Information and Software Technology

Article	Citations
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	289
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	254
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	193
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	160
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	120
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	110
Feature-based insight for forks in social coding platforms	103
Automatically inferring user behavior models in large-scale web applications	101
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	90
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	73
A systematic review of shared personal informatics	69
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	69
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	68
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	59
Research artifacts in secondary studies: A systematic mapping in software engineering	58
GNPSum: A code summarization enhancement framework based on Graph Node Position	53
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	53
Vulnerability detection with Graph Attention Network and Metric Learning	50
Exploring continual learning in code intelligence with domain-wise distilled prompts	50
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation	50
A survey of coverage-guided greybox fuzzing with deep neural models	47
A systematic literature review of agile software development projects	47
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	46
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	45
A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing	42

Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	41
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	40
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level	39
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	39
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	39
Editorial Board	37
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	37
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	36
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	35
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	34
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	34
CSJSS: Augmenting code summarization with joint structural semantic of abstract syntax trees	34
Exploring the use of LLMs for the selection phase in systematic literature studies	34
Introduction to software architecture for quantum computing systems special issue	33
Detecting privacy requirements from User Stories with NLP transfer learning models	33
Requirements engineering for older adult digital health software: A systematic literature review	33
Extraction and empirical evaluation of GUI-level invariants as GUI Oracles in mobile app testing	32
A survey of selected characteristics and contexts of the analysis and planning phase of software development projects and their connections to project success	32
A multi-objective agile project planning model and a comparative meta-heuristic approach	32
Comparison of multi-criteria decision-making methods for online controlled experiments in a launch decision-making framework	32
Prioritisation of code clones using a genetic algorithm	31
Editorial Board	30
Editorial Board	30
Editorial Board	30
Graph-based code semantics learning for efficient semantic code clone detection	30
An empirical study of emoji use in software development communication	29
Towards automating self-admitted technical debt repayment	29
To group or not to group? Group sizes for requirements elicitation	29
An alternative to code comment generation? Generating comment from bytecode	28
Graph-based explainable vulnerability prediction	27
Test Code Flakiness in Mobile Apps: The Developer’s Perspective	27
A brief note, with thanks, on the contributions of Guenther Ruhe	27
Coverage-enhanced fault diagnosis for Deep Learning programs: A learning-based approach with hybrid metrics	27
Prioritization of model smell refactoring using a covariance matrix-based adaptive evolution algorithm	26
Investigating replication challenges through multiple replications of an experiment	26
Automatically repairing tensor shape faults in deep learning programs	26
Can an old fashioned feature extraction and a light-weight model improve vulnerability type identification performance?	25
Personalizing label prediction for GitHub issues	25
Dev2vec: Representing domain expertise of developers in an embedding space	25
Usefulness and usability of heuristic walkthroughs for evaluating domain-specific developer tools in industry: Evidence from four field simulations	25
Towards a taxonomy of code review smells	24
UX Research practices related to Long-Term UX: A Systematic Literature Review	24
Developers’ viewpoints to avoid bug-introducing changes	24
Can serious gaming tactics bolster spear-phishing and phishing resilience? : Securing the human hacking in Information Security	24
Short communication: Evolution of secondary studies in software engineering	24
An exploratory study of software artifacts on GitHub from the lens of documentation	24
