IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Article	Citations
Machine Learning Testing: Survey, Landscapes and Horizons	374
Smart Contract Development: Challenges and Opportunities	349
The Art, Science, and Engineering of Fuzzing: A Survey	219
Deep Learning Based Vulnerability Detection: Are We There Yet?	207
Fault Analysis and Debugging of Microservice Systems: Industrial Survey, Benchmark System, and Empirical Study	183
Deep Semantic Feature Learning for Software Defect Prediction	178
The Impact of Class Rebalancing Techniques on the Performance and Interpretation of Defect Prediction Models	177
An Empirical Study of Fault Localization Families and Their Combinations	135
SEQUENCER: Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for End-to-End Program Repair	129
Defining Smart Contract Defects on Ethereum	100
Perceptions, Expectations, and Challenges in Defect Prediction	95
RefactoringMiner 2.0	87
Automatic Feature Learning for Predicting Vulnerable Software Components	84
Data Quality Matters: A Case Study on Data Label Correctness for Security Bug Report Prediction	75
An Empirical Study of Model-Agnostic Techniques for Defect Prediction Models	75
Checking Smart Contracts With Structural Code Embedding	73
Comparing Methods for Large-Scale Agile Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review	71
Service Candidate Identification from Monolithic Systems Based on Execution Traces	71
Mining Fix Patterns for FindBugs Violations	66
Cognitive Biases in Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study	64
Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering	63
A Survey on Adaptive Random Testing	62
DefectChecker: Automated Smart Contract Defect Detection by Analyzing EVM Bytecode	59
The Impact of Mislabeled Changes by SZZ on Just-in-Time Defect Prediction	58
Predicting Defective Lines Using a Model-Agnostic Technique	58

Beyond Technical Aspects: How Do Community Smells Influence the Intensity of Code Smells?	57
Finding Critical Scenarios for Automated Driving Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study	53
Reinforcement-Learning-Guided Source Code Summarization Using Hierarchical Attention	53
Toxic Code Snippets on Stack Overflow	53
The Impact of Feature Importance Methods on the Interpretation of Defect Classifiers	53
Automatically Assessing Code Understandability	49
Revisiting Supervised and Unsupervised Methods for Effort-Aware Cross-Project Defect Prediction	48
Deep Learning Based Code Smell Detection	48
A Comparison of Natural Language Understanding Platforms for Chatbots in Software Engineering	48
The Impact of Correlated Metrics on the Interpretation of Defect Models	48
An Empirical Study of Boosting Spectrum-Based Fault Localization via PageRank	47
CODIT: Code Editing With Tree-Based Neural Models	47
Just-In-Time Defect Identification and Localization: A Two-Phase Framework	46
DeepLineDP: Towards a Deep Learning Approach for Line-Level Defect Prediction	46
Neural Transfer Learning for Repairing Security Vulnerabilities in C Code	44
Today Was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers	44
Historical Spectrum Based Fault Localization	44
How to Evaluate Solutions in Pareto-Based Search-Based Software Engineering: A Critical Review and Methodological Guidance	43
Methodological Principles for Reproducible Performance Evaluation in Cloud Computing	43
Rebooting Research on Detecting Repackaged Android Apps: Literature Review and Benchmark	42
Exploring Community Smells in Open-Source: An Automated Approach	42
A Systematic Literature Review on Bad Smells–5 W's: Which, When, What, Who, Where	42
Using K-core Decomposition on Class Dependency Networks to Improve Bug Prediction Model's Practical Performance	41
Specification Patterns for Robotic Missions	41
A Qualitative Study of the Benefits and Costs of Logging From Developers’ Perspectives	41
A Large Scale Study of Long-Time Contributor Prediction for GitHub Projects	41
App Store Effects on Software Engineering Practices	41
An Empirical Study of Obsolete Answers on Stack Overflow	41
RefDiff 2.0: A Multi-Language Refactoring Detection Tool	40
The Effectiveness of Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms in Predicting Software Refactoring	40
Towards Security Threats of Deep Learning Systems: A Survey	40
ElementRank: Ranking Java Software Classes and Packages using a Multilayer Complex Network-Based Approach	40
Deep Transfer Bug Localization	40
Reinforcement Learning for Test Case Prioritization	38
Search-Based Crash Reproduction and Its Impact on Debugging	38
What Do Package Dependencies Tell Us About Semantic Versioning?	38
Companies’ Participation in OSS Development–An Empirical Study of OpenStack	37
SEGRESS: Software Engineering Guidelines for REporting Secondary Studies	37
Mining Likely Analogical APIs Across Third-Party Libraries via Large-Scale Unsupervised API Semantics Embedding	37
An Empirical Study on Heterogeneous Defect Prediction Approaches	37
