IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Article	Citations
Machine Learning Testing: Survey, Landscapes and Horizons	317
Smart Contract Development: Challenges and Opportunities	289
The Art, Science, and Engineering of Fuzzing: A Survey	169
The Impact of Class Rebalancing Techniques on the Performance and Interpretation of Defect Prediction Models	162
Deep Semantic Feature Learning for Software Defect Prediction	152
Fault Analysis and Debugging of Microservice Systems: Industrial Survey, Benchmark System, and Empirical Study	148
Deep Learning Based Vulnerability Detection: Are We There Yet?	135
An Empirical Study of Fault Localization Families and Their Combinations	119
SEQUENCER: Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for End-to-End Program Repair	107
ARJA: Automated Repair of Java Programs via Multi-Objective Genetic Programming	96
Defining Smart Contract Defects on Ethereum	84
Perceptions, Expectations, and Challenges in Defect Prediction	81
Automatic Feature Learning for Predicting Vulnerable Software Components	74
RefactoringMiner 2.0	74
Data Quality Matters: A Case Study on Data Label Correctness for Security Bug Report Prediction	70
Metamorphic Relations for Enhancing System Understanding and Use	65
An Empirical Study of Model-Agnostic Techniques for Defect Prediction Models	63
Service Candidate Identification from Monolithic Systems Based on Execution Traces	62
Checking Smart Contracts With Structural Code Embedding	57
Cognitive Biases in Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study	56
A Survey on Adaptive Random Testing	56
Beyond Technical Aspects: How Do Community Smells Influence the Intensity of Code Smells?	54
Mining Fix Patterns for FindBugs Violations	54
Finding Faster Configurations Using FLASH	53
Chaff from the Wheat: Characterizing and Determining Valid Bug Reports	52

Comparing Methods for Large-Scale Agile Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review	51
The Impact of Mislabeled Changes by SZZ on Just-in-Time Defect Prediction	47
Toxic Code Snippets on Stack Overflow	46
DefectChecker: Automated Smart Contract Defect Detection by Analyzing EVM Bytecode	45
The Impact of Correlated Metrics on the Interpretation of Defect Models	45
How Practitioners Perceive Automated Bug Report Management Techniques	44
Reinforcement-Learning-Guided Source Code Summarization Using Hierarchical Attention	43
Predicting Defective Lines Using a Model-Agnostic Technique	43
Revisiting Supervised and Unsupervised Methods for Effort-Aware Cross-Project Defect Prediction	42
Deep Learning Based Code Smell Detection	41
Rebooting Research on Detecting Repackaged Android Apps: Literature Review and Benchmark	40
A Comparison of Natural Language Understanding Platforms for Chatbots in Software Engineering	40
Automatically Assessing Code Understandability	40
Today Was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers	39
ElementRank: Ranking Java Software Classes and Packages using a Multilayer Complex Network-Based Approach	38
App Store Effects on Software Engineering Practices	37
CODIT: Code Editing With Tree-Based Neural Models	37
Methodological Principles for Reproducible Performance Evaluation in Cloud Computing	37
Automating Intention Mining	37
An Empirical Study of Boosting Spectrum-Based Fault Localization via PageRank	37
Historical Spectrum Based Fault Localization	36
RefDiff 2.0: A Multi-Language Refactoring Detection Tool	36
Just-In-Time Defect Identification and Localization: A Two-Phase Framework	36
What Do Package Dependencies Tell Us About Semantic Versioning?	35
Exploring Community Smells in Open-Source: An Automated Approach	35
A Systematic Literature Review on Bad Smells–5 W's: Which, When, What, Who, Where	35
Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering	35
The Impact of Feature Importance Methods on the Interpretation of Defect Classifiers	35
Specification Patterns for Robotic Missions	35
An Empirical Study of Obsolete Answers on Stack Overflow	34
A Test Case Prioritization Genetic Algorithm Guided by the Hypervolume Indicator	34
An Empirical Study on Heterogeneous Defect Prediction Approaches	34
A Qualitative Study of the Benefits and Costs of Logging From Developers’ Perspectives	34
A Large Scale Study of Long-Time Contributor Prediction for GitHub Projects	34
Using K-core Decomposition on Class Dependency Networks to Improve Bug Prediction Model's Practical Performance	34
Mining Likely Analogical APIs Across Third-Party Libraries via Large-Scale Unsupervised API Semantics Embedding	34
The Adoption of JavaScript Linters in Practice: A Case Study on ESLint	33
Finding Critical Scenarios for Automated Driving Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study	33
Understanding and Detecting Fragmentation-Induced Compatibility Issues for Android Apps	33
Deep Transfer Bug Localization	32
Too Many User-Reviews! What Should App Developers Look at First?	32
