Neil A. Ernst

According to our database, Neil A. Ernst authored at least 80 papers between 2002 and 2024.

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2024

Communicating Study Design Trade-offs in Software Engineering.

Martin P. Robillard, Deeksha M. Arya, Neil A. Ernst, Jin L. C. Guo, Maxime Lamothe, Mathieu Nassif, Nicole Novielli, Alexander Serebrenik, Igor Steinmacher, Klaas-Jan Stol

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., June, 2024

Generative AI in Software Engineering Must Be Human-Centered: The Copenhagen Manifesto.

Daniel Russo, Sebastian Baltes, Niels van Berkel, Paris Avgeriou, Fabio Calefato, Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, Gemma Catolino, Jürgen Cito, Neil A. Ernst, Thomas Fritz, Hideaki Hata, Reid Holmes, Maliheh Izadi, Foutse Khomh, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Grischa Liebel, Alberto Lluch-Lafuente, Stefano Lambiase, Walid Maalej, Gail C. Murphy, Nils Brede Moe, Gabrielle O'Brien, Elda Paja, Mauro Pezzè, John Stouby Persson, Rafael Prikladnicki, Paul Ralph, Martin P. Robillard, Thiago Rocha Silva, Klaas-Jan Stol, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Viktoria Stray, Paolo Tell, Christoph Treude, Bogdan Vasilescu

J. Syst. Softw., 2024

Are You a Real Software Engineer? Best Practices in Online Recruitment for Software Engineering Studies.

Adam Alami, Mansooreh Zahedi, Neil A. Ernst

Proceedings of the 1st IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Methodological Issues with Empirical Studies in Software Engineering, 2024

Unveiling the Life Cycle of User Feedback: Best Practices from Software Practitioners.

Ze Shi Li, Nowshin Nawar Arony, Kezia Devathasan, Manish Sihag, Neil A. Ernst, Daniela E. Damian

Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2024

Understanding the building blocks of accountability in software engineering.

Adam Alami, Neil A. Ernst

Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, 2024

2023

Architecting complex, long-lived scientific software.

Neil A. Ernst, John Klein, Marco Bartolini, Jeremy Coles, Nick Rees

J. Syst. Softw., October, 2023

A study of documentation for software architecture.

Neil A. Ernst, Martin P. Robillard

Empir. Softw. Eng., October, 2023

Registered reports in software engineering.

Neil A. Ernst, Maria Teresa Baldassarre

Empir. Softw. Eng., March, 2023

(Re)Use of Research Results (Is Rampant).

Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Neil A. Ernst, Ben Hermann, Tim Menzies, Rahul Yedida

Commun. ACM, February, 2023

Beyond Traditional Feedback Channels: Extracting Requirements-Relevant Feedback from TikTok and YouTube.

Manish Sihag, Ze Shi Li, Amanda Dash, Nowshin Nawar Arony, Kezia Devathasan, Neil A. Ernst, Alexandra Branzan Albu, Daniela E. Damian

CoRR, 2023

From Copilot to Pilot: Towards AI Supported Software Development.

Rohith Pudari, Neil A. Ernst

CoRR, 2023

A Data-Driven Approach for Finding Requirements Relevant Feedback from TikTok and YouTube.

Manish Sihag, Ze Shi Li, Amanda Dash, Nowshin Nawar Arony, Kezia Devathasan, Neil A. Ernst, Alexandra Branzan Albu, Daniela E. Damian

Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2023

Autonomy Is An Acquired Taste: Exploring Developer Preferences for GitHub Bots.

Amir Ghorbani, Nathan Cassee, Derek Robinson, Adam Alami, Neil A. Ernst, Alexander Serebrenik, Andrzej Wasowski

Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2023

Technical Debt Management: The Road Ahead for Successful Software Delivery.

Paris Avgeriou, Ipek Ozkaya, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Marcus Ciolkowski, Neil A. Ernst, Ronald J. Koontz, Eltjo R. Poort, Forrest Shull

Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Future of Software Engineering, 2023

2022

Continuously Managing NFRs: Opportunities and Challenges in Practice.

