Journal of Systems and Software

Article	Citations
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	164
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	140
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	140
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	103
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	95
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	92
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	76
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	76
Editorial Board	74
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	72
Editorial Board	65
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	62
Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert	59
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	58
Why do builds fail?—A conceptual replication study	58
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	57
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	55
Introduction to the Special Issue on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation 2018	53
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	48
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	47
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	46
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	45
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	45
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	45
Machine learning based success prediction for crowdsourcing software projects	44

The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	43
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	40
On measuring coupling between microservices	39
Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	39
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	38
ECCOLA — A method for implementing ethically aligned AI systems	37
Exploring the use of static and dynamic analysis to improve the performance of the mining sandbox approach for android malware identification	36
Investigating the performance of personalized models for software defect prediction	35
Conformance assessment of Architectural Design Decisions on API endpoint designs derived from domain models	35
DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting framework for software vulnerability detection	35
Multi-granularity coverage criteria for deep reinforcement learning systems	35
A speech-enabled virtual assistant for efficient human–robot interaction in industrial environments	35
A modular metamodel and refactoring rules to achieve software product line interoperability	34
A fuzzy logic-based quality model for identifying microservices with low maintainability	34
Diverse title generation for Stack Overflow posts with multiple-sampling-enhanced transformer	34
Taxonomy of security weaknesses in Java and Kotlin Android apps	34
VIBE: Looking for Variability In amBiguous rEquirements	33
When traceability goes awry: An industrial experience report	33
Reproducibility of issues reported in stack overflow questions: Challenges, impact & estimation	32
Flexible control flow graph alignment for delivering data-driven feedback to novice programming learners	32
A data-driven active learning approach to reusing ML solutions in scientific applications	32
Challenges and opportunities: Implementing diversity and inclusion in software engineering university level education in Finland	31
Maximizing integrative learning in software development teams: A systematic review of key drivers and future research agenda	31
Software micro-rejuvenation for Android mobile systems	30
Improve cross-project just-in-time defect prediction with dynamic transfer learning	30
Code search engines for the next generation	30
Discovering boundary values of feature-based machine learning classifiers through exploratory datamorphic testing	29
Runtime verification of train control systems with parameterized modal live sequence charts	29
A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging	28
A three-step hybrid specification approach to error prevention	28
Explaining software fault predictions to spreadsheet users	28
Advancing modern code review effectiveness through human error mechanisms	27
A novel blockchain protocol for selecting microservices providers and auditing contracts	27
A model-driven approach for continuous performance engineering in microservice-based systems	27
Leveraging belief uncertainty for informed decision making in software product line evolution	27
Automatically recognizing the semantic elements from UML class diagram images	26
An evidence-based roadmap for IoT software systems engineering	26
Optimizing smart contract vulnerability detection via multi-modality code and entropy embedding	26
End-users’ knowledge and perception about security of clinical mobile health apps: A case study with two Saudi Arabian mHealth providers	25
Combine sliced joint graph with graph neural networks for smart contract vulnerability detection	25
Effectiveness of symmetric metamorphic relations on validating the stability of code generation LLM	25
SynthoMinds: Bridging human programming intuition with retrieval, analogy, and reasoning in program synthesis	24