What Predicts Software Developers’ Productivity?	36
A Longitudinal Study of Application Structure and Behaviors in Android	35
Understanding and Detecting Fragmentation-Induced Compatibility Issues for Android Apps	35
The State of Serverless Applications: Collection, Characterization, and Community Consensus	34
An Empirical Study on the Usage of Transformer Models for Code Completion	34
Too Many User-Reviews! What Should App Developers Look at First?	34
A Machine Learning Approach to Improve the Detection of CI Skip Commits	34
ATOM: Commit Message Generation Based on Abstract Syntax Tree and Hybrid Ranking	33
Automatic Mining of Opinions Expressed About APIs in Stack Overflow	33
Towards a Theory of Software Developer Job Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity	33

Why Do Software Developers Use Static Analysis Tools? A User-Centered Study of Developer Needs and Motivations	33
A Taxonomy of Inter-Team Coordination Mechanisms in Large-Scale Agile	32
Platform-Independent Dynamic Taint Analysis for JavaScript	32
Which Commits Can Be CI Skipped?	31
What Makes Agile Software Development Agile?	31
The Effects of Human Aspects on the Requirements Engineering Process: A Systematic Literature Review	30
Diversified Third-Party Library Prediction for Mobile App Development	30
Architecture Anti-Patterns: Automatically Detectable Violations of Design Principles	30
Human Values in Software Engineering: Contrasting Case Studies of Practice	30
What Do Programmers Discuss About Blockchain? A Case Study on the Use of Balanced LDA and the Reference Architecture of a Domain to Capture Online Discussions About Blockchain Platforms Across Stack E	30
Why My App Crashes? Understanding and Benchmarking Framework-Specific Exceptions of Android Apps	30
Mind the Gap! A Study on the Transferability of Virtual Versus Physical-World Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems	30
oo7: Low-Overhead Defense Against Spectre Attacks via Program Analysis	30
The Secret Life of Software Vulnerabilities: A Large-Scale Empirical Study	29
A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups	29
Real World Scrum A Grounded Theory of Variations in Practice	29
Accessible or Not? An Empirical Investigation of Android App Accessibility	29
Lightweight Assessment of Test-Case Effectiveness Using Source-Code-Quality Indicators	29
Quality of Automated Program Repair on Real-World Defects	29
How Well Do Change Sequences Predict Defects? Sequence Learning from Software Changes	29
Automated Classification of Overfitting Patches With Statically Extracted Code Features	28
What's Wrong with My Benchmark Results? Studying Bad Practices in JMH Benchmarks	28
Holistic Combination of Structural and Textual Code Information for Context Based API Recommendation	28
Emotions and Perceived Productivity of Software Developers at the Workplace	28
Challenges and Common Solutions in Smart Contract Development	28
Revisiting Binary Code Similarity Analysis Using Interpretable Feature Engineering and Lessons Learned	28
Automatic Generation of Acceptance Test Cases From Use Case Specifications: An NLP-Based Approach	28
Practical Mutation Testing at Scale: A view from Google	27
Review Dynamics and Their Impact on Software Quality	27
On the Validity of Pre-Trained Transformers for Natural Language Processing in the Software Engineering Domain	27
Within-Project Defect Prediction of Infrastructure-as-Code Using Product and Process Metrics	27
Codee: A Tensor Embedding Scheme for Binary Code Search	27
Falsification of Cyber-Physical Systems Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	26
Dealing with Non-Functional Requirements in Model-Driven Development: A Survey	26
An Empirical Evaluation of Using Large Language Models for Automated Unit Test Generation	26
Easy-to-Deploy API Extraction by Multi-Level Feature Embedding and Transfer Learning	26
BiasFinder: Metamorphic Test Generation to Uncover Bias for Sentiment Analysis Systems	26
Nighthawk: Fully Automated Localizing UI Display Issues via Visual Understanding	25
Boosting API Recommendation With Implicit Feedback	25
A Survey of Performance Optimization for Mobile Applications	25
CrySL: An Extensible Approach to Validating the Correct Usage of Cryptographic APIs	25
SQAPlanner: Generating Data-Informed Software Quality Improvement Plans	25
How to “DODGE” Complex Software Analytics	24
Effects of Personality Traits on Pull Request Acceptance	24
The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity and Satisfaction of Software Engineers	24
Understanding How and Why Developers Seek and Analyze API-Related Opinions	24
On the Costs and Profit of Software Defect Prediction	24
Coverage Prediction for Accelerating Compiler Testing	24
Enabling Good Work Habits in Software Developers through Reflective Goal-Setting	24
GPT2SP: A Transformer-Based Agile Story Point Estimation Approach	24
