Information and Software Technology

Article	Citations
Deciphering refactoring branch dynamics in modern code review: An empirical study on Qt	205
Editorial Board	181
Strategic digital product management: Nine approaches	171
QLSN: Quantum key distribution for large scale networks	152
Metamorphic testing of chess engines	95
A systematic process for Mining Software Repositories: Results from a systematic literature review	87
Introduction to special issue on software architectures for smart and adaptive systems (SASAS)	87
SE3M: A model f	81
Editorial Board	80
Does shortening the release cycle affect refactoring activities: A case study of the JDT Core, Platform SWT, and UI projects	79
Guest Editors’ introduction to the special section on the 12th system analysis and modelling conference (SAM 2020)	74
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	67
Editorial Board	65
Ensemble effort estimation for novice agile teams	59
Editorial Board	52
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	50
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	49
Studying the challenges of developing hardware description language programs	45
Knowledge and research mapping of the data and database forensics domains: A bibliometric analysis	44
Mind the product owner: An action research project into agile release planning	44
Challenges and recommendations to publishing and using credible evidence in software engineering	43
Spectrum-based multi-fault localization using Chaotic Genetic Algorithm	40
Integrating DSGEO into test case generation for path coverage of MPI programs	38
Editorial Board	38
Making existing software quantum safe: A case study on IBM Db2	37

Editorial Board	37
Editorial Board	36
A modeling assistant to manage technical debt in coupled evolution	36
Editorial Board	36
Editorial Board	35
Automated engineering of domain-specific metamorphic testing environments	35
Assessing attitudes towards evidence-based software engineering in a government agency	34
Help me with this: A categorization of open source software problems	33
A decentralized blockchain oriented framework for automated bug assignment	33
Detecting false-passing products and mitigating their impact on variability fault localization in software product lines	33
Crex: Predicting patch correctness in automated repair of C programs through transfer learning of execution semantics	33
Editorial Board	32
Leveraging Small Sample Learning for Business Process Management	32
Feature-based insight for forks in social coding platforms	30
Editorial Board	30
Editorial Board	30
Theories in Agile Software Development: Past, Present, and Future Introduction to the XP 2020 Special Section	29
Insights on the relationship between decision-making style and personality in software engineering	29
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	28
Technical debt payment and prevention through the lenses of software architects	28
Reflections on Surrogate-Assisted Search-Based Testing: A Taxonomy and Two Replication Studies based on Industrial ADAS and Simulink Models	28
Service engineering for quantum computing: Ensuring high-quality quantum services	28
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	27
Case Study Research in Software Engineering—It is a Case, and it is a Study, but is it a Case Study?	27
Prioritizing code documentation effort: Can we do it simpler but better?	26
Antecedents of psychological safety in agile software development teams	26
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	25
ST-TLF: Cross-version defect prediction framework based transfer learning	25
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	25
Task assignment to counter the effect of developer turnover in software maintenance: A knowledge diffusion model	25
Variability testing of software product line: A preference-based dimensionality reduction approach	25
Detecting code smells using industry-relevant data	24
PAREI: A progressive approach for Web API recommendation by combining explicit and implicit information	24
Bringing architecture-based adaption to the mainstream	23
Human error management in requirements engineering: Should we fix the people, the processes, or the environment?	23
Deep learning-based software bug classification	23
MDSSED: A safety and security enhanced model-driven development approach for smart home apps	23
Improving bug triage with the bug personalized tossing relationship	23
Experiences from conducting rapid reviews in collaboration with practitioners — Two industrial cases	23
Locating requirements in backlog items: Content analysis and experiments with large language models	22
Improving DevOps team performance through context-capability coalignment: Towards a profile for public sector organizations	22
Industry 4.0/IIoT Platforms for manufacturing systems — A systematic review contrasting the scientific and the industrial side	22
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	21
On the use of contextual information for machine learning based test case prioritization in continuous integration development	21
Machine learning for requirements engineering (ML4RE): A systematic literature review complemented by practitioners’ voices from Stack Overflow	21
