Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Volume 29

Volume 29, Number 1, January 2017

Editorial

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  Gerardo Canfora, Darren Dalcher, David Raffo:
  Editorial: A five year retrospective.

Research Articles

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  Michele Tufano, Gabriele Bavota, Denys Poshyvanyk, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Andrea De Lucia:
  An empirical study on developer-related factors characterizing fix-inducing commits.
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  Martin P. Ward, Hussein Zedan:
  The formal semantics of program slicing for nonterminating computations.
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  Bunyamin Sisman, Shayan A. Akbar, Avinash C. Kak:
  Exploiting spatial code proximity and order for improved source code retrieval for bug localization.
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  Salma Imtiaz, Naveed Ikram:
  Dynamics of task allocation in global software development.

Volume 29, Number 2, February 2017

Software Engineering for Sustainability
Editorial

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  Patricia Lago, Birgit Penzenstadler:
  Editorial: Reality check for software engineering for sustainability - pragmatism required.

Special Issue Papers

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  Claus Pahl, Pooyan Jamshidi, Danny Weyns:
  Cloud architecture continuity: Change models and change rules for sustainable cloud software architectures.
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  Samuel J. Chinenyeze, Xiaodong Liu, Ahmed Yassin Al-Dubai:
  BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications.
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  Daniel Feitosa, Rutger Alders, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Paris Avgeriou, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa:
  Investigating the effect of design patterns on energy consumption.
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  Erik Jagroep, Giuseppe Procaccianti, Jan Martijn E. M. van der Werf, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Leen Blom, Rob van Vliet:
  Energy efficiency on the product roadmap: An empirical study across releases of a software product.
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  Ruzanna Chitchyan, Iris Groher, Joost Noppen:
  Uncovering sustainability concerns in software product lines.
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  María Ángeles Moraga, Ignacio García Rodríguez de Guzmán, Coral Calero, Timo Johann, Gianantonio Me, Harald Münzel, Julia Kindelsberger:
  GreCo: Green code of ethics.

Volume 29, Number 3, March 2017

Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering: a selection of papers from SANER 2015
Foreword

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  Alexander Serebrenik, Bram Adams:
  Foreword to the SANER 2015 special issue.

Special Issue Papers

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  Qingtao Jiang, Xin Peng, Hai Wang, Zhenchang Xing, Wenyun Zhao:
  Understanding systematic and collaborative code changes by mining evolutionary trajectory patterns.
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  Luis C. Cruz, Heider Sanchez, Víctor M. González, Romain Robbes:
  Work fragmentation in developer interaction data.
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  Karan Aggarwal, Finbarr Timbers, Tanner Rutgers, Abram Hindle, Eleni Stroulia, Russell Greiner:
  Detecting duplicate bug reports with software engineering domain knowledge.
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  Mathieu Nayrolles, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, Sofiène Tahar, Alf Larsson:
  A bug reproduction approach based on directed model checking and crash traces.

Volume 29, Number 4, April 2017

Research Articles

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  Mikael Svahnberg, Tony Gorschek:
  A model for assessing and re-assessing the value of software reuse.
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  Rehan Akbar, Mohd Fadzil Hassan, Azrai Abdullah:
  A meta-model of software development project states behavioral study of software projects.
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  Naveed Ali, Richard Lai:
  A method of requirements elicitation and analysis for Global Software Development.
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  Christian D. Newman, Brian Bartman, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic:
  Simplifying the construction of source code transformations via automatic syntactic restructurings.
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  Michele Tufano, Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Andrea De Lucia, Denys Poshyvanyk:
  There and back again: Can you compile that snapshot?
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  Serkan Kirbas, Bora Caglayan, Tracy Hall, Steve Counsell, David Bowes, Alper Sen, Ayse Bener:
  The relationship between evolutionary coupling and defects in large industrial software.

Volume 29, Number 5, May 2017

Research Articles

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  Ali Ouni, Marouane Kessentini, Mel Ó Cinnéide, Houari A. Sahraoui, Kalyanmoy Deb, Katsuro Inoue:
  MORE: A multi-objective refactoring recommendation approach to introducing design patterns and fixing code smells.
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  Les Hatton, Diomidis Spinellis, Michiel van Genuchten:
  The long-term growth rate of evolving software: Empirical results and implications.
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  Doni Pracner, Zoran Budimac:
  Enabling code transformations with FermaT on simplified bytecode.
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  Miguel A. Teruel, Elena Navarro, Víctor López-Jaquero, Francisco Montero Simarro, Pascual González:
  A comprehensive framework for modeling requirements of CSCW systems.

Volume 29, Number 6, June 2017

Recent Advances in Agile Software Product Development
Editorial

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  Alok Mishra, Juan Garbajosa, Xiaofeng Wang, Jan Bosch, Pekka Abrahamsson:
  Future directions in Agile research: Alignment and divergence between research and practice.

Special Issue Papers

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  Mirko Barbosa Perkusich, Kyller Costa Gorgônio, Hyggo Oliveira de Almeida, Angelo Perkusich:
  Assisting the continuous improvement of Scrum projects using metrics and Bayesian networks.
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  Muhammad Ovais Ahmad, Lucy Ellen Lwakatare, Pasi Kuvaja, Markku Oivo, Jouni Markkula:
  An empirical study of portfolio management and Kanban in agile and lean software companies.
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  Passant Kandil, Sherin M. Moussa, Nagwa L. Badr:
  Cluster-based test cases prioritization and selection technique for agile regression testing.
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  Oktay Türetken, Igor Stojanov, Jos J. M. Trienekens:
  Assessing the adoption level of scaled agile development: a maturity model for Scaled Agile Framework.
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  Floris Erich, Chintan Amrit, Maya Daneva:
  A qualitative study of DevOps usage in practice.

