ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Article	Citations
Finding Information Leaks with Information Flow Fuzzing—RCR Report	614
Automatic Identification of Game Stuttering via Gameplay Videos Analysis	169
TestLoop: A Process Model Describing Human-in-the-Loop Software Test Suite Generation	148
KAPE: k NN-based Performance Testing for Deep Code Search	137
Bounded Verification of Atomicity Violations for Interrupt-Driven Programs via Lazy Sequentialization	118
An empirical study on vulnerability disclosure management of open source software systems	116
An Empirical Analysis of Machine Learning Model and Dataset Documentation, Supply Chain, and Licensing Challenges on Hugging Face	116
Mutant Reduction Evaluation: What is There and What is Missing?	114
Antidote or Placebo? Unraveling the Efficacy of Neuron Coverage Criteria on Testing Transformer-based Language Models	102
A Survey on Failure Analysis and Fault Injection in AI Systems	102
Assessing the Robustness of Test Selection Methods for Deep Neural Networks	97
Horus : Accelerating Kernel Fuzzing through Efficient Host-VM Memory Access Procedures	96
Preference-wise Testing of Android Apps via Test Amplification	88
Understanding the OSS Communities of Deep Learning Frameworks: A Comparative Case Study of P y T orch and T ensor	87
Test Generation Strategies for Building Failure Models and Explaining Spurious Failures	82
FoC: Figure Out the Cryptographic Functions in Stripped Binaries with LLMs	80
SPENCER: Self-Adaptive Model Distillation for Efficient Code Retrieval	80
FairGenerate: Enhancing Fairness through Synthetic Data Generation and Two-Fold Biased Labels Removal	79
A Systematic Literature Review on Large Language Models for Automated Program Repair	79
M2CVD: Enhancing Vulnerability Understanding through Multi-Model Collaboration for Code Vulnerability Detection	78
Enhancing Android Malware Detection: The Influence of ChatGPT on Decision-centric Task	78
Better Supporting Human Aspects in Mobile eHealth Apps: Development and Validation of Enhanced Guidelines	76
Unraveling the Key of Machine Learning-based Android Malware Detection	75
Deceiving Humans and Machines Alike: Search-based Test Input Generation for DNNs Using Variational Autoencoders	69
Towards Reliable Generation of Executable Workflows by Foundation Models	68

Securing the Ethereum from Smart Ponzi Schemes: Identification Using Static Features	67
Reusing d-DNNFs for Efficient Feature-Model Counting	66
Communicating Study Design Trade-offs in Software Engineering	60
I Depended on You and You Broke Me: An Empirical Study of Manifesting Breaking Changes in Client Packages	60
Causality-Driven Test Case Minimisation for Cyber-Physical Systems	57
An Empirical Study of the Non-Determinism of ChatGPT in Code Generation	56
History-Driven Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries	56
Neuron Semantic-Guided Test Generation for Deep Neural Networks Fuzzing	54
An Empirical Study on Governance in Bitcoin’s Consensus Evolution	53
Actionable Framework for Understanding and Improving Social and Human Factors that Influence the Requirements Management in Software Ecosystems	51
Storage State Analysis and Extraction of Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contracts	48
Characterizing Deep Learning Package Supply Chains in PyPI: Domains, Clusters, and Disengagement	46
I Know What You Are Searching for: Code Snippet Recommendation from Stack Overflow Posts	45
Deep API Sequence Generation via Golden Solution Samples and API Seeds	45
Toward Interpretable Graph Tensor Convolution Neural Network for Code Semantics Embedding	45
Supporting Emotional Intelligence, Productivity and Team Goals while Handling Software Requirements Changes	44
Do Current Language Models Support Code Intelligence for R Programming Language?	44
HeMiRCA: Fine-Grained Root Cause Analysis for Microservices with Heterogeneous Data Sources	43
A Comprehensive View on TD Prevention Practices and Reasons for Not Preventing It	41
Stakeholder Value Criteria for Technical Debt Acquisition Decisions: An Empirical Analysis	41
JavaScript SBST Heuristics to Enable Effective Fuzzing of NodeJS Web APIs	39