SOSRepair: Expressive Semantic Search for Real-World Program Repair	24
Gender Differences in Personality Traits of Software Engineers	24
PPChecker: Towards Accessing the Trustworthiness of Android Apps’ Privacy Policies	23
Using Transfer Learning for Code-Related Tasks	23
Characterizing Crowds to Better Optimize Worker Recommendation in Crowdsourced Testing	23
Dependency Smells in JavaScript Projects	23
An Empirical Study of Dependency Downgrades in the npm Ecosystem	23
Black-Box Testing of Deep Neural Networks through Test Case Diversity	22
SeqTrans: Automatic Vulnerability Fix Via Sequence to Sequence Learning	22
Uncovering the Benefits and Challenges of Continuous Integration Practices	22
On the Value of Oversampling for Deep Learning in Software Defect Prediction	22
A Fast Clustering Algorithm for Modularization of Large-Scale Software Systems	22
Construct Validity in Software Engineering	22
Modeling Functional Similarity in Source Code With Graph-Based Siamese Networks	22
Neural Network Guided Evolutionary Fuzzing for Finding Traffic Violations of Autonomous Vehicles	22
The ORIS Tool: Quantitative Evaluation of Non-Markovian Systems	22
Machine/Deep Learning for Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review	21
An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples	21
Evaluation of Static Vulnerability Detection Tools With Java Cryptographic API Benchmarks	21
Reading Answers on Stack Overflow: Not Enough!	21
Decomposition of Monolith Applications Into Microservices Architectures: A Systematic Review	21
Vuln4Real: A Methodology for Counting Actually Vulnerable Dependencies	21
How Gender-Biased Tools Shape Newcomer Experiences in OSS Projects	20
AI-Enabled Automation for Completeness Checking of Privacy Policies	20
Multi-Objective Software Effort Estimation: A Replication Study	20
CBGA-ES+: A Cluster-Based Genetic Algorithm with Non-Dominated Elitist Selection for Supporting Multi-Objective Test Optimization	20
Systematic Evaluation and Usability Analysis of Formal Methods Tools for Railway Signaling System Design	20
Metamorphic Robustness Testing: Exposing Hidden Defects in Citation Statistics and Journal Impact Factors	20
User Review-Based Change File Localization for Mobile Applications	19
Scalable and Accurate Test Case Prioritization in Continuous Integration Contexts	19

How Developers Choose Names	19
Data Preparation for Software Vulnerability Prediction: A Systematic Literature Review	19
Can Clean New Code Reduce Technical Debt Density?	19
Chatbot4QR: Interactive Query Refinement for Technical Question Retrieval	18
A Deep Dive into the Impact of COVID-19 on Software Development	18
Capabilities and Practices in DevOps: A Multivocal Literature Review	18
Containerization for High Performance Computing Systems: Survey and Prospects	18
Are You Still Working on This? An Empirical Study on Pull Request Abandonment	18
Evaluating Automatic Program Repair Capabilities to Repair API Misuses	18
Improving Vulnerability Inspection Efficiency Using Active Learning	18
Detecting Software Security Vulnerabilities Via Requirements Dependency Analysis	18
Deep Learning Based Program Generation From Requirements Text: Are We There Yet?	18
Watch Out for Extrinsic Bugs! A Case Study of Their Impact in Just-In-Time Bug Prediction Models on the OpenStack Project	18
Software Module Clustering: An In-Depth Literature Analysis	18
PerfJIT: Test-Level Just-in-Time Prediction for Performance Regression Introducing Commits	18
Software Testing With Large Language Models: Survey, Landscape, and Vision	18
Characterizing the Usage, Evolution and Impact of Java Annotations in Practice	18
Learning Configurations of Operating Environment of Autonomous Vehicles to Maximize their Collisions	18
Identifying Self-Admitted Technical Debts With Jitterbug: A Two-Step Approach	17
A Study of Feature Scattering in the Linux Kernel	17
IntRepair: Informed Repairing of Integer Overflows	17
CTOS: Compiler Testing for Optimization Sequences of LLVM	17
A Study of C/C++ Code Weaknesses on Stack Overflow	17
Will Dependency Conflicts Affect My Program's Semantics?	17
Better Data Labelling With EMBLEM (and how that Impacts Defect Prediction)	17
A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach for Test Case Prioritization in Continuous Integration Environments	17
PatchNet: Hierarchical Deep Learning-Based Stable Patch Identification for the Linux Kernel	17
Theoretical and Empirical Analyses of the Effectiveness of Metamorphic Relation Composition	17
GraphSearchNet: Enhancing GNNs via Capturing Global Dependencies for Semantic Code Search	16
A Search-Based Testing Approach for Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents	16
Enriching API Documentation with Code Samples and Usage Scenarios from Crowd Knowledge	16
Impact of Discretization Noise of the Dependent Variable on Machine Learning Classifiers in Software Engineering	16
Specification-based Autonomous Driving System Testing	16
