Accepted Technical Research Papers and Journal First Papers 【ICSE2016】

ICSE2016 Accepted Paper

Accepted Technical Research Papers and Journal First Papers

Co-chairs:

Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Laurie Williams, North Carolina State University, United States

The Technical Research Program will feature 101 Accepted Technical Research Papers and 7 Journal First Papers. These papers will be presented during the three days of the ICSE 2016 Main Conference (Wednesday 18 through Friday 20).

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Accepted Technical Research Papers

A Comparison of 10 Sampling Algorithms for Configurable Systems

Flávio Medeiros, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil

Christian Kästner, Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Márcio Ribeiro, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil

Rohit Gheyi, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil

Sven Apel, University of Passau, Germany

A Practical Guide to Select Quality Indicators for Assessing Pareto-Based Search Algorithms in Search-Based Software Engineering

Shuai Wang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Tao Yue, Simula Research Laboratory & Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway

Yan Li, Beihang University, China

Marius Liaaen, Cisco Systems, Norway

An Analysis of the Search Spaces for Generate and Validate Patch Generation Systems

Fan Long, MIT EECS & CSAIL, United States

Martin Rinard, MIT EECS & CSAIL, United States

An Empirical Comparison of Compiler Testing Techniques

Junjie Chen, Peking University, China

Wenxiang Hu, Peking University, China

Dan Hao, Peking University, China

Yingfei Xiong, Peking University, China

Hongyu Zhang, Microsoft Research, China

Lu Zhang, Peking University, China

Bing Xie, Peking University, China

An Empirical Study of Practitioners’ Perspectives on Green Software Engineering

Irene Manotas, University of Delaware, United States

Christian Bird, Microsoft Research, United States

Rui Zhang, IBM Research - Almaden, United States

David Shepherd, ABB Corporate Research, United States

Will Snipes, ABB Corporate Research, United States

Ciera Jaspan, Google, Inc., United States

Caitlin Sadowski, Google, Inc., United States

Lori Pollock, University of Delaware, United States

James Clause, University of Delaware, United States

An Empirical Study on the Impact of C++ Lambdas and Programmer Experience

Phillip Merlin Uesbeck, University of Nevada,Las Vegas, United States

Andreas Stefik, University of Nevada,Las Vegas, United States

Stefan Hanenberg, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Matt Pedersen, University of Nevada,Las Vegas, United States

Patrick Daleiden, University of Nevada,Las Vegas, United States

Angelix: Scalable Multiline Program Patch Synthesis via Symbolic Analysis

Sergey Mechtaev, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Jooyong Yi, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Abhik Roychoudhury, National University of Singapore, Singapore

AntMiner: Mining More Bugs by Reducing Noise Interference

Bin Liang, Renmin University of China, China

Pan Bian, Renmin University of China, China

Yan Zhang, Renmin University of China, China

Wenchang Shi, Renmin University of China, China

Wei You, Renmin University of China, China

Yan Cai, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Are "Non-functional" Requirements Really Non-functional? An Investigation of Non-functional Requirements in Practice

Jonas Eckhardt, Technische Universität München, Germany

Andreas Vogelsang, Technische Universität München, Germany

Daniel Méndez Fernández, Technische Universität München, Germany

Augmenting API Documentation with Insights from Stack Overflow

Christoph Treude, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Martin P. Robillard, McGill University, Canada

Automated Energy Optimization of HTTP Requests for Mobile Applications

Ding Li, University of Southern California, United States

Yingjun Lyu, University of Southern California, United States

Jiaping Gui, University of Southern California, United States

William G. J. Halfond, University of Southern California, United States

Automated Parameter Optimization of Classification Techniques for Defect Prediction Models

Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Shane McIntosh, McGill University, Canada

Ahmed E. Hassan, Queen's Unversity, Canada

Kenichi Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Automated Partitioning of Android Applications for Trusted Execution Environments

Konstantin Rubinov, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Lucia Rosculete, Breaking Point Systems - Ixia, Romania

Tulika Mitra, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Abhik Roychoudhury, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Automated Test Suite Generation for Time-continuous Simulink Models

Reza Matinnejad, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Shiva Nejati, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Lionel Briand, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Thomas Bruckmann, Delphi Automotive Systems, Luxembourg

