ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Article	Citations
DeepWukong	109
A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic	82
Software Engineering for AI-Based Systems: A Survey	70
Practical Accuracy Estimation for Efficient Deep Neural Network Testing	52
Test Selection for Deep Learning Systems	47
Developing Cost-Effective Blockchain-Powered Applications	41
Wireframe-based UI Design Search through Image Autoencoder	40
Security Smells in Ansible and Chef Scripts	40
Generating Question Titles for Stack Overflow from Mined Code Snippets	39
A Survey of Flaky Tests	39
Monotone Precision and Recall Measures for Comparing Executions and Specifications of Dynamic Systems	39
Smart Contract Repair	35
A Systematic Literature Review on the Use of Deep Learning in Software Engineering Research	34
Understanding Software-2.0	33
An Empirical Study of the Impact of Hyperparameter Tuning and Model Optimization on the Performance Properties of Deep Neural Networks	32
Why Developers Refactor Source Code	31
Why My Code Summarization Model Does Not Work	30
Why an Android App Is Classified as Malware	29
In-IDE Code Generation from Natural Language: Promise and Challenges	29
On the Impact of Sample Duplication in Machine-Learning-Based Android Malware Detection	29
The Agile Success Model	27
Handling SQL Databases in Automated System Test Generation	26
Context-Aware Code Change Embedding for Better Patch Correctness Assessment	26
Context-aware Retrieval-based Deep Commit Message Generation	26
Opinion Mining for Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review	26

When and How to Make Breaking Changes	26
Beyond Tests	23
Women’s Participation in Open Source Software: A Survey of the Literature	22
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Black-box Testing of Android Apps	22
Modular Tree Network for Source Code Representation Learning	21
Emoji-powered Sentiment and Emotion Detection from Software Developers’ Communication Data	21
NPC: N euron P ath C overage via Characterizing Decision Logic of Deep Neural Networks	20
Rise of the Planet of Serverless Computing: A Systematic Review	20
How Far Have We Progressed in Identifying Self-admitted Technical Debts? A Comprehensive Empirical Study	19
How Should I Improve the UI of My App?	19
Accessibility in Software Practice: A Practitioner’s Perspective	19
Stateful Serverless Computing with Crucial	18
Interpreting Deep Learning-based Vulnerability Detector Predictions Based on Heuristic Searching	18
SPI: Automated Identification of Security Patches via Commits	17
An Empirical Study on Data Distribution-Aware Test Selection for Deep Learning Enhancement	17
Memory-Safety Challenge Considered Solved? An In-Depth Study with All Rust CVEs	17
IntDroid	17
Technical Q8A Site Answer Recommendation via Question Boosting	17
Automated Patch Transplantation	17
Are Multi-Language Design Smells Fault-Prone? An Empirical Study	16
Defining a Knowledge Graph Development Process Through a Systematic Review	16
Enhancing Search-based Testing with Testability Transformations for Existing APIs	16
psc2code	15
Killing Stubborn Mutants with Symbolic Execution	15
History-based Model Repair Recommendations	15
Fine-grained Code Coverage Measurement in Automated Black-box Android Testing	14
A Survey on Automated Driving System Testing: Landscapes and Trends	14
Predictive Models in Software Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities	14
Unveiling Elite Developers’ Activities in Open Source Projects	14
Adversarial Robustness of Deep Code Comment Generation	14
A Theory of Scrum Team Effectiveness	14
Test Data Generation for Path Coverage of MPI Programs Using SAEO	14
Adaptive Hypermutation for Search-Based System Test Generation: A Study on REST APIs with EvoMaster	13
SafeDrop: Detecting Memory Deallocation Bugs of Rust Programs via Static Data-flow Analysis	13
An Empirical Study of Developer Discussions in the Gitter Platform	13
Are Comments on Stack Overflow Well Organized for Easy Retrieval by Developers?	13
Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments	13
An Empirical Study of the Impact of Data Splitting Decisions on the Performance of AIOps Solutions	13
KLEESpectre	13
ActivFORMS: A Formally Founded Model-based Approach to Engineer Self-adaptive Systems	13
Verifix: Verified Repair of Programming Assignments	12
Why Do Smart Contracts Self-Destruct? Investigating the Selfdestruct Function on Ethereum	12
The Case for Adaptive Security Interventions	12
Predicting Performance Anomalies in Software Systems at Run-time	12
Towards Robustness of Deep Program Processing Models—Detection, Estimation, and Enhancement	12
Toward an Objective Measure of Developers’ Cognitive Activities	11
The Weights Can Be Harmful: Pareto Search versus Weighted Search in Multi-objective Search-based Software Engineering	11
Uncertainty-aware Prediction Validator in Deep Learning Models for Cyber-physical System Data	11
On the Significance of Category Prediction for Code-Comment Synchronization	11
A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Bias Mitigation Methods for Machine Learning Classifiers	11

Taming Reflection	11
Boosting Compiler Testing via Compiler Optimization Exploration	11
Evaluation of Software Architectures under Uncertainty	11
Verification Witnesses	11
On the Faults Found in REST APIs by Automated Test Generation	10
Psychometrics in Behavioral Software Engineering: A Methodological Introduction with Guidelines	10
Code Structure–Guided Transformer for Source Code Summarization	10
deGraphCS : Embedding Variable-based Flow Graph for Neural Code Search	10
Computing Alignments of Well-Formed Process Models using Local Search	10
ReCDroid+: Automated End-to-End Crash Reproduction from Bug Reports for Android Apps	10
Just-In-Time Defect Prediction on JavaScript Projects: A Replication Study	10
On the Reproducibility and Replicability of Deep Learning in Software Engineering	10
Time-travel Investigation: Toward Building a Scalable Attack Detection Framework on Ethereum	10
Efficient and Effective Feature Space Exploration for Testing Deep Learning Systems	10
Predicting Patch Correctness Based on the Similarity of Failing Test Cases	10
L2S: A Framework for Synthesizing the Most Probable Program under a Specification	10
Automatic API Usage Scenario Documentation from Technical Q&A Sites	9
Automatic Fault Detection for Deep Learning Programs Using Graph Transformations	9
Open Problems in Fuzzing RESTful APIs: A Comparison of Tools	9
Context- and Fairness-Aware In-Process Crowdworker Recommendation	9
Detecting and Augmenting Missing Key Aspects in Vulnerability Descriptions	9
The Impact of Dormant Defects on Defect Prediction: A Study of 19 Apache Projects	9
Industry–Academia Research Collaboration and Knowledge Co-creation: Patterns and Anti-patterns	9
What You See is What it Means! Semantic Representation Learning of Code based on Visualization and Transfer Learning	9
Leveraging Control Flow Knowledge in SMT Solving of Program Verification	9
Monitoring Constraints and Metaconstraints with Temporal Logics on Finite Traces	9
Microservice Security Metrics for Secure Communication, Identity Management, and Observability	9
FaaSLight : General Application-level Cold-start Latency Optimization for Function-as-a-Service in Serverless Computing	9
Eagle	8
Leveraging the Defects Life Cycle to Label Affected Versions and Defective Classes	8
Securing the Ethereum from Smart Ponzi Schemes: Identification Using Static Features	8
S EADS	8
SemMT: A Semantic-Based Testing Approach for Machine Translation Systems	8
Automated Identification and Qualitative Characterization of Safety Concerns Reported in UAV Software Platforms	8
Arachne: Search-Based Repair of Deep Neural Networks	8
How Software Refactoring Impacts Execution Time	8
Toward a Holistic Approach to Verification and Validation of Autonomous Cognitive Systems	7
Using Relative Lines of Code to Guide Automated Test Generation for Python	7
CodeMatcher: Searching Code Based on Sequential Semantics of Important Query Words	7
Input Distribution Coverage: Measuring Feature Interaction Adequacy in Neural Network Testing	7
Automatically Identifying the Quality of Developer Chats for Post Hoc Use	7
Testing the Plasticity of Reinforcement Learning-based Systems	7
Dealing with Belief Uncertainty in Domain Models	7
RegionTrack	7
The Influence of Human Aspects on Requirements Engineering-related Activities: Software Practitioners’ Perspective	7
Testing Relative to Usage Scope	7
Applying Bayesian Analysis Guidelines to Empirical Software Engineering Data: The Case of Programming Languages and Code Quality	7
Some Seeds Are Strong: Seeding Strategies for Search-based Test Case Selection	7
A Practical Approach for Dynamic Taint Tracking with Control-flow Relationships	7
Black-box Safety Analysis and Retraining of DNNs based on Feature Extraction and Clustering	6
Uncertainty-wise Requirements Prioritization with Search	6
Feature Matching-based Approaches to Improve the Robustness of Android Visual GUI Testing	6
APIRO: A Framework for Automated Security Tools API Recommendation	6
Digital Twin-based Anomaly Detection with Curriculum Learning in Cyber-physical Systems	6
Adversarial Specification Mining	6
Testing RESTful APIs: A Survey	6