Colin M. Werner, Ze Shi Li, Derek Lowlind, Omar Elazhary, Neil A. Ernst, Daniela E. Damian

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2022

A Method to Assess and Argue for Practical Significance in Software Engineering.

Richard Torkar, Carlo A. Furia, Robert Feldt, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto, Lucas Gren, Per Lenberg, Neil A. Ernst

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2022

Uncovering the Benefits and Challenges of Continuous Integration Practices.

Omar Elazhary, Colin M. Werner, Ze Shi Li, Derek Lowlind, Neil A. Ernst, Margaret-Anne D. Storey

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2022

AI-Driven Development Is Here: Should You Worry?

Neil A. Ernst, Gabriele Bavota

IEEE Softw., 2022

Towards privacy compliance: A design science study in a small organization.

Ze Shi Li, Colin M. Werner, Neil A. Ernst, Daniela E. Damian

Inf. Softw. Technol., 2022

Conclusion stability for natural language based mining of design discussions.

Alvi Mahadi, Neil A. Ernst, Karan Tongay

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2022

Narratives: the Unforeseen Influencer of Privacy Concerns.

Ze Shi Li, Manish Sihag, Nowshin Nawar Arony, Joao Bezerra Junior, Thanh Phan, Neil A. Ernst, Daniela E. Damian

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2022

Error identification strategies for Python Jupyter notebooks.

Derek Robinson, Neil A. Ernst, Enrique Larios Vargas, Margaret-Anne D. Storey

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2022

2021

Understanding Peer Review of Software Engineering Papers.

Neil A. Ernst, Jeff Carver, Daniel Méndez, Marco Torchiano

Dataset, February, 2021

Introduction to the Special Issue on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation 2018.

Neil A. Ernst, Mark Hills, Árpád Beszédes

J. Syst. Softw., 2021

Understanding peer review of software engineering papers.

Neil A. Ernst, Jeffrey C. Carver, Daniel Méndez, Marco Torchiano

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2021

Crowdsourcing the State of the Art(ifacts).

Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Neil A. Ernst, Ben Hermann, Tim Menzies, Rahul Yedida

CoRR, 2021

VConstruct: Filling Gaps in Chl-a Data Using a Variational Autoencoder.

Matthew Ehrler, Neil A. Ernst

CoRR, 2021

ADEPT: A Socio-Technical Theory of Continuous Integration.

Omar Elazhary, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Neil A. Ernst, Elise Paradis

Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results, 2021

2020

Understanding Peer Review of Software Engineering Papers.

Neil A. Ernst, Jeff Carver, Daniel Méndez, Marco Torchiano

Dataset, August, 2020

The who, what, how of software engineering research: a socio-technical framework.

Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Neil A. Ernst, Courtney Williams, Eirini Kalliamvakou

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2020

GDPR Compliance in the Context of Continuous Integration.

Ze Shi Li, Colin M. Werner, Neil A. Ernst, Daniela E. Damian

CoRR, 2020

Cross-Dataset Design Discussion Mining.

Alvi Mahadi, Karan Tongay, Neil A. Ernst

Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, 2020

Code Duplication and Reuse in Jupyter Notebooks.

Andreas P. Koenzen, Neil A. Ernst, Margaret-Anne D. Storey

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2020

The Lack of Shared Understanding of Non-Functional Requirements in Continuous Software Engineering: Accidental or Essential?

Colin M. Werner, Ze Shi Li, Neil A. Ernst, Daniela E. Damian

Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2020

2019

Methodology Matters: How We Study Socio-Technical Aspects in Software Engineering.

Courtney Williams, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Neil A. Ernst, Alexey Zagalsky, Eirini Kalliamvakou

CoRR, 2019

What Can the Sentiment of a Software Requirements Specification Document Tell Us?

Colin M. Werner, Ze Shi Li, Neil A. Ernst

Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, 2019

Continuous Requirements: An Example Using GDPR.