Examining the effect of software professionals’ personality & additional capabilities on agile teams’ climate	24
Architecting ML-enabled systems: Challenges, best practices, and design decisions	24
Understanding the low inter-rater agreement on aggressiveness on the Linux Kernel Mailing List	24
Exploring multi-programming-language commits and their impacts on software quality: An empirical study on Apache projects	24
DValidator: An approach for validating dependencies in build configurations	23
System quality and security certification in seven weeks: A multi-case study in Spanish SMEs	23
A sampling-based online Co-Location-Resistant Virtual Machine placement strategy	23
CharM — Evaluating a model for characterizing service-based architectures	23

Variability management and software product line knowledge in software companies	23
Fine-grained smart contract vulnerability detection by heterogeneous code feature learning and automated dataset construction	23
Survey of annotation generators for deductive verifiers	22
Design for dependability — State of the art and trends	22
Product metrics for spreadsheets—A systematic review	22
Continuous software security through security prioritisation meetings	21
Transformation-based model checking temporal trust in multi-agent systems	21
A hybrid code representation learning approach for predicting method names	21
Choosing the right path for AI integration in engineering companies: A strategic guide	21
Do code reviews lead to fewer code smells?	21
A deductive reasoning approach for database applications using verification conditions	21
A critical comparison on six static analysis tools: Detection, agreement, and precision	21
Work-from-home is here to stay: Call for flexibility in post-pandemic work policies	21
Enhancing empirical software performance engineering research with kernel-level events: A comprehensive system tracing approach	21
Automatic modelling and verification of Autosar architectures	21
Navigating the DevOps landscape	21
Editorial Board	21
Neural-FEBI: Accurate function identification in Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode	20
MPLinker: Multi-template Prompt-tuning with adversarial training for Issue–commit Link recovery	20
Integration test order generation based on reinforcement learning considering class importance	20
Deriving modernity signatures of codebases with static analysis	20
Extracting goal models from natural language requirement specifications	20
Considerations and challenges for the adoption of open source components in software-intensive businesses	20
Software product lines and features from the perspective of set theory with an application to feature location	20
A parallel worklist algorithm and its exploration heuristics for static modular analyses	20
Architectural tactics to achieve quality attributes of machine-learning-enabled systems: a systematic literature review	20
SEXTAMT: A systematic map to navigate the wide seas of factors affecting expert judgment software estimates	20
MeTeaM—A method for characterizing mature software metrics teams	20
The pipeline for the continuous development of artificial intelligence models—Current state of research and practice	19
How to identify class comment types? A multi-language approach for class comment classification	19
A bot identification model and tool based on GitHub activity sequences	19
A structural taxonomy for lifted software product line analyses	19
GEML: A grammar-based evolutionary machine learning approach for design-pattern detection	19
Boosting source code suggestion with self-supervised Transformer Gated Highway	19
Semantic interoperability for an AI-based applications platform for smart hospitals using HL7 FHIR	19
Supporting meta-model-based language evolution and rapid prototyping with automated grammar transformation	18
A cloud-based data processing and visualization pipeline for the fibre roll-out in Germany	18
Hippo: A formal-model execution engine to control and verify critical real-time systems	18
On the relationship between source-code metrics and cognitive load: A systematic tertiary review	18
Incremental-concurrent fusion checking for efficient context consistency	18
Retriever: A view-based approach to reverse engineering software architecture models	18
Runtime reliability fractional distribution change analytics against cloud-based systems DDoS attacks	18
Targeting uncertainty in smart CPS by confidence-based logic	18
The AmbiTRUS framework for identifying potential ambiguity in user stories	17
Multivocal study on microservice dependencies	17
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SeCNN: A semantic CNN parser for code comment generation	17
Developers’ need for the rationale of code commits: An in-breadth and in-depth study	17
Just-in-time software vulnerability detection: Are we there yet?	16
On the impact of single and co-occurrent refactorings on quality attributes in android applications	16
An empirical investigation into the capabilities of anomaly detection approaches for test smell detection	16
Decentralized decision-making and scaled autonomy at Spotify	16
A Cross-Domain Systematic Mapping Study on Software Engineering for Digital Twins	16
ExTrA: Explaining architectural design tradeoff spaces via dimensionality reduction	16
Automatic prediction of developers’ resolutions for software merge conflicts	15
Fast and accurate incremental feedback for students’ software tests using selective mutation analysis	15
A/B testing: A systematic literature review	15
Adaptive robustness evaluation for complex system prognostics and health management software platform	15
Beyond code: Is there a difference between comments in visual and textual languages?	15
Performability evaluation of NoSQL-based storage systems	15
Developing and sustaining a student-driven software solutions center—An experience report	15
Barriers to device longevity and reuse: A vintage device empirical study	15
Refactoring react-based Web apps	15
Hierarchical tree-based algorithms for efficient expression parsing and test sequence generation in software models	15
Editorial Board	15
Special Issue on Software and Systems Reuse in the Big Data Era	15
How can feature usage be tracked across product variants? Implicit Feedback in Software Product Lines	15
Software engineering education: Results from a training intervention based on SonarCloud when developing web apps	14
Test scenario generation for feature-based context-oriented software systems	14
People want reassurance when making privacy-related decisions — Not technicalities	14
DigBug—Pre/post-processing operator selection for accurate bug localization	14
SCGRU: A general approach for identifying multiple classes of self-admitted technical debt with text generation oversampling	14
Collection skeletons: Declarative abstractions for data collections	14
Automated functional and robustness testing of microservice architectures	14
A systematic literature review on benchmarks for evaluating debugging approaches	14
CONSERVE: A framework for the selection of techniques for monitoring containers security	14
A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments	14
Input sensitivity on the performance of configurable systems an empirical study	14
Benchmarking scalability of stream processing frameworks deployed as microservices in the cloud	13
An empirical evaluation of static, dynamic, and hybrid slicing of WebAssembly Binaries	13

EdgeWorkflow: One click to test and deploy your workflow applications to the edge	13
Mapping the structure and evolution of software testing research over the past three decades	13
SuMo: A mutation testing approach and tool for the Ethereum blockchain	13
CoDEvo: Column family database evolution using model transformations	13
Tuning configuration of apache spark on public clouds by combining multi-objective optimization and performance prediction model	13
An empirical evaluation of quasi-static executable slices	13
An architecture for model-based and intelligent automation in DevOps	13
Profiling gas consumption in solidity smart contracts	13
Editorial Board	12
Predicting test failures induced by software defects: A lightweight alternative to software defect prediction and its industrial application	12
On the dependency heaviness of CRAN/Bioconductor ecosystem	12
CSAT: Configuration structure-aware tuning for highly configurable software systems	12
So much more than test cases – an industrial study on testing of software units and components	12
On the outdatedness of workflows in the GitHub Actions ecosystem	12
Model-driven safety and security co-analysis: A systematic literature review	12
Product lines of dataflows	12
Software modernization powered by dynamic language product lines	12
Missing standard features compared with similar apps? A feature recommendation method based on the knowledge from user interface	12
FSECAM: A contextual thematic approach for linking feature to multi-level software architectural components	12
CIT-daily: A combinatorial interaction testing-based daily build process	12
An efficient heuristic algorithm for software module clustering optimization	12
Editorial Board	12
On the relation of method popularity to breaking changes in the Maven ecosystem	12
Research artifacts in software engineering publications: Status and trends	12
Mutation testing of PL/SQL programs	12
Impermanent identifiers: Enhanced source code comprehension and refactoring	12
Organizational Factors of Software Performance Testing for Systems of Systems: A Case Study Using High-Reliability Organization Theory to Understand an Outage	12
Model-based testing in practice: An experience report from the web applications domain	12
Feature-based software design pattern detection	12
Assets in Software Engineering: What are they after all?	12
Agile elicitation of scalability requirements for open systems: A case study	11
An empirical study of COVID-19 related posts on Stack Overflow: Topics and technologies	11
A model-based mode-switching framework based on security vulnerability scores	11
An annotation-based approach for finding bugs in neural network programs	11
