Information and Software Technology

Papers
(The TQCC of Information and Software Technology is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Insights on the relationship between decision-making style and personality in software engineering239
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks215
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study205
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation166
Feature-based insight for forks in social coding platforms135
Automatically inferring user behavior models in large-scale web applications106
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks105
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution93
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction86
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths86
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research86
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews76
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective70
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities59
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications55
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains55
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation54
A systematic literature review of agile software development projects50
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning50
From a Scrum Reference Ontology to the Integration of Applications for Data-Driven Software Development50
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning47
Editorial Board46
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level44
On the generalizability of Neural Program Models with respect to semantic-preserving program transformations43
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems42
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias42
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems42
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion41
A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing40
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models40
Processes, challenges and recommendations of Gray Literature Review: An experience report39
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review39
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks38
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection37
Introduction to software architecture for quantum computing systems special issue36
Requirements engineering for older adult digital health software: A systematic literature review35
To group or not to group? Group sizes for requirements elicitation33
Comparison of multi-criteria decision-making methods for online controlled experiments in a launch decision-making framework32
Editorial Board31
Editorial Board31
Extraction and empirical evaluation of GUI-level invariants as GUI Oracles in mobile app testing31
Editorial Board31
An empirical study of emoji use in software development communication30
An alternative to code comment generation? Generating comment from bytecode30
Test Code Flakiness in Mobile Apps: The Developer’s Perspective30
Towards automating self-admitted technical debt repayment29
Augmenting commit classification by using fine-grained source code changes and a pre-trained deep neural language model29
Prioritisation of code clones using a genetic algorithm29
A multi-objective agile project planning model and a comparative meta-heuristic approach29
Coverage-enhanced fault diagnosis for Deep Learning programs: A learning-based approach with hybrid metrics28
Investigating replication challenges through multiple replications of an experiment28
Objectivity by design: The impact of AI-driven approach on employees' soft skills evaluation28
Generating feasible protocol test sequences from EFSM models using Monte Carlo tree search28
Detecting privacy requirements from User Stories with NLP transfer learning models28
Can an old fashioned feature extraction and a light-weight model improve vulnerability type identification performance?28
Usefulness and usability of heuristic walkthroughs for evaluating domain-specific developer tools in industry: Evidence from four field simulations28
Graph-based code semantics learning for efficient semantic code clone detection28
Dev2vec: Representing domain expertise of developers in an embedding space27
Automatically repairing tensor shape faults in deep learning programs26
An exploratory study of software artifacts on GitHub from the lens of documentation26
Introduction to special issue on Agile UX: challenges, successes and barriers to improvement26
Community smells—The sources of social debt: A systematic literature review26
Can serious gaming tactics bolster spear-phishing and phishing resilience? : Securing the human hacking in Information Security26
Causal reasoning in Software Quality Assurance: A systematic review25
A brief note, with thanks, on the contributions of Guenther Ruhe25
Graph-based explainable vulnerability prediction24
Improving effort-aware defect prediction by directly learning to rank software modules24
UX Research practices related to Long-Term UX: A Systematic Literature Review24
Developers’ viewpoints to avoid bug-introducing changes24
Towards a taxonomy of code review smells23
Prioritization of model smell refactoring using a covariance matrix-based adaptive evolution algorithm23
Short communication: Evolution of secondary studies in software engineering23
Personalizing label prediction for GitHub issues22
Introduction to the special issue on managing software processes using soft computing techniques22
Overlapping community detection in software ecosystem based on pheromone guided personalized PageRank algorithm22
A systematic mapping study on graph machine learning for static source code analysis22
Introduction to the Special Issue on: Grey Literature and Multivocal Literature Reviews (MLRs) in software engineering22