The Effectiveness of Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms in Predicting Software Refactoring	32
On the Nature of Merge Conflicts: A Study of 2,731 Open Source Java Projects Hosted by GitHub	32
What Predicts Software Developers’ Productivity?	31
Towards Security Threats of Deep Learning Systems: A Survey	31
Search-Based Crash Reproduction and Its Impact on Debugging	30
Companies’ Participation in OSS Development–An Empirical Study of OpenStack	30
A Longitudinal Study of Application Structure and Behaviors in Android	30
A Combinatorial Testing-Based Approach to Fault Localization	29
What Do Programmers Discuss About Blockchain? A Case Study on the Use of Balanced LDA and the Reference Architecture of a Domain to Capture Online Discussions About Blockchain Platforms Across Stack E	29

Bridging Semantic Gaps between Natural Languages and APIs with Word Embedding	28
DeepLineDP: Towards a Deep Learning Approach for Line-Level Defect Prediction	28
ATOM: Commit Message Generation Based on Abstract Syntax Tree and Hybrid Ranking	28
Why My App Crashes? Understanding and Benchmarking Framework-Specific Exceptions of Android Apps	28
An Interactive and Dynamic Search-Based Approach to Software Refactoring Recommendations	28
Neural Transfer Learning for Repairing Security Vulnerabilities in C Code	27
Automatic Mining of Opinions Expressed About APIs in Stack Overflow	27
Towards a Theory of Software Developer Job Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity	27
Quality of Automated Program Repair on Real-World Defects	26
A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups	26
Architecture Anti-Patterns: Automatically Detectable Violations of Design Principles	26
Reinforcement Learning for Test Case Prioritization	26
How Do Users Revise Answers on Technical Q&A Websites? A Case Study on Stack Overflow	26
An Empirical Study on the Usage of Transformer Models for Code Completion	26
What's Wrong with My Benchmark Results? Studying Bad Practices in JMH Benchmarks	26
Lightweight Assessment of Test-Case Effectiveness Using Source-Code-Quality Indicators	26
Automated Classification of Overfitting Patches With Statically Extracted Code Features	25
Automatic Detection and Repair Recommendation of Directive Defects in Java API Documentation	25
Diversified Third-Party Library Prediction for Mobile App Development	25
Platform-Independent Dynamic Taint Analysis for JavaScript	24
Easy-to-Deploy API Extraction by Multi-Level Feature Embedding and Transfer Learning	24
The State of Serverless Applications: Collection, Characterization, and Community Consensus	24
Human Values in Software Engineering: Contrasting Case Studies of Practice	24
Why Do Software Developers Use Static Analysis Tools? A User-Centered Study of Developer Needs and Motivations	24
How to “DODGE” Complex Software Analytics	24
How to Evaluate Solutions in Pareto-Based Search-Based Software Engineering: A Critical Review and Methodological Guidance	24
Dealing with Non-Functional Requirements in Model-Driven Development: A Survey	24
Review Dynamics and Their Impact on Software Quality	23
Accessible or Not? An Empirical Investigation of Android App Accessibility	23
Gender Differences in Personality Traits of Software Engineers	23
What Makes Agile Software Development Agile?	23
On Scheduling Constraint Abstraction for Multi-Threaded Program Verification	23
Software Configuration Engineering in Practice Interviews, Survey, and Systematic Literature Review	23
Analyzing Families of Experiments in SE: A Systematic Mapping Study	23
Falsification of Cyber-Physical Systems Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	22
Automatic Generation of Acceptance Test Cases From Use Case Specifications: An NLP-Based Approach	22
The Secret Life of Software Vulnerabilities: A Large-Scale Empirical Study	22
A Survey of Performance Optimization for Mobile Applications	22
How Well Do Change Sequences Predict Defects? Sequence Learning from Software Changes	22
A Taxonomy of Inter-Team Coordination Mechanisms in Large-Scale Agile	22
A Machine Learning Approach to Improve the Detection of CI Skip Commits	22
SEGRESS: Software Engineering Guidelines for REporting Secondary Studies	21
Which Commits Can Be CI Skipped?	21
Coverage Prediction for Accelerating Compiler Testing	21
Understanding How and Why Developers Seek and Analyze API-Related Opinions	21
An Empirical Study of Dependency Downgrades in the npm Ecosystem	21
Boosting API Recommendation With Implicit Feedback	21
Effects of Personality Traits on Pull Request Acceptance	21
SOSRepair: Expressive Semantic Search for Real-World Program Repair	21
Characterizing Crowds to Better Optimize Worker Recommendation in Crowdsourced Testing	21
Codee: A Tensor Embedding Scheme for Binary Code Search	21
Mind the Gap! A Study on the Transferability of Virtual Versus Physical-World Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems	21
