By Category
Age Discrimination
| Oct 3, 2021 | Is 40 the New 60? |
Agile Development
Architecture
| Oct 2, 2016 | Revisiting the Anatomy and Physiology of the Grid |
Authorship
| Oct 15, 2021 | Authorship Attribution of Source Code |
Automation
| Oct 7, 2021 | How Do Software Developers Use GitHub Actions? |
| Sep 30, 2021 | Effects of Adopting Code Review Bots on Pull Requests to OSS Projects |
Bias
| Aug 29, 2021 | Beyond the Code Itself: How Programmers Really Look at Pull Requests |
Book Review
| Oct 2, 2021 | The Programmer's Brain |
| Aug 12, 2013 | The Essence of Software Engineering |
| Jun 13, 2013 | The MSR Cookbook: Mining a Decade of Research |
| May 3, 2012 | Code Simplicity |
Bug Reports
| Jul 18, 2012 | Clustering Duplicate Crash Reports |
| Aug 30, 2011 | What Makes a Good Bug Report? |
Build Systems
| Sep 21, 2021 | Build Systems à la Carte |
Circadian Rhythms
| Sep 26, 2021 | Two Papers on Time |
Code Clones
| Aug 16, 2011 | 'Cloning considered harmful' considered harmful |
Code Generation
| Jun 6, 2013 | Automatic Patch Generation Learned from Human-Written Patches |
Code Ownership
| Sep 10, 2021 | Why Software Projects need Heroes: Lessons Learned from 1100+ Projects |
| Jun 7, 2016 | Code Ownership Revisited |
| Oct 22, 2011 | Three Results, Many Definitions |
| Sep 5, 2011 | Don't Touch My Code! |
| Jun 27, 2011 | Ownership, Experience, and Defects |
Code Review
Code Smells
| Aug 14, 2016 | Do Code Smells Hamper Novice Programming? |
| Jul 24, 2013 | Automatic Patch Generation Learned from Human-Written Patches |
| Jul 7, 2013 | How, and Why, Process Metrics Are Better |
| Aug 16, 2011 | 'Cloning considered harmful' considered harmful |
| Jun 27, 2011 | Refactoring Pipe-like Mashups for End-user Programmers |
Cognition
| Oct 14, 2021 | Exploring Programmers' API Learning Processes |
Collaborative Development
| Aug 29, 2021 | Beyond the Code Itself: How Programmers Really Look at Pull Requests |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Toxic Code Snippets on Stack Overflow |
| Aug 18, 2021 | How Agile Teams Make Self-Assignment Work |
| Jun 7, 2016 | Pull-Based Development |
| Apr 25, 2014 | Cassandra: Proactive Conflict Minimization through Optimized Task Scheduling |
| May 24, 2012 | Supporting Professional Spreadsheet Users by Generating Leveled Dataflow Diagrams |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Social Coding in GitHub |
| Sep 13, 2011 | Proactive Detection of Collaboration Conflicts |
| Jul 18, 2011 | Understanding Broadcast Based Peer Review on Open Source Projects |
Commenting
| Sep 6, 2021 | Commenting source code: is it worth it for small programming tasks? |
Computer Security
| Sep 27, 2021 | Technology-Facilitated Intimate Partner Abuse |
Computers and Society
| Oct 11, 2021 | A Critical History of Logo and Constructionist Learning |
Computing Education
Conferences
| Jun 4, 2013 | First Impressions of MSR |
Configuration
| Jun 9, 2016 | Too Many Knobs |
Continuous Integration
| Oct 18, 2021 | Bad Practices in Continuous Integration |
Crowdsourcing
| Sep 19, 2021 | Reading Answers on Stack Overflow: Not Enough! |
Data Science
| Oct 17, 2021 | Demystifying 'Bad' Error Messages in Data Science Libraries |
Databases
| Oct 10, 2021 | Insights from Student Solutions to MongoDB Homework Problems |
| Oct 7, 2021 | Finding Bugs in Database Systems via Query Partitioning |
Daylight Savings Time
| Sep 26, 2021 | Two Papers on Time |
Debugging
| Oct 7, 2021 | Finding Bugs in Database Systems via Query Partitioning |
| Sep 2, 2021 | Compiler Error Messages Considered Unhelpful |
| Jun 5, 2016 | BigDebug |
Design
| Sep 24, 2021 | How Software Designers Interact with Sketches at the Whiteboard |
| Sep 30, 2016 | Purposes, Concepts, Misfits, and a Redesign of Git |
| Jun 30, 2011 | Let's Go to the Whiteboard |
Design Patterns
DevOps
Development Process
| Sep 26, 2021 | Are Delayed Issues Harder to Resolve? |
