ESEM Technical Papers TrackESEIW 2022
ESEM 2022 - Technical Papers Track - Call for Papers
The ESEM Technical Papers track features submissions that describe original, unpublished work in software engineering and software measurement, with a strong empirical foundation. Papers in this track should communicate fully developed research and related results. Strong emphasis should be given to the methodological aspects of the research and the discussion on the validity of results.
Please note:
- Check that you are using the two-column template (in LaTeX, use “sigconf”).
- Make sure your paper follows the double-blind instructions and does not reveal the authors’ identities.
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.
Important Dates
(All dates are end of the day, anywhere on earth)
Abstract April 25, 2022
Submission May 2, 2022
Notification June 17, 2022
Camera-ready July 15, 2022
Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=esem22
How to Submit
Submissions to this track are limited to 10 pages excluding references and 12 pages with references and must be submitted through EasyChair by selecting the track “Technical Papers.”
All submissions must be written in English and must be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=esem22) 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 2022 Technical Track will employ a double-blind review process. Thus, submissions may not reveal its authors’ identities. The authors must make an acceptable 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.
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 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.
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.
Program Co-Chairs
Tayana Conte, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil
Tomi Männistö, University of Helsinki, Finland
Technical Papers Track PC
Silvia Abrahao, Universitat Politècnica de València
Iftekhar Ahmed, University of California
Muhammad Ali Babar, The University of Adelaide
Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen
Monalessa Barcellos, UFES
Ayse Bener, Ryerson University
Stefan Biffl, Vienna University of Technology
Amiangshu Bosu, Wayne State University
Fabio Calefato, University of Bari
Bruno Cartaxo, IFPE
Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama
Nelly Condori-Fernández, Universidade da Coruña
Maya Daneva, University of Twente
Edna Dias Canedo, Universidade de Brasília
Oscar Dieste, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Hakan Erdogmus, CMU
Fabian Fagerholm, Aalto University
Davide Falessi, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck
Maria-Angela Ferrario, Queen’s University Belfast
Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury
Marcela Genero, University of Castilla-La Mancha
Carmine Gravino, University of Salerno
Daniel Graziotin, University of Stuttgart
Des Greer, Queen’s University Belfast
Isaac Griffith, CodeSignal
Clemente Izuireta, Montana State University
Jing Jiang, Beihang University
Marcos Kalinowski, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Marco Kuhrmann, Reutlingen University
Katsiaryna Labunets, Utrecht University
Valentina Lenarduzzi, University of Oulu
Fernanda Madeiral, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Mika Mäntylä, University of Oulu
Beatriz Marín, Universitat Politècnica de València
Silverio Martínez-Fernández, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech
Daniel Mendez, Blekinge Institute of Technology & fortiss
Tim Menzies, NC State University
Sandro Morasca, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria
Ana Moreno, University Madrid
Maurizio Morisio, Politecnico di Torino
Maleknaz Nayebi, York University
Phuong T. Nguyen, University of L’Aquila
Masao Ohira, Wakayama University
Markku Oivo, University of Oulu
Maria Paasivaara, IT University of Copenhagen & Aalto University
Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Cecile Peraire, Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley
Dietmar Pfahl, University of Tartu
Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS
Fabio Q. B. Da Silva, Federal University of Pernambuco
Mikko Raatikainen, University of Helsinki
Pilar Rodriguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Simone Romano, University of Salerno
Katia Romero Felizardo, UTFPR-CP
Marc Roper, University of Strathclyde
Guenther Ruhe, University of Calgary
Barbara Russo, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen
Daniela S. Cruzes, NTNU
Gleison Santos, UNIRIO
Igor Scaliante Wiese, Federal University of Technology – Paraná
Giuseppe Scanniello, University of Basilicata
Carolyn Seaman, UMBC
Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology
Darja Smite, Blekinge Institute of Technology
Martin Solari, Universidad ORT Uruguay
Simone R. S. Souza, ICMC/USP
Rodrigo Spinola, Unifacs
Igor Steinmacher, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
Viktoria Stray, University of Oslo
Davide Taibi, Tampere University of Technology
Marco Torchiano, Politecnico di Torino
Guilherme Travassos, COPPE/UFRJ
Burak Turhan, University of Oulu
Eray Tüzün, Bilkent University
Diego Vallespir, Universidad de la República
Sira Vegas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Stefan Wagner, University of Stuttgart
Qing Wang, ISCAS
Dietmar Winkler, Vienna University of Technology
Hongyu Zhang, The University of Newcastle
Minghui Zhou, Peking University
Wed 21 SepDisplayed time zone: Athens change
18:00 - 19:00 | |||
18:00 60mSocial Event | Welcome reception at Helsinki City Hall ESEIW ESEM |
Thu 22 SepDisplayed time zone: Athens change
09:00 - 10:30 | Opening & Keynote ZimmermannESEIW ESEM at Bysa Chair(s): Casper Lassenius Aalto University, Finland and Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway | ||
09:00 15mOther | Conference Opening ESEIW ESEM | ||
09:15 75mKeynote | Everything Everywhere All at Once: The New Hybrid Future of Software Engineering ESEIW ESEM Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft Research Media Attached |
10:30 - 11:00 | |||
10:30 30mCoffee break | Coffee ESEIW ESEM |
12:30 - 13:30 | |||
12:30 60mLunch | Lunch ESEIW ESEM |
13:30 - 15:00 | Session 2A - Open Source SoftwareESEM Journal-First Papers / ESEM Technical Papers at Bysa Chair(s): Gustavo Pinto Federal University of Pará (UFPA) and Zup Innovation | ||
13:30 20mFull-paper | How to Choose a Task? Mismatches in Perspectives of Newcomers and Existing Contributors ESEM Technical Papers Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos Northern Arizona University, USA, Bianca Trinkenreich Northern of Arizona Univeristy, João Felipe Pimentel , Igor Scaliante Wiese Federal University of Technology – Paraná - UTFPR, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University, USA, Anita Sarma Oregon State University, Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University, USA | ||
13:50 20mFull-paper | On the Relationship Between Story Points and Development Effort in Agile Open-Source Software ESEM Technical Papers Vali Tawosi University College London, Rebecca Moussa University College London, Federica Sarro University College London Pre-print | ||
14:10 20mFull-paper | Analyzing the Relationship between Community and Design Smells in Open-Source Software Projects: An Empirical Study ESEM Technical Papers Haris Mumtaz University of Auckland, Paramvir Singh The University of Auckland, Kelly Blincoe University of Auckland | ||
14:30 15mFull-paper | On the analysis of non-coding roles in open source development ESEM Journal-First Papers |
13:30 - 15:00 | Session 2B - Technical Debt & Effort EstimationESEM Industry Forum / ESEM Emerging Results and Vision Papers / ESEM Technical Papers at Sonck Chair(s): Carolyn Seaman University of Maryland Baltimore County | ||
13:30 20mFull-paper | Asking about Technical Debt: Characteristics and Automatic Identification of Technical Debt Questions on Stack Overflow ESEM Technical Papers Nicholas Kozanidis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Roberto Verdecchia Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Emitzá Guzmán Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Pre-print | ||
13:50 15mVision and Emerging Results | An Experience Report on Technical Debt in Pull Requests: Challenges and Lessons Learned ESEM Emerging Results and Vision Papers Shubhashis Karmakar University of Saskatchewan, Zadia Codabux University of Saskatchewan, Melina Vidoni Australian National University DOI | ||
14:05 20mFull-paper | Bayesian Analysis of Bug-Fixing Time using Report Data ESEM Technical Papers Renan Vieira Federal University of Ceará, Diego Mesquita Getulio Vargas Foundation, César Lincoln Mattos Federal University of Ceará, Ricardo Britto Ericsson / Blekinge Institute of Technology, Lincoln Rocha Federal University of Ceará, João Gomes Federal University of Ceará | ||
14:25 15mTalk | Investigating a NASA Cyclomatic Complexity Policy on Maintenance of a Critical System ESEM Industry Forum | ||
14:40 15mVision and Emerging Results | An Empirical Study on the Occurrences of Code Smells in Open Source and Industrial Projects ESEM Emerging Results and Vision Papers Md. Masudur Rahman Institute of Information Technology (IIT), University of Dhaka, Abdus Satter University of Dhaka, Mahbubul Alam Joarder Institute of Information Technology (IIT), University of Dhaka, Kazi Sakib Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka DOI Media Attached |
