The paper Practitioners’ Eye on Continuous Software Engineering: An Interview Study (PDF) by Jan Ole Johanssen, Anja Kleebaum, Barbara Paech, and Bernd Bruegge was awarded the best paper award in the industry track of the ACM 2018 International Conference on Software and System Process (ICSSP 2018) in Gothenburg, Sweden. The definitive version of the paper is available in the ACM Digital Library.

In the paper, the authors present results from an interview study with 24 practitioners from 17 companies during 20 interviews, describing practitioners' definitions of CSE, most relevant elements for CSE, their experiences, and plans for future additions to their CSE process. The paper concludes with a model of CSE, the Eye of CSE.

The paper REACT: An Approach for Capturing Rationale in Chat Messages by Rana Alkadhi, Jan Ole Johanssen, Emitza Guzman and Bernd Bruegge won the best paper award in the short paper track of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2017) in Toronto, Canada. In the paper, the authors present REACT (RationalE Annotations in ChaT messages), a novel lightweight approach to capture rationale in developers' chat messages.