Journal of Systems and Software

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	251
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	183
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	178
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	140
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	121
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	114
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	96
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	85
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	80
Editorial Board	70
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	68
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	65
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	65
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	65
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	65
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	64
VULOC: Vulnerability location framework based on assembly code slicing	63
On measuring coupling between microservices	62
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	62
ECCOLA — A method for implementing ethically aligned AI systems	62
Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert	61
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	59
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	56
Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	56
Dear Researchers: Think about the future, for sure, but please don't forget about the present – the Odense Manifesto for academia–industry collaboration at ICSA 2025	52

Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	52
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	48
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	48
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	47
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	45
Discovering boundary values of feature-based machine learning classifiers through exploratory datamorphic testing	44
VIBE: Looking for Variability In amBiguous rEquirements	42
A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging	42
Diverse title generation for Stack Overflow posts with multiple-sampling-enhanced transformer	42
A model-driven approach for continuous performance engineering in microservice-based systems	42
A modular metamodel and refactoring rules to achieve software product line interoperability	40
Explaining software fault predictions to spreadsheet users	38
Challenges and opportunities: Implementing diversity and inclusion in software engineering university level education in Finland	37
Advancing modern code review effectiveness through human error mechanisms	37
Flexible control flow graph alignment for delivering data-driven feedback to novice programming learners	37
Leveraging belief uncertainty for informed decision making in software product line evolution	36
Maximizing integrative learning in software development teams: A systematic review of key drivers and future research agenda	35
A data-driven active learning approach to reusing ML solutions in scientific applications	35
VeriFix: Verifying your fix towards an atomicity violation	35
Reproducibility of issues reported in stack overflow questions: Challenges, impact & estimation	35
Improve cross-project just-in-time defect prediction with dynamic transfer learning	35
Exploring the use of static and dynamic analysis to improve the performance of the mining sandbox approach for android malware identification	34
Examining the impact of bias mitigation algorithms on the sustainability of ML-enabled systems: A benchmark study	34
Software micro-rejuvenation for Android mobile systems	34
When traceability goes awry: An industrial experience report	33
Combine sliced joint graph with graph neural networks for smart contract vulnerability detection	32
Taxonomy of security weaknesses in Java and Kotlin Android apps	32
Multi-granularity coverage criteria for deep reinforcement learning systems	32
A fuzzy logic-based quality model for identifying microservices with low maintainability	31
Conformance assessment of Architectural Design Decisions on API endpoint designs derived from domain models	31
Automatically recognizing the semantic elements from UML class diagram images	31
An evidence-based roadmap for IoT software systems engineering	31
DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting framework for software vulnerability detection	30
SynthoMinds: Bridging human programming intuition with retrieval, analogy, and reasoning in program synthesis	30
BEACon-TD: Classifying Technical Debt and its types across diverse software projects issues using transformers	30
Editorial of the special issue on Quality in Software Architecture	30
Code search engines for the next generation	30
Optimizing smart contract vulnerability detection via multi-modality code and entropy embedding	30
A speech-enabled virtual assistant for efficient human–robot interaction in industrial environments	30
Examining the effect of software professionals’ personality & additional capabilities on agile teams’ climate	29
Automatic modelling and verification of Autosar architectures	29
