Journal of Systems and Software

Article	Citations
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	177
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	148
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	143
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	105
Editorial Board	100
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	97
Editorial Board	80
Why do builds fail?—A conceptual replication study	79
Introduction to the Special Issue on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation 2018	76
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	74
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	68
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	62
ECCOLA — A method for implementing ethically aligned AI systems	60
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	59
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	58
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	57
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	53
Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	50
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	49
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	48
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	48
Machine learning based success prediction for crowdsourcing software projects	48
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	47
Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert	47
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	45

Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	44
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	42
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	42
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	40
On measuring coupling between microservices	40
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	40
DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting framework for software vulnerability detection	39
Investigating the performance of personalized models for software defect prediction	37
Multi-granularity coverage criteria for deep reinforcement learning systems	36
Conformance assessment of Architectural Design Decisions on API endpoint designs derived from domain models	35
Maximizing integrative learning in software development teams: A systematic review of key drivers and future research agenda	35
An evidence-based roadmap for IoT software systems engineering	35
Flexible control flow graph alignment for delivering data-driven feedback to novice programming learners	35
Taxonomy of security weaknesses in Java and Kotlin Android apps	35
Discovering boundary values of feature-based machine learning classifiers through exploratory datamorphic testing	34
A three-step hybrid specification approach to error prevention	34
Explaining software fault predictions to spreadsheet users	34
A novel blockchain protocol for selecting microservices providers and auditing contracts	33
Leveraging belief uncertainty for informed decision making in software product line evolution	33
Advancing modern code review effectiveness through human error mechanisms	33
A data-driven active learning approach to reusing ML solutions in scientific applications	32
Challenges and opportunities: Implementing diversity and inclusion in software engineering university level education in Finland	31
Reproducibility of issues reported in stack overflow questions: Challenges, impact & estimation	31
When traceability goes awry: An industrial experience report	31
A modular metamodel and refactoring rules to achieve software product line interoperability	30
VIBE: Looking for Variability In amBiguous rEquirements	30
Optimizing smart contract vulnerability detection via multi-modality code and entropy embedding	29
Exploring the use of static and dynamic analysis to improve the performance of the mining sandbox approach for android malware identification	29
Code search engines for the next generation	28
Diverse title generation for Stack Overflow posts with multiple-sampling-enhanced transformer	28
A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging	27
A speech-enabled virtual assistant for efficient human–robot interaction in industrial environments	27
A model-driven approach for continuous performance engineering in microservice-based systems	27
Combine sliced joint graph with graph neural networks for smart contract vulnerability detection	27
Automatically recognizing the semantic elements from UML class diagram images	27
Improve cross-project just-in-time defect prediction with dynamic transfer learning	27
A fuzzy logic-based quality model for identifying microservices with low maintainability	26
SynthoMinds: Bridging human programming intuition with retrieval, analogy, and reasoning in program synthesis	26
Effectiveness of symmetric metamorphic relations on validating the stability of code generation LLM	26
Understanding the low inter-rater agreement on aggressiveness on the Linux Kernel Mailing List	26
Runtime verification of train control systems with parameterized modal live sequence charts	26
Software micro-rejuvenation for Android mobile systems	26
CharM — Evaluating a model for characterizing service-based architectures	25
