Journal of Systems and Software

Article	Citations
Code smells and refactoring: A tertiary systematic review of challenges and observations	99
A systematic literature review of blockchain and smart contract development: Techniques, tools, and open challenges	96
iFogSim2: An extended iFogSim simulator for mobility, clustering, and microservice management in edge and fog computing environments	82
On testing machine learning programs	81
A Systematic Mapping Study on Microservices Architecture in DevOps	77
Exploring the intersection between software industry and Software Engineering education - A systematic mapping of Software Engineering Trends	72
A software engineering perspective on engineering machine learning systems: State of the art and challenges	71
Work-from-home is here to stay: Call for flexibility in post-pandemic work policies	70
Requirements engineering challenges and practices in large-scale agile system development	70
A systematic literature review on Technical Debt prioritization: Strategies, processes, factors, and tools	66
Function-as-a-Service performance evaluation: A multivocal literature review	59
Understanding coordination in global software engineering: A mixed-methods study on the use of meetings and Slack	58
Design, monitoring, and testing of microservices systems: The practitioners’ perspective	52
QMM-VANET: An efficient clustering algorithm based on QoS and monitoring of malicious vehicles in vehicular ad hoc networks	51
A large empirical assessment of the role of data balancing in machine-learning-based code smell detection	49
Code smell detection by deep direct-learning and transfer-learning	47
Software defect prediction based on enhanced metaheuristic feature selection optimization and a hybrid deep neural network	47
A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments	47
General framework, opportunities and challenges for crowdsourcing techniques: A Comprehensive survey	45
Systematic literature reviews in software engineering—enhancement of the study selection process using Cohen’s Kappa statistic	43
Interpretability application of the Just-in-Time software defect prediction model	41
Software-testing education: A systematic literature mapping	41
Changes in perceived productivity of software engineers during COVID-19 pandemic: The voice of evidence	40
Toward a catalog of software quality metrics for infrastructure code	40
A critical review on the evaluation of automated program repair systems	39

The role of the project manager in agile software development projects	39
A novel Security-by-Design methodology: Modeling and assessing security by SLAs with a quantitative approach	37
ThermoSim: Deep learning based framework for modeling and simulation of thermal-aware resource management for cloud computing environments	36
HUNTER: AI based holistic resource management for sustainable cloud computing	36
ECCOLA — A method for implementing ethically aligned AI systems	35
Deployment and communication patterns in microservice architectures: A systematic literature review	34
Modelling and executing IoT-enhanced business processes through BPMN and microservices	34
Relation-based test case prioritization for regression testing	33
GitHub Copilot AI pair programmer: Asset or Liability?	33
Does migrating a monolithic system to microservices decrease the technical debt?	33
Bug severity prediction using question-and-answer pairs from Stack Overflow	33
Concepts of variation control systems	32
Accessibility and Software Engineering Processes: A Systematic Literature Review	32
Architectural patterns for the design of federated learning systems	32
When to update systematic literature reviews in software engineering	32
Finding faults: A scoping study of fault diagnostics for Industrial Cyber–Physical Systems	31
Runtime verification of train control systems with parameterized modal live sequence charts	30
Scalability Assessment of Microservice Architecture Deployment Configurations: A Domain-based Approach Leveraging Operational Profiles and Load Tests	30
A comprehensive study of automatic program repair on the QuixBugs benchmark	30
Analyzing bug fix for automatic bug cause classification	30
Predicting the emergence of community smells using socio-technical metrics: A machine-learning approach	29
A Cross-Domain Systematic Mapping Study on Software Engineering for Digital Twins	29
On the use of deep learning in software defect prediction	29
Uncertainty modeling and runtime verification for autonomous vehicles driving control: A machine learning-based approach	28
Improving software bug-specific named entity recognition with deep neural network	28
A Kubernetes controller for managing the availability of elastic microservice based stateful applications	27
SeCNN: A semantic CNN parser for code comment generation	27
Toward the automatic classification of Self-Affirmed Refactoring	27
Scrum versus Rational Unified Process in facing the main challenges of product configuration systems development	26
The symptoms, causes, and repairs of bugs inside a deep learning library	26
Black-box adversarial sample generation based on differential evolution	25
Technical debt forecasting: An empirical study on open-source repositories	25
Convolutional neural networks for enhanced classification mechanisms of metamodels	25
Brain and autonomic nervous system activity measurement in software engineering: A systematic literature review	25
