Journal of Software-Evolution and Process

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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PassSum: Leveraging paths of abstract syntax trees and self‐supervision for code summarization37
Software development effort estimation using boosting algorithms and automatic tuning of hyperparameters with Optuna27
SGDL: Smart contract vulnerability generation via deep learning26
On the sustainability of deep learning projects: Maintainers' perspective26
A Novel Vulnerability‐Detection Method Based on the Semantic Features of Source Code and the LLVM Intermediate Representation25
Internet‐of‐things architectures for secure cyber–physical spaces: The VISOR experience report23
APP constraint analysis approach to select mobile devices for compatibility crowdtesting22
Mobile crowdsourced test report prioritization based on text and image understanding21
Revisiting deep neural network test coverage from the test effectiveness perspective21
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Context modeling for cyber‐physical systems19
BET‐BiLSTM Model: A Robust Solution for Automated Requirements Classification16
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Software integration model: An assessment tool for global software development vendors16
Characterizing and synthesizing the workflow structure of microservices in ByteDance Cloud15
Designing and testing systems of systems: From variability models to test cases passing through desirability assessment14
Editorial for the special issue on software refactoring: Application breadth and technical depth14
An architecture refactoring approach to reducing software hierarchy complexity14
The impact of traceability on software maintenance and evolution: A mapping study13
Crowdsourced bug report severity prediction based on text and image understanding via heterogeneous graph convolutional networks13
Symptom‐based improvement recommendations13
Product and service quality risks: A survey about evolution and application in different business domains to facilitate quality engineering13
A novel combinatorial testing approach with fuzzing strategy12
Automated construction of reference model for software remodularization through software evolution12
Confidence‐driven weighted retraining for predicting safety‐critical failures in autonomous driving systems11
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Code smell prioritization in object‐oriented software systems: A systematic literature review10
Requirement specification extraction and analysis based on propositional projection temporal logic9
Software change‐proneness prediction based on deep learning9
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Understanding the quality and evolution of Android app build systems9
Evolutionary measures and their correlations with the performance of cross‐version defect prediction for object‐oriented projects9
A Serious Game Approach to Introduce the Code Review Practice9
Adaptive solving strategy synthesis for symbolic execution9
Specifying features in terms of domain models: MuDForM method definition and case study8
Cheating your apps: Black‐box adversarial attacks on deep learning apps8
Strategic Intelligence Management (ISO 56006)—Using AI by the Innovation Agent Task Force in the Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA)8
Can non‐developers learn a simplified modeling notation quickly?8
POEML: a Process Orchestration, Execution, and Modeling Language8
Trustworthy and collaborative traceability management: Experts’ feedback on a blockchain‐enabled framework8
MFLion‐DMN: Mayfly Lion‐optimized deep maxout network for prediction of software development effort8
Verification and validation of software process simulation models: A systematic mapping study7
When rationality meets intuition: A research agenda for software design decision‐making7
Identification and prioritization of security challenges of big data on cloud computing based on SLR: A fuzzy‐TOPSIS analysis approach7
Functional Size Measurement With Conceptual Models: A Systematic Literature Review7
Predicting Issue Resolution Time of OSS Using Multiple Features7
MARS: Detecting brain class/method code smell based on metric–attention mechanism and residual network7
Osmotic management of distributed complex systems: A declarative decentralised approach7
Challenges and solutions in the development of blockchain applications: Extraction from SLR and empirical study7
Perceptions of open‐source software developers on collaborations: An interview and survey study7
Advanced security testing using a cyber‐attack forecasting model: A case study of financial institutions7
Behind the scenes: On the relationship between developer experience and refactoring7
Exploring the Effectiveness of Open‐Source Donation Platform: An Empirical Study on Opencollective6
A graph sequence neural architecture for code completion with semantic structure features6
Formalizing model transformation patterns6
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Neural Networks‐Based Software Development Effort Estimation: A Systematic Literature Review6
Understanding Remote Work Experience: Insights Into Well‐Being6
On the analysis of power law distribution in software component sizes6
Exploratory study of existing research on software requirements prioritization: A systematic literature review6
Leveraging Levy Flight and Greylag Goose Optimization for Enhanced Cross‐Project Defect Prediction in Software Evolution6
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Integrating privacy debt and VSE's software developments6
Enhanced evolutionary automated program repair by finer‐granularity ingredients and better search algorithms6