Variability management and software product line knowledge in software companies	29
DValidator: An approach for validating dependencies in build configurations	29
Continuous software security through security prioritisation meetings	28
A proposal and assessment of an improved heuristic for the Eager Test smell detection	28
OREO: A tool-supported approach for offline run-time monitoring and fault–error–failure chain localization	28
Data catalog tools: A systematic multivocal literature review	27
End-users’ knowledge and perception about security of clinical mobile health apps: A case study with two Saudi Arabian mHealth providers	27
Survey of annotation generators for deductive verifiers	27
Correctness and security analysis of the protection in transit (PIT) protocol	27

Effectiveness of symmetric metamorphic relations on validating the stability of code generation LLM	27
Design for dependability — State of the art and trends	27
Transformation-based model checking temporal trust in multi-agent systems	26
A critical comparison on six static analysis tools: Detection, agreement, and precision	26
Understanding the low inter-rater agreement on aggressiveness on the Linux Kernel Mailing List	26
Fault analysis in additive manufacturing: Identifying causes of three-dimensional printer faults using machine learning and large language models	25
Choosing the right path for AI integration in engineering companies: A strategic guide	25
Fine-grained smart contract vulnerability detection by heterogeneous code feature learning and automated dataset construction	25
Work-from-home is here to stay: Call for flexibility in post-pandemic work policies	25
A sampling-based online Co-Location-Resistant Virtual Machine placement strategy	25
Navigating the DevOps landscape	25
An empirical study on the performance overhead of code instrumentation in containerised microservices	24
Exploring multi-programming-language commits and their impacts on software quality: An empirical study on Apache projects	24
Architecting ML-enabled systems: Challenges, best practices, and design decisions	24
CharM — Evaluating a model for characterizing service-based architectures	24
Pragmatic random sampling of Kconfig-based systems: A unified approach	24
Editorial Board	23
SEXTAMT: A systematic map to navigate the wide seas of factors affecting expert judgment software estimates	23
BinCoFer: Three-stage purification for effective C/C++ binary third-party library detection	23
BlockSOP: A blockchain-based software management platform for open collaborative development	23
Integration test order generation based on reinforcement learning considering class importance	22
A structural taxonomy for lifted software product line analyses	22
Software product lines and features from the perspective of set theory with an application to feature location	22
A bot identification model and tool based on GitHub activity sequences	22
Editorial Board	22
Enhancing empirical software performance engineering research with kernel-level events: A comprehensive system tracing approach	22
Semantic interoperability for an AI-based applications platform for smart hospitals using HL7 FHIR	21
Neural-FEBI: Accurate function identification in Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode	21
Deriving modernity signatures of codebases with static analysis	21
Boosting source code suggestion with self-supervised Transformer Gated Highway	21
Architectural tactics to achieve quality attributes of machine-learning-enabled systems: a systematic literature review	21
Considerations and challenges for the adoption of open source components in software-intensive businesses	21
Retriever: A view-based approach to reverse engineering software architecture models	20
Do code reviews lead to fewer code smells?	20
The pipeline for the continuous development of artificial intelligence models—Current state of research and practice	20
MPLinker: Multi-template Prompt-tuning with adversarial training for Issue–commit Link recovery	20
Empirical pathways to developer experience: A facet-based synthesis of empirical designs and guidelines	20
Extracting goal models from natural language requirement specifications	20
Developers’ need for the rationale of code commits: An in-breadth and in-depth study	19
An empirical investigation into the capabilities of anomaly detection approaches for test smell detection	19
Runtime reliability fractional distribution change analytics against cloud-based systems DDoS attacks	19
Machine learning approaches for automated software traceability: A systematic literature review	19
UVL: Feature modelling with the Universal Variability Language	19
On the impact of single and co-occurrent refactorings on quality attributes in android applications	19
Multivocal study on microservice dependencies	19
L′	19
Incentive mechanism for mobile crowd sensing with Assumed Bid Cost Reverse Auction	19
Incremental-concurrent fusion checking for efficient context consistency	19
Automatic prediction of developers’ resolutions for software merge conflicts	19
On the evolution of agile software team work arrangements	19
