Bennett, G., Hall, T., Counsell, S., Winter, E. and Shippey, T. (2024) 'Do Developers Use Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools Straight Out of the Box? A large-scale Empirical Study'.ESEM '24: ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. Barcelona, Spain. 24 - 25 October. ACM. pp. 454 - 460. ISSN: 1949-3770 Open Access Link

Counsell, S., Vesna, N., Emily, W. and Tracy, H. (2024) 'The Paradox of Analysing Gender-Based Data'.49th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2023). Durres, Albania. 6 - 8 September. IEEE. pp. 223 - 226. ISSN: 2640-592X Open Access Link

Counsell, S., Swift, S., Arzoky, M., Hall, T., Winter, E., Bennett, G. and Shippey, T. et al. (2024) 'Different Strokes for Different Folks: A Comparison of Developer and Tester Views on Testing'.SEAA 2024: 50th Euromicro Conference Series on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications. Paris, France. 28 - 30 August. [unpublished]

Dashkevich, N., Counsell, S. and Destefanis, G. (2024) 'Blockchain Financial Statements: Innovating Financial Reporting, Accounting, and Liquidity Management'. Future Internet, 16 (7). pp. 1 - 36.Open Access Link

Bennett, G., Hall, T., Winter, E. and Counsell, S. (2024) 'Semgrep∗: Improving the Limited Performance of Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools'.28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE '24). Salerno, Italy. 18 - 21 June. ACM. pp. 614 - 623.Open Access Link

Counsell, S., Swift, S. and Tahir, A. (2023) 'An "80-20" Approach to the Study of Coupling'.SEAA 2023 (IEEE Sponsored). Durres, Albania. 6 - 8 September. IEEE. pp. 219 - 222. ISSN: 2640-592X

Al-Luhaybi, M., Swift, S., Counsell, S. and Tucker, A. (2022) 'Exploring the Explicit Modelling of Bias in Machine Learning Classifiers: A Deep Multi-label ConvNet Approach'.2022 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA). Nassau, Bahamas. 12 - 14 December. IEEE. pp. 1799 - 1806.

Winter, ER., Nowack, V., Bowes, D., Counsell, S., Hall, T., Haraldsson, S., Woodward, J., Kirbas, S., Windels, E., McBello, O., Atakishiyev, A., Kells, K. and Pagano, M. et al. (2022) 'Towards developer-centered automatic program repair: findings from Bloomberg'.30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2022). Singapore, Singapore. 7 - 18 November. ACM. pp. 1578 - 1588.Open Access Link

Counsell, S. and Swift, S. (2022) 'Timing is Everything! A Test and Production Class View of Self-Admitted Technical Debt'.48th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2022). Gran Canaria, Spain. 31 - 2 September. IEEE. pp. 314 - 317.

Counsell, S., Nowack, V., Hall, T., Bowes, D., Haraldsson, S., Winter, E. and Woodward, J. et al. (2022) 'An 80-20 Analysis of Buggy and Non-buggy Refactorings in Open-Source Commits'.48th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2022). Gran Canaria, Spain. 31 - 2 September. IEEE. pp. 197 - 200.

Winter, E., Bowes, D., Counsell, S., Hall, T., Haraldsson, S., Nowack, V. and Woodward, J. et al. (2022) 'How Do Developers Really Feel About Bug Fixing? Directions for Automatic Program Repair'. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 0 (4). pp. 1 - 20. ISSN: 0098-5589 Open Access Link

Han, X., Tahir, A., Liang, P., Counsell, S., Blincoe, K., Li, B. and Luo, Y. et al. (2022) 'Code smells detection via modern code review: a study of the OpenStack and Qt communities'. Empirical Software Engineering, 27 (6). pp. 1 - 42. ISSN: 1382-3256 Open Access Link

Winter, E., Nowack, V., Bowes, D., Counsell, S., Hall, T., Haraldsson, S. and Woodward, J. et al. (2022) 'Let's Talk with Developers, Not about Developers: A Review of Automatic Program Repair Research'. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 49 (1). pp. 419 - 436. ISSN: 0098-5589 Open Access Link

Nowack, V., Bowes, D., Counsell, S., Hall, T., Haraldsson, S., Winter, E. and Woodward, J. et al. (2021) 'Expanding Fix Patterns to Enable Automatic Program Repair'.32nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2021). Wuhan, China (virtual). 25 - 28 October. IEEE. pp. 12 - 23. ISSN: 1071-9458 Open Access Link

Counsell, S., Hierons, RM. and Patel, K. (2021) 'Are 20% of Classes Responsible for 80% of Refactorings?'.47th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2021). Palermo, Italy (virtual). 1 - 3 September. IEEE. pp. 287 - 290.

Counsell, S., Swift, S. and Tahir, A. (2021) 'Where the Bugs are: A Quasi-replication Study of the Effect of Inheritance Depth and Width in Java Systems'.14th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2021). Algarve, Portugal (online). 25 - 11 September. Springer International Publishing. pp. 459 - 472. ISSN: 1865-0929 Open Access Link

Counsell, S. and Swift, S. (Accepted) 'RefTest 2011 Special Section.'. The Journal of Object Technology, 11 (2).

Han, X., Tahir, A., Liang, P., Counsell, S. and Luo, Y. (2021) 'Understanding Code Smell Detection via Code Review: A Study of the OpenStack Community'.29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2021). Madrid, Spain (virtual). 20 - 21 May. IEEE. pp. 323 - 334. ISSN: 2643-7147 Open Access Link

Kirbas, S., Windels, E., Mcbello, O., Kells, K., Pagano, M., Szalanski, R., Nowack, V., Winter, ER., Counsell, S., Bowes, D., Hall, T., Haraldsson, S. and Woodward, J. et al. (2021) 'On the Introduction of Automatic Program Repair in Bloomberg'. IEEE Software, 38 (4). pp. 43 - 51. ISSN: 0740-7459 Open Access Link

Counsell, S., Destefanis, G., Swift, S., Arzoky, M. and Taibi, D. (2020) 'On the Link between Refactoring Activity and Class Cohesion through the Prism of Two Cohesion-Based Metrics'.2020 IEEE 20th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS). Macau, China (virtual). 11 - 14 December. IEEE. pp. 91 - 98.Open Access Link

Counsell, S., Swift, S., Arzoky, M. and Destefanis, G. (2020) 'On Clones and Comments in Production and Test Classes: An Empirical Study'.25th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement PROFES 2020. Turin, Italy. 21 - 27 November. Springer International Publishing. pp. 304 - 311. ISSN: 0302-9743

Counsell, S., Swift, S., Arzoky, M. and Destefanis, G. (2020) 'Is complexity of re-test a reason why some refactorings are buggy? an empirical perspective'.13th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2020. Faro, Portugal. 31 - 11 September. Springer International Publishing. pp. 83 - 90. ISSN: 1865-0929

Counsell, S., Dashkevich, N. and Destefanis, G. (2020) 'Blockchain Application for Central Banks: A Systematic Mapping Study'. IEEE Access, 8. pp. 1 - 37. ISSN: 2169-3536 Open Access Link

Nowack, V., Bowes, D., Counsell, S., Hall, T., Haraldsson, S., Winter, E. and Woodward, J. et al. (2020) 'Exploiting fault localisation for efficient program repair'. [Poster] Exhibited at. GECCO '20: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 8 7 2020

Winter, ER., Bowes, D., Counsell, S., Hall, T., Haraldsson, S., Nowack, V. and Woodward, J. et al. (2020) 'Human Factors in the Study of Automatic Software Repair: Future Directions for Research with Industry'.ICSE '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering. Seoul, Republic of Korea (virtual). 27 - 19 July. ACM. pp. 285 - 286.Open Access Link

