Journal of Software-Evolution and Process

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PassSum: Leveraging paths of abstract syntax trees and self‐supervision for code summarization	31
On the sustainability of deep learning projects: Maintainers' perspective	29
Internet‐of‐things architectures for secure cyber–physical spaces: The VISOR experience report	26
A Novel Vulnerability‐Detection Method Based on the Semantic Features of Source Code and the LLVM Intermediate Representation	26
Mobile crowdsourced test report prioritization based on text and image understanding	24
Revisiting deep neural network test coverage from the test effectiveness perspective	24
APP constraint analysis approach to select mobile devices for compatibility crowdtesting	24
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Context modeling for cyber‐physical systems	21
SGDL: Smart contract vulnerability generation via deep learning	21
Software development effort estimation using boosting algorithms and automatic tuning of hyperparameters with Optuna	18
A novel combinatorial testing approach with fuzzing strategy	16
Automated construction of reference model for software remodularization through software evolution	14
Editorial for the special issue on software refactoring: Application breadth and technical depth	14
An architecture refactoring approach to reducing software hierarchy complexity	14
Crowdsourced bug report severity prediction based on text and image understanding via heterogeneous graph convolutional networks	13
BET‐BiLSTM Model: A Robust Solution for Automated Requirements Classification	13
Product and service quality risks: A survey about evolution and application in different business domains to facilitate quality engineering	12
Designing and testing systems of systems: From variability models to test cases passing through desirability assessment	11
Characterizing and synthesizing the workflow structure of microservices in ByteDance Cloud	11
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Code smell prioritization in object‐oriented software systems: A systematic literature review	10
Requirement specification extraction and analysis based on propositional projection temporal logic	10

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Evolutionary measures and their correlations with the performance of cross‐version defect prediction for object‐oriented projects	10
Software integration model: An assessment tool for global software development vendors	10
A Serious Game Approach to Introduce the Code Review Practice	10
Understanding the quality and evolution of Android app build systems	10
Strategic Intelligence Management (ISO 56006)—Using AI by the Innovation Agent Task Force in the Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA)	9
Specifying features in terms of domain models: MuDForM method definition and case study	9
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Adaptive solving strategy synthesis for symbolic execution	9
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Advanced security testing using a cyber‐attack forecasting model: A case study of financial institutions	8
Verification and validation of software process simulation models: A systematic mapping study	8
Software change‐proneness prediction based on deep learning	8
MFLion‐DMN: Mayfly Lion‐optimized deep maxout network for prediction of software development effort	8
Can non‐developers learn a simplified modeling notation quickly?	8
Generating Quality Assurance Constraints From Natural Language With LLMs	8
POEML: a Process Orchestration, Execution, and Modeling Language	8
Cheating your apps: Black‐box adversarial attacks on deep learning apps	8
A Simple Yet Practical Backdoor Prompt Attack Against Black‐Box Code Summarization Engines	8
Predicting Issue Resolution Time of OSS Using Multiple Features	7
When rationality meets intuition: A research agenda for software design decision‐making	7
Trustworthy and collaborative traceability management: Experts’ feedback on a blockchain‐enabled framework	7
Challenges and solutions in the development of blockchain applications: Extraction from SLR and empirical study	7
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Functional Size Measurement With Conceptual Models: A Systematic Literature Review	7
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Engineering MLOps Pipelines With Data Quality: A Case Study on Tabular Datasets in Kaggle	6
Exploring the Effectiveness of Open‐Source Donation Platform: An Empirical Study on Opencollective	6
Examining the training and education potential of the metaverse: Results from an empirical study of next generation SAFe training	6
The effect of hoisting on variants of Hierarchical Delta Debugging	6
Integrating privacy debt and VSE's software developments	6
Understanding Remote Work Experience: Insights Into Well‐Being	6
Exploratory study of existing research on software requirements prioritization: A systematic literature review	6
Formalizing model transformation patterns	6
Hybrid mutation driven testing for natural language inference	6
Combining object‐oriented metrics and centrality measures to predict faults in object‐oriented software: An empirical validation	6
Leveraging Levy Flight and Greylag Goose Optimization for Enhanced Cross‐Project Defect Prediction in Software Evolution	6
