IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Article	Citations
ContractCheck: Checking Ethereum Smart Contracts in Fine-Grained Level	435
Making Sense of AI Systems Development	427
Dealing with Non-Functional Requirements in Model-Driven Development: A Survey	283
Towards Security Threats of Deep Learning Systems: A Survey	259
Recommending API Function Calls and Code Snippets to Support Software Development	125
ChatGPT vs SBST: A Comparative Assessment of Unit Test Suite Generation	106
Software Engineering Research Trends 1994–2024: Stepping Beyond the Lamppost	91
The Effect of Feature Characteristics on the Performance of Feature Location Techniques	85
An Automated Approach to Discovering Software Refactorings by Comparing Successive Versions	84
PATEN: Identifying Unpatched Third-Party APIs via Fine-grained Patch-enhanced AST-level Signature	82
Function Call Graph Context Encoding for Neural Source Code Summarization	81
Evaluating Spectrum-based Fault Localization on Deep Learning Libraries	81
Revisiting Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them	78
Does Treatment Adherence Impact Experiment Results in TDD?	75
A Context-Aware Clustering Approach for Assisting Operators in Classifying Security Alerts	74
On the Influence of Data Resampling for Deep Learning-Based Log Anomaly Detection: Insights and Recommendations	72
A Holistic Approach to Design Understanding Through Concept Explanation	70
Do Chase Your Tail! Missing Key Aspects Augmentation in Textual Vulnerability Descriptions of Long-Tail Software Through Feature Inference	70
Comments on "Using k-core Decomposition on Class Dependency Networks to Improve Bug Prediction Model's Practical Performance"	68
50 Years of Transactions on Software Engineering	67
Towards More Precise Coincidental Correctness Detection With Deep Semantic Learning	66
Why Do Software Developers Use Static Analysis Tools? A User-Centered Study of Developer Needs and Motivations	62
Compositional Analysis of Hierarchical UML Statecharts	60
Redundancy, Context, and Preference: An Empirical Study of Duplicate Pull Requests in OSS Projects	60
Towards Efficient Fine-Tuning of Language Models With Organizational Data for Automated Software Review	58

SQLPsdem: A Proxy-Based Mechanism Towards Detecting, Locating and Preventing Second-Order SQL Injections	57
To Do or Not to Do: Semantics and Patterns for Do Activities in UML PSSM State Machines	55
Mitigating the Uncertainty and Imprecision of Log-Based Code Coverage Without Requiring Additional Logging Statements	53
FairBalance: How to Achieve Equalized Odds With Data Pre-Processing	53
Evaluating SZZ Implementations: An Empirical Study on the Linux Kernel	53
Pearl: A Multi-Derivation Approach to Efficient CFL-Reachability Solving	52
Predicting the First Response Latency of Maintainers and Contributors in Pull Requests	52
The Effects of Computational Resources on Flaky Tests	52
SCAnoGenerator: Automatic Anomaly Injection for Ethereum Smart Contracts	51
Qualitative Surveys in Software Engineering Research: Definition, Critical Review, and Guidelines	51
A Controlled Experiment in Age and Gender Bias When Reading Technical Articles in Software Engineering	51
Do as You Say: Consistency Detection of Data Practice in Program Code and Privacy Policy in Mini-App	50
A Comprehensive Study on Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools for Android	50
Multitask-Based Evaluation of Open-Source LLM on Software Vulnerability	49
Clopper-Pearson Algorithms for Efficient Statistical Model Checking Estimation	47
Testing Self-Adaptive Software With Probabilistic Guarantees on Performance Metrics: Extended and Comparative Results	46
Automatic Fairness Testing of Neural Classifiers Through Adversarial Sampling	45
Broken External Links on Stack Overflow	44
Combining Genetic Programming and Model Checking to Generate Environment Assumptions	44
Modeling Functional Similarity in Source Code With Graph-Based Siamese Networks	43
Research on Third-Party Libraries in Android Apps: A Taxonomy and Systematic Literature Review	42
