Journal of Systems and Software

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	266
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	188
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	185
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	147
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	130
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	98
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	92
Editorial Board	81
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	71
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	70
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	70
Novel framework for automated testing of ill-defined human–robot interaction environments	69
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	68
VULOC: Vulnerability location framework based on assembly code slicing	67
On measuring coupling between microservices	66
Experimental investigation of memory-related software aging in LLM systems	66
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	65
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	64
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	63
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	63
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	57
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	54
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	52
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	49
Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert	48

Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	48
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	46
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	45
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	45
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	45
Challenges and opportunities: Implementing diversity and inclusion in software engineering university level education in Finland	44
Improve cross-project just-in-time defect prediction with dynamic transfer learning	42
A data-driven active learning approach to reusing ML solutions in scientific applications	40
VeriFix: Verifying your fix towards an atomicity violation	40
Leveraging belief uncertainty for informed decision making in software product line evolution	39
Discovering boundary values of feature-based machine learning classifiers through exploratory datamorphic testing	39
A modular metamodel and refactoring rules to achieve software product line interoperability	37
Managing security issues in software containers: From practitioners’ perspective	37
VIBE: Looking for Variability In amBiguous rEquirements	37
A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging	37
Software micro-rejuvenation for Android mobile systems	36
Flexible control flow graph alignment for delivering data-driven feedback to novice programming learners	36
Maximizing integrative learning in software development teams: A systematic review of key drivers and future research agenda	36
Explaining software fault predictions to spreadsheet users	36
A model-driven approach for continuous performance engineering in microservice-based systems	35
Diverse title generation for Stack Overflow posts with multiple-sampling-enhanced transformer	35
When traceability goes awry: An industrial experience report	34
Advancing modern code review effectiveness through human error mechanisms	34
Examining the impact of bias mitigation algorithms on the sustainability of ML-enabled systems: A benchmark study	33
Optimizing smart contract vulnerability detection via multi-modality code and entropy embedding	33
Code search engines for the next generation	33
A fuzzy logic-based quality model for identifying microservices with low maintainability	32
Taxonomy of security weaknesses in Java and Kotlin Android apps	32
Conformance assessment of Architectural Design Decisions on API endpoint designs derived from domain models	32
DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting framework for software vulnerability detection	32
Reproducibility of issues reported in stack overflow questions: Challenges, impact & estimation	31
An evidence-based roadmap for IoT software systems engineering	31
BEACon-TD: Classifying Technical Debt and its types across diverse software projects issues using transformers	31
Multi-granularity coverage criteria for deep reinforcement learning systems	31
Combine sliced joint graph with graph neural networks for smart contract vulnerability detection	31
Exploring the use of static and dynamic analysis to improve the performance of the mining sandbox approach for android malware identification	30
Automatically recognizing the semantic elements from UML class diagram images	30
A speech-enabled virtual assistant for efficient human–robot interaction in industrial environments	30
Editorial of the special issue on Quality in Software Architecture	29
SynthoMinds: Bridging human programming intuition with retrieval, analogy, and reasoning in program synthesis	29
Automatic modelling and verification of Autosar architectures	28
Continuous software security through security prioritisation meetings	28
DValidator: An approach for validating dependencies in build configurations	28