Ze Shi Li, Colin M. Werner, Neil A. Ernst

Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, 2019

Do as I Do, Not as I Say: Do Contribution Guidelines Match the GitHub Contribution Process?

Omar Elazhary, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Neil A. Ernst, Andy Zaidman

Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 2019

Component Comparison, Evaluation, and Selection: A Continuous Approach.

Neil A. Ernst, Rick Kazman, Philip Bianco

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Companion, 2019

2018

Bayesian hierarchical modelling for tailoring metric thresholds.

Neil A. Ernst

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2018

Towards rapid composition with confidence in robotics software.

Neil A. Ernst, Rick Kazman, Philip Bianco

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering, 2018

Message from the General Chair and PC Chairs of ICSA 2018.

Ian Gorton, Barbora Buhnova, Neil A. Ernst, Clemens A. Szyperski

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture, 2018

2017

Foreword to the special section on negative results in software engineering.

Richard F. Paige, Jordi Cabot, Neil A. Ernst

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2017

Shorter Reasoning About Larger Requirements Models.

George Mathew, Tim Menzies, Neil A. Ernst, John Klein

CoRR, 2017

"SHORT"er Reasoning About Larger Requirements Models.

George Mathew, Tim Menzies, Neil A. Ernst, John Klein

Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2017

On-demand Developer Documentation.

Martin P. Robillard, Andrian Marcus, Christoph Treude, Gabriele Bavota, Oscar Chaparro, Neil A. Ernst, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Michael W. Godfrey, Michele Lanza, Mario Linares Vásquez, Gail C. Murphy, Laura Moreno, David C. Shepherd, Edmund Wong

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 2017

Using Stakeholder Preferences to Make Better Architecture Decisions.

Neil A. Ernst, John Klein, George Mathew, Tim Menzies

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Workshops, 2017

What to Fix? Distinguishing between Design and Non-design Rules in Automated Tools.

Neil A. Ernst, Stephany Bellomo, Ipek Ozkaya, Robert L. Nord

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture, 2017

2016

Technical Debt: Broadening Perspectives Report on the Seventh Workshop on Managing Technical Debt (MTD 2015).

Paris Avgeriou, Neil A. Ernst, Robert L. Nord, Philippe Kruchten

ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2016

Creating Software Modernization Roadmaps: The Architecture Options Workshop.

Neil A. Ernst, Mary Popeck, Felix Bachmann, Patrick Donohoe

Proceedings of the 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, 2016

2015

Performance Evaluation of NoSQL Databases: A Case Study.

John Klein, Ian Gorton, Neil A. Ernst, Patrick Donohoe, Kim Pham, Chrisjan Matser

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Performance Analysis of Big Data Systems, 2015

Measure it? Manage it? Ignore it? software practitioners and technical debt.

Neil A. Ernst, Stephany Bellomo, Ipek Ozkaya, Robert L. Nord, Ian Gorton

Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2015

Message from the chairs.

Neil A. Ernst, Paris Avgeriou, Philippe Kruchten

Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, 2015

Application-Specific Evaluation of No SQL Databases.

John Klein, Ian Gorton, Neil A. Ernst, Patrick Donohoe, Kim Pham, Chrisjan Matser

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Congress on Big Data, New York City, NY, USA, June 27, 2015

2014

The Requirements Problem for Adaptive Systems.

Ivan Jureta, Alexander Borgida, Neil A. Ernst, John Mylopoulos

ACM Trans. Manag. Inf. Syst., 2014

Agile requirements engineering via paraconsistent reasoning.

Neil A. Ernst, Alexander Borgida, Ivan Jureta, John Mylopoulos

Inf. Syst., 2014

Using AI to model quality attribute tradeoffs.

Neil A. Ernst, Ian Gorton

Proceedings of the IEEE 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering, 2014

Evolutionary Improvements of Cross-Cutting Concerns: Performance in Practice.

Stephany Bellomo, Neil A. Ernst, Robert L. Nord, Ipek Ozkaya

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, Victoria, BC, Canada, September 29, 2014

Toward Design Decisions to Enable Deployability: Empirical Study of Three Projects Reaching for the Continuous Delivery Holy Grail.

