Empirical Software Engineering, Volume 22

Volume 22, Number 1, February 2017

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  Appreciation to Empirical Software Engineering reviewers of 2016. 1-5
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  Qi Luo, Aswathy Nair, Mark Grechanik, Denys Poshyvanyk:
  FOREPOST: finding performance problems automatically with feedback-directed learning software testing. 6-56
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  Padmal Vitharana:
  Defect propagation at the project-level: results and a post-hoc analysis on inspection efficiency. 57-79
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  Ali Niknafs, Daniel M. Berry:
  The impact of domain knowledge on the effectiveness of requirements engineering activities. 80-133
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  Lingfeng Bao, Jing Li, Zhenchang Xing, Xinyu Wang, Xin Xia, Bo Zhou:
  Extracting and analyzing time-series HCI data from screen-captured task videos. 134-174
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  Yan Li, Tao Yue, Shaukat Ali, Li Zhang:
  Zen-ReqOptimizer: a search-based approach for requirements assignment optimization. 175-234
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  Alan Charpentier, Jean-Rémy Falleri, Floréal Morandat, Elyas Ben Hadj Yahia, Laurent Réveillère:
  Raters' reliability in clone benchmarks construction. 235-258
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  Haoran Niu, Iman Keivanloo, Ying Zou:
  Learning to rank code examples for code search engines. 259-291
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  Mel Ó Cinnéide, Iman Hemati Moghadam, Mark Harman, Steve Counsell, Laurence Tratt:
  An experimental search-based approach to cohesion metric evaluation. 292-329
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  Boyuan Chen, Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang:
  Characterizing logging practices in Java-based open source software projects - a replication study in Apache Software Foundation. 330-374
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  Deheng Ye, Zhenchang Xing, Nachiket Kapre:
  The structure and dynamics of knowledge network in domain-specific Q&A sites: a case study of stack overflow. 375-406
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  David Kavaler, Vladimir Filkov:
  Stochastic actor-oriented modeling for studying homophily and social influence in OSS projects. 407-435
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  Jihun Park, Miryung Kim, Doo-Hwan Bae:
  An empirical study of supplementary patches in open source projects. 436-473
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  Passakorn Phannachitta, Jacky Keung, Akito Monden, Kenichi Matsumoto:
  A stability assessment of solution adaptation techniques for analogy-based software effort estimation. 474-504
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  Safwat Hassan, Weiyi Shang, Ahmed E. Hassan:
  An empirical study of emergency updates for top android mobile apps. 505-546
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  Jing Jiang, David Lo, Jia-Huan He, Xin Xia, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Li Zhang:
  Why and how developers fork what from whom in GitHub. 547-578

Volume 22, Number 2, April 2017

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  Barbara A. Kitchenham, Lech Madeyski, David Budgen, Jacky Keung, Pearl Brereton, Stuart M. Charters, Shirley Gibbs, Amnart Pohthong:
  Robust Statistical Methods for Empirical Software Engineering. 579-630
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  Siyuan Jiang, Collin McMillan, Raúl A. Santelices:
  Do Programmers do Change Impact Analysis in Debugging? 631-669
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  Marouane Kessentini, Usman Mansoor, Manuel Wimmer, Ali Ouni, Kalyanmoy Deb:
  Search-based detection of model level changes. 670-715
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  Chris Lokan, Emilia Mendes:
  Investigating the use of moving windows to improve software effort prediction: a replicated study. 716-767
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  Patanamon Thongtanunam, Shane McIntosh, Ahmed E. Hassan, Hajimu Iida:
  Review participation in modern code review - An empirical study of the android, Qt, and OpenStack projects. 768-817
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  Carlos Henrique C. Duarte:
  Productivity paradoxes revisited - Assessing the relationship between quality maturity levels and labor productivity in brazilian software companies. 818-847
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  Ayse Tosun, Emad Shihab, Yasutaka Kamei:
  Erratum to: Studying high impact fix-inducing changes. 848
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  Claire Le Goues, Shin Yoo:
  Guest editorial for special section on research in search-based software engineering. 849-851
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  José Miguel Rojas, Mattia Vivanti, Andrea Arcuri, Gordon Fraser:
  A detailed investigation of the effectiveness of whole test suite generation. 852-893
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  Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Mel Ó Cinnéide, Shinpei Hayashi, Kalyanmoy Deb:
  A robust multi-objective approach to balance severity and importance of refactoring opportunities. 894-927
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  Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew, Roberto Tiella, Paolo Tonella:
  Generating valid grammar-based test inputs by means of genetic programming and annotated grammars. 928-961

