OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Software-Evolution and Process is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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A Novel Vulnerability‐Detection Method Based on the Semantic Features of Source Code and the LLVM Intermediate Representation	38
Internet‐of‐things architectures for secure cyber–physical spaces: The VISOR experience report	29
Revisiting deep neural network test coverage from the test effectiveness perspective	26
APP constraint analysis approach to select mobile devices for compatibility crowdtesting	26
Mobile crowdsourced test report prioritization based on text and image understanding	25
PassSum: Leveraging paths of abstract syntax trees and self‐supervision for code summarization	23
Context modeling for cyber‐physical systems	23
On the sustainability of deep learning projects: Maintainers' perspective	21
SGDL: Smart contract vulnerability generation via deep learning	21
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Software development effort estimation using boosting algorithms and automatic tuning of hyperparameters with Optuna	19
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Code smell prioritization in object‐oriented software systems: A systematic literature review	17
A novel combinatorial testing approach with fuzzing strategy	16
An architecture refactoring approach to reducing software hierarchy complexity	16
Designing and testing systems of systems: From variability models to test cases passing through desirability assessment	16
Editorial for the special issue on software refactoring: Application breadth and technical depth	15
Software integration model: An assessment tool for global software development vendors	14
BET‐BiLSTM Model: A Robust Solution for Automated Requirements Classification	14
Crowdsourced bug report severity prediction based on text and image understanding via heterogeneous graph convolutional networks	14
Automated construction of reference model for software remodularization through software evolution	14
Characterizing and synthesizing the workflow structure of microservices in ByteDance Cloud	13
Product and service quality risks: A survey about evolution and application in different business domains to facilitate quality engineering	13
Confidence‐driven weighted retraining for predicting safety‐critical failures in autonomous driving systems	12

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Requirement specification extraction and analysis based on propositional projection temporal logic	11
A Serious Game Approach to Introduce the Code Review Practice	11
Evolutionary measures and their correlations with the performance of cross‐version defect prediction for object‐oriented projects	10
Understanding the quality and evolution of Android app build systems	10
Specifying features in terms of domain models: MuDForM method definition and case study	9
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Software change‐proneness prediction based on deep learning	9
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Adaptive solving strategy synthesis for symbolic execution	9
A Simple Yet Practical Backdoor Prompt Attack Against Black‐Box Code Summarization Engines	8
Cheating your apps: Black‐box adversarial attacks on deep learning apps	8
Challenges and solutions in the development of blockchain applications: Extraction from SLR and empirical study	8
MFLion‐DMN: Mayfly Lion‐optimized deep maxout network for prediction of software development effort	8
Strategic Intelligence Management (ISO 56006)—Using AI by the Innovation Agent Task Force in the Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA)	8
Trustworthy and collaborative traceability management: Experts’ feedback on a blockchain‐enabled framework	8
POEML: a Process Orchestration, Execution, and Modeling Language	8
Can non‐developers learn a simplified modeling notation quickly?	8
Advanced security testing using a cyber‐attack forecasting model: A case study of financial institutions	8
Functional Size Measurement With Conceptual Models: A Systematic Literature Review	7
MARS: Detecting brain class/method code smell based on metric–attention mechanism and residual network	7
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Verification and validation of software process simulation models: A systematic mapping study	7
Behind the scenes: On the relationship between developer experience and refactoring	7
Perceptions of open‐source software developers on collaborations: An interview and survey study	7
Identification and prioritization of security challenges of big data on cloud computing based on SLR: A fuzzy‐TOPSIS analysis approach	7
Understanding Remote Work Experience: Insights Into Well‐Being	7
Exploratory study of existing research on software requirements prioritization: A systematic literature review	7
When rationality meets intuition: A research agenda for software design decision‐making	7
Osmotic management of distributed complex systems: A declarative decentralised approach	7
Predicting Issue Resolution Time of OSS Using Multiple Features	7
Leveraging Levy Flight and Greylag Goose Optimization for Enhanced Cross‐Project Defect Prediction in Software Evolution	7
Enhanced evolutionary automated program repair by finer‐granularity ingredients and better search algorithms	7
A graph sequence neural architecture for code completion with semantic structure features	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
Formalizing model transformation patterns	6
Integrating privacy debt and VSE's software developments	6
Combining object‐oriented metrics and centrality measures to predict faults in object‐oriented software: An empirical validation	6
