IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
50 Years of Transactions on Software Engineering572
Enhancing Protocol Fuzzing via Diverse Seed Corpus Generation351
Question Selection for Multimodal Code Search Synthesis Using Probabilistic Version Spaces250
Computation Tree Logic Guided Program Repair138
Confirmation Bias and Time Pressure: A Family of Experiments in Software Testing132
Shield Broken: Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on LLM-Based Vulnerability Detectors128
Towards Scalable Model Checking of Reflective Systems via Labeled Transition Systems126
Can We Trust the Phone Vendors? Comprehensive Security Measurements on the Android Firmware Ecosystem125
Just-in-Time Prediction of Software Architectural Changes Through Commit-Level Analyses124
Influence of the 1990 IEEE TSE Paper “Automated Software Test Data Generation” on Software Engineering112
Enhancing Mobile App Bug Reporting via Real-Time Understanding of Reproduction Steps108
The Why, When, What, and How About Predictive Continuous Integration: A Simulation-Based Investigation106
Prevent: An Unsupervised Approach to Predict Software Failures in Production106
A Retrospective on Whole Test Suite Generation: On the Role of SBST in the Age of LLMs100
Enhancing Project-Specific Code Completion by Inferring Internal API Information99
Deobfuscation of Control Flow Flattening Based on Abstract Interpretation96
Combining Genetic Programming and Model Checking to Generate Environment Assumptions85
Are Your Dependencies Code Reviewed?: Measuring Code Review Coverage in Dependency Updates84
To Do or Not to Do: Semantics and Patterns for Do Activities in UML PSSM State Machines82
Answering Uncertain, Under-Specified API Queries Assisted by Knowledge-Aware Human-AI Dialogue80
Mission Specification Patterns for Mobile Robots: Providing Support for Quantitative Properties78
Recommending API Function Calls and Code Snippets to Support Software Development78
Efficiently Testing Distributed Systems via Abstract State Space Prioritization76
DSSDPP: Data Selection and Sampling Based Domain Programming Predictor for Cross-Project Defect Prediction75
Visibility of Domain Elements in the Elicitation Process Interviews: A Family of Empirical Studies75
How Composite Metamorphic Relations Enhance Test Effectiveness of DNN Testing: An Empirical Study74
Multi-Granularity Detector for Vulnerability Fixes73
A Declarative Metamorphic Testing Framework for Autonomous Driving73
Do as You Say: Consistency Detection of Data Practice in Program Code and Privacy Policy in Mini-App72
Automatic Fairness Testing of Neural Classifiers Through Adversarial Sampling71
Advanced Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection via LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Systems71
Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering70
2023 Reviewers List66
Towards a Cognitive Model of Dynamic Debugging: Does Identifier Construction Matter?65
Multimodal Fusion for Android Malware Detection Based on Large Pre-Trained Models65
Mutation Testing in Practice: Insights From Open-Source Software Developers64
Mitigating False Positive Static Analysis Warnings: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities63
Neural Library Recommendation by Embedding Project-Library Knowledge Graph62
Esale: Enhancing Code-Summary Alignment Learning for Source Code Summarization60
A Wizard of Oz Study Simulating API Usage Dialogues With a Virtual Assistant59
Mask–Mediator–Wrapper Architecture as a Data Mesh Driver58
T-Evos: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study on CI Test Execution and Failure56
Mole: Efficient Crash Reproduction in Android Applications With Enforcing Necessary UI Events56
Detecting Malicious Packages in PyPI and NPM by Clustering Installation Scripts55
PerfJIT: Test-Level Just-in-Time Prediction for Performance Regression Introducing Commits55
An Empirical Study of Software Refactorings in Real-World Open-Source Java Projects55
Efficient State Identification for Finite State Machine-Based Testing54
Automated Code Editing With Search-Generate-Modify53
δ-SCALPEL: Docker Image Slimming Based on Source Code Static Analysis53
Systematic Evaluation and Usability Analysis of Formal Methods Tools for Railway Signaling System Design52
A Systematic Review of IoT Systems Testing: Objectives, Approaches, Tools, and Challenges52
MASTER: Multi-Source Transfer Weighted Ensemble Learning for Multiple Sources Cross-Project Defect Prediction51
Trace Diagnostics for Signal-Based Temporal Properties51
Measuring the Fidelity of a Physical and a Digital Twin Using Trace Alignments51
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