Volume 22, Number 3, June 2017

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  Patrick Mäder, Rocco Oliveto, Andrian Marcus:
  Empirical studies in software and systems traceability. 963-966
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  Daniel Ståhl, Kristofer Hallén, Jan Bosch:
  Achieving traceability in large scale continuous integration and delivery deployment, usage and validation of the eiffel framework. 967-995
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  Davide Falessi, Massimiliano Di Penta, Gerardo Canfora, Giovanni Cantone:
  Estimating the number of remaining links in traceability recovery. 996-1027
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  Waleed Zogaan, Ibrahim Mujhid, Joanna C. S. Santos, Danielle Gonzalez, Mehdi Mirakhorli:
  Automated training-set creation for software architecture traceability problem. 1028-1062
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  Bonita Sharif, John Meinken, Timothy Shaffer, Huzefa H. Kagdi:
  Eye movements in software traceability link recovery. 1063-1102
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  Jin Guo, Marek Gibiec, Jane Cleland-Huang:
  Tackling the term-mismatch problem in automated trace retrieval. 1103-1142
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  Romain Robbes, Yasutaka Kamei, Martin Pinzger:
  Guest Editorial: Mining software repositories. 1143-1145
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  Pooyan Behnamghader, Duc Minh Le, Joshua Garcia, Daniel Link, Arman Shahbazian, Nenad Medvidovic:
  A large-scale study of architectural evolution in open-source software systems. 1146-1193
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  Yuhao Wu, Yuki Manabe, Tetsuya Kanda, Daniel M. Germán, Katsuro Inoue:
  Analysis of license inconsistency in large collections of open source projects. 1194-1222
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  Morakot Choetkiertikul, Hoa Khanh Dam, Truyen Tran, Aditya Ghose:
  Predicting the delay of issues with due dates in software projects. 1223-1263
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  Roberta Coelho, Lucas Almeida, Georgios Gousios, Arie van Deursen, Christoph Treude:
  Exception handling bug hazards in Android - Results from a mining study and an exploratory survey. 1264-1304
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  Nuthan Munaiah, Felivel Camilo, Wesley Wigham, Andrew Meneely, Meiyappan Nagappan:
  Do bugs foreshadow vulnerabilities? An in-depth study of the chromium project. 1305-1347
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  Anand Ashok Sawant, Alberto Bacchelli:
  fine-GRAPE: fine-grained APi usage extractor - an approach and dataset to investigate API usage. 1348-1371
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  Diomidis Spinellis:
  A repository of Unix history and evolution. 1372-1404
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  Matthieu Caneill, Daniel M. Germán, Stefano Zacchiroli:
  The Debsources Dataset: two decades of free and open source software. 1405-1437
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  Rocco Oliveto, Christian Bird:
  Guest editorial: Program comprehension. 1438-1439
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  Ahmad Jbara, Dror G. Feitelson:
  How programmers read regular code: a controlled experiment using eye tracking. 1440-1477
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  Laura MacLeod, Andreas Bergen, Margaret-Anne D. Storey:
  Documenting and sharing software knowledge using screencasts. 1478-1507
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  Moritz Beller, Andy Zaidman, Andrey N. Karpov, Rolf A. Zwaan:
  The last line effect explained. 1508-1536
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  Christopher Vendome, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Mario Linares Vásquez, Daniel M. Germán, Denys Poshyvanyk:
  License usage and changes: a large-scale study on gitHub. 1537-1577

