Journal of Systems and Software

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	332
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	231
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	225
Novel framework for automated testing of ill-defined human–robot interaction environments	189
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	158
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	157
Domain-specific conflict resolution and model merge	110
VULOC: Vulnerability location framework based on assembly code slicing	107
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	106
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	86
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	85
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	85
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	84
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	80
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	80
Experimental investigation of memory-related software aging in LLM systems	78
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	77
Integrating pair programming as a work practice	77
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	69
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	66
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	57
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	55
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	55
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	54
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	53

On measuring coupling between microservices	53
Managing security issues in software containers: From practitioners’ perspective	50
A modular metamodel and refactoring rules to achieve software product line interoperability	49
Multi-granularity coverage criteria for deep reinforcement learning systems	49
Explaining software fault predictions to spreadsheet users	48
Advancing modern code review effectiveness through human error mechanisms	47
Flexible control flow graph alignment for delivering data-driven feedback to novice programming learners	47
VIBE: Looking for Variability In amBiguous rEquirements	47
When traceability goes awry: An industrial experience report	46
A data-driven active learning approach to reusing ML solutions in scientific applications	46
Conformance assessment of Architectural Design Decisions on API endpoint designs derived from domain models	45
Improve cross-project just-in-time defect prediction with dynamic transfer learning	44
VeriFix: Verifying your fix towards an atomicity violation	43
Classification of security challenges and mitigation approaches in the quantum software engineering	43
Development of an automatic class diagram generator using an AI-based GRU classification model and 5W1H heuristic rules	42
Optimizing smart contract vulnerability detection via multi-modality code and entropy embedding	42
A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging	41
Diverse title generation for Stack Overflow posts with multiple-sampling-enhanced transformer	40
Reproducibility of issues reported in stack overflow questions: Challenges, impact & estimation	40
A fuzzy logic-based quality model for identifying microservices with low maintainability	38
Maximizing integrative learning in software development teams: A systematic review of key drivers and future research agenda	38
A speech-enabled virtual assistant for efficient human–robot interaction in industrial environments	37
Leveraging belief uncertainty for informed decision making in software product line evolution	37
DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting framework for software vulnerability detection	37
Proactive self-adaptation and assurance of explainable Human–Machine Teaming	36
BEACon-TD: Classifying Technical Debt and its types across diverse software projects issues using transformers	36
Challenges and opportunities: Implementing diversity and inclusion in software engineering university level education in Finland	36
An evidence-based roadmap for IoT software systems engineering	35
Examining the impact of bias mitigation algorithms on the sustainability of ML-enabled systems: A benchmark study	35
Code search engines for the next generation	35
Automatically recognizing the semantic elements from UML class diagram images	35
Minimal data, maximum clarity: A heuristic for explaining optimization	35
Architecting ML-enabled systems: Challenges, best practices, and design decisions	34
Combine sliced joint graph with graph neural networks for smart contract vulnerability detection	34
End-users’ knowledge and perception about security of clinical mobile health apps: A case study with two Saudi Arabian mHealth providers	33
DValidator: An approach for validating dependencies in build configurations	33
Effectiveness of symmetric metamorphic relations on validating the stability of code generation LLM	33
Fault analysis in additive manufacturing: Identifying causes of three-dimensional printer faults using machine learning and large language models	33
Choosing the right path for AI integration in engineering companies: A strategic guide	32
CharM — Evaluating a model for characterizing service-based architectures	31
Reference architecture for autonomy and adaptivity in satellites	31
