IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Article	Citations
Machine Learning Testing: Survey, Landscapes and Horizons	305
Smart Contract Development: Challenges and Opportunities	279
The Art, Science, and Engineering of Fuzzing: A Survey	161
The Impact of Class Rebalancing Techniques on the Performance and Interpretation of Defect Prediction Models	157
Deep Semantic Feature Learning for Software Defect Prediction	149
Fault Analysis and Debugging of Microservice Systems: Industrial Survey, Benchmark System, and Empirical Study	141
Deep Learning Based Vulnerability Detection: Are We There Yet?	121
An Empirical Study of Fault Localization Families and Their Combinations	118
SEQUENCER: Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for End-to-End Program Repair	104
ARJA: Automated Repair of Java Programs via Multi-Objective Genetic Programming	93
Perceptions, Expectations, and Challenges in Defect Prediction	79
Defining Smart Contract Defects on Ethereum	79
Automatic Feature Learning for Predicting Vulnerable Software Components	72
RefactoringMiner 2.0	71
Data Quality Matters: A Case Study on Data Label Correctness for Security Bug Report Prediction	66
Metamorphic Relations for Enhancing System Understanding and Use	64
Service Candidate Identification from Monolithic Systems Based on Execution Traces	60
An Empirical Study of Model-Agnostic Techniques for Defect Prediction Models	59
Cognitive Biases in Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study	56
Checking Smart Contracts With Structural Code Embedding	55
Mining Fix Patterns for FindBugs Violations	54
A Survey on Adaptive Random Testing	54
Beyond Technical Aspects: How Do Community Smells Influence the Intensity of Code Smells?	53
Chaff from the Wheat: Characterizing and Determining Valid Bug Reports	52
Finding Faster Configurations Using FLASH	51

Comparing Methods for Large-Scale Agile Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review	50
The Impact of Mislabeled Changes by SZZ on Just-in-Time Defect Prediction	46
The Impact of Correlated Metrics on the Interpretation of Defect Models	45
Toxic Code Snippets on Stack Overflow	44
Reinforcement-Learning-Guided Source Code Summarization Using Hierarchical Attention	43
How Practitioners Perceive Automated Bug Report Management Techniques	43
DefectChecker: Automated Smart Contract Defect Detection by Analyzing EVM Bytecode	42
Predicting Defective Lines Using a Model-Agnostic Technique	41
Deep Learning Based Code Smell Detection	40
Automatically Assessing Code Understandability	40
Revisiting Supervised and Unsupervised Methods for Effort-Aware Cross-Project Defect Prediction	40
Rebooting Research on Detecting Repackaged Android Apps: Literature Review and Benchmark	40
Today Was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers	39
A Comparison of Natural Language Understanding Platforms for Chatbots in Software Engineering	38
An Empirical Study of Boosting Spectrum-Based Fault Localization via PageRank	37
ElementRank: Ranking Java Software Classes and Packages using a Multilayer Complex Network-Based Approach	37
App Store Effects on Software Engineering Practices	37
Automating Intention Mining	37
Just-In-Time Defect Identification and Localization: A Two-Phase Framework	36
Historical Spectrum Based Fault Localization	36
A Systematic Literature Review on Bad Smells–5 W's: Which, When, What, Who, Where	35
Methodological Principles for Reproducible Performance Evaluation in Cloud Computing	35
Specification Patterns for Robotic Missions	35
What Do Package Dependencies Tell Us About Semantic Versioning?	35
Exploring Community Smells in Open-Source: An Automated Approach	35
The Impact of Feature Importance Methods on the Interpretation of Defect Classifiers	34
Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering	34
A Qualitative Study of the Benefits and Costs of Logging From Developers’ Perspectives	34
RefDiff 2.0: A Multi-Language Refactoring Detection Tool	34
An Empirical Study of Obsolete Answers on Stack Overflow	33
The Adoption of JavaScript Linters in Practice: A Case Study on ESLint	33
A Test Case Prioritization Genetic Algorithm Guided by the Hypervolume Indicator	33
CODIT: Code Editing With Tree-Based Neural Models	33
An Empirical Study on Heterogeneous Defect Prediction Approaches	33
