Journal of Systems and Software

Article	Citations
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	223
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	165
Editorial Board	162
Editorial Board	120
Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	114
On measuring coupling between microservices	105
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	103
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	86
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	85
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	74
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	74
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	66
VULOC: Vulnerability location framework based on assembly code slicing	65
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	64
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	63
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	62
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	56
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	56
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	55
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	54
Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert	54
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	54
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	53
ECCOLA — A method for implementing ethically aligned AI systems	52
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	51

Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	51
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	49
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	47
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	46
BEACon-TD: Classifying Technical Debt and its types across diverse software projects issues using transformers	45
A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging	43
A fuzzy logic-based quality model for identifying microservices with low maintainability	42
Challenges and opportunities: Implementing diversity and inclusion in software engineering university level education in Finland	39
A speech-enabled virtual assistant for efficient human–robot interaction in industrial environments	39
Conformance assessment of Architectural Design Decisions on API endpoint designs derived from domain models	38
DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting framework for software vulnerability detection	37
Diverse title generation for Stack Overflow posts with multiple-sampling-enhanced transformer	37
An evidence-based roadmap for IoT software systems engineering	37
VIBE: Looking for Variability In amBiguous rEquirements	36
Taxonomy of security weaknesses in Java and Kotlin Android apps	36
Exploring the use of static and dynamic analysis to improve the performance of the mining sandbox approach for android malware identification	36
Optimizing smart contract vulnerability detection via multi-modality code and entropy embedding	35
Combine sliced joint graph with graph neural networks for smart contract vulnerability detection	35
Discovering boundary values of feature-based machine learning classifiers through exploratory datamorphic testing	34
A model-driven approach for continuous performance engineering in microservice-based systems	34
A novel blockchain protocol for selecting microservices providers and auditing contracts	33
Advancing modern code review effectiveness through human error mechanisms	33
Leveraging belief uncertainty for informed decision making in software product line evolution	33
Automatically recognizing the semantic elements from UML class diagram images	32
Investigating the performance of personalized models for software defect prediction	31
Flexible control flow graph alignment for delivering data-driven feedback to novice programming learners	30
A data-driven active learning approach to reusing ML solutions in scientific applications	30
Maximizing integrative learning in software development teams: A systematic review of key drivers and future research agenda	30
Explaining software fault predictions to spreadsheet users	30
Reproducibility of issues reported in stack overflow questions: Challenges, impact & estimation	30
A modular metamodel and refactoring rules to achieve software product line interoperability	29
Code search engines for the next generation	29
Software micro-rejuvenation for Android mobile systems	29
When traceability goes awry: An industrial experience report	29
Improve cross-project just-in-time defect prediction with dynamic transfer learning	29
Effectiveness of symmetric metamorphic relations on validating the stability of code generation LLM	28
DValidator: An approach for validating dependencies in build configurations	28
Multi-granularity coverage criteria for deep reinforcement learning systems	28
SynthoMinds: Bridging human programming intuition with retrieval, analogy, and reasoning in program synthesis	27
Understanding the low inter-rater agreement on aggressiveness on the Linux Kernel Mailing List	27
CharM — Evaluating a model for characterizing service-based architectures	26
A sampling-based online Co-Location-Resistant Virtual Machine placement strategy	26
