IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Papers
(The H4-Index of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is 48. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Combining Genetic Programming and Model Checking to Generate Environment Assumptions484
Towards Scalable Model Checking of Reflective Systems via Labeled Transition Systems476
50 Years of Transactions on Software Engineering395
Confirmation Bias and Time Pressure: A Family of Experiments in Software Testing306
To Do or Not to Do: Semantics and Patterns for Do Activities in UML PSSM State Machines173
Automatic Fairness Testing of Neural Classifiers Through Adversarial Sampling149
Influence of the 1990 IEEE TSE Paper “Automated Software Test Data Generation” on Software Engineering144
Are Your Dependencies Code Reviewed?: Measuring Code Review Coverage in Dependency Updates126
Recommending API Function Calls and Code Snippets to Support Software Development107
Review Dynamics and Their Impact on Software Quality104
Enhancing Project-Specific Code Completion by Inferring Internal API Information101
Grammar Based Directed Testing of Machine Learning Systems100
What Leads to a Confirmatory or Disconfirmatory Behavior of Software Testers?96
Enhancing Mobile App Bug Reporting via Real-Time Understanding of Reproduction Steps95
Question Selection for Multimodal Code Search Synthesis Using Probabilistic Version Spaces94
Do as You Say: Consistency Detection of Data Practice in Program Code and Privacy Policy in Mini-App93
Theoretical and Empirical Analyses of the Effectiveness of Metamorphic Relation Composition85
Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering83
Just-in-Time Prediction of Software Architectural Changes Through Commit-Level Analyses81
The Why, When, What, and How About Predictive Continuous Integration: A Simulation-Based Investigation80
A Declarative Metamorphic Testing Framework for Autonomous Driving79
Enhancing Protocol Fuzzing via Diverse Seed Corpus Generation76
Advanced Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection via LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Systems71
Prevent: An Unsupervised Approach to Predict Software Failures in Production69
Mission Specification Patterns for Mobile Robots: Providing Support for Quantitative Properties67
Answering Uncertain, Under-Specified API Queries Assisted by Knowledge-Aware Human-AI Dialogue65
A Retrospective on Whole Test Suite Generation: On the Role of SBST in the Age of LLMs65
DSSDPP: Data Selection and Sampling Based Domain Programming Predictor for Cross-Project Defect Prediction65
Can We Trust the Phone Vendors? Comprehensive Security Measurements on the Android Firmware Ecosystem62
Multi-Granularity Detector for Vulnerability Fixes62
2023 Reviewers List61
An Empirical Study of Refactoring Rhythms and Tactics in the Software Development Process60
Detecting Software Security Vulnerabilities Via Requirements Dependency Analysis58
Systematic Evaluation and Usability Analysis of Formal Methods Tools for Railway Signaling System Design58
Mitigating False Positive Static Analysis Warnings: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities57
Mask–Mediator–Wrapper Architecture as a Data Mesh Driver56
Esale: Enhancing Code-Summary Alignment Learning for Source Code Summarization56
Mole: Efficient Crash Reproduction in Android Applications With Enforcing Necessary UI Events55
Towards a Cognitive Model of Dynamic Debugging: Does Identifier Construction Matter?54
A Theory of Pending Schemas in Combinatorial Testing53
Trace Diagnostics for Signal-Based Temporal Properties52
T-Evos: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study on CI Test Execution and Failure52
Mutation Testing in Practice: Insights From Open-Source Software Developers51
Measuring the Fidelity of a Physical and a Digital Twin Using Trace Alignments50
A Systematic Review of IoT Systems Testing: Objectives, Approaches, Tools, and Challenges50
MASTER: Multi-Source Transfer Weighted Ensemble Learning for Multiple Sources Cross-Project Defect Prediction49
Multimodal Fusion for Android Malware Detection Based on Large Pre-Trained Models48
A Wizard of Oz Study Simulating API Usage Dialogues With a Virtual Assistant48
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