Software Quality Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Software Quality Journal is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Test data generation method based on multiple convergence direction adaptive PSO43
LLM-BRC: A large language model-based bug report classification framework39
Machine learning for mHealth apps quality evaluation25
Just-in-time defect prediction for mobile applications: using shallow or deep learning?18
Towards semantically enhanced detection of emerging quality-related concerns in source code16
Identifying the severity of technical debt issues based on semantic and structural information14
Enhancing human-machine pair inspection with risk number and code inspection diagram14
A longitudinal exploratory study on code smells in server side web applications12
Towards effective gamification of existing systems: method and experience report12
KAD: a knowledge formalization-based anomaly detection approach for distributed systems11
Feature-oriented clone and pull operations for distributed development and evolution11
Modeling smart rejuvenation on a series system with different failure modes11
Whole test suite generation from graph transformation specifications using ant colony optimization10
Feature mapping based on heterogeneous cross-company effort estimation9
XRCoding: introducing computational thinking and coding in a gamified eXtended reality9
Periodic and random incremental backup policies in reliability theory9
Prioritization and parallel execution of test cases for certification testing of embedded systems9
Getting into the game: gamifying software development with the GSA framework9
QRev: migrating quantum code towards hybrid information systems8
AutoFuzz: automatic fuzzer-sanitizer scheduling with multi-armed bandit8
Exploring human factors of the agile software tester7
Integrated multi-view modeling for reliable machine learning-intensive software engineering7
Copula-based software metrics aggregation7
Evaluating testing strategies for resource related failures in mobile applications7
Towards improving agility in public administration7
Special issue on information systems quality for digital transformation7
A systems interpretation of the software evolution laws and their impact on technical debt management and software maintainability7
Exploring API behaviours through generated examples7
A family of experiments about how developers perceive delayed system response time7
An effective parallel convolutional anomaly multi-classification model for fault diagnosis in microservice system7
Test case optimization using grey wolf algorithm6
Do developer perceptions have borders? Comparing C code responses across continents6
Comparison of open-source runtime testing tools for microservices6
Automated SC-MCC test case generation using coverage-guided fuzzing6
Implicit and explicit mixture of experts models for software defect prediction6
Unraveling the code: an in-depth empirical study on the impact of development practices in auxiliary functions implementation5
Utilizing source code syntax patterns to detect bug inducing commits using machine learning models5
Quality enhancement in OSS development process: a quantitative framework approach5
UX debt in an agile development process: evidence and characterization5
Implications of semi-supervised learning for design pattern selection5
Comparative study of machine learning test case prioritization for continuous integration testing5
Quality attributes of test cases and test suites – importance & challenges from practitioners’ perspectives5
Collaborative process tailoring in evolutionary software development: a teamwork-quality perspective4
Enhancing software development education through gamification and experiential learning with genially4
Corrective commit probability: a measure of the effort invested in bug fixing4
A source model simplification method to assist model transformation debugging4
Comparative analysis of the syntactic and semantic consistency of terms in software testing glossaries4
Identifying and managing data quality requirements: a design science study in the field of automated driving4
QNet: exploring deep learning for quantum code smell detection3
Towards engineering higher quality intelligent environments: a multi case study approach3
Transferability of machine learning models learned from public intrusion detection datasets: the CICIDS2017 case study3
Predicting Vulnerabilities in Computer Source Code Using Non-Investigated Software Metrics3
Preface to the special issue on improving software quality through program analysis3
A replication study on the intuitiveness of programming language syntax3
Construction of a quality model for machine learning systems3
From omelet to UML: assessing the role of process thinking on process model quality among novice analyst3
Quantum service-oriented computing: current landscape and challenges2
Does PageRank apply to service ranking in microservice regression testing?2
Automatically generating taxonomy for grouping app reviews — a study of three apps2
Systematic analysis of automated threat modelling techniques: Comparison of open-source tools2
Automatic software code repair using deep learning techniques2
An empirical evaluation of defect prediction approaches in within-project and cross-project context2
Test input generation from cause–effect graphs2
Editorial2
TTAFPred: Prediction of time to aging failure for software systems based on a two-stream multi-scale features fusion network2
Model-based test execution from high-level natural language instructions using GPT-42
Exploring behaviours of RESTful APIs in an industrial setting2
Programming languages ranking based on energy measurements2
A dynamic random testing strategy in the context of cloud computing2
Navigating social debt and its link with technical debt in large-scale agile software development projects2
Quality aspects of digital forest service management: a case study2
From DevOps to DevSecOps is not enough. CyberDevOps: an extreme shifting-left architecture to bring cybersecurity within software security lifecycle pipeline2
A microservice-based framework for multi-level testing of cyber-physical systems2
Model-based testing leveraged for automated web tests1
CLOUD-QM: a quality model for benchmarking cloud-based enterprise information systems1
A comprehensive catalog of refactoring strategies to handle test smells in Java-based systems1
KeyTitle: towards better bug report title generation by keywords planning1
Differential testing solidity compiler through deep contract manipulation and mutation1
Dynamic and execution views to improve validation, testing, and optimization of autonomous driving software1
How do developers collaborate? Investigating GitHub heterogeneous networks1
Issue detection and prioritization based on mobile application reviews1
MUT Model: a metric for characterizing metamorphic relations diversity1
Data sampling and kernel manifold discriminant alignment for mixed-project heterogeneous defect prediction1
Assessing the specification of modelling language semantics: a study on UML PSSM1
Two improving approaches for faulty interaction localization using logistic regression analysis1
ASDMG: business topic clustering-based architecture smell detection for microservice granularity1
On business adoption and use of reproducible builds for open and closed source software1
Comparative analysis of text mining and clustering techniques for assessing functional dependency between manual test cases1
Experience report on the application of genetic algorithms to reduce costs of the software validation process in the automotive sector during an engine control unit project1
A new method for detecting various variants of GoF design patterns using conceptual signatures1
Adversarial patch generation for automated program repair1
Code quality control by bug report classification1
Minimizing incident response time in real-world scenarios using quantum computing1
A dataset of regressions in web applications detected by end-to-end tests1
.NET/C# instrumentation for search-based software testing1
How consistency is handled in model-driven software engineering and UML: an expert opinion survey1
Predictive framework of software reliability analysis under multiple change points and imperfect debugging1
Scrum for safety: an agile methodology for safety-critical software systems1
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