Journal of Systems and Software

Article	Citations
Code smells and refactoring: A tertiary systematic review of challenges and observations	94
A systematic literature review of blockchain and smart contract development: Techniques, tools, and open challenges	91
On testing machine learning programs	79
iFogSim2: An extended iFogSim simulator for mobility, clustering, and microservice management in edge and fog computing environments	76
A Systematic Mapping Study on Microservices Architecture in DevOps	75
A software engineering perspective on engineering machine learning systems: State of the art and challenges	70
Requirements engineering challenges and practices in large-scale agile system development	70
Exploring the intersection between software industry and Software Engineering education - A systematic mapping of Software Engineering Trends	67
A systematic literature review on Technical Debt prioritization: Strategies, processes, factors, and tools	64
Work-from-home is here to stay: Call for flexibility in post-pandemic work policies	57
Understanding coordination in global software engineering: A mixed-methods study on the use of meetings and Slack	56
Function-as-a-Service performance evaluation: A multivocal literature review	55
QMM-VANET: An efficient clustering algorithm based on QoS and monitoring of malicious vehicles in vehicular ad hoc networks	50
A large empirical assessment of the role of data balancing in machine-learning-based code smell detection	47
Software defect prediction based on enhanced metaheuristic feature selection optimization and a hybrid deep neural network	46
Design, monitoring, and testing of microservices systems: The practitioners’ perspective	46
A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments	45
General framework, opportunities and challenges for crowdsourcing techniques: A Comprehensive survey	45
Code smell detection by deep direct-learning and transfer-learning	44
Systematic literature reviews in software engineering—enhancement of the study selection process using Cohen’s Kappa statistic	43
Interpretability application of the Just-in-Time software defect prediction model	41
Software-testing education: A systematic literature mapping	40
Changes in perceived productivity of software engineers during COVID-19 pandemic: The voice of evidence	39
Toward a catalog of software quality metrics for infrastructure code	39
The role of the project manager in agile software development projects	37

A novel Security-by-Design methodology: Modeling and assessing security by SLAs with a quantitative approach	36
A critical review on the evaluation of automated program repair systems	35
ThermoSim: Deep learning based framework for modeling and simulation of thermal-aware resource management for cloud computing environments	35
HUNTER: AI based holistic resource management for sustainable cloud computing	33
Bug severity prediction using question-and-answer pairs from Stack Overflow	33
Concepts of variation control systems	32
When to update systematic literature reviews in software engineering	32
Cost-efficient dynamic scheduling of big data applications in apache spark on cloud	32
ECCOLA — A method for implementing ethically aligned AI systems	32
Architectural patterns for the design of federated learning systems	31
Relation-based test case prioritization for regression testing	31
Accessibility and Software Engineering Processes: A Systematic Literature Review	31
Modelling and executing IoT-enhanced business processes through BPMN and microservices	31
Finding faults: A scoping study of fault diagnostics for Industrial Cyber–Physical Systems	31
Analyzing bug fix for automatic bug cause classification	30
Runtime verification of train control systems with parameterized modal live sequence charts	30
Predicting the emergence of community smells using socio-technical metrics: A machine-learning approach	29
Does migrating a monolithic system to microservices decrease the technical debt?	29
Scalability Assessment of Microservice Architecture Deployment Configurations: A Domain-based Approach Leveraging Operational Profiles and Load Tests	29
A comprehensive study of automatic program repair on the QuixBugs benchmark	29
Deployment and communication patterns in microservice architectures: A systematic literature review	28
A Cross-Domain Systematic Mapping Study on Software Engineering for Digital Twins	28
Uncertainty modeling and runtime verification for autonomous vehicles driving control: A machine learning-based approach	28
Why and how to balance alignment and diversity of requirements engineering practices in automotive	28
SeCNN: A semantic CNN parser for code comment generation	27
Improving software bug-specific named entity recognition with deep neural network	27
On the use of deep learning in software defect prediction	27
Toward the automatic classification of Self-Affirmed Refactoring	27