Leveraging Structure in Software Merge: An Empirical Study	41
AI-Enabled Automation for Completeness Checking of Privacy Policies	41
Building Maintainable Software Using Abstraction Layering	41
Capabilities and Practices in DevOps: A Multivocal Literature Review	40
Selecting Context-Sensitivity Modularly for Accelerating Object-Sensitive Pointer Analysis	40
The Human Side of Software Engineering Teams: An Investigation of Contemporary Challenges	40
Enhancing Mobile App Bug Reporting via Real-Time Understanding of Reproduction Steps	39
VID2XML: Automatic Extraction of a Complete XML Data From Mobile Programming Screencasts	39
Towards Scalable Model Checking of Reflective Systems via Labeled Transition Systems	39
Learning to Predict User-Defined Types	38
Towards Automatically Localizing Function Errors in Mobile Apps With User Reviews	38
DSSDPP: Data Selection and Sampling Based Domain Programming Predictor for Cross-Project Defect Prediction	38
SCS-Gan: Learning Functionality-Agnostic Stylometric Representations for Source Code Authorship Verification	38
PopArt: Ranked Testing Efficiency	37
Supporting Developers in Addressing Human-Centric Issues in Mobile Apps	37
From Inheritance to Mockito: An Automatic Refactoring Approach	37
A Comprehensive Investigation of the Impact of Class Overlap on Software Defect Prediction	37
Managing Technical Debt Using Intelligent Techniques - A Systematic Mapping Study	37
BEQAIN: An Effective and Efficient Identifier Normalization Approach With BERT and the Question Answering System	36
Generating Structurally Realistic Models With Deep Autoregressive Networks	36
Verification of Fuzzy Decision Trees	36
Black-Box Testing of Deep Neural Networks through Test Case Diversity	35
JavaScript Dead Code Identification, Elimination, and Empirical Assessment	35
Mission Specification Patterns for Mobile Robots: Providing Support for Quantitative Properties	35
Plumber: Boosting the Propagation of Vulnerability Fixes in the npm Ecosystem	35
Runtime Evolution of Bitcoin's Consensus Rules	34
Can We Trust the Phone Vendors? Comprehensive Security Measurements on the Android Firmware Ecosystem	34
Task-Oriented ML/DL Library Recommendation Based on a Knowledge Graph	34
scenoRITA: Generating Diverse, Fully Mutable, Test Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicle Planning	33

Are Your Dependencies Code Reviewed?: Measuring Code Review Coverage in Dependency Updates	33
Studying the Influence and Distribution of the Human Effort in a Hybrid Fitness Function for Search-Based Model-Driven Engineering	33
Identifying the Hazard Boundary of ML-Enabled Autonomous Systems Using Cooperative Coevolutionary Search	33
Concretization of Abstract Traffic Scene Specifications Using Metaheuristic Search	32
The Why, When, What, and How About Predictive Continuous Integration: A Simulation-Based Investigation	32
Confirmation Bias and Time Pressure: A Family of Experiments in Software Testing	32
Prevent: An Unsupervised Approach to Predict Software Failures in Production	32
PatchDiscovery: Patch Presence Test for Identifying Binary Vulnerabilities Based on Key Basic Blocks	32
FeatRacer: Locating Features Through Assisted Traceability	32
Accelerating Finite State Machine-Based Testing Using Reinforcement Learning	31
Answering Uncertain, Under-Specified API Queries Assisted by Knowledge-Aware Human-AI Dialogue	31
Active Code Learning: Benchmarking Sample-Efficient Training of Code Models	31
Neural Density Estimation of Response Times in Layered Software Systems	31
Factoring Expertise, Workload, and Turnover Into Code Review Recommendation	31
Automatic Debugging of Design Faults in MapReduce Applications	31
Accelerating Patch Validation for Program Repair With Interception-Based Execution Scheduling	31
Grammar Based Directed Testing of Machine Learning Systems	30
Enabling Mutant Generation for Open- and Closed-Source Android Apps	30
An Empirical Study of Dependency Downgrades in the npm Ecosystem	30
Comparative Analysis of Constraint Handling Techniques for Constrained Combinatorial Testing	30
Review Dynamics and Their Impact on Software Quality	30
