ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Article	Citations
Enhancing Android Malware Detection: The Influence of ChatGPT on Decision-centric Task	222
Preference-wise Testing of Android Apps via Test Amplification	167
Mutant Reduction Evaluation: What is There and What is Missing?	120
Bounded Verification of Atomicity Violations for Interrupt-Driven Programs via Lazy Sequentialization	105
Reusing d-DNNFs for Efficient Feature-Model Counting	91
Test Generation Strategies for Building Failure Models and Explaining Spurious Failures	83
Automatic Identification of Game Stuttering via Gameplay Videos Analysis	81
Deceiving Humans and Machines Alike: Search-based Test Input Generation for DNNs Using Variational Autoencoders	64
Understanding the OSS Communities of Deep Learning Frameworks: A Comparative Case Study of P y T orch and T ensor	62
Neuron Semantic-Guided Test Generation for Deep Neural Networks Fuzzing	61
KAPE: k NN-based Performance Testing for Deep Code Search	60
Better Supporting Human Aspects in Mobile eHealth Apps: Development and Validation of Enhanced Guidelines	57
I Depended on You and You Broke Me: An Empirical Study of Manifesting Breaking Changes in Client Packages	57
An empirical study on vulnerability disclosure management of open source software systems	57
Finding Information Leaks with Information Flow Fuzzing - RCR Report	56
FoC: Figure out the Cryptographic Functions in Stripped Binaries with LLMs	55
FairGenerate: Enhancing Fairness Through Synthetic Data Generation and Two-Fold Biased Labels Removal	52
A Survey on Failure Analysis and Fault Injection in AI Systems	51
Communicating Study Design Trade-offs in Software Engineering	48
Assessing the Robustness of Test Selection Methods for Deep Neural Networks	48
History-Driven Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries	47
Securing the Ethereum from Smart Ponzi Schemes: Identification Using Static Features	47
Horus : Accelerating Kernel Fuzzing through Efficient Host-VM Memory Access Procedures	47
An Empirical Study of the Non-Determinism of ChatGPT in Code Generation	45
Adopting Two Supervisors for Efficient Use of Large-Scale Remote Deep Neural Networks - RCR Report	45

JavaScript SBST Heuristics to Enable Effective Fuzzing of NodeJS Web APIs	44
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models to Improve Accuracy and Comprehensibility of Automated Code Review	41
FormatFuzzer : Effective Fuzzing of Binary File Formats	41
Assessing and Analyzing the Correctness of GitHub Copilot’s Code Suggestions	40
Do Current Language Models Support Code Intelligence for R Programming Language?	40
Towards Automating Domain-Specific Data Generation for Text-to-SQL: A Comprehensive Approach	39
Toward Interpretable Graph Tensor Convolution Neural Network for Code Semantics Embedding	38
Why Do Developers Reject Refactorings in Open-Source Projects?	37
Help Them Understand: Testing and Improving Voice User Interfaces	36
Enhancing Search-based Testing with Testability Transformations for Existing APIs	36
Supporting Emotional Intelligence, Productivity and Team Goals while Handling Software Requirements Changes	35
A Comprehensive View on TD Prevention Practices and Reasons for Not Preventing It	34
HeMiRCA: Fine-Grained Root Cause Analysis for Microservices with Heterogeneous Data Sources	34
Estimating Uncertainty in Labeled Changes by SZZ Tools on Just-In-Time Defect Prediction	33
Systematic Literature Review on Software Security Vulnerability Information Extraction	33
FAVDisco: Modeling and Discovering File Access Vulnerabilities	33
An Empirical Study on Governance in Bitcoin’s Consensus Evolution	33
Try with Simpler - An Evaluation of Improved Principal Component Analysis in Log-based Anomaly Detection	32
Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments	32
I Know What You Are Searching for: Code Snippet Recommendation from Stack Overflow Posts	32
Characterizing Deep Learning Package Supply Chains in PyPI: Domains, Clusters, and Disengagement	31
Storage State Analysis and Extraction of Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contracts	30
A Survey of Learning-based Automated Program Repair	30
Enhancing Security and Acuity of Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection based on Federated Learning and BiLSTM-Attention	30
Model Transformation Development Using Automated Requirements Analysis, Metamodel Matching, and Transformation by Example	29
Introducing Interactions in Multi-Objective Optimization of Software Architectures	28
An Accurate Identifier Renaming Prediction and Suggestion Approach	28