Supporting meta-model-based language evolution and rapid prototyping with automated grammar transformation	19
Just-in-time software vulnerability detection: Are we there yet?	19
A cloud-based data processing and visualization pipeline for the fibre roll-out in Germany	18
On the relationship between source-code metrics and cognitive load: A systematic tertiary review	18
Code beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Exploring the relation between code beauty and quality	18
UX-work related needs in software startups: Diagnosis and resolution	18
Decentralized decision-making and scaled autonomy at Spotify	18
GDFuzz: An efficient directed fuzzing method based on XAI	18
ExTrA: Explaining architectural design tradeoff spaces via dimensionality reduction	18
A/B testing: A systematic literature review	18
An empirical evaluation of static, dynamic, and hybrid slicing of WebAssembly binaries	17
A Cross-Domain Systematic Mapping Study on Software Engineering for Digital Twins	17
The AmbiTRUS framework for identifying potential ambiguity in user stories	17
Developing and sustaining a student-driven software solutions center—An experience report	17
Hierarchical tree-based algorithms for efficient expression parsing and test sequence generation in software models	17
Collection skeletons: Declarative abstractions for data collections	17
Editorial Board	17
CubeAgent: Efficient query-based video adversarial examples generation through deep reinforcement learning	16
Performability evaluation of NoSQL-based storage 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
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
EnseSmells : Deep ensemble and programming language models for automated code smells detection	16
Machine Learning for Software Aging Detection: A Systematic Mapping Study	16
People want reassurance when making privacy-related decisions — Not technicalities	16
An architecture for model-based and intelligent automation in DevOps	16
Input sensitivity on the performance of configurable systems an empirical study	16
Adaptive robustness evaluation for complex system prognostics and health management software platform	16

Modeling and verifying resources and capabilities of ubiquitous scenarios for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle swarm	16
Refactoring react-based Web apps	16
DigBug—Pre/post-processing operator selection for accurate bug localization	16
A systematic literature review on benchmarks for evaluating debugging approaches	16
An empirical evaluation of quasi-static executable slices	15
Mapping the structure and evolution of software testing research over the past three decades	15
Software engineering team project courses with industrial customers: Students’ insights on challenges and lessons learned	15
Barriers to device longevity and reuse: A vintage device empirical study	15
Benchmarking scalability of stream processing frameworks deployed as microservices in the cloud	15
CONSERVE: A framework for the selection of techniques for monitoring containers security	15
SuMo: A mutation testing approach and tool for the Ethereum blockchain	15
SCGRU: A general approach for identifying multiple classes of self-admitted technical debt with text generation oversampling	15
Profiling gas consumption in solidity smart contracts	15
Understanding practitioners’ challenges and requirements in the design, implementation, and evaluation of anti-phishing interventions	15
Organizational factors of software performance testing for systems of systems: A case study using high-reliability organization theory to understand an outage	15
Missing standard features compared with similar apps? A feature recommendation method based on the knowledge from user interface	14
On the dependency heaviness of CRAN/Bioconductor ecosystem	14
An efficient heuristic algorithm for software module clustering optimization	14
FSECAM: A contextual thematic approach for linking feature to multi-level software architectural components	14
A comparative analysis of ML techniques for bug report classification	14
Refactoring cross-project code duplication in an industrial software product line: A case study from RDW	14
The qualitative factor in software testing: A systematic mapping study of qualitative methods	14
EdgeWorkflow: One click to test and deploy your workflow applications to the edge	14
Research artifacts in software engineering publications: Status and trends	14
Impermanent identifiers: Enhanced source code comprehension and refactoring	14
Model-driven safety and security co-analysis: A systematic literature review	14
Editorial Board	14
Mutation testing of PL/SQL programs	14
CSAT: Configuration structure-aware tuning for highly configurable software systems	14
Editorial Board	14
Assets in Software Engineering: What are they after all?	14
So much more than test cases – An industrial study on testing of software units and components	14
CoDEvo: Column family database evolution using model transformations	14
CIT-daily: A combinatorial interaction testing-based daily build process	14