Parameter Coverage for Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems under Uncertainty	6
Automated, Cost-effective, and Update-driven App Testing	6
Bug Localization in Model-Based Systems in the Wild	6
Automating App Review Response Generation Based on Contextual Knowledge	6
Towards a Consistent Interpretation of AIOps Models	6
A Survey of Learning-based Automated Program Repair	6
Guaranteeing Timed Opacity using Parametric Timed Model Checking	6
A Hybrid Approach to Formal Verification of Higher-Order Masked Arithmetic Programs	6
Classifying Mobile Applications Using Word Embeddings	6
White-Box Fuzzing RPC-Based APIs with EvoMaster: An Industrial Case Study	6
Turnover of Companies in OpenStack: Prevalence and Rationale	6
Multi-objective Integer Programming Approaches for Solving the Multi-criteria Test-suite Minimization Problem	6
Security Misconfigurations in Open Source Kubernetes Manifests: An Empirical Study	6
Testing, Validation, and Verification of Robotic and Autonomous Systems: A Systematic Review	6
XCoS: Explainable Code Search Based on Query Scoping and Knowledge Graph	6
Diversifying Focused Testing for Unit Testing	6
Model Transformation Development Using Automated Requirements Analysis, Metamodel Matching, and Transformation by Example	5
Correlating Automated and Human Evaluation of Code Documentation Generation Quality	5
Reliable Fix Patterns Inferred from Static Checkers for Automated Program Repair	5
Making Sense of the Unknown: How Managers Make Cyber Security Decisions	5
Influential Global and Local Contexts Guided Trace Representation for Fault Localization	5
Fair Enough: Searching for Sufficient Measures of Fairness	5
Predictive Mutation Analysis via the Natural Language Channel in Source Code	5
Asteria-Pro: Enhancing Deep Learning-based Binary Code Similarity Detection by Incorporating Domain Knowledge	5

Verification of Distributed Systems via Sequential Emulation	5
TokenAware: Accurate and Efficient Bookkeeping Recognition for Token Smart Contracts	5
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Learned Embeddings with Engineered Features for Accurate Prediction of Correct Patches	5
Characterizing and Detecting WebAssembly Runtime Bugs	5
An Empirical Study on Type Annotations	5
Automated Identification of Toxic Code Reviews Using ToxiCR	5
Pied-Piper: Revealing the Backdoor Threats in Ethereum ERC Token Contracts	5
OSS Effort Estimation Using Software Features Similarity and Developer Activity-Based Metrics	4
Mutation Testing in Evolving Systems: Studying the Relevance of Mutants to Code Evolution	4
I Know What You Are Searching for: Code Snippet Recommendation from Stack Overflow Posts	4
Toward Understanding Deep Learning Framework Bugs	4
MICOSE4aPS: Industrially Applicable Maturity Metric to Improve Systematic Reuse of Control Software	4
A Study on Blockchain Architecture Design Decisions and Their Security Attacks and Threats	4
Measuring Task Conflict and Person Conflict in Software Testing	4
Towards Learning Generalizable Code Embeddings Using Task-agnostic Graph Convolutional Networks	4
Nudge: Accelerating Overdue Pull Requests toward Completion	4
Super-optimization of Smart Contracts	4
TestSGD : Interpretable Testing of Neural Networks against Subtle Group Discrimination	4
CodeEditor : Learning to Edit Source Code with Pre-trained Models	4
An In-depth Study of Java Deserialization Remote-Code Execution Exploits and Vulnerabilities	4
Do Developers Really Know How to Use Git Commands? A Large-scale Study Using Stack Overflow	4
iBiR : Bug-report-driven Fault Injection	4
Architecting Internet of Things Systems with Blockchain	4
Measuring and Modeling Group Dynamics in Open-Source Software Development: A Tensor Decomposition Approach	4
Simulator-based Explanation and Debugging of Hazard-triggering Events in DNN-based Safety-critical Systems	4
Assessing and Improving an Evaluation Dataset for Detecting Semantic Code Clones via Deep Learning	4
Using Personality Detection Tools for Software Engineering Research: How Far Can We Go?	4
Recommending Faulty Configurations for Interacting Systems Under Test Using Multi-objective Search	4
Parallel Test Prioritization	4
Buddy Stacks: Protecting Return Addresses with Efficient Thread-Local Storage and Runtime Re-Randomization	4
Examining Penetration Tester Behavior in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition	4
iSENSE2.0	4
An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of an Ensemble of Stand-alone Sentiment Detection Tools for Software Engineering Datasets	3
Do Performance Aspirations Matter for Guiding Software Configuration Tuning? An Empirical Investigation under Dual Performance Objectives	3