Survey of annotation generators for deductive verifiers	25
System quality and security certification in seven weeks: A multi-case study in Spanish SMEs	25
Design for dependability — State of the art and trends	25
Fine-grained smart contract vulnerability detection by heterogeneous code feature learning and automated dataset construction	24
A hybrid code representation learning approach for predicting method names	24
Continuous software security through security prioritisation meetings	24
Exploring multi-programming-language commits and their impacts on software quality: An empirical study on Apache projects	24

Transformation-based model checking temporal trust in multi-agent systems	24
A sampling-based online Co-Location-Resistant Virtual Machine placement strategy	23
Choosing the right path for AI integration in engineering companies: A strategic guide	23
DValidator: An approach for validating dependencies in build configurations	23
Examining the effect of software professionals’ personality & additional capabilities on agile teams’ climate	23
Variability management and software product line knowledge in software companies	23
End-users’ knowledge and perception about security of clinical mobile health apps: A case study with two Saudi Arabian mHealth providers	22
Architecting ML-enabled systems: Challenges, best practices, and design decisions	22
Navigating the DevOps landscape	22
A critical comparison on six static analysis tools: Detection, agreement, and precision	22
Automatic modelling and verification of Autosar architectures	22
Editorial Board	21
Considerations and challenges for the adoption of open source components in software-intensive businesses	21
Software product lines and features from the perspective of set theory with an application to feature location	21
A structural taxonomy for lifted software product line analyses	21
MeTeaM—A method for characterizing mature software metrics teams	21
Architectural tactics to achieve quality attributes of machine-learning-enabled systems: a systematic literature review	21
A bot identification model and tool based on GitHub activity sequences	21
Work-from-home is here to stay: Call for flexibility in post-pandemic work policies	21
MPLinker: Multi-template Prompt-tuning with adversarial training for Issue–commit Link recovery	21
SEXTAMT: A systematic map to navigate the wide seas of factors affecting expert judgment software estimates	21
Semantic interoperability for an AI-based applications platform for smart hospitals using HL7 FHIR	21
A parallel worklist algorithm and its exploration heuristics for static modular analyses	20
Integration test order generation based on reinforcement learning considering class importance	20
How to identify class comment types? A multi-language approach for class comment classification	20
Extracting goal models from natural language requirement specifications	20
Do code reviews lead to fewer code smells?	20
Neural-FEBI: Accurate function identification in Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode	20
Enhancing empirical software performance engineering research with kernel-level events: A comprehensive system tracing approach	20
Deriving modernity signatures of codebases with static analysis	20
The pipeline for the continuous development of artificial intelligence models—Current state of research and practice	19
BlockSOP: A blockchain-based software management platform for open collaborative development	19
On the relationship between source-code metrics and cognitive load: A systematic tertiary review	19
Targeting uncertainty in smart CPS by confidence-based logic	19
Developers’ need for the rationale of code commits: An in-breadth and in-depth study	19
Boosting source code suggestion with self-supervised Transformer Gated Highway	19
Retriever: A view-based approach to reverse engineering software architecture models	19
The AmbiTRUS framework for identifying potential ambiguity in user stories	19
Automatic prediction of developers’ resolutions for software merge conflicts	18
ExTrA: Explaining architectural design tradeoff spaces via dimensionality reduction	18
An empirical investigation into the capabilities of anomaly detection approaches for test smell detection	18
On the impact of single and co-occurrent refactorings on quality attributes in android applications	18
Runtime reliability fractional distribution change analytics against cloud-based systems DDoS attacks	18
Multivocal study on microservice dependencies	18
Just-in-time software vulnerability detection: Are we there yet?	17
Decentralized decision-making and scaled autonomy at Spotify	17
Incremental-concurrent fusion checking for efficient context consistency	17
SeCNN: A semantic CNN parser for code comment generation	17
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Hippo: A formal-model execution engine to control and verify critical real-time systems	17
Supporting meta-model-based language evolution and rapid prototyping with automated grammar transformation	17
Developing and sustaining a student-driven software solutions center—An experience report	16