15:00 - 15:30 | |||
15:00 30mCoffee break | Coffee ESEIW ESEM |
15:30 - 15:45 | ESEM 2023 AnnouncementESEIW ESEM at Bysa Chair(s): Casper Lassenius Aalto University, Finland and Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway | ||
15:30 15m | ESEM 2023 Announcement ESEIW ESEM |
15:45 - 17:00 | Session 3A - Software development teams and ecosystemsESEM Journal-First Papers / ESEM Emerging Results and Vision Papers / ESEM Industry Forum at Bysa Chair(s): Daniela Cruzes Norwegian University of Science and Technology | ||
15:45 15mFull-paper | A teamwork effectiveness model for agile software development ESEM Journal-First Papers Torgeir Dingsøyr Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Diane Strode Whitireia Polytechnic, Yngve Lindsjørn University of Oslo | ||
16:00 15mTalk | Organization culture and burnout in software development teams ESEM Industry Forum Bianca Trinkenreich Northern of Arizona Univeristy, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University, USA, Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University, USA, Michael Feathers Globant, Kevin Bishop Globant, Marcelo Lara Globant, Nick Ross Globant, Esteban Sancho Globant, Anita Sarma Oregon State University | ||
16:15 15mFull-paper | Open data ecosystems - an empirical investigation into an emerging industry collaboration concept ESEM Journal-First Papers Per Runeson Lund University, Thomas Olsson RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, Johan Linåker Lund University | ||
16:30 15mVision and Emerging Results | In the Zone: An Analysis of the Music Practices of Remote Software Developers ESEM Emerging Results and Vision Papers Makayla Moster Clemson University, Aarav Chandra Clemson University, Christal Chu Clemson University, Weiyi Liu Clemson University, Paige Rodeghero Clemson University |
18:30 - 18:31 | |||
18:30 1mDinner | Leave for conference dinner ESEIW ESEM |
19:00 - 21:00 | |||
19:00 2hSocial Event | Dinner and Finnish sauna ESEIW ESEM |
Fri 23 SepDisplayed time zone: Athens change
09:00 - 10:30 | Awards & Keynote: LyytinenESEIW ESEM at Bysa Chair(s): Casper Lassenius Aalto University, Finland and Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway | ||
09:00 15mAwards | Awards ESEIW ESEM | ||
09:15 75mKeynote | Opening the black-box of software processes – towards integrated understanding ESEIW ESEM |
10:30 - 11:00 | |||
10:30 30mCoffee break | Coffee ESEIW ESEM |
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 4A - DevOps & Development ApproachesESEM Emerging Results and Vision Papers / ESEM Technical Papers at Bysa Chair(s): Marcela Fabiana Genero Bocco University of Castilla-La Mancha | ||
11:00 20mFull-paper | Characterizing the Usage of CI Tools in ML Projects ESEM Technical Papers Dhia Elhaq Rzig University of Michigan - Dearborn, Foyzul Hassan University of Michigan - Dearborn, Chetan Bansal Microsoft Research, Nachiappan Nagappan Microsoft Research | ||
11:20 20mFull-paper | Investigating the Impact of Continuous Integration Practices on the Productivity and Quality of Open-Source Projects ESEM Technical Papers Jadson Santos Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Daniel Alencar Da Costa University of Otago, Uirá Kulesza Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte | ||
11:40 20mFull-paper | Identifying Source Code File Experts ESEM Technical Papers Otávio Cury da Costa Castro Federal University of Piaui, Guilherme Amaral Avelino Federal University of Piaui, Pedro A. Santos Neto LOST/UFPI, Ricardo Britto Ericsson / Blekinge Institute of Technology, Marco Tulio Valente Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Pre-print | ||
12:00 15mVision and Emerging Results | DevOps Practitioners’ Perceptions of the Low-code Trend ESEM Emerging Results and Vision Papers Saima Rafi University of Murcia, Muhammad Azeem Akbar LUT University, Mary Sánchez-Gordón Østfold University College, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios Østfold University College | ||
12:15 15mVision and Emerging Results | A Preliminary Investigation of MLOps Practices in GitHub ESEM Emerging Results and Vision Papers Fabio Calefato University of Bari, Filippo Lanubile University of Bari, Luigi Quaranta University of Bari, Italy |
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 4B - Code Review & DefectsESEM Technical Papers / ESEM Emerging Results and Vision Papers / ESEM Journal-First Papers at Sonck Chair(s): Per Runeson Lund University | ||