Mining Likely Analogical APIs Across Third-Party Libraries via Large-Scale Unsupervised API Semantics Embedding	33
A Large Scale Study of Long-Time Contributor Prediction for GitHub Projects	33
Deep Transfer Bug Localization	32
Understanding and Detecting Fragmentation-Induced Compatibility Issues for Android Apps	32
On the Nature of Merge Conflicts: A Study of 2,731 Open Source Java Projects Hosted by GitHub	31
Too Many User-Reviews! What Should App Developers Look at First?	31
Using K-core Decomposition on Class Dependency Networks to Improve Bug Prediction Model's Practical Performance	31
Search-Based Crash Reproduction and Its Impact on Debugging	30
Finding Critical Scenarios for Automated Driving Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study	30
A Look into Programmers’ Heads	30
What Predicts Software Developers’ Productivity?	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	29
The Effectiveness of Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms in Predicting Software Refactoring	28
Bridging Semantic Gaps between Natural Languages and APIs with Word Embedding	28
A Longitudinal Study of Application Structure and Behaviors in Android	28
A Combinatorial Testing-Based Approach to Fault Localization	28

Companies’ Participation in OSS Development–An Empirical Study of OpenStack	28
Why My App Crashes? Understanding and Benchmarking Framework-Specific Exceptions of Android Apps	28
Towards Security Threats of Deep Learning Systems: A Survey	28
ATOM: Commit Message Generation Based on Abstract Syntax Tree and Hybrid Ranking	27
Automatic Mining of Opinions Expressed About APIs in Stack Overflow	27
An Interactive and Dynamic Search-Based Approach to Software Refactoring Recommendations	27
What's Wrong with My Benchmark Results? Studying Bad Practices in JMH Benchmarks	26
A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups	26
Towards a Theory of Software Developer Job Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity	26
Automatic Detection and Repair Recommendation of Directive Defects in Java API Documentation	25
How Do Users Revise Answers on Technical Q&A Websites? A Case Study on Stack Overflow	25
DeepLineDP: Towards a Deep Learning Approach for Line-Level Defect Prediction	25
How to “DODGE” Complex Software Analytics	24
Diversified Third-Party Library Prediction for Mobile App Development	24
Why Do Software Developers Use Static Analysis Tools? A User-Centered Study of Developer Needs and Motivations	24
The State of Serverless Applications: Collection, Characterization, and Community Consensus	24
Human Values in Software Engineering: Contrasting Case Studies of Practice	24
Lightweight Assessment of Test-Case Effectiveness Using Source-Code-Quality Indicators	24
Architecture Anti-Patterns: Automatically Detectable Violations of Design Principles	24
Easy-to-Deploy API Extraction by Multi-Level Feature Embedding and Transfer Learning	24
Quality of Automated Program Repair on Real-World Defects	24
Reinforcement Learning for Test Case Prioritization	24
Dealing with Non-Functional Requirements in Model-Driven Development: A Survey	24
An Empirical Study on the Usage of Transformer Models for Code Completion	24
Platform-Independent Dynamic Taint Analysis for JavaScript	23
Software Configuration Engineering in Practice Interviews, Survey, and Systematic Literature Review	23
Analyzing Families of Experiments in SE: A Systematic Mapping Study	23
Automated Classification of Overfitting Patches With Statically Extracted Code Features	23
On Scheduling Constraint Abstraction for Multi-Threaded Program Verification	23
What Makes Agile Software Development Agile?	22
Neural Transfer Learning for Repairing Security Vulnerabilities in C Code	22
Review Dynamics and Their Impact on Software Quality	22
A Taxonomy of Inter-Team Coordination Mechanisms in Large-Scale Agile	22
How to Evaluate Solutions in Pareto-Based Search-Based Software Engineering: A Critical Review and Methodological Guidance	22
Gender Differences in Personality Traits of Software Engineers	22
Falsification of Cyber-Physical Systems Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	22
Automatic Generation of Acceptance Test Cases From Use Case Specifications: An NLP-Based Approach	22
