Information and Software Technology

Article	Citations
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	275
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	239
Automatically inferring user behavior models in large-scale web applications	179
Feature-based insight for forks in social coding platforms	146
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	117
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	105
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	100
A systematic review of shared personal informatics	97
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	85
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	73
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	69
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	68
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	61
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	59
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	58
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	56
A systematic literature review of agile software development projects	52
Editorial Board	49
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	49
Exploring continual learning in code intelligence with domain-wise distilled prompts	49
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	49
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	46
Vulnerability detection with Graph Attention Network and Metric Learning	45
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level	45
Exploring the use of LLMs for the selection phase in systematic literature studies	44

Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	43
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	42
A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing	41
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	40
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	40
A survey of coverage-guided greybox fuzzing with deep neural models	38
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation	38
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	36
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	35
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	35
Editorial Board	33
Requirements engineering for older adult digital health software: A systematic literature review	33
A survey of selected characteristics and contexts of the analysis and planning phase of software development projects and their connections to project success	33
Introduction to software architecture for quantum computing systems special issue	33
To group or not to group? Group sizes for requirements elicitation	33
Extraction and empirical evaluation of GUI-level invariants as GUI Oracles in mobile app testing	32
Editorial Board	32
Editorial Board	32
An empirical study of emoji use in software development communication	31
A multi-objective agile project planning model and a comparative meta-heuristic approach	30
Prioritisation of code clones using a genetic algorithm	30
Test Code Flakiness in Mobile Apps: The Developer’s Perspective	30
An alternative to code comment generation? Generating comment from bytecode	30
Graph-based code semantics learning for efficient semantic code clone detection	29
Towards automating self-admitted technical debt repayment	29
Comparison of multi-criteria decision-making methods for online controlled experiments in a launch decision-making framework	29
Detecting privacy requirements from User Stories with NLP transfer learning models	29
Towards a taxonomy of code review smells	28
Automatically repairing tensor shape faults in deep learning programs	27
Coverage-enhanced fault diagnosis for Deep Learning programs: A learning-based approach with hybrid metrics	27
Can serious gaming tactics bolster spear-phishing and phishing resilience? : Securing the human hacking in Information Security	27
Investigating replication challenges through multiple replications of an experiment	27
UX Research practices related to Long-Term UX: A Systematic Literature Review	27
Developers’ viewpoints to avoid bug-introducing changes	26
Graph-based explainable vulnerability prediction	26
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	25
Can an old fashioned feature extraction and a light-weight model improve vulnerability type identification performance?	25
Short communication: Evolution of secondary studies in software engineering	25
Causal reasoning in Software Quality Assurance: A systematic review	25
Dev2vec: Representing domain expertise of developers in an embedding space	25
Introduction to special issue on Agile UX: challenges, successes and barriers to improvement	24
Objectivity by design: The impact of AI-driven approach on employees' soft skills evaluation	24
Community smells—The sources of social debt: A systematic literature review	24
Usefulness and usability of heuristic walkthroughs for evaluating domain-specific developer tools in industry: Evidence from four field simulations	24
An exploratory study of software artifacts on GitHub from the lens of documentation	24
Personalizing label prediction for GitHub issues	23
Overlapping community detection in software ecosystem based on pheromone guided personalized PageRank algorithm	23
Improving effort-aware defect prediction by directly learning to rank software modules	23
Introduction to the special issue on managing software processes using soft computing techniques	22

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

“Won’t We Fix this Issue?” Qualitative characterization and automated identification of wontfix issues on GitHub	14
Speeding up constraint-based program repair using a search-based technique	13
Memorization and generalization in neural code intelligence models	13
Successful combination of database search and snowballing for identification of primary studies in systematic literature studies	13
Editorial Board	13
How far are we from reproducible research on code smell detection? A systematic literature review	13
Studying logging practice in machine learning-based applications	13
Introduction to the special issue on dependable systems and applications	13
CLeBPI: Contrastive Learning for Bug Priority Inference	13
Code smell detection using feature selection and stacking ensemble: An empirical investigation	13
Assessing and improving syntactic adversarial robustness of pre-trained models for code translation	13
Transparency and explainability of AI systems: From ethical guidelines to requirements	13
Understanding the product knowledge acquisition process in multiprovider software evolution scenarios: An exploratory study	13
Native cross-platform app development using the SequalsK transpiler	12
Case study identification with GPT-4 and implications for mapping studies	12
An empirical study on capability of Large Language Models in understanding code semantics	12
Machine translation-based fine-grained comments generation for solidity smart contracts	12
SHSE: A subspace hybrid sampling ensemble method for software defect number prediction	12
A systematic mapping study of bug reproduction and localization	12
Introduction to the Special Section on the Best Papers from REFSQ 2022	12
How do software practitioners perceive human-centric defects?	12
Information needs and presentation in agile software development	12
Don’t settle for the first! How many GitHub Copilot solutions should you check?	12
Dealing with imbalanced data for interpretable defect prediction	12
An empirical study on self-admitted technical debt in modern code review	12
SedSVD: Statement-level software vulnerability detection based on Relational Graph Convolutional Network with subgraph embedding	12
Double-counting in software engineering tertiary studies — An overlooked threat to validity	12
DeKeDVer: A deep learning-based multi-type software vulnerability classification framework using vulnerability description and source code	12
A search-based framework for automatic generation of testing environments for cyber–physical systems	12
Predicting the precise number of software defects: Are we there yet?	12
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	11
Squeeziness for non-deterministic systems	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
Trust, transparency, and adoption in generative AI for software engineering: Insights from Twitter discourse	11
An investigation of causes and effects of trust in Boundary Artefacts	11
Many-objective optimization of non-functional attributes based on refactoring of software models	11
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
Editorial Board	11
Metamorphic testing of OpenStreetMap	11
Unveiling security weaknesses in autonomous driving systems: An in-depth empirical study	11
An empirical study on ML DevOps adoption trends, efforts, and benefits analysis	11
Probabilistic program performance analysis with confidence intervals	11