These papers should promote current work in progress on research and practice and should clearly state the longer-term objectives and planned work. Papers on emerging results should communicate initial research results for which there is not yet a complete evaluation. The primary purpose of such papers is the communication of new ideas to obtain early feedback from the empirical software engineering community. The track also welcomes vision papers which will be on long-term challenges and opportunities in empirical software engineering research that are outside of current mainstream topics of the field. The goal of vision papers is to describe how empirical software engineering research and practice will look at least ten years from now.
General Scope of Submissions
Submissions should not be under consideration for publication or presentation elsewhere.
In addition to the specific scope of this track, submissions may address any aspect of software engineering but must tackle the problem from an empirical perspective and using a rigorous empirical method, including:
- Empirical studies using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods
- Cross- and multi-disciplinary methods and studies
- Experiments and quasi-experiments
- Case studies, action research, ethnography and field studies
- Survey research
- Simulation
- Artifact studies
- Data mining, machine learning, and AI-based approaches
- Secondary and tertiary studies including
- Systematic literature reviews and rapid reviews that include a strong synthesis part
- Meta-analyses, and qualitative, quantitative or structured syntheses of studies
- Replication of empirical studies and families of studies
Topics commonly addressed using an empirical approach include, but are not limited to:
- Evaluation and comparison of software technologies
- Evaluation and comparison of software development methods, techniques, and practices
- Modeling, measuring, and assessing product and/or process quality
- Modeling, measuring, and assessing software development productivity
- Defect and quality prediction
- Software cost and size estimation
- Software evolution
- Software verification and validation, including analysis and testing
- Evaluation and modeling of contemporary software systems (IoT, Industry 4.0, Context–
- Awareness Systems, Cyber-physical, among others)
- Human factors, teamwork, and behavioral aspects of software engineering
We welcome submissions on these meta-topics:
- Development, evaluation, and comparison of empirical approaches and methods
- Infrastructure for conducting empirical studies
- Techniques and tools for supporting empirical studies
- Empirically-based decision making
We also welcome submissions that:
- demonstrate multi-disciplinary work,
- transfer and apply empirical methods from other disciplines,
- replication studies, and
- studies with negative findings.
Open Science Policy
Openness in science is key to fostering progress via transparency, reproducibility and replicability. While all submissions will undergo the same review process independent of whether or not they disclose their analysis code or data, we strongly encourage authors to make data available upon submission (either privately or publicly) and especially upon acceptance (publicly). If the authors cannot disclose industrial or otherwise non-public data, they should provide an explicit (short) statement in the paper.
Tue 12 OctDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
14:20 - 15:15 | Testing & Security 1Technical Papers / Emerging Results and Vision papers at ESEM ROOM Chair(s): Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology | ||
15:05 10mTalk | Why Some Bug-bounty Vulnerability Reports are Invalid? Emerging Results and Vision papers Saman Shafigh University of New South Wales, Boualem Benatallah University of New South Wales, Carlos Rodriguez University of New South Wales, Mortada Al-Banna University of New South Wales |
15:30 - 16:35 | Testing & Security 2Technical Papers / Emerging Results and Vision papers at ESEM ROOM Chair(s): Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology | ||
16:15 10mTalk | Python Crypto Misuses in the Wild Emerging Results and Vision papers Anna-Katharina Wickert TU Darmstadt, Germany, Lars Baumgärtner TU Darmstadt, Florian Breitfelder TU Darmstadt, Mira Mezini TU Darmstadt, Germany Pre-print Media Attached | ||
16:25 10mTalk | Web Application Testing: Using Tree Kernels to Detect Near-duplicate States in Automated Model Inference Emerging Results and Vision papers Anna Corazza Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Sergio Di Martino Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Adriano Peron Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Pre-print Media Attached |
Wed 13 OctDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
13:00 - 14:10 | Research MethodsEmerging Results and Vision papers / Technical Papers / Journal-first Papers at ESEM ROOM Chair(s): Tayana Conte Universidade Federal do Amazonas | ||
13:30 10mTalk | Towards a Methodology for Participant Selection in Software Engineering Experiments. A Vision of the Future Emerging Results and Vision papers Valentina Lenarduzzi LUT University, Oscar Dieste Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sira Vegas Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Pre-print Media Attached | ||
13:40 10mTalk | Important Experimentation Characteristics: An Expert Survey Emerging Results and Vision papers | ||