A mixed method study of DevOps challenges22
MT-Nod: Metamorphic testing for detecting non-optimal decisions of autonomous driving systems in interactive scenarios22
DFL: A DOM sample generation oriented fuzzing framework for browser rendering engines22
FRL-MFPG: Propagation-aware fault root cause location for microservice intelligent operation and maintenance21
Impact of software development processes on the outcomes of student computing projects: A tale of two universities21
A low-code assessment platform for urban digital twins21
An expressive and modular layer activation mechanism for Context-Oriented Programming21
Skills development for software engineers: Systematic literature review21
Analyzing the sensitivity of multi-objective software architecture refactoring to configuration characteristics21
FCTree: Visualization of function calls in execution20
Genetic model-based success probability prediction of quantum software development projects20
Microservice-based projects in agile world: A structured interview20
Editorial Board19
An information theoretic notion of software testability19
Cross-Modal Retrieval-enhanced code Summarization based on joint learning for retrieval and generation19
Editorial Board19
Constrained detecting arrays: Mathematical structures for fault identification in combinatorial interaction testing18
Layered microservices architecture: A multitree-based domain-driven approach18
Dynamic robustness evaluation for automated model selection in operation18
Investigating the relationship between coordination strategy and coordination effectiveness in agile software development projects18
MLOps best practices, challenges and maturity models: A systematic literature review18
Automating user-feedback driven requirements prioritization18
A methodology to automatically translate user requirements into visualizations: Experimental validation18
Leveraging a combination of machine learning and formal concept analysis to locate the implementation of features in software variants18
DLRegion: Coverage-guided fuzz testing of deep neural networks with region-based neuron selection strategies17
A random forest model for early-stage software effort estimation for the SEERA dataset17
Perceived impact of agile principles: Insights from a survey-based study on agile software development project success17
Convergence rate of Artificial Neural Networks for estimation in software development projects17
Exploring the means to measure explainability: Metrics, heuristics and questionnaires17
Application of knowledge graph in software engineering field: A systematic literature review17
A survey on Cryptoagility and Agile Practices in the light of quantum resistance17
Technical risk model of machine learning based software project development - A multinational empirical study using modified Delphi-AHP method17
The impact of knowledge inertia on process tailoring in the dynamic development of software projects in Chinese industries17
A taxonomy of microservice integration techniques17
Editorial Board16
JIT-CF: Integrating contrastive learning with feature fusion for enhanced just-in-time defect prediction16
Crex: Predicting patch correctness in automated repair of C programs through transfer learning of execution semantics16
Editorial Board16
PAREI: A progressive approach for Web API recommendation by combining explicit and implicit information16
Human error management in requirements engineering: Should we fix the people, the processes, or the environment?16
Editorial Board16
Integrating DSGEO into test case generation for path coverage of MPI programs16
On the use of contextual information for machine learning based test case prioritization in continuous integration development16
A software vulnerability detection method based on multi-modality with unified processing16
When should we (not) use the mean magnitude of relative error (MMRE) as an error measure in software development effort estimation?15
Context-based statement-level vulnerability localization15
Reinforcement learning for test case prioritization based on LLEed K-means clustering and dynamic priority factor15
Antecedents of psychological safety in agile software development teams15
SE3M: A model f15
The need for more informative defect prediction: A systematic literature review15
Towards antifragility of cloud systems: An adaptive chaos driven framework15
Alternatives for testing of context-aware software systems in non-academic settings: results from a Rapid Review15
Information and software technology: Special section on techdebt 202115
Studying the challenges of developing hardware description language programs15
Does it matter who pays back Technical Debt? An empirical study of self-fixed TD15
Case study identification: A trivial indicator outperforms human classifiers15
Are your apps accessible? A GCN-based accessibility checker for low vision users15
The journey to technical excellence in agile software development15
Vulnerability detection with feature fusion and learnable edge-type embedding graph neural network15
Preventing technical debt with the TAP framework for Technical Debt Aware Management14
A software product line approach for developing hybrid software systems14
Service Design Handover to user experience design – a systematic literature review14
Synthesizing research on programmers’ mental models of programs, tasks and concepts — A systematic literature review14
HYDRA: Feedback-driven black-box exploitation of injection vulnerabilities14
A systematic literature review of capstone courses in software engineering14
Automation of systematic literature reviews: A systematic literature review14
The yea-paradox: Cognitive bias in technology acceptance surveys14
Making vulnerability prediction more practical: Prediction, categorization, and localization14
A novel detection model for abnormal network traffic based on bidirectional temporal convolutional network13
