Journal of Systems and Software

Article	Citations
A systematic literature review of blockchain and smart contract development: Techniques, tools, and open challenges	120
Work-from-home is here to stay: Call for flexibility in post-pandemic work policies	104
iFogSim2: An extended iFogSim simulator for mobility, clustering, and microservice management in edge and fog computing environments	103
A Systematic Mapping Study on Microservices Architecture in DevOps	90
GitHub Copilot AI pair programmer: Asset or Liability?	84
A software engineering perspective on engineering machine learning systems: State of the art and challenges	84
Exploring the intersection between software industry and Software Engineering education - A systematic mapping of Software Engineering Trends	84
Requirements engineering challenges and practices in large-scale agile system development	82
A systematic literature review on Technical Debt prioritization: Strategies, processes, factors, and tools	80
Understanding coordination in global software engineering: A mixed-methods study on the use of meetings and Slack	71
Design, monitoring, and testing of microservices systems: The practitioners’ perspective	70
Function-as-a-Service performance evaluation: A multivocal literature review	63
Software defect prediction based on enhanced metaheuristic feature selection optimization and a hybrid deep neural network	56
Code smell detection by deep direct-learning and transfer-learning	56
A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments	55
A large empirical assessment of the role of data balancing in machine-learning-based code smell detection	54
Interpretability application of the Just-in-Time software defect prediction model	49
The role of the project manager in agile software development projects	49
On the use of deep learning in software defect prediction	48
A critical review on the evaluation of automated program repair systems	48
Toward a catalog of software quality metrics for infrastructure code	47
Changes in perceived productivity of software engineers during COVID-19 pandemic: The voice of evidence	46
Deployment and communication patterns in microservice architectures: A systematic literature review	45
Does migrating a monolithic system to microservices decrease the technical debt?	43
HUNTER: AI based holistic resource management for sustainable cloud computing	41

A Cross-Domain Systematic Mapping Study on Software Engineering for Digital Twins	41
Modelling and executing IoT-enhanced business processes through BPMN and microservices	40
Architectural patterns for the design of federated learning systems	39
Why and how is Scrum being adapted in practice: A systematic review	38
ECCOLA — A method for implementing ethically aligned AI systems	38
From forced Working-From-Home to voluntary working-from-anywhere: Two revolutions in telework	38
Data management for production quality deep learning models: Challenges and solutions	37
A comprehensive study of automatic program repair on the QuixBugs benchmark	36
Accessibility and Software Engineering Processes: A Systematic Literature Review	35
Data quality certification using ISO/IEC 25012: Industrial experiences	34
Brain and autonomic nervous system activity measurement in software engineering: A systematic literature review	33
Concepts of variation control systems	32
The symptoms, causes, and repairs of bugs inside a deep learning library	32
Learning software configuration spaces: A systematic literature review	32
Toward the automatic classification of Self-Affirmed Refactoring	31
Runtime verification of train control systems with parameterized modal live sequence charts	31
Do scaling agile frameworks address global software development risks? An empirical study	31
A Kubernetes controller for managing the availability of elastic microservice based stateful applications	31
Predicting the emergence of community smells using socio-technical metrics: A machine-learning approach	30
Initiatives and challenges of using gamification in software engineering: A Systematic Mapping	30
Software reuse cuts both ways: An empirical analysis of its relationship with security vulnerabilities	30
SeCNN: A semantic CNN parser for code comment generation	30
Black-box adversarial sample generation based on differential evolution	30
Just-in-time software vulnerability detection: Are we there yet?	30
How to identify class comment types? A multi-language approach for class comment classification	29
A taxonomy of service identification approaches for legacy software systems modernization	29
A systematic literature review and taxonomy of modern code review	29
Multi-triage: A multi-task learning framework for bug triage	29
An automatically created novel bug dataset and its validation in bug prediction	29
A model-driven approach for continuous performance engineering in microservice-based systems	29
Scrum versus Rational Unified Process in facing the main challenges of product configuration systems development	28
A comprehensive comparative study of clustering-based unsupervised defect prediction models	28
Technical debt forecasting: An empirical study on open-source repositories	28
Convolutional neural networks for enhanced classification mechanisms of metamodels	28
Software engineering for quantum programming: How far are we?	28
An empirical study of optimization bugs in GCC and LLVM	27
ExploitGen: Template-augmented exploit code generation based on CodeBERT	27
Software architecture for quantum computing systems — A systematic review	27