Neural Networks‐Based Software Development Effort Estimation: A Systematic Literature Review	5
From legacy to microservices: A type‐based approach for microservices identification using machine learning and semantic analysis	5
The dynamic versus the stable team: The unspoken question in large‐scale agile development	5
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Compliance checking of software processes: A systematic literature review	5
Enhanced evolutionary automated program repair by finer‐granularity ingredients and better search algorithms	5
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Integrating Security Controls in DevSecOps: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Research Directions	5
An ecology‐oriented convergence evolution analysis method of crossover service ecosystems	5
Model‐checking‐driven explorative testing of CRDT designs and implementations	5
Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering	5
The Pandora's box of social, process, and people debts in software engineering	5
Manipulating a CI/CD Pipeline in an IoT Embedded Project: A Quasi‐Experiment	5

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CARLDA: An Approach for Stack Overflow API Mention Recognition Driven by Context and LLM‐Based Data Augmentation	5
Context factors perceived important when looking for similar experiences in decision‐making for software components: An interview study	4
Building empirical knowledge on the relationship between code smells and design patterns: An exploratory study	4
Towards practical application of mutation testing in industry — Traditional versus extreme mutation testing	4
The LAGSSE Framework: Integrating Lean, Agile, and Green Principles for Sustainable Software Engineering	4
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About the special issue on: “Distributed Complex Systems: Governance, Engineering, and Maintenance”	4
A longitudinal case study on Nexus transformation: Impact on productivity, quality, and motivation	4
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Promoting social and human factors through a gamified automotive software development environment	4
Success factors analysis for requirement elicitation in global software development paradigm: An empirical study	4
JointConf: Jointly autotuning configuration parameters for modularized graph databases	4
Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance	4
Investigating the impact of structural holes on the value creation in mobile application service ecosystems: Evidence from computational experiments	4
An automated search‐based test model generation approach for structural testing of model transformations	4
Anti‐bloater class restructuring: An exploratory study	4
Explainable AI Framework for Software Defect Prediction	4
Sustainable software engineering—A contribution puzzle of different teams in large IT organizations	4
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A Multi‐Perspective Review on Embedded Systems Quality: State of the Field, Challenges, and Research Directions	4
ECP: Coprocessor Architecture to Protect Program Logic Consistency	4
Code quality improvement using Aquila Optimizer	3
RobustNPR: Evaluating the robustness of neural program repair models	3
Assessing BizDevOps maturity using international standards: Case studies and lessons learned	3
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Minimizing Inter‐Dependencies in Functional Requirements for Timely Delivery of Software Projects: A Prioritization Approach Using AHP and Spanning Trees	3
CoBRA without experts: New paradigm for software development effort estimation using COCOMO metrics	3
Contributions of enterprise architecture to software engineering: A systematic literature review	3
Software Process Evaluation from User Perceptions and Log Data	3
Exploring the context of use for voice user interfaces: Toward context‐dependent user experience quality testing	3
Issue Information	3
On the utilization of non‐quality assessed literature in software engineering research	3
UFR‐OSFA: Unified Feature Representation and Oppositional Structure Feature Alignment for Mixed‐Project Heterogeneous Defect Prediction	3
E2E test execution optimization for web application based on state reuse	3
A Study of Factors That Influence the Software Project Success	3
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Performance testing as a service using cloud computing environment: A survey	3
A novel defect prediction method based on semantic feature enhancement	3
Towards AIOps enabled services in continuously evolving software‐intensive embedded systems	3
Software bug localization based on optimized and ensembled deep learning models	3
Mutation‐based data augmentation for software defect prediction	3
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Are duplicates really harmful? An empirical study on bug report summarization techniques	3
Predictive maintenance of infrastructure code using “fluid” datasets: An exploratory study on Ansible defect proneness	3
Exploring factors affecting developer abandonment of open source software projects	3
The impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the globalization on how automotive assessments will be performed in the future	3
Constructing exception handling chains for testing Java virtual machine implementations	3