Variability management and software product line knowledge in software companies	28
Examining the effect of software professionals’ personality & additional capabilities on agile teams’ climate	28
OREO: A tool-supported approach for offline run-time monitoring and fault–error–failure chain localization	28
Fault analysis in additive manufacturing: Identifying causes of three-dimensional printer faults using machine learning and large language models	27
Effectiveness of symmetric metamorphic relations on validating the stability of code generation LLM	27
Correctness and security analysis of the protection in transit (PIT) protocol	27
Data catalog tools: A systematic multivocal literature review	27

Fine-grained smart contract vulnerability detection by heterogeneous code feature learning and automated dataset construction	26
Survey of annotation generators for deductive verifiers	26
Design for dependability — State of the art and trends	26
Understanding the low inter-rater agreement on aggressiveness on the Linux Kernel Mailing List	26
A sampling-based online Co-Location-Resistant Virtual Machine placement strategy	25
Pragmatic random sampling of Kconfig-based systems: A unified approach	25
Transformation-based model checking temporal trust in multi-agent systems	25
CharM — Evaluating a model for characterizing service-based architectures	25
Architecting ML-enabled systems: Challenges, best practices, and design decisions	24
Navigating the DevOps landscape	24
An empirical study on the performance overhead of code instrumentation in containerised microservices	24
A proposal and assessment of an improved heuristic for the Eager Test smell detection	24
Exploring multi-programming-language commits and their impacts on software quality: An empirical study on Apache projects	24
End-users’ knowledge and perception about security of clinical mobile health apps: A case study with two Saudi Arabian mHealth providers	24
BlockSOP: A blockchain-based software management platform for open collaborative development	23
Work-from-home is here to stay: Call for flexibility in post-pandemic work policies	23
Editorial Board	23
Choosing the right path for AI integration in engineering companies: A strategic guide	23
BinCoFer: Three-stage purification for effective C/C++ binary third-party library detection	23
A critical comparison on six static analysis tools: Detection, agreement, and precision	23
SEXTAMT: A systematic map to navigate the wide seas of factors affecting expert judgment software estimates	22
Editorial Board	22
Deriving modernity signatures of codebases with static analysis	22
A structural taxonomy for lifted software product line analyses	22
Integration test order generation based on reinforcement learning considering class importance	22
Architectural tactics to achieve quality attributes of machine-learning-enabled systems: a systematic literature review	22
A bot identification model and tool based on GitHub activity sequences	22
Enhancing empirical software performance engineering research with kernel-level events: A comprehensive system tracing approach	22
Software product lines and features from the perspective of set theory with an application to feature location	22
Boosting source code suggestion with self-supervised Transformer Gated Highway	22
Extracting goal models from natural language requirement specifications	21
From attack descriptions to vulnerabilities: A sentence transformer-based approach	21
Do code reviews lead to fewer code smells?	21
Incremental-concurrent fusion checking for efficient context consistency	20
Runtime reliability fractional distribution change analytics against cloud-based systems DDoS attacks	20
MPLinker: Multi-template Prompt-tuning with adversarial training for Issue–commit Link recovery	20
The pipeline for the continuous development of artificial intelligence models—Current state of research and practice	20
Developers’ need for the rationale of code commits: An in-breadth and in-depth study	20
Retriever: A view-based approach to reverse engineering software architecture models	20
Neural-FEBI: Accurate function identification in Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode	20
Considerations and challenges for the adoption of open source components in software-intensive businesses	20
An empirical investigation into the capabilities of anomaly detection approaches for test smell detection	20
Semantic interoperability for an AI-based applications platform for smart hospitals using HL7 FHIR	20
Incentive mechanism for mobile crowd sensing with Assumed Bid Cost Reverse Auction	19
Multivocal study on microservice dependencies	19
L′	19
Do comments and expertise still matter? An experiment on programmers’ adoption of AI-generated JavaScript code	19
The AmbiTRUS framework for identifying potential ambiguity in user stories	19
On the evolution of agile software team work arrangements	19
GDFuzz: An efficient directed fuzzing method based on XAI	19
Code beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Exploring the relation between code beauty and quality	19
Why do women pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science?	18
On the relationship between source-code metrics and cognitive load: A systematic tertiary review	18