Pluto: Exposing Vulnerabilities in Inter-Contract Scenarios	16
PackerGrind: An Adaptive Unpacking System for Android Apps	16
Finding Trends in Software Research	16
Towards Reliable Online Just-in-Time Software Defect Prediction	16
Modeling and Recommending Open Source Licenses with findOSSLicense	16
How Developers Engineer Test Cases: An Observational Study	16
Pathidea: Improving Information Retrieval-Based Bug Localization by Re-Constructing Execution Paths Using Logs	16
Factors Affecting On-Time Delivery in Large-Scale Agile Software Development	16
Research on Third-Party Libraries in Android Apps: A Taxonomy and Systematic Literature Review	16
A Chaos Engineering System for Live Analysis and Falsification of Exception-Handling in the JVM	16
A3: Assisting Android API Migrations Using Code Examples	16
Key Stakeholders’ Value Propositions for Feature Selection in Software-Intensive Products: An Industrial Case Study	16
Software Engineering for Internet of Things: The Practitioners' Perspective	15
Context-Aware Personalized Crowdtesting Task Recommendation	15
A Faceted Taxonomy of Requirements Changes in Agile Contexts	15
The Mutation and Injection Framework: Evaluating Clone Detection Tools with Mutation Analysis	15
Interlocking Safety Cases for Unmanned Autonomous Systems in Shared Airspaces	15
Locating Latent Design Information in Developer Discussions: A Study on Pull Requests	15
Automatic Test Case and Test Oracle Generation Based on Functional Scenarios in Formal Specifications for Conformance Testing	15
In Search of Socio-Technical Congruence: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study	15
Post2Vec: Learning Distributed Representations of Stack Overflow Posts	15
Pull Request Decisions Explained: An Empirical Overview	15
Automatic Detection of Java Cryptographic API Misuses: Are We There Yet?	15
ARTE: Automated Generation of Realistic Test Inputs for Web APIs	15
Continuously Managing NFRs: Opportunities and Challenges in Practice	14
Including Everyone, Everywhere: Understanding Opportunities and Challenges of Geographic Gender-Inclusion in OSS	14
Comparative Analysis of Constraint Handling Techniques for Constrained Combinatorial Testing	14
How Can Human Values Be Addressed in AgileMethods A Case Study on SAFe	14
LogAssist: Assisting Log Analysis Through Log Summarization	14
Cross-Project Online Just-In-Time Software Defect Prediction	14
API-Related Developer Information Needs in Stack Overflow	14
Recommending API Function Calls and Code Snippets to Support Software Development	14
On Company Contributions to Community Open Source Software Projects	14
Forecasting Architectural Decay From Evolutionary History	14
Exploiting Natural Language Structures in Software Informal Documentation	14
FairMask: Better Fairness via Model-Based Rebalancing of Protected Attributes	14
A Comprehensive Investigation of the Impact of Class Overlap on Software Defect Prediction	14
The Impact of Code Review on Architectural Changes	14
A Survey on the Adoption of Patterns for Engineering Software for the Cloud	14
Revisiting, Benchmarking and Exploring API Recommendation: How Far Are We?	14
An Empirical Study of Release Note Production and Usage in Practice	13
Code Cloning in Smart Contracts on the Ethereum Platform: An Extended Replication Study	13
SigRec: Automatic Recovery of Function Signatures in Smart Contracts	13
Simpler Hyperparameter Optimization for Software Analytics: Why, How, When?	13
Transfer Learning Across Variants and Versions: The Case of Linux Kernel Size	13
Dealing With Data Challenges When Delivering Data-Intensive Software Solutions	13
On the Relationship Between the Developer’s Perceptible Race and Ethnicity and the Evaluation of Contributions in OSS	13
Accelerating Continuous Integration by Caching Environments and Inferring Dependencies	13
Inputs From Hell:	13
MultiPL-E: A Scalable and Polyglot Approach to Benchmarking Neural Code Generation	13
Testing with Fewer Resources: An Adaptive Approach to Performance-Aware Test Case Generation	13
Aroc: An Automatic Repair Framework for On-Chain Smart Contracts	13
VulExplainer: A Transformer-Based Hierarchical Distillation for Explaining Vulnerability Types	13
The Impact of Data Merging on the Interpretation of Cross-Project Just-In-Time Defect Models	13
Behavior Trees and State Machines in Robotics Applications	13
RNN-Test: Towards Adversarial Testing for Recurrent Neural Network Systems	13
How Software Developers Mitigate Their Errors When Developing Code	13
Dynamic Update of Discrete Event Controllers	12
Requirements Framing Affects Design Creativity	12
Redundancy, Context, and Preference: An Empirical Study of Duplicate Pull Requests in OSS Projects	12
ConEx: Efficient Exploration of Big-Data System Configurations for Better Performance	12
Comments on "Using k-core Decomposition on Class Dependency Networks to Improve Bug Prediction Model's Practical Performance"	12