The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity and Satisfaction of Software Engineers	21
Emotions and Perceived Productivity of Software Developers at the Workplace	21
On the Costs and Profit of Software Defect Prediction	20
SQAPlanner: Generating Data-Informed Software Quality Improvement Plans	20
How Gender-Biased Tools Shape Newcomer Experiences in OSS Projects	20
Value-Flow-Based Demand-Driven Pointer Analysis for C and C++	20
Does Reviewer Recommendation Help Developers?	20
Holistic Combination of Structural and Textual Code Information for Context Based API Recommendation	20
oo7: Low-Overhead Defense Against Spectre Attacks via Program Analysis	20
Real World Scrum A Grounded Theory of Variations in Practice	20
Within-Project Defect Prediction of Infrastructure-as-Code Using Product and Process Metrics	20
Uncovering the Benefits and Challenges of Continuous Integration Practices	19
On the Value of Oversampling for Deep Learning in Software Defect Prediction	19
Metamorphic Robustness Testing: Exposing Hidden Defects in Citation Statistics and Journal Impact Factors	19
CrySL: An Extensible Approach to Validating the Correct Usage of Cryptographic APIs	19
Nighthawk: Fully Automated Localizing UI Display Issues via Visual Understanding	19
BiasFinder: Metamorphic Test Generation to Uncover Bias for Sentiment Analysis Systems	19
Modeling Functional Similarity in Source Code With Graph-Based Siamese Networks	19
Revisiting Binary Code Similarity Analysis Using Interpretable Feature Engineering and Lessons Learned	19
The ORIS Tool: Quantitative Evaluation of Non-Markovian Systems	19
Vuln4Real: A Methodology for Counting Actually Vulnerable Dependencies	19
CBGA-ES+: A Cluster-Based Genetic Algorithm with Non-Dominated Elitist Selection for Supporting Multi-Objective Test Optimization	18
GPT2SP: A Transformer-Based Agile Story Point Estimation Approach	18
Dependency Smells in JavaScript Projects	18
Uncovering the Periphery: A Qualitative Survey of Episodic Volunteering in Free/Libre and Open Source Software Communities	17
Studying Bad Updates of Top Free-to-Download Apps in the Google Play Store	17
User Review-Based Change File Localization for Mobile Applications	17
A Fast Clustering Algorithm for Modularization of Large-Scale Software Systems	17

Systematic Evaluation and Usability Analysis of Formal Methods Tools for Railway Signaling System Design	17
Identifying Self-Admitted Technical Debts With Jitterbug: A Two-Step Approach	16
PPChecker: Towards Accessing the Trustworthiness of Android Apps’ Privacy Policies	16
Multi-Objective Software Effort Estimation: A Replication Study	16
Reading Answers on Stack Overflow: Not Enough!	16
An Interleaving Approach to Combinatorial Testing and Failure-Inducing Interaction Identification	16
On the Validity of Pre-Trained Transformers for Natural Language Processing in the Software Engineering Domain	16
Chatbot4QR: Interactive Query Refinement for Technical Question Retrieval	16
PerfJIT: Test-Level Just-in-Time Prediction for Performance Regression Introducing Commits	16
Detecting Software Security Vulnerabilities Via Requirements Dependency Analysis	16
Challenges and Common Solutions in Smart Contract Development	16
The Effects of Human Aspects on the Requirements Engineering Process: A Systematic Literature Review	16
Improving Vulnerability Inspection Efficiency Using Active Learning	16
Finding Trends in Software Research	16
Key Stakeholders’ Value Propositions for Feature Selection in Software-Intensive Products: An Industrial Case Study	15
Neural Network Guided Evolutionary Fuzzing for Finding Traffic Violations of Autonomous Vehicles	15
An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples	15
Enriching API Documentation with Code Samples and Usage Scenarios from Crowd Knowledge	15
Evaluating Automatic Program Repair Capabilities to Repair API Misuses	15
The Mutation and Injection Framework: Evaluating Clone Detection Tools with Mutation Analysis	15
Will Dependency Conflicts Affect My Program's Semantics?	15
Are You Still Working on This? An Empirical Study on Pull Request Abandonment	15
A Study of Feature Scattering in the Linux Kernel	15
Better Data Labelling With EMBLEM (and how that Impacts Defect Prediction)	15
Practical Mutation Testing at Scale: A view from Google	14
Characterizing the Usage, Evolution and Impact of Java Annotations in Practice	14
Using Transfer Learning for Code-Related Tasks	14
Context-Aware Personalized Crowdtesting Task Recommendation	14
IntRepair: Informed Repairing of Integer Overflows	14
Black-Box Testing of Deep Neural Networks through Test Case Diversity	14
Exploiting Natural Language Structures in Software Informal Documentation	14
Impact of Discretization Noise of the Dependent Variable on Machine Learning Classifiers in Software Engineering	14
A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach for Test Case Prioritization in Continuous Integration Environments	14
