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Our article Are Unit and Integration Test Definitions Still Valid for Modern Java Projects? An Empirical Study on Open-Source Projects received one of five best paper awards of the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS). JSS received over 1000 submissions every year, which means that our article is considered by the editors as among the best 0.5% of submitted papers!

During the semester break, our research group will offer a new practical course on agile software development. In this course, students will learn about selected agile software development methods and practices and apply them in dedicated projects with the help of selected tools. The participants will be learning and applying their knowledge on three levels, including processes and practices, project-specific domain knowledge, implementation- and tool-specific aspects.Depending on the specific software projects, the students will get familiar with various state-of-the-art technologies and tools for software engineering and for the realisation of the specific project. The course will offer an insight into real-world software development, as well as other relevant aspects such as self learning, team work, and problem solving.

We are happy to announce that we will present and discuss the key results of our recent publications at the Software Engineering 2021, the yearly conference on software engineering by the German chapter of the ACM (Gesellschaft für Informatik). The talks are about five journal papers that we published during the last year and cover a diverse set of topics, i.e., static analysis warnings, developer social networks, issue type prediction, differences between unit and integration tests, and defect prediction. You can find the related publications below. 

• A Longitudinal Study of Static Analysis Warning Evolution and the Effects of PMD on Software Quality in Apache Open Source Projects
• A systematic mapping study of developer social network research
• On the Feasibility of Automated Issue Type Prediction
• Are Unit and Integration Test Definitions Still Valid for Modern Java Projects? An Empirical Study on Open-Source Projects
• On the cost and profit of software defect prediction

We are happy to announce that our group members Alexander Trautsch, Steffen Herbold and Jens Grabowski received a Distinguished Artifact Award for the artifact supplementing their paper "Static source code metrics and static analysis warnings for fine-grained just-in-time defect prediction" at the 36th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME).