OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology is 36. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Bounded Verification of Atomicity Violations for Interrupt-Driven Programs via Lazy Sequentialization	270
Preference-wise Testing of Android Apps via Test Amplification	183
Mutant Reduction Evaluation: What is There and What is Missing?	124
Deceiving Humans and Machines Alike: Search-based Test Input Generation for DNNs Using Variational Autoencoders	119
Automatic Identification of Game Stuttering via Gameplay Videos Analysis	96
Test Generation Strategies for Building Failure Models and Explaining Spurious Failures	85
Understanding the OSS Communities of Deep Learning Frameworks: A Comparative Case Study of P y T orch and T ensor	84
History-Driven Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries	75
I Depended on You and You Broke Me: An Empirical Study of Manifesting Breaking Changes in Client Packages	70
KAPE: k NN-based Performance Testing for Deep Code Search	67
FoC: Figure out the Cryptographic Functions in Stripped Binaries with LLMs	66
A Survey on Failure Analysis and Fault Injection in AI Systems	66
Enhancing Android Malware Detection: The Influence of ChatGPT on Decision-centric Task	64
FairGenerate: Enhancing Fairness Through Synthetic Data Generation and Two-Fold Biased Labels Removal	64
Neuron Semantic-Guided Test Generation for Deep Neural Networks Fuzzing	60
Better Supporting Human Aspects in Mobile eHealth Apps: Development and Validation of Enhanced Guidelines	60
Finding Information Leaks with Information Flow Fuzzing—RCR Report	59
An empirical study on vulnerability disclosure management of open source software systems	54
Assessing the Robustness of Test Selection Methods for Deep Neural Networks	52
Horus : Accelerating Kernel Fuzzing through Efficient Host-VM Memory Access Procedures	51
Securing the Ethereum from Smart Ponzi Schemes: Identification Using Static Features	51
Communicating Study Design Trade-offs in Software Engineering	48
An Empirical Study of the Non-Determinism of ChatGPT in Code Generation	48
Reusing d-DNNFs for Efficient Feature-Model Counting	46
Introducing Interactions in Multi-Objective Optimization of Software Architectures	45

Model Transformation Development Using Automated Requirements Analysis, Metamodel Matching, and Transformation by Example	45
Storage State Analysis and Extraction of Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contracts	44
Supporting Emotional Intelligence, Productivity and Team Goals while Handling Software Requirements Changes	42
Estimating Uncertainty in Labeled Changes by SZZ Tools on Just-In-Time Defect Prediction	41
Deep API Sequence Generation via Golden Solution Samples and API Seeds	41
A Survey of Learning-based Automated Program Repair	38
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models to Improve Accuracy and Comprehensibility of Automated Code Review	38
An Accurate Identifier Renaming Prediction and Suggestion Approach	37
Enhancing Search-based Testing with Testability Transformations for Existing APIs	37
Why Do Developers Reject Refactorings in Open-Source Projects?	36
Toward Interpretable Graph Tensor Convolution Neural Network for Code Semantics Embedding	36
JavaScript SBST Heuristics to Enable Effective Fuzzing of NodeJS Web APIs	36