Diversity
| Oct 16, 2021 | Open Source Projects in Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent |
| Sep 21, 2016 | Paradise Unplugged |
Documentation
| Oct 6, 2021 | Software Documentation Issues Unveiled |
| Sep 15, 2021 | Categorizing the Content of GitHub README Files |
| Aug 23, 2021 | 9.6 Million Links in Source Code Comments: Purpose, Evolution, and Decay |
| Nov 8, 2011 | A Field Study of API Learning Obstacles |
| Aug 23, 2011 | Creating and Evolving Developer Documentation |
Domain-Specific Languages
| Sep 20, 2021 | Program comprehension of domain-specific and general-purpose languages |
Editorial
| Aug 10, 2021 | Please help these researchers learn more about what you do |
| Aug 8, 2021 | We're Back |
| Dec 1, 2016 | Hiatus |
| Sep 9, 2016 | ACM Permits Authors to Post Open Access Copies of Their Own Work |
| Sep 9, 2016 | You Keep Using That Word… |
| Jun 9, 2016 | A Software Engineering Homunculus |
| Apr 26, 2016 | Extremely Angry |
| Jul 24, 2015 | A Hostage Situation |
| Nov 16, 2013 | A Modest Proposal |
| Dec 6, 2012 | Two Solitudes Illustrated |
| May 29, 2012 | Open Access Research at NWIT, and Everywhere |
| Feb 16, 2012 | Teachers Matter—Do Programmers? |
| Oct 19, 2011 | Announcement: Empirical Software Engineering at American Scientist |
| Oct 11, 2011 | The IROP paper |
| Jul 11, 2011 | Webinars on the Architecture of Open Source Applications July 13 and 20 |
| Jun 27, 2011 | Theory and Practice |
Education
Error Handling
| Sep 5, 2021 | Two Papers on Errors |
Error Messages
| Oct 17, 2021 | Demystifying 'Bad' Error Messages in Data Science Libraries |
| Sep 20, 2021 | Do Developers Read Compiler Error Messages? |
Estimation
Experience Reports
| Aug 9, 2011 | An Empirical Study of Build Maintenance Effort |
| Jul 18, 2011 | Debugging in the (Very) Large |
| Jun 30, 2011 | Specification and Verification: The Spec# Experience |
Faults
Formal Methods
| Jun 30, 2011 | Specification and Verification: The Spec# Experience |
Fuzz Testing
| Oct 1, 2021 | The Relevance of Classic Fuzz Testing |
Gamification
| Oct 3, 2021 | How Gamification Affects Software Developers |
Governance
| Sep 9, 2021 | Organizing for openness: six models for developer involvement in hybrid OSS projects |
Grid Computing
| Oct 2, 2016 | Revisiting the Anatomy and Physiology of the Grid |
Hackathons
| Oct 8, 2021 | Do Hackathon Projects Change the World? |
Hiring
| Sep 13, 2021 | What's Wrong With Tech Hiring |
Job Satisfaction
| Oct 4, 2021 | The Daily Life of Software Developers |
Licensing
| Sep 4, 2021 | Do Software Developers Understand Open Source Licenses? |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Toxic Code Snippets on Stack Overflow |
Machine Learning
| Oct 15, 2021 | Authorship Attribution of Source Code |
Maintenance
| Apr 26, 2016 | Maintaining Java ORM Code |
Metrics
| Aug 21, 2021 | Code and commit metrics of developer productivity: a study on team leaders perceptions |
| Jul 7, 2013 | How, and Why, Process Metrics Are Better |
| Feb 12, 2013 | Experimental Assessment of Software Metrics Using Automated Refactoring |
| Nov 28, 2011 | Codermetrics? |
| Oct 22, 2011 | Three Results, Many Definitions |
| Jul 7, 2011 | The Confounding Effect of Class Size on the Validity of Object-Oriented Metrics |
Modeling
| Aug 17, 2011 | Three Empirical Evaluations of UML |
Noticed
| Aug 3, 2016 | Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering |
| Dec 13, 2011 | Research In Progress: How Mozilla Builds Software |
| Oct 11, 2011 | The IROP paper |
| Aug 24, 2011 | What Michael Feathers Thinks You Should Read |
Novices
| Oct 10, 2021 | Insights from Student Solutions to MongoDB Homework Problems |
| Aug 14, 2016 | Do Code Smells Hamper Novice Programming? |
| Jun 9, 2016 | Novice Programming Mistakes |
Open Source
Operating Systems
| Sep 23, 2021 | Two Studies of Software Evolution |
Organizational Behavior