A comprehensive comparative study of clustering-based unsupervised defect prediction models	25
SpongeBugs: Automatically generating fix suggestions in response to static code analysis warnings	25
Data quality certification using ISO/IEC 25012: Industrial experiences	25
Do scaling agile frameworks address global software development risks? An empirical study	24
Building and evaluating a theory of architectural technical debt in software-intensive systems	24
Learning software configuration spaces: A systematic literature review	24
Software reuse cuts both ways: An empirical analysis of its relationship with security vulnerabilities	24
An automatically created novel bug dataset and its validation in bug prediction	24
Initiatives and challenges of using gamification in software engineering: A Systematic Mapping	24
Some SonarQube issues have a significant but small effect on faults and changes. A large-scale empirical study	24
Software engineering practices for scientific software development: A systematic mapping study	24
The impact factors on the performance of machine learning-based vulnerability detection: A comparative study	24
Adaptive distributed monitors of spatial properties for cyber–physical systems	24
How to identify class comment types? A multi-language approach for class comment classification	23
Why and how is Scrum being adapted in practice: A systematic review	23
An empirical study of optimization bugs in GCC and LLVM	23

From forced Working-From-Home to voluntary working-from-anywhere: Two revolutions in telework	23
Contextualizing rename decisions using refactorings, commit messages, and data types	23
FaaSten your decisions: A classification framework and technology review of function-as-a-Service platforms	22
SLA-aware multiple migration planning and scheduling in SDN-NFV-enabled clouds	22
A systematic literature review and taxonomy of modern code review	22
An Android application risk evaluation framework based on minimum permission set identification	22
A software reliability growth model for imperfect debugging	22
A taxonomy of service identification approaches for legacy software systems modernization	22
On the generation, structure, and semantics of grammar patterns in source code identifiers	21
Data Augmentation by Program Transformation	21
Does code quality affect pull request acceptance? An empirical study	21
MontiThings: Model-Driven Development and Deployment of Reliable IoT Applications	21
Achieving agility and quality in product development - an empirical study of hardware startups	21
Identifying vulnerabilities of SSL/TLS certificate verification in Android apps with static and dynamic analysis	21
Multi-triage: A multi-task learning framework for bug triage	21
Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	21
Integrating UX work with agile development through user stories: An action research study in a small software company	20
A model-driven approach for continuous performance engineering in microservice-based systems	20
MT-EA4Cloud: A Methodology For testing and optimising energy-aware cloud systems	20
An ontology-based learning approach for automatically classifying security requirements	20
ExploitGen: Template-augmented exploit code generation based on CodeBERT	20
An empirical study on the co-occurrence between refactoring actions and Self-Admitted Technical Debt removal	20
Data management for production quality deep learning models: Challenges and solutions	20
A systematic literature review on blockchain governance	19
Revealing the state of the art of large-scale agile development research: A systematic mapping study	19
Deep learning application on code clone detection: A review of current knowledge	19
Systematic literature review of validation methods for AI systems	19
Regression test case prioritization by code combinations coverage	18
Multi-paradigm modeling for cyber–physical systems: A systematic mapping review	18
On tracking Java methods with Git mechanisms	18
HMER: A Hybrid Mutation Execution Reduction approach for Mutation-based Fault Localization	18
Smells and refactorings for microservices security: A multivocal literature review	18
An automatic software vulnerability classification framework using term frequency-inverse gravity moment and feature selection	18
Service composition in dynamic environments: A systematic review and future directions	18
Software engineering for quantum programming: How far are we?	18
Evaluating and strategizing the onboarding of software developers in large-scale globally distributed projects	18
Just-in-time software vulnerability detection: Are we there yet?	18
The influence of Technical Debt on software developer morale	18
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	18
Diversified keyword search based web service composition	17
ARC: Anomaly-aware Robust Cloud-integrated IoT service composition based on uncertainty in advertised quality of service values	17
MeMo: Automatically identifying metamorphic relations in Javadoc comments for test automation	17
Cloud reliability and efficiency improvement via failure risk based proactive actions	17
Preventing accessibility barriers: Guidelines for using user interface design patterns in mobile applications	17
A systematic literature review of model-driven security engineering for cyber–physical systems	17
The effects of database complexity on SQL query formulation	17