Community smells—The sources of social debt: A systematic literature review	23
Causal reasoning in Software Quality Assurance: A systematic review	23
Introduction to special issue on Agile UX: challenges, successes and barriers to improvement	23
FCTree: Visualization of function calls in execution	22

DFL: A DOM sample generation oriented fuzzing framework for browser rendering engines	22
A low-code assessment platform for urban digital twins	22
Objectivity by design: The impact of AI-driven approach on employees' soft skills evaluation	22
A systematic mapping study on graph machine learning for static source code analysis	22
Improving effort-aware defect prediction by directly learning to rank software modules	22
Introduction to the special issue on managing software processes using soft computing techniques	21
A mixed method study of DevOps challenges	21
Overlapping community detection in software ecosystem based on pheromone guided personalized PageRank algorithm	21
Introduction to the Special Issue on: Grey Literature and Multivocal Literature Reviews (MLRs) in software engineering	21
Skills development for software engineers: Systematic literature review	21
An expressive and modular layer activation mechanism for Context-Oriented Programming	21
Impact of software development processes on the outcomes of student computing projects: A tale of two universities	21
Microservice-based projects in agile world: A structured interview	21
MT-Nod: Metamorphic testing for detecting non-optimal decisions of autonomous driving systems in interactive scenarios	20
Cross-Modal Retrieval-enhanced code Summarization based on joint learning for retrieval and generation	20
Genetic model-based success probability prediction of quantum software development projects	20
FRL-MFPG: Propagation-aware fault root cause location for microservice intelligent operation and maintenance	20
Perceived impact of agile principles: Insights from a survey-based study on agile software development project success	19
Data preprocessing for machine learning based code smell detection: A systematic literature review	19
Investigating the relationship between coordination strategy and coordination effectiveness in agile software development projects	19
A taxonomy of microservice integration techniques	19
Dynamic robustness evaluation for automated model selection in operation	19
A survey on Cryptoagility and Agile Practices in the light of quantum resistance	19
Technical risk model of machine learning based software project development - A multinational empirical study using modified Delphi-AHP method	19
A joint optimization approach for bug triage leveraging individual ability and collective responsibility of developers	19
Layered microservices architecture: A multitree-based domain-driven approach	19
Editorial Board	19
Application of knowledge graph in software engineering field: A systematic literature review	19
Constrained detecting arrays: Mathematical structures for fault identification in combinatorial interaction testing	19
An information theoretic notion of software testability	18
DLRegion: Coverage-guided fuzz testing of deep neural networks with region-based neuron selection strategies	18
Leveraging a combination of machine learning and formal concept analysis to locate the implementation of features in software variants	18
Editorial Board	18
The impact of knowledge inertia on process tailoring in the dynamic development of software projects in Chinese industries	18
Does it smell? A homogeneous stacking approach for code smell prediction	18
Editorial Board	18
A random forest model for early-stage software effort estimation for the SEERA dataset	18
Editorial Board	18
MLOps best practices, challenges and maturity models: A systematic literature review	18
On the use of contextual information for machine learning based test case prioritization in continuous integration development	17
An exploratory study of sustaining organisational agility	17
The journey to technical excellence in agile software development	17
SolBERT: Advancing solidity smart contract similarity analysis via self-supervised pre-training and contrastive fine-tuning	17
Detection of code smells in react with TypeScript applications	17
When should we (not) use the mean magnitude of relative error (MMRE) as an error measure in software development effort estimation?	17
A software vulnerability detection method based on multi-modality with unified processing	17
JIT-CF: Integrating contrastive learning with feature fusion for enhanced just-in-time defect prediction	17
Psychological safety in software workplaces: A systematic literature review	17
Exploring the means to measure explainability: Metrics, heuristics and questionnaires	17
Integrating DSGEO into test case generation for path coverage of MPI programs	16
Editorial Board	16
Antecedents of psychological safety in agile software development teams	16
Crex: Predicting patch correctness in automated repair of C programs through transfer learning of execution semantics	16
Editorial Board	16
