Stefan Wagner · PaperMetrix

Are Suggestions of Coupled File Changes Interesting?

2016

Software repositories include information which can be made available for bug fixing or maintenance using repository mining. The identification of coupled changes have been proposed several times. Yet, existing studies focus on the found couplings …

Results of the 2 <sup>nd</sup> International Workshop on the Impact of Agile Practices (ImpAct 2017)

2017

At present, agile development is a dominating development process in software engineering. Yet, due to different contexts, also agile methods require adaptations (e.g. Scrum-but). Since adaptation means adding, modifying or dropping some agile elements, it …

Too trivial to test? An inverse view on defect prediction to identify methods with low fault risk

2018

Background. Test resources are usually limited and therefore it is often not possible to completely test an application before a release. To cope with the problem of scarce resources, development teams can apply defect prediction …

Code Comprehension Confounders: A Study of Intelligence and Personal

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Literature and intuition suggest that a developer's intelligence and personality have an impact on their performance in comprehending source code. Researchers made this suggestion in the past when discussing threats to validity of their study …

The Type to Take Out a Loan? A Study of Developer Personality and Technical Debt

2023

Background: Technical debt (TD) has been widely discussed in software engineering research, and there is an emerging literature linking it to developer characteristics. However, developer personality has not yet been studied in this context. Aims …

Revolutionizing Validation and Verification: Explainable Testing Methodologies for Intelligent Automotive Decision-Making Systems

2025