Exploring multi-programming-language commits and their impacts on software quality: An empirical study on Apache projects	30
Continuous software security through security prioritisation meetings	30
Software engineering competency models and intercultural communication competencies: A systematic literature review	30
Automatic modelling and verification of Autosar architectures	29
A proposal and assessment of an improved heuristic for the Eager Test smell detection	29
Design for dependability — State of the art and trends	29
Transformation-based model checking temporal trust in multi-agent systems	28
SynthoMinds: Bridging human programming intuition with retrieval, analogy, and reasoning in program synthesis	28
A Systematic Mapping of federated learning operations and features: Architecture, communication and aggregation models	27

Editorial of the special issue on Quality in Software Architecture	27
Examining the effect of software professionals’ personality & additional capabilities on agile teams’ climate	27
Correctness and security analysis of the protection in transit (PIT) protocol	27
Understanding the low inter-rater agreement on aggressiveness on the Linux Kernel Mailing List	27
Survey of annotation generators for deductive verifiers	26
OREO: A tool-supported approach for offline run-time monitoring and fault–error–failure chain localization	26
Cross-site scripting adversarial attacks based on deep reinforcement learning: Evaluation and extension study	26
An empirical study on the performance overhead of code instrumentation in containerised microservices	26
A novel seed scheduling scheme using Thompson sampling for coverage-guided greybox fuzzing	25
Fine-grained smart contract vulnerability detection by heterogeneous code feature learning and automated dataset construction	25
Variability management and software product line knowledge in software companies	25
Data catalog tools: A systematic multivocal literature review	25
Statistical-based metric threshold setting method for software fault prediction in firmware projects: An industrial experience	25
Navigating the DevOps landscape	25
Do code reviews lead to fewer code smells?	24
Editorial Board	24
A critical comparison on six static analysis tools: Detection, agreement, and precision	24
Software product lines and features from the perspective of set theory with an application to feature location	24
Neural-FEBI: Accurate function identification in Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode	24
SARG: Software application resiliency prediction using graph neural networks	24
Work-from-home is here to stay: Call for flexibility in post-pandemic work policies	24
Deriving modernity signatures of codebases with static analysis	24
Editorial Board	24
Pragmatic random sampling of Kconfig-based systems: A unified approach	24
Extracting goal models from natural language requirement specifications	23
A weekly project newsletter to engage episodic participants in OSS projects	23
Automated assessment of the relationship between microservice architectures and performance	23
Towards sustainable cloud deployments: A cost (anti)patterns catalog for terraform and CloudFormation	23
A structural taxonomy for lifted software product line analyses	23
Integration test order generation based on reinforcement learning considering class importance	23
Boosting source code suggestion with self-supervised Transformer Gated Highway	23
Connecting systems engineering and domain expertise through a toolchain: A simulation-integrated MBSE approach	23
Empirical pathways to developer experience: A facet-based synthesis of empirical designs and guidelines	23
BinCoFer: Three-stage purification for effective C/C++ binary third-party library detection	23
BlockSOP: A blockchain-based software management platform for open collaborative development	23
HiFlaky: Hierarchy-aware flakiness classification	22
A bot identification model and tool based on GitHub activity sequences	22
Assessing the capability of android dynamic analysis tools to combat anti-runtime analysis techniques	22
Semantic interoperability for an AI-based applications platform for smart hospitals using HL7 FHIR	22
The pipeline for the continuous development of artificial intelligence models—Current state of research and practice	21
From attack descriptions to vulnerabilities: A sentence transformer-based approach	21
BugMentor: Generating answers to follow-up questions from software bug reports using structured information retrieval and neural text generation	21
Enhancing empirical software performance engineering research with kernel-level events: A comprehensive system tracing approach	21
MPLinker: Multi-template Prompt-tuning with adversarial training for Issue–commit Link recovery	21
Retriever: A view-based approach to reverse engineering software architecture models	21
Architectural tactics to achieve quality attributes of machine-learning-enabled systems: a systematic literature review	21
Incremental-concurrent fusion checking for efficient context consistency	21
Editorial Board	20
ExTrA: Explaining architectural design tradeoff spaces via dimensionality reduction	20
Automated end-to-end testing for conversational agents	20
Why do women pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science?	20