TkT: Automatic Inference of Timed and Extended Pushdown Automata	29
Contextual Documentation Referencing on Stack Overflow	29
ConEx: Efficient Exploration of Big-Data System Configurations for Better Performance	29
Clustering Crowdsourced Test Reports of Mobile Applications Using Image Understanding	28
What Leads to a Confirmatory or Disconfirmatory Behavior of Software Testers?	28
Orderly Generation of Test Data via Sorting Mutant Branches Based on Their Dominance Degrees for Weak Mutation Testing	28
Conditional Quantitative Program Analysis	28
Effects of Mindfulness on Conceptual Modeling Performance: A Series of Experiments	28
The Best Laid Plans or Lack Thereof: Security Decision-Making of Different Stakeholder Groups	27
Theoretical and Empirical Analyses of the Effectiveness of Metamorphic Relation Composition	27
Reuse of Similarly Behaving Software Through Polymorphism-Inspired Variability Mechanisms	27
Restore: Retrospective Fault Localization Enhancing Automated Program Repair	27
Vuln4Real: A Methodology for Counting Actually Vulnerable Dependencies	26
SQAPlanner: Generating Data-Informed Software Quality Improvement Plans	26
The Impact of Code Review on Architectural Changes	26
Learning From Mistakes: Machine Learning Enhanced Human Expert Effort Estimates	26
Mining Similar Methods for Test Adaptation	26
Adaptive Test Case Allocation, Selection and Generation Using Coverage Spectrum and Operational Profile	26
Requirements Framing Affects Design Creativity	26
How do Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research?	26
In Search of Socio-Technical Congruence: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study	26
Reusing Solutions Modulo Theories	26
Enhancing Trustability of Android Applications via User-Centric Flexible Permissions	25
Code Reviews With Divergent Review Scores: An Empirical Study of the OpenStack and Qt Communities	25
FutureWare: Designing a Middleware for Anticipatory Mobile Computing	25
Metamorphic Robustness Testing: Exposing Hidden Defects in Citation Statistics and Journal Impact Factors	25
Easy-to-Deploy API Extraction by Multi-Level Feature Embedding and Transfer Learning	25
Architecture Anti-Patterns: Automatically Detectable Violations of Design Principles	25
A Semantics-Based Hybrid Approach on Binary Code Similarity Comparison	25
Semantic Learning and Emulation Based Cross-Platform Binary Vulnerability Seeker	25
Completeness and Consistency of Tabular Requirements: An SMT-Based Verification Approach	24
Real World Scrum A Grounded Theory of Variations in Practice	24
A Study of Bug Resolution Characteristics in Popular Programming Languages	24
Detecting Compiler Error Recovery Defects via Program Mutation Exploration	24
Accuracy Can Lie: On the Impact of Surrogate Model in Configuration Tuning	24
Multi-Granularity Detector for Vulnerability Fixes	24
Automated co-evolution of metamodels and code	24
Isolating Compiler Bugs by Generating Effective Witness Programs With Large Language Models	24
Better Data Labelling With EMBLEM (and how that Impacts Defect Prediction)	24
Improved Management of Issue Dependencies in Issue Trackers of Large Collaborative Projects	23
XPro: A Model to Explain the Limited Adoption and Implementation of Experimentation in Software Startups	23
Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering	23
A Large Scale Study of Long-Time Contributor Prediction for GitHub Projects	23
Engineering Within Boundaries When Software Has None	23
A Declarative Metamorphic Testing Framework for Autonomous Driving	23
Pull Request Governance in Open Source Communities	23
NLP-Based Automated Compliance Checking of Data Processing Agreements Against GDPR	22
Stealthy Backdoor Attack for Code Models	22
A Retrospective on Whole Test Suite Generation: On the Role of SBST in the Age of LLMs	22
Software Testing With Large Language Models: Survey, Landscape, and Vision	22
Dealing With Data Challenges When Delivering Data-Intensive Software Solutions	22
Emerging App Issue Identification via Online Joint Sentiment-Topic Tracing	22
