Context: Social debt describes the accumulation of unforeseen project costs (or potential
costs) from sub-optimal software development processes. Community smells are …

Complex network theory has been successfully introduced into the field of software
engineering. Many works in the literature have built complex networks in software, usually …

Code Smells have been detected, predicted and studied by researchers from several
perspectives. This literature review is conducted to understand tools and algorithms used to …

Community smells are negative patterns in software development teams' interactions that
impede their ability to successfully create software. Examples are team members working in …

Social debts in software teams are gaining increasing attention from the research community
due to their potential adverse effects on software quality. For instance, community smells are …

Context: An extensive body of work has examined socio-technical activities in software
development; however, the availability of tools to enable these studies is limited. Aim: We …

Software stakeholders report bugs in Issue Tracking System (ITS) with manually labeled
priorities. However, the lack of knowledge and standard for prioritization may cause …

Software stakeholders report bugs in issue tracking system (ITS) with manually labeled
priorities. However, the lack of knowledge and standard for prioritization may cause …

Recent studies concerning open-source community failure show that there is an increasing
need for (semi-) automated support for measuring social, organizational, and socio-technical …

The main aim of software fault prediction is the identification of such classes and methods
where faults are expecting at an early stage using some properties of the project. Early …