Fine-grained smart contract vulnerability detection by heterogeneous code feature learning and automated dataset construction	26
A hybrid code representation learning approach for predicting method names	26
A proposal and assessment of an improved heuristic for the Eager Test smell detection	26
Transformation-based model checking temporal trust in multi-agent systems	25
Variability management and software product line knowledge in software companies	25
Examining the effect of software professionals’ personality & additional capabilities on agile teams’ climate	25
Choosing the right path for AI integration in engineering companies: A strategic guide	25
Exploring multi-programming-language commits and their impacts on software quality: An empirical study on Apache projects	25

Continuous software security through security prioritisation meetings	25
Navigating the DevOps landscape	25
Design for dependability — State of the art and trends	24
Automatic modelling and verification of Autosar architectures	24
Editorial of the special issue on Quality in Software Architecture	24
A critical comparison on six static analysis tools: Detection, agreement, and precision	24
Survey of annotation generators for deductive verifiers	24
Editorial Board	23
End-users’ knowledge and perception about security of clinical mobile health apps: A case study with two Saudi Arabian mHealth providers	23
MeTeaM—A method for characterizing mature software metrics teams	23
MPLinker: Multi-template Prompt-tuning with adversarial training for Issue–commit Link recovery	23
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
Architecting ML-enabled systems: Challenges, best practices, and design decisions	23
Software product lines and features from the perspective of set theory with an application to feature location	22
Integration test order generation based on reinforcement learning considering class importance	21
Boosting source code suggestion with self-supervised Transformer Gated Highway	21
Neural-FEBI: Accurate function identification in Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode	21
A bot identification model and tool based on GitHub activity sequences	21
A parallel worklist algorithm and its exploration heuristics for static modular analyses	21
How to identify class comment types? A multi-language approach for class comment classification	21
Editorial Board	21
Semantic interoperability for an AI-based applications platform for smart hospitals using HL7 FHIR	21
Deriving modernity signatures of codebases with static analysis	21
SEXTAMT: A systematic map to navigate the wide seas of factors affecting expert judgment software estimates	21
A structural taxonomy for lifted software product line analyses	21
Extracting goal models from natural language requirement specifications	20
Retriever: A view-based approach to reverse engineering software architecture models	20
Do code reviews lead to fewer code smells?	20
The pipeline for the continuous development of artificial intelligence models—Current state of research and practice	20
A cloud-based data processing and visualization pipeline for the fibre roll-out in Germany	20
Enhancing empirical software performance engineering research with kernel-level events: A comprehensive system tracing approach	20
Considerations and challenges for the adoption of open source components in software-intensive businesses	20
Targeting uncertainty in smart CPS by confidence-based logic	20
ExTrA: Explaining architectural design tradeoff spaces via dimensionality reduction	19
Incremental-concurrent fusion checking for efficient context consistency	19
Runtime reliability fractional distribution change analytics against cloud-based systems DDoS attacks	19
The AmbiTRUS framework for identifying potential ambiguity in user stories	19
Multivocal study on microservice dependencies	19
Hippo: A formal-model execution engine to control and verify critical real-time systems	19
SeCNN: A semantic CNN parser for code comment generation	19
On the impact of single and co-occurrent refactorings on quality attributes in android applications	19
A Cross-Domain Systematic Mapping Study on Software Engineering for Digital Twins	19
A/B testing: A systematic literature review	18
L′	18
On the relationship between source-code metrics and cognitive load: A systematic tertiary review	18
Supporting meta-model-based language evolution and rapid prototyping with automated grammar transformation	18
Developers’ need for the rationale of code commits: An in-breadth and in-depth study	18
Automatic prediction of developers’ resolutions for software merge conflicts	17
Just-in-time software vulnerability detection: Are we there yet?	17
Editorial Board	17
Hierarchical tree-based algorithms for efficient expression parsing and test sequence generation in software models	17
Decentralized decision-making and scaled autonomy at Spotify	17
UVL: Feature modelling with the Universal Variability Language	17
Adaptive robustness evaluation for complex system prognostics and health management software platform	17
