Information and Software Technology

Article	Citations
Insights on the relationship between decision-making style and personality in software engineering	239
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	215
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	205
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	166
Feature-based insight for forks in social coding platforms	135
Automatically inferring user behavior models in large-scale web applications	106
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	105
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	93
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	86
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	86
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	86
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	76
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	70
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	59
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	55
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	55
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation	54
A systematic literature review of agile software development projects	50
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	50
From a Scrum Reference Ontology to the Integration of Applications for Data-Driven Software Development	50
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	47
Editorial Board	46
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level	44
On the generalizability of Neural Program Models with respect to semantic-preserving program transformations	43
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	42

Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	42
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	42
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	41
A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing	40
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	40
Processes, challenges and recommendations of Gray Literature Review: An experience report	39
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	39
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	38
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	37
Introduction to software architecture for quantum computing systems special issue	36
Requirements engineering for older adult digital health software: A systematic literature review	35
To group or not to group? Group sizes for requirements elicitation	33
Comparison of multi-criteria decision-making methods for online controlled experiments in a launch decision-making framework	32
Editorial Board	31
Editorial Board	31
Extraction and empirical evaluation of GUI-level invariants as GUI Oracles in mobile app testing	31
Editorial Board	31
An empirical study of emoji use in software development communication	30
An alternative to code comment generation? Generating comment from bytecode	30
Test Code Flakiness in Mobile Apps: The Developer’s Perspective	30
Towards automating self-admitted technical debt repayment	29
Augmenting commit classification by using fine-grained source code changes and a pre-trained deep neural language model	29
Prioritisation of code clones using a genetic algorithm	29
A multi-objective agile project planning model and a comparative meta-heuristic approach	29
Coverage-enhanced fault diagnosis for Deep Learning programs: A learning-based approach with hybrid metrics	28
Investigating replication challenges through multiple replications of an experiment	28
Objectivity by design: The impact of AI-driven approach on employees' soft skills evaluation	28
Generating feasible protocol test sequences from EFSM models using Monte Carlo tree search	28
Detecting privacy requirements from User Stories with NLP transfer learning models	28
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 simulations	28
Graph-based code semantics learning for efficient semantic code clone detection	28
Dev2vec: Representing domain expertise of developers in an embedding space	27
Automatically repairing tensor shape faults in deep learning programs	26
An exploratory study of software artifacts on GitHub from the lens of documentation	26
Introduction to special issue on Agile UX: challenges, successes and barriers to improvement	26
Community smells—The sources of social debt: A systematic literature review	26
Can serious gaming tactics bolster spear-phishing and phishing resilience? : Securing the human hacking in Information Security	26
Causal reasoning in Software Quality Assurance: A systematic review	25
A brief note, with thanks, on the contributions of Guenther Ruhe	25
Graph-based explainable vulnerability prediction	24
Improving effort-aware defect prediction by directly learning to rank software modules	24
UX Research practices related to Long-Term UX: A Systematic Literature Review	24
Developers’ viewpoints to avoid bug-introducing changes	24
Towards a taxonomy of code review smells	23
Prioritization of model smell refactoring using a covariance matrix-based adaptive evolution algorithm	23
Short communication: Evolution of secondary studies in software engineering	23
Personalizing label prediction for GitHub issues	22
Introduction to the special issue on managing software processes using soft computing techniques	22
Overlapping community detection in software ecosystem based on pheromone guided personalized PageRank algorithm	22

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

Diversity-aware fairness testing of machine learning classifiers through hashing-based sampling	13
Studying logging practice in machine learning-based applications	13
DeKeDVer: A deep learning-based multi-type software vulnerability classification framework using vulnerability description and source code	12
Machine translation-based fine-grained comments generation for solidity smart contracts	12
Code smell detection using feature selection and stacking ensemble: An empirical investigation	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
An empirical study on self-admitted technical debt in modern code review	12
A search-based framework for automatic generation of testing environments for cyber–physical systems	12
Uncertainty propagation from sensor data to deep learning models in autonomous driving	12
Negative effects of gamification in education software: Systematic mapping and practitioner perceptions	12
Introduction to the special issue on dependable systems and applications	12
Understanding the product knowledge acquisition process in multiprovider software evolution scenarios: An exploratory study	12
Double-counting in software engineering tertiary studies — An overlooked threat to validity	12
SHSE: A subspace hybrid sampling ensemble method for software defect number prediction	12
Like, dislike, or just do it? How developers approach software development tasks	12
Successful combination of database search and snowballing for identification of primary studies in systematic literature studies	12
Introduction to the Special Section on the Best Papers from REFSQ 2022	12
Editorial Board	12
SedSVD: Statement-level software vulnerability detection based on Relational Graph Convolutional Network with subgraph embedding	11
Predicting the precise number of software defects: Are we there yet?	11
Multi-objective software performance optimisation at the architecture level using randomised search rules	11
Case study identification with GPT-4 and implications for mapping studies	11
Dealing with imbalanced data for interpretable defect prediction	11
Progress on class integration test order generation approaches: A systematic literature review	11
How do software practitioners perceive human-centric defects?	11
Information needs and presentation in agile software development	11
An empirical study on ML DevOps adoption trends, efforts, and benefits analysis	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
Visualizations for the evolution of Variant-Rich Systems: A systematic mapping study	11
Native cross-platform app development using the SequalsK transpiler	11
CLeBPI: Contrastive Learning for Bug Priority Inference	11
A systematic mapping study of bug reproduction and localization	11
Metamorphic testing of OpenStreetMap	10
An empirical study on secure usage of mobile health apps: The attack simulation approach	10
Unveiling security weaknesses in autonomous driving systems: An in-depth empirical study	10
Why and how do organizations create user-led open source consortia? A systematic literature review	10
The impact of using biased performance metrics on software defect prediction research	10
An investigation of causes and effects of trust in Boundary Artefacts	10
Issues-Driven features for software fault prediction	10
Reporting case studies in systematic literature studies—An evidential problem	10
Measuring the cognitive load of software developers: An extended Systematic Mapping Study	10
The impact of stressors on the relationship between personality traits, knowledge collection behaviour and programmer creativity intention in software engineering	10
The discovery effort worthiness index: How much product discovery should you do and how can this be integrated into delivery?	10
Editorial Board	10
A deep learning-based automated framework for functional User Interface testing	10
On preserving the behavior in software refactoring: A systematic mapping study	10
Aligned metric representation based balanced multiset ensemble learning for heterogeneous defect prediction	10
Squeeziness for non-deterministic systems	10
RoseMatcher: Identifying the impact of user reviews on app updates	10
Enabling efficient and low-effort decentralized federated learning with the EdgeFL framework	10
Probabilistic program performance analysis with confidence intervals	10
Job satisfaction in agile information systems development: A stakeholder perspective	10
Copiloting the future: How generative AI transforms Software Engineering	10
SENEM: A software engineering-enabled educational metaverse	10
Understanding how early-stage researchers leverage socio-technical affordances for distributed research support	10
Guidelines for the development of a critical software under emergency	10
Relating team atmosphere and group dynamics to student software development teams’ performance	10