Software refactoring research with large language models: A systematic literature review	20
A cloud-based data processing and visualization pipeline for the fibre roll-out in Germany	19
L′	19
Code beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Exploring the relation between code beauty and quality	19
On the use of unsupervised machine learning for classification of crowd-based software requirements	18
Incentive mechanism for mobile crowd sensing with Assumed Bid Cost Reverse Auction	18
A Fine-grained parametric bootstrap approach for NHPP-based software reliability modeling	18
An empirical investigation into the capabilities of anomaly detection approaches for test smell detection	18
Systematic literature review on software code smell detection approaches	18
Do comments and expertise still matter? An experiment on programmers’ adoption of AI-generated JavaScript code	18
GDFuzz: An efficient directed fuzzing method based on XAI	18
On the relationship between source-code metrics and cognitive load: A systematic tertiary review	18
UX-work related needs in software startups: Diagnosis and resolution	18
MODIFy : A multi-modal anomaly diagnosis framework with diffusion-enhanced adaptive fusion in microservices	18
Decentralized decision-making and scaled autonomy at Spotify	18
Multivocal study on microservice dependencies	18
Supporting meta-model-based language evolution and rapid prototyping with automated grammar transformation	17
On the impact of single and co-occurrent refactorings on quality attributes in android applications	17
A Cross-Domain Systematic Mapping Study on Software Engineering for Digital Twins	17
Machine learning approaches for automated software traceability: A systematic literature review	17
UVL: Feature modelling with the Universal Variability Language	17
On the evolution of agile software team work arrangements	17
A/B testing: A systematic literature review	17
The AmbiTRUS framework for identifying potential ambiguity in user stories	17
Editorial Board	16
A white-box prompt injection attack on embodied AI agents driven by large language models	16
Test scenario generation for feature-based context-oriented software systems	16
How can feature usage be tracked across product variants? Implicit Feedback in Software Product Lines	16
Barriers to device longevity and reuse: A vintage device empirical study	16

Automatic prediction of developers’ resolutions for software merge conflicts	16
Modeling and verifying resources and capabilities of ubiquitous scenarios for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle swarm	16
A systematic literature review on benchmarks for evaluating debugging approaches	16
Input sensitivity on the performance of configurable systems an empirical study	16
Performability evaluation of NoSQL-based storage systems	16
Runtime reliability fractional distribution change analytics against cloud-based systems DDoS attacks	16
SCGRU: A general approach for identifying multiple classes of self-admitted technical debt with text generation oversampling	16
Runtime composition in dynamic system of systems: A systematic review of challenges, solutions, tools, and evaluation methods	16
Hierarchical tree-based algorithms for efficient expression parsing and test sequence generation in software models	16
Collection skeletons: Declarative abstractions for data collections	16
People want reassurance when making privacy-related decisions — Not technicalities	15
An empirical evaluation of static, dynamic, and hybrid slicing of WebAssembly binaries	15
Using development environment as code for enhancing developer experience: An action design research study	15
CubeAgent: Efficient query-based video adversarial examples generation through deep reinforcement learning	15
EnseSmells : Deep ensemble and programming language models for automated code smells detection	15
Key-augmented neural triggers for knowledge sharing	15
Adaptive robustness evaluation for complex system prognostics and health management software platform	15
An empirical evaluation of quasi-static executable slices	15
Mapping the structure and evolution of software testing research over the past three decades	15
Software engineering education: Results from a training intervention based on SonarCloud when developing web apps	15
Developing and sustaining a student-driven software solutions center—An experience report	15
Machine learning for software aging detection: A systematic mapping study	15
Automated functional and robustness testing of microservice architectures	15
Impermanent identifiers: Enhanced source code comprehension and refactoring	14
Editorial Board	14
Beyond code: Is there a difference between comments in visual and textual languages?	14
Benchmarking scalability of stream processing frameworks deployed as microservices in the cloud	14
On the dependency heaviness of CRAN/Bioconductor ecosystem	14
Tailoring binary decision diagram compilation for feature models	14
Missing standard features compared with similar apps? A feature recommendation method based on the knowledge from user interface	14
An architecture for model-based and intelligent automation in DevOps	14
Understanding practitioners’ challenges and requirements in the design, implementation, and evaluation of anti-phishing interventions	14