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CrossFix: Resolution of GitHub issues via similar bugs recommendation	3
CyberESP: An Integrated Cybersecurity Framework for SMEs	3
How Software Design Affects Energy Performance: A Systematic Literature Review	3
Object Constraint Language based test case optimization with modified Average Percentage of Fault Detection metric	3
Richen: Automated enrichment of Git documentation with usage examples and scenarios	3
On the perception of graph layouts	3
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Towards Explainable Code Readability Classification With Graph Neural Networks	3
Contributions to Systems Software and Service Process Improvement and Innovation Based on Recent Advances	3
An approach for serious game design and development based on iterative evaluation	2
A Process Model for AI‐Enabled Software Development: A Synthesis From Validation Studies in White Literature	2
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Evaluation of requirement engineering best practices for secure software development in GSD: An ISM analysis	2
Security risks of global software development life cycle: Industry practitioner's perspective	2
A classification scheme to improve conclusion instability using Bellwether moving windows	2
A research landscape on software defect prediction	2
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Identification and prioritization of the challenges faced by vendor organizations in the shape of cyber security: A FUZZY‐AHP ‐based systematic approach	2
Regression test prioritization leveraging source code similarity with tree kernels	2
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Towards a catalog of composite refactorings	2
Prediction of bug‐fixing time based on distinguishable sequences fusion in open source software	2
Editorial: Best papers of the 14th International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP 2020) and 15th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE 2020)	2
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Ensemble Deep Network for Secured Refactoring Framework by Predicting Code‐Bad Smells in Software Projects	2
Key Success Factors of Cybersecurity Awareness in Distributed Teams	2
“Through the looking‐glass …” An empirical study on blob infrastructure blueprints in the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications	2
Measuring software engineer's contribution in practice: An industrial experience report	2

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PathCovAVTest: Testing for Violations of Autonomous Driving Systems Based on Path Coverage of Traffic Regulation Scenarios	2
On the accessibility of the grayscale version of a PoN‐enabled use case notation	2
GUI testing of Android applications: Investigating the impact of the number of testers on different exploratory testing strategies	2
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The Indispensable Role of Software Ecosystem Services	2
Implicit bias and negative stereotyping in global software development and why it is time to move on!	2
Prioritization Method for Crowdsourced Test Report by Integrating Text and Image Information	2
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Transformer‐based code search for software Q&A sites	2
sFuzz2.0: Storage‐access pattern guided smart contract fuzzing	2
A practical approach for technical debt prioritization based on class‐level forecasting	2
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Enhancing OCR‐based Engineering Diagram Analysis by Integrating Diverse External Legends with VLMs	2
Assessing English teaching linguistic and artificial intelligence for efficient learning using analytical hierarchy process and Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution	2
Multicriteria decision‐making–based framework for implementing DevOps practices: A fuzzy best–worst approach	2
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Evaluation of the fixed‐point iteration of minimizing delta debugging	1
Using artificial intelligence to find design errors in the engineering drawings	1
Utilizing Creator Profiles for Predicting Valuable User Enhancement Reports	1
Mission‐critical open‐source software adoption model validation using Partial Least Square ‐ Structural Equation Modeling	1
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Using Dynamic and Static Techniques to Establish Traceability Links Between Production Code and Test Code on Python Projects: A Replication Study	1
Safety and security of cyber‐physical systems	1
Empirical exploration of critical challenges of requirements implementation in global software development	1
Unveiling the impact of unchanged modules across versions on the evaluation of within‐project defect prediction models	1
Tarsis: An effective automata‐based abstract domain for string analysis	1
A reference model for software product line capability assessment	1
From Data to Knowledge: Mining Linux Vulnerability Characteristics and Evolution With Knowledge Graphs	1
Exploring the Relationship Between Trait Emotional Intelligence and Performance in the Context of SME Software Engineering	1
Qualitative software engineering research: Reflections and guidelines	1
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A Semiautomated Approach for Detecting Ambiguities in Software Requirements Using SpanBERT and Named Entity Recognition	1
