Information and Software Technology

Article	Citations
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	250
Feature-based insight for forks in social coding platforms	225
Automatically inferring user behavior models in large-scale web applications	218
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	167
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	143
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	118
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	109
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	98
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	91
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	88
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	87
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	80
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	72
Insights on the relationship between decision-making style and personality in software engineering	64
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	60
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation	56
A systematic literature review of agile software development projects	53
From a Scrum Reference Ontology to the Integration of Applications for Data-Driven Software Development	53
Processes, challenges and recommendations of Gray Literature Review: An experience report	50
Editorial Board	48
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level	47
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	46
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	46
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	45
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	45

A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing	44
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	42
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	42
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	41
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	40
GNPSum: A code summarization enhancement framework based on Graph Node Position	40
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	39
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	38
Exploring the use of LLMs for the selection phase in systematic literature studies	38
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	37
Introduction to software architecture for quantum computing systems special issue	36
Requirements engineering for older adult digital health software: A systematic literature review	33
To group or not to group? Group sizes for requirements elicitation	32
Editorial Board	31
Editorial Board	31
Comparison of multi-criteria decision-making methods for online controlled experiments in a launch decision-making framework	31
A multi-objective agile project planning model and a comparative meta-heuristic approach	31
Editorial Board	31
Towards automating self-admitted technical debt repayment	30
An empirical study of emoji use in software development communication	30
An alternative to code comment generation? Generating comment from bytecode	30
Extraction and empirical evaluation of GUI-level invariants as GUI Oracles in mobile app testing	30
Prioritisation of code clones using a genetic algorithm	30
Test Code Flakiness in Mobile Apps: The Developer’s Perspective	30
Detecting privacy requirements from User Stories with NLP transfer learning models	29
Investigating replication challenges through multiple replications of an experiment	29
Graph-based code semantics learning for efficient semantic code clone detection	29
Improving effort-aware defect prediction by directly learning to rank software modules	28
Usefulness and usability of heuristic walkthroughs for evaluating domain-specific developer tools in industry: Evidence from four field simulations	28
Coverage-enhanced fault diagnosis for Deep Learning programs: A learning-based approach with hybrid metrics	28
Short communication: Evolution of secondary studies in software engineering	28
Automatically repairing tensor shape faults in deep learning programs	27
UX Research practices related to Long-Term UX: A Systematic Literature Review	27
Personalizing label prediction for GitHub issues	26
Dev2vec: Representing domain expertise of developers in an embedding space	26
Towards a taxonomy of code review smells	26
Prioritization of model smell refactoring using a covariance matrix-based adaptive evolution algorithm	26
An exploratory study of software artifacts on GitHub from the lens of documentation	25
A brief note, with thanks, on the contributions of Guenther Ruhe	25
Causal reasoning in Software Quality Assurance: A systematic review	24
Objectivity by design: The impact of AI-driven approach on employees' soft skills evaluation	24
Can serious gaming tactics bolster spear-phishing and phishing resilience? : Securing the human hacking in Information Security	24
Community smells—The sources of social debt: A systematic literature review	24
Developers’ viewpoints to avoid bug-introducing changes	24
Graph-based explainable vulnerability prediction	24
Overlapping community detection in software ecosystem based on pheromone guided personalized PageRank algorithm	23