Issue Information	6
On the analysis of power law distribution in software component sizes	6
Hybrid mutation driven testing for natural language inference	6
From legacy to microservices: A type‐based approach for microservices identification using machine learning and semantic analysis	5
Neural Networks‐Based Software Development Effort Estimation: A Systematic Literature Review	5
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Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering	5
The Pandora's box of social, process, and people debts in software engineering	5
Integrating Security Controls in DevSecOps: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Research Directions	5
CARLDA: An Approach for Stack Overflow API Mention Recognition Driven by Context and LLM‐Based Data Augmentation	5
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Exploring the Effectiveness of Open‐Source Donation Platform: An Empirical Study on Opencollective	5
Manipulating a CI/CD Pipeline in an IoT Embedded Project: A Quasi‐Experiment	5
Model‐checking‐driven explorative testing of CRDT designs and implementations	5
Compliance checking of software processes: A systematic literature review	5
An automated search‐based test model generation approach for structural testing of model transformations	4
Performance testing as a service using cloud computing environment: A survey	4
Issue Information	4
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Issue Information	4
Anti‐bloater class restructuring: An exploratory study	4
An ecology‐oriented convergence evolution analysis method of crossover service ecosystems	4
Promoting social and human factors through a gamified automotive software development environment	4
Context factors perceived important when looking for similar experiences in decision‐making for software components: An interview study	4
Explainable AI Framework for Software Defect Prediction	4
Contributions of enterprise architecture to software engineering: A systematic literature review	4
ECP: Coprocessor Architecture to Protect Program Logic Consistency	4
Fight silent horror unit test methods by consulting a TestWizard	4
Characterizing commodity serverless computing platforms	4
Building empirical knowledge on the relationship between code smells and design patterns: An exploratory study	4
JointConf: Jointly autotuning configuration parameters for modularized graph databases	4
A longitudinal case study on Nexus transformation: Impact on productivity, quality, and motivation	4
Success factors analysis for requirement elicitation in global software development paradigm: An empirical study	4
Issue Information	4
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Towards a security‐driven automotive development lifecycle	4
Towards practical application of mutation testing in industry — Traditional versus extreme mutation testing	4
Sustainable software engineering—A contribution puzzle of different teams in large IT organizations	4
The dynamic versus the stable team: The unspoken question in large‐scale agile development	4
A novel defect prediction method based on semantic feature enhancement	4
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
Contributions to Systems Software and Service Process Improvement and Innovation Based on Recent Advances	3
Constructing exception handling chains for testing Java virtual machine implementations	3
A Study of Factors That Influence the Software Project Success	3
Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance	3
A Multi‐Perspective Review on Embedded Systems Quality: State of the Field, Challenges, and Research Directions	3
Issue Information	3
Object Constraint Language based test case optimization with modified Average Percentage of Fault Detection metric	3
Model inspections in the engineering of collaborative cyber‐physical systems with instance‐level review diagrams	3
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E2E test execution optimization for web application based on state reuse	3
On the utilization of non‐quality assessed literature in software engineering research	3
Towards AIOps enabled services in continuously evolving software‐intensive embedded systems	3
Exploring factors affecting developer abandonment of open source software projects	3
Assessing BizDevOps maturity using international standards: Case studies and lessons learned	3
CrossFix: Resolution of GitHub issues via similar bugs recommendation	3
Code quality improvement using Aquila Optimizer	3
Application programming interface recommendation according to the knowledge indexed by app feature mined from app stores	3
How Software Design Affects Energy Performance: A Systematic Literature Review	3
A systematic mapping study on the employment of neural networks on software engineering projects: Where to go next?	3
Mutation‐based data augmentation for software defect prediction	3
The impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the globalization on how automotive assessments will be performed in the future	3
Software bug localization based on optimized and ensembled deep learning models	3
Issue Information	3
Sparse reward for reinforcement learning‐based continuous integration testing	3
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About the special issue on: “Distributed Complex Systems: Governance, Engineering, and Maintenance”	3
Investigating the impact of structural holes on the value creation in mobile application service ecosystems: Evidence from computational experiments	3
CoBRA without experts: New paradigm for software development effort estimation using COCOMO metrics	3
Richen: Automated enrichment of Git documentation with usage examples and scenarios	3
Formal methods by stealth: The INSPEX experience	3