An empirical investigation into the capabilities of anomaly detection approaches for test smell detection	17
Developing and sustaining a student-driven software solutions center—An experience report	17
People want reassurance when making privacy-related decisions — Not technicalities	17
Mapping the structure and evolution of software testing research over the past three decades	16
An empirical evaluation of quasi-static executable slices	16
Barriers to device longevity and reuse: A vintage device empirical study	16
Benchmarking scalability of stream processing frameworks deployed as microservices in the cloud	16
Performability evaluation of NoSQL-based storage systems	16
Beyond code: Is there a difference between comments in visual and textual languages?	16
Test scenario generation for feature-based context-oriented software systems	16
EnseSmells : Deep ensemble and programming language models for automated code smells detection	16
CONSERVE: A framework for the selection of techniques for monitoring containers security	16
Collection skeletons: Declarative abstractions for data collections	16
Modeling and verifying resources and capabilities of ubiquitous scenarios for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle swarm	15
Software engineering education: Results from a training intervention based on SonarCloud when developing web apps	15
Refactoring react-based Web apps	15
CubeAgent: Efficient query-based video adversarial examples generation through deep reinforcement learning	15
A systematic literature review on benchmarks for evaluating debugging approaches	15
Tuning configuration of apache spark on public clouds by combining multi-objective optimization and performance prediction model	15
SCGRU: A general approach for identifying multiple classes of self-admitted technical debt with text generation oversampling	15
Input sensitivity on the performance of configurable systems an empirical study	15
DigBug—Pre/post-processing operator selection for accurate bug localization	15
On the dependency heaviness of CRAN/Bioconductor ecosystem	14
How can feature usage be tracked across product variants? Implicit Feedback in Software Product Lines	14
Understanding practitioners’ challenges and requirements in the design, implementation, and evaluation of anti-phishing interventions	14

The qualitative factor in software testing: A systematic mapping study of qualitative methods	14
FSECAM: A contextual thematic approach for linking feature to multi-level software architectural components	14
Assets in Software Engineering: What are they after all?	14
Product lines of dataflows	14
EdgeWorkflow: One click to test and deploy your workflow applications to the edge	14
Automated functional and robustness testing of microservice architectures	14
Editorial Board	14
Research artifacts in software engineering publications: Status and trends	14
CIT-daily: A combinatorial interaction testing-based daily build process	14
Impermanent identifiers: Enhanced source code comprehension and refactoring	14
Profiling gas consumption in solidity smart contracts	14
An architecture for model-based and intelligent automation in DevOps	14
Software engineering team project courses with industrial customers: Students’ insights on challenges and lessons learned	14
Mutation testing of PL/SQL programs	14
On the relation of method popularity to breaking changes in the Maven ecosystem	14
Demystifying issues, causes and solutions in LLM open-source projects	13
A model-based mode-switching framework based on security vulnerability scores	13
Predicting test failures induced by software defects: A lightweight alternative to software defect prediction and its industrial application	13
SuMo: A mutation testing approach and tool for the Ethereum blockchain	13
Missing standard features compared with similar apps? A feature recommendation method based on the knowledge from user interface	13
AI-Driven Decision-Making in Healthcare Information Systems: A Comprehensive Review	13
An annotation-based approach for finding bugs in neural network programs	13
An analysis of open source software licensing questions in Stack Exchange sites	13
Software modernization powered by dynamic language product lines	13
CSAT: Configuration structure-aware tuning for highly configurable software systems	13
Model-driven safety and security co-analysis: A systematic literature review	13
CoDEvo: Column family database evolution using model transformations	13
Adaptive data quality scoring operations framework using drift-aware mechanism for industrial applications	13
An Investigation of confusing code patterns in JavaScript	13
Test case prioritization using partial attention	13
A comparative analysis of ML techniques for bug report classification	13
An efficient heuristic algorithm for software module clustering optimization	13
Model-based testing in practice: An experience report from the web applications domain	13
Feature-based software design pattern detection	13
Shedding light on the dark side – A systematic literature review of the issues in agile software development methodology use	12
TitleGen-FL: Quality prediction-based filter for automated issue title generation	12