Automatic prediction of developers’ resolutions for software merge conflicts	18
ExTrA: Explaining architectural design tradeoff spaces via dimensionality reduction	18
Supporting meta-model-based language evolution and rapid prototyping with automated grammar transformation	18
Just-in-time software vulnerability detection: Are we there yet?	18
UX-work related needs in software startups: Diagnosis and resolution	18
A cloud-based data processing and visualization pipeline for the fibre roll-out in Germany	18
Machine learning approaches for automated software traceability: A systematic literature review	18
Software Refactoring Research with Large Language Models: A Systematic Literature Review	17
UVL: Feature modelling with the Universal Variability Language	17
Editorial Board	17
Hierarchical tree-based algorithms for efficient expression parsing and test sequence generation in software models	17
Decentralized decision-making and scaled autonomy at Spotify	17
BugMentor: Generating answers to follow-up questions from software bug reports using structured information retrieval and neural text generation	17
Developing and sustaining a student-driven software solutions center—An experience report	17
On the impact of single and co-occurrent refactorings on quality attributes in android applications	17
A Cross-Domain Systematic Mapping Study on Software Engineering for Digital Twins	17
A/B testing: A systematic literature review	17
Collection skeletons: Declarative abstractions for data collections	17
CubeAgent: Efficient query-based video adversarial examples generation through deep reinforcement learning	16
Adaptive robustness evaluation for complex system prognostics and health management software platform	16
DigBug—Pre/post-processing operator selection for accurate bug localization	16
People want reassurance when making privacy-related decisions — Not technicalities	16
Modeling and verifying resources and capabilities of ubiquitous scenarios for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle swarm	16
An empirical evaluation of static, dynamic, and hybrid slicing of WebAssembly binaries	16
EnseSmells : Deep ensemble and programming language models for automated code smells detection	16
Refactoring react-based Web apps	16
Automated functional and robustness testing of microservice architectures	16

Beyond code: Is there a difference between comments in visual and textual languages?	16
Test scenario generation for feature-based context-oriented software systems	16
Software engineering education: Results from a training intervention based on SonarCloud when developing web apps	16
How can feature usage be tracked across product variants? Implicit Feedback in Software Product Lines	16
SCGRU: A general approach for identifying multiple classes of self-admitted technical debt with text generation oversampling	16
Barriers to device longevity and reuse: A vintage device empirical study	15
An architecture for model-based and intelligent automation in DevOps	15
A systematic literature review on benchmarks for evaluating debugging approaches	15
Software engineering team project courses with industrial customers: Students’ insights on challenges and lessons learned	15
The qualitative factor in software testing: A systematic mapping study of qualitative methods	15
An empirical evaluation of quasi-static executable slices	15
Mapping the structure and evolution of software testing research over the past three decades	15
Profiling gas consumption in solidity smart contracts	15
Performability evaluation of NoSQL-based storage systems	15
Product lines of dataflows	15
Organizational factors of software performance testing for systems of systems: A case study using high-reliability organization theory to understand an outage	15
CONSERVE: A framework for the selection of techniques for monitoring containers security	15
Input sensitivity on the performance of configurable systems an empirical study	15
Benchmarking scalability of stream processing frameworks deployed as microservices in the cloud	15
Understanding practitioners’ challenges and requirements in the design, implementation, and evaluation of anti-phishing interventions	15
Predicting test failures induced by software defects: A lightweight alternative to software defect prediction and its industrial application	15
Research artifacts in software engineering publications: Status and trends	14
Mutation testing of PL/SQL programs	14
Editorial Board	14
Impermanent identifiers: Enhanced source code comprehension and refactoring	14
CIT-daily: A combinatorial interaction testing-based daily build process	14
CSAT: Configuration structure-aware tuning for highly configurable software systems	14
Assets in Software Engineering: What are they after all?	14
CoDEvo: Column family database evolution using model transformations	14
EdgeWorkflow: One click to test and deploy your workflow applications to the edge	14
FSECAM: A contextual thematic approach for linking feature to multi-level software architectural components	14
On the dependency heaviness of CRAN/Bioconductor ecosystem	14
An efficient heuristic algorithm for software module clustering optimization	14