On the relation of method popularity to breaking changes in the Maven ecosystem	13
Product lines of dataflows	13
A model-based mode-switching framework based on security vulnerability scores	13
SGT: Aging-related bug prediction via semantic feature learning based on graph-transformer	13
Automatically generating test cases for safety-critical software via symbolic execution	13
Improving test case selection by handling class and attribute noise	13
Assessing UML Diagrams by GPT: Implications for Education	13
Shedding light on the dark side – A systematic literature review of the issues in agile software development methodology use	13
Secure and flexible message-based communication for mobile apps within and across devices	13
Investigating acceptance behavior in software engineering—Theoretical perspectives	13
An analysis of open source software licensing questions in Stack Exchange sites	13
Software modernization powered by dynamic language product lines	13
Predicting test failures induced by software defects: A lightweight alternative to software defect prediction and its industrial application	13
An annotation-based approach for finding bugs in neural network programs	13
Agile elicitation of scalability requirements for open systems: A case study	13
Enhancing vulnerability repair through the extraction and matching of repair patterns	13
Test case prioritization using partial attention	13
Perceptions of the human and social factors that influence the productivity of software development teams in Colombia: A statistical analysis	12
A model-driven formal methods approach to software architectural security vulnerabilities specification and verification	12
AI-Driven Decision-Making in Healthcare Information Systems: A Comprehensive Review	12
Mokav: Execution-driven differential testing with LLMs	12
An empirical study of COVID-19 related posts on Stack Overflow: Topics and technologies	12
Identifying concerns when specifying machine learning-enabled systems: A perspective-based approach	12
An Investigation of confusing code patterns in JavaScript	12
TitleGen-FL: Quality prediction-based filter for automated issue title generation	12
On the outdatedness of workflows in the GitHub Actions ecosystem	12
Adaptive data quality scoring operations framework using drift-aware mechanism for industrial applications	12
Feature-based software design pattern detection	12
Empathy models and software engineering — A preliminary analysis and taxonomy	12
Exploring developer experience factors in software ecosystems	12
Software engineering for quantum programming: How far are we?	12
An empirical study of software architecture resilience evaluation methods	11
Demystifying issues, causes and solutions in LLM open-source projects	11
GeQuPI: Quantum Program Improvement with Multi-Objective Genetic Programming	11
DongTing: A large-scale dataset for anomaly detection of the Linux kernel	11
Towards cost-efficient vulnerability detection with cross-modal adversarial reprogramming	11
DeepKernel: 2D-kernels clustering based mutant reduction for cost-effective deep learning model testing	11
A systematic review on security and safety of self-adaptive systems	11
Automatic extraction of security-rich dataflow diagrams for microservice applications written in Java	11
Out of the BLEU: How should we assess quality of the Code Generation models?	11
It all starts with structure: investigating learning dynamics in large-scale agile software development	11
Log statements generation via deep learning: Widening the support provided to developers	11
The Prevent-Model: Human and Organizational Factors Fostering Engineering of Safe and Secure Robotic Systems	11
Evaluating software security maturity using OWASP SAMM: Different approaches and stakeholders perceptions	11
Effective software security enhancement using an improved PointNet++	11
Ensemble Effort Estimation: An updated and extended systematic literature review	11
BIT: A template-based approach to incremental and bidirectional model-to-text transformation	11
WASMICO: Micro-containers in microcontrollers with WebAssembly	11
The influence of the city metaphor and its derivates in software visualization	11
On the evaluation of usability design guidelines for improving network monitoring tools interfaces	11
Symbolic testing of floating-point bugs and exceptions	11
Automatic testing of runtime enforcers with Test4Enforcers	10
Understanding Roxygen package documentation in R	10
A Multi-vocal Literature Review on challenges and critical success factors of phishing education, training and awareness	10
Improving the performance of software fault localization with effective coverage data reduction techniques	10
Piloting Copilot, Codex, and StarCoder2: Hot temperature, cold prompts, or black magic?	10
FedMVA: Enhancing software vulnerability assessment via federated multimodal learning	10
Variable-strength combinatorial testing of exported activities based on misexposure prediction	10
Promoting open science in test-driven software experiments	10
Towards an understanding of intra-defect associations: Implications for defect prediction	10
Variability modules	10