The symptoms, causes, and repairs of bugs inside a deep learning library	26
Scrum versus Rational Unified Process in facing the main challenges of product configuration systems development	25
Technical debt forecasting: An empirical study on open-source repositories	25
Brain and autonomic nervous system activity measurement in software engineering: A systematic literature review	24
The impact factors on the performance of machine learning-based vulnerability detection: A comparative study	24
Adaptive distributed monitors of spatial properties for cyber–physical systems	24
Convolutional neural networks for enhanced classification mechanisms of metamodels	24
An automatically created novel bug dataset and its validation in bug prediction	24
Building and evaluating a theory of architectural technical debt in software-intensive systems	24
Learning software configuration spaces: A systematic literature review	24
A systematic literature review on semantic web enabled software testing	24
Do scaling agile frameworks address global software development risks? An empirical study	24
Black-box adversarial sample generation based on differential evolution	24
Some SonarQube issues have a significant but small effect on faults and changes. A large-scale empirical study	24
Data quality certification using ISO/IEC 25012: Industrial experiences	24
A comprehensive comparative study of clustering-based unsupervised defect prediction models	24
SpongeBugs: Automatically generating fix suggestions in response to static code analysis warnings	24
From forced Working-From-Home to voluntary working-from-anywhere: Two revolutions in telework	23
An empirical study of optimization bugs in GCC and LLVM	23
Software engineering practices for scientific software development: A systematic mapping study	23
A Kubernetes controller for managing the availability of elastic microservice based stateful applications	23
How to identify class comment types? A multi-language approach for class comment classification	23

Software reuse cuts both ways: An empirical analysis of its relationship with security vulnerabilities	23
Initiatives and challenges of using gamification in software engineering: A Systematic Mapping	22
GitHub Copilot AI pair programmer: Asset or Liability?	22
An Android application risk evaluation framework based on minimum permission set identification	22
Why and how is Scrum being adapted in practice: A systematic review	22
Contextualizing rename decisions using refactorings, commit messages, and data types	22
Achieving agility and quality in product development - an empirical study of hardware startups	21
SLA-aware multiple migration planning and scheduling in SDN-NFV-enabled clouds	21
Does code quality affect pull request acceptance? An empirical study	21
A taxonomy of service identification approaches for legacy software systems modernization	21
MontiThings: Model-Driven Development and Deployment of Reliable IoT Applications	21
Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	21
A systematic literature review and taxonomy of modern code review	20
On the generation, structure, and semantics of grammar patterns in source code identifiers	20
An empirical study on the co-occurrence between refactoring actions and Self-Admitted Technical Debt removal	20
MT-EA4Cloud: A Methodology For testing and optimising energy-aware cloud systems	20
Identifying vulnerabilities of SSL/TLS certificate verification in Android apps with static and dynamic analysis	20
A software reliability growth model for imperfect debugging	20
Modeling, analyzing and predicting security cascading attacks in smart buildings systems-of-systems	20
Integrating UX work with agile development through user stories: An action research study in a small software company	20
Multi-triage: A multi-task learning framework for bug triage	20
An ontology-based learning approach for automatically classifying security requirements	19
Data Augmentation by Program Transformation	19
FaaSten your decisions: A classification framework and technology review of function-as-a-Service platforms	19
ExploitGen: Template-augmented exploit code generation based on CodeBERT	19
Deep learning application on code clone detection: A review of current knowledge	18
A systematic literature review on blockchain governance	18
A model-driven approach for continuous performance engineering in microservice-based systems	18
Regression test case prioritization by code combinations coverage	18
On tracking Java methods with Git mechanisms	18
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	18
The influence of Technical Debt on software developer morale	18
Revealing the state of the art of large-scale agile development research: A systematic mapping study	18
Systematic literature review of validation methods for AI systems	18
Evaluating and strategizing the onboarding of software developers in large-scale globally distributed projects	17