Understanding and evaluating software reuse costs and benefits from industrial cases—A systematic literature review	21
Classifying issue reports according to feature descriptions in a user manual based on a deep learning model	20
A light-weight data augmentation method for fault localization	20
Consistent or not? An investigation of using Pull Request Template in GitHub	20
Lessons learned to improve the UX practices in agile projects involving data science and process automation	20

It’s about time: How to study intertemporal choice in systems design	20
Crowdsourced test report prioritization considering bug severity	20
Testing infrastructures to support mobile application testing: A systematic mapping study	19
Robustness evaluation of code generation systems via concretizing instructions	19
An approach to explore sequential interactions in cognitive activities of software engineering	19
Systematic reviews in mobile app software engineering: A tertiary study	19
Stakeholder engagement in enterprise architecture practice: What inhibitors are there?	19
E-code: Mastering efficient code generation through pretrained models and expert encoder group	19
Boosting fault localization of statements by combining topic modeling and Ochiai	19
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	19
An exploratory study on just-in-time multi-programming-language bug prediction	19
Evaluating and comparing memory error vulnerability detectors	18
Summarizing source code with hierarchical code representation	18
Architectural design decisions that incur technical debt — An industrial case study	18
Human values in software development artefacts: A case study on issue discussions in three Android applications	17
Featherweight assisted vulnerability discovery	17
The role of awareness and gamification on technical debt management	17
Automated formalization of structured natural language requirements	16
Editorial Board	16
Automatically inferring user behavior models in large-scale web applications	16
DCM-GIFT: An Android malware dynamic classification method based on gray-scale image and feature-selection tree	16
Developing Mobile Applications Via Model Driven Development: A Systematic Literature Review	16
Do users care about ad’s performance costs? Exploring the effects of the performance costs of in-app ads on user experience	16
Automating modern code review processes with code similarity measurement	15
How ReadMe files are structured in open source Java projects	15
Digital-twin-based testing for cyber–physical systems: A systematic literature review	15
A comprehensive empirical study on bug characteristics of deep learning frameworks	15
Multi-objective integer programming approaches to Next Release Problem — Enhancing exact methods for finding whole pareto front	15
Towards a taxonomy of privacy requirements based on the LGPD and ISO/IEC 29100	15
An Abstract Syntax Tree based static fuzzing mutation for vulnerability evolution analysis	15
When should we (not) use the mean magnitude of relative error (MMRE) as an error measure in software development effort estimation?	15
Application of Deep Learning in Software Defect Prediction: Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis	15
Towards privacy compliance: A design science study in a small organization	15
Tailoring the Scrum framework for software development: Literature mapping and feature-based support	15
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	15
Game industry problems: An extensive analysis of the gray literature	15
DeepBackground: Metamorphic testing for Deep-Learning-driven image recognition systems accompanied by Background-Relevance	14
Predictive maintenance using digital twins: A systematic literature review	14
From monolithic systems to Microservices: An assessment framework	14
The journey to technical excellence in agile software development	14
Use of personas in Requirements Engineering: A systematic mapping study	14
Understanding in-app advertising issues based on large scale app review analysis	14
Investigation on the stability of SMOTE-based oversampling techniques in software defect prediction	14
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	13
Case study identification: A trivial indicator outperforms human classifiers	13
BugRadar: Bug localization by knowledge graph link prediction	13
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	13
Not yet another BPM lifecycle: A synthesis of existing approaches using BPMN	13
Editorial Board	13
Service Design Handover to user experience design – a systematic literature review	13
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	13
An automated test data generation method for void pointers and function pointers in C/C++ libraries and embedded projects	12
A taxonomy for mining and classifying privacy requirements in issue reports	12
Markov model based coverage testing of deep learning software systems	12
Editorial Board	12
Energy attack method for adaptive multi-exit neural networks	12
Reinforcement learning for test case prioritization based on LLEed K-means clustering and dynamic priority factor	12
Alternatives for testing of context-aware software systems in non-academic settings: results from a Rapid Review	12