Tailoring binary decision diagram compilation for feature models	14
Missing standard features compared with similar apps? A feature recommendation method based on the knowledge from user interface	14
So much more than test cases – An industrial study on testing of software units and components	14
Refactoring cross-project code duplication in an industrial software product line: A case study from RDW	14
Editorial Board	14
A comparative analysis of ML techniques for bug report classification	14
Software modernization powered by dynamic language product lines	13
On the relation of method popularity to breaking changes in the Maven ecosystem	13
An annotation-based approach for finding bugs in neural network programs	13
TitleGen-FL: Quality prediction-based filter for automated issue title generation	13
Enhancing vulnerability repair through the extraction and matching of repair patterns	13
Model-driven safety and security co-analysis: A systematic literature review	13
Secure and flexible message-based communication for mobile apps within and across devices	13
Identifying concerns when specifying machine learning-enabled systems: A perspective-based approach	13
Exploring developer experience factors in software ecosystems	13
SuMo: A mutation testing approach and tool for the Ethereum blockchain	13
SGT: Aging-related bug prediction via semantic feature learning based on graph-transformer	13
The life of software features: An exploratory case study of 189 feature requests in Marlin	13
On the outdatedness of workflows in the GitHub Actions ecosystem	13
Investigating acceptance behavior in software engineering—Theoretical perspectives	12
Software engineering for quantum programming: How far are we?	12
An Investigation of confusing code patterns in JavaScript	12
Test case prioritization using partial attention	12
Shedding light on the dark side – A systematic literature review of the issues in agile software development methodology use	12
Demystifying issues, causes and solutions in LLM open-source projects	12
A model-driven formal methods approach to software architectural security vulnerabilities specification and verification	12
Perceptions of the human and social factors that influence the productivity of software development teams in Colombia: A statistical analysis	12
Out of the BLEU: How should we assess quality of the Code Generation models?	12
Ensemble Effort Estimation: An updated and extended systematic literature review	12
Mokav: Execution-driven differential testing with LLMs	12
Improving test case selection by handling class and attribute noise	12
AI-Driven Decision-Making in Healthcare Information Systems: A Comprehensive Review	12
Automatic extraction of security-rich dataflow diagrams for microservice applications written in Java	12
An analysis of open source software licensing questions in Stack Exchange sites	12
An empirical study of software architecture resilience evaluation methods	11
Adaptive data quality scoring operations framework using drift-aware mechanism for industrial applications	11
Empathy models and software engineering — A preliminary analysis and taxonomy	11
“Digital Camouflage”: The LLVM challenge in LLM-based malware detection	11
The Prevent-Model: Human and Organizational Factors Fostering Engineering of Safe and Secure Robotic Systems	11
A systematic review on security and safety of self-adaptive systems	11
Evaluating software security maturity using OWASP SAMM: Different approaches and stakeholders perceptions	11
WASMICO: Micro-containers in microcontrollers with WebAssembly	11
Automatically generating test cases for safety-critical software via symbolic execution	11
DeepKernel: 2D-kernels clustering based mutant reduction for cost-effective deep learning model testing	11
IADA: A dynamic interference-aware cloud scheduling architecture for latency-sensitive workloads	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
Towards cost-efficient vulnerability detection with cross-modal adversarial reprogramming	11
Automatic creation of acceptance tests by extracting conditionals from requirements: NLP approach and case study	11
The influence of the city metaphor and its derivates in software visualization	11
GeQuPI: Quantum Program Improvement with Multi-Objective Genetic Programming	11
Feature-based software design pattern detection	11
A model-based mode-switching framework based on security vulnerability scores	11
A case study of gender and online team communication in Software Engineering Education	11
On the evaluation of usability design guidelines for improving network monitoring tools interfaces	11
TOSCAdata: Modeling data pipeline applications in TOSCA	11
FedMVA: Enhancing software vulnerability assessment via federated multimodal learning	10
Improving the performance of software fault localization with effective coverage data reduction techniques	10
Promoting open science in test-driven software experiments	10
MicroFog: A framework for scalable placement of microservices-based IoT applications in federated Fog environments	10
Automatic testing of runtime enforcers with Test4Enforcers	10
Variability modules	10
Variable-strength combinatorial testing of exported activities based on misexposure prediction	10