Information and Software Technology

Article	Citations
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	264
Feature-based insight for forks in social coding platforms	228
Automatically inferring user behavior models in large-scale web applications	166
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	132
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	113
A systematic review of shared personal informatics	101
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	96
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	91
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	91
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	84
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	72
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	65
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	63
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	58
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	55
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation	53
Processes, challenges and recommendations of Gray Literature Review: An experience report	50
A systematic literature review of agile software development projects	48
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	48
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	47
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	47
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	46
Exploring continual learning in code intelligence with domain-wise distilled prompts	45
Editorial Board	45
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	44

Exploring the use of LLMs for the selection phase in systematic literature studies	43
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	42
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	40
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	40
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	39
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level	38
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	38
A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing	38
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	37
A survey of selected characteristics and contexts of the analysis and planning phase of software development projects and their connections to project success	36
Introduction to software architecture for quantum computing systems special issue	34
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	32
Editorial Board	32
Editorial Board	32
An alternative to code comment generation? Generating comment from bytecode	31
Extraction and empirical evaluation of GUI-level invariants as GUI Oracles in mobile app testing	31
Test Code Flakiness in Mobile Apps: The Developer’s Perspective	31
Detecting privacy requirements from User Stories with NLP transfer learning models	31
An empirical study of emoji use in software development communication	31
Prioritisation of code clones using a genetic algorithm	30
Towards automating self-admitted technical debt repayment	30
Graph-based code semantics learning for efficient semantic code clone detection	30
Comparison of multi-criteria decision-making methods for online controlled experiments in a launch decision-making framework	29
AntiPhishX: An AI-Driven Service-Oriented Ensemble Framework for Detecting Phishing and AI-Powered Phishing Attacks	29
Automatically repairing tensor shape faults in deep learning programs	28
A multi-objective agile project planning model and a comparative meta-heuristic approach	28
Coverage-enhanced fault diagnosis for Deep Learning programs: A learning-based approach with hybrid metrics	28
Representation-based fairness evaluation and bias correction robustness assessment in neural networks	28
Investigating replication challenges through multiple replications of an experiment	28
Personalizing label prediction for GitHub issues	27
UX Research practices related to Long-Term UX: A Systematic Literature Review	27
A brief note, with thanks, on the contributions of Guenther Ruhe	26
Prioritization of model smell refactoring using a covariance matrix-based adaptive evolution algorithm	26
Improving effort-aware defect prediction by directly learning to rank software modules	26
Dev2vec: Representing domain expertise of developers in an embedding space	26
Graph-based explainable vulnerability prediction	25
Can serious gaming tactics bolster spear-phishing and phishing resilience? : Securing the human hacking in Information Security	24
Short communication: Evolution of secondary studies in software engineering	24
Can an old fashioned feature extraction and a light-weight model improve vulnerability type identification performance?	24
Introduction to special issue on Agile UX: challenges, successes and barriers to improvement	24
Causal reasoning in Software Quality Assurance: A systematic review	24
Developers’ viewpoints to avoid bug-introducing changes	24
Objectivity by design: The impact of AI-driven approach on employees' soft skills evaluation	23
Fairness on a budget, across the board: A cost-effective evaluation of fairness-aware practices across contexts, tasks, and sensitive attributes	23
Towards a taxonomy of code review smells	23
Community smells—The sources of social debt: A systematic literature review	23
Usefulness and usability of heuristic walkthroughs for evaluating domain-specific developer tools in industry: Evidence from four field simulations	23
An exploratory study of software artifacts on GitHub from the lens of documentation	22