Automatic Model Generation from Documentation for Java API Functions

Juan Zhai, Nanjing University, China

Jianjun Huang, Purdue University, United States

Shiqing Ma, Purdue University, United States

Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University, United States

Lin Tan, University of Waterloo, Canada

Jianhua Zhao, Nanjing University, China

Feng Qin, Ohio State University, United States

Automatically Learning Semantic Features for Defect Prediction

Song Wang, Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Waterloo, Canada

Taiyue Liu, Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Waterloo, Canada

Lin Tan, Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Waterloo, Canada

Behavioral Log Analysis with Statistical Guarantees

Nimrod Busany, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Shahar Maoz, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Belief & Evidence in Empirical Software Engineering

Premkumar Devanbu, UC Davis, United States

Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, United States

Christian Bird, Microsoft Research, United States

BigDebug: Debugging Primitives for Interactive Big Data Processing in Spark

Muhammad Ali Gulzar, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Matteo Interlandi, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Seunghyun Yoo, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Sai Deep Tetali, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Tyson Condie, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Todd Millstein, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Miryung Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Building a Theory of Job Rotation in Software Engineering from an Instrumental Case Study

Ronnie E. S. Santos, Centro de Informática - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Fabio Q. B. Silva, Centro de Informática - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Cleyton V. C. Magalhães, Centro de Informática - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Cleviton V. F. Monteiro, Departamento de Estatística e Informática - Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil

Code Anomalies Flock Together: Exploring Code Anomaly Agglomerations for Locating Design Problems

Willian Oizumi, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Brazil

Alessandro Garcia, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Brazil

Leonardo Sousa, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Brazil

Bruno Cafeo, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Brazil

Yixue Zhao, University of Southern California, USA, United States

Code Review Quality: How Developers See It

Oleksii Kononenko, University of Waterloo, Canada

Olga Baysal, Carleton University, Canada

Michael W. Godfrey, University of Waterloo, Canada

Comparing White-box and Black-box Test Prioritization

Christopher Henard, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Mike Papadakis, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Mark Harman, University College London, United Kingdom

Yue Jia, University College London, United Kingdom

Yves Le Traon, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Coverage-Driven Test Code Generation for Concurrent Classes

Valerio Terragni, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Shing-Chi Cheung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Cross-project Defect Prediction Using a Connectivity-based Unsupervised Classifier

Feng Zhang, School of Computing, Queen’s University, Canada

Quan Zheng, School of Computing, Queen’s University, Canada

Ying Zou, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University, Canada

Ahmed E. Hassan, School of Computing, Queen’s University, Canada

Cross-Supervised Synthesis of Web-Crawlers

Adi Omari, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Sharon Shoham, Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo, Israel

Eran Yahav, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Crowd-Sourcing Program Preconditions via a Classification Game

Daniel Fava, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

Dan Shapiro, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

Joseph Osborn, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

Martin Schaef, SRI International, United States

E. James Whitehead, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

CUSTODES - Automatic Spreadsheet Cell Clustering and Smell Detection using Strong and Weak Features

Shing-Chi Cheung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Wanjun Chen, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Yepang Liu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Chang Xu, Nanjing University, China

Debugging for Reactive Programming

Guido Salvaneschi, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Mira Mezini, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Decoupling Level: A New Metric for Architectural Maintenance Complexity

Ran Mo, Drexel University, United States

Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, United States

Rick Kazman, University of Hawaii & SEI/CMU, United States

Lu Xiao, Drexel University, United States

Qiong Feng, Drexel University, United States

Discovering "Unknown Known" Security Requirements

Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Syed Asad Ali Naqvi, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Rajiv Ramdhany, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Matthew Edwards, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Leicester, United Kingdom

M. Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia

Disseminating Architectural Knowledge on Open-Source Projects

Martin P. Robillard, McGill University, Canada

Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California, United States

DoubleTake: Fast and Precise Error Detection via Evidence-Based Dynamic Analysis

Tongping Liu, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States

Charlie Curtsinger, Grinnell College, United States

Emery D. Berger, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

Efficient Large-scale Trace Checking Using MapReduce

Marcello Maria Bersani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Srdan Krstic, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Pierluigi San Pietro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Energy Profiles of Java Collections Classes

Samir Hasan, Auburn University, United States

Zachary King, Auburn University, United States

Munawar Hafiz, Auburn University, United States

Mohammed Sayagh, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada

Bram Adams, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada

Abram Hindle, University of Alberta, Canada

Exploring Language Support for Immutability

Michael Coblenz, Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Joshua Sunshine, Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Brad Myers, Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Sam Weber, Software Engineering Institute, United States

Forrest Shull, Software Engineering Institute, United States

Feature-Model Interfaces: The Highway to Compositional Analyses of Highly-Configurable Systems