Adaptive distributed monitors of spatial properties for cyber–physical systems	26
Revealing the state of the art of large-scale agile development research: A systematic mapping study	26
Software engineering practices for scientific software development: A systematic mapping study	26
A systematic literature review on blockchain governance	26
Contextualizing rename decisions using refactorings, commit messages, and data types	26
A software reliability growth model for imperfect debugging	26
Some SonarQube issues have a significant but small effect on faults and changes. A large-scale empirical study	26
Integrating UX work with agile development through user stories: An action research study in a small software company	25
Systematic literature review of validation methods for AI systems	25
Smells and refactorings for microservices security: A multivocal literature review	25
MeMo: Automatically identifying metamorphic relations in Javadoc comments for test automation	25
Evaluating and strategizing the onboarding of software developers in large-scale globally distributed projects	25

Building and evaluating a theory of architectural technical debt in software-intensive systems	25
Data Augmentation by Program Transformation	24
Does code quality affect pull request acceptance? An empirical study	24
FaaSten your decisions: A classification framework and technology review of function-as-a-Service platforms	24
MontiThings: Model-Driven Development and Deployment of Reliable IoT Applications	24
SLA-aware multiple migration planning and scheduling in SDN-NFV-enabled clouds	24
Combine sliced joint graph with graph neural networks for smart contract vulnerability detection	24
On the generation, structure, and semantics of grammar patterns in source code identifiers	23
Out of the BLEU: How should we assess quality of the Code Generation models?	23
A systematic literature review of model-driven security engineering for cyber–physical systems	23
Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	23
Service composition in dynamic environments: A systematic review and future directions	22
A survey of blockchain consensus safety and security: State-of-the-art, challenges, and future work	22
A literature review of IoT and CPS—What they are, and what they are not	22
Deep learning application on code clone detection: A review of current knowledge	22
Regression test case prioritization by code combinations coverage	21
An empirical characterization of software bugs in open-source Cyber–Physical Systems	21
Open Data Ecosystems — An empirical investigation into an emerging industry collaboration concept	21
An empirical study on the co-occurrence between refactoring actions and Self-Admitted Technical Debt removal	21
Preventing accessibility barriers: Guidelines for using user interface design patterns in mobile applications	21
Mining Architecture Tactics and Quality Attributes knowledge in Stack Overflow	21
Profiling gas consumption in solidity smart contracts	20
Towards a logical framework for ideal MBSE tool selection based on discipline specific requirements	20
Adopting threat modelling in agile software development projects	20
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	20
A systematic mapping study on architectural smells detection	20
The pipeline for the continuous development of artificial intelligence models—Current state of research and practice	19
Towards the adoption of OMG standards in the development of SOA-based IoT systems	19
Multi-paradigm modeling for cyber–physical systems: A systematic mapping review	19
Automatic source code summarization with graph attention networks	19
Mining guidelines for architecting robotics software	19
Application of agile methods in traditional logistics companies and logistics startups	19
Feature-based software design pattern detection	19
Enabling consistency in view-based system development — The Vitruvius approach	19
Identifying architectural technical debt, principal, and interest in microservices: A multiple-case study	19
A stochastic algorithm for scheduling bag-of-tasks applications on hybrid clouds under task duration variations	18
CSGVD: A deep learning approach combining sequence and graph embedding for source code vulnerability detection	18
TagDC: A tag recommendation method for software information sites with a combination of deep learning and collaborative filtering	18
A systematic study of reward for reinforcement learning based continuous integration testing	18
Concept drift-aware temporal cloud service APIs recommendation for building composite cloud systems	17
An automated extract method refactoring approach to correct the long method code smell	17
Security modelling and formal verification of survivability properties: Application to cyber–physical systems	17
Testing multiple linear regression systems with metamorphic testing	17
Software professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey: Factors affecting their mental well-being and work engagement in the home-based work setting	17
Android code smells: From introduction to refactoring	17
A formal approach for the analysis of BPMN collaboration models	17
Graph4Web: A relation-aware graph attention network for web service classification	17
Interdisciplinary effects of technical debt in companies with mechatronic products — a qualitative study	17
Which builds are really safe to skip? Maximizing failure observation for build selection in continuous integration	17
Ensemble Effort Estimation using dynamic selection	17
An evolutionary approach for generating software models: The case of Kromaia in Game Software Engineering	17