Volume 29, Number 7, July 2017

Research Articles

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  Deguang Li, Bing Guo, Yan Shen, Junke Li, Yanhui Huang:
  The evolution of open-source mobile applications: An empirical study.
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  Yuan Huang, Xiangping Chen, Zhiyong Liu, Xiaonan Luo, Zibin Zheng:
  Using discriminative feature in software entities for relevance identification of code changes.
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  Marum Simão Filho, Plácido Rogério Pinheiro, Adriano Bessa Albuquerque:
  Analysis of task allocation in distributed software development through a hybrid methodology of verbal decision analysis.
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  Helena Holmström Olsson, Jan Bosch:
  From ad hoc to strategic ecosystem management: the "Three-Layer Ecosystem Strategy Model" (TeLESM).

Volume 29, Number 8, August 2017

Research Articles

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  Leonardo Humberto Silva, Marco Túlio Valente, Alexandre Bergel, Nicolas Anquetil, Anne Etien:
  Identifying Classes in Legacy JavaScript Code.
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  Mahmood Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Abdulrahman Ahmed Bobakr Baqais, Asif Qumer Gill:
  Motivators for adopting social computing in global software development: An empirical study.
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  Juan Manuel Carrillo de Gea, Joaquín Nicolás, José Luis Fernández-Alemán, Ambrosio Toval:
  Automated support for reuse-based requirements engineering in global software engineering.
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  Muhammad Ilyas, Siffat Ullah Khan:
  Software integration in global software development: Challenges for GSD vendors.

Volume 29, Number 9, September 2017

Perspective Paper

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  Carlo Ghezzi:
  Of software and change.

Research Articles

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  Mahdi Noorian, Ebrahim Bagheri, Weichang Du:
  Toward automated quality-centric product line configuration using intentional variability.
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  Mohammad Azzeh, Ali Bou Nassif:
  Analyzing the relationship between project productivity and environment factors in the use case points method.
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  Sheikh Umar Farooq, S. M. K. Quadri, Nesar Ahmad:
  A replicated empirical study to evaluate software testing methods.

Volume 29, Number 10, October 2017

Research Articles

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  Antonio Martini, Jan Bosch:
  On the interest of architectural technical debt: Uncovering the contagious debt phenomenon.
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  Efi Papatheocharous, Stamatia Bibi, Ioannis Stamelos, Andreas S. Andreou:
  An investigation of effort distribution among development phases: A four-stage progressive software cost estimation model.
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  Zadia Codabux, Byron J. Williams, Gary L. Bradshaw, Murray Cantor:
  An empirical assessment of technical debt practices in industry.

Corrigendum

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  Davy Landman, Alexander Serebrenik, Eric Bouwers, Jurgen J. Vinju:
  Corrigendum: Empirical analysis of the relationship between CC and SLOC in a large corpus of Java methods and C functions published on 9 December 2015.

Volume 29, Number 11, November 2017

Process in Action: The Best Papers from The International Conference on Software and Systems Process 2016
Special Issue Papers

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  Marco Kuhrmann, Rory V. O'Connor, Dewayne E. Perry, David Raffo:
  ICSSP 2016 - Special Issue Introduction.
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  Tobias Baum, Fabian Kortum, Kurt Schneider, Arthur Brack, Jens Schauder:
  Comparing pre-commit reviews and post-commit reviews using process simulation.
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  Philipp Diebold, Simon André Scherr:
  Software process models vs descriptions: What do practitioners use and need?
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  Regina Hebig, Jesper Derehag:
  The changing balance of technology and process: A case study on a combined setting of model-driven development and classical C coding.
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  Djamel Eddine Khelladi, Reda Bendraou, Regina Hebig, Marie-Pierre Gervais:
  Coadapting multidimension process properties.
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  Rory V. O'Connor, Peter Elger, Paul M. Clarke:
  Continuous software engineering - A microservices architecture perspective.
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  Binish Tanveer, Liliana Guzmán, Ulf Martin Engel:
  Effort estimation in agile software development: Case study and improvement framework.
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  Kitija Trektere, Gilbert Regan, Fergal McCaffery, Derek Flood, Marion Lepmets, Grainne Barry:
  Mobile medical app development with a focus on traceability.

Volume 29, Number 12, December 2017

Special Issue on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2015)
Editorial

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  Foutse Khomh, David Lo, Michael W. Godfrey:
  Guest editor's introduction to the Special Issue on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2015).

Specialissue Papers

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  Mohammad Ghafari, Konstantin Rubinov, Mohammad Mehdi Pourhashem Kallehbasti:
  Mining unit test cases to synthesize API usage examples.
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  Rahul Pandita, Raoul Jetley, Sithu D. Sudarsan, Tim Menzies, Laurie A. Williams:
  TMAP: Discovering relevant API methods through text mining of API documentation.
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  Jens Nicolay, Quentin Stiévenart, Wolfgang De Meuter, Coen De Roover:
  Purity analysis for JavaScript through abstract interpretation.
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  Efthimia Aivaloglou, David Hoepelman, Felienne Hermans:
  Parsing Excel formulas: A grammar and its application on 4 large datasets.