Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Volume 26

Volume 26, Number 1, January 2014

A Selection of Distinguished Papers from the 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering 2011

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  Martin Pinzger, Denys Poshyvanyk:
  Special issue: a selection of distinguished papers from the 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering 2011. 1-2
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  Weiyi Shang, Zhen Ming Jiang, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Michael W. Godfrey, Mohamed N. Nasser, Parminder Flora:
  An exploratory study of the evolution of communicated information about the execution of large software systems. 3-26
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  Xiaoran Wang, Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker:
  Automatic Segmentation of Method Code into Meaningful Blocks: Design and Evaluation. 27-49
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  Amir Aryani, Fabrizio Perin, Mircea Lungu, Abdun Naser Mahmood, Oscar Nierstrasz:
  Predicting dependences using domain-based coupling. 50-76
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  Fehmi Jaafar, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Sylvie Hamel, Giuliano Antoniol:
  Detecting asynchrony and dephase change patterns by mining software repositories. 77-106
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  Steven Davies, Marc Roper, Murray Wood:
  Comparing text-based and dependence-based approaches for determining the origins of bugs. 107-139

Volume 26, Number 2, February 2014

Research Articles

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  Maryam Razavian, Patricia Lago:
  A lean and mean strategy: a data migration industrial study. 141-171
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  Lucia, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, Ferdian Thung, Aditya Budi:
  Extended comprehensive study of association measures for fault localization. 172-219
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  Syed Muhammad Ali Shah, Çigdem Gencel, Usman Sattar Alvi, Kai Petersen:
  Towards a hybrid testing process unifying exploratory testing and scripted testing. 220-250
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  Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Tony Gorschek, A. K. M. Moinul Islam, Chow Kian Cheng, Rahadian Bayu Permadi, Robert Feldt:
  A conceptual framework for SPI evaluation. 251-279

Volume 26, Number 3, March 2014

Software Process Assessment and Improvement (EuroSPI 2011)

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  Miklós Biró, Richard Messnarz, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios:
  Application themes of software process assessment and improvement. 281-283
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  Richard Messnarz, Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, Miklós Biró, Elena García-Barriocanal, Miguel Garre-Rubio, Kerstin V. Siakas, Adrienne Clarke:
  Social responsibility aspects supporting the success of SPI. 284-294
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  Tim C. Kasse, Jørn Johansen:
  Maturity differences between customer and supplier - challenges, problems, and possible solutions. 295-305
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  Motoko Takeuchi, Naohiko Kohtake, Seiko Shirasaka, Yumi Koishi, Kazunori Shioya:
  Report on an assessment experience based on ISO/IEC 29110. 306-312
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  Péter Balázs Polgár, Ferenc Kazinci:
  Process communication in medical software development. 313-320
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  Badari Kotejoshyer, Birendra Singh, Suhas Tittibha:
  Rule-based requirements management methodology. 321-328
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  Javier Saldaña Ramos, Ana Sanz-Esteban, Javier García, Antonio Amescua:
  Skills and abilities for working in a global software development team: a competence model. 329-338
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  Diego Martín, Javier García Guzmán, Julián Urbano, Antonio Amescua:
  Modeling software development practices using reusable project patterns: a case study. 339-349
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  Tomas Schweigert, Andreas Nehfort:
  Technical issues in test process assessment and their current handling in TestSPICE. 350-356
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  Timo Varkoi, Risto Nevalainen, Timo Mäkinen:
  Toward nuclear SPICE - integrating IEC 61508, IEC 60880 and SPICE. 357-365

Volume 26, Number 4, April 2014

ICSSP 2011 Special Issue: Processes for Tomorrow's Systems and Software Engineering: An evolving Dynamic Domain

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  David Raffo, Dietmar Pfahl, Li Zhang:
  ICSSP 2011 Special issue: processes for tomorrow's systems and software engineering: an evolving dynamic domain. 369-370
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  Frank Elberzhager, Jürgen Münch, H. Dieter Rombach, Bernd G. Freimut:
  Integrating inspection and test processes based on context-specific assumptions. 371-385
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  Julio Ariel Hurtado Alegria, María Cecilia Bastarrica, Alcides Quispe, Sergio F. Ochoa:
  MDE-based process tailoring strategy. 386-403
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  Maria Paasivaara, Casper Lassenius:
  Agile coaching for global software development. 404-418
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  Lorea Belategi, Goiuria Sagardui, Leire Etxeberria, Maider Azanza:
  Embedded software product lines: domain and application engineering model-based analysis processes. 419-433
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  Julio Ariel Hurtado Alegria, María Cecilia Bastarrica, Alexandre Bergel:
  Avispa: a tool for analyzing software process models. 434-450
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  Carlton A. Crabtree, Anthony F. Norcio, Carolyn B. Seaman:
  An empirical study of process knowledge: coherence as a static process property. 451-463