Revisiting the practices and pains of microservice architecture in reality: An industrial inquiry	17
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	17
How has design thinking being used and integrated into software development activities? A systematic mapping	16
Are game engines software frameworks? A three-perspective study	16
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	16
Detecting violations of access control and information flow policies in data flow diagrams	16
Understanding and recommending security requirements from problem domain ontology: A cognitive three-layered approach	15
Early validation of cyber–physical space systems via multi-concerns integration	15
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	15
Quality measurement in agile and rapid software development: A systematic mapping	15
A decade of code comment quality assessment: A systematic literature review	15
Don’t run on fumes—Parametric gas bounds for smart contracts	15
Evaluating T-wise testing strategies in a community-wide dataset of configurable software systems	15
A bibliometric assessment of software engineering themes, scholars and institutions (2013–2020)	15
Multilayered review of safety approaches for machine learning-based systems in the days of AI	15
Reliability analysis of dynamic fault trees with spare gates using conditional binary decision diagrams	15
Exploring factors and metrics to select open source software components for integration: An empirical study	14
The state of research on software engineering competencies: A systematic mapping study	14
Accessibility in the mobile development industry in Brazil: Awareness, knowledge, adoption, motivations and barriers	14
Uncertainty-aware specification and analysis for hardware-in-the-loop testing of cyber-physical systems	14
A novel load balancing scheme for mobile edge computing	14
Capturing software architecture knowledge for pattern-driven design	14
Facilitating program comprehension with call graph multilevel hierarchical abstractions	14
ProDSPL: Proactive self-adaptation based on Dynamic Software Product Lines	13
Can this fault be detected: A study on fault detection via automated test generation	13
Supporting IoT applications deployment on edge-based infrastructures using multi-layer feature models	13
Automatically recognizing the semantic elements from UML class diagram images	13
A systematic mapping study of developer social network research	13
CausalRCA: Causal inference based precise fine-grained root cause localization for microservice applications	13

Assurance and certification of cyber–physical systems: The AMASS open source ecosystem	13
Automatic creation of acceptance tests by extracting conditionals from requirements: NLP approach and case study	13
VulSlicer: Vulnerability detection through code slicing	13
Software engineering research on the Robot Operating System: A systematic mapping study	13
CommtPst: Deep learning source code for commenting positions prediction	13
How secondary school girls perceive Computational Thinking practices through collaborative programming with the micro:bit	13
Precise Learning of Source Code Contextual Semantics via Hierarchical Dependence Structure and Graph Attention Networks	13
Custom-tailored clone detection for IEC 61131-3 programming languages	13
Architectural Design Space for Modelling and Simulation as a Service: A Review	13
Tuning configuration of apache spark on public clouds by combining multi-objective optimization and performance prediction model	12
Identification and measurement of Requirements Technical Debt in software development: A systematic literature review	12
Impact of individualism and collectivism cultural profiles on the behaviour of software developers: A study of stack overflow	12
Change impact analysis: A systematic mapping study	12
Path-directed source test case generation and prioritization in metamorphic testing	12
PRHAN: Automated Pull Request Description Generation Based on Hybrid Attention Network	12
Multi-factory production planning using edge computing and IIoT platforms	12
Is it a case study?—A critical analysis and guidance	12
Can we trust tests to automate dependency updates? A case study of Java Projects	12
Three decades of software reference architectures: A systematic mapping study	12
A systematic literature review on source code similarity measurement and clone detection: Techniques, applications, and challenges	12
A machine learning based framework for code clone validation	12
On introducing automatic test case generation in practice: A success story and lessons learned	12
A critical comparison on six static analysis tools: Detection, agreement, and precision	12
A case study on the stability of performance tests for serverless applications	12
How are issue reports discussed in Gitter chat rooms?	12
An automated model-based approach to repair test suites of evolving web applications	12
SuMo: A mutation testing approach and tool for the Ethereum blockchain	12
Blended graphical and textual modelling for UML profiles: A proof-of-concept implementation and experiment	12
Studying test-driven development and its retainment over a six-month time span	11
Towards optimal quality requirement documentation in agile software development: A multiple case study	11
Adapting Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for large-scale software systems	11
Enhancing the analysis of software failures in cloud computing systems with deep learning	11
Configuring mission-specific behavior in a product line of collaborating Small Unmanned Aerial Systems	11
