Journal of Systems and Software

Article	Citations
An efficient heuristic algorithm for software module clustering optimization	156
Enhancing concurrency vulnerability detection through AST-based static fuzz mutation	142
Job satisfaction at risk: Measuring the role of process debt in agile software development	135
Characterizing and detecting Python version incompatibilities caused by inconsistent version specifications	132
Best practices for evaluating IRFL approaches	93
Automatic instantiation of assurance cases from patterns using large language models	88
METFORD – Mutation tEsTing Framework fOR anDroid	88
An empirical study of code reuse between GitHub and stack overflow during software development	73
Systematic literature review of validation methods for AI systems	70
Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert	69
Why do builds fail?—A conceptual replication study	67
Detection of backdoor attacks using targeted universal adversarial perturbations for deep neural networks	64
Mutation testing of PL/SQL programs	62
Sentiment overflow in the testing stack: Analyzing software testing posts on Stack Overflow	56
Global Software Engineering: Challenges and solutions	55
Editorial Board	54
Editorial Board	52
Selenium-Jupiter: A JUnit 5 extension for Selenium WebDriver	51
Editorial Board	47
Introduction to the Special Issue on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation 2018	46
Test flakiness’ causes, detection, impact and responses: A multivocal review	45
Introduction to Special Issue on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation	45
ETune: Efficient configuration tuning for big-data software systems via configuration space reduction	42
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	42
Diversity-driven unit test generation	42

Programming under the influence: On the effect of Heat, Noise, and Alcohol on novice programmers	39
A study on classifying Stack Overflow questions based on difficulty by utilizing contextual features	38
CIT-daily: A combinatorial interaction testing-based daily build process	37
Missing standard features compared with similar apps? A feature recommendation method based on the knowledge from user interface	36
Research artifacts in software engineering publications: Status and trends	36
Editorial Board	35
Editorial Board	35
Editorial Board	34
Assessing industrial end-user programming of robotic production cells: A controlled experiment	34
Editorial Board	34
A catalogue of game-specific anti-patterns based on GitHub and Game Development Stack Exchange	33
On the roles of software testers: An exploratory study	33
Optimize along the way: An industrial case study on web performance	33
Introduction to the special issue on test automation: Trends, benefits, and costs	33
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	32
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	32
Software professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey: Factors affecting their mental well-being and work engagement in the home-based work setting	31
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	31
A vulnerability detection framework with enhanced graph feature learning	31
A systematic literature review on characteristics of the front-end phase of agile software development projects and their connections to project success	30
Test data generation for covering mutation-based path using MGA for MPI program	30
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	30
Runtime defect prediction of industrial business processes: A focused look at real-life SAP systems	30
PRHAN: Automated Pull Request Description Generation Based on Hybrid Attention Network	29
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	28
Towards a logical framework for ideal MBSE tool selection based on discipline specific requirements	28
Learning to empathize with users through design thinking in hybrid mode: Insights from two educational case studies	28
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	27
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	26
Multilayered review of safety approaches for machine learning-based systems in the days of AI	26
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	26
Boosting multi-objective just-in-time software defect prediction by fusing expert metrics and semantic metrics	26
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	25
LWS: A framework for log-based workload simulation in session-based SUT	25
Syntax-preserving program slicing for C-based software product lines	25
Atlas, a modular and efficient open-source BFT framework	25
Editorial Board	25
Learning a holistic and comprehensive code representation for code summarization	25
Scaling up statistical model checking of cyber-physical systems via algorithm ensemble and parallel simulations over HPC infrastructures	24
FSECAM: A contextual thematic approach for linking feature to multi-level software architectural components	24
Web application testing—Challenges and opportunities	24
Emotimonitor: A Trello power-up to capture and monitor emotions of Agile teams	23
Evaluating intrusion detection for microservice applications: Benchmark, dataset, and case studies	23
CoMPers: A configurable conflict management framework for personalized collaborative modeling	23
A framework for the design of fault-tolerant systems-of-systems	22
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	22
Perceived usability of collaborative modeling tools	22
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	22
Agile software engineers’ affective states, their performance and software quality: A systematic mapping review	22
Microservice API Evolution in Practice: A Study on Strategies and Challenges	21

A vulnerability severity prediction method based on bimodal data and multi-task learning	21
Variability modeling of products, processes, and resources in cyber–physical production systems engineering	21
Reference architectures as boundary objects in the co-engineering of system properties: An empirical study	21
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	21
Software modernization powered by dynamic language product lines	21
RETORCH*: A Cost and Resource aware Model for E2E Testing in the Cloud	21
The impact of hard and easy negative training data on vulnerability prediction performance	21
A generalized, rule-based method for the detection of intermittent faults in software programs	20
On measuring coupling between microservices	20
Evolution of code technical debt in microservices architectures	20