Knowledge diffusion trajectories of agile software development research: A main path analysis	12
A DQN-based agent for automatic software refactoring	12
Maintainability enhancement based on uncertain model transformations	12
Preventing technical debt with the TAP framework for Technical Debt Aware Management	12
Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems and Software Ecosystems	12
The impact of the distance metric and measure on SMOTE-based techniques in software defect prediction	12
Fast and curious: A model for building efficient monitoring- and decision-making frameworks based on quantitative data	12
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	12
A checklist for the evaluation of software process line approaches	12
Can test input selection methods for deep neural network guarantee test diversity? A large-scale empirical study	12
Special section on IST for ICSOB2021	11
Editorial Board	11
An empirical study on bugs in JavaScript engines	11
Editorial Board	11
Retrieving arXiv, SocArXiv, and SSRN metadata for initial review screening	11
FrMi: Fault-revealing Mutant Identification using killability severity	11
Editorial Board	11
Introduction to Special Issue on Visualization Applied to Software Engineering	11
Investigating the relationship between personalities and agile team climate: A replicated study	11
Technical debt management automation: State of the art and future perspectives	11
Introduction to the special issue on engineering context-aware software systems	11
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	11

Characteristics and generative mechanisms of software development productivity distributions	11
Information and software technology: Special section on techdebt 2021	11
Processes, challenges and recommendations of Gray Literature Review: An experience report	10
Editorial Board	10
Relative estimates of software development effort: Are they more accurate or less time-consuming to produce than absolute estimates, and to what extent are they person-independent?	10
On meetings involving remote software teams: A systematic literature review	10
Self-Attention Networks for Code Search	10
Predicting reliability of software in industrial systems using a Petri net based approach: A case study on a safety system used in nuclear power plant	10
Editorial Board	10
MS-QuAAF: A generic evaluation framework for monitoring software architecture quality	10
Supporting refactoring of BDD specifications—An empirical study	10
Salience-based stakeholder selection to maintain stakeholder coverage in solving the next release problem	10
UX work in software startups: A thematic analysis of the literature	10
A field experiment on trialsourcing and the effect of contract types on outsourced software development	10
Does it matter who pays back Technical Debt? An empirical study of self-fixed TD	10
A closer look at process-based simulation with stackless coroutines	10
Towards building a pragmatic cross-project defect prediction model combining non-effort based and effort-based performance measures for a balanced evaluation	10
Work and career-related features of technology: A grounded theory study of software professionals	10
Enhancing software modularization via semantic outliers filtration and label propagation	10
Developer and End-User Perspectives on Addressing Human Aspects in Mobile eHealth Apps	9
How higher order mutant testing performs for deep learning models: A fine-grained evaluation of test effectiveness and efficiency improved from second-order mutant-classification tuples	9
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	9
An evaluation of the effectiveness of personalization and self-adaptation for e-Health apps	9
Validating class integration test order generation systems with Metamorphic Testing	9
Different, Really! A comparison of Highly-Configurable Systems and Single Systems	9
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	9
Uses of business process modeling in agile software development projects	9
Influences of UX factors in the Agile UX context of software startups	9
Scripted and scriptless GUI testing for web applications: An industrial case	9
Relationships between software architecture and source code in practice: An exploratory survey and interview	9
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level	9
A literature review on optimization techniques for adaptation planning in adaptive systems: State of the art and research directions	9
Blurring boundaries: Toward the collective empathic understanding of product requirements	9
WINE: Warning miner for improving bug finders	9
Detecting relevant app reviews for software evolution and maintenance through multimodal one-class learning	9
An empirical study of IoT security aspects at sentence-level in developer textual discussions	9
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	9
Multifaceted infrastructure for self-adaptive IoT systems	9
From a Scrum Reference Ontology to the Integration of Applications for Data-Driven Software Development	9
HYDRA: Feedback-driven black-box exploitation of injection vulnerabilities	9
Exploring granular test coverage and its evolution with matrix visualizations	9
Why and how bug blocking relations are breakable: An empirical study on breakable blocking bugs	9