Adopting Two Supervisors for Efficient Use of Large-Scale Remote Deep Neural Networks - RCR Report	39
Try with Simpler - An Evaluation of Improved Principal Component Analysis in Log-based Anomaly Detection	39
Introducing Interactions in Multi-Objective Optimization of Software Architectures	38
Towards an Oracle for Binary Decomposition Under Compilation Variance	37
Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments	36
FormatFuzzer : Effective Fuzzing of Binary File Formats	36
Help Them Understand: Testing and Improving Voice User Interfaces	35
PVDetector: Pretrained Vulnerability Detection on Vulnerability-enriched Code Semantic Graph	35
Assessing and Analyzing the Correctness of GitHub Copilot’s Code Suggestions	35
Enhancing Security and Acuity of Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection Based on Federated Learning and BiLSTM-Attention	35
Estimating Uncertainty in Labeled Changes by SZZ Tools on Just-In-Time Defect Prediction	33
Towards Automating Domain-Specific Data Generation for Text-to-SQL: A Comprehensive Approach	33
Can LLMs Hack Enterprise Networks? — RCR Report	33
Systematic Literature Review on Software Security Vulnerability Information Extraction	32
An Accurate Identifier Renaming Prediction and Suggestion Approach	32
JIT-DCK: A KAN Multi-Task Model for Just-In-Time Code Defect Prediction and Localization	32
A Survey of Learning-based Automated Program Repair	32
FAVDisco : Modeling and Discovering File Access Vulnerabilities	32
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models to Improve Accuracy and Comprehensibility of Automated Code Review	32
Surveying the Benchmarking Landscape of Large Language Models in Code Intelligence	32
GIST : Generated Inputs Sets Transferability in Deep Learning	31
ADSDx: Towards Automated Accident Diagnosis for High-level Autonomous Driving Systems	31
Towards AI-Native Software Engineering (SE 3.0): A Vision and a Challenge Roadmap	31
Editorial: ICSE and the Incredible Contradictions of Software Engineering	31
Editorial: Toward the Future with Eight Issues Per Year	31
When Fine-Tuning LLMs Meets Data Privacy: An Empirical Study of Federated Learning in LLM-Based Program Repair	31
Code-Enhanced Cross-Perspective Bug Question Retrieval	30
Detection of Technical Debt in Java Source Code	30
AutoRIC: Automated Neural Network Repairing Based on Constrained Optimization	30

Mapping the Trust Terrain: LLMs in Software Engineering - Insights and Perspectives	30
Assessing and Improving an Evaluation Dataset for Detecting Semantic Code Clones via Deep Learning	29
A Systematic Literature Review of Multi-Label Learning in Software Engineering	29
Exploring Data-Efficient Adaptation of Large Language Models for Code Generation	29
SimADFuzz: Simulation-Feedback Fuzz Testing for Autonomous Driving Systems	29
A Survey of Learning-based Method Name Prediction	29
Contemporary Software Modernization: Strategies, Driving Forces, and Research Opportunities	29
An Empirical Study on GitHub Pull Requests’ Reactions	29
Revisiting the Identification of the Co-evolution of Production and Test Code	28
Reinforcement Learning Informed Evolutionary Search for Autonomous Systems Testing	28
Vulnerability Repair via Concolic Execution and Code Mutations	27
JIT-MTL: Just-in-Time Defect Localization and Prediction with Multi-Task Learning	27
Towards On-the-Fly Code Performance Profiling	27
PatchCensor: Patch Robustness Certification for Transformers via Exhaustive Testing	27
Assessing the Early Bird Heuristic (for Predicting Project Quality)	27
An Empirical Study of Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation: Challenges and Opportunities	26
APIRO: A Framework for Automated Security Tools API Recommendation	26
Leveraging Reviewer Experience in Code Review Comment Generation	26
Why Do GitHub Actions Workflows Fail? An Empirical Study	26
SimClone: Detecting Tabular Data Clones Using Value Similarity	26
HumanEval-V: Systematic Evaluation of Visual Reasoning in Large Multimodal Models for Code Generation	25
On-the-Fly Generation-Quality Enhancement of Deep Code Models via Model Collaboration	25
SourcererJBF: A Java Build Framework For Large-Scale Compilation	25
SCOPE : Performance Testing for Serverless Computing	25