CSAT: Configuration structure-aware tuning for highly configurable software systems	20
Impermanent identifiers: Enhanced source code comprehension and refactoring	20
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	19
Web API evolution patterns: A usage-driven approach	19
ProCon: An automated process-centric quality constraints checking framework	19
Quantitative verification with adaptive uncertainty reduction	19
Infinite technical debt	19
SuMo: A mutation testing approach and tool for the Ethereum blockchain	19
Data Augmentation by Program Transformation	19
CoDEvo: Column family database evolution using model transformations	19
Machine learning based success prediction for crowdsourcing software projects	19
ExploitGen: Template-augmented exploit code generation based on CodeBERT	18
Local features: Enhancing variability modeling in software product lines	18
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	18
SLA-aware multiple migration planning and scheduling in SDN-NFV-enabled clouds	18
A systematic mapping study on group work research in computing education projects	18
Revealing code change propagation channels by evolution history mining	18
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	18
iCoL	18
Investigating effectiveness and compliance to DevOps policies and practices for managing productivity and quality variability	17
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	17
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	17
Equivalence, identity, and unitarity checking in black-box testing of quantum programs	17
Change impact analysis: A systematic mapping study	17
Exploring the REIT architecture for requirements elicitation interview training with robotic and virtual tutors	17
Using metamorphic relations to verify and enhance Artcode classification	17
AML: An accuracy metric model for effective evaluation of log parsing techniques	17
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	16
Product lines of dataflows	16
On the relation of method popularity to breaking changes in the Maven ecosystem	16
WDBT: Non-volatile memory wear characterization and mitigation for DBT systems	16
The effects of required security on software development effort	16
Intentions to continue using agile methods: The case of the Greek banking sector	16
A comprehensive evaluation of SZZ Variants through a developer-informed oracle	16
Commit-time defect prediction using one-class classification	16
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	16
E-SC4R: Explaining Software Clustering for Remodularisation	16
Locating and categorizing inefficient communication patterns in HPC systems using inter-process communication traces	15
Evaluating the layout quality of UML class diagrams using machine learning	15
How has design thinking being used and integrated into software development activities? A systematic mapping	15
EdgeWorkflow: One click to test and deploy your workflow applications to the edge	15
The ratio of equivalent mutants: A key to analyzing mutation equivalence	15
Evaluating the performance of clone detection tools in detecting cloned co-change candidates	15
Ranking approaches for similarity-based web element location	14
Refining software defect prediction through attentive neural models for code understanding	14
Theory of constructed emotion meets RE: An industrial case study	14
On the dependency heaviness of CRAN/Bioconductor ecosystem	14
Antipatterns in software classification taxonomies	14
Symbolic execution of floating-point programs: How far are we?	14
Proactive–reactive microservice architecture global scaling	14
Software product line scoping: A systematic literature review	14
Model-driven safety and security co-analysis: A systematic literature review	14
Editorial Board	14
Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	13
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	13
ECCOLA — A method for implementing ethically aligned AI systems	13
Software defect prediction based on enhanced metaheuristic feature selection optimization and a hybrid deep neural network	13
Organizational Factors of Software Performance Testing for Systems of Systems: A Case Study Using High-Reliability Organization Theory to Understand an Outage	13
Factors that affect developers’ decision to participate in a Mobile Software Ecosystem	13
A hybrid grey wolf optimizer using opposition-based learning, sine cosine algorithm and reinforcement learning for reliable scheduling and resource allocation	13
Assets in Software Engineering: What are they after all?	13
ARist: An effective API argument recommendation approach	13
Privacy explanations – A means to end-user trust	12
Data pipeline quality: Influencing factors, root causes of data-related issues, and processing problem areas for developers	12
UVLHub: A feature model data repository using UVL and open science principles	12
Data management for production quality deep learning models: Challenges and solutions	12
Technical debt in AI-enabled systems: On the prevalence, severity, impact, and management strategies for code and architecture	12
Model-based testing in practice: An experience report from the web applications domain	12
An architectural view type for elasticity modeling and simulation—The Slingshot approach	12
SGT: Aging-related bug prediction via semantic feature learning based on graph-transformer	12

A comparative study of test code clones and production code clones	12
Software engineering practices for machine learning — Adoption, effects, and team assessment	12
Improving test case selection by handling class and attribute noise	12
Conformance assessment of Architectural Design Decisions on API endpoint designs derived from domain models	12
Evaluating the effectiveness of risk containers to isolate change propagation	11
Special Issue on New Generation of Bug Fixing	11
Editorial Board	11
Visualization of aggregated information to support class-level software evolution	11
Impact of data quality for automatic issue classification using pre-trained language models	11
Understanding security vulnerabilities in student code: A case study in a non-security course	11
Secure and flexible message-based communication for mobile apps within and across devices	11
A model-driven formal methods approach to software architectural security vulnerabilities specification and verification	11
A speech-enabled virtual assistant for efficient human–robot interaction in industrial environments	11
Editorial Board	11
Editorial Board	11