Stephany Bellomo, Neil A. Ernst, Robert L. Nord, Rick Kazman

Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2014

An Overview of Requirements Evolution.

Neil A. Ernst, Alexander Borgida, Ivan Jureta, John Mylopoulos

Proceedings of the Evolving Software Systems, 2014

2013

Automated topic naming - Supporting cross-project analysis of software maintenance activities.

Abram Hindle, Neil A. Ernst, Michael W. Godfrey, John Mylopoulos

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2013

Understanding the role of constraints on architecturally significant requirements.

Neil A. Ernst, Ipek Ozkaya, Robert L. Nord, Julien Delange, Stephany Bellomo, Ian Gorton

Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on the Twin Peaks of Requirements and Architecture, 2013

2012

Software Evolution: A Requirements Engineering Perspective.

Neil A. Ernst

PhD thesis, 2012

Case studies in just-in-time requirements analysis.

Neil A. Ernst, Gail C. Murphy

Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering, 2012

On the role of requirements in understanding and managing technical debt.

Neil A. Ernst

Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, 2012

Agile Requirements Evolution via Paraconsistent Reasoning.

Neil A. Ernst, Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Ivan Jureta

Proceedings of the Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 2012

2011

Mixed-Variable Requirements Roadmaps and their Role in the Requirements Engineering of Adaptive Systems

Ivan Jureta, Alexander Borgida, Neil A. Ernst

CoRR, 2011

Finding incremental solutions for evolving requirements.

Neil A. Ernst, Alexander Borgida, Ivan Jureta

Proceedings of the RE 2011, 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Trento, Italy, August 29 2011, 2011

Automated topic naming to support cross-project analysis of software maintenance activities.

Abram Hindle, Neil A. Ernst, Michael W. Godfrey, John Mylopoulos

Proceedings of the 8th International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2011

Requirements evolution drives software evolution.

Neil A. Ernst, Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos

Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution and the 7th annual ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution, 2011

2010

Code forking in open-source software: a requirements perspective

Neil A. Ernst, Steve M. Easterbrook, John Mylopoulos

CoRR, 2010

On the Perception of Software Quality Requirements during the Project Lifecycle.

Neil A. Ernst, John Mylopoulos

Proceedings of the Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, 2010

Towards a continuous requirements engineering framework for self-adaptive systems.

Nauman A. Qureshi, Anna Perini, Neil A. Ernst, John Mylopoulos

Proceedings of the First International Workshop on [e-mail], 2010

Techne: Towards a New Generation of Requirements Modeling Languages with Goals, Preferences, and Inconsistency Handling.

Ivan Jureta, Alexander Borgida, Neil A. Ernst, John Mylopoulos

Proceedings of the RE 2010, 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, September 27, 2010

Reasoning with Optional and Preferred Requirements.

Neil A. Ernst, John Mylopoulos, Alexander Borgida, Ivan Jureta

Proceedings of the Conceptual Modeling, 2010

2009

Aspects across Software Life Cycle: A Goal-Driven Approach.

Nan Niu, Yijun Yu, Bruno González-Baixauli, Neil A. Ernst, Julio César Sampaio do Prado Leite, John Mylopoulos

LNCS Trans. Aspect Oriented Softw. Dev., 2009

2008

Supporting Requirements Model Evolution throughout the System Life-Cycle.

Neil A. Ernst, John Mylopoulos, Yijun Yu, Tien Nguyen

Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2008

2007

A Framework for Empirical Evaluation of Model Comprehensibility.

Jorge Aranda, Neil A. Ernst, Jennifer Horkoff, Steve M. Easterbrook

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering, 2007

2005

Cognitive support for ontology modeling.

Neil A. Ernst, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Polly Allen

Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2005

2002

Jambalaya: an interactive environment for exploring ontologies.

Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Natasha F. Noy, Mark A. Musen, Casey Best, Ray W. Fergerson, Neil A. Ernst

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2002