Program Slicing: A Brief Retrospective	22
Retrospective on: Constraint-Based Automatic Test Data Generation	22
ARTE: Automated Generation of Realistic Test Inputs for Web APIs	22
Machine Learning Testing: Survey, Landscapes and Horizons	22
Influence of the 1990 IEEE TSE Paper “Automated Software Test Data Generation” on Software Engineering	22
Comparing Methods for Large-Scale Agile Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review	21
Factors Affecting On-Time Delivery in Large-Scale Agile Software Development	21

Defining Smart Contract Defects on Ethereum	21
ErrHunter: Detecting Error-Handling Bugs in the Linux Kernel Through Systematic Static Analysis	21
Automated Expansion of Abbreviations Based on Semantic Relation and Transfer Expansion	21
A Systematic Literature Review of Anti-Discrimination Design Strategies in the Digital Sharing Economy	20
Understanding How and Why Developers Seek and Analyze API-Related Opinions	20
RNN-Test: Towards Adversarial Testing for Recurrent Neural Network Systems	20
Bringing Open Source Communication and Development Together: A Cross-Platform Study on Gitter and GitHub	20
Coverage Goal Selector for Combining Multiple Criteria in Search-Based Unit Test Generation	20
2023 Reviewers List	20
D3: Differential Testing of Distributed Deep Learning With Model Generation	20
Specification Patterns for Robotic Missions	20
Neural Transfer Learning for Repairing Security Vulnerabilities in C Code	20
A Machine Learning Approach to Improve the Detection of CI Skip Commits	19
On the Workflows and Smells of Leaderboard Operations (LBOps): An Exploratory Study of Foundation Model Leaderboards	19
A Systematic Review of IoT Systems Testing: Objectives, Approaches, Tools, and Challenges	19
Enabling Good Work Habits in Software Developers through Reflective Goal-Setting	19
An Empirical Study on Correlations Between Deep Neural Network Fairness and Neuron Coverage Criteria	19
MultiPL-E: A Scalable and Polyglot Approach to Benchmarking Neural Code Generation	19
Measuring the Fidelity of a Physical and a Digital Twin Using Trace Alignments	19
Automatic Generation of Acceptance Test Cases From Use Case Specifications: An NLP-Based Approach	19
A Retrospective of ChangeDistiller: Tree Differencing for Fine-Grained Source Code Change Extraction	18
Characterizing Timeout Builds in Continuous Integration	18
Reflections of a Former Editor-in-Chief of TSE	18
FlexFL: Flexible and Effective Fault Localization with Open-Source Large Language Models	18
Object-Oriented Development, Revisited	18
A Retrospective of Proving the Correctness of Multiprocess Programs	18
The Mutation and Injection Framework: Evaluating Clone Detection Tools with Mutation Analysis	18
Looking Back on Recovery Blocks and Conversations	18
Simplifying and Isolating Failure-Inducing Input: A Retrospective on Delta Debugging	18
Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study	17
A Cost-Efficient Auto-Scaling Algorithm for Large-Scale Graph Processing in Cloud Environments with Heterogeneous Resources	17
An Empirical Validation of Oracle Improvement	17
Evolving JavaScript Code to Reduce Load Time	17
Recommending Participants for Collaborative Merge Sessions	17
Lightweight Assessment of Test-Case Effectiveness Using Source-Code-Quality Indicators	17
Automatic Detection, Validation, and Repair of Race Conditions in Interrupt-Driven Embedded Software	16
A Framework for Emotion-Oriented Requirements Change Handling in Agile Software Engineering	16
Metamorphic Testing for Web System Security	16
DeLag: Using Multi-Objective Optimization to Enhance the Detection of Latency Degradation Patterns in Service-Based Systems	16
IntRepair: Informed Repairing of Integer Overflows	16
Using Docker to Assist Q&A Forum Users	16
GraphSearchNet: Enhancing GNNs via Capturing Global Dependencies for Semantic Code Search	16
Mixed Signals: Analyzing Software Attribution Challenges in the Android Ecosystem	16
A Search-Based Testing Approach for Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents	16
Self-Supervised Learning to Prove Equivalence Between Straight-Line Programs via Rewrite Rules	16