Role stereotypes in software designs and their evolution	11
Editorial Board	11
A modular metamodel and refactoring rules to achieve software product line interoperability	11
Software engineering research on the Robot Operating System: A systematic mapping study	11
Affective reactions and test-driven development: Results from three experiments and a survey	11
When traceability goes awry: An industrial experience report	11
Editorial Board	11
Stability evaluation for text localization systems via metamorphic testing	11
An empirical study of COVID-19 related posts on Stack Overflow: Topics and technologies	11
Status indicators in software engineering group projects	11
Maximizing integrative learning in software development teams: A systematic review of key drivers and future research agenda	11
Optimizing smart contract vulnerability detection via multi-modality code and entropy embedding	10
How are websites used during development and what are the implications for the coding process?	10
On the outdatedness of workflows in the GitHub Actions ecosystem	10
BaSFuzz: Fuzz testing based on difference analysis for seed bytes	10
Applying short text topic models to instant messaging communication of software developers	10
CG-FL: A data augmentation approach using context-aware genetic algorithm for fault localization	10
The impact of unequal contributions in student software engineering team projects	10
Iterative framework based on multi-task learning for service recommendation	10
VsusFL: Variable-suspiciousness-based Fault Localization for novice programs	10
Enhancing Ethereum smart-contracts static analysis by computing a precise Control-Flow Graph of Ethereum bytecode	10
A data-driven active learning approach to reusing ML solutions in scientific applications	10
Mining user privacy concern topics from app reviews	10
Application Monitoring for bug reproduction in web-based applications	10
SYNTONY: Potential-aware fuzzing with particle swarm optimization	10
Combine sliced joint graph with graph neural networks for smart contract vulnerability detection	10
Quantum circuit optimization of an integer divider	10
Characterising reproducibility debt in scientific software: A systematic literature review	10
Early and quick function points analysis: Evaluations and proposals	9
VIBE: Looking for Variability In amBiguous rEquirements	9
Editorial Board	9
EvaluateXAI: A framework to evaluate the reliability and consistency of rule-based XAI techniques for software analytics tasks	9
Editorial Board	9
An empirical study on the co-occurrence between refactoring actions and Self-Admitted Technical Debt removal	9
Integrating neural mutation into mutation-based fault localization: A hybrid approach	9
Automatic generation of efficient oracles: The less-than case	9
Developer perceptions of modern code review processes in practice: Insights from a case study in a mid-sized company	9
An annotation-based approach for finding bugs in neural network programs	9
Set evolution based test data generation for killing stubborn mutants	9
Empirical investigation in embedded systems: Quality attributes in general, maintainability in particular	9
Reproducibility of issues reported in stack overflow questions: Challenges, impact & estimation	9
Improve cross-project just-in-time defect prediction with dynamic transfer learning	9
Software architecture for quantum computing systems — A systematic review	9
Leveraging belief uncertainty for informed decision making in software product line evolution	9
Multi-granularity coverage criteria for deep reinforcement learning systems	9
FaaSten your decisions: A classification framework and technology review of function-as-a-Service platforms	9
Actionable light-weight process guidance	9
Distribution-aware fairness test generation	9
A fuzzy logic-based quality model for identifying microservices with low maintainability	9
Diverse title generation for Stack Overflow posts with multiple-sampling-enhanced transformer	9
An integrated tool set for verifying CafeOBJ specifications	9
Impact on energy consumption of design patterns, code smells and refactoring techniques: A systematic mapping study	9
DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting framework for software vulnerability detection	9
Identifying concerns when specifying machine learning-enabled systems: A perspective-based approach	9
Empathy models and software engineering — A preliminary analysis and taxonomy	9
Cataloging dependency injection anti-patterns in software systems	8
Test case prioritization using partial attention	8
Automatic extraction of security-rich dataflow diagrams for microservice applications written in Java	8
Custom-tailored clone detection for IEC 61131-3 programming languages	8
Precise Learning of Source Code Contextual Semantics via Hierarchical Dependence Structure and Graph Attention Networks	8
Investigating the performance of personalized models for software defect prediction	8
An empirical study of optimization bugs in GCC and LLVM	8
Architectural conformance checking for KDM-represented systems	8
Testing anticipatory systems: A systematic mapping study on the state of the art	8
Goal model convergence and conflict detection for crossover services	8
Perceptions of the human and social factors that influence the productivity of software development teams in Colombia: A statistical analysis	8
An empirical characterization of software bugs in open-source Cyber–Physical Systems	8
A model-driven approach for continuous performance engineering in microservice-based systems	8
Mining guidelines for architecting robotics software	8
Discovering boundary values of feature-based machine learning classifiers through exploratory datamorphic testing	8
Spreadsheet debugging: The perils of tool over-reliance	8
Graph-based visualization of merge requests for code review	8
An Investigation of confusing code patterns in JavaScript	8
Vulnerable smart contract function locating based on Multi-Relational Nested Graph Convolutional Network	8
Automated repair of resource leaks in Android applications	8
Automatically recognizing the semantic elements from UML class diagram images	8
Testing multiple linear regression systems with metamorphic testing	8
SWFC-ART: A cost-effective approach for Fixed-Size-Candidate-Set Adaptive Random Testing through small world graphs	8
Automatically generating test cases for safety-critical software via symbolic execution	8
Ensemble Effort Estimation: An updated and extended systematic literature review	8