ESEIW 2022
Sun 18 - Fri 23 September 2022 Helsinki, Finland
Thu 22 Sep 2022 11:15 - 11:35 at Bysa - Session 1A - Behavioral Software Engineering Chair(s): Valentina Lenarduzzi

Software development activities produce numerous types of artifacts as byproducts: source code, version control system metadata, bug reports, mailing list conversations, test data, etc. Empirical software engineering (ESE) has thrived mining all those artifacts to uncover the inner workings of software development and improve its practices. But which artifacts are studied in the field is a moving target, which we study empirically in this paper.

We perform a meta-analysis of software artifact mining studies published in top conferences in (empirical) software engineering, for a total of 9622 papers, which we analyze using natural language processing (NLP) techniques. We characterize quantitatively the types of software artifacts that are most often mined in those studies and their evolution over a 16-year period (2004-2020). We analyze the combinations of artifact types that are most often mined together, as well as the relationship between study purposes and mined artifacts.

We discuss the implications of our findings to inform research policy decisions about study repeatability and the production of open datasets to enable future studies in the field.

Thu 22 Sep

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11:00 - 12:30
Session 1A - Behavioral Software EngineeringESEM Journal-First Papers / ESEM Technical Papers / ESEM Industry Forum at Bysa
Chair(s): Valentina Lenarduzzi University of Oulu
11:00
15m
Full-paper
Relative estimates of software development effort: Are they more accurate or less time-consuming to produce than absolute estimates, and to what extent are they person-independent?
ESEM Journal-First Papers
Magne Jørgensen SimulaMet, Eban Escott Codebots
11:15
20m
Full-paper
Software Artifact Mining in Software Engineering Conferences: A Meta-Analysis
ESEM Technical Papers
Zeinab Abou Khalil Inria, Stefano Zacchiroli Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris
11:35
20m
Full-paper
What Soft Skills Does the Software Industry *Really* Want? An Exploratory Study of Software Positions in New Zealand
ESEM Technical Papers
Matthias Galster University of Canterbury, Antonija Mitrovic Intelligent Computer Tutoring Group, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Sanna Malinen University of Canterbury, Jay Holland University of Canterbury
11:55
15m
Talk
Procurement Models and Types of Information Systems
ESEM Industry Forum
Aapo Koski 61 NorthPoint Solutions Oy