Studies in empirical software engineering are often most useful if they make causal claims
because this allows practitioners to identify how they can purposefully influence (rather than …

In this chapter, we share an experience report of teaching a master course on empirical
research methods at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. The course is …

Small-scale automation services in Software Engineering, known as SE Bots, have
gradually infiltrated every aspect of daily software development with the goal of enhancing …

Background: Despite a growing body of literature on the impact of software bots on open
source software development teams, their effects on team communication, coordination, and …

Software vulnerability prediction and management have caught the interest of researchers
and practitioners, recently. Various techniques that are usually based on characteristics of …

Recently, researchers and practitioners have been interested in software vulnerability
prediction and management. It is also possible to forecast software vulnerabilities using a …

Software engineering was once viewed as a solely technical discipline, and outdated
stereotypes used to portray software engineers as “asocial” nerds. It is now regarded as a …

Social coding platforms such as GitHub and mechanisms such as pull requests, code
reviews, issue reports, and commenting allow developers to contribute to several different …

Abstract Software projects use Issue-Tracking Systems (ITS) like JIRA to track and organize
issues and their workflows. Issues are often interconnected via different links, such as …