Android code smells: From introduction to refactoring	17
Profiling gas consumption in solidity smart contracts	17
Towards the adoption of OMG standards in the development of SOA-based IoT systems	17
Open Data Ecosystems — An empirical investigation into an emerging industry collaboration concept	16
Model-based testing of software product lines: Mapping study and research roadmap	16
Security modelling and formal verification of survivability properties: Application to cyber–physical systems	16
Concept drift-aware temporal cloud service APIs recommendation for building composite cloud systems	16
MSL: A pattern language for engineering self-adaptive systems	16
A stochastic algorithm for scheduling bag-of-tasks applications on hybrid clouds under task duration variations	16
A literature review of IoT and CPS—What they are, and what they are not	16
Adaptive metamorphic testing with contextual bandits	16
A systematic mapping study on architectural smells detection	16
TagDC: A tag recommendation method for software information sites with a combination of deep learning and collaborative filtering	16
Testing multiple linear regression systems with metamorphic testing	16
Satisfaction and its correlates in agile software development	15
An automated extract method refactoring approach to correct the long method code smell	15
A proposal of architecture for integration and uniform use of hybrid SQL/NoSQL database components	15
Mining Architecture Tactics and Quality Attributes knowledge in Stack Overflow	15
Towards a logical framework for ideal MBSE tool selection based on discipline specific requirements	15
Identifying architectural technical debt, principal, and interest in microservices: A multiple-case study	15
Automated defect identification via path analysis-based features with transfer learning	15
Application of agile methods in traditional logistics companies and logistics startups	15
A bibliometric assessment of software engineering themes, scholars and institutions (2013–2020)	15
Enabling consistency in view-based system development — The Vitruvius approach	15
A classification framework for automated control code generation in industrial automation	15
A survey of blockchain consensus safety and security: State-of-the-art, challenges, and future work	15
Modeling programs hierarchically with stack-augmented LSTM	15
Mining guidelines for architecting robotics software	15
How has design thinking being used and integrated into software development activities? A systematic mapping	15
A systematic study of reward for reinforcement learning based continuous integration testing	14
Uncertainty-aware specification and analysis for hardware-in-the-loop testing of cyber-physical systems	14
Understanding and recommending security requirements from problem domain ontology: A cognitive three-layered approach	14
Detecting violations of access control and information flow policies in data flow diagrams	14
Reliability analysis of dynamic fault trees with spare gates using conditional binary decision diagrams	14

Assurance and certification of cyber–physical systems: The AMASS open source ecosystem	14
Are game engines software frameworks? A three-perspective study	14
Early validation of cyber–physical space systems via multi-concerns integration	14
Interdisciplinary effects of technical debt in companies with mechatronic products — a qualitative study	14
Ensemble Effort Estimation using dynamic selection	14
An evolutionary approach for generating software models: The case of Kromaia in Game Software Engineering	14
Graph4Web: A relation-aware graph attention network for web service classification	14
Automatic source code summarization with graph attention networks	14
Multilayered review of safety approaches for machine learning-based systems in the days of AI	14
Architectural Design Space for Modelling and Simulation as a Service: A Review	13
Can this fault be detected: A study on fault detection via automated test generation	13
Revisiting the practices and pains of microservice architecture in reality: An industrial inquiry	13
Adopting threat modelling in agile software development projects	13
Transformed k-nearest neighborhood output distance minimization for predicting the defect density of software projects	13
A novel load balancing scheme for mobile edge computing	13
A formal approach for the analysis of BPMN collaboration models	13
Traceability Link Recovery between Requirements and Models using an Evolutionary Algorithm Guided by a Learning to Rank Algorithm: Train control and management case	13
Combine sliced joint graph with graph neural networks for smart contract vulnerability detection	12
Custom-tailored clone detection for IEC 61131-3 programming languages	12
Software professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey: Factors affecting their mental well-being and work engagement in the home-based work setting	12
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	12
Similarity-based analyses on software applications: A systematic literature review	12
Facilitating program comprehension with call graph multilevel hierarchical abstractions	12
An empirical characterization of software bugs in open-source Cyber–Physical Systems	12
Don’t run on fumes—Parametric gas bounds for smart contracts	12
A systematic mapping study of developer social network research	12
Quality measurement in agile and rapid software development: A systematic mapping	12