Automatic Rule Checking for Microservices: Supporting Security Analysis with Explainability	24
Beyond Fidelity: Explaining Vulnerability Localization of Learning-Based Detectors	24
Simulator-based Explanation and Debugging of Hazard-triggering Events in DNN-based Safety-critical Systems	24
Towards Learning Generalizable Code Embeddings Using Task-agnostic Graph Convolutional Networks	23
Exploring Fine-Grained Bug Report Categorization with Large Language Models and Prompt Engineering: An Empirical Study	23
Characterizing Installation- and Run-time Compatibility Issues in Android Benign Apps and Malware	23
Demo2Test: Transfer Testing of Agent in Competitive Environment with Failure Demonstrations	23
Monitoring Data for Anomaly Detection in Cloud-Based Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study	23
A Characterization Study of Merge Conflicts in Java Projects	23
Efficient Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection through Transfer Learning for Large-Scale Software Systems	22
Actor-Driven Decomposition of Microservices through Multi-level Scalability Assessment	22
Graphuzz: Data-driven Seed Scheduling for Coverage-guided Greybox Fuzzing	22
Exploring the Capabilities of LLMs for Code-Change-Related Tasks	22
Ethical Prompt Engineering for AI-driven SE: Evidence-informed Interaction-time Governance Roadmap to 2030	22
Test Input Prioritization for 3D Point Clouds	22
Security of Language Models for Code: A Systematic Literature Review	22
Commit Messages Generation Based on Core Changes	22
MR-Scout: Automated Synthesis of Metamorphic Relations from Existing Test Cases	22
Mapping NVD Records to Their Vulnerability-fixing Commits: How Hard is It?	21
Learning from Very Little Data: On the Value of Landscape Analysis for Predicting Software Project Health	21
Cleaning Up Confounding: Accounting for Endogeneity Using Instrumental Variables and Two-Stage Models	21
You Don’t Have to Say Where to Edit! jLED—Joint Learning to Localize and Edit Source Code	21
A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Bias Mitigation Methods for Machine Learning Classifiers	21
Demystifying Hidden Sensitive Operations in Android Apps	21
Stress Testing Control Loops in Cyber-Physical Systems—RCR Report	20
MeDeT: Medical Device Digital Twins Creation with Few-shot Meta-learning	20
PonziHunter: Hunting Ethereum Ponzi Contract via Static Analysis and Contrastive Learning on the Bytecode Level	20
A Roadmap for Integrating Sustainability into Software Engineering Education	20
Battling against Protocol Fuzzing: Protecting Networked Embedded Devices from Dynamic Fuzzers	20
Automating TODO-missed Methods Detection and Patching	20
Evolution-Aware Constraint Derivation Approach for Software Remodularization	20
Programming Smart Playtesting	20
Certified Cost Bounds for Abstract Programs	20
Adaptive Modelling Languages: Abstract Syntax and Model Migration	19
Measuring and Clustering Heterogeneous Chatbot Designs	19
Fold2Vec: Towards a Statement-Based Representation of Code for Code Comprehension	19
Automatically Checking Semantic Equivalence between Versions of Large-Scale C Projects	19
Is It Hard to Generate Holistic Commit Message?	19
Efficient Management of Containers for Software Defined Vehicles	19
Adopting Two Supervisors for Efficient Use of Large-Scale Remote Deep Neural Networks	19
Generation-based Differential Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries	19
Coverage-directed Differential Testing of X.509 Certificate Validation in SSL/TLS Implementations	19
Interpreting Deep Neural Networks via Relative Activation-Deactivation Abstractions	19
Autonomous Driving System Testing via Diversity-Oriented Driving Scenario Exploration	19
Improving Deep Assertion Generation via Fine-Tuning Retrieval-Augmented Pre-trained Language Models	19
Advancing LLM-Based Issue Report Classification with Explained Few-Shot Learning, Intent Extraction, Ensemble, and Summarization	18
Enhancing Task In-Progress Time Predictions through Affective and Personality Factors	18
An In-depth Study of Java Deserialization Remote-Code Execution Exploits and Vulnerabilities	18
SPOLRE: Semantic Preserving Object Layout Reconstruction for Image Captioning System Testing	18