Examining the training and education potential of the metaverse: Results from an empirical study of next generation SAFe training5
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From legacy to microservices: A type‐based approach for microservices identification using machine learning and semantic analysis5
Integrating Security Controls in DevSecOps: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Research Directions5
Compliance checking of software processes: A systematic literature review5
Combining object‐oriented metrics and centrality measures to predict faults in object‐oriented software: An empirical validation5
CARLDA: An Approach for Stack Overflow API Mention Recognition Driven by Context and LLM‐Based Data Augmentation5
Manipulating a CI/CD Pipeline in an IoT Embedded Project: A Quasi‐Experiment5
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The effect of hoisting on variants of Hierarchical Delta Debugging5
The Pandora's box of social, process, and people debts in software engineering5
Hybrid mutation driven testing for natural language inference5
Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering5
Model‐checking‐driven explorative testing of CRDT designs and implementations5
An ecology‐oriented convergence evolution analysis method of crossover service ecosystems4
JointConf: Jointly autotuning configuration parameters for modularized graph databases4
Towards practical application of mutation testing in industry — Traditional versus extreme mutation testing4
Promoting social and human factors through a gamified automotive software development environment4
Building empirical knowledge on the relationship between code smells and design patterns: An exploratory study4
Explainable AI Framework for Software Defect Prediction4
Towards a security‐driven automotive development lifecycle4
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Context factors perceived important when looking for similar experiences in decision‐making for software components: An interview study4
Sustainable software engineering—A contribution puzzle of different teams in large IT organizations4
Anti‐bloater class restructuring: An exploratory study4
A longitudinal case study on Nexus transformation: Impact on productivity, quality, and motivation4
An automated search‐based test model generation approach for structural testing of model transformations4
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ECP: Coprocessor Architecture to Protect Program Logic Consistency4
Success factors analysis for requirement elicitation in global software development paradigm: An empirical study4
Performance testing as a service using cloud computing environment: A survey4
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The dynamic versus the stable team: The unspoken question in large‐scale agile development4
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Characterizing commodity serverless computing platforms4
About the special issue on: “Distributed Complex Systems: Governance, Engineering, and Maintenance”3
Fight silent horror unit test methods by consulting a TestWizard3
Application programming interface recommendation according to the knowledge indexed by app feature mined from app stores3
Formal methods by stealth: The INSPEX experience3
Contributions to Systems Software and Service Process Improvement and Innovation Based on Recent Advances3
A systematic mapping study on the employment of neural networks on software engineering projects: Where to go next?3
CoBRA without experts: New paradigm for software development effort estimation using COCOMO metrics3
Predictive maintenance of infrastructure code using “fluid” datasets: An exploratory study on Ansible defect proneness3
Code quality improvement using Aquila Optimizer3
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Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance3
A Multi‐Perspective Review on Embedded Systems Quality: State of the Field, Challenges, and Research Directions3
Contributions of enterprise architecture to software engineering: A systematic literature review3
Sparse reward for reinforcement learning‐based continuous integration testing3
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E2E test execution optimization for web application based on state reuse3
On the utilization of non‐quality assessed literature in software engineering research3
How Software Design Affects Energy Performance: A Systematic Literature Review3
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Constructing exception handling chains for testing Java virtual machine implementations3
Investigating the impact of structural holes on the value creation in mobile application service ecosystems: Evidence from computational experiments3
CrossFix: Resolution of GitHub issues via similar bugs recommendation3
Towards AIOps enabled services in continuously evolving software‐intensive embedded systems3
Assessing BizDevOps maturity using international standards: Case studies and lessons learned3
A Study of Factors That Influence the Software Project Success3
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The impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the globalization on how automotive assessments will be performed in the future3
Software bug localization based on optimized and ensembled deep learning models3
Object Constraint Language based test case optimization with modified Average Percentage of Fault Detection metric3
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Exploring factors affecting developer abandonment of open source software projects3
A novel defect prediction method based on semantic feature enhancement3
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