A Cross-Domain Systematic Mapping Study on Software Engineering for Digital Twins	16
Hierarchical tree-based algorithms for efficient expression parsing and test sequence generation in software models	16
Special Issue on Software and Systems Reuse in the Big Data Era	16
A/B testing: A systematic literature review	16
EnseSmells : Deep ensemble and programming language models for automated code smells detection	16
Adaptive robustness evaluation for complex system prognostics and health management software platform	16
A cloud-based data processing and visualization pipeline for the fibre roll-out in Germany	16
Editorial Board	16
How can feature usage be tracked across product variants? Implicit Feedback in Software Product Lines	15
Software engineering education: Results from a training intervention based on SonarCloud when developing web apps	15
CONSERVE: A framework for the selection of techniques for monitoring containers security	15
Beyond code: Is there a difference between comments in visual and textual languages?	15
People want reassurance when making privacy-related decisions — Not technicalities	15
DigBug—Pre/post-processing operator selection for accurate bug localization	15
Mapping the structure and evolution of software testing research over the past three decades	15
SCGRU: A general approach for identifying multiple classes of self-admitted technical debt with text generation oversampling	15
Refactoring react-based Web apps	15
Automated functional and robustness testing of microservice architectures	15
An architecture for model-based and intelligent automation in DevOps	15
Barriers to device longevity and reuse: A vintage device empirical study	15
A systematic literature review on benchmarks for evaluating debugging approaches	15
Benchmarking scalability of stream processing frameworks deployed as microservices in the cloud	14
Test scenario generation for feature-based context-oriented software systems	14
Performability evaluation of NoSQL-based storage systems	14
On the relation of method popularity to breaking changes in the Maven ecosystem	14
Input sensitivity on the performance of configurable systems an empirical study	14
Tuning configuration of apache spark on public clouds by combining multi-objective optimization and performance prediction model	14
EdgeWorkflow: One click to test and deploy your workflow applications to the edge	14

Collection skeletons: Declarative abstractions for data collections	14
Profiling gas consumption in solidity smart contracts	14
An empirical evaluation of quasi-static executable slices	14
CoDEvo: Column family database evolution using model transformations	14
Impermanent identifiers: Enhanced source code comprehension and refactoring	13
CSAT: Configuration structure-aware tuning for highly configurable software systems	13
Model-based testing in practice: An experience report from the web applications domain	13
On the dependency heaviness of CRAN/Bioconductor ecosystem	13
Product lines of dataflows	13
Editorial Board	13
Editorial Board	13
Software modernization powered by dynamic language product lines	13
Model-driven safety and security co-analysis: A systematic literature review	13
Missing standard features compared with similar apps? A feature recommendation method based on the knowledge from user interface	13
Automatic extraction of security-rich dataflow diagrams for microservice applications written in Java	12
An empirical characterization of event sourced systems and their schema evolution — Lessons from industry	12
Test case prioritization using partial attention	12
A model-driven formal methods approach to software architectural security vulnerabilities specification and verification	12
A model-based mode-switching framework based on security vulnerability scores	12
An annotation-based approach for finding bugs in neural network programs	12
Predicting test failures induced by software defects: A lightweight alternative to software defect prediction and its industrial application	12
Assets in Software Engineering: What are they after all?	12
CIT-daily: A combinatorial interaction testing-based daily build process	12
An Investigation of confusing code patterns in JavaScript	12
AI-Driven Decision-Making in Healthcare Information Systems: A Comprehensive Review	12
Empathy models and software engineering — A preliminary analysis and taxonomy	12
Secure and flexible message-based communication for mobile apps within and across devices	12
Identifying concerns when specifying machine learning-enabled systems: A perspective-based approach	12
An efficient heuristic algorithm for software module clustering optimization	12
Mutation testing of PL/SQL programs	12
Adaptive data quality scoring operations framework using drift-aware mechanism for industrial applications	12
Automatically generating test cases for safety-critical software via symbolic execution	12
SGT: Aging-related bug prediction via semantic feature learning based on graph-transformer	12
Research artifacts in software engineering publications: Status and trends	12
An empirical study of COVID-19 related posts on Stack Overflow: Topics and technologies	12
