function points

SESSION: Empirical methods

Evaluating strategies for study selection in systematic literature studies

Writing for synthesis of evidence in empirical software engineering

Using qualitative metasummary to synthesize empirical findings in literature reviews

Towards a framework to support large scale sampling in software engineering surveys

Towards a semantic knowledge base on threats to validity and control actions in controlled experiments

Support mechanisms to conduct empirical studies in software engineering

SESSION: SE in practice

Tracing back the history of commits in low-tech reviewing environments: a case study of the Linux kernel

Bridging the gap: SE technology transfer into practice: study design and preliminary results

The use of systematic reviews in evidence based software engineering: a systematic mapping study

What we have learned about the value of software assurance

SESSION: Distributed development

The role of mentoring and project characteristics for onboarding in open source software projects

An empirical simulation-based study of real-time speech translation for multilingual global project teams

Process mining can be applied to software too!

Where do we stand in requirements engineering improvement today?: first results from a mapping study

SESSION: Releases

Forking and coordination in multi-platform development: a case study

Monitoring bottlenecks in achieving release readiness: a retrospective case study across ten OSS projects

Factors impacting rapid releases: an industrial case study

Industrial evaluation of the impact of quality-driven release planning

POSTER SESSION: Posters

Empirical analysis of comments and fault-proneness in methods: can comments point to faulty methods?

Studying abbreviated vs. full-word identifier names when dealing with faults: an external replication

Classification of project team patterns for benchmarking

Function point structure and applicability validation using the ISBSG dataset: a replicated study

Enriching source code by empirical metadata

Tracking line changes in source code repositories

Cooperation between information system development and operations: a literature review

VCS-analyzer for software evolution empirical analysis

Reviewing technical approaches for sharing and preservation of experimental data

Process simulation for software engineering education