Refactoring and smells have been well researched by the software-engineering research
community these past decades. Several secondary studies have been published on code …

In industry, RESTful APIs are widely used to build modern Cloud Applications. Testing them
is challenging, because not only do they rely on network communications, but also they deal …

Software engineering research aims to help improve real-world practice. With the adoption
of empirical software engineering research methods, the understanding of real-world needs …

Context: Research collaborations between software engineering industry and academia can
provide significant benefits to both sides, including improved innovation capacity for …

Context Software testing is an important and costly software engineering activity in the
industry. Despite the efforts of the software testing research community in the last several …

Increasing the impact of software engineering research in the software industry and the
society at large has long been a concern of high priority for the software engineering …

Context: Previous research highlighted concerns about empirical research in software
engineering (eg, reproducibility, applicability of findings). It is unclear how these concerns …

C# is one of the most widely used programming languages. However, to the best of our
knowledge, there has been no work in the literature aimed at enabling search-based …

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a communication protocol to support client-server
interactions among services over a network. RPC is widely applied in industry for building …

Web Services like REST, GraphQL and RPC APIs are widely used in industry. They form the
backends of modern Cloud Applications. In recent years, there has been an increase …