Context: Several tertiary studies have criticized the reporting of software engineering
secondary studies. Objective: Our objective is to identify guidelines for reporting software …

Context Many organizations see software test automation as a solution to decrease testing
costs and to reduce cycle time in software development. However, establishment of …

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 …

Ever since the agile manifesto was created in 2001, the research community has devoted a
great deal of attention to agile software development. This article examines publications and …

The emergence of large-language models (LLMs) that excel at code generation and
commercial products such as GitHub's Copilot has sparked interest in human-AI pair …

Code review is the manual assessment of source code by humans, mainly intended to
identify defects and quality problems. Modern Code Review (MCR), a lightweight variant of …

One of the main goals of an applied research field such as software engineering is the
transfer and widespread use of research results in industry. To impact industry, researchers …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the benefits of the agile project
management (APM) framework compared to the traditional waterfall model, and understand …

We present the vision that for all fields of software engineering (SE), empirical research
methods should enable the development of scientific knowledge about how useful different …

Agile development methodologies have been gaining acceptance in the mainstream
software development community. While there are numerous studies of agile development …