Assessing and improving syntactic adversarial robustness of pre-trained models for code translation13
“Won’t We Fix this Issue?” Qualitative characterization and automated identification of wontfix issues on GitHub13
Requirements engineering: Foundation for software quality (REFSQ2020)13
Test case recommendation based on balanced distance of test targets13
How far are we from reproducible research on code smell detection? A systematic literature review13
Speeding up constraint-based program repair using a search-based technique13
Memorization and generalization in neural code intelligence models13
BGNN4VD: Constructing Bidirectional Graph Neural-Network for Vulnerability Detection13
Exploring the communication functions of comments during bug fixing in Open Source Software projects13
Diversity-aware fairness testing of machine learning classifiers through hashing-based sampling13
Studying logging practice in machine learning-based applications13
DeKeDVer: A deep learning-based multi-type software vulnerability classification framework using vulnerability description and source code12
Machine translation-based fine-grained comments generation for solidity smart contracts12
Code smell detection using feature selection and stacking ensemble: An empirical investigation12
Transparency and explainability of AI systems: From ethical guidelines to requirements12
Don’t settle for the first! How many GitHub Copilot solutions should you check?12
An empirical study on self-admitted technical debt in modern code review12
A search-based framework for automatic generation of testing environments for cyber–physical systems12
Uncertainty propagation from sensor data to deep learning models in autonomous driving12
Negative effects of gamification in education software: Systematic mapping and practitioner perceptions12
Introduction to the special issue on dependable systems and applications12
Understanding the product knowledge acquisition process in multiprovider software evolution scenarios: An exploratory study12
Double-counting in software engineering tertiary studies — An overlooked threat to validity12
SHSE: A subspace hybrid sampling ensemble method for software defect number prediction12
Like, dislike, or just do it? How developers approach software development tasks12
Successful combination of database search and snowballing for identification of primary studies in systematic literature studies12
Introduction to the Special Section on the Best Papers from REFSQ 202212
Editorial Board12
SedSVD: Statement-level software vulnerability detection based on Relational Graph Convolutional Network with subgraph embedding11
Predicting the precise number of software defects: Are we there yet?11
Multi-objective software performance optimisation at the architecture level using randomised search rules11
Case study identification with GPT-4 and implications for mapping studies11
Dealing with imbalanced data for interpretable defect prediction11
Progress on class integration test order generation approaches: A systematic literature review11
How do software practitioners perceive human-centric defects?11
Information needs and presentation in agile software development11
An empirical study on ML DevOps adoption trends, efforts, and benefits analysis11
Fine-tuning and prompt engineering for large language models-based code review automation11
Inferring data model from service interactions for response generation in service virtualization11
Visualizations for the evolution of Variant-Rich Systems: A systematic mapping study11
Native cross-platform app development using the SequalsK transpiler11
CLeBPI: Contrastive Learning for Bug Priority Inference11
A systematic mapping study of bug reproduction and localization11
Metamorphic testing of OpenStreetMap10
An empirical study on secure usage of mobile health apps: The attack simulation approach10
Unveiling security weaknesses in autonomous driving systems: An in-depth empirical study10
Why and how do organizations create user-led open source consortia? A systematic literature review10
The impact of using biased performance metrics on software defect prediction research10
An investigation of causes and effects of trust in Boundary Artefacts10
Issues-Driven features for software fault prediction10
Reporting case studies in systematic literature studies—An evidential problem10
Measuring the cognitive load of software developers: An extended Systematic Mapping Study10
The impact of stressors on the relationship between personality traits, knowledge collection behaviour and programmer creativity intention in software engineering10
The discovery effort worthiness index: How much product discovery should you do and how can this be integrated into delivery?10
Editorial Board10
A deep learning-based automated framework for functional User Interface testing10
On preserving the behavior in software refactoring: A systematic mapping study10
Aligned metric representation based balanced multiset ensemble learning for heterogeneous defect prediction10
Squeeziness for non-deterministic systems10
RoseMatcher: Identifying the impact of user reviews on app updates10
Enabling efficient and low-effort decentralized federated learning with the EdgeFL framework10
Probabilistic program performance analysis with confidence intervals10
Job satisfaction in agile information systems development: A stakeholder perspective10
Copiloting the future: How generative AI transforms Software Engineering10
SENEM: A software engineering-enabled educational metaverse10
Understanding how early-stage researchers leverage socio-technical affordances for distributed research support10
Guidelines for the development of a critical software under emergency10
Relating team atmosphere and group dynamics to student software development teams’ performance10
0.095777988433838