Journal of Systems and Software

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	300
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	218
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	211
Novel framework for automated testing of ill-defined human–robot interaction environments	176
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	152
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	128
Integrating pair programming as a work practice	105
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	95
Domain-specific conflict resolution and model merge	91
VULOC: Vulnerability location framework based on assembly code slicing	87
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	79
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	78
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	77
On measuring coupling between microservices	77
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	76
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	74
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	72
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	66
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	65
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	63
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	63
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	62
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	52
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	51
Experimental investigation of memory-related software aging in LLM systems	51

A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	50
A fuzzy logic-based quality model for identifying microservices with low maintainability	50
Multi-granularity coverage criteria for deep reinforcement learning systems	48
Managing security issues in software containers: From practitioners’ perspective	48
Maximizing integrative learning in software development teams: A systematic review of key drivers and future research agenda	47
A modular metamodel and refactoring rules to achieve software product line interoperability	46
Leveraging belief uncertainty for informed decision making in software product line evolution	46
Explaining software fault predictions to spreadsheet users	45
Challenges and opportunities: Implementing diversity and inclusion in software engineering university level education in Finland	44
Flexible control flow graph alignment for delivering data-driven feedback to novice programming learners	43
Advancing modern code review effectiveness through human error mechanisms	43
BEACon-TD: Classifying Technical Debt and its types across diverse software projects issues using transformers	41
VIBE: Looking for Variability In amBiguous rEquirements	41
When traceability goes awry: An industrial experience report	41
A data-driven active learning approach to reusing ML solutions in scientific applications	40
Code search engines for the next generation	39
Proactive self-adaptation and assurance of explainable Human–Machine Teaming	39
Automatically recognizing the semantic elements from UML class diagram images	38
Conformance assessment of Architectural Design Decisions on API endpoint designs derived from domain models	38
Examining the impact of bias mitigation algorithms on the sustainability of ML-enabled systems: A benchmark study	37
Improve cross-project just-in-time defect prediction with dynamic transfer learning	37
A speech-enabled virtual assistant for efficient human–robot interaction in industrial environments	36
Optimizing smart contract vulnerability detection via multi-modality code and entropy embedding	36
VeriFix: Verifying your fix towards an atomicity violation	36
A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging	35
Development of an automatic class diagram generator using an AI-based GRU classification model and 5W1H heuristic rules	35
An evidence-based roadmap for IoT software systems engineering	35
Diverse title generation for Stack Overflow posts with multiple-sampling-enhanced transformer	34
Combine sliced joint graph with graph neural networks for smart contract vulnerability detection	34
DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting framework for software vulnerability detection	34
DValidator: An approach for validating dependencies in build configurations	32
Software engineering competency models and intercultural communication competencies: A systematic literature review	32
Reproducibility of issues reported in stack overflow questions: Challenges, impact & estimation	32
Continuous software security through security prioritisation meetings	32
ParityFuzz: Finding inconsistencies across solidity compilers via fine-grained mutation and differential analysis	32
A proposal and assessment of an improved heuristic for the Eager Test smell detection	30
SynthoMinds: Bridging human programming intuition with retrieval, analogy, and reasoning in program synthesis	30
Exploring multi-programming-language commits and their impacts on software quality: An empirical study on Apache projects	30
Statistical-based metric threshold setting method for software fault prediction in firmware projects: An industrial experience	30
Survey of annotation generators for deductive verifiers	30
Automatic modelling and verification of Autosar architectures	29
Reference architecture for autonomy and adaptivity in satellites	29
