Journal of Systems and Software

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	240
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	177
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	170
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	131
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	113
Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert	112
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	94
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	78
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	77
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	75
Editorial Board	69
Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	67
ECCOLA — A method for implementing ethically aligned AI systems	64
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	64
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	62
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	61
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	61
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	60
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	60
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	59
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	58
VULOC: Vulnerability location framework based on assembly code slicing	58
On measuring coupling between microservices	57
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	56
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	53

A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	52
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	50
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	48
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	46
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	45
BEACon-TD: Classifying Technical Debt and its types across diverse software projects issues using transformers	44
Investigating the performance of personalized models for software defect prediction	42
A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging	42
VIBE: Looking for Variability In amBiguous rEquirements	41
An evidence-based roadmap for IoT software systems engineering	40
A modular metamodel and refactoring rules to achieve software product line interoperability	40
Flexible control flow graph alignment for delivering data-driven feedback to novice programming learners	38
Explaining software fault predictions to spreadsheet users	38
Advancing modern code review effectiveness through human error mechanisms	37
A fuzzy logic-based quality model for identifying microservices with low maintainability	37
Code search engines for the next generation	37
Challenges and opportunities: Implementing diversity and inclusion in software engineering university level education in Finland	36
Multi-granularity coverage criteria for deep reinforcement learning systems	35
Optimizing smart contract vulnerability detection via multi-modality code and entropy embedding	35
Leveraging belief uncertainty for informed decision making in software product line evolution	35
A data-driven active learning approach to reusing ML solutions in scientific applications	34
Diverse title generation for Stack Overflow posts with multiple-sampling-enhanced transformer	34
A speech-enabled virtual assistant for efficient human–robot interaction in industrial environments	34
A model-driven approach for continuous performance engineering in microservice-based systems	34
Improve cross-project just-in-time defect prediction with dynamic transfer learning	34
Reproducibility of issues reported in stack overflow questions: Challenges, impact & estimation	34
Maximizing integrative learning in software development teams: A systematic review of key drivers and future research agenda	33
Automatically recognizing the semantic elements from UML class diagram images	32
Taxonomy of security weaknesses in Java and Kotlin Android apps	32
Exploring the use of static and dynamic analysis to improve the performance of the mining sandbox approach for android malware identification	31
DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting framework for software vulnerability detection	31
Software micro-rejuvenation for Android mobile systems	31
Conformance assessment of Architectural Design Decisions on API endpoint designs derived from domain models	31
Discovering boundary values of feature-based machine learning classifiers through exploratory datamorphic testing	30
When traceability goes awry: An industrial experience report	30
Combine sliced joint graph with graph neural networks for smart contract vulnerability detection	30
Understanding the low inter-rater agreement on aggressiveness on the Linux Kernel Mailing List	29
Effectiveness of symmetric metamorphic relations on validating the stability of code generation LLM	29
Variability management and software product line knowledge in software companies	29
SynthoMinds: Bridging human programming intuition with retrieval, analogy, and reasoning in program synthesis	29
A proposal and assessment of an improved heuristic for the Eager Test smell detection	29
Examining the effect of software professionals’ personality & additional capabilities on agile teams’ climate	28
Automatic modelling and verification of Autosar architectures	28
DValidator: An approach for validating dependencies in build configurations	28
CharM — Evaluating a model for characterizing service-based architectures	27
Exploring multi-programming-language commits and their impacts on software quality: An empirical study on Apache projects	27
Continuous software security through security prioritisation meetings	27
Survey of annotation generators for deductive verifiers	27
Choosing the right path for AI integration in engineering companies: A strategic guide	26
Transformation-based model checking temporal trust in multi-agent systems	26

Software Engineering Competency Models and Intercultural Communication Competencies: A Systematic Literature Review	26
A critical comparison on six static analysis tools: Detection, agreement, and precision	26
Design for dependability — State of the art and trends	26
End-users’ knowledge and perception about security of clinical mobile health apps: A case study with two Saudi Arabian mHealth providers	25
Fine-grained smart contract vulnerability detection by heterogeneous code feature learning and automated dataset construction	25
Work-from-home is here to stay: Call for flexibility in post-pandemic work policies	25
Architecting ML-enabled systems: Challenges, best practices, and design decisions	25
BinCoFer: Three-stage purification for effective C/C++ binary third-party library detection	25