Just-in-time software vulnerability detection: Are we there yet?	17
Cloud reliability and efficiency improvement via failure risk based proactive actions	17
ARC: Anomaly-aware Robust Cloud-integrated IoT service composition based on uncertainty in advertised quality of service values	17
An automatic software vulnerability classification framework using term frequency-inverse gravity moment and feature selection	17
The effects of database complexity on SQL query formulation	17
Data management for production quality deep learning models: Challenges and solutions	17
A systematic literature review of model-driven security engineering for cyber–physical systems	17
Multi-paradigm modeling for cyber–physical systems: A systematic mapping review	17
Towards the adoption of OMG standards in the development of SOA-based IoT systems	17
HMER: A Hybrid Mutation Execution Reduction approach for Mutation-based Fault Localization	17
MSL: A pattern language for engineering self-adaptive systems	16
TagDC: A tag recommendation method for software information sites with a combination of deep learning and collaborative filtering	16
Testing multiple linear regression systems with metamorphic testing	16
Representing software project vision by means of video: A quality model for vision videos	16
Open Data Ecosystems — An empirical investigation into an emerging industry collaboration concept	16
A stochastic algorithm for scheduling bag-of-tasks applications on hybrid clouds under task duration variations	16
MeMo: Automatically identifying metamorphic relations in Javadoc comments for test automation	16
Smells and refactorings for microservices security: A multivocal literature review	16
Model-based testing of software product lines: Mapping study and research roadmap	16
Service composition in dynamic environments: A systematic review and future directions	16
Security modelling and formal verification of survivability properties: Application to cyber–physical systems	16
Adaptive metamorphic testing with contextual bandits	16
Concept drift-aware temporal cloud service APIs recommendation for building composite cloud systems	15
Android code smells: From introduction to refactoring	15
Google summer of code: Student motivations and contributions	15
A survey of blockchain consensus safety and security: State-of-the-art, challenges, and future work	15
A bibliometric assessment of software engineering themes, scholars and institutions (2013–2020)	15
Preventing accessibility barriers: Guidelines for using user interface design patterns in mobile applications	15
Diversified keyword search based web service composition	15
Automated defect identification via path analysis-based features with transfer learning	15
Modeling programs hierarchically with stack-augmented LSTM	15
Towards a logical framework for ideal MBSE tool selection based on discipline specific requirements	15
Profiling gas consumption in solidity smart contracts	15
A classification framework for automated control code generation in industrial automation	15
Application of agile methods in traditional logistics companies and logistics startups	15
Mining Architecture Tactics and Quality Attributes knowledge in Stack Overflow	15
Enabling consistency in view-based system development — The Vitruvius approach	15
A proposal of architecture for integration and uniform use of hybrid SQL/NoSQL database components	14
Early validation of cyber–physical space systems via multi-concerns integration	14
Detecting violations of access control and information flow policies in data flow diagrams	14
Mining guidelines for architecting robotics software	14
Identifying architectural technical debt, principal, and interest in microservices: A multiple-case study	14
A systematic mapping study on architectural smells detection	14
Uncertainty-aware specification and analysis for hardware-in-the-loop testing of cyber-physical systems	14
A literature review of IoT and CPS—What they are, and what they are not	14

Understanding and recommending security requirements from problem domain ontology: A cognitive three-layered approach	14
Interdisciplinary effects of technical debt in companies with mechatronic products — a qualitative study	14
Satisfaction and its correlates in agile software development	14
An automated extract method refactoring approach to correct the long method code smell	14
Are game engines software frameworks? A three-perspective study	14
Automatic source code summarization with graph attention networks	14
Software engineering for quantum programming: How far are we?	14
Multilayered review of safety approaches for machine learning-based systems in the days of AI	14
A systematic study of reward for reinforcement learning based continuous integration testing	14
Assurance and certification of cyber–physical systems: The AMASS open source ecosystem	13
