In recent years there has been a noticeable shift in attention from those who use agile
software development toward lean software development, often labelled as a shift “from …

Many software engineering research papers rely on time-based data (eg, commit
timestamps, issue report creation/update/close dates, release dates). Like most real-world …

The popularity of continuous integration (CI) is increasing as a result of market pressure to
release product features or updates frequently. The ability of CI to deliver quality at speed …

Researchers and tool developers working on dynamic analysis, software testing, automated
program repair, verification, and validation, need large compiled, compilable, and …

Unit testing is a vital part of the software development process and involves developers
writing code to verify or assert production code. Furthermore, to help comprehend the test …

Statically typed languages offer numerous benefits to developers, such as improved code
quality and reduced runtime errors, but they also require the overhead of manual type …

Sharing research artifacts (eg, software, data, protocols) is an immensely important topic for
improving transparency, replicability, and reusability in research, and has recently gained …

Architectural technical debt (ATD) in a software-intensive system is the sum of all design
choices that may have been suitable or even optimal at the time they were made, but which …

Software testing has long been regarded as a useful method for raising the caliber and
dependability of software. Path testing is the principal technique for improving software …

Sharing research artifacts (eg, software, data, protocols) is an immensely important topic for
improving transparency, replicability, and reusability in research (ie, open science), and has …