A sampling-based online Co-Location-Resistant Virtual Machine placement strategy	25
Navigating the DevOps landscape	25
Editorial Board	25
Architectural tactics to achieve quality attributes of machine-learning-enabled systems: a systematic literature review	24
SEXTAMT: A systematic map to navigate the wide seas of factors affecting expert judgment software estimates	24
MPLinker: Multi-template Prompt-tuning with adversarial training for Issue–commit Link recovery	24
Semantic interoperability for an AI-based applications platform for smart hospitals using HL7 FHIR	24
A structural taxonomy for lifted software product line analyses	23
Integration test order generation based on reinforcement learning considering class importance	23
Enhancing empirical software performance engineering research with kernel-level events: A comprehensive system tracing approach	23
Boosting source code suggestion with self-supervised Transformer Gated Highway	23
A bot identification model and tool based on GitHub activity sequences	23
Do code reviews lead to fewer code smells?	23
How to identify class comment types? A multi-language approach for class comment classification	22
Software product lines and features from the perspective of set theory with an application to feature location	22
Deriving modernity signatures of codebases with static analysis	22
Editorial Board	22
Empirical pathways to developer experience: A facet-based synthesis of empirical designs and guidelines	21
Developers’ need for the rationale of code commits: An in-breadth and in-depth study	21
Neural-FEBI: Accurate function identification in Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode	21
Considerations and challenges for the adoption of open source components in software-intensive businesses	21
Connecting Systems Engineering and Domain Expertise through a Toolchain: A Simulation-Integrated MBSE Approach	21
The pipeline for the continuous development of artificial intelligence models—Current state of research and practice	21
A parallel worklist algorithm and its exploration heuristics for static modular analyses	21
Extracting goal models from natural language requirement specifications	21
Retriever: A view-based approach to reverse engineering software architecture models	21
Incremental-concurrent fusion checking for efficient context consistency	20
ExTrA: Explaining architectural design tradeoff spaces via dimensionality reduction	20
Automatic prediction of developers’ resolutions for software merge conflicts	20
On the impact of single and co-occurrent refactorings on quality attributes in android applications	20
An empirical investigation into the capabilities of anomaly detection approaches for test smell detection	20
Targeting uncertainty in smart CPS by confidence-based logic	20
UVL: Feature modelling with the Universal Variability Language	20
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Runtime reliability fractional distribution change analytics against cloud-based systems DDoS attacks	19
Code beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Exploring the relation between code beauty and quality	19
On the relationship between source-code metrics and cognitive load: A systematic tertiary review	18
The AmbiTRUS framework for identifying potential ambiguity in user stories	18
Multivocal study on microservice dependencies	18
Hierarchical tree-based algorithms for efficient expression parsing and test sequence generation in software models	18
A/B testing: A systematic literature review	18
Decentralized decision-making and scaled autonomy at Spotify	18
A cloud-based data processing and visualization pipeline for the fibre roll-out in Germany	18
Editorial Board	18
A Cross-Domain Systematic Mapping Study on Software Engineering for Digital Twins	18
Supporting meta-model-based language evolution and rapid prototyping with automated grammar transformation	18
Hippo: A formal-model execution engine to control and verify critical real-time systems	18
Just-in-time software vulnerability detection: Are we there yet?	18
SeCNN: A semantic CNN parser for code comment generation	18
Collection skeletons: Declarative abstractions for data collections	17
An empirical evaluation of static, dynamic, and hybrid slicing of WebAssembly binaries	17
Test scenario generation for feature-based context-oriented software systems	17
Beyond code: Is there a difference between comments in visual and textual languages?	17
Adaptive robustness evaluation for complex system prognostics and health management software platform	17
Developing and sustaining a student-driven software solutions center—An experience report	17
Input sensitivity on the performance of configurable systems an empirical study	17
Performability evaluation of NoSQL-based storage systems	17
CubeAgent: Efficient query-based video adversarial examples generation through deep reinforcement learning	16
Modeling and verifying resources and capabilities of ubiquitous scenarios for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle swarm	16
Refactoring react-based Web apps	16
EnseSmells : Deep ensemble and programming language models for automated code smells detection	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
A systematic literature review on benchmarks for evaluating debugging approaches	16
Software engineering education: Results from a training intervention based on SonarCloud when developing web apps	16
Benchmarking scalability of stream processing frameworks deployed as microservices in the cloud	16
An empirical evaluation of quasi-static executable slices	16
DigBug—Pre/post-processing operator selection for accurate bug localization	15
Understanding practitioners’ challenges and requirements in the design, implementation, and evaluation of anti-phishing interventions	15
Editorial Board	15
Impermanent identifiers: Enhanced source code comprehension and refactoring	15
SuMo: A mutation testing approach and tool for the Ethereum blockchain	15

CONSERVE: A framework for the selection of techniques for monitoring containers security	15
Profiling gas consumption in solidity smart contracts	15
Automated functional and robustness testing of microservice architectures	15
Organizational factors of software performance testing for systems of systems: A case study using high-reliability organization theory to understand an outage	15
FSECAM: A contextual thematic approach for linking feature to multi-level software architectural components	15
Predicting test failures induced by software defects: A lightweight alternative to software defect prediction and its industrial application	15
