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

Context: One of the most common artifacts in contemporary software projects is a product
backlog comprising user stories, bugs, chores or other work items. However, little research …

A variety of research methods and techniques are available to SE researchers, and while
several overviews exist, there is consistency neither in the research methods covered nor in …

In large-scale agile software development, many teams work together to achieve
overarching project goals. The more teams, the greater the coordination requirements …

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 …

IoT edge computing is a new computing paradigm “in the IoT domain” for performing
calculations and processing at the edge of the network, closer to the user and the source of …

Context Responding to change and continuously improving processes, practices, and
products are core to agile software development. It is no different in large-scale agile, where …

Confusion over different kinds of secondary research, and their divergent purposes, is
undermining the effectiveness and usefulness of secondary studies in software engineering …

Context As many organizations modernize their software architecture and transition to the
cloud, migrations towards microservices become more popular. Even though such …

Process models for software product-line engineering focus on proactive adoption scenarios-
--that is, building product-line platforms from scratch. They comprise the two phases domain …