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# IDoESE 2015
Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

### Proceedings of the 13th International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering
as part of the Empirical Software Engineering International Week 2015 (ESEIW 2015)

### Beijing, China, October 21, 2015.

Edited by

### Maria Teresa Baldassarre *
Xavier Franch **

* Universitá degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy
** Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

## Table of Contents

- Preface

- What makes a good Empirical Software Engineering Thesis?: Some Advice (invited talk) 1-3
  Sira Vegas

### Session 1: Methodology and Tools

- Joint Analysis of Families of SE Experiments 4-9
  Adrian Santos Parrilla
- Decision Support Architecture for Primary Studies Evaluation 10-14
  Vilmar Nepomuceno

### Session 2: Cost-related Studies

- Toward Measuring Defect Debt and Developing a Recommender system for their Prioritization 15-20
  Shirin Akbarinasaji
- Evidence-Based Software Portfolio Management 21-26
  Hennie Huijgens

### Session 3: Code-related Studies

- Attention, Test Code is Low-quality! 27-32
  Xinye Tang
- A Research Plan to Characterize, Evaluate, and Predict the Impacts of Behavioral Decay in Design Patterns 33-38
  Derek Reimanis

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