OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is 51. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
50 Years of Transactions on Software Engineering	505
Confirmation Bias and Time Pressure: A Family of Experiments in Software Testing	485
To Do or Not to Do: Semantics and Patterns for Do Activities in UML PSSM State Machines	262
Combining Genetic Programming and Model Checking to Generate Environment Assumptions	194
Towards Scalable Model Checking of Reflective Systems via Labeled Transition Systems	159
Efficiently Testing Distributed Systems via Abstract State Space Prioritization	146
Multi-Granularity Detector for Vulnerability Fixes	127
Can We Trust the Phone Vendors? Comprehensive Security Measurements on the Android Firmware Ecosystem	117
Just-in-Time Prediction of Software Architectural Changes Through Commit-Level Analyses	114
The Why, When, What, and How About Predictive Continuous Integration: A Simulation-Based Investigation	110
Enhancing Project-Specific Code Completion by Inferring Internal API Information	109
Automatic Fairness Testing of Neural Classifiers Through Adversarial Sampling	108
Enhancing Protocol Fuzzing via Diverse Seed Corpus Generation	100
Computation Tree Logic Guided Program Repair	100
Question Selection for Multimodal Code Search Synthesis Using Probabilistic Version Spaces	99
What Leads to a Confirmatory or Disconfirmatory Behavior of Software Testers?	94
Shield Broken: Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on LLM-Based Vulnerability Detectors	92
Theoretical and Empirical Analyses of the Effectiveness of Metamorphic Relation Composition	91
Influence of the 1990 IEEE TSE Paper “Automated Software Test Data Generation” on Software Engineering	83
Mission Specification Patterns for Mobile Robots: Providing Support for Quantitative Properties	83
Are Your Dependencies Code Reviewed?: Measuring Code Review Coverage in Dependency Updates	78
Advanced Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection via LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Systems	77
A Retrospective on Whole Test Suite Generation: On the Role of SBST in the Age of LLMs	73
Recommending API Function Calls and Code Snippets to Support Software Development	72
Prevent: An Unsupervised Approach to Predict Software Failures in Production	70

Enhancing Mobile App Bug Reporting via Real-Time Understanding of Reproduction Steps	69
Answering Uncertain, Under-Specified API Queries Assisted by Knowledge-Aware Human-AI Dialogue	68
A Declarative Metamorphic Testing Framework for Autonomous Driving	67
Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering	66
Do as You Say: Consistency Detection of Data Practice in Program Code and Privacy Policy in Mini-App	65
DSSDPP: Data Selection and Sampling Based Domain Programming Predictor for Cross-Project Defect Prediction	65
Esale: Enhancing Code-Summary Alignment Learning for Source Code Summarization	64
2023 Reviewers List	64
Mask–Mediator–Wrapper Architecture as a Data Mesh Driver	64
Mole: Efficient Crash Reproduction in Android Applications With Enforcing Necessary UI Events	63
Detecting Malicious Packages in PyPI and npm by Clustering Installation Scripts	62
A Theory of Pending Schemas in Combinatorial Testing	62
T-Evos: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study on CI Test Execution and Failure	62
PerfJIT: Test-Level Just-in-Time Prediction for Performance Regression Introducing Commits	59
Trace Diagnostics for Signal-Based Temporal Properties	59
Measuring the Fidelity of a Physical and a Digital Twin Using Trace Alignments	58
The Impact of Surface Features on Choice of (in)Secure Answers by Stackoverflow Readers	57
GenMorph: Automatically Generating Metamorphic Relations via Genetic Programming	56
A Wizard of Oz Study Simulating API Usage Dialogues With a Virtual Assistant	56
An Empirical Study of Software Refactorings in Real-World Open-Source Java Projects	55
Robust Test Selection for Deep Neural Networks	53
Efficient State Identification for Finite State Machine-Based Testing	53
Mitigating False Positive Static Analysis Warnings: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities	52
Automated Code Editing With Search-Generate-Modify	52
δ-SCALPEL: Docker Image Slimming Based on Source Code Static Analysis	52
A Systematic Review of IoT Systems Testing: Objectives, Approaches, Tools, and Challenges	51
Multi-Objective Software Defect Prediction via Multi-Source Uncertain Information Fusion and Multi-Task Multi-View Learning	51