Representative sampling appears rare in empirical software engineering research. Not all
studies need representative samples, but a general lack of representative sampling …

Open Source Software (OSS) has changed drastically over the last decade, with OSS
projects now producing a large ecosystem of popular products, involving industry …

Software development includes diverse tasks such as implementing new features, analyzing
requirements, and fixing bugs. Being an expert in those tasks requires a certain set of skills …

Recruiting professional programmers in sufficient numbers for research studies can be
challenging because they often cannot spare the time, or due to their geographical …

Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) have emerged as tools to facilitate the management of
software dependencies, vulnerabilities, licenses, and the supply chain. While significant …

Abstract Research in Mining Software Repositories (MSR) is research involving human
subjects, as the repositories usually contain data about developers' and users' interactions …

In human-computer interaction (HCI) studies, bias in the gender representation of
participants can jeopardize the generalizability of findings, perpetuate bias in data driven …

While being an important and often used research method, survey research has been less
often discussed on a methodological level in empirical software engineering than other …

Previous research demonstrated that company developers excel compared to freelancers
and computer science students, with the corporate environment significantly influencing …

Automatic program repair (APR) is a rapidly advancing field of software engineering that
aims to supplement or replace manual bug fixing with an automated tool. For APR to be …