IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Papers
(The H4-Index of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is 47. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Combining Genetic Programming and Model Checking to Generate Environment Assumptions471
Towards Scalable Model Checking of Reflective Systems via Labeled Transition Systems469
50 Years of Transactions on Software Engineering374
Confirmation Bias and Time Pressure: A Family of Experiments in Software Testing296
To Do or Not to Do: Semantics and Patterns for Do Activities in UML PSSM State Machines159
Can We Trust the Phone Vendors? Comprehensive Security Measurements on the Android Firmware Ecosystem146
Just-in-time Prediction of Software Architectural Changes through Commit-level Analyses134
Automatic Fairness Testing of Neural Classifiers Through Adversarial Sampling124
Mission Specification Patterns for Mobile Robots: Providing Support for Quantitative Properties105
A Retrospective on Whole Test Suite Generation: On the Role of SBST in the Age of LLMs102
Are Your Dependencies Code Reviewed?: Measuring Code Review Coverage in Dependency Updates95
Influence of the 1990 IEEE TSE Paper “Automated Software Test Data Generation” on Software Engineering95
The Why, When, What, and How About Predictive Continuous Integration: A Simulation-Based Investigation94
What Leads to a Confirmatory or Disconfirmatory Behavior of Software Testers?93
Grammar Based Directed Testing of Machine Learning Systems93
Review Dynamics and Their Impact on Software Quality86
Theoretical and Empirical Analyses of the Effectiveness of Metamorphic Relation Composition82
Enhancing Mobile App Bug Reporting via Real-Time Understanding of Reproduction Steps79
A Declarative Metamorphic Testing Framework for Autonomous Driving78
Question Selection for Multimodal Code Search Synthesis Using Probabilistic Version Spaces77
Answering Uncertain, Under-Specified API Queries Assisted by Knowledge-Aware Human-AI Dialogue74
Do as You Say: Consistency Detection of Data Practice in Program Code and Privacy Policy in Mini-App72
Multi-Granularity Detector for Vulnerability Fixes67
Recommending API Function Calls and Code Snippets to Support Software Development66
Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering65
Prevent: An Unsupervised Approach to Predict Software Failures in Production63
DSSDPP: Data Selection and Sampling Based Domain Programming Predictor for Cross-Project Defect Prediction63
Enhancing Project-Specific Code Completion by Inferring Internal API Information63
2023 Reviewers List60
Systematic Evaluation and Usability Analysis of Formal Methods Tools for Railway Signaling System Design59
An Empirical Study of Refactoring Rhythms and Tactics in the Software Development Process59
Enabling Good Work Habits in Software Developers through Reflective Goal-Setting59
Mask–Mediator–Wrapper Architecture as a Data Mesh Driver58
Mole: Efficient Crash Reproduction in Android Applications With Enforcing Necessary UI Events58
The Impact of Surface Features on Choice of (in)Secure Answers by Stackoverflow Readers56
Towards a Cognitive Model of Dynamic Debugging: Does Identifier Construction Matter?56
A Theory of Pending Schemas in Combinatorial Testing56
T-Evos: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study on CI Test Execution and Failure55
Trace Diagnostics for Signal-Based Temporal Properties53
A Wizard of Oz Study Simulating API Usage Dialogues With a Virtual Assistant52
Multimodal Fusion for Android Malware Detection Based on Large Pre-Trained Models52
Neural Library Recommendation by Embedding Project-Library Knowledge Graph51
GenMorph: Automatically Generating Metamorphic Relations via Genetic Programming50
Robust Test Selection for Deep Neural Networks50
Testing with Fewer Resources: An Adaptive Approach to Performance-Aware Test Case Generation49
Automated Code Editing With Search-Generate-Modify48
Mutation Testing in Practice: Insights From Open-Source Software Developers47
Esale: Enhancing Code-Summary Alignment Learning for Source Code Summarization47
Mitigating False Positive Static Analysis Warnings: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities47
Multi-Objective Software Defect Prediction via Multi-Source Uncertain Information Fusion and Multi-Task Multi-View Learning47
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