Throughout the history of software engineering, the human aspects have repeatedly been
recognized as important. Even though research that investigates them has been growing in …

In this paper, we examine the state of software engineering (SE) research from the point of
view of the following research questions: To answer those questions, we examined 369 …

Empirical research is playing a significant role in software engineering (SE), and it has been
applied to evaluate software artifacts and technologies. There have been a great number 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 …

Diversity of skills is good for society, it is also good in problem solving because different
people see a problem from several pers-pectives, so diversity should be good for software …

Software engineering is a socio-technical endeavor, and while many of our contributions
focus on technical aspects, human stakeholders such as software developers are directly …

While empirical studies in software engineering are beginning to gain recognition in the
research community, this subarea is also entering a new level of maturity by beginning to …

Even though software is developed by humans, research in software engineering primarily
focuses on the technologies, methods and processes they use while disregarding the …

Context: Software has become ubiquitous in every corner of modern societies. During the
last five decades, software engineering has also changed significantly to advance the …

The number of software engineering research papers over the last few years has grown
significantly. An important question here is: how relevant is software engineering research to …