PAREI: A progressive approach for Web API recommendation by combining explicit and implicit information	16
Studying the challenges of developing hardware description language programs	16
Human error management in requirements engineering: Should we fix the people, the processes, or the environment?	15
A software product line approach for developing hybrid software systems	15
Alternatives for testing of context-aware software systems in non-academic settings: results from a Rapid Review	15
Does it matter who pays back Technical Debt? An empirical study of self-fixed TD	15
SE3M: A model f	15
Reinforcement learning for test case prioritization based on LLEed K-means clustering and dynamic priority factor	15
Information and software technology: Special section on techdebt 2021	15
Case study identification: A trivial indicator outperforms human classifiers	15
Making vulnerability prediction more practical: Prediction, categorization, and localization	15
Multi-source cross-domain vulnerability detection based on code pre-trained model	15
Are your apps accessible? A GCN-based accessibility checker for low vision users	15
HYDRA: Feedback-driven black-box exploitation of injection vulnerabilities	15
Vulnerability detection with feature fusion and learnable edge-type embedding graph neural network	15
Towards antifragility of cloud systems: An adaptive chaos driven framework	14
A systematic literature review of capstone courses in software engineering	14
A multiple case study on reuse in Game Software Engineering	14
Assessing and improving syntactic adversarial robustness of pre-trained models for code translation	14
A novel detection model for abnormal network traffic based on bidirectional temporal convolutional network	14
Preventing technical debt with the TAP framework for Technical Debt Aware Management	14
Synthesizing research on programmers’ mental models of programs, tasks and concepts — A systematic literature review	14
The yea-paradox: Cognitive bias in technology acceptance surveys	14
Studying logging practice in machine learning-based applications	14
Service Design Handover to user experience design – a systematic literature review	14
Context-based statement-level vulnerability localization	14

The need for more informative defect prediction: A systematic literature review	14
Editorial Board	14
Uncertainty propagation from sensor data to deep learning models in autonomous driving	13
Like, dislike, or just do it? How developers approach software development tasks	13
Speeding up constraint-based program repair using a search-based technique	13
Negative effects of gamification in education software: Systematic mapping and practitioner perceptions	13
Memorization and generalization in neural code intelligence models	13
Diversity-aware fairness testing of machine learning classifiers through hashing-based sampling	13
How far are we from reproducible research on code smell detection? A systematic literature review	13
Successful combination of database search and snowballing for identification of primary studies in systematic literature studies	13
Test case recommendation based on balanced distance of test targets	13
“Won’t We Fix this Issue?” Qualitative characterization and automated identification of wontfix issues on GitHub	13
UCD-LLM: A use case diagram requirement modeling multi-agent framework with large language model	13
Predicting the precise number of software defects: Are we there yet?	12
Double-counting in software engineering tertiary studies — An overlooked threat to validity	12
A search-based framework for automatic generation of testing environments for cyber–physical systems	12
Editorial Board	12
Data migration for column family database evolution	12
SedSVD: Statement-level software vulnerability detection based on Relational Graph Convolutional Network with subgraph embedding	12
Introduction to the Special Section on the Best Papers from REFSQ 2022	12
Transparency and explainability of AI systems: From ethical guidelines to requirements	12
How do software practitioners perceive human-centric defects?	12
A systematic mapping study of bug reproduction and localization	12
An empirical study on capability of Large Language Models in understanding code semantics	12
An empirical study on self-admitted technical debt in modern code review	12
An empirical study on ML DevOps adoption trends, efforts, and benefits analysis	12
Native cross-platform app development using the SequalsK transpiler	12
Understanding the product knowledge acquisition process in multiprovider software evolution scenarios: An exploratory study	12
SHSE: A subspace hybrid sampling ensemble method for software defect number prediction	11
Dealing with imbalanced data for interpretable defect prediction	11
Unveiling security weaknesses in autonomous driving systems: An in-depth empirical study	11
Fine-tuning and prompt engineering for large language models-based code review automation	11
Case study identification with GPT-4 and implications for mapping studies	11
CLeBPI: Contrastive Learning for Bug Priority Inference	11
Don’t settle for the first! How many GitHub Copilot solutions should you check?	11