Reimar Schröter, University of Magdeburg, Germany

Sebastian Krieter, University of Magdeburg, Germany

Thomas Thüm, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Fabian Benduhn, University of Magdeburg, Germany

Gunter Saake, University of Magdeburg, Germany

Featured Model-based Mutation Analysis

Xavier Devroey, PReCISE, University of Namur, Belgium

Gilles Perrouin, PReCISE, University of Namur, Belgium

Mike Papadakis, SnT, SERVAL Team, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Axel Legay, INRIA Rennes, France

Pierre-Yves Schobbens, PReCISE, University of Namur, Belgium

Patrick Heymans, PReCISE, University of Namur, Belgium

Feedback-Directed Instrumentation for Deployed JavaScript Applications

Magnus Madsen, University of Waterloo, Canada

Frank Tip, Samsung Research America, United States

Esben Andreasen, Aarhus University, Denmark

Koushik Sen, UC Berkeley, United States

Anders Møller, Aarhus University, Denmark

Finding and Analyzing Compiler Warning Defects

Chengnian Sun, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, United States

Vu Le, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, United States

Zhendong Su, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, United States

Finding Security Bugs in Web Applications Using a Catalog of Access Control Patterns

Joseph Near, University of California, Berkeley, United States

Daniel Jackson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Fixing Deadlocks via Lock Pre-Acquisitions

Yan Cai, State Key Lab of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Lingwei Cao, State Key Lab of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Floating-Point Precision Tuning Using Blame Analysis

Cindy Rubio-Gonzalez, University of California, Davis, United States

Cuong Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley, United States

Benjamin Mehne, University of California, Berkeley, United States

Koushik Sen, University of California, Berkeley, United States

James Demmel, University of California, Berkeley, United States

William Kahan, University of California, Berkeley, United States

Costin Iancu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States

Wim Lavrijsen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States

David H. Bailey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States

David Hough, Oracle Corporation, United States

From Word Embeddings To Document Similarities for Improved Information Retrieval in Software Engineering

Xin Ye, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio University, United States

Hui Shen, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio University, United States

Xiao Ma, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio University, United States

Razvan Bunescu, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio University, United States

Chang Liu, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio University, United States

Generating Performance Distributions via Probabilistic Symbolic Execution

Bihuan Chen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Wei Le, Iowa State University, United States

Grounded Theory in Software Engineering Research: A Critical Review and Guidelines

Klaas-Jan Stol, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland

Paul Ralph, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Brian Fitzgerald, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland

Guiding Dynamic Symbolic Execution Toward Unverified Program Executions

Maria Christakis, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Peter Müller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Valentin Wüstholz, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

How Does Regression Test Prioritization Perform in Real-World Software Evolution?

Yafeng Lu, University of Texas at Dallas, United States

Yiling Lou, Peking University, China

Shiyang Cheng, University of Texas at Dallas, United States

Lingming Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, United States

Dan Hao, Peking University, China

Yangfan Zhou, Fudan University, China

Lu Zhang, Peking University, China

How Does the Degree of Variability Affect Bug-Finding?

Jean Melo, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Claus Brabrand, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Andrzej Wasowski, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Identifying and Quantifying Architectural Debts

Lu Xiao, Drexel University, United States

Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, United States

Rick Kazman, Hawaii University, United States

Ran Mo, Drexel University, United States

Qiong Feng, Drexel University, United States

iDice: Problem Identification for Emerging Issues

Qingwei Lin, Microsoft Research, China

Jian-Guang Lou, Microsoft Research, China

Hongyu Zhang, Microsoft Research, China

Dongmei Zhang, Microsoft Research, China

Improving Refactoring Speed by 10X

Jongwook Kim, University of Texas at Austin, United States

Don Batory, University of Texas at Austin, United States

Danny Dig, Oregon State University, United States

Maider Azanza, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain

IntEQ: Recognizing Benign Integer Overflows via Equivalence Checking Across Multiple Precisions

Hao Sun, Nanjing University, China

Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University, United States

Yunhui Zheng, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, United States

Qingkai Zeng, Nanjing University, China

"Jumping Through Hoops" Why Do Java Developers Misuse Cryptography APIs?

