Journal of Systems and Software

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	288
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	212
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	208
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	173
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	148
Novel framework for automated testing of ill-defined human–robot interaction environments	119
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	103
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	92
Integrating pair programming as a work practice	89
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	85
Experimental investigation of memory-related software aging in LLM systems	76
Editorial Board	76
Domain-specific conflict resolution and model merge	76
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	76
VULOC: Vulnerability location framework based on assembly code slicing	75
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	73
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	69
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	66
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	65
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	62
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	60
Dear Researchers: Think about the future, for sure, but please don't forget about the present – the Odense Manifesto for academia–industry collaboration at ICSA 2025	56
On measuring coupling between microservices	52
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	51
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	51

Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	50
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	49
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	48
A fuzzy logic-based quality model for identifying microservices with low maintainability	46
Automatically recognizing the semantic elements from UML class diagram images	46
Managing security issues in software containers: From practitioners’ perspective	45
Multi-granularity coverage criteria for deep reinforcement learning systems	45
Reproducibility of issues reported in stack overflow questions: Challenges, impact & estimation	45
Maximizing integrative learning in software development teams: A systematic review of key drivers and future research agenda	44
Leveraging belief uncertainty for informed decision making in software product line evolution	43
Discovering boundary values of feature-based machine learning classifiers through exploratory datamorphic testing	42
Conformance assessment of Architectural Design Decisions on API endpoint designs derived from domain models	41
Diverse title generation for Stack Overflow posts with multiple-sampling-enhanced transformer	40
A modular metamodel and refactoring rules to achieve software product line interoperability	40
Explaining software fault predictions to spreadsheet users	40
Challenges and opportunities: Implementing diversity and inclusion in software engineering university level education in Finland	39
VeriFix: Verifying your fix towards an atomicity violation	38
A data-driven active learning approach to reusing ML solutions in scientific applications	37
Improve cross-project just-in-time defect prediction with dynamic transfer learning	37
Flexible control flow graph alignment for delivering data-driven feedback to novice programming learners	37
Optimizing smart contract vulnerability detection via multi-modality code and entropy embedding	36
Code search engines for the next generation	36
Development of an automatic class diagram generator using an AI-based GRU classification model and 5W1H heuristic rules	35
Combine sliced joint graph with graph neural networks for smart contract vulnerability detection	35
A speech-enabled virtual assistant for efficient human–robot interaction in industrial environments	35
A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging	34
Proactive self-adaptation and assurance of explainable Human–Machine Teaming	34
Advancing modern code review effectiveness through human error mechanisms	33
An evidence-based roadmap for IoT software systems engineering	33
BEACon-TD: Classifying Technical Debt and its types across diverse software projects issues using transformers	32
When traceability goes awry: An industrial experience report	32
Examining the impact of bias mitigation algorithms on the sustainability of ML-enabled systems: A benchmark study	32
DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting framework for software vulnerability detection	32
VIBE: Looking for Variability In amBiguous rEquirements	32
Examining the effect of software professionals’ personality & additional capabilities on agile teams’ climate	31
Taxonomy of security weaknesses in Java and Kotlin Android apps	31
DValidator: An approach for validating dependencies in build configurations	30
Software engineering competency models and intercultural communication competencies: A systematic literature review	29
Continuous software security through security prioritisation meetings	29
A sampling-based online Co-Location-Resistant Virtual Machine placement strategy	29
Pragmatic random sampling of Kconfig-based systems: A unified approach	28
Understanding the low inter-rater agreement on aggressiveness on the Linux Kernel Mailing List	27