Tahir, A., Dietrich, J., Counsell, S., Licorish, S. and Yamashita, A. (2020) 'A large scale study on how developers discuss code smells and anti-pattern in Stack Exchange sites'. Information and Software Technology, 125. pp. 1 - 17. ISSN: 0950-5849

Ortu, M., Conversano, C., Marchesi, M., Tonelli, R., Counsell, S. and Destefanis, G. (2020) 'Describing software developers affectiveness through Markov chain models'. Electronic Journal of Applied Statistical Analysis, 13 (01). pp. 96 - 127. ISSN: 2070-5948 Open Access Link

Capiluppi, A., Ajienka, N. and Counsell, S. (2020) 'The effect of multiple developers on structural attributes: A Study based on java software'. Journal of Systems and Software, 167 (September 2020). pp. 1 - 19. ISSN: 0164-1212 Open Access Link

Capiluppi, A., Ajienka, N., Ali, N., Arzoky, M., Counsell, S., Destefanis, G., Miron, A., Nagaria, B., Neykova, R., Shepperd, M., Swift, S. and Tucker, A. et al. (2020) 'Using the Lexicon from Source Code to Determine Application Domains'.International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering. Trondheim, Norway. 17 - 17 April. ACM. pp. 110 - 119.Open Access Link

Counsell, S., Modi, S. and Abbott, P. (2020) 'Themes and Difficulties in Distributed Agile Email Activity: A Qualititative Team-Based Study'.EASE '20: Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering. Trondheim, Norway. 17 - 17 April. ACM. pp. 288 - 292.Open Access Link

Counsell, S., Arzoky, M., Destefanis, G. and Taibi, D. (2019) 'On the Relationship Between Coupling and Refactoring: An EmpiricalViewpoint'.ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM). Brazil. 2019. Porto de Galinhas, BR. 17 - 20 September. IEEE. pp. 1 - 6. ISSN: 1949-3770 Open Access Link

Shepperd, M., Guo, Y., Li, N., Arzoky, M., Capiluppi, A., Counsell, S., Destefanis, G., Swift, S., Tucker, A. and Yousefi, L. et al. (2019) 'The Prevalence of Errors in Machine Learning Experiments'.20th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL). Univ Manchester, Manchester, ENGLAND. 10 - 16 November. Springer International Publishing. pp. 102 - 109. ISSN: 0302-9743 Open Access Link

Counsell, S., Swift, S., Arzoky, M. and Destefanis, G. (2019) 'An empirical study of the AGIS visual field metric and its seasonal variations'.2019 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). Inst Maimonides Investigac Biomedica Cordoba, Cordoba, SPAIN. 1 - 7 June. IEEE. pp. 527 - 530. ISSN: 1063-7125

Mendes, E., Bin Ali, N., Counsell, S. and Baldassare, MT. (2019) 'Special issue on evaluation and assessment in software engineering'. Journal of Systems and Software, 151. pp. 224 - 225. ISSN: 0164-1212

Child, M., Rosner, P. and Counsell, S. (2019) 'A comparison and evaluation of variants in the coupling between objects metric'. Journal of Systems and Software, 151 (May 2019). pp. 120 - 132. ISSN: 0164-1212 Open Access Link

Al-Luhaybi, M., Yousefi, L., Swift, S., Counsell, S. and Tucker, A. (2019) 'Predicting academic performance: A bootstrapping approach for learning dynamic bayesian networks'.20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). Chicago, IL. 1 - 29 June. Springer International Publishing. pp. 26 - 36. ISSN: 0302-9743

Counsell, S., Swift, S., Arzoky, M. and Destefanis, G. (2018) 'Do developers really worry about refactoring re-test? An empirical study of open-source systems'. Springer International Publishing. pp. 159 - 166. ISSN: 0302-9743 Open Access Link