Modeling Software Reliability With Power Law Testing Effort Function Under Operational Uncertain Environment	1
An empirical study to compare three web test automation approaches: NLP‐based, programmable, and capture&replay	1
An Approach Based on Metadata to Implement Convention Over Configuration Decoupled From Framework Logic	1
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Model‐driven engineering of safety and security software systems: A systematic mapping study and future research directions	1
Understanding software architecture erosion: A systematic mapping study	1
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NG_MDERANK: A software vulnerability feature knowledge extraction method based on N‐gram similarity	1
Severity classification of software code smells using machine learning techniques: A comparative study	1
Quality culture boosts agile transformation—Action research in a business‐to‐business software business	1
A Flexible Framework to Ensure Traceability, Consistency, and Propagation of KPIs Evolution	1
Understanding Software‐centered Evolutive Ecosystems through Activity Theory	1
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Overcoming Data Shortage in Critical Domains With Data Augmentation for Natural Language Software Requirements	1
Guest editors' introduction to the special issue “Automatic Software Testing from the Trenches”	1
A Validation Methodology for XAI Decision Support Systems Against Relational Domain Properties	1
Experiences with the automotive SPICE for cybersecurity assessment model and tools	1
A software process improvement framework based on best practices	1
RM2EIS: Automatic Generation of Enterprise Information Systems From Contract‐Based Requirements Model	1
GRRLN: Gated Recurrent Residual Learning Networks for code clone detection	1
Balanced knowledge distribution among software development teams—Observations from open‐ and closed‐source software development	1
Readiness and maturity models for Industry 4.0: A systematic literature review	1
Towards Multi‐Class Socio‐Technical Congruence: Assessing Coordination in Collaborative Software Development Settings	1
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Cloud and Edge Computing as Effective Trends in Business Model Innovation: A Bibliometric Review	1
Merge Conflict Prediction Using Feature Selection and Stacking Heterogeneous Ensembles: An Empirical Investigation	1
Scaled agile framework. Dealing with software process‐related challenges of a financial group with the action research approach	1
How agile coaches create an agile mindset in development teams: Insights from an interview study	1
Enabling Quantum Privacy and Security by Design: Imperatives for Contemporary State‐of‐the‐Art in Quantum Software Engineering	1
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A robust optimization model for software development costs considering time value of money	1
UCLP: Unsupervised Classification of Key Aspects in Vulnerability Descriptions Through Label Profile	1
Refactoring to Standard C++20 Modules	1
Introduction to the special issue on automation of software test and test code quality	1
An approach for semantic interoperability in autonomic distributed intelligent systems	1
IABC‐TCG: Improved artificial bee colony algorithm‐based test case generation for smart contracts	1
Improving an emergency repair process with feature models	1
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Just‐in‐time identification for cross‐project correlated issues	1
Exploring the relationship between refactoring and code debt indicators	1
Better Knowledge Enhancement for Privacy‐Preserving Cross‐Project Defect Prediction	1
Maturity model for secure software testing	1
Ensuring Confidentiality in Supply Chains With an Application to Life‐Cycle Assessment	1
Identifying safety issues from energy conservation requirements	1
Log‐based anomaly detection for distributed systems: State of the art, industry experience, and open issues	1
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Multi‐objective optimization‐based and fault localization‐oriented test case generation for novice programs	1
Understanding the use of spectrum‐based fault localization	1
Evaluating the Test Adequacy of Benchmarks for LLMs on Code Generation	1
Release conventions of open‐source software: An exploratory study	1
PredictPP: A Rank‐Based Weighted Ensemble Model for Prediction of Software Project Productivity	1
A resilience‐based framework for assessing the evolution of open source software projects	1
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Blockchain for requirements traceability: A qualitative approach	0
Functional suitability assessment of smart contracts: A survey and first proposal	0
Quality evaluation models or frameworks for open source software: A systematic literature review	0
A Comprehensive Framework for Testing Goal‐Oriented NFPs in Software Product Lines	0
Quality‐in‐Use in Practice: A Study for Context‐Aware Software Systems in Pervasive Environments	0
On the use of big data frameworks in big service management	0
Evolution of secure development lifecycles and maturity models in the context of hosted solutions	0
Cross‐version defect prediction using threshold‐based active learning	0