Data catalog tools: A systematic multivocal literature review	27
SynthoMinds: Bridging human programming intuition with retrieval, analogy, and reasoning in program synthesis	27
Architecting ML-enabled systems: Challenges, best practices, and design decisions	27
Navigating the DevOps landscape	27
Exploring multi-programming-language commits and their impacts on software quality: An empirical study on Apache projects	26
CharM — Evaluating a model for characterizing service-based architectures	26
A proposal and assessment of an improved heuristic for the Eager Test smell detection	26
Survey of annotation generators for deductive verifiers	26

Editorial of the special issue on Quality in Software Architecture	25
Correctness and security analysis of the protection in transit (PIT) protocol	25
OREO: A tool-supported approach for offline run-time monitoring and fault–error–failure chain localization	25
Fault analysis in additive manufacturing: Identifying causes of three-dimensional printer faults using machine learning and large language models	25
Automatic modelling and verification of Autosar architectures	25
Fine-grained smart contract vulnerability detection by heterogeneous code feature learning and automated dataset construction	25
Transformation-based model checking temporal trust in multi-agent systems	24
End-users’ knowledge and perception about security of clinical mobile health apps: A case study with two Saudi Arabian mHealth providers	24
Design for dependability — State of the art and trends	24
A critical comparison on six static analysis tools: Detection, agreement, and precision	24
Variability management and software product line knowledge in software companies	24
Effectiveness of symmetric metamorphic relations on validating the stability of code generation LLM	24
An empirical study on the performance overhead of code instrumentation in containerised microservices	24
Work-from-home is here to stay: Call for flexibility in post-pandemic work policies	23
Architectural tactics to achieve quality attributes of machine-learning-enabled systems: a systematic literature review	23
Deriving modernity signatures of codebases with static analysis	23
Editorial Board	23
BinCoFer: Three-stage purification for effective C/C++ binary third-party library detection	23
Editorial Board	23
SARG: Software application resiliency prediction using graph neural networks	23
Choosing the right path for AI integration in engineering companies: A strategic guide	23
A bot identification model and tool based on GitHub activity sequences	23
Software product lines and features from the perspective of set theory with an application to feature location	23
MPLinker: Multi-template Prompt-tuning with adversarial training for Issue–commit Link recovery	22
BlockSOP: A blockchain-based software management platform for open collaborative development	22
Enhancing empirical software performance engineering research with kernel-level events: A comprehensive system tracing approach	22
Boosting source code suggestion with self-supervised Transformer Gated Highway	22
Neural-FEBI: Accurate function identification in Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode	22
Connecting systems engineering and domain expertise through a toolchain: A simulation-integrated MBSE approach	22
A structural taxonomy for lifted software product line analyses	22
Integration test order generation based on reinforcement learning considering class importance	22
From attack descriptions to vulnerabilities: A sentence transformer-based approach	22
HiFlaky: Hierarchy-aware flakiness classification	21
The pipeline for the continuous development of artificial intelligence models—Current state of research and practice	21
Assessing the capability of android dynamic analysis tools to combat anti-runtime analysis techniques	21
Semantic interoperability for an AI-based applications platform for smart hospitals using HL7 FHIR	21
Empirical pathways to developer experience: A facet-based synthesis of empirical designs and guidelines	21
Extracting goal models from natural language requirement specifications	21
Do code reviews lead to fewer code smells?	21
On the use of unsupervised machine learning for classification of crowd-based software requirements	20
Developers’ need for the rationale of code commits: An in-breadth and in-depth study	20
Multivocal study on microservice dependencies	20
BugMentor: Generating answers to follow-up questions from software bug reports using structured information retrieval and neural text generation	20
Retriever: A view-based approach to reverse engineering software architecture models	20
Editorial Board	20
Incremental-concurrent fusion checking for efficient context consistency	20
On the evolution of agile software team work arrangements	19
GDFuzz: An efficient directed fuzzing method based on XAI	19
On the relationship between source-code metrics and cognitive load: A systematic tertiary review	19
Incentive mechanism for mobile crowd sensing with Assumed Bid Cost Reverse Auction	19
Automatic prediction of developers’ resolutions for software merge conflicts	19
UX-work related needs in software startups: Diagnosis and resolution	19
Machine learning approaches for automated software traceability: A systematic literature review	19