Reading Answers on Stack Overflow: Not Enough!	16
Testing with Fewer Resources: An Adaptive Approach to Performance-Aware Test Case Generation	16
Trace Diagnostics for Signal-Based Temporal Properties	16
CoSS: leveraging statement semantics for code summarization	16
Designing, Modeling and Analysis of GALS Software Systems	16
A Software Requirements Ecosystem: Linking Forum, Issue Tracker, and FAQs for Requirements Management	16
Integrating Provenance Capture and UML With UML2PROV: Principles and Experience	16
K-ST: A Formal Executable Semantics of the Structured Text Language for PLCs	15
Mitigating False Positive Static Analysis Warnings: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities	15
Identifying Similar Test Cases That Are Specified in Natural Language	15
Dynamic Human-in-the-Loop Assertion Generation	15
UMLsecRT: Reactive Security Monitoring of Java Applications With Round-Trip Engineering	15
Multi-Misconfiguration Diagnosis via Identifying Correlated Configuration Parameters	15
Cross-Instance Regulatory Compliance Checking of Business Process Event Logs	15
Augmenting Diffs With Runtime Information	15
What Petri Nets Oblige us to Say Comparing Approaches for Behavior Composition	15
Open Science in Software Engineering: A Study on Deep Learning-Based Vulnerability Detection	15
DexBERT: Effective, Task-Agnostic and Fine-Grained Representation Learning of Android Bytecode	15
The Duality in Computing SSA Programs and Control Dependency	15
T-Evos: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study on CI Test Execution and Failure	15
autoMPI: Automated Multiple Perspective Attack Investigation With Semantics Aware Execution Partitioning	15
GenMorph: Automatically Generating Metamorphic Relations via Genetic Programming	14
A Theory of Value for Value-Based Feature Selection in Software Engineering	14
Heuristic and Neural Network Based Prediction of Project-Specific API Member Access	14
Finding Trends in Software Research	14
Gender Differences in Personality Traits of Software Engineers	14
The Impact of Surface Features on Choice of (in)Secure Answers by Stackoverflow Readers	14
Multi-Objective Software Defect Prediction via Multi-Source Uncertain Information Fusion and Multi-Task Multi-View Learning	14
Mutation Testing in Practice: Insights From Open-Source Software Developers	14
Pegasus: Performance Engineering for Software Applications Targeting HPC Systems	14
PackerGrind: An Adaptive Unpacking System for Android Apps	14
Empowering the Human as the Fitness Function in Search-Based Model-Driven Engineering	13
CTOS: Compiler Testing for Optimization Sequences of LLVM	13
How Software Developers Mitigate Their Errors When Developing Code	13
Code Review Knowledge Perception: Fusing Multi-Features for Salient-Class Location	13
Erratum to “Accurate and Scalable Cross-Architecture Cross-OS Binary Code Search With Emulation”	13
Emotions and Perceived Productivity of Software Developers at the Workplace	13
Exploring the Use of Chatrooms by Developers: An Empirical Study on Slack and Gitter	13
A Deep Dive into the Impact of COVID-19 on Software Development	13
Enhancement of Mutation Testing via Fuzzy Clustering and Multi-Population Genetic Algorithm	13
Utilizing Automatic Query Reformulations as Genetic Operations to Improve Feature Location in Software Models	13
Active Learning of Discriminative Subgraph Patterns for API Misuse Detection	13
Enhancing Dynamic Symbolic Execution by Automatically Learning Search Heuristics	13
Colosseum: Regression Test Prioritization by Delta Displacement in Test Coverage	13
Verification and Synthesis of Responsive Symmetric Uni-Rings	13
A Wizard of Oz Study Simulating API Usage Dialogues With a Virtual Assistant	13
Integrating an Ensemble Surrogate Model’s Estimation into Test Data Generation	13
PerfJIT: Test-Level Just-in-Time Prediction for Performance Regression Introducing Commits	13
Assisting Example-Based API Misuse Detection via Complementary Artificial Examples	13
A Theory of Pending Schemas in Combinatorial Testing	13