Variable Renaming-Based Adversarial Test Generation for Code Model: Benchmark and Enhancement	18
Developer Perspectives on Licensing and Copyright Issues Arising from Generative AI for Software Development	18
Bypassing Guardrails: Lessons Learned from Red Teaming ChatGPT	18
Duplicate Bug Report Detection: How Far Are We?	18
Visualization Task Taxonomy to Understand the Fuzzing Internals	17
Exploring Development Methods for Reactive Synthesis Specifications	17
Testing Causality in Scientific Modelling Software	17

Inferring Input Grammars from Code with Symbolic Parsing	17
Reputation Gaming in Crowd Technical Knowledge Sharing	17
On the Significance of Category Prediction for Code-Comment Synchronization	17
Fairness Concerns in App Reviews: A Study on AI-Based Mobile Apps	17
On the Impact of Lower Recall and Precision in Defect Prediction for Guiding Search-based Software Testing	17
A Comparative Study on Method Comment and Inline Comment	17
On the Reruns of GitHub Actions Workflows	17
A Mixed-Method Study of Hot Fixing in Industry: Practices, Bottlenecks, and Opportunities	17
The Influence of Human Aspects on Requirements Engineering-related Activities: Software Practitioners’ Perspective	17
Software Vulnerabilities as Cognitive Blindspots; Assessing the Suitability of a Dual Processing Theory of Decision Making for Secure Coding	16
Refactoring in Computational Notebooks	16
Automatic Core-Developer Identification on GitHub: A Validation Study	16
Revisiting Vulnerability Patch Identification on Data in the Wild	16
DiPri : Distance-Based Seed Prioritization for Greybox Fuzzing	16
Reference-Based Retrieval-Augmented Unit Test Generation	16
C2|Q>: A Robust Framework for Bridging Classical and Quantum Software Development	16
Input Distribution Coverage: Measuring Feature Interaction Adequacy in Neural Network Testing	16
Differentiable Quantum Programming with Unbounded Loops	15
An Interleaving Guided Metamorphic Testing Approach for Concurrent Programs	15
Survey of Code Search Based on Deep Learning	15
Can Coverage Criteria Guide Failure Discovery for Image Classifiers? An Empirical Study	15
Preparation and Utilization of Mixed States for Testing Quantum Programs	15
LogUpdater : Automated Detection and Repair of Specific Defects in Logging Statements	15
Assessing and Advancing Benchmarks for Evaluating Large Language Models in Software Engineering Tasks	15
MORepair : Teaching LLMs to Repair Code via Multi-Objective Fine-Tuning	15
A Large-Scale Empirical Evaluation of LLMs for Automated Self-Admitted Technical Debt Repayment	15
Sustainability of Machine Learning-Enabled Systems: The Machine Learning Practitioner’s Perspective	15
AI for DevSecOps: A Landscape and Future Opportunities	15
Understanding the Fundamental Design Decisions of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems	15
CITYWALK : Enhancing LLM-Based C++ Unit Test Generation via Project-Dependency Awareness and Language-Specific Knowledge	15
Studying the Impact of TensorFlow and PyTorch Bindings on Machine Learning Software Quality	15
Can GitHub Issues Help in App Review Classifications?	15
Challenges in Testing Large Language Model Based Software: A Faceted Taxonomy	15
Obfuscated Clone Search in JavaScript based on Reinforcement Subsequence Learning	15
PanicFI: An Infrastructure for Fixing Panic Bugs in Real-World Rust Programs	15
Complete, Sound, and Scalable Identification of Minimal Failure-Causing Schema	15
AdaptiveLog: An Adaptive Log Analysis Framework with the Collaboration of Large and Small Language Model	15
Mitigating Regression Faults Induced by Feature Evolution in Deep Learning Systems	14
Towards Practical Binary Code Similarity Detection: Vulnerability Verification via Patch Semantic Analysis	14
Rise of Distributed Deep Learning Training in the Big Model Era: From a Software Engineering Perspective	14
Let’s Discover More API Relations: A Large Language Model-Based AI Chain for Unsupervised API Relation Inference	14
Understanding Real-Time Collaborative Programming: A Study of Visual Studio Live Share	14
VulDeNoise: Outlier Detection to Reduce Label Noises for Effective Vulnerability Detection	14
Identifying and Explaining Safety-critical Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicles via Key Features	14