When Fine-Tuning LLMs Meets Data Privacy: An Empirical Study of Federated Learning in LLM-Based Program Repair	27
SimADFuzz: Simulation-Feedback Fuzz Testing for Autonomous Driving Systems	27
Deep API Sequence Generation via Golden Solution Samples and API Seeds	27
Towards On-The-Fly Code Performance Profiling	26
A Systematic Literature Review of Multi-Label Learning in Software Engineering	26
Vulnerability Repair via Concolic Execution and Code Mutations	25
SCOPE : Performance Testing for Serverless Computing	25
Contemporary Software Modernization: Strategies, Driving Forces, and Research Opportunities	25
An Empirical Study of Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation: Challenges and Opportunities	25
AutoRIC: Automated Neural Network Repairing Based on Constrained Optimization	25
Editorial: ICSE and the Incredible Contradictions of Software Engineering	25
Editorial: Toward the Future with Eight Issues Per Year	24
SimClone: Detecting Tabular Data Clones Using Value Similarity	24
GIST : Generated Inputs Sets Transferability in Deep Learning	23
Assessing the Early Bird Heuristic (for Predicting Project Quality)	23
Reinforcement Learning Informed Evolutionary Search for Autonomous Systems Testing	23
An Empirical Study on GitHub Pull Requests’ Reactions	23
Assessing and Improving an Evaluation Dataset for Detecting Semantic Code Clones via Deep Learning	23
Industry–Academia Research Collaboration and Knowledge Co-creation: Patterns and Anti-patterns	23
Revisiting the Identification of the Co-evolution of Production and Test Code	22
Evaluation of Software Architectures under Uncertainty	22
Exploring Fine-Grained Bug Report Categorization with Large Language Models and Prompt Engineering: An Empirical Study	21
PatchCensor: Patch Robustness Certification for Transformers via Exhaustive Testing	21

You Don’t Have to Say Where to Edit! jLED – Joint Learning to Localize and Edit Source Code	21
Graphuzz: Data-driven Seed Scheduling for Coverage-guided Greybox Fuzzing	21
APIRO: A Framework for Automated Security Tools API Recommendation	21
SourcererJBF: A Java Build Framework For Large-Scale Compilation	20
Demo2Test: Transfer Testing of Agent in Competitive Environment with Failure Demonstrations	20
Efficient Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection through Transfer Learning for Large-Scale Software Systems	20
MR-Scout: Automated Synthesis of Metamorphic Relations from Existing Test Cases	20
Test Input Prioritization for 3D Point Clouds	20
Beyond Fidelity: Explaining Vulnerability Localization of Learning-Based Detectors	20
A Characterization Study of Merge Conflicts in Java Projects	20
Characterizing Installation- and Run-Time Compatibility Issues in Android Benign Apps and Malware	20
Simulator-based Explanation and Debugging of Hazard-triggering Events in DNN-based Safety-critical Systems	19
Feature Matching-based Approaches to Improve the Robustness of Android Visual GUI Testing	19
Adaptive Hypermutation for Search-Based System Test Generation: A Study on REST APIs with EvoMaster	19
Demystifying Hidden Sensitive Operations in Android Apps	19
Monitoring data for Anomaly Detection in Cloud-Based Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study	19
Learning from Very Little Data: On the Value of Landscape Analysis for Predicting Software Project Health	19
A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Bias Mitigation Methods for Machine Learning Classifiers	19
Towards Learning Generalizable Code Embeddings Using Task-agnostic Graph Convolutional Networks	19
Exploring the Capabilities of LLMs for Code-Change-Related Tasks	18
MeDeT: Medical Device Digital Twins Creation with Few-shot Meta-learning	18
Actor-Driven Decomposition of Microservices through Multi-level Scalability Assessment	18
Cleaning Up Confounding: Accounting for Endogeneity Using Instrumental Variables and Two-Stage Models	18
Variable Renaming-Based Adversarial Test Generation for Code Model: Benchmark and Enhancement	17
Autonomous Driving System Testing via Diversity-Oriented Driving Scenario Exploration	17
Improving Deep Assertion Generation via Fine-Tuning Retrieval-Augmented Pre-trained Language Models	17
Programming Smart Playtesting	17
An In-depth Study of Java Deserialization Remote-Code Execution Exploits and Vulnerabilities	16
Developer Perspectives on Licensing and Copyright Issues Arising from Generative AI for Software Development	16
Measuring and Clustering Heterogeneous Chatbot Designs	16
Stress Testing Control Loops in Cyber-Physical Systems - RCR Report	16