Variability management and software product line knowledge in software companies	28
Transformation-based model checking temporal trust in multi-agent systems	28
A novel seed scheduling scheme using Thompson sampling for coverage-guided greybox fuzzing	28
Design for dependability — State of the art and trends	28
Architecting ML-enabled systems: Challenges, best practices, and design decisions	27
CharM — Evaluating a model for characterizing service-based architectures	27
Correctness and security analysis of the protection in transit (PIT) protocol	27
Pragmatic random sampling of Kconfig-based systems: A unified approach	26

An empirical study on the performance overhead of code instrumentation in containerised microservices	26
Editorial of the special issue on Quality in Software Architecture	26
OREO: A tool-supported approach for offline run-time monitoring and fault–error–failure chain localization	26
Data catalog tools: A systematic multivocal literature review	26
Effectiveness of symmetric metamorphic relations on validating the stability of code generation LLM	25
Choosing the right path for AI integration in engineering companies: A strategic guide	25
Understanding the low inter-rater agreement on aggressiveness on the Linux Kernel Mailing List	25
A critical comparison on six static analysis tools: Detection, agreement, and precision	25
End-users’ knowledge and perception about security of clinical mobile health apps: A case study with two Saudi Arabian mHealth providers	25
Navigating the DevOps landscape	25
BinCoFer: Three-stage purification for effective C/C++ binary third-party library detection	24
Examining the effect of software professionals’ personality & additional capabilities on agile teams’ climate	24
Fault analysis in additive manufacturing: Identifying causes of three-dimensional printer faults using machine learning and large language models	24
Fine-grained smart contract vulnerability detection by heterogeneous code feature learning and automated dataset construction	24
Work-from-home is here to stay: Call for flexibility in post-pandemic work policies	24
Assessing the capability of android dynamic analysis tools to combat anti-runtime analysis techniques	23
SARG: Software application resiliency prediction using graph neural networks	23
Software product lines and features from the perspective of set theory with an application to feature location	23
Connecting systems engineering and domain expertise through a toolchain: A simulation-integrated MBSE approach	23
Extracting goal models from natural language requirement specifications	23
Architectural tactics to achieve quality attributes of machine-learning-enabled systems: a systematic literature review	23
Deriving modernity signatures of codebases with static analysis	23
MPLinker: Multi-template Prompt-tuning with adversarial training for Issue–commit Link recovery	23
HiFlaky: Hierarchy-aware flakiness classification	23
Editorial Board	23
Editorial Board	23
Enhancing empirical software performance engineering research with kernel-level events: A comprehensive system tracing approach	23
Do code reviews lead to fewer code smells?	22
Empirical pathways to developer experience: A facet-based synthesis of empirical designs and guidelines	22
The pipeline for the continuous development of artificial intelligence models—Current state of research and practice	22
A bot identification model and tool based on GitHub activity sequences	22
Integration test order generation based on reinforcement learning considering class importance	22
Semantic interoperability for an AI-based applications platform for smart hospitals using HL7 FHIR	22
A structural taxonomy for lifted software product line analyses	22
BlockSOP: A blockchain-based software management platform for open collaborative development	21
Boosting source code suggestion with self-supervised Transformer Gated Highway	21
Developers’ need for the rationale of code commits: An in-breadth and in-depth study	21
From attack descriptions to vulnerabilities: A sentence transformer-based approach	21
Incremental-concurrent fusion checking for efficient context consistency	21
Neural-FEBI: Accurate function identification in Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode	21
BugMentor: Generating answers to follow-up questions from software bug reports using structured information retrieval and neural text generation	21
On the relationship between source-code metrics and cognitive load: A systematic tertiary review	20
The AmbiTRUS framework for identifying potential ambiguity in user stories	20
Editorial Board	20
Automatic prediction of developers’ resolutions for software merge conflicts	20
On the use of unsupervised machine learning for classification of crowd-based software requirements	20
A cloud-based data processing and visualization pipeline for the fibre roll-out in Germany	19
Why do women pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science?	19
On the impact of single and co-occurrent refactorings on quality attributes in android applications	19
Decentralized decision-making and scaled autonomy at Spotify	19
ExTrA: Explaining architectural design tradeoff spaces via dimensionality reduction	19
GDFuzz: An efficient directed fuzzing method based on XAI	18
L′	18