Can an old fashioned feature extraction and a light-weight model improve vulnerability type identification performance?	23
A mixed method study of DevOps challenges	23
Introduction to special issue on Agile UX: challenges, successes and barriers to improvement	23
Skills development for software engineers: Systematic literature review	22

Introduction to the special issue on managing software processes using soft computing techniques	22
FRL-MFPG: Propagation-aware fault root cause location for microservice intelligent operation and maintenance	22
Cross-Modal Retrieval-enhanced code Summarization based on joint learning for retrieval and generation	22
Microservice-based projects in agile world: A structured interview	22
DFL: A DOM sample generation oriented fuzzing framework for browser rendering engines	22
Introduction to the Special Issue on: Grey Literature and Multivocal Literature Reviews (MLRs) in software engineering	22
MT-Nod: Metamorphic testing for detecting non-optimal decisions of autonomous driving systems in interactive scenarios	21
Genetic model-based success probability prediction of quantum software development projects	21
A systematic mapping study on graph machine learning for static source code analysis	21
An expressive and modular layer activation mechanism for Context-Oriented Programming	20
A low-code assessment platform for urban digital twins	20
An information theoretic notion of software testability	19
FCTree: Visualization of function calls in execution	19
Editorial Board	19
Layered microservices architecture: A multitree-based domain-driven approach	19
Editorial Board	19
Leveraging a combination of machine learning and formal concept analysis to locate the implementation of features in software variants	19
Dynamic robustness evaluation for automated model selection in operation	19
Impact of software development processes on the outcomes of student computing projects: A tale of two universities	19
A methodology to automatically translate user requirements into visualizations: Experimental validation	18
Technical risk model of machine learning based software project development - A multinational empirical study using modified Delphi-AHP method	18
Application of knowledge graph in software engineering field: A systematic literature review	18
A taxonomy of microservice integration techniques	18
Convergence rate of Artificial Neural Networks for estimation in software development projects	18
Editorial Board	18
Data preprocessing for machine learning based code smell detection: A systematic literature review	18
Investigating the relationship between coordination strategy and coordination effectiveness in agile software development projects	18
A survey on Cryptoagility and Agile Practices in the light of quantum resistance	18
The impact of knowledge inertia on process tailoring in the dynamic development of software projects in Chinese industries	18
MLOps best practices, challenges and maturity models: A systematic literature review	17
Perceived impact of agile principles: Insights from a survey-based study on agile software development project success	17
Editorial Board	17
Exploring the means to measure explainability: Metrics, heuristics and questionnaires	17
Constrained detecting arrays: Mathematical structures for fault identification in combinatorial interaction testing	17
DLRegion: Coverage-guided fuzz testing of deep neural networks with region-based neuron selection strategies	17
Editorial Board	17
A random forest model for early-stage software effort estimation for the SEERA dataset	17
Automating user-feedback driven requirements prioritization	17
PAREI: A progressive approach for Web API recommendation by combining explicit and implicit information	17
Editorial Board	17
JIT-CF: Integrating contrastive learning with feature fusion for enhanced just-in-time defect prediction	16
Studying the challenges of developing hardware description language programs	16
A software vulnerability detection method based on multi-modality with unified processing	16
On the use of contextual information for machine learning based test case prioritization in continuous integration development	16
Human error management in requirements engineering: Should we fix the people, the processes, or the environment?	16
SolBERT: Advancing solidity smart contract similarity analysis via self-supervised pre-training and contrastive fine-tuning	16
Integrating DSGEO into test case generation for path coverage of MPI programs	16
Crex: Predicting patch correctness in automated repair of C programs through transfer learning of execution semantics	16
When should we (not) use the mean magnitude of relative error (MMRE) as an error measure in software development effort estimation?	16
Reinforcement learning for test case prioritization based on LLEed K-means clustering and dynamic priority factor	15
Information and software technology: Special section on techdebt 2021	15
The journey to technical excellence in agile software development	15
Towards antifragility of cloud systems: An adaptive chaos driven framework	15