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

Code smell detection using feature selection and stacking ensemble: An empirical investigation	13
Diversity-aware fairness testing of machine learning classifiers through hashing-based sampling	13
“Won’t We Fix this Issue?” Qualitative characterization and automated identification of wontfix issues on GitHub	13
Editorial Board	13
Studying logging practice in machine learning-based applications	13
Requirements engineering: Foundation for software quality (REFSQ2020)	13
Speeding up constraint-based program repair using a search-based technique	13
Assessing and improving syntactic adversarial robustness of pre-trained models for code translation	13
Like, dislike, or just do it? How developers approach software development tasks	13
Transparency and explainability of AI systems: From ethical guidelines to requirements	12
CLeBPI: Contrastive Learning for Bug Priority Inference	12
Introduction to the Special Section on the Best Papers from REFSQ 2022	12
An empirical study on capability of Large Language Models in understanding code semantics	12
SHSE: A subspace hybrid sampling ensemble method for software defect number prediction	12
Don’t settle for the first! How many GitHub Copilot solutions should you check?	12
Editorial Board	12
Successful combination of database search and snowballing for identification of primary studies in systematic literature studies	12
Native cross-platform app development using the SequalsK transpiler	12
Understanding the product knowledge acquisition process in multiprovider software evolution scenarios: An exploratory study	12
Case study identification with GPT-4 and implications for mapping studies	12
Predicting the precise number of software defects: Are we there yet?	12
Negative effects of gamification in education software: Systematic mapping and practitioner perceptions	12
Double-counting in software engineering tertiary studies — An overlooked threat to validity	12
Introduction to the special issue on dependable systems and applications	12
SedSVD: Statement-level software vulnerability detection based on Relational Graph Convolutional Network with subgraph embedding	12
How do software practitioners perceive human-centric defects?	12
DeKeDVer: A deep learning-based multi-type software vulnerability classification framework using vulnerability description and source code	12
Information needs and presentation in agile software development	11
Dealing with imbalanced data for interpretable defect prediction	11
Inferring data model from service interactions for response generation in service virtualization	11
An empirical study on secure usage of mobile health apps: The attack simulation approach	11
Progress on class integration test order generation approaches: A systematic literature review	11
An empirical study on ML DevOps adoption trends, efforts, and benefits analysis	11
A systematic mapping study of bug reproduction and localization	11
Machine translation-based fine-grained comments generation for solidity smart contracts	11
Visualizations for the evolution of Variant-Rich Systems: A systematic mapping study	11
Editorial Board	11
A search-based framework for automatic generation of testing environments for cyber–physical systems	11
Fine-tuning and prompt engineering for large language models-based code review automation	11
An empirical study on self-admitted technical debt in modern code review	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
Why and how do organizations create user-led open source consortia? A systematic literature review	10
How do practitioners gain confidence in assurance cases?	10
Job satisfaction in agile information systems development: A stakeholder perspective	10
Issues-Driven features for software fault prediction	10
The impact of using biased performance metrics on software defect prediction research	10
Code review guidelines for GUI-based testing artifacts	10
Unveiling security weaknesses in autonomous driving systems: An in-depth empirical study	10
Relating team atmosphere and group dynamics to student software development teams’ performance	10
Metamorphic testing of OpenStreetMap	10
Reporting case studies in systematic literature studies—An evidential problem	10
Guidelines for the development of a critical software under emergency	10
Many-objective optimization of non-functional attributes based on refactoring of software models	10
On preserving the behavior in software refactoring: A systematic mapping study	10
Enabling efficient and low-effort decentralized federated learning with the EdgeFL framework	10
The discovery effort worthiness index: How much product discovery should you do and how can this be integrated into delivery?	10
Understanding how early-stage researchers leverage socio-technical affordances for distributed research support	10
Aligned metric representation based balanced multiset ensemble learning for heterogeneous defect prediction	10
A deep learning-based automated framework for functional User Interface testing	10
Copiloting the future: How generative AI transforms Software Engineering	10
An investigation of causes and effects of trust in Boundary Artefacts	10
Squeeziness for non-deterministic systems	10
RoseMatcher: Identifying the impact of user reviews on app updates	10
Predicting vulnerability inducing function versions using node embeddings and graph neural networks	9
Review4Repair: Code review aided automatic program repairing	9
Using clarification questions to improve software developers’ Web search	9
Parallel evolutionary test case generation for web applications	9
Automated description generation for software patches	9
Locality-based security bug report identification via active learning	9
The lifecycle of Technical Debt that manifests in both source code and issue trackers	9
Programming language implementations for context-oriented self-adaptive systems	9
A Systematic Literature Review on prioritizing software test cases using Markov chains	9
Prioritizing user concerns in app reviews – A study of requests for new features, enhancements and bug fixes	9
A socio-technical perspective on software vulnerabilities: A causal analysis	9
A unifying framework for the systematic analysis of Git workflows	9
A longitudinal study on the temporal validity of software samples	9
SENEM: A software engineering-enabled educational metaverse	9
Improving domain-specific neural code generation with few-shot meta-learning	9
Impact of minimum viable product on software ecosystem failure	9
Special issue on causal modeling and inference in SE	9
A study of Scrum @ S&P Global in the post-COVID-19 era: Unsuitable for remote work or just flawed implementation?	9
Search-based approaches to optimizing software product line architectures: A systematic literature review	9
MDSSED: A safety and security enhanced model-driven development approach for smart home apps	8
Knowledge and research mapping of the data and database forensics domains: A bibliometric analysis	8
E-code: Mastering efficient code generation through pretrained models and expert encoder group	8
BERT- and TF-IDF-based feature extraction for long-lived bug prediction in FLOSS: A comparative study	8
Towards privacy compliance: A design science study in a small organization	8
Making existing software quantum safe: A case study on IBM Db2	8
A modeling assistant to manage technical debt in coupled evolution	8
Improving bug triage with the bug personalized tossing relationship	8
Summarizing source code with hierarchical code representation	8
Open source oriented cross-platform survey	8
What problems are MLOps practitioners talking about? A study of discussions in Stack Overflow forum and GitHub projects	8
Towards a taxonomy of privacy requirements based on the LGPD and ISO/IEC 29100	8