11:00 20mFull-paper | To What Extent Cognitive-Driven Development Improves Code Readability? ESEM Technical Papers Leonardo Barbosa UFPA, Victor Santiago UFPA, Alberto de Souza Zup Innovation, Gustavo Pinto Federal University of Pará (UFPA) and Zup Innovation | ||
11:20 20mFull-paper | Only Time Will Tell: Modelling Information Diffusion in Code Review with Time-Varying Hypergraphs ESEM Technical Papers Michael Dorner Blekinge Institute of Technology, Darja Šmite Blekinge Institute of Technology, Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology, Krzysztof Wnuk Blekinge Institute of Technology , Jacek Czerwonka Developer Services, Microsoft DOI Pre-print | ||
11:40 20mFull-paper | MEG: Multi-objective Ensemble Generation for Software Defect Prediction ESEM Technical Papers Rebecca Moussa University College London, Giovani Guizzo University College London, Federica Sarro University College London | ||
12:00 15mFull-paper | Towards a taxonomy of code review smells ESEM Journal-First Papers | ||
12:15 15mVision and Emerging Results | Example Driven Code Review Explanation ESEM Emerging Results and Vision Papers |
12:30 - 13:30 | |||
12:30 60mLunch | Lunch ESEIW ESEM |
13:30 - 15:00 | Session 5A - Development ApproachesESEM Journal-First Papers / ESEM Technical Papers at Bysa Chair(s): Filippo Lanubile University of Bari | ||
13:30 15mFull-paper | Antipatterns in software classification taxonomies ESEM Journal-First Papers Link to publication DOI | ||
13:45 20mFull-paper | Android API Field Evolution and Its Induced Compatibility Issues ESEM Technical Papers File Attached | ||
14:05 20mFull-paper | Towards Demystifying the Impact of Dependency Structures on Bug Locations in Deep Learning Libraries ESEM Technical Papers Di Cui Xidian University, Xingyu Li Xidian University, Feiyang Liu Xidian University, Siqi Wang Xidian University, Jie Dai Xidian University, Lu Wang Xidian University, Qingshan Li Xidian University | ||
14:25 15mFull-paper | Bumps in the Code: Error Handling During Software Development ESEM Journal-First Papers Tamara Lopez The Open University, Helen Sharp The Open University, Marian Petre The Open University, Bashar Nuseibeh The Open University (UK) & Lero (Ireland) |
13:30 - 15:00 | Session 5B - Development & Testing & Behavioral 2ESEM Technical Papers at Sonck Chair(s): Sheila Reinehr Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) | ||
13:30 15mFull-paper | Potential Technical Debt and Its Resolution in Code Reviews: An Exploratory Study of the OpenStack and Qt Communities ESEM Technical Papers Liming Fu Wuhan University, Peng Liang Wuhan University, China, Zeeshan Rasheed Wuhan University, Zengyang Li Central China Normal University, Amjed Tahir Massey University, Xiaofeng Han Wuhan University, China Link to publication DOI Pre-print | ||
13:45 15mFull-paper | MMF3: Neural Code Summarization Based on Multi-Modal Fine-Grained Feature Fusion ESEM Technical Papers Zheng Ma Shandong Normal University, Yuexiu Gao Shandong Normal University, Lei Lyu Shandong Normal University, Chen Lyu Shandong Normal University | ||
14:00 15mFull-paper | PG-VulNet: Detect Supply Chain Vulnerabilities in IoT Devices using Pseudo-code and Graphs ESEM Technical Papers Xin Liu Lanzhou University, Yixiong Wu Institute for Network Science and Cyberspace of Tsinghua University, Qingchen Yu Zhejiang University, Shangru Song Beijing Institute of Technology, Yue Liu Southeast University; Qi An Xin Group Corp., Qingguo Zhou Lanzhou University, Jianwei Zhuge Tsinghua University | ||
14:15 15mFull-paper | Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Software Effort Estimation ESEM Technical Papers Pre-print | ||
14:30 15mFull-paper | Meetings and Mood - Related or Not? Insights from Student Software Projects ESEM Technical Papers Jil Klünder Leibniz Universität Hannover, Oliver Karras TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Pre-print | ||
14:45 15mFull-paper | A Tale of Two Tasks: Automated Issue Priority Prediction with Deep Multi-task Learning ESEM Technical Papers Yingling Li , Xing Che , Yuekai Huang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Junjie Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Song Wang York University, Yawen Wang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qing Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences |
15:00 - 15:30 | |||
15:00 30mCoffee break | Coffee ESEIW ESEM |
15:30 - 16:00 | Conference closingESEIW ESEM at Bysa Chair(s): Casper Lassenius Aalto University, Finland and Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway | ||
15:30 30mOther | Conference Closing ESEIW ESEM |