Theory of Troubleshooting: The Developer’s Cognitive Experience of Overcoming Confusion	14
The IDEA of Us: An Identity-Aware Architecture for Autonomous Systems	14
A Comprehensive Multi-Vocal Empirical Study of ML Cloud Service Misuses	14
Booster: Effective and Efficient Web GUI Trace Reduction Based on Multi-Level State Abstraction and Time-Guided Hierarchical Delta Debugging	14
How Do Successful and Failed Projects Differ? A Socio-Technical Analysis	14
BiRD: Race Detection in Software Binaries under Relaxed Memory Models	13
Software Engineering by and for Humans in an AI Era	13
Open Problems in Fuzzing RESTful APIs: A Comparison of Tools	13
Toward Better Comprehension of Breaking Changes in the NPM Ecosystem	13
Fast, Fine-Grained Equivalence Checking for Neural Decompilers	13
Large Language Models for Cyber Security: A Systematic Literature Review	13
Data Complexity: A New Perspective for Analyzing the Difficulty of Defect Prediction Tasks	13
NSFuzz: Towards Efficient and State-Aware Network Service Fuzzing	13
Test Oracle Generation for REST APIs	13
Revealing the Unseen: AI Chain on LLMs for Predicting Implicit Dataflows to Generate Dataflow Graphs in Dynamically Typed Code	13
What Constitutes the Deployment and Runtime Configuration System? An Empirical Study on OpenStack Projects	13
The Havoc Paradox in Generator-Based Fuzzing—RCR Report	13
Testing RESTful APIs: A Survey	13
A Hypothesis Testing-based Framework for Software Cross-modal Retrieval in Heterogeneous Semantic Spaces	13
Decision Support Model for Selecting the Optimal Blockchain Oracle Platform: An Evaluation of Key Factors	13
Addressing OSS Community Managers’ Challenges in Contributor Retention	13
An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Defects and Source Code’s Unnaturalness	13
Analysis of EMF meta-model duplication in open-source repositories	13
Grammar Mutation for Testing Input Parsers	13
Understanding Inconsistent State Update Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts	13
Simulating Software Evolution to Evaluate the Reliability of Early Decision-making among Design Alternatives toward Maintainability	12
Identifying Performance Issues in Cloud Service Systems Based on Relational-Temporal Features	12
Mobile Application Online Cross-Project Just-in-Time Software Defect Prediction Framework	12
Verification Witnesses	12
Editorial: The End of the Journey	12
Automated Abstract Transformer Synthesis for Reduced Product Domains	12
Divide-and-Conquer: Automating Code Revisions via Localization-and-Revision	12
Exploring JVM Garbage Collector Testing with Event-Coverage	12
Revisiting Sentiment Analysis for Software Engineering in the Era of Large Language Models	12
Fairness Testing of Machine Translation Systems	12
Large Language Model for Vulnerability Detection and Repair: Literature Review and the Road Ahead	12
AcTracer: Active Testing of Large Language Model via Multi-Stage Sampling	12
Arash : Token-Efficient LLM-Assisted Crash Root Cause Analysis in Fuzz Driver Generation	12
Less Is More: Unlocking Semi-Supervised Deep Learning for Vulnerability Detection	12
Some Seeds Are Strong: Seeding Strategies for Search-based Test Case Selection	12
Representation Learning for Stack Overflow Posts: How Far Are We?	12
How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for Collaboration	12
Finding Information Leaks with Information Flow Fuzzing	12
Large Language Model-Aware In-Context Learning for Code Generation	11
Rise of the Planet of Serverless Computing: A Systematic Review	11
Microservice Security Metrics for Secure Communication, Identity Management, and Observability	11
AceCoder : An Effective Prompting Technique Specialized in Code Generation	11
Digital Twin-based Anomaly Detection with Curriculum Learning in Cyber-physical Systems	11
As Long As I See It - OSVHunter: Understanding and Detecting Open-Secret Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts	11
A Review of Learning-based Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection: A Perspective on Code Representation	11
Making Software Development More Diverse and Inclusive: Key Themes, Challenges, and Future Directions	11