The AmbiTRUS framework for identifying potential ambiguity in user stories	19
Supporting meta-model-based language evolution and rapid prototyping with automated grammar transformation	18
UVL: Feature modelling with the Universal Variability Language	18
Code beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Exploring the relation between code beauty and quality	18
A cloud-based data processing and visualization pipeline for the fibre roll-out in Germany	18
Decentralized decision-making and scaled autonomy at Spotify	18
Software refactoring research with large language models: A systematic literature review	18
Do comments and expertise still matter? An experiment on programmers’ adoption of AI-generated JavaScript code	18
An empirical investigation into the capabilities of anomaly detection approaches for test smell detection	18
A/B testing: A systematic literature review	18
Systematic literature review on software code smell detection approaches	18
Automated end-to-end testing for conversational agents	17
ExTrA: Explaining architectural design tradeoff spaces via dimensionality reduction	17
Developing and sustaining a student-driven software solutions center—An experience report	17
Why do women pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science?	17
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Just-in-time software vulnerability detection: Are we there yet?	17
An empirical evaluation of static, dynamic, and hybrid slicing of WebAssembly binaries	17
On the impact of single and co-occurrent refactorings on quality attributes in android applications	17
Runtime reliability fractional distribution change analytics against cloud-based systems DDoS attacks	17
Editorial Board	17
A Cross-Domain Systematic Mapping Study on Software Engineering for Digital Twins	17
An empirical evaluation of quasi-static executable slices	16
Software engineering education: Results from a training intervention based on SonarCloud when developing web apps	16
A systematic literature review on benchmarks for evaluating debugging approaches	16
A white-box prompt injection attack on embodied AI agents driven by large language models	16
Beyond code: Is there a difference between comments in visual and textual languages?	16

Runtime composition in dynamic system of systems: A systematic review of challenges, solutions, tools, and evaluation methods	16
Mapping the structure and evolution of software testing research over the past three decades	16
How can feature usage be tracked across product variants? Implicit Feedback in Software Product Lines	16
CubeAgent: Efficient query-based video adversarial examples generation through deep reinforcement learning	16
Adaptive robustness evaluation for complex system prognostics and health management software platform	16
Automated functional and robustness testing of microservice architectures	16
Machine learning for software aging detection: A systematic mapping study	16
Hierarchical tree-based algorithms for efficient expression parsing and test sequence generation in software models	15
Barriers to device longevity and reuse: A vintage device empirical study	15
DigBug—Pre/post-processing operator selection for accurate bug localization	15
Input sensitivity on the performance of configurable systems an empirical study	15
Refactoring react-based Web apps	15
People want reassurance when making privacy-related decisions — Not technicalities	15
Test scenario generation for feature-based context-oriented software systems	15
Performability evaluation of NoSQL-based storage systems	15
EnseSmells : Deep ensemble and programming language models for automated code smells detection	14
Modeling and verifying resources and capabilities of ubiquitous scenarios for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle swarm	14
Organizational factors of software performance testing for systems of systems: A case study using high-reliability organization theory to understand an outage	14
The qualitative factor in software testing: A systematic mapping study of qualitative methods	14
Collection skeletons: Declarative abstractions for data collections	14
An architecture for model-based and intelligent automation in DevOps	14
Product lines of dataflows	14
Benchmarking scalability of stream processing frameworks deployed as microservices in the cloud	14
SCGRU: A general approach for identifying multiple classes of self-admitted technical debt with text generation oversampling	14
Understanding practitioners’ challenges and requirements in the design, implementation, and evaluation of anti-phishing interventions	14
Software engineering team project courses with industrial customers: Students’ insights on challenges and lessons learned	14
EdgeWorkflow: One click to test and deploy your workflow applications to the edge	14
On the relation of method popularity to breaking changes in the Maven ecosystem	13
Impermanent identifiers: Enhanced source code comprehension and refactoring	13
Mutation testing of PL/SQL programs	13
Editorial Board	13
Rethinking data selection strategies for more accurate software effort prediction using the ISBSG dataset	13
Editorial Board	13
Editorial Board	13
Software modernization powered by dynamic language product lines	13
Model-driven safety and security co-analysis: A systematic literature review	13
