Intro
Message from the General Chair
Message from the Scientific Program Chairs
Organization
Contents
Invited Papers
Continuous Software Engineering in the Wild
1 Introduction
2 Continuous Software Engineering in a Nutshell
3 Challenges and Future Needs
4 Conclusions
References
Motivations for and Benefits of Adopting the Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi)
1 Introduction
2 A Brief Overview of TMMi
3 Reasons (Motivations) for Adopting TMMi
4 Benefits of Adopting TMMi
5 Conclusion
References
AI in Software Engineering

Automated Code Review Comment Classification to Improve Modern Code Reviews
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 CommentBERT
Classifying Code-Review Comments
3.1 Classifying Comments According to Their Focus
3.2 Training BERT for Code-Review Comments
3.3 Example of Application of the Taxonomy
4 Research Design
4.1 Research Questions
4.2 Datasets
4.3 Model Validation
5 Results
6 Discussion
7 Conclusions
References
A Preliminary Study on Using Text- and Image-Based Machine Learning to Predict Software Maintainability
1 Motivation
2 Experimental Design

2.1 Dataset
2.2 Architectures and Algorithms
2.3 Training and Evaluation
2.4 Preprocessing for Text-Based Prediction
2.5 Preprocessing for Image-Based Prediction
2.6 Experiment Execution
3 Experiment Results
3.1 Text-Based Classification
3.2 Image-Based Classification
3.3 Interpretation
4 Discussion
4.1 Threats to Validity
4.2 Future Work
5 Related Work
6 Conclusion
References
Quality Assurance for Software-Intensive Systems
Specification of Passive Test Cases Using an Improved T-EARS Language
1 Introduction
2 Background

2.1 Passive Testing
2.2 Guarded Assertions
2.3 Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax (EARS)
2.4 The Ohm Grammar Language
3 Method
4 Result: The Updated T-EARS Language
4.1 Keyword Terminals
4.2 Structural Elements
4.3 Basic Data Types
4.4 Signals Data Type
4.5 Intervals Data Type
4.6 Events Data Type
4.7 Boolean Expressions
4.8 Guarded Assertion Rules
4.9 Miscellaneous Modifiers
4.10 Timing Considerations
4.11 General Structure of a T-EARS Test Case
5 Discussion on T-EARS Improvement
6 Related Work
7 Conclusion and Future Work
References

A Quality Model and Checklists for Reviewing Automotive Test Case Specifications
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Developing a Quality Model for Automotive Test Case Specifications
3.1 Application of the Goal Question Metric (GQM) Approach
3.2 Automotive Test Case Specifications Quality Model
4 Review of Automotive Test Case Specifications
5 Evaluation
6 Conclusion and Future Work
References
Author Index