Perceptions of the human and social factors that influence the productivity of software development teams in Colombia: A statistical analysis	12
An empirical study of COVID-19 related posts on Stack Overflow: Topics and technologies	12
Improving test case selection by handling class and attribute noise	12
Software engineering for quantum programming: How far are we?	12
SGT: Aging-related bug prediction via semantic feature learning based on graph-transformer	12
Agile elicitation of scalability requirements for open systems: A case study	12
Investigating acceptance behavior in software engineering—Theoretical perspectives	12
Automatically generating test cases for safety-critical software via symbolic execution	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
On the outdatedness of workflows in the GitHub Actions ecosystem	12
Empathy models and software engineering — A preliminary analysis and taxonomy	12
A model-driven formal methods approach to software architectural security vulnerabilities specification and verification	12
The Prevent-Model: Human and Organizational Factors Fostering Engineering of Safe and Secure Robotic Systems	11
BIT: A template-based approach to incremental and bidirectional model-to-text transformation	11
Effective software security enhancement using an improved PointNet++	11
Symbolic testing of floating-point bugs and exceptions	11
On the evaluation of usability design guidelines for improving network monitoring tools interfaces	11
Automatic extraction of security-rich dataflow diagrams for microservice applications written in Java	11
Processes, methods, and tools in model-based engineering—A qualitative multiple-case study	11
The influence of the city metaphor and its derivates in software visualization	11
MicroFog: A framework for scalable placement of microservices-based IoT applications in federated Fog environments	11
An empirical study of software architecture resilience evaluation methods	11
Ensemble Effort Estimation: An updated and extended systematic literature review	11
Out of the BLEU: How should we assess quality of the Code Generation models?	11
API beauty is in the eye of the clients: 2.2 million Maven dependencies reveal the spectrum of client–API usages	11
WASMICO: Micro-containers in microcontrollers with WebAssembly	11
Automatic creation of acceptance tests by extracting conditionals from requirements: NLP approach and case study	11
Log statements generation via deep learning: Widening the support provided to developers	11
Promoting open science in test-driven software experiments	10
An empirical study of AI techniques in mobile applications	10
A formal approach for the analysis of BPMN collaboration models	10
JITGNN: A deep graph neural network framework for Just-In-Time bug prediction	10
A systematic review on security and safety of self-adaptive systems	10
IADA: A dynamic interference-aware cloud scheduling architecture for latency-sensitive workloads	10
Automated identification of security discussions in microservices systems: Industrial surveys and experiments	10
A Multi-vocal Literature Review on challenges and critical success factors of phishing education, training and awareness	10
GeQuPI: Quantum Program Improvement with Multi-Objective Genetic Programming	10
Catalog and detection techniques of microservice anti-patterns and bad smells: A tertiary study	10
Understanding Virtual Onboarding Dynamics and Developer Turnover Intention in the Era of Pandemic	10
Towards an understanding of intra-defect associations: Implications for defect prediction	10
Analyzing the Tower of Babel with Kaiaulu	10
MeMo: Automatically identifying metamorphic relations in Javadoc comments for test automation	10
Random or heuristic? An empirical study on path search strategies for test generation in KLEE	10
Microservice architecture recovery based on intra-service and inter-service features	10
TOSCAdata: Modeling data pipeline applications in TOSCA	10
RepliComment: Identifying clones in code comments	10
Towards cost-efficient vulnerability detection with cross-modal adversarial reprogramming	10
Understanding Roxygen package documentation in R	10
Measuring code efficiency optimization capabilities with ACEOB	10
Variability modules	10
Improving the performance of software fault localization with effective coverage data reduction techniques	10
Towards a common data-driven culture: A longitudinal study of the tensions and emerging solutions involved in becoming data-driven in a large public sector organization	10
DongTing: A large-scale dataset for anomaly detection of the Linux kernel	10
DeepKernel: 2D-kernels clustering based mutant reduction for cost-effective deep learning model testing	10
Evaluating software security maturity using OWASP SAMM: Different approaches and stakeholders perceptions	10
Trace matrix optimization for fault localization	10
Changes in perceived productivity of software engineers during COVID-19 pandemic: The voice of evidence	10
On the use of artificial intelligence to deal with privacy in IoT systems: A systematic literature review	9