A systematic literature review of capstone courses in software engineering	15
SE3M: A model f	15
Vulnerability detection with feature fusion and learnable edge-type embedding graph neural network	15
Are your apps accessible? A GCN-based accessibility checker for low vision users	15
HYDRA: Feedback-driven black-box exploitation of injection vulnerabilities	15
Antecedents of psychological safety in agile software development teams	15
Preventing technical debt with the TAP framework for Technical Debt Aware Management	15
Synthesizing research on programmers’ mental models of programs, tasks and concepts — A systematic literature review	15
The need for more informative defect prediction: A systematic literature review	15
Does it matter who pays back Technical Debt? An empirical study of self-fixed TD	14
Service Design Handover to user experience design – a systematic literature review	14
Context-based statement-level vulnerability localization	14
How far are we from reproducible research on code smell detection? A systematic literature review	14
Alternatives for testing of context-aware software systems in non-academic settings: results from a Rapid Review	14
The yea-paradox: Cognitive bias in technology acceptance surveys	14
Automation of systematic literature reviews: A systematic literature review	14
Exploring the communication functions of comments during bug fixing in Open Source Software projects	14
BGNN4VD: Constructing Bidirectional Graph Neural-Network for Vulnerability Detection	14
Case study identification: A trivial indicator outperforms human classifiers	14
A software product line approach for developing hybrid software systems	14
A novel detection model for abnormal network traffic based on bidirectional temporal convolutional network	14
Making vulnerability prediction more practical: Prediction, categorization, and localization	14
Requirements engineering: Foundation for software quality (REFSQ2020)	13
Assessing and improving syntactic adversarial robustness of pre-trained models for code translation	13
Test case recommendation based on balanced distance of test targets	13
Studying logging practice in machine learning-based applications	13
Negative effects of gamification in education software: Systematic mapping and practitioner perceptions	13

Memorization and generalization in neural code intelligence models	13
Uncertainty propagation from sensor data to deep learning models in autonomous driving	13
Like, dislike, or just do it? How developers approach software development tasks	13
Speeding up constraint-based program repair using a search-based technique	13
Successful combination of database search and snowballing for identification of primary studies in systematic literature studies	12
Diversity-aware fairness testing of machine learning classifiers through hashing-based sampling	12
Native cross-platform app development using the SequalsK transpiler	12
An empirical study on self-admitted technical debt in modern code review	12
Double-counting in software engineering tertiary studies — An overlooked threat to validity	12
Case study identification with GPT-4 and implications for mapping studies	12
Introduction to the Special Section on the Best Papers from REFSQ 2022	12
Information needs and presentation in agile software development	12
Transparency and explainability of AI systems: From ethical guidelines to requirements	12
Don’t settle for the first! How many GitHub Copilot solutions should you check?	12
SedSVD: Statement-level software vulnerability detection based on Relational Graph Convolutional Network with subgraph embedding	12
Machine translation-based fine-grained comments generation for solidity smart contracts	12
Editorial Board	12
How do software practitioners perceive human-centric defects?	12
Introduction to the special issue on dependable systems and applications	12
Code smell detection using feature selection and stacking ensemble: An empirical investigation	12
“Won’t We Fix this Issue?” Qualitative characterization and automated identification of wontfix issues on GitHub	12
An empirical study on ML DevOps adoption trends, efforts, and benefits analysis	12
Dealing with imbalanced data for interpretable defect prediction	12
CLeBPI: Contrastive Learning for Bug Priority Inference	12
A systematic mapping study of bug reproduction and localization	12
Understanding the product knowledge acquisition process in multiprovider software evolution scenarios: An exploratory study	12
SHSE: A subspace hybrid sampling ensemble method for software defect number prediction	12
Fine-tuning and prompt engineering for large language models-based code review automation	11
Inferring data model from service interactions for response generation in service virtualization	11
Visualizations for the evolution of Variant-Rich Systems: A systematic mapping study	11
Why and how do organizations create user-led open source consortia? A systematic literature review	11
Relating team atmosphere and group dynamics to student software development teams’ performance	11
Predicting the precise number of software defects: Are we there yet?	11