Efficient Management of Containers for Software Defined Vehicles	16
Battling against Protocol Fuzzing: Protecting Networked Embedded Devices from Dynamic Fuzzers	16
PonziHunter: Hunting Ethereum Ponzi Contract via Static Analysis and Contrastive Learning on the Bytecode Level	16
Is It Hard to Generate Holistic Commit Message?	16
Evolution-Aware Constraint Derivation Approach for Software Remodularization	15
Certified Cost Bounds for Abstract Programs	15
Adopting Two Supervisors for Efficient Use of Large-Scale Remote Deep Neural Networks	15
Duplicate Bug Report Detection: How Far Are We?	15
Adaptive Modelling Languages: Abstract Syntax and Model Migration	15
Fairness Concerns in App Reviews: A Study on AI-Based Mobile Apps	15
Fold2Vec: Towards a Statement-Based Representation of Code for Code Comprehension	15
Coverage-directed Differential Testing of X.509 Certificate Validation in SSL/TLS Implementations	15
A Roadmap for Integrating Sustainability into Software Engineering Education	15
Eagle	15
Testing Causality in Scientific Modelling Software	15
All in One: Design, Verification, and Implementation of SNOW-optimal Read Atomic Transactions	15
Generation-based Differential Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries	14
Differentiable Quantum Programming with Unbounded Loops	14
An Interleaving Guided Metamorphic Testing Approach for Concurrent Programs	14
A Comparative Study on Method Comment and Inline Comment	14
Time-travel Investigation: Toward Building a Scalable Attack Detection Framework on Ethereum	14
Automating TODO-missed Methods Detection and Patching	14
Automatic Core-Developer Identification on GitHub: A Validation Study	14
Studying the Impact of TensorFlow and PyTorch Bindings on Machine Learning Software Quality	13
MORepair: Teaching LLMs to Repair Code via Multi-Objective Fine-Tuning	13
On the Significance of Category Prediction for Code-Comment Synchronization	13
Input Distribution Coverage: Measuring Feature Interaction Adequacy in Neural Network Testing	13
On the Impact of Lower Recall and Precision in Defect Prediction for Guiding Search-based Software Testing	13
LogUpdater: Automated Detection and Repair of Specific Defects in Logging Statements	13
The Influence of Human Aspects on Requirements Engineering-related Activities: Software Practitioners’ Perspective	13
Can GitHub Issues Help in App Review Classifications?	13
Survey of Code Search Based on Deep Learning	13
Understanding Software-2.0	13
Reputation Gaming in Crowd Technical Knowledge Sharing	12
Preparation and Utilization of Mixed States for Testing Quantum Programs	12
Rise of Distributed Deep Learning Training in the Big Model Era: From a Software Engineering Perspective	12
How Do Successful and Failed Projects Differ? A Socio-Technical Analysis	12
NSFuzz: Towards Efficient and State-Aware Network Service Fuzzing	12
Refactoring in Computational Notebooks	12
AI for DevSecOps: A Landscape and Future Opportunities	12
Obfuscated Clone Search in JavaScript based on Reinforcement Subsequence Learning	12
Understanding Real-Time Collaborative Programming: A Study of Visual Studio Live Share	12
Software Engineering by and for Humans in an AI Era	12
Data Complexity: A New Perspective for Analyzing the Difficulty of Defect Prediction Tasks	12
OSS Effort Estimation Using Software Features Similarity and Developer Activity-Based Metrics	12
Visualization Task Taxonomy to Understand the Fuzzing Internals	12
DiPri : Distance-Based Seed Prioritization for Greybox Fuzzing	12
The IDEA of Us: An Identity-Aware Architecture for Autonomous Systems	12
A Hypothesis Testing-based Framework for Software Cross-modal Retrieval in Heterogeneous Semantic Spaces	12

Can Coverage Criteria Guide Failure Discovery for Image Classifiers? An Empirical Study	12
A Systematic Literature Review on the Use of Deep Learning in Software Engineering Research	11
Let’s Discover More API Relations: A Large Language Model-Based AI Chain for Unsupervised API Relation Inference	11
An Empirical Study on the Relationship Between Defects and Source Code’s Unnaturalness	11
Towards Robustness of Deep Program Processing Models—Detection, Estimation, and Enhancement	11
Towards Practical Binary Code Similarity Detection: Vulnerability Verification via Patch Semantic Analysis	11
Automated Abstract Transformer Synthesis for Reduced Product Domains	11
Identifying and Explaining Safety-critical Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicles via Key Features	11
Test Oracle Generation for REST APIs	11
Testing RESTful APIs: A Survey	11