Sarah Nadi, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Stefan Krüger, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Mira Mezini, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Eric Bodden, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Learning API Usages from Bytecode: A Statistical Approach

Tam The Nguyen, Utah State University, United States

Hung Viet Pham, Utah State University, United States

Phong Minh Vu, Utah State University, United States

Tung Thanh Nguyen, Utah State University, United States

Locking Discipline Inference and Checking

Michael Ernst, University of Washington, United States

Alberto Lovato, University of Verona, Italy

Damiano Macedonio, JuliaSoft, Italy

Fausto Spoto, University of Verona, Italy

Javier Thaine, University of Washington, United States

Mining Sandboxes

Konrad Jamrozik, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

Philipp von Styp-Rekowsky, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

Missing Data Imputation Based on Low-rank Recovery and Semi-supervised Regression for Software Effort Estimation

Xiao-Yuan Jing, State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, School of Computer, Wuhan University, China

Fumin Qi, State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, School of Computer, Wuhan University, China

Fei Wu, State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, School of Computer, Wuhan University, China

Baowen Xu, State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, School of Computer, Wuhan University, China

Multi-Objective Software Effort Estimation

Federica Sarro, University College London, United Kingdom

Alessio Petrozziello, University of Salerno, Italy

Mark Harman, University College London, United Kingdom

MobiPlay: A Remote Execution Based Record-and-Replay Tool for Mobile Applications

Zhengrui Qin, College of William and Mary, United States

Yutao Tang, College of William and Mary, United States

Ed Novak, College of William and Mary, United States

Qun Li, College of William and Mary, United States

Nomen Est Omen: Exploring and Exploiting Similarities between Argument and Parameter Names

Hui Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Qiurong Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Michael Pradel, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Yue Luo, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

On The Limits of Mutation Reduction Strategies

Rahul Gopinath, Oregon State University, United States

Amin Alipour, Oregon State University, United States

Iftekhar Ahmed, Oregon State University, United States

Carlos Jensen, Oregon State University, United States

Alex Groce, Oregon State University, United States

On the "Naturalness" of Buggy Code

Baishakhi Ray, University of California, Davis, United States

Vincent Hellendoorn, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Saheel Godhane, University of California, Davis, United States

Zhaopeng Tu, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., China

Alberto Bacchelli, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Premkumar Devanbu, University of California, Davis, United States

On the Techniques We Create, the Tools We Build, and Their Misalignments: A Study of KLEE

Eric F. Rizzi, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, United States

Sebastian Elbaum, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, United States

Matthew B. Dwyer, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, United States

Optimizing Selection of Competing Services with Probabilistic Hierarchical Refinement

Tian Huat Tan, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Manman Chen, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Étienne André, Université Paris 13,, France

Yinxing Xue, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Overcoming Open Source Project Entry Barriers with a Portal for Newcomers

Igor Steinmacher, UTFPR, Brazil

Tayana Y Conte, UFAM, Brazil

Christoph Treude, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Marco Aurélio Gerosa, University of São Paulo, Brazil

PAC Learning-Based Verification and Model Synthesis

Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Chiao Hsieh, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Ondrej Lengal, Academia Sinica & Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

Tsung-Ju Lii, Academia Sinica & National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Ming-Hsien Tsai, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Bow-Yaw Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Farn Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Performance Issues and Optimizations in JavaScript: An Empirical Study

Marija Selakovic, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Michael Pradel, TU Darmstadt, Germany

PRADA: Prioritizing Android Devices for Apps by Mining Large-Scale Usage Data

Xuan Lu, Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education, PRC, China

Xuanzhe Liu, Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education, PRC, China

Huoran Li, Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education, PRC, China

Tao Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

Dan Hao, Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education, PRC, China

Qiaozhu Mei, University of Michigan, United States

Gang Huang, Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education, PRC, China

Feng Feng, Wandoujia Lab, Beijing, China, China

Probing for Requirements Knowledge to Stimulate Architectural Thinking

Preethu Rose Anish, Tata Consultancy Services, India

Balaji Balasubramaniam, Tata Consultancy Services, India

Abhishek Sainani, Tata Consultancy Services, India

Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, United States

Maya Daneva, University of Twente, Netherlands

Roel J. Wieringa, University of Twente, Netherlands

Smita Ghaisas, Tata Consultancy Services, India

Program Synthesis Using Natural Language

Aditya Desai, IIT Kanpur (now at Tower Research), India

Sumit Gulwani, Microsoft Research, United States

Vineet Hingorani, IIT Kanpur (now at SAP), India

Nidhi Jain, IIT Kanpur (now at Intel), India

Amey Karkare, IIT Kanpur, India

Mark Marron, Microsoft Research, United States

Sailesh R., IIT Kanpur (now at Intel), India

Subhajit Roy, IIT Kanpur, India, India

Quality Experience: A Grounded Theory of Software Quality Assurance Without Testers

