OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology is 7. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

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
Security Smells in Ansible and Chef Scripts	40
Wireframe-based UI Design Search through Image Autoencoder	40
Monotone Precision and Recall Measures for Comparing Executions and Specifications of Dynamic Systems	39
Generating Question Titles for Stack Overflow from Mined Code Snippets	39
A Survey of Flaky Tests	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
Accessibility in Software Practice: A Practitioner’s Perspective	19
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
Interpreting Deep Learning-based Vulnerability Detector Predictions Based on Heuristic Searching	18
Stateful Serverless Computing with Crucial	18
Technical Q8A Site Answer Recommendation via Question Boosting	17
Automated Patch Transplantation	17
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
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
Predicting Performance Anomalies in Software Systems at Run-time	12
Towards Robustness of Deep Program Processing Models—Detection, Estimation, and Enhancement	12
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
Evaluation of Software Architectures under Uncertainty	11
Verification Witnesses	11
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
On the Reproducibility and Replicability of Deep Learning in Software Engineering	10
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
L2S: A Framework for Synthesizing the Most Probable Program under a Specification	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
deGraphCS : Embedding Variable-based Flow Graph for Neural Code Search	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
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
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
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
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
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
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