Automatically generating test cases for safety-critical software via symbolic execution	11
Adaptive data quality scoring operations framework using drift-aware mechanism for industrial applications	11
SGT: Aging-related bug prediction via semantic feature learning based on graph-transformer	11
Identifying concerns when specifying machine learning-enabled systems: A perspective-based approach	11
An analysis of open source software licensing questions in Stack Exchange sites	11
An Investigation of confusing code patterns in JavaScript	11
Software engineering for quantum programming: How far are we?	11
A model-driven formal methods approach to software architectural security vulnerabilities specification and verification	11
Improving test case selection by handling class and attribute noise	11
Perceptions of the human and social factors that influence the productivity of software development teams in Colombia: A statistical analysis	11
Ensemble Effort Estimation: An updated and extended systematic literature review	11
Automatic extraction of security-rich dataflow diagrams for microservice applications written in Java	11
An empirical characterization of event sourced systems and their schema evolution — Lessons from industry	11
Investigating acceptance behavior in software engineering—Theoretical perspectives	10
Symbolic testing of floating-point bugs and exceptions	10
FollowMe@LS: Electricity price and source aware resource management in geographically distributed heterogeneous datacenters	10
BIT: A template-based approach to incremental and bidirectional model-to-text transformation	10
TitleGen-FL: Quality prediction-based filter for automated issue title generation	10
Shedding light on the dark side – A systematic literature review of the issues in agile software development methodology use	10
Test case prioritization using partial attention	10
The influence of the city metaphor and its derivates in software visualization	10
GeQuPI: Quantum Program Improvement with Multi-Objective Genetic Programming	10
DeepKernel: 2D-kernels clustering based mutant reduction for cost-effective deep learning model testing	10
Empathy models and software engineering — A preliminary analysis and taxonomy	10
AI-Driven Decision-Making in Healthcare Information Systems: A Comprehensive Review	10
Out of the BLEU: How should we assess quality of the Code Generation models?	10
Evaluating software security maturity using OWASP SAMM: Different approaches and stakeholders perceptions	10
WASMICO: Micro-containers in microcontrollers with WebAssembly	10
FaaSten your decisions: A classification framework and technology review of function-as-a-Service platforms	10
Secure and flexible message-based communication for mobile apps within and across devices	10
The Prevent-Model: Human and Organizational Factors Fostering Engineering of Safe and Secure Robotic Systems	9
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	9
RepliComment: Identifying clones in code comments	9
API beauty is in the eye of the clients: 2.2 million Maven dependencies reveal the spectrum of client–API usages	9
Adaptive distributed monitors of spatial properties for cyber–physical systems	9
Random or heuristic? An empirical study on path search strategies for test generation in KLEE	9
DongTing: A large-scale dataset for anomaly detection of the Linux kernel	9
Microservice architecture recovery based on intra-service and inter-service features	9
Trace matrix optimization for fault localization	9
MicroFog: A framework for scalable placement of microservices-based IoT applications in federated Fog environments	9
An empirical study of software architecture resilience evaluation methods	9
TOSCAdata: Modeling data pipeline applications in TOSCA	9
Effective software security enhancement using an improved PointNet++	9
On the evaluation of usability design guidelines for improving network monitoring tools interfaces	9
Model-based safety engineering for autonomous train map	9
Log statements generation via deep learning: Widening the support provided to developers	9
A systematic review on security and safety of self-adaptive systems	9
A Multi-vocal Literature Review on challenges and critical success factors of phishing education, training and awareness	9
Towards cost-efficient vulnerability detection with cross-modal adversarial reprogramming	9
Processes, methods, and tools in model-based engineering—A qualitative multiple-case study	9
Automated identification of security discussions in microservices systems: Industrial surveys and experiments	9
Catalog and detection techniques of microservice anti-patterns and bad smells: A tertiary study	9
Automatic creation of acceptance tests by extracting conditionals from requirements: NLP approach and case study	9
Changes in perceived productivity of software engineers during COVID-19 pandemic: The voice of evidence	9
Understanding Virtual Onboarding Dynamics and Developer Turnover Intention in the Era of Pandemic	9
IADA: A dynamic interference-aware cloud scheduling architecture for latency-sensitive workloads	9