A search-based framework for automatic generation of testing environments for cyber–physical systems	11
Probabilistic program performance analysis with confidence intervals	11
The impact of stressors on the relationship between personality traits, knowledge collection behaviour and programmer creativity intention in software engineering	11
SENEM: A software engineering-enabled educational metaverse	11
Editorial Board	11
DeKeDVer: A deep learning-based multi-type software vulnerability classification framework using vulnerability description and source code	11
Progress on class integration test order generation approaches: A systematic literature review	11
An empirical study on secure usage of mobile health apps: The attack simulation approach	11
Metamorphic testing of OpenStreetMap	11
An investigation of causes and effects of trust in Boundary Artefacts	11
Copiloting the future: How generative AI transforms Software Engineering	10
Job satisfaction in agile information systems development: A stakeholder perspective	10
The discovery effort worthiness index: How much product discovery should you do and how can this be integrated into delivery?	10
Code review guidelines for GUI-based testing artifacts	10
Unveiling security weaknesses in autonomous driving systems: An in-depth empirical study	10
On preserving the behavior in software refactoring: A systematic mapping study	10
Squeeziness for non-deterministic systems	10
Issues-Driven features for software fault prediction	10
Measuring the cognitive load of software developers: An extended Systematic Mapping Study	10
Reporting case studies in systematic literature studies—An evidential problem	10
Many-objective optimization of non-functional attributes based on refactoring of software models	10
A deep learning-based automated framework for functional User Interface testing	10
Enabling efficient and low-effort decentralized federated learning with the EdgeFL framework	10
Guidelines for the development of a critical software under emergency	10
Aligned metric representation based balanced multiset ensemble learning for heterogeneous defect prediction	10
Understanding how early-stage researchers leverage socio-technical affordances for distributed research support	10
The impact of using biased performance metrics on software defect prediction research	10
Motivations, benefits, and issues for adopting Micro-Frontends: A Multivocal Literature Review	10
Special issue on causal modeling and inference in SE	9
Impact of minimum viable product on software ecosystem failure	9
Improving domain-specific neural code generation with few-shot meta-learning	9
Review4Repair: Code review aided automatic program repairing	9
A study of Scrum @ S&P Global in the post-COVID-19 era: Unsuitable for remote work or just flawed implementation?	9
A unifying framework for the systematic analysis of Git workflows	9
Search-based approaches to optimizing software product line architectures: A systematic literature review	9
The lifecycle of Technical Debt that manifests in both source code and issue trackers	9
A Systematic Literature Review on prioritizing software test cases using Markov chains	9
Programming language implementations for context-oriented self-adaptive systems	9
A longitudinal study on the temporal validity of software samples	9
Application of Project-Based Learning to a Software Engineering course in a hybrid class environment	9
Process mining software engineering practices: A case study for deployment pipelines	9
Prioritizing user concerns in app reviews – A study of requests for new features, enhancements and bug fixes	9
Using clarification questions to improve software developers’ Web search	9
Predicting vulnerability inducing function versions using node embeddings and graph neural networks	9
RoseMatcher: Identifying the impact of user reviews on app updates	9
Parallel evolutionary test case generation for web applications	9
Automated description generation for software patches	9
Social Capital in Large-Scale Agile Software Product Management: A Multi-Case Study	9
A socio-technical perspective on software vulnerabilities: A causal analysis	9
Locality-based security bug report identification via active learning	8
Improving bug triage with the bug personalized tossing relationship	8
Open source oriented cross-platform survey	8
Towards a taxonomy of privacy requirements based on the LGPD and ISO/IEC 29100	8
Ensemble effort estimation for novice agile teams	8
Classifying issue reports according to feature descriptions in a user manual based on a deep learning model	8
A modeling assistant to manage technical debt in coupled evolution	8
Fairness-aware practices from developers’ perspective: A survey	8
Editorial Board	8
Experiences from conducting rapid reviews in collaboration with practitioners — Two industrial cases	8
E-code: Mastering efficient code generation through pretrained models and expert encoder group	8
Knowledge and research mapping of the data and database forensics domains: A bibliometric analysis	8
MDSSED: A safety and security enhanced model-driven development approach for smart home apps	8