Volume 26, Number 5, May 2014

Software process improvement leveraged in various application domains

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  Miklós Biró, Richard Messnarz, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios:
  Software process improvement leveraged in various application domains. 465-467
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  Phelim Dowling:
  Successfully transitioning a research project to a commercial spin-out using an agile software process. 468-475
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  Marcos Ruano Mayoral, Cristina Casado-Lumbreras, Helena Garbarino Alberti, Sanjay Misra:
  Methodological framework for the allocation of work packages in global software development. 476-487
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  Onur Kaynak, N. Alpay Karagöz:
  Experience report: implementation of a multi-standard compliant process improvement program. 488-495
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  Hervé Cholez, Frédéric Girard:
  Maturity assessment and process improvement for information security management in small and medium enterprises. 496-503
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  Martin McHugh, Fergal McCaffery, Valentine Casey:
  Adopting agile practices when developing software for use in the medical domain. 504-512
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  Tomas Schweigert, Detlef Vohwinkel, Morten Korsaa, Risto Nevalainen, Miklós Biró:
  Agile maturity model: analysing agile maturity characteristics from the SPICE perspective. 513-520
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  Hideto Ogasawara, Takumi Kusanagi, Minoru Aizawa:
  Proposal and practice of software process improvement framework - Toshiba's software process improvement history since 2000. 521-529

Volume 26, Number 6, June 2014

Source code analysis and manipulation, SCAM 2012

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  Mariano Ceccato, Zheng Li, James R. Cordy:
  Guest editorial for the special issue on source code analysis and manipulation, SCAM 2012. 531-532
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  Chris Wilcox, Michelle Mills Strout, James M. Bieman:
  An optimization-based approach to lookup table program transformations. 533-551
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  André L. Santos:
  GUI code tracing through direct program interaction. 552-568
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  Lajos Schrettner, Judit Jász, Tamás Gergely, Árpád Beszédes, Tibor Gyimóthy:
  Impact analysis in the presence of dependence clusters using Static Execute After in WebKit. 569-588

Volume 26, Number 7, July 2014

Research Articles

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  Jesús M. González-Barahona, Gregorio Robles, Israel Herraiz, Felipe Ortega:
  Studying the laws of software evolution in a long-lived FLOSS project. 589-612
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  Michael W. Godfrey, Daniel M. Germán:
  On the evolution of Lehman's Laws. 613-619
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  Yguaratã Cerqueira Cavalcanti, Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Ivan do Carmo Machado, Tassio Ferreira Vale, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira:
  Challenges and opportunities for software change request repositories: a systematic mapping study. 620-653
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  Aakash Ahmad, Pooyan Jamshidi, Claus Pahl:
  Classification and comparison of architecture evolution reuse knowledge - a systematic review. 654-691
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  Adnane Ghannem, Ghizlane El-Boussaidi, Marouane Kessentini:
  Model refactoring using examples: a search-based approach. 692-713
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  Jana Samalikova, Rob J. Kusters, Jos J. M. Trienekens, A. J. M. M. Weijters:
  Process mining support for Capability Maturity Model Integration-based software process assessment, in principle and in practice. 714-728

Volume 26, Number 8, August 2014

The 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2012)

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  Tom Mens, Anthony Cleve:
  CSMR 2012 Special issue - Guest editorial. 729
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  Sarah Nadi, Richard C. Holt:
  The Linux kernel: a case study of build system variability. 730-746
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  Rainer Koschke:
  Large-scale inter-system clone detection using suffix trees and hashing. 747-769

Volume 26, Number 9, September 2014

EuroSPI 2013

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  Miklós Biró, Richard Messnarz, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios:
  Snapshot of industrial experiences shared at the 20th anniversary EuroSPI conference. 771-775
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  Filipe Albero Pomar, José A. Calvo-Manzano, Edgar Caballero, Magdalena Arcilla-Cobián:
  Understanding sprint velocity fluctuations for improved project plans with Scrum: a case study. 776-783
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  Paraic Hegarty, Eoghan O'Leary, Danny Dineen, David W. Bustard, Adrian Moore:
  Transition to a product line infrastructure: experience at Akari Software. 784-790
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  Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Richard Messnarz, Kerstin V. Siakas, Daniel Palosi, Darragh Coakley:
  Using social media as a tool for business improvement and certification of knowledge workers. 791-798
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  Stéphane Cortina, Alain Renault, Michel Picard:
  Assessing partially outsourced processes - lessons learned from TIPA assessments. 799-807
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  Lucas Grossi, José A. Calvo-Manzano, Tomás San Feliu Gilabert:
  High-maturity levels: achieving CMMI ML-5 in a consultancy company. 808-817
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  Alberto Heredia, Javier García Guzmán, Antonio de Amescua Seco, Manuel Velasco-Diego:
  Agile practices adapted to mass-market application development. 818-828
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  Masao Ito, Koichi Kishida:
  An approach to manage the concept phase of ISO 26262. 829-836
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  Xabier Larrucea, Izaskun Santamaría:
  An industrial assessment for a multimodel framework. 837-845
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  Antoni Lluís Mesquida, Antònia Mas Picahaco:
  A project management improvement program according to ISO/IEC 29110 and PMBOK^®. 846-854
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  Efi Papatheocharous, Andreas S. Andreou:
  Empirical evidence and state of practice of software agile teams. 855-866