13:50 10mTalk | Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria in Software Engineering Tertiary Studies: A Systematic Mapping and Emerging Framework Emerging Results and Vision papers Dolors Costal Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Carles Farré Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Carme Quer Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | ||
14:00 10mTalk | Towards Sustainability of Systematic Literature Reviews Emerging Results and Vision papers Vinicius Santos University of São Paulo (ICMC/USP), São Carlos - SP, Anderson Y. Iwazaki University of São Paulo (ICMC/USP), São Carlos - SP, Katia Felizardo Federal Technological University of Paraná, Érica F. Souza Federal Technological University of Paraná, Cornélio Procópio - PR, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa University of São Paulo |
14:20 - 15:15 | Testing & Security 3Emerging Results and Vision papers / Journal-first Papers / Technical Papers at ESEM ROOM Chair(s): Robert Feldt Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden | ||
15:05 10mTalk | Contextual Understanding and Improvement of Metamorphic Testing in Scientific Software Development Emerging Results and Vision papers Zedong Peng University of Cincinnati, Upulee Kanewala University of North Florida, Nan Niu University of Cincinnati |
15:30 - 16:25 | Development Approaches and RequirementsTechnical Papers / Emerging Results and Vision papers at ESEM ROOM Chair(s): Robert Feldt Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden | ||
16:15 10mTalk | Vision for an Artefact-based Approach to Regulatory Requirements Engineering Emerging Results and Vision papers Oleksandr Kosenkov fortiss GmbH, Michael Unterkalmsteiner Blekinge Institute of Technology, Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology, Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology |
Thu 14 OctDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
13:00 - 14:05 | Software Architecture and DesignTechnical Papers / Emerging Results and Vision papers at ESEM ROOM Chair(s): Davide Taibi Tampere University | ||
13:45 10mTalk | Study of the Utility Of Text Classification Based Software Architecture Recovery Method RELAX for Maintenance Emerging Results and Vision papers Daniel Link University of Southern California, Kamonphop Srisopha University of Southern California, USA, Barry Boehm University of Southern California Media Attached | ||
13:55 10mTalk | Semantic Slicing of Architectural Change Commits: Towards Semantic Design Review Emerging Results and Vision papers Amit Kumar Mondal University of Saskatchewan, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan, Kevin Schneider University of Saskatchewan, Banani Roy University of Saskatchewan, Sristy Sumana Nath University of Saskatchewan |
14:20 - 15:15 | Development Approaches, Requirements & Behavioral Software EngineeringTechnical Papers / Journal-first Papers / Emerging Results and Vision papers at ESEM ROOM Chair(s): Valentina Lenarduzzi LUT University | ||
15:05 10mTalk | A Rubric to Identify Misogynistic and Sexist Texts from Software Developer Communications Emerging Results and Vision papers Sayma Sultana Wayne State University, Jaydeb Sarker Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Amiangshu Bosu Wayne State University |
Accepted Papers
How to Submit
Submissions to this track are limited to 6 pages and must be submitted through EasyChair by selecting the track “Emerging Results and Vision Papers.”
All submissions must be written in English and must be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esem2021) in the PDF format, and they must be formatted according to the ACM proceedings template, which can be found at ACM Proceedings Template (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template).
A structured abstract is required with the headings: Background, Aims, Method, Results, and Conclusions. Papers should contain an explicit description of the empirical strategy used or investigated. The submission must also comply with the ACM plagiarism policy and procedures (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy). In particular, it must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review elsewhere while under review for ESEM. The submission must also comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship (http://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/publish-with-ieee/publishing-ethics/).
ESEM 2021 will employ a double-blind review process (except for Journal-First papers and Industry Talks). Thus, regular submissions may not reveal its authors’ identities. The authors must make every effort to honor the double-blind review process. In particular, the authors’ names must be omitted from the submission and references to their prior work should be in the third person. Further advice, guidance, and explanation about the double-blind review process can be found on the conference website.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three experts from the international program committee of each track and will receive an additional meta-review. Any papers that are outside the scope of the symposium, exceed the maximum number of pages for the respective category, or do not follow the formatting guidelines will be desk rejected without review.
Finally, please note that each accepted contribution must have a minimum of one author registered (at the full conference rate) by the deadline for the camera-ready submission for their respective paper type. Also, each paper must be presented by one of the authors. Failure to meet these criteria will result in the paper’s removal from the proceedings.