IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Papers
(The H4-Index of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is 51. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
50 Years of Transactions on Software Engineering588
Question Selection for Multimodal Code Search Synthesis Using Probabilistic Version Spaces369
Computation Tree Logic Guided Program Repair259
Confirmation Bias and Time Pressure: A Family of Experiments in Software Testing140
Shield Broken: Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on LLM-Based Vulnerability Detectors135
Can We Trust the Phone Vendors? Comprehensive Security Measurements on the Android Firmware Ecosystem130
Towards Scalable Model Checking of Reflective Systems via Labeled Transition Systems130
Influence of the 1990 IEEE TSE Paper “Automated Software Test Data Generation” on Software Engineering127
Just-in-Time Prediction of Software Architectural Changes Through Commit-Level Analyses127
Enhancing Mobile App Bug Reporting via Real-Time Understanding of Reproduction Steps114
Prevent: An Unsupervised Approach to Predict Software Failures in Production114
The Why, When, What, and How About Predictive Continuous Integration: A Simulation-Based Investigation111
A Retrospective on Whole Test Suite Generation: On the Role of SBST in the Age of LLMs107
Enhancing Project-Specific Code Completion by Inferring Internal API Information100
Deobfuscation of Control Flow Flattening Based on Abstract Interpretation99
Combining Genetic Programming and Model Checking to Generate Environment Assumptions87
Are Your Dependencies Code Reviewed?: Measuring Code Review Coverage in Dependency Updates86
To Do or Not to Do: Semantics and Patterns for Do Activities in UML PSSM State Machines85
Answering Uncertain, Under-Specified API Queries Assisted by Knowledge-Aware Human-AI Dialogue84
Recommending API Function Calls and Code Snippets to Support Software Development80
Mission Specification Patterns for Mobile Robots: Providing Support for Quantitative Properties79
Efficiently Testing Distributed Systems via Abstract State Space Prioritization77
A Declarative Metamorphic Testing Framework for Autonomous Driving76
Automatic Fairness Testing of Neural Classifiers Through Adversarial Sampling75
Do as You Say: Consistency Detection of Data Practice in Program Code and Privacy Policy in Mini-App74
Visibility of Domain Elements in the Elicitation Process Interviews: A Family of Empirical Studies74
DSSDPP: Data Selection and Sampling Based Domain Programming Predictor for Cross-Project Defect Prediction73
How Composite Metamorphic Relations Enhance Test Effectiveness of DNN Testing: An Empirical Study72
Advanced Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection via LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Systems72
Tackling Expressive Feature-Modeling Constructs with Pseudo-Boolean d-DNNF Compilation67
MalElves: Reinforcement Learning-Driven Adversarial Example Generation for Evading Cross-Platform ELF Malware Detection66
Multi-Granularity Detector for Vulnerability Fixes66
Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering66
Enhancing Protocol Fuzzing via Diverse Seed Corpus Generation65
Towards a Cognitive Model of Dynamic Debugging: Does Identifier Construction Matter?62
2023 Reviewers List62
Mutation Testing in Practice: Insights From Open-Source Software Developers61
Esale: Enhancing Code-Summary Alignment Learning for Source Code Summarization57
A Wizard of Oz Study Simulating API Usage Dialogues With a Virtual Assistant56
Mole: Efficient Crash Reproduction in Android Applications With Enforcing Necessary UI Events56
T-Evos: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study on CI Test Execution and Failure56
Detecting Malicious Packages in PyPI and NPM by Clustering Installation Scripts55
Measuring the Fidelity of a Physical and a Digital Twin Using Trace Alignments54
Trace Diagnostics for Signal-Based Temporal Properties54
P-NPR: Practical Neural Program Repair via Learning to Ensemble54
MASTER: Multi-Source Transfer Weighted Ensemble Learning for Multiple Sources Cross-Project Defect Prediction54
Robust Test Selection for Deep Neural Networks53
An Empirical Study of Refactoring Rhythms and Tactics in the Software Development Process52
Boosting Compiler Fault Localization: Getting the Best of Both Worlds by Fusing Dynamic and Historical Data52
A Theory of Pending Schemas in Combinatorial Testing52
Mask–Mediator–Wrapper Architecture as a Data Mesh Driver51
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