The qualitative factor in software testing: A systematic mapping study of qualitative methods	15
SCGRU: A general approach for identifying multiple classes of self-admitted technical debt with text generation oversampling	15
Barriers to device longevity and reuse: A vintage device empirical study	15
Software engineering team project courses with industrial customers: Students’ insights on challenges and lessons learned	15
So much more than test cases – An industrial study on testing of software units and components	15
CSAT: Configuration structure-aware tuning for highly configurable software systems	15
On the dependency heaviness of CRAN/Bioconductor ecosystem	15
People want reassurance when making privacy-related decisions — Not technicalities	15
An architecture for model-based and intelligent automation in DevOps	15
Editorial Board	14
Model-driven safety and security co-analysis: A systematic literature review	14
Mutation testing of PL/SQL programs	14
CoDEvo: Column family database evolution using model transformations	14
Assets in Software Engineering: What are they after all?	14
An efficient heuristic algorithm for software module clustering optimization	14
EdgeWorkflow: One click to test and deploy your workflow applications to the edge	14
On the outdatedness of workflows in the GitHub Actions ecosystem	14
A comparative analysis of ML techniques for bug report classification	14
Software modernization powered by dynamic language product lines	14
On the relation of method popularity to breaking changes in the Maven ecosystem	14
Product lines of dataflows	14
CIT-daily: A combinatorial interaction testing-based daily build process	14
Ensemble Effort Estimation: An updated and extended systematic literature review	14
Research artifacts in software engineering publications: Status and trends	14
Missing standard features compared with similar apps? A feature recommendation method based on the knowledge from user interface	14
An empirical study of COVID-19 related posts on Stack Overflow: Topics and technologies	13
A model-based mode-switching framework based on security vulnerability scores	13
Agile elicitation of scalability requirements for open systems: A case study	13
Automatic extraction of security-rich dataflow diagrams for microservice applications written in Java	13
Test case prioritization using partial attention	13
An annotation-based approach for finding bugs in neural network programs	13
Feature-based software design pattern detection	13
An Investigation of confusing code patterns in JavaScript	13
Perceptions of the human and social factors that influence the productivity of software development teams in Colombia: A statistical analysis	13
SGT: Aging-related bug prediction via semantic feature learning based on graph-transformer	13
Secure and flexible message-based communication for mobile apps within and across devices	13
Improving test case selection by handling class and attribute noise	13
Empathy models and software engineering — A preliminary analysis and taxonomy	13
An analysis of open source software licensing questions in Stack Exchange sites	13
The Prevent-Model: Human and Organizational Factors Fostering Engineering of Safe and Secure Robotic Systems	12
TitleGen-FL: Quality prediction-based filter for automated issue title generation	12
A model-driven formal methods approach to software architectural security vulnerabilities specification and verification	12
Automatically generating test cases for safety-critical software via symbolic execution	12
Shedding light on the dark side – A systematic literature review of the issues in agile software development methodology use	12
GeQuPI: Quantum Program Improvement with Multi-Objective Genetic Programming	12
RepliComment: Identifying clones in code comments	12
Software engineering for quantum programming: How far are we?	12
Investigating acceptance behavior in software engineering—Theoretical perspectives	12
Demystifying issues, causes and solutions in LLM open-source projects	12
Identifying concerns when specifying machine learning-enabled systems: A perspective-based approach	12
WASMICO: Micro-containers in microcontrollers with WebAssembly	12
RobEthiChor: Automated Context-aware Ethics-based Negotiation for Autonomous Robots	12
Adaptive data quality scoring operations framework using drift-aware mechanism for industrial applications	12
AI-Driven Decision-Making in Healthcare Information Systems: A Comprehensive Review	12
Out of the BLEU: How should we assess quality of the Code Generation models?	12
Experimenting architectural patterns in federated learning systems	12
BIT: A template-based approach to incremental and bidirectional model-to-text transformation	12
Random or heuristic? An empirical study on path search strategies for test generation in KLEE	11
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	11
Trace matrix optimization for fault localization	11
MicroFog: A framework for scalable placement of microservices-based IoT applications in federated Fog environments	11
Catalog and detection techniques of microservice anti-patterns and bad smells: A tertiary study	11
Changes in perceived productivity of software engineers during COVID-19 pandemic: The voice of evidence	11
TOSCAdata: Modeling data pipeline applications in TOSCA	11
An empirical study of software architecture resilience evaluation methods	11
DongTing: A large-scale dataset for anomaly detection of the Linux kernel	11
The influence of the city metaphor and its derivates in software visualization	11
Log statements generation via deep learning: Widening the support provided to developers	11
Symbolic testing of floating-point bugs and exceptions	11
DeepKernel: 2D-kernels clustering based mutant reduction for cost-effective deep learning model testing	11
Towards cost-efficient vulnerability detection with cross-modal adversarial reprogramming	11
Automated identification of security discussions in microservices systems: Industrial surveys and experiments	11
Microservice architecture recovery based on intra-service and inter-service features	11
Effective software security enhancement using an improved PointNet++	11
A Multi-vocal Literature Review on challenges and critical success factors of phishing education, training and awareness	11
Processes, methods, and tools in model-based engineering—A qualitative multiple-case study	11
Evaluating software security maturity using OWASP SAMM: Different approaches and stakeholders perceptions	11
A systematic review on security and safety of self-adaptive systems	11
On the evaluation of usability design guidelines for improving network monitoring tools interfaces	11