How Well Do Change Sequences Predict Defects? Sequence Learning from Software Changes	22
SEGRESS: Software Engineering Guidelines for REporting Secondary Studies	21
Accessible or Not? An Empirical Investigation of Android App Accessibility	21
The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity and Satisfaction of Software Engineers	21
An Empirical Study of Dependency Downgrades in the npm Ecosystem	21
The Secret Life of Software Vulnerabilities: A Large-Scale Empirical Study	21
Effects of Personality Traits on Pull Request Acceptance	21
Characterizing Crowds to Better Optimize Worker Recommendation in Crowdsourced Testing	21
Which Commits Can Be CI Skipped?	21
Coverage Prediction for Accelerating Compiler Testing	21
A Machine Learning Approach to Improve the Detection of CI Skip Commits	21
Within-Project Defect Prediction of Infrastructure-as-Code Using Product and Process Metrics	20
Emotions and Perceived Productivity of Software Developers at the Workplace	20
Codee: A Tensor Embedding Scheme for Binary Code Search	20
Value-Flow-Based Demand-Driven Pointer Analysis for C and C++	20
Boosting API Recommendation With Implicit Feedback	20
Mind the Gap! A Study on the Transferability of Virtual Versus Physical-World Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems	20
Understanding How and Why Developers Seek and Analyze API-Related Opinions	20
On the Costs and Profit of Software Defect Prediction	19
SOSRepair: Expressive Semantic Search for Real-World Program Repair	19
Metamorphic Robustness Testing: Exposing Hidden Defects in Citation Statistics and Journal Impact Factors	19
Does Reviewer Recommendation Help Developers?	19
A Survey of Performance Optimization for Mobile Applications	19
oo7: Low-Overhead Defense Against Spectre Attacks via Program Analysis	19
Real World Scrum A Grounded Theory of Variations in Practice	19
Holistic Combination of Structural and Textual Code Information for Context Based API Recommendation	19
On the Value of Oversampling for Deep Learning in Software Defect Prediction	19
Vuln4Real: A Methodology for Counting Actually Vulnerable Dependencies	19
Modeling Functional Similarity in Source Code With Graph-Based Siamese Networks	19
Requirements Engineering for Safety-Critical Systems: An Interview Study with Industry Practitioners	18
CBGA-ES+: A Cluster-Based Genetic Algorithm with Non-Dominated Elitist Selection for Supporting Multi-Objective Test Optimization	18
CrySL: An Extensible Approach to Validating the Correct Usage of Cryptographic APIs	18
The ORIS Tool: Quantitative Evaluation of Non-Markovian Systems	18
SQAPlanner: Generating Data-Informed Software Quality Improvement Plans	18
How Gender-Biased Tools Shape Newcomer Experiences in OSS Projects	18
BiasFinder: Metamorphic Test Generation to Uncover Bias for Sentiment Analysis Systems	18
User Review-Based Change File Localization for Mobile Applications	17
Uncovering the Periphery: A Qualitative Survey of Episodic Volunteering in Free/Libre and Open Source Software Communities	17
Dependency Smells in JavaScript Projects	17
A Fast Clustering Algorithm for Modularization of Large-Scale Software Systems	17
Uncovering the Benefits and Challenges of Continuous Integration Practices	17
The Effects of Human Aspects on the Requirements Engineering Process: A Systematic Literature Review	16
PPChecker: Towards Accessing the Trustworthiness of Android Apps’ Privacy Policies	16

Reading Answers on Stack Overflow: Not Enough!	16
Revisiting Binary Code Similarity Analysis Using Interpretable Feature Engineering and Lessons Learned	16
Improving Vulnerability Inspection Efficiency Using Active Learning	16
Systematic Evaluation and Usability Analysis of Formal Methods Tools for Railway Signaling System Design	16
Studying Bad Updates of Top Free-to-Download Apps in the Google Play Store	16
Identifying Self-Admitted Technical Debts With Jitterbug: A Two-Step Approach	16
GPT2SP: A Transformer-Based Agile Story Point Estimation Approach	16
Chatbot4QR: Interactive Query Refinement for Technical Question Retrieval	16
PerfJIT: Test-Level Just-in-Time Prediction for Performance Regression Introducing Commits	16
Challenges and Common Solutions in Smart Contract Development	16
Enriching API Documentation with Code Samples and Usage Scenarios from Crowd Knowledge	15