Ayed, S., Arzoky, M., Swift, S., Counsell, S. and Tucker, A. (2018) 'An Exploratory Study of the Inputs for Ensemble Clustering Technique as a Subset Selection Problem'.SAI Intelligent Systems Conference. London. 9 - 7 September. Springer International Publishing. pp. 1041 - 1055. ISSN: 2194-5357 Open Access Link

Counsell, S., Swift, S., Marchesi, M., Tonelli, R. and Felderer, M. (2018) 'Re-visiting a test taxonomy with refactoring and defect-fix data'.2018 44th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC. 18 - 31 August. IEEE. pp. 41 - 44. ISSN: 1089-6503

Shippey, T., Bowes, D., Counsell, S. and Hall, T. (2018) 'Code cleaning for software defect prediction: A cautionary tale'.2018 44th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). IEEE. pp. 239 - 243.

Tahir, A., Yamashita, A., Licorish, S., Dietrich, J. and Counsell, S. (2018) 'Can you tell me if it smells? A study on how developers discuss code smells and anti-patterns in Stack Overflow'.EASE'18: 22nd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering 2018. ACM. pp. 68 - 78.

Tonelli, R., Destefanis, G., Counsell, S. and Marchesi, M. (2018) 'Message from the WETSEB 2018 Co-Chairs'. Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering. pp. x. ISSN: 0270-5257

Ajienka, N., Capiluppi, A. and Counsell, S. (2018) 'An empirical study on the interplay between semantic coupling and co-change of software classes'.ICSE '18: 40th International Conference on Software Engineering. Gothenburg, SWEDEN. 27 - 3 June. ACM. pp. 432 - 432.

Kirbas, S., Caglayan, B., Hall, T., Counsell, S., Bowes, D., Sen, A. and Bener, A. et al. (2018) 'The relationship between evolutionary coupling and defects in large industrial software (journal-first abstract)'.2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER). IEEE. pp. 471.

Tonelli, R., Ducasse, S., Fenu, G., Bracciali, A., Amaral, V., Arcelli, F., Bartoletti, M., Bartosz, W., Bistarelli, S., Buglione, L., Challet, D., Counsell, S., Destefanis, G., Duedder, B., Eskandari, S., Gil, Y., Heckel, R., Hierons, R., Matulevicius, R., Morasca, S., Orru, M., Ricci, L., Singh, P., Swift, S., Ter, M., Vitaletti, A., Zhang, H. and Zunino, R. et al. (2018) 'Message from the chairs'.2018 International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering (IWBOSE). IEEE. pp. iii - iii.

Shepperd, M., Ajienka, N. and Counsell, S. (2018) 'The role and value of replication in empirical software engineering results'. Information and Software Technology, 99. pp. 120 - 132. ISSN: 0950-5849 Open Access Link

Destefanis, G., Arzoky, M., Counsell, S., Swift, S., Ortu, M., Tonelli, R. and Marchesi, M. et al. (2018) '113 times tomcat: A dataset'. PeerJ, 6.

Ajienka, N., Capiluppi, A. and Counsell, S. (2017) 'Managing Hidden Dependencies in OO Software: A Study Based on Open Source Projects'.2017 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM). Toronto, CANADA. 7 - 10 November. IEEE. pp. 141 - 150. ISSN: 1949-3770

Ajienka, N., Capiluppi, A. and Counsell, S. (2017) 'An empirical study on the interplay between semantic coupling and co-change of software classes'. Empirical Software Engineering, 23 (3). pp. 1791 - 1825. ISSN: 1382-3256 Open Access Link

Counsell, S., Hall, T., Shippey, T., Bowes, D., Tahir, A. and MacDonell, S. (2017) 'Assert use and defectiveness in industrial code'.2017 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering: Workshops (ISSREW). Toulouse, FRANCE. 14 - 26 October. IEEE. pp. 20 - 23. ISSN: 2375-821X