Code beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Exploring the relation between code beauty and quality	18
On the evolution of agile software team work arrangements	18
Dear researchers: The invisible work	18
Systematic literature review on software code smell detection approaches	18
Supporting meta-model-based language evolution and rapid prototyping with automated grammar transformation	18
Machine learning approaches for automated software traceability: A systematic literature review	18
UX-work related needs in software startups: Diagnosis and resolution	18
A Fine-grained parametric bootstrap approach for NHPP-based software reliability modeling	18
Incentive mechanism for mobile crowd sensing with Assumed Bid Cost Reverse Auction	18
Runtime reliability fractional distribution change analytics against cloud-based systems DDoS attacks	18
Retriever: A view-based approach to reverse engineering software architecture models	18
An empirical investigation into the capabilities of anomaly detection approaches for test smell detection	17
Multivocal study on microservice dependencies	17
UVL: Feature modelling with the Universal Variability Language	17
Just-in-time software vulnerability detection: Are we there yet?	17
Do comments and expertise still matter? An experiment on programmers’ adoption of AI-generated JavaScript code	17
Education, Awareness, and Adoption of International Software Quality Standards: A Systematic Literature Review	17
A/B testing: A systematic literature review	17
Automated end-to-end testing for conversational agents	17
Software refactoring research with large language models: A systematic literature review	16
Runtime composition in dynamic system of systems: A systematic review of challenges, solutions, tools, and evaluation methods	16
A white-box prompt injection attack on embodied AI agents driven by large language models	16
A Cross-Domain Systematic Mapping Study on Software Engineering for Digital Twins	16
Editorial Board	16
Adaptive robustness evaluation for complex system prognostics and health management software platform	16
On the engineering of robust microservice architectures through anti-pattern recognition	16
Developing and sustaining a student-driven software solutions center—An experience report	16

Mapping the structure and evolution of software testing research over the past three decades	16
Input sensitivity on the performance of configurable systems an empirical study	15
A systematic literature review on benchmarks for evaluating debugging approaches	15
Automated functional and robustness testing of microservice architectures	15
How can feature usage be tracked across product variants? Implicit Feedback in Software Product Lines	15
Barriers to device longevity and reuse: A vintage device empirical study	15
DigBug—Pre/post-processing operator selection for accurate bug localization	15
Machine learning for software aging detection: A systematic mapping study	15
Test scenario generation for feature-based context-oriented software systems	15
Hierarchical tree-based algorithms for efficient expression parsing and test sequence generation in software models	15
Modeling and verifying resources and capabilities of ubiquitous scenarios for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle swarm	14
Benchmarking scalability of stream processing frameworks deployed as microservices in the cloud	14
An empirical evaluation of static, dynamic, and hybrid slicing of WebAssembly binaries	14
Refactoring react-based Web apps	14
Performability evaluation of NoSQL-based storage systems	14
SCGRU: A general approach for identifying multiple classes of self-admitted technical debt with text generation oversampling	14
EnseSmells : Deep ensemble and programming language models for automated code smells detection	14
An empirical evaluation of quasi-static executable slices	14
Software engineering education: Results from a training intervention based on SonarCloud when developing web apps	14
Understanding practitioners’ challenges and requirements in the design, implementation, and evaluation of anti-phishing interventions	14
People want reassurance when making privacy-related decisions — Not technicalities	14
Using development environment as code for enhancing developer experience: An action design research study	14
An architecture for model-based and intelligent automation in DevOps	14
Collection skeletons: Declarative abstractions for data collections	14
Beyond code: Is there a difference between comments in visual and textual languages?	14
EdgeWorkflow: One click to test and deploy your workflow applications to the edge	14
CubeAgent: Efficient query-based video adversarial examples generation through deep reinforcement learning	14
FSECAM: A contextual thematic approach for linking feature to multi-level software architectural components	13
CIT-daily: A combinatorial interaction testing-based daily build process	13
On the relation of method popularity to breaking changes in the Maven ecosystem	13
Editorial Board	13
Mutation testing of PL/SQL programs	13
Impermanent identifiers: Enhanced source code comprehension and refactoring	13
Rethinking data selection strategies for more accurate software effort prediction using the ISBSG dataset	13
SuMo: A mutation testing approach and tool for the Ethereum blockchain	13