Software Module Clustering: An In-Depth Literature Analysis	14
A Deep Dive into the Impact of COVID-19 on Software Development	14
Deep Learning Based Program Generation From Requirements Text: Are We There Yet?	14
Construct Validity in Software Engineering	14
Can Clean New Code Reduce Technical Debt Density?	14
How Developers Choose Names	14
PackerGrind: An Adaptive Unpacking System for Android Apps	14
PatchNet: Hierarchical Deep Learning-Based Stable Patch Identification for the Linux Kernel	13
The Impact of Code Review on Architectural Changes	13
A Chaos Engineering System for Live Analysis and Falsification of Exception-Handling in the JVM	13
Evaluation of Static Vulnerability Detection Tools With Java Cryptographic API Benchmarks	13
How Software Developers Mitigate Their Errors When Developing Code	13
Redundancy, Context, and Preference: An Empirical Study of Duplicate Pull Requests in OSS Projects	13
On Company Contributions to Community Open Source Software Projects	13
Continuously Managing NFRs: Opportunities and Challenges in Practice	13
Watch Out for Extrinsic Bugs! A Case Study of Their Impact in Just-In-Time Bug Prediction Models on the OpenStack Project	13
Research on Third-Party Libraries in Android Apps: A Taxonomy and Systematic Literature Review	13
Recommending API Function Calls and Code Snippets to Support Software Development	13
A3: Assisting Android API Migrations Using Code Examples	13
How Developers Engineer Test Cases: An Observational Study	13
How Can Human Values Be Addressed in AgileMethods A Case Study on SAFe	12
Managing Episodic Volunteers in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Communities	12
Including Everyone, Everywhere: Understanding Opportunities and Challenges of Geographic Gender-Inclusion in OSS	12
Automatic Detection of Java Cryptographic API Misuses: Are We There Yet?	12
Dynamic Update of Discrete Event Controllers	12
In Search of Socio-Technical Congruence: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study	12
Where2Change: Change Request Localization for App Reviews	12
API-Related Developer Information Needs in Stack Overflow	12
Simpler Hyperparameter Optimization for Software Analytics: Why, How, When?	12
CTOS: Compiler Testing for Optimization Sequences of LLVM	12
Capabilities and Practices in DevOps: A Multivocal Literature Review	12
Interlocking Safety Cases for Unmanned Autonomous Systems in Shared Airspaces	12
Inputs From Hell:	12
Pathidea: Improving Information Retrieval-Based Bug Localization by Re-Constructing Execution Paths Using Logs	12
Enabling Good Work Habits in Software Developers through Reflective Goal-Setting	12
Automatic Test Case and Test Oracle Generation Based on Functional Scenarios in Formal Specifications for Conformance Testing	12
Comments on "Using k-core Decomposition on Class Dependency Networks to Improve Bug Prediction Model's Practical Performance"	12
Automatic and Accurate Expansion of Abbreviations in Parameters	11
GraphSearchNet: Enhancing GNNs via Capturing Global Dependencies for Semantic Code Search	11
Comparative Analysis of Constraint Handling Techniques for Constrained Combinatorial Testing	11
A Study of C/C++ Code Weaknesses on Stack Overflow	11
On the Energy Footprint of Mobile Testing Frameworks	11
Post2Vec: Learning Distributed Representations of Stack Overflow Posts	11
Efficient Parametric Model Checking Using Domain Knowledge	11
Testing with Fewer Resources: An Adaptive Approach to Performance-Aware Test Case Generation	11
Requirements Framing Affects Design Creativity	11
The Relevance of Classic Fuzz Testing: Have We Solved This One?	11
Scalable and Accurate Test Case Prioritization in Continuous Integration Contexts	11
Data Preparation for Software Vulnerability Prediction: A Systematic Literature Review	11
Large-Scale Third-Party Library Detection in Android Markets	11
Deprecation of Packages and Releases in Software Ecosystems: A Case Study on NPM	11
ConEx: Efficient Exploration of Big-Data System Configurations for Better Performance	11
On the Relationship Between the Developer’s Perceptible Race and Ethnicity and the Evaluation of Contributions in OSS	11
Observation-Enhanced QoS Analysis of Component-Based Systems	11
Studying the Association Between Bountysource Bounties and the Issue-Addressing Likelihood of GitHub Issue Reports	11
Decomposition of Monolith Applications Into Microservices Architectures: A Systematic Review	10
Adaptive Test Case Allocation, Selection and Generation Using Coverage Spectrum and Operational Profile	10
A Study of Bug Resolution Characteristics in Popular Programming Languages	10
Factors Affecting On-Time Delivery in Large-Scale Agile Software Development	10
AI-Enabled Automation for Completeness Checking of Privacy Policies	10
Theoretical and Empirical Analyses of the Effectiveness of Metamorphic Relation Composition	10
A Semantics-Based Hybrid Approach on Binary Code Similarity Comparison	10