Volume 26, Number 10, October 2014

International Conference on Software and System Process, ICSSP 2012

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  LiGuo Huang, Ove Armbrust:
  Guest editors' introduction. 867-868
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  Leon J. Osterweil:
  Learning about application software by studying processes. 869-876
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  Dan Houston:
  A generalized duration forecasting model of test-and-fix cycles. 877-889
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  Komlan Akpédjé Kedji, Rédouane Lbath, Bernard Coulette, Mahmoud Nassar, Laurent Baresse, Florin Racaru:
  Supporting collaborative development using process models: a tooled integration-focused approach. 890-909
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  Pierre N. Robillard, Mathieu Lavallée, Yvan Ton-That, François Chiocchio:
  Taxonomy for software teamwork measurement. 910-922
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  He Zhang, David Raffo, Thomas Birkhölzer, Dan Houston, Raymond J. Madachy, Jürgen Münch, Stanley M. Sutton Jr.:
  Software process simulation - at a crossroads? 923-928

Volume 26, Number 11, November 2014

Mining Source Code Artifacts for Reverse Engineering - a special issue based on WCRE 2012

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  Rocco Oliveto, Denys Poshyvanyk:
  A selection of distinguished papers from the 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering 2012. 929-930
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  Hakam W. Alomari, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic, Nouh Alhindawi, Omar Meqdadi:
  srcSlice: very efficient and scalable forward static slicing. 931-961
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  Soumaya Medini, Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Paolo Tonella:
  SCAN: an approach to label and relate execution trace segments. 962-995
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  Feng Zhang, Foutse Khomh, Ying Zou, Ahmed E. Hassan:
  An empirical study of the effect of file editing patterns on software quality. 996-1029
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  Cédric Teyton, Jean-Rémy Falleri, Marc Palyart, Xavier Blanc:
  A study of library migrations in Java. 1030-1052

Volume 26, Number 12, December 2014

Research Articles

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  Marco Kuhrmann, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Michaela Tiessler:
  A mapping study on the feasibility of method engineering. 1053-1073
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  Mahvish Khurum, Kai Petersen, Tony Gorschek:
  Extending value stream mapping through waste definition beyond customer perspective. 1074-1105
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  Jan Vlietland, Hans van Vliet:
  Improving IT incident handling performance with information visibility. 1106-1127
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  Ricardo Pérez-Castillo, Danilo Caivano, Mario Piattini:
  Ontology-based similarity applied to business process clustering. 1128-1149
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  Kai Petersen, Peter Roos, Staffan Nyström, Per Runeson:
  Early identification of bottlenecks in very large scale system of systems software development. 1150-1171
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  Marco Zanoni, Fabrizio Perin, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Gianluigi Viscusi:
  Pattern detection for conceptual schema recovery in data-intensive systems. 1172-1192
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  Cor-Paul Bezemer, Elric Milon, Andy Zaidman, Johan Pouwelse:
  Detecting and analyzing I/O performance regressions. 1193-1212
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  JoonSeok Park, Taejun Kang, Keunhyuk Yeom:
  Mobile situation-aware framework for developing smart mobile software. 1213-1232
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  Mario Luca Bernardi, Marta Cimitile, Giuseppe A. Di Lucca:
  Design pattern detection using a DSL-driven graph matching approach. 1233-1266
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  Tom McBride, Timo Varkoi:
  A method for aggregating ordinal process assessment measures. 1267-1279
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  Petra Heck, Andy Zaidman:
  Horizontal traceability for just-in-time requirements: the case for open source feature requests. 1280-1296
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  Sanjay Misra, Luis Fernández Sanz, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios:
  A simplified model for software inspection. 1297-1315

Practice Paper

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  Alastair Walker, Antonio Coletta, Rama Sivaraman:
  An evaluation of the process capability implications of the requirements of ISO/IEC 20000-1. 1316-1326