Volume 22, Number 4, August 2017

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  Ying Shi, Ming Li, Steven Arndt, Carol S. Smidts:
  Metric-based software reliability prediction approach and its application. 1579-1633
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  Ji Wu, Shaukat Ali, Tao Yue, Jie Tian, Chao Liu:
  Assessing the quality of industrial avionics software: an extensive empirical evaluation. 1634-1683
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  Heng Li, Weiyi Shang, Ahmed E. Hassan:
  Which log level should developers choose for a new logging statement? 1684-1716
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  Ioanna Stavropoulou, Marios Grigoriou, Kostas Kontogiannis:
  Case study on which relations to use for clustering-based software architecture recovery. 1717-1762
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  Wesley K. G. Assunção, Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon, Lukas Linsbauer, Silvia R. Vergilio, Alexander Egyed:
  Multi-objective reverse engineering of variability-safe feature models based on code dependencies of system variants. 1763-1794
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  Mohammad Gharehyazie, Vladimir Filkov:
  Tracing distributed collaborative development in apache software foundation projects. 1795-1830
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  Heng Li, Weiyi Shang, Ying Zou, Ahmed E. Hassan:
  Towards just-in-time suggestions for log changes. 1831-1865
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  Steffen Herbold, Alexander Trautsch, Jens Grabowski:
  Global vs. local models for cross-project defect prediction - A replication study. 1866-1902
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  Tim Menzies, William Nichols, Forrest Shull, Lucas Layman:
  Are delayed issues harder to resolve? Revisiting cost-to-fix of defects throughout the lifecycle. 1903-1935
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  Matias Martinez, Thomas Durieux, Romain Sommerard, Jifeng Xuan, Martin Monperrus:
  Automatic repair of real bugs in java: a large-scale experiment on the defects4j dataset. 1936-1964
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  Anas Mahmoud, Gary Bradshaw:
  Semantic topic models for source code analysis. 1965-2000
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  Victoria Sakhnini, Luisa Mich, Daniel M. Berry:
  Group versus individual use of power-only EPMcreate as a creativity enhancement technique for requirements elicitation. 2001-2049
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  Mitchell Joblin, Sven Apel, Wolfgang Mauerer:
  Evolutionary trends of developer coordination: a network approach. 2050-2094
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  Dayi Lin, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Ahmed E. Hassan:
  Studying the urgent updates of popular games on the Steam platform. 2095-2126
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  Maria Riaz, Jason Tyler King, John Slankas, Laurie Williams, Fabio Massacci, Christian Quesada-López, Marcelo Jenkins:
  Identifying the implied: Findings from three differentiated replications on the use of security requirements templates. 2127-2178
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  Per Lenberg, Lars Göran Wallgren Tengberg, Robert Feldt:
  An initial analysis of software engineers' attitudes towards organizational change. 2179-2205
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  Arne N. Johanson, Wilhelm Hasselbring:
  Effectiveness and efficiency of a domain-specific language for high-performance marine ecosystem simulation: a controlled experiment. 2206-2236
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  Tien-Duy B. Le, Ferdian Thung, David Lo:
  Will this localization tool be effective for this bug? Mitigating the impact of unreliability of information retrieval based bug localization tools. 2237-2279

Volume 22, Number 5, October 2017

Includes a Special Section on Success and Failure in Software Engineering and Special Section on Negative Results in Software Engineering