SuMo: A mutation testing approach and tool for the Ethereum blockchain	12
FSECAM: A contextual thematic approach for linking feature to multi-level software architectural components	12
On the outdatedness of workflows in the GitHub Actions ecosystem	12
Shedding light on the dark side – A systematic literature review of the issues in agile software development methodology use	11
Feature-based software design pattern detection	11
Software engineering for quantum programming: How far are we?	11
Out of the BLEU: How should we assess quality of the Code Generation models?	11
BIT: A template-based approach to incremental and bidirectional model-to-text transformation	11
Towards cost-efficient vulnerability detection with cross-modal adversarial reprogramming	11
Random or heuristic? An empirical study on path search strategies for test generation in KLEE	11
Perceptions of the human and social factors that influence the productivity of software development teams in Colombia: A statistical analysis	11
Improving test case selection by handling class and attribute noise	11
An analysis of open source software licensing questions in Stack Exchange sites	11
Effective software security enhancement using an improved PointNet++	11
Towards a common data-driven culture: A longitudinal study of the tensions and emerging solutions involved in becoming data-driven in a large public sector organization	11
A Multi-vocal Literature Review on challenges and critical success factors of phishing education, training and awareness	11
GeQuPI: Quantum Program Improvement with Multi-Objective Genetic Programming	11
Agile elicitation of scalability requirements for open systems: A case study	11
TitleGen-FL: Quality prediction-based filter for automated issue title generation	11
Ensemble Effort Estimation: An updated and extended systematic literature review	11
Investigating acceptance behavior in software engineering—Theoretical perspectives	11
WASMICO: Micro-containers in microcontrollers with WebAssembly	11
An empirical study of software architecture resilience evaluation methods	11
The Prevent-Model: Human and Organizational Factors Fostering Engineering of Safe and Secure Robotic Systems	11
On the evaluation of usability design guidelines for improving network monitoring tools interfaces	10
RepliComment: Identifying clones in code comments	10
Symbolic testing of floating-point bugs and exceptions	10
Processes, methods, and tools in model-based engineering—A qualitative multiple-case study	10
Changes in perceived productivity of software engineers during COVID-19 pandemic: The voice of evidence	10
Catalog and detection techniques of microservice anti-patterns and bad smells: A tertiary study	10
DeepKernel: 2D-kernels clustering based mutant reduction for cost-effective deep learning model testing	10
Log statements generation via deep learning: Widening the support provided to developers	10
API beauty is in the eye of the clients: 2.2 million Maven dependencies reveal the spectrum of client–API usages	10
Microservice architecture recovery based on intra-service and inter-service features	10
Automatic creation of acceptance tests by extracting conditionals from requirements: NLP approach and case study	10
Trace matrix optimization for fault localization	10
IADA: A dynamic interference-aware cloud scheduling architecture for latency-sensitive workloads	10
A systematic review on security and safety of self-adaptive systems	10
The influence of the city metaphor and its derivates in software visualization	10
Evaluating software security maturity using OWASP SAMM: Different approaches and stakeholders perceptions	10
Automated identification of security discussions in microservices systems: Industrial surveys and experiments	10
MicroFog: A framework for scalable placement of microservices-based IoT applications in federated Fog environments	10
An empirical study of AI techniques in mobile applications	9
Analyzing the Tower of Babel with Kaiaulu	9
Understanding Virtual Onboarding Dynamics and Developer Turnover Intention in the Era of Pandemic	9
Variable-strength combinatorial testing of exported activities based on misexposure prediction	9
Automatic testing of runtime enforcers with Test4Enforcers	9
Open tracing tools: Overview and critical comparison	9
Towards an understanding of intra-defect associations: Implications for defect prediction	9
Model-based safety engineering for autonomous train map	9
Promoting open science in test-driven software experiments	9
A qualitative analysis of themes in instant messaging communication of software developers	9
What makes test programs similar in microservices applications?	9
Digging into group establishment: Intervention design and evaluation	9
Measuring code efficiency optimization capabilities with ACEOB	9
Understanding Roxygen package documentation in R	9
Variability modules	9
On the use of artificial intelligence to deal with privacy in IoT systems: A systematic literature review	9
An intelligent test management system for optimizing decision making during software testing	9
A stochastic algorithm for scheduling bag-of-tasks applications on hybrid clouds under task duration variations	9