Package Management
| Sep 22, 2021 | Taxonomy of Package Management in Programming Languages and Operating Systems |
Packaging
| Sep 17, 2021 | Why Do Developers Use Trivial Packages? |
Pair Programming
| Feb 23, 2012 | Looking at the Same Thing in Pair Programming Tasks |
| Oct 11, 2011 | Experiences of Using Pair Programming in an Agile Project |
| Jul 26, 2011 | Effects of Personality on Pair Programming |
| Jul 11, 2011 | The social dynamics of pair programming |
Parallelism
Privacy
| Aug 28, 2021 | Privacy Threats in Intimate Relationships |
Productivity
Program Analysis
| Oct 1, 2016 | Apex: Automatic Programming Assignment Error Explanation |
| Jun 9, 2016 | Hidden Truths in Dead Software Paths |
Program Comprehension
Programmers
| Sep 7, 2021 | Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on Knowledge Worker Actions |
Programming Languages
Programming Style
| Oct 1, 2021 | Python Coding Style Compliance on Stack Overflow |
Programming by Example
| Oct 2, 2016 | FIDEX: Filtering Spreadsheet Data using Examples |
Project Management
Psychology of Programming
| Oct 2, 2021 | The Programmer's Brain |
| May 1, 2014 | Happy Software Developers Solve Problems Better: Psychological Measurements in Empirical Software Engineering |
| Apr 26, 2012 | On the Naturalness of Software |
| Jul 26, 2011 | Effects of Personality on Pair Programming |
Python
| Aug 17, 2021 | Two Papers on Python Language Features |
Quality
| Oct 1, 2021 | The Relevance of Classic Fuzz Testing |
| Sep 28, 2021 | JavaScript Quality Assurance Tools and Usage Outcomes |
| Sep 16, 2021 | Studying the relationship between exception handling practices and post-release defects |
| Jan 12, 2012 | Got Issues? Do New Features and Code Improvements Affect Defects? |
| Sep 6, 2011 | Does Adding Manpower Also Affect Quality? |
| Jun 27, 2011 | Ownership, Experience, and Defects |
| Jun 27, 2011 | Organizational Volatility and Its Effects on Software |
Questions
| Dec 30, 2012 | Why We Need Evidence |
| Dec 12, 2012 | Empirical Evidence for the Value of Version Control? |
| Aug 22, 2012 | Ten Questions for Researchers |
Readability
| Oct 5, 2021 | Three Papers on Readability |
Refactoring
Regular Expressions
| Aug 30, 2021 | Two Studies of Regular Expressions |
Reproducibility
| May 18, 2012 | Willingness to Share Research Data Is Related to the Strength of the Evidence and the Quality of Reporting of Statistical Results |
Requirements
Research Methods
Reuse
| May 2, 2012 | Example Embedding |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Component Reuse vs. Snippet Remixing |
SQL
| Aug 27, 2021 | Errors in SQL Queries |
Scientific Computing
| Sep 25, 2021 | How Reliable is Scientific Software? |
| Jan 17, 2012 | A Survey of the Practice of Computational Science |
Security
| Aug 28, 2021 | Privacy Threats in Intimate Relationships |
| Apr 26, 2016 | Finding Security Bugs |
Software Evolution
| Sep 27, 2021 | The Evolution of JavaScript Code in the Wild |
| Sep 23, 2021 | Two Studies of Software Evolution |
Software Projects
Software Reliability
| Sep 25, 2021 | How Reliable is Scientific Software? |
Source Code
| Aug 23, 2021 | 9.6 Million Links in Source Code Comments: Purpose, Evolution, and Decay |
Spreadsheets
| Oct 2, 2016 | FIDEX: Filtering Spreadsheet Data using Examples |
| May 24, 2012 | Supporting Professional Spreadsheet Users by Generating Leveled Dataflow Diagrams |
Stack Overflow
| Sep 19, 2021 | Reading Answers on Stack Overflow: Not Enough! |
Sustainability
| Oct 13, 2021 | An Empirical Study of Donations in Open Source |
Symbolic Execution
| Oct 1, 2016 | Apex: Automatic Programming Assignment Error Explanation |
Test-Driven Development
Testing
Tools
Turnover
| Sep 30, 2021 | Quantifying and mitigating turnover-induced knowledge loss |
UML
| Jun 13, 2013 | UML in Practice |
Usability
Version Control
| Aug 12, 2021 | On the Nature of Merge Conflicts |