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  Mika V. Mäntylä, Magne Jørgensen, Paul Ralph, Hakan Erdogmus:
  Guest editorial for special section on success and failure in software engineering. 2281-2297
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  Daniel Méndez Fernández, Stefan Wagner, Marcos Kalinowski, Michael Felderer, Priscilla Mafra, Antonio Vetro, Tayana Conte, Marie-Therese Christiansson, Des Greer, Casper Lassenius, Tomi Männistö, M. Nayabi, Markku Oivo, Birgit Penzenstadler, Dietmar Pfahl, Rafael Prikladnicki, Günther Ruhe, André Schekelmann, Sagar Sen, Rodrigo O. Spínola, Ahmet Tuzcu, Jose Luis de la Vara, Roel Wieringa:
  Naming the pain in requirements engineering - Contemporary problems, causes, and effects in practice. 2298-2338
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  Muneera Bano, Didar Zowghi, Francesca da Rimini:
  User satisfaction and system success: an empirical exploration of user involvement in software development. 2339-2372
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  Sohaib Shahid Bajwa, Xiaofeng Wang, Anh Nguyen-Duc, Pekka Abrahamsson:
  "Failures" to be celebrated: an analysis of major pivots of software startups. 2373-2408
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  Timo O. A. Lehtinen, Juha Itkonen, Casper Lassenius:
  Recurring opinions or productive improvements - what agile teams actually discuss in retrospectives. 2409-2452
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  Richard F. Paige, Jordi Cabot, Neil A. Ernst:
  Foreword to the special section on negative results in software engineering. 2453-2456
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  Oscar Dieste, Alejandrina M. Aranda, Fernando Uyaguari Uyaguari, Burak Turhan, Ayse Tosun, Davide Fucci, Markku Oivo, Natalia Juristo:
  Empirical evaluation of the effects of experience on code quality and programmer productivity: an exploratory study. 2457-2542
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  Robbert Jongeling, Proshanta Sarkar, Subhajit Datta, Alexander Serebrenik:
  On negative results when using sentiment analysis tools for software engineering research. 2543-2584
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  Yossi Gil, Gal Lalouche:
  On the correlation between size and metric validity. 2585-2611
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  Aminata Sabane, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Venera Arnaoudova, Giuliano Antoniol:
  Fragile base-class problem, problem? 2612-2657
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  Tim Menzies, Ye Yang, George Mathew, Barry W. Boehm, Jairus Hihn:
  Negative results for software effort estimation. 2658-2683
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  Jason Tyler King, Jonathan Stallings, Maria Riaz, Laurie Williams:
  To log, or not to log: using heuristics to identify mandatory log events - a controlled experiment. 2684-2717

Volume 22, Number 6, December 2017

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  Cristina Palomares, Carme Quer, Xavier Franch:
  Requirements reuse and requirement patterns: a state of the practice survey. 2719-2762
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  Ayse Tosun, Oscar Dieste, Davide Fucci, Sira Vegas, Burak Turhan, Hakan Erdogmus, Adrian Santos, Markku Oivo, Kimmo Toro, Janne Järvinen, Natalia Juristo:
  An industry experiment on the effects of test-driven development on external quality and productivity. 2763-2805
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  Ruchika Malhotra, Megha Khanna:
  An empirical study for software change prediction using imbalanced data. 2806-2851
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  Marco Kuhrmann, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Maya Daneva:
  On the pragmatic design of literature studies in software engineering: an experience-based guideline. 2852-2891
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  Ville T. Heikkilä, Maria Paasivaara, Casper Lassenius, Daniela E. Damian, Christian Engblom:
  Managing the requirements flow from strategy to release in large-scale agile development: a case study at Ericsson. 2892-2936
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  Emil Alégroth, Robert Feldt:
  On the long-term use of visual gui testing in industrial practice: a case study. 2937-2971
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  Wesley K. G. Assunção, Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon, Lukas Linsbauer, Silvia R. Vergilio, Alexander Egyed:
  Reengineering legacy applications into software product lines: a systematic mapping. 2972-3016
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  Katsiaryna Labunets, Fabio Massacci, Federica Paci, Sabrina Marczak, Flávio Moreira de Oliveira:
  Model comprehension for security risk assessment: an empirical comparison of tabular vs. graphical representations. 3017-3056
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  Vard Antinyan, Miroslaw Staron, Anna Sandberg:
  Evaluating code complexity triggers, use of complexity measures and the influence of code complexity on maintenance time. 3057-3087
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  Ehsan Noei, Mark D. Syer, Ying Zou, Ahmed E. Hassan, Iman Keivanloo:
  A study of the relation of mobile device attributes with the user-perceived quality of Android apps. 3088-3116
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  Cor-Paul Bezemer, Shane McIntosh, Bram Adams, Daniel M. Germán, Ahmed E. Hassan:
  An empirical study of unspecified dependencies in make-based build systems. 3117-3148
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  Xin Xia, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Ahmed E. Hassan, Zhenchang Xing:
  What do developers search for on the web? 3149-3185
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  Feng Zhang, Iman Keivanloo, Ying Zou:
  Data Transformation in Cross-project Defect Prediction. 3186-3218
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  Nuthan Munaiah, Steven Kroh, Craig Cabrey, Meiyappan Nagappan:
  Curating GitHub for engineered software projects. 3219-3253