Code smells tend to compromise software quality and also demand more effort by
developers to maintain and evolve the application throughout its life-cycle. They have long …

In this article, we present a systematic map** study of replications in software engineering.
The goal is to plot the landscape of current published replications of empirical studies in …

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 …

Context: Maintaining the privacy of user data is a concern in software development to satisfy
customer needs or to comply with privacy laws. Recent studies have shown that software …

Smart contracts are programs deployed on blockchains that run upon meeting
predetermined conditions. Once deployed, smart contracts are immutable, thus, defects in …

Software companies need to deliver customer value continuously, both from a short-and
long-term perspective. However, software development can be impeded by technical debt …

Replication studies increase our confidence in previous results when the findings are similar
each time, and help mature our knowledge by addressing both internal and external validity …

Context: Companies frequently invest effort to remove technical issues believed to impact
software qualities, such as removing anti-patterns or coding styles violations. Objective: We …

Although researchers invested significant effort, the performance of defect prediction in a
cross-project setting, ie, with data that does not come from the same project, is still …

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is an approach for infrastructure automation that is based on
software development practices. The IaC approach supports code-centric tools that use …