Empathy models and software engineering — A preliminary analysis and taxonomy	11
Software micro-rejuvenation for Android mobile systems	11
On the practice of semantic versioning for Ansible galaxy roles: An empirical study and a change classification model	11
Can we benchmark Code Review studies? A systematic mapping study of methodology, dataset, and metric	11
Capturing creative requirements via requirements reuse: A machine learning-based approach	11
Hansie: Hybrid and consensus regression test prioritization	11
API beauty is in the eye of the clients: 2.2 million Maven dependencies reveal the spectrum of client–API usages	11
TitleGen-FL: Quality prediction-based filter for automated issue title generation	11
Continuous experimentation and the cyber–physical systems challenge: An overview of the literature and the industrial perspective	11
Test automation maturity improves product quality—Quantitative study of open source projects using continuous integration	11
Finding security threats that matter: Two industrial case studies	11
A functional safety assessment method for cooperative automotive architecture	11
Semantic feature learning for software defect prediction from source code and external knowledge	11
Collaborative Model-Driven Software Engineering — A systematic survey of practices and needs in industry	11
Imbalanced metric learning for crashing fault residence prediction	11
Distributed runtime verification by past-CTL and the field calculus	11
A co-evolutionary genetic algorithms approach to detect video game bugs	10
A compositional approach to creating architecture frameworks with an application to distributed AI systems	10
Emotimonitor: A Trello power-up to capture and monitor emotions of Agile teams	10
Why do builds fail?—A conceptual replication study	10
Error messages in relational database management systems: A comparison of effectiveness, usefulness, and user confidence	10
Factors affecting Agile adoption: An industry research study of the mobile app sector in Saudi Arabia	10
The impact of working from home on the success of Scrum projects: A multi-method study	10
Can gamification help in software testing education? Findings from an empirical study	10
IADA: A dynamic interference-aware cloud scheduling architecture for latency-sensitive workloads	10
Perceptions of the human and social factors that influence the productivity of software development teams in Colombia: A statistical analysis	10
Software product line scoping: A systematic literature review	10
Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert	10
A Test Restoration Method based on Genetic Algorithm for effective fault localization in multiple-fault programs	10
Applications of natural language processing in software traceability: A systematic mapping study	10
Market-oriented online bi-objective service scheduling for pleasingly parallel jobs with variable resources in cloud environments	10
Constrained locating arrays for combinatorial interaction testing	10
Automatic extraction of security-rich dataflow diagrams for microservice applications written in Java	10
Taxonomy of security weaknesses in Java and Kotlin Android apps	10
Managing latency in edge–cloud environment	10
How far does the predictive decision impact the software project? The cost, service time, and failure analysis from a cross-project defect prediction model	10
Applying Inter-Rater Reliability and Agreement in collaborative Grounded Theory studies in software engineering	10
Efficient transformer with code token learner for code clone detection	10
A sustainable-development approach for self-adaptive cyber–physical system’s life cycle: A systematic mapping study	9
High-availability clusters: A taxonomy, survey, and future directions	9
TOSCAdata: Modeling data pipeline applications in TOSCA	9
A holistic approach for cross-platform software development	9
Automatically generating test cases for safety-critical software via symbolic execution	9
Enhancing Ethereum smart-contracts static analysis by computing a precise Control-Flow Graph of Ethereum bytecode	9
Privacy explanations – A means to end-user trust	9
Fast and accurate incremental feedback for students’ software tests using selective mutation analysis	9
Clone detection through srcClone: A program slicing based approach	9
A complex network analysis of the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) package ecosystem	9
What factors affect the UX in mobile apps? A systematic mapping study on the analysis of app store reviews	9
Exploring the use of static and dynamic analysis to improve the performance of the mining sandbox approach for android malware identification	9
An evidence-based roadmap for IoT software systems engineering	9
Exploiting gated graph neural network for detecting and explaining self-admitted technical debts	9
Model-based testing in practice: An experience report from the web applications domain	9
Moderator factors of software security and performance verification	9
An extensive study on smell-aware bug localization	9
Hierarchical semantic-aware neural code representation	9
Catalog and detection techniques of microservice anti-patterns and bad smells: A tertiary study	9
EUDability: A new construct at the intersection of End-User Development and Computational Thinking	9
Burr-type NHPP-based software reliability models and their applications with two type of fault count data	9
E-SC4R: Explaining Software Clustering for Remodularisation	9
Selenium-Jupiter: A JUnit 5 extension for Selenium WebDriver	9