Evaluating Automatic Program Repair Capabilities to Repair API Misuses	15
Better Data Labelling With EMBLEM (and how that Impacts Defect Prediction)	15
On the Validity of Pre-Trained Transformers for Natural Language Processing in the Software Engineering Domain	15
Key Stakeholders’ Value Propositions for Feature Selection in Software-Intensive Products: An Industrial Case Study	15
An Interleaving Approach to Combinatorial Testing and Failure-Inducing Interaction Identification	15
A Study of Feature Scattering in the Linux Kernel	15
Finding Trends in Software Research	15
Deep Learning Based Program Generation From Requirements Text: Are We There Yet?	14
Impact of Discretization Noise of the Dependent Variable on Machine Learning Classifiers in Software Engineering	14
Can Clean New Code Reduce Technical Debt Density?	14
Context-Aware Personalized Crowdtesting Task Recommendation	14
PackerGrind: An Adaptive Unpacking System for Android Apps	14
Characterizing the Usage, Evolution and Impact of Java Annotations in Practice	14
Construct Validity in Software Engineering	14
Multi-Objective Software Effort Estimation: A Replication Study	14
How Developers Choose Names	14
The Mutation and Injection Framework: Evaluating Clone Detection Tools with Mutation Analysis	14
On Company Contributions to Community Open Source Software Projects	14
Are You Still Working on This? An Empirical Study on Pull Request Abandonment	14
Will Dependency Conflicts Affect My Program's Semantics?	14
Software Module Clustering: An In-Depth Literature Analysis	14
IntRepair: Informed Repairing of Integer Overflows	14
How Software Developers Mitigate Their Errors When Developing Code	13
Recommending API Function Calls and Code Snippets to Support Software Development	13
A Chaos Engineering System for Live Analysis and Falsification of Exception-Handling in the JVM	13
Nighthawk: Fully Automated Localizing UI Display Issues via Visual Understanding	13
Evaluation of Static Vulnerability Detection Tools With Java Cryptographic API Benchmarks	13
A Deep Dive into the Impact of COVID-19 on Software Development	13
The Impact of Code Review on Architectural Changes	13
Practical Mutation Testing at Scale: A view from Google	13
A3: Assisting Android API Migrations Using Code Examples	13
Continuously Managing NFRs: Opportunities and Challenges in Practice	13
PatchNet: Hierarchical Deep Learning-Based Stable Patch Identification for the Linux Kernel	13
Redundancy, Context, and Preference: An Empirical Study of Duplicate Pull Requests in OSS Projects	13
Exploiting Natural Language Structures in Software Informal Documentation	13
Watch Out for Extrinsic Bugs! A Case Study of Their Impact in Just-In-Time Bug Prediction Models on the OpenStack Project	13
A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach for Test Case Prioritization in Continuous Integration Environments	13
Where2Change: Change Request Localization for App Reviews	12
Including Everyone, Everywhere: Understanding Opportunities and Challenges of Geographic Gender-Inclusion in OSS	12
Pathidea: Improving Information Retrieval-Based Bug Localization by Re-Constructing Execution Paths Using Logs	12
Automatic Test Case and Test Oracle Generation Based on Functional Scenarios in Formal Specifications for Conformance Testing	12
Research on Third-Party Libraries in Android Apps: A Taxonomy and Systematic Literature Review	12
Interlocking Safety Cases for Unmanned Autonomous Systems in Shared Airspaces	12
Managing Episodic Volunteers in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Communities	12
An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples	12
Detecting Software Security Vulnerabilities Via Requirements Dependency Analysis	12
Comments on "Using k-core Decomposition on Class Dependency Networks to Improve Bug Prediction Model's Practical Performance"	12
Neural Network Guided Evolutionary Fuzzing for Finding Traffic Violations of Autonomous Vehicles	12
How Developers Engineer Test Cases: An Observational Study	12
Simpler Hyperparameter Optimization for Software Analytics: Why, How, When?	12
Dynamic Update of Discrete Event Controllers	12
In Search of Socio-Technical Congruence: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study	12