Editorial Board	11
Information needs and presentation in agile software development	11
Machine translation-based fine-grained comments generation for solidity smart contracts	11
DeKeDVer: A deep learning-based multi-type software vulnerability classification framework using vulnerability description and source code	11
Reporting case studies in systematic literature studies—An evidential problem	11
Why and how do organizations create user-led open source consortia? A systematic literature review	11
Introduction to the special issue on dependable systems and applications	11
Many-objective optimization of non-functional attributes based on refactoring of software models	10
Copiloting the future: How generative AI transforms Software Engineering	10
Trust, transparency, and adoption in generative AI for software engineering: Insights from Twitter discourse	10
How do practitioners gain confidence in assurance cases?	10
Probabilistic program performance analysis with confidence intervals	10
The discovery effort worthiness index: How much product discovery should you do and how can this be integrated into delivery?	10
Guidelines for the development of a critical software under emergency	10
Issues-Driven features for software fault prediction	10
Beyond hard vs. soft: A mixed-methods approach to developing a competency model for E-commerce software engineers	10
SENEM: A software engineering-enabled educational metaverse	10
Editorial Board	10
Code review guidelines for GUI-based testing artifacts	10
Job satisfaction in agile information systems development: A stakeholder perspective	10
The impact of stressors on the relationship between personality traits, knowledge collection behaviour and programmer creativity intention in software engineering	10
Visualizations for the evolution of Variant-Rich Systems: A systematic mapping study	10
Relating team atmosphere and group dynamics to student software development teams’ performance	10
Gamification applied to knowledge sharing in software development: A rapid review	10
Understanding how early-stage researchers leverage socio-technical affordances for distributed research support	10
On preserving the behavior in software refactoring: A systematic mapping study	10
Progress on class integration test order generation approaches: A systematic literature review	10
An investigation of causes and effects of trust in Boundary Artefacts	10
An empirical study on secure usage of mobile health apps: The attack simulation approach	10
A longitudinal study on the temporal validity of software samples	9
Application of Project-Based Learning to a Software Engineering course in a hybrid class environment	9
Special issue on causal modeling and inference in SE	9
Binary and multi-class classification of Self-Admitted Technical Debt: How far can we go?	9
A deep learning-based automated framework for functional User Interface testing	9
Enabling efficient and low-effort decentralized federated learning with the EdgeFL framework	9
Using clarification questions to improve software developers’ Web search	9
A unifying framework for the systematic analysis of Git workflows	9
The lifecycle of Technical Debt that manifests in both source code and issue trackers	9
A Systematic Literature Review on prioritizing software test cases using Markov chains	9
Social capital in large-scale agile software product management: A multi-case study	9
RoseMatcher: Identifying the impact of user reviews on app updates	9
The impact of using biased performance metrics on software defect prediction research	9
Impact of minimum viable product on software ecosystem failure	9
Integrating energy consumption in the development of serverless applications	9
Predicting vulnerability inducing function versions using node embeddings and graph neural networks	9
An onboarding model for integrating newcomers into agile project teams	9
Search-based approaches to optimizing software product line architectures: A systematic literature review	9
A socio-technical perspective on software vulnerabilities: A causal analysis	9
A study of Scrum @ S&P Global in the post-COVID-19 era: Unsuitable for remote work or just flawed implementation?	9
Aligned metric representation based balanced multiset ensemble learning for heterogeneous defect prediction	9
Inferring data model from service interactions for response generation in service virtualization	9
Squeeziness for non-deterministic systems	9
Improving domain-specific neural code generation with few-shot meta-learning	9
Programming language implementations for context-oriented self-adaptive systems	9
Crowdsourced test report prioritization considering bug severity	8
MDSSED: A safety and security enhanced model-driven development approach for smart home apps	8
Classifying issue reports according to feature descriptions in a user manual based on a deep learning model	8
A modeling assistant to manage technical debt in coupled evolution	8
Towards a taxonomy of privacy requirements based on the LGPD and ISO/IEC 29100	8
Making existing software quantum safe: A case study on IBM Db2	8