Missing standard features compared with similar apps? A feature recommendation method based on the knowledge from user interface	13
Organizational factors of software performance testing for systems of systems: A case study using high-reliability organization theory to understand an outage	13
Editorial Board	13
On the dependency heaviness of CRAN/Bioconductor ecosystem	13
Model-driven safety and security co-analysis: A systematic literature review	13
Assets in Software Engineering: What are they after all?	12
Software modernization powered by dynamic language product lines	12
Demystifying issues, causes and solutions in LLM open-source projects	12
Ensemble Effort Estimation: An updated and extended systematic literature review	12
An Investigation of confusing code patterns in JavaScript	12
RobEthiChor: Automated context-aware ethics-based negotiation for autonomous robots	12
Assessing UML diagrams by GPT: Implications for education	12
Refactoring cross-project code duplication in an industrial software product line: A case study from RDW	12
Predicting test failures induced by software defects: A lightweight alternative to software defect prediction and its industrial application	12
Is our chatbot telling lies? Assessing correctness of an LLM-based Dutch support chatbot	12
Editorial Board	12
So much more than test cases – An industrial study on testing of software units and components	12
Secure and flexible message-based communication for mobile apps within and across devices	12
The qualitative factor in software testing: A systematic mapping study of qualitative methods	12
On the use of machine learning for failure prediction after collective changes in automated continuous integration testing	12
CoDEvo: Column family database evolution using model transformations	12
A comparative analysis of ML techniques for bug report classification	12
Software engineering team project courses with industrial customers: Students’ insights on challenges and lessons learned	12
Research artifacts in software engineering publications: Status and trends	12
The pragmatics of hybridity: A grounded theory of method integration in software engineering projects	12
The life of software features: An exploratory case study of 189 feature requests in Marlin	12
CSAT: Configuration structure-aware tuning for highly configurable software systems	12
Product lines of dataflows	12
Tailoring binary decision diagram compilation for feature models	12
An efficient heuristic algorithm for software module clustering optimization	12
TitleGen-FL: Quality prediction-based filter for automated issue title generation	11
An annotation-based approach for finding bugs in neural network programs	11
Test case prioritization using partial attention	11
A model-based mode-switching framework based on security vulnerability scores	11
SGT: Aging-related bug prediction via semantic feature learning based on graph-transformer	11
Out of the BLEU: How should we assess quality of the Code Generation models?	11
Enhancing vulnerability repair through the extraction and matching of repair patterns	11
Towards structured semantic representation via hierarchical transformer network for software defect prediction	11
Automatic extraction of security-rich dataflow diagrams for microservice applications written in Java	11
A model-driven formal methods approach to software architectural security vulnerabilities specification and verification	11
On the outdatedness of workflows in the GitHub Actions ecosystem	11
Mokav: Execution-driven differential testing with LLMs	11
Software engineering for quantum programming: How far are we?	11
Empathy models and software engineering — A preliminary analysis and taxonomy	11
Perceptions of the human and social factors that influence the productivity of software development teams in Colombia: A statistical analysis	11
Investigating acceptance behavior in software engineering—Theoretical perspectives	11
Automatically generating test cases for safety-critical software via symbolic execution	11
Experimenting Architectural Patterns in Federated Learning Systems	11
RETRACTED: AI-Driven Decision-Making in Healthcare Information Systems: A Comprehensive Review	11
Exploring developer experience factors in software ecosystems	11
Adaptive data quality scoring operations framework using drift-aware mechanism for industrial applications	11
Identifying concerns when specifying machine learning-enabled systems: A perspective-based approach	11
Catalog and detection techniques of microservice anti-patterns and bad smells: A tertiary study	10
A systematic review on security and safety of self-adaptive systems	10
A case study of gender and online team communication in Software Engineering Education	10
It all starts with structure: investigating learning dynamics in large-scale agile software development	10
The Prevent-Model: Human and Organizational Factors Fostering Engineering of Safe and Secure Robotic Systems	10
Software product families from a phylogenetics perspective for video game content generation	10
VATAL: Virtual Adversarial Training and Adaptive Hybrid Loss based on pre-trained language model for issue-commit link recovery	10
Automatic creation of acceptance tests by extracting conditionals from requirements: NLP approach and case study	10