What’s (Not) Working in Programmer User Studies?	3
An Adaptive Search Budget Allocation Approach for Search-Based Test Case Generation	3
A Comparative Study on Method Comment and Inline Comment	3
Duplicate Bug Report Detection: How Far Are We?	3
All in One: Design, Verification, and Implementation of SNOW-optimal Read Atomic Transactions	3
Katana : Dual Slicing Based Context for Learning Bug Fixes	3
A Formal Framework of Software Product Line Analyses	3
Testing Feedforward Neural Networks Training Programs	3
Representation Learning for Stack Overflow Posts: How Far Are We?	3
IFDS-based Context Debloating for Object-Sensitive Pointer Analysis	3
Coverage-Based Debloating for Java Bytecode	3
Evaluating Surprise Adequacy for Deep Learning System Testing	3
How Do Successful and Failed Projects Differ? A Socio-Technical Analysis	3
Automatic Core-Developer Identification on GitHub: A Validation Study	3
Exploring Better Black-Box Test Case Prioritization via Log Analysis	3
Is My Transaction Done Yet? An Empirical Study of Transaction Processing Times in the Ethereum Blockchain Platform	3
Parametric Timed Pattern Matching	3
1-to-1 or 1-to-n? Investigating the Effect of Function Inlining on Binary Similarity Analysis	3
Hierarchical Distribution-aware Testing of Deep Learning	3
Software Architectural Migration	3
A Taxonomy of Information Attributes for Test Case Prioritisation: Applicability, Machine Learning	3
Facet-oriented Modelling	3
Preference-wise Testing of Android Apps via Test Amplification	3
GraphPrior: Mutation-based Test Input Prioritization for Graph Neural Networks	3
On the Reliability and Explainability of Language Models for Program Generation	3
Anchor : Fast and Precise Value-flow Analysis for Containers via Memory Orientation	3
COMET: Coverage-guided Model Generation For Deep Learning Library Testing	3
Fold2Vec: Towards a Statement-Based Representation of Code for Code Comprehension	3
A Machine Learning Approach for Automated Filling of Categorical Fields in Data Entry Forms	3
There’s no Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Lessons Learned from Exploring the Overhead Introduced by the Greenkeeper Dependency Bot in Npm	3
A Characterization Study of Merge Conflicts in Java Projects	3
Similarity-based Web Element Localization for Robust Test Automation	3
Guided Feature Identification and Removal for Resource-constrained Firmware	3
On Wasted Contributions: Understanding the Dynamics of Contributor-Abandoned Pull Requests–A Mixed-Methods Study of 10 Large Open-Source Projects	2
Security Responses in Software Development	2
On the Discoverability of npm Vulnerabilities in Node.js Projects	2
XCode : Towards Cross-Language Code Representation with Large-Scale Pre-Training	2
QuoTe : Quality-oriented Testing for Deep Learning Systems	2
Why Do Developers Reject Refactorings in Open-Source Projects?	2
Storage State Analysis and Extraction of Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contracts	2
How Are Multilingual Systems Constructed: Characterizing Language Use and Selection in Open-Source Multilingual Software	2
HybridCISave : A Combined Build and Test Selection Approach in Continuous Integration	2
Open Source License Inconsistencies on GitHub	2
Mutant Reduction Evaluation: What is There and What is Missing?	2
Testing Abstractions for Cyber-Physical Control Systems	2
Actor-Driven Decomposition of Microservices through Multi-level Scalability Assessment	2
HINNPerf: Hierarchical Interaction Neural Network for Performance Prediction of Configurable Systems	2
Dissecting American Fuzzy Lop: A FuzzBench Evaluation	2
NSFuzz: Towards Efficient and State-Aware Network Service Fuzzing - RCR Report	2
An Accurate Identifier Renaming Prediction and Suggestion Approach	2
A First Look at Dark Mode in Real-world Android Apps	2
Structured Theorem for Quantum Programs and its Applications	2
Uncertainty-Aware Robustness Assessment of Industrial Elevator Systems	2
Fine-Grained Coverage-Based Fuzzing	2
Client-Specific Upgrade Compatibility Checking via Knowledge-Guided Discovery	2
LaF: Labeling-free Model Selection for Automated Deep Neural Network Reusing	2
Speeding Up Data Manipulation Tasks with Alternative Implementations	2
Retrieving API Knowledge from Tutorials and Stack Overflow Based on Natural Language Queries	2
What Is the Intended Usage Context of This Model? An Exploratory Study of Pre-Trained Models on Various Model Repositories	2
What Constitutes the Deployment and Runtime Configuration System? An Empirical Study on OpenStack Projects	2
NSFuzz: Towards Efficient and State-Aware Network Service Fuzzing	2