Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices weighing heavily on
the quality of produced source code. During the last decades several code smell detection …

Background Assessing and communicating software engineering research can be
challenging. Design science is recognized as an appropriate research paradigm for applied …

Background: A good search strategy is essential for a successful systematic literature study.
Historically, database searches have been the norm, which was later complemented with …

Based on their own experiences of in-depth case studies of software projects in international
corporations, in this book the authors present detailed practical guidelines on the …

Have you ever had a need to evaluate software engineering methods or techniques against
each other? This book presents experimentation as one way of evaluating new methods and …

Topic modeling using models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a text mining
technique to extract human-readable semantic “topics”(ie, word clusters) from a corpus of …

Recent years have seen an increasing attention to social aspects of software engineering,
including studies of emotions and sentiments experienced and expressed by the software …

Over the past decade with the rise of the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) field, the
modelling of defects for large and long-lived systems has become one of the most common …

Empirical methods have grown common in software engineering, but there is no consensus
on how to apply them properly. Is practical relevance key? Do internally valid studies have …

The use of large language models with chatbots like ChatGPT has become increasingly
popular among students, especially in Computer Science education. However, significant …