Information and Software Technology

Article	Citations
A systematic review of unsupervised learning techniques for software defect prediction	121
Automation of systematic literature reviews: A systematic literature review	98
BGNN4VD: Constructing Bidirectional Graph Neural-Network for Vulnerability Detection	95
Predictive maintenance using digital twins: A systematic literature review	80
Improving high-impact bug report prediction with combination of interactive machine learning and active learning	75
On the performance of hybrid search strategies for systematic literature reviews in software engineering	69
Large-scale machine learning systems in real-world industrial settings: A review of challenges and solutions	68
A risk prediction model for software project management based on similarity analysis of context histories	61
Successful combination of database search and snowballing for identification of primary studies in systematic literature studies	58
COSTE: Complexity-based OverSampling TEchnique to alleviate the class imbalance problem in software defect prediction	56
Investigation on the stability of SMOTE-based oversampling techniques in software defect prediction	51
Multiple fault localization of software programs: A systematic literature review	48
From monolithic systems to Microservices: An assessment framework	47
Test Case Prioritization in Continuous Integration environments: A systematic mapping study	47
Understanding and addressing quality attributes of microservices architecture: A Systematic literature review	44
Detection of malicious software by analyzing the behavioral artifacts using machine learning algorithms	42
NLP-assisted software testing: A systematic mapping of the literature	42
Towards a unified criteria model for usability evaluation in the context of open source software based on a fuzzy Delphi method	42
Drivers, barriers and impacts of digitalisation in rural areas from the viewpoint of experts	41
Guidelines for the search strategy to update systematic literature reviews in software engineering	41
A systematic literature review on automated log abstraction techniques	39
A study of run-time behavioral evolution of benign versus malicious apps in android	37
VUDENC: Vulnerability Detection with Deep Learning on a Natural Codebase for Python	36
Time pressure in software engineering: A systematic review	35
Quantum computing challenges in the software industry. A fuzzy AHP-based approach	34

Is this GitHub project maintained? Measuring the level of maintenance activity of open-source projects	34
A survey on the practical use of UML for different software architecture viewpoints	34
Quality Assessment in Systematic Literature Reviews: A Software Engineering Perspective	33
On the generalizability of Neural Program Models with respect to semantic-preserving program transformations	33
Challenges and solutions when adopting DevSecOps: A systematic review	33
Management of quality requirements in agile and rapid software development: A systematic mapping study	33
The impact of using biased performance metrics on software defect prediction research	31
A large scale study on how developers discuss code smells and anti-pattern in Stack Exchange sites	31
BVDetector: A program slice-based binary code vulnerability intelligent detection system	31
Toward successful DevSecOps in software development organizations: A decision-making framework	30
A study of effectiveness of deep learning in locating real faults	30
Spectrum-based multi-fault localization using Chaotic Genetic Algorithm	30
Incorporating fault-proneness estimations into coverage-based test case prioritization methods	30
Effort-Aware semi-Supervised just-in-Time defect prediction	29
A Systematic Comparison of search-Based approaches for LDA hyperparameter tuning	28
PostFinder: Mining Stack Overflow posts to support software developers	28
The impact of personality traits and knowledge collection behavior on programmer creativity	28
Security in agile software development: A practitioner survey	28
Code smell detection using feature selection and stacking ensemble: An empirical investigation	28
Refactoring effect on internal quality attributes: What haven’t they told you yet?	28
Software security patch management - A systematic literature review of challenges, approaches, tools and practices	27
A microservice composition approach based on the choreography of BPMN fragments	27
Engineering human-in-the-loop interactions in cyber-physical systems	27
Self-Attention Networks for Code Search	27
Predicting the precise number of software defects: Are we there yet?	27
Mining API usage scenarios from stack overflow	27
A graph-based clustering algorithm for software systems modularization	26
Software architectures of the convergence of cloud computing and the Internet of Things: A systematic literature review	26
Identifying security issues for mobile applications based on user review summarization	25
iContractML 2.0: A domain-specific language for modeling and deploying smart contracts onto multiple blockchain platforms	25
Automatic prediction of the severity of bugs using stack traces and categorical features	25
The do’s and don’ts of infrastructure code: A systematic gray literature review	24
Case Study Research in Software Engineering—It is a Case, and it is a Study, but is it a Case Study?	24
What skills do IT companies look for in new developers? A study with Stack Overflow jobs	24
Automated formalization of structured natural language requirements	24
The Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering: Past, Present and Future	23
Investigating the relationship between personalities and agile team climate of software professionals in a telecom company	23
MEGDroid: A model-driven event generation framework for dynamic android malware analysis	23
On the diffuseness of technical debt items and accuracy of remediation time when using SonarQube	23
Industry-Academia research collaboration in software engineering: The Certus model	23
Testing and verification of neural-network-based safety-critical control software: A systematic literature review	22
Guiding the selection of research methodology in industry–academia collaboration in software engineering	21
Improving Agile Software Development using User-Centered Design and Lean Startup	21
How do developers discuss and support new programming languages in technical Q&A site? An empirical study of Go, Swift, and Rust in Stack Overflow	21
How far are we from reproducible research on code smell detection? A systematic literature review	21
Integrated framework for incorporating sustainability design in software engineering life-cycle: An empirical study	21
Overcoming cultural barriers to being agile in distributed teams	20
Augmenting commit classification by using fine-grained source code changes and a pre-trained deep neural language model	20
Big Data analytics in Agile software development: A systematic mapping study	20
A dynamic evolutionary multi-objective virtual machine placement heuristic for cloud data centers	19