Lutz Prechelt, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Holger Schmeisky, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Franz Zieris, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Quantifying and Mitigating Turnover-Induced Knowledge Loss: Case Studies of Chrome and a Project at Avaya

Peter C Rigby, Concordia University, Canada

Yue Cai Zhu, Concordia University, Canada

Samuel M Donadelli, Concordia University, Canada

Audris Mockus, University of Tennessee, United States

Reducing Combinatorics in GUI Testing of Android Applications

Nariman Mirzaei, George Mason University, United States

Joshua Garcia, University of California, Irvine, United States

Hamid Bagheri, University of California, Irvine, United States

Alireza Sadeghi, University of California, Irvine, United States

Sam Malek, University of California, Irvine, United States

Reference Hijacking: Patching, Protecting and Analyzing on Unmodified and Non-Rooted Android Devices

Wei You, Renmin University of China, China

Bin Liang, Renmin University of China, China

Wenchang Shi, Renmin University of China, China

Shuyang Zhu, Renmin University of China, China

Peng Wang, Renmin University of China, China

Sikefu Xie, Renmin University of China, China

Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University, United States

Release Planning of Mobile Apps Based on User Reviews

Lorenzo Villarroel, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Gabriele Bavota, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Barbara Russo, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Rocco Oliveto, University of Molise, Pesche (IS), Italy

Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy

Reliability of Run-Time Quality-of-Service Evaluation Using Parametric Model Checking

Guoxin Su, National University of Singapore, Singapore

David Rosenblum, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Giordano Tamburrelli, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands

RETracer: Triaging Crashes by Reverse Execution from Partial Memory Dumps

Weidong Cui, Microsoft Research, United States

Marcus Peinado, Microsoft Research, United States

Sang Kil Cha, Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Yanick Fratantonio, University of California at Santa Barbara, United States

Vasileios Kemerlis, Brown University, United States

Revisit of Automatic Debugging via Human Focus-tracking Analysis

Xiaoyuan Xie, State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, China

Zicong Liu, State Key Lab of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China

Shuo Song, State Key Lab of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China

Zhenyu Chen, State Key Lab of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China

Jifeng Xuan, State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, China

Baowen Xu, State Key Lab of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China

Revisiting Code Ownership and Its Relationship with Software Quality in the Scope of Modern Code Review

Patanamon Thongtanunam, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Shane McIntosh, McGill University, Canada

Ahmed E. Hassan, Queen’s University, Canada

Hajimu Iida, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Risk-Driven Revision of Requirements Models

Dalal Alrajeh, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Axel Van Lamsweerde, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Jeff Kramer, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Sebastian Uchitel, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Scalable Thread Sharing Analysis

Jeff Huang, Texas A&M University, United States

Shadow of a Doubt: Testing for Divergences Between Software Versions

Hristina Palikareva, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Tomasz Kuchta, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Cristian Cadar, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

SourcererCC: Scaling Code Clone Detection to Big-Code

Hitesh Sajnani, School of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine, USA, United States

Vaibhav Saini, School of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine, USA, United States

Jeffrey Svajlenko, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, Canada

Chanchal K. Roy, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, Canada

Cristina V. Lopes, School of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine, USA, United States

StubDroid: Automatic Inference of Precise Data-flow Summaries for the Android Framework

Steven Arzt, TU Darmstadt / EC SPRIDE, Germany

Eric Bodden, TU Darmstadt and Fraunhofer SIT, Germany

SWIM: Synthesizing What I Mean

Mukund Raghothaman, University of Pennsylvania, United States

Yi Wei, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Youssef Hamadi, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Synthesizing Framework Models for Symbolic Execution

Jinseong Jeon, University of Maryland, College Park, United States

Xiaokang Qiu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Jonathan Fetter-Degges, University of Maryland, College Park, United States

Jeffrey S. Foster, University of Maryland, College Park, United States

Armando Solar-Lezama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Termination-Checking for LLVM Peephole Optimizations

David Menendez, Rutgers University, United States

Santosh Nagarakatte, Rutgers University, United States

The Challenges of Staying Together While Moving Fast: An Exploratory Study

Julia Rubin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Martin Rinard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

The Emerging Role of Data Scientists on Software Development Teams

Miryung Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, United States

Robert DeLine, Microsoft Research, United States

Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research, United States

The Evolution of C Programming Practices: A Study of the Unix Operating System 1973-2015

Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Panos Louridas, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Maria Kechagia, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

The Impact of Test Case Summaries on Bug Fixing Performance: An Empirical Investigation

Sebastiano Panichella, University of Zurich, Department of Informatics, Switzerland

Annibale Panichella, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Moritz Beller, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Andy Zaidman, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Department of Informatics, Switzerland

The Sky Is Not the Limit: Multitasking on GitHub Projects

Bogdan Vasilescu, University of California, Davis, United States

Kelly Blincoe, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, New Zealand

Qi Xuan, Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Casey Casalnuovo, University of California, Davis, United States

Daniela Damian, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

Premkumar Devanbu, University of California, Davis, United States

Vladimir Filkov, University of California, Davis, United States

Too Long; Didn't Watch! Extracting Relevant Fragments from Software Development Video Tutorials

Luca Ponzanelli, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland

Gabriele Bavota, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Andrea Mocci, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland

Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy

Rocco Oliveto, University of Molise, Italy

Mir Hasan, Florida State University, United States

Barbara Russo, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Sonia Haiduc, Florida State University, United States

Michele Lanza, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland

Toward a Framework for Detecting Privacy Policy Violation in Android Application Code

Rocky Slavin, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States

Xiaoyin Wang, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States

Mitra Bokaei Hosseini, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States

William Hester, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, United States

Ram Krishnan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States

Jaspreet Bhatia, Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Travis D. Breaux, Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Jianwei Niu, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States

Type-Aware Concolic Testing of JavaScript Programs

Monika Dhok, Indian Institute of Science, India

Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Indian Institute of Science, India

Nishant Sinha, IBM Research, India, India

Understanding and Fixing Multiple Language Interoperability Issues: The C/Fortran Case

Nawrin Sultana, Auburn University, United States

Justin Middleton, Auburn University, United States

Jeffrey Overbey, Auburn University, United States

Munawar Hafiz, Auburn University, United States

Understanding Asynchronous Interactions in Full-Stack JavaScript

Saba Alimadadi, University of British Columbia, Canada

Ali Mesbah, University of British Columbia, Canada

Karthik Pattabiraman, University of British Columbia, Canada

Using (Bio)Metrics to Predict Code Quality Online

Sebastian C. Müller, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Thomas Fritz, University of Zurich, Switzerland

VDTest: An Automated Framework to Support Testing for Virtual Devices

Tingting Yu, University of Kentucky, United States

Xiao Qu, ABB Corporate Research, United States

Myra B. Cohen, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, United States

Work Practices and Challenges in Pull-Based Development: The Contributor’s Perspective

Georgios Gousios, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada

Alberto Bacchelli, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Journal First Papers

Open Innovation in Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study — Empirical Software Engineering (April 2015)

Hussan Munir, Department of Computer Science, Lund University

Krzysztof Wnuk, Department of Computer Science, Lund University

Per Runeson, Department of Computer Science, Lund University

From Aristotle to Ringelmann: A large-scale analysis of team productivity and coordination in Open Source Software projects — Empirical Software Engineering (December 2015)

Ingo Scholtes,ETH Zürich

Pavlin Mavrodiev,ETH Zürich

Frank Schweitzer,ETH Zürich

A Field Study of How Developers Locate Features in Source Code — Empirical Software Engineering (March 2015)

Kostadin Damevski,Virginia State University

David Shepherd,ABB

Lori Pollock,University of Delaware

Inflow and Retention in OSS Communities with Commercial Involvement: A Case Study of Three Hybrid Projects — ACM TOSEM (January 2016)

Minghui Zhou,Peking University

Audris Mockus,University of Tennessee

Xiujuan Ma,National Institute of Network and Information Security Beijing

Lu Zhang,Peking University

Hong Mei,Peking University

Automatically Recommending Peer Reviewers in Modern Code Review — IEEE TSE (October 2015)

Motahareh Bahrami Zanjani,Wichita State University

Huzefa Kagdi,Wichita State University

Christian Bird,Microsoft Research

Evaluating the Effects of Architectural Documentation: A Case Study of a Large Scale Open Source Project — IEEE TSE (July 2015)

Rick Kazman, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Hawaii

Dennis Goldenson, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Ira Monarch, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

William Nichols, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Giuseppe Valetto,Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Metamorphic Testing for Software Quality Assessment: A Study of Search Engines — IEEE TSE (September 2015)

Zhi Quan Zhou, University of Wollongong

Shaowen Xiang, University of Wollongong

Tsong Yueh Chen, Swinburne University of Technolog