FSECAM: A contextual thematic approach for linking feature to multi-level software architectural components	14
CoDEvo: Column family database evolution using model transformations	14
Refactoring react-based Web apps	14
Model-driven safety and security co-analysis: A systematic literature review	14
Mutation testing of PL/SQL programs	13
Assets in Software Engineering: What are they after all?	13
An efficient heuristic algorithm for software module clustering optimization	13
So much more than test cases – An industrial study on testing of software units and components	13
Predicting test failures induced by software defects: A lightweight alternative to software defect prediction and its industrial application	13
Product lines of dataflows	13
Rethinking data selection strategies for more accurate software effort prediction using the ISBSG dataset	13
Editorial Board	13
A comparative analysis of ML techniques for bug report classification	13
Software modernization powered by dynamic language product lines	13
Is our chatbot telling lies? Assessing correctness of an LLM-based Dutch support chatbot	13
Software architecture for trustworthy software	13
CIT-daily: A combinatorial interaction testing-based daily build process	13
Refactoring cross-project code duplication in an industrial software product line: A case study from RDW	13
EdgeWorkflow: One click to test and deploy your workflow applications to the edge	13
Research artifacts in software engineering publications: Status and trends	13
Organizational factors of software performance testing for systems of systems: A case study using high-reliability organization theory to understand an outage	13
CSAT: Configuration structure-aware tuning for highly configurable software systems	13
Editorial Board	13
Shedding light on the dark side – A systematic literature review of the issues in agile software development methodology use	12
The life of software features: An exploratory case study of 189 feature requests in Marlin	12
Secure and flexible message-based communication for mobile apps within and across devices	12
Assessing UML diagrams by GPT: Implications for education	12
Software engineering team project courses with industrial customers: Students’ insights on challenges and lessons learned	12
AI-assisted code refactoring: Where can it be helpful and where do humans outperform it?	12
Perceptions of the human and social factors that influence the productivity of software development teams in Colombia: A statistical analysis	12
Test case prioritization using partial attention	12
Enhancing vulnerability repair through the extraction and matching of repair patterns	12
TitleGen-FL: Quality prediction-based filter for automated issue title generation	12
Identifying concerns when specifying machine learning-enabled systems: A perspective-based approach	12
An Investigation of confusing code patterns in JavaScript	12
The qualitative factor in software testing: A systematic mapping study of qualitative methods	12
Ensemble Effort Estimation: An updated and extended systematic literature review	12
RobEthiChor: Automated context-aware ethics-based negotiation for autonomous robots	12
RETRACTED: AI-Driven Decision-Making in Healthcare Information Systems: A Comprehensive Review	12
A model-driven formal methods approach to software architectural security vulnerabilities specification and verification	12
Investigating acceptance behavior in software engineering—Theoretical perspectives	12
The pragmatics of hybridity: A grounded theory of method integration in software engineering projects	12
On the relation of method popularity to breaking changes in the Maven ecosystem	12
On the use of machine learning for failure prediction after collective changes in automated continuous integration testing	12
SuMo: A mutation testing approach and tool for the Ethereum blockchain	12
Exploring developer experience factors in software ecosystems	12
Towards structured semantic representation via hierarchical transformer network for software defect prediction	12
Demystifying issues, causes and solutions in LLM open-source projects	11
Experimenting Architectural Patterns in Federated Learning Systems	11
“Digital Camouflage”: The LLVM challenge in LLM-based malware detection	11
DeepKernel: 2D-kernels clustering based mutant reduction for cost-effective deep learning model testing	11
Adaptive data quality scoring operations framework using drift-aware mechanism for industrial applications	11
Automatically generating test cases for safety-critical software via symbolic execution	11
A model-based mode-switching framework based on security vulnerability scores	11
Out of the BLEU: How should we assess quality of the Code Generation models?	11
GeQuPI: Quantum Program Improvement with Multi-Objective Genetic Programming	11
An overview of the use of alternative funding and contracting approaches relevant for agile software development: A systematic review of real-life experiences	11
Design and implementation of an automated maintainability assessment tool for SOFL formal specifications	11
SGT: Aging-related bug prediction via semantic feature learning based on graph-transformer	11
Effective software security enhancement using an improved PointNet++	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
Mokav: Execution-driven differential testing with LLMs	11