Mitigating Regression Faults Induced by Feature Evolution in Deep Learning Systems	11
Revealing the Unseen: AI Chain on LLMs for Predicting Implicit Dataflows to Generate Dataflow Graphs in Dynamically Typed Code	10
The Case for Adaptive Security Interventions	10
Simulating Software Evolution to Evaluate the Reliability of Early Decision-making among Design Alternatives toward Maintainability	10
What You See is What it Means! Semantic Representation Learning of Code based on Visualization and Transfer Learning	10
Exploring JVM Garbage Collector Testing with Event-Coverage	10
What Constitutes the Deployment and Runtime Configuration System? An Empirical Study on OpenStack Projects	10
Guided Feature Identification and Removal for Resource-constrained Firmware	10
BiRD: Race Detection in Software Binaries under Relaxed Memory Models	10
Decision Support Model for Selecting the Optimal Blockchain Oracle Platform: An Evaluation of Key Factors	10
SemMT: A Semantic-Based Testing Approach for Machine Translation Systems	10
Verification Witnesses	10
Mobile Application Online Cross-Project Just-in-Time Software Defect Prediction Framework	10
Some Seeds Are Strong: Seeding Strategies for Search-based Test Case Selection	10
The Agile Success Model	10
Representation Learning for Stack Overflow Posts: How Far Are We?	10
Automated Identification of Toxic Code Reviews Using ToxiCR	9
Microservice Security Metrics for Secure Communication, Identity Management, and Observability	9
Large Language Model for Vulnerability Detection and Repair: Literature Review and the Road Ahead	9
Identifying Performance Issues in Cloud Service Systems Based on Relational-Temporal Features	9
Less Is More: Unlocking Semi-Supervised Deep Learning for Vulnerability Detection	9
Influential Global and Local Contexts Guided Trace Representation for Fault Localization	9
Editorial: The End of the Journey	9
AceCoder : An Effective Prompting Technique Specialized in Code Generation	9
DRIVE: Dockerfile Rule Mining and Violation Detection	9
Benchmarking and Categorizing the Performance of Neural Program Repair Systems for Java	9
Toward Better Comprehension of Breaking Changes in the NPM Ecosystem	9
Fairness Testing of Machine Translation Systems	9
V ex IR2V ec : An Architecture-Neutral Embedding Framework for Binary Similarity	9
Prompt-based Code Completion via Multi-Retrieval Augmented Generation	9
Making Software Development More Diverse and Inclusive: Key Themes, Challenges, and Future Directions	9
Understanding Vulnerability Inducing Commits of the Linux Kernel	9
How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for Collaboration	9
Identifying Affected Third-Party Java Libraries from Textual Descriptions of Vulnerabilities and Libraries	9
Revisiting Sentiment Analysis for Software Engineering in the Era of Large Language Models	9
Divide-and-Conquer: Automating Code Revisions via Localization-and-Revision	9
Open Problems in Fuzzing RESTful APIs: A Comparison of Tools	9
Large Language Model-Aware In-Context Learning for Code Generation	9
Grammar Mutation for Testing Input Parsers	9
Finding Information Leaks with Information Flow Fuzzing	9
From Triumph to Uncertainty: The Journey of Software Engineering in the AI Era	9
Snippet Comment Generation Based on Code Context Expansion	8
My Fuzzers Won’t Build: An Empirical Study of Fuzzing Build Failures	8
Improving Automated Program Repair with Domain Adaptation	8
Learning-based Relaxation of Completeness Requirements for Data Entry Forms	8
Digital Twin-based Anomaly Detection with Curriculum Learning in Cyber-physical Systems	8
Finding Near-optimal Configurations in Colossal Spaces with Statistical Guarantees	8
Challenges of Working from Home in Software Development During Covid-19 Lockdowns	8
Temporal-Incremental Learning for Android Malware Detection	8
Software Security Analysis in 2030 and Beyond: A Research Roadmap	8
The Good, the Bad, and the Missing: Neural Code Generation for Machine Learning Tasks	8
Rise of the Planet of Serverless Computing: A Systematic Review	8
FQN Inference in Partial Code by Prompt-tuned Language Model of Code	8
Making Sense of the Unknown: How Managers Make Cyber Security Decisions	8
Exploring Automated Assertion Generation via Large Language Models	8
A Road-Map to Readily Available Early Validation and Verification of System Behaviour in Model-Based Systems Engineering using Software Engineering Best Practices	8
Blindspots in Python and Java APIs Result in Vulnerable Code	8
Recommending Variable Names for Extract Local Variable Refactorings	8