Refactoring cross-project code duplication in an industrial software product line: A case study from RDW	13
FSECAM: A contextual thematic approach for linking feature to multi-level software architectural components	13
CIT-daily: A combinatorial interaction testing-based daily build process	13
CSAT: Configuration structure-aware tuning for highly configurable software systems	13
Missing standard features compared with similar apps? A feature recommendation method based on the knowledge from user interface	13
Assessing UML diagrams by GPT: Implications for education	12
Predicting test failures induced by software defects: A lightweight alternative to software defect prediction and its industrial application	12
CoDEvo: Column family database evolution using model transformations	12
Research artifacts in software engineering publications: Status and trends	12
Secure and flexible message-based communication for mobile apps within and across devices	12
Identifying concerns when specifying machine learning-enabled systems: A perspective-based approach	12
A comparative analysis of ML techniques for bug report classification	12
SuMo: A mutation testing approach and tool for the Ethereum blockchain	12
Is our chatbot telling lies? Assessing correctness of an LLM-based Dutch support chatbot	12
So much more than test cases – An industrial study on testing of software units and components	12
The life of software features: An exploratory case study of 189 feature requests in Marlin	12
An annotation-based approach for finding bugs in neural network programs	12
Perceptions of the human and social factors that influence the productivity of software development teams in Colombia: A statistical analysis	12
On the dependency heaviness of CRAN/Bioconductor ecosystem	12
Assets in Software Engineering: What are they after all?	12
Tailoring binary decision diagram compilation for feature models	12
An efficient heuristic algorithm for software module clustering optimization	12
On the outdatedness of workflows in the GitHub Actions ecosystem	12
SGT: Aging-related bug prediction via semantic feature learning based on graph-transformer	12
Exploring developer experience factors in software ecosystems	11
Enhancing vulnerability repair through the extraction and matching of repair patterns	11
Investigating acceptance behavior in software engineering—Theoretical perspectives	11
The pragmatics of hybridity: A grounded theory of method integration in software engineering projects	11
Demystifying issues, causes and solutions in LLM open-source projects	11
Empathy models and software engineering — A preliminary analysis and taxonomy	11
Automatically generating test cases for safety-critical software via symbolic execution	11
TitleGen-FL: Quality prediction-based filter for automated issue title generation	11
RETRACTED: AI-Driven Decision-Making in Healthcare Information Systems: A Comprehensive Review	11
Mokav: Execution-driven differential testing with LLMs	11
RobEthiChor: Automated context-aware ethics-based negotiation for autonomous robots	11
Experimenting Architectural Patterns in Federated Learning Systems	11
A model-based mode-switching framework based on security vulnerability scores	11
GeQuPI: Quantum Program Improvement with Multi-Objective Genetic Programming	11
Out of the BLEU: How should we assess quality of the Code Generation models?	11
Ensemble Effort Estimation: An updated and extended systematic literature review	11
Software engineering for quantum programming: How far are we?	11
Towards structured semantic representation via hierarchical transformer network for software defect prediction	11
Adaptive data quality scoring operations framework using drift-aware mechanism for industrial applications	11
An Investigation of confusing code patterns in JavaScript	11
A model-driven formal methods approach to software architectural security vulnerabilities specification and verification	11
Automatic extraction of security-rich dataflow diagrams for microservice applications written in Java	11
Shedding light on the dark side – A systematic literature review of the issues in agile software development methodology use	11
WASMICO: Micro-containers in microcontrollers with WebAssembly	11
Test case prioritization using partial attention	11
Automatic creation of acceptance tests by extracting conditionals from requirements: NLP approach and case study	10
Catalog and detection techniques of microservice anti-patterns and bad smells: A tertiary study	10
It all starts with structure: investigating learning dynamics in large-scale agile software development	10
EISM: an interactive and collaborative approach for software modularization	10
A Multi-vocal Literature Review on challenges and critical success factors of phishing education, training and awareness	10
DEzzer: Efficient Fuzzing Mutation Scheduling Based on Differential Evolution	10
A case study of gender and online team communication in Software Engineering Education	10
On the evaluation of usability design guidelines for improving network monitoring tools interfaces	10
Software product families from a phylogenetics perspective for video game content generation	10
Evaluating software security maturity using OWASP SAMM: Different approaches and stakeholders perceptions	10