Transformed k-nearest neighborhood output distance minimization for predicting the defect density of software projects	13
A novel load balancing scheme for mobile edge computing	13
An evolutionary approach for generating software models: The case of Kromaia in Game Software Engineering	13
Traceability Link Recovery between Requirements and Models using an Evolutionary Algorithm Guided by a Learning to Rank Algorithm: Train control and management case	13
How has design thinking being used and integrated into software development activities? A systematic mapping	13
Adopting threat modelling in agile software development projects	13
Can this fault be detected: A study on fault detection via automated test generation	13
Graph4Web: A relation-aware graph attention network for web service classification	13
Architectural Design Space for Modelling and Simulation as a Service: A Review	13
STEP-ONE: Simulated testbed for Edge-Fog processes based on the Opportunistic Network Environment simulator	12
Custom-tailored clone detection for IEC 61131-3 programming languages	12
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	12
Capturing software architecture knowledge for pattern-driven design	12
A formal approach for the analysis of BPMN collaboration models	12
Don’t run on fumes—Parametric gas bounds for smart contracts	12
A systematic mapping study of developer social network research	12
Quality measurement in agile and rapid software development: A systematic mapping	12
Optimal test activity allocation for covariate software reliability and security models	12
Reliability analysis of dynamic fault trees with spare gates using conditional binary decision diagrams	12
Ensemble Effort Estimation using dynamic selection	11
Imbalanced metric learning for crashing fault residence prediction	11
An empirical characterization of software bugs in open-source Cyber–Physical Systems	11
Combine sliced joint graph with graph neural networks for smart contract vulnerability detection	11
A machine learning based framework for code clone validation	11
Tuning configuration of apache spark on public clouds by combining multi-objective optimization and performance prediction model	11
Similarity-based analyses on software applications: A systematic literature review	11
A federated society of bots for smart contract testing	11
Correctness checking for BPMN collaborations with sub-processes	11
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	11
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	11
Accessibility in the mobile development industry in Brazil: Awareness, knowledge, adoption, motivations and barriers	11
Facilitating program comprehension with call graph multilevel hierarchical abstractions	11
A framework for pervasive computing applications based on smart objects and end user development	11
A universal cross language software similarity detector for open source software categorization	11
Continuous experimentation and the cyber–physical systems challenge: An overview of the literature and the industrial perspective	11
Blended graphical and textual modelling for UML profiles: A proof-of-concept implementation and experiment	10
Supporting IoT applications deployment on edge-based infrastructures using multi-layer feature models	10
ASPLe: A methodology to develop self-adaptive software systems with systematic reuse	10
How are issue reports discussed in Gitter chat rooms?	10
The effect of transactive memory systems on process tailoring in software projects: The moderating role of task conflict and shared temporal cognitions	10
CommtPst: Deep learning source code for commenting positions prediction	10
A functional safety assessment method for cooperative automotive architecture	10
Market-oriented online bi-objective service scheduling for pleasingly parallel jobs with variable resources in cloud environments	10
Hansie: Hybrid and consensus regression test prioritization	10
A pattern-based approach to detect and improve non-descriptive test names	10
The state of research on software engineering competencies: A systematic mapping study	10
Feature-based software design pattern detection	10
ProDSPL: Proactive self-adaptation based on Dynamic Software Product Lines	10
Adapting Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for large-scale software systems	10
FCCI: A fuzzy expert system for identifying coincidental correct test cases	10
Revisiting the practices and pains of microservice architecture in reality: An industrial inquiry	10
VulSlicer: Vulnerability detection through code slicing	10
Taxonomy of security weaknesses in Java and Kotlin Android apps	10
Integrating GitLab metrics into coursework consultation sessions in a software engineering course	10
Towards optimal quality requirement documentation in agile software development: A multiple case study	10
Evaluating T-wise testing strategies in a community-wide dataset of configurable software systems	10