Optimal test activity allocation for covariate software reliability and security models	12
Feature-based software design pattern detection	12
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	12
Capturing software architecture knowledge for pattern-driven design	12
STEP-ONE: Simulated testbed for Edge-Fog processes based on the Opportunistic Network Environment simulator	12
Accessibility in the mobile development industry in Brazil: Awareness, knowledge, adoption, motivations and barriers	11
Imbalanced metric learning for crashing fault residence prediction	11
A pattern-based approach to detect and improve non-descriptive test names	11
Continuous experimentation and the cyber–physical systems challenge: An overview of the literature and the industrial perspective	11
Exploring factors and metrics to select open source software components for integration: An empirical study	11
A federated society of bots for smart contract testing	11
Correctness checking for BPMN collaborations with sub-processes	11
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	11
Tuning configuration of apache spark on public clouds by combining multi-objective optimization and performance prediction model	11
Using source code density to improve the accuracy of automatic commit classification into maintenance activities	11
VulSlicer: Vulnerability detection through code slicing	11
A machine learning based framework for code clone validation	11
Market-oriented online bi-objective service scheduling for pleasingly parallel jobs with variable resources in cloud environments	10
Hansie: Hybrid and consensus regression test prioritization	10
The state of research on software engineering competencies: A systematic mapping study	10
How are issue reports discussed in Gitter chat rooms?	10
Uncertainty in information system development: Causes, effects, and coping mechanisms	10
CommtPst: Deep learning source code for commenting positions prediction	10
Adapting Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for large-scale software systems	10
Evaluating T-wise testing strategies in a community-wide dataset of configurable software systems	10
FCCI: A fuzzy expert system for identifying coincidental correct test cases	10
Supporting IoT applications deployment on edge-based infrastructures using multi-layer feature models	10
Out of the BLEU: How should we assess quality of the Code Generation models?	10
Java decompiler diversity and its application to meta-decompilation	10
The effect of transactive memory systems on process tailoring in software projects: The moderating role of task conflict and shared temporal cognitions	10
Test automation maturity improves product quality—Quantitative study of open source projects using continuous integration	10
A functional safety assessment method for cooperative automotive architecture	10
How secondary school girls perceive Computational Thinking practices through collaborative programming with the micro:bit	10
Blended graphical and textual modelling for UML profiles: A proof-of-concept implementation and experiment	10
ASPLe: A methodology to develop self-adaptive software systems with systematic reuse	10
Taxonomy of security weaknesses in Java and Kotlin Android apps	10
Integrating GitLab metrics into coursework consultation sessions in a software engineering course	10
ProDSPL: Proactive self-adaptation based on Dynamic Software Product Lines	10
Towards optimal quality requirement documentation in agile software development: A multiple case study	10
An automated model-based approach to repair test suites of evolving web applications	9
Job-work fit as a determinant of the acceptance of large-scale agile methodology	9
Multi-factory production planning using edge computing and IIoT platforms	9
Three decades of software reference architectures: A systematic mapping study	9
A co-evolutionary genetic algorithms approach to detect video game bugs	9
Precise Learning of Source Code Contextual Semantics via Hierarchical Dependence Structure and Graph Attention Networks	9
Software product line scoping: A systematic literature review	9
On the practice of semantic versioning for Ansible galaxy roles: An empirical study and a change classification model	9
Capturing creative requirements via requirements reuse: A machine learning-based approach	9
On introducing automatic test case generation in practice: A success story and lessons learned	9
Identification and measurement of Requirements Technical Debt in software development: A systematic literature review	9
CODE reuse in practice: Benefiting or harming technical debt	9
Agile elicitation of scalability requirements for open systems: A case study	9
SuMo: A mutation testing approach and tool for the Ethereum blockchain	9
Fast and accurate incremental feedback for students’ software tests using selective mutation analysis	9
Can we benchmark Code Review studies? A systematic mapping study of methodology, dataset, and metric	9
A complex network analysis of the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) package ecosystem	9
API beauty is in the eye of the clients: 2.2 million Maven dependencies reveal the spectrum of client–API usages	9
Distributed runtime verification by past-CTL and the field calculus	9
Change impact analysis: A systematic mapping study	9
Emotimonitor: A Trello power-up to capture and monitor emotions of Agile teams	9