Recent years have seen an increasing attention to social aspects of software engineering,
including studies of emotions and sentiments experienced and expressed by the software …

Researchers in software engineering have attempted to improve software development by
mining and analyzing software repositories. Since the majority of the software engineering …

Bug reports document unexpected software behaviors experienced by users. To be
effective, they should allow bug triagers to easily understand and reproduce the potential …

Software maintenance starts as soon as the first artifacts are delivered and is essential for
the success of the software. However, keeping maintenance activities and their related …

Developers use bug reports to triage and fix bugs. When triaging a bug report, developers
must decide whether the bug report is valid (ie, a real bug). A large amount of bug reports …

The fragmentation of the Android ecosystem causes portability and compatibility issues
within the entire Android platform, which increases developer workload, delays application …

A major problem with user-written bug reports, indicated by developers and documented by
researchers, is the (lack of high) quality of the reported steps to reproduce the bugs. Low …

Most empirical studies of open source software repositories focus on the analysis of isolated
projects, or restrict themselves to the study of the relationships between technical artifacts. In …

Software repositories, such as source code, email archives, and bug databases, contain
unstructured and unlabeled text that is difficult to analyze with traditional techniques. We …

Research on software evolution is very active, but evolutionary principles, models and
theories that properly explain why and how software systems evolve over time are still …