On preserving the behavior in software refactoring: A systematic mapping study	19
Crowdsourced software testing: A systematic literature review	19
Predicting continuous integration build failures using evolutionary search	19
Motivations, benefits, and issues for adopting Micro-Frontends: A Multivocal Literature Review	19
Towards automatically generating block comments for code snippets	19
Why many challenges with GUI test automation (will) remain	19
Grey Literature in Software Engineering: A critical review	19
CodeGRU: Context-aware deep learning with gated recurrent unit for source code modeling	19
Assessing safety-critical systems from operational testing: A study on autonomous vehicles	19
Joint feature representation learning and progressive distribution matching for cross-project defect prediction	18
Revisiting heterogeneous defect prediction methods: How far are we?	18
A systematic review of scheduling approaches on multi-tenancy cloud platforms	18
A comparison of machine learning algorithms on design smell detection using balanced and imbalanced dataset: A study of God class	18
Detecting privacy requirements from User Stories with NLP transfer learning models	18
On an optimal analogy-based software effort estimation	18
Transparency and explainability of AI systems: From ethical guidelines to requirements	17
Software product line applied to the internet of things: A systematic literature review	17
Identifying self-admitted technical debt through code comment analysis with a contextualized vocabulary	17
Cloud applications monitoring: An industrial study	17
Game industry problems: An extensive analysis of the gray literature	17
Continuous Systems and Software Engineering for Industry 4.0: A disruptive view	17
Effectiveness of Kotlin vs. Java in android app development tasks	17
Analyzing and documenting the systematic review results of software testing ontologies	16
An Abstract Syntax Tree based static fuzzing mutation for vulnerability evolution analysis	16
LTRWES: A new framework for security bug report detection	16
A three-stage transfer learning framework for multi-source cross-project software defect prediction	16
Requirements engineering for artificial intelligence systems: A systematic mapping study	16
DeepBackground: Metamorphic testing for Deep-Learning-driven image recognition systems accompanied by Background-Relevance	16
Understanding predictive factors for merge conflicts	16
A statistical pattern based feature extraction method on system call traces for anomaly detection	16
RSTrace+: Reviewer suggestion using software artifact traceability graphs	16
Convergence rate of Artificial Neural Networks for estimation in software development projects	15
An optimized case-based software project effort estimation using genetic algorithm	15
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	15
On the value of encouraging gender tolerance and inclusiveness in software engineering communities	15
The organization of software teams in the quest for continuous delivery: A grounded theory approach	15
Empirical software product line engineering: A systematic literature review	15
Understanding Hypotheses Engineering in Software Startups through a Gray Literature Review	15
Leveraging developer information for efficient effort-aware bug prediction	14
Negative effects of gamification in education software: Systematic mapping and practitioner perceptions	14
Regression testing for large-scale embedded software development – Exploring the state of practice	14
A comprehensive investigation of the impact of feature selection techniques on crashing fault residence prediction models	14
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	14
CASMS: Combining clustering with attention semantic model for identifying security bug reports	14
Self-adaptive systems: A systematic literature review across categories and domains	14
Human values in software development artefacts: A case study on issue discussions in three Android applications	14
Requirements elicitation methods based on interviews in comparison: A family of experiments	14
Mining the Technical Roles of GitHub Users	13
The effectiveness of data augmentation in code readability classification	13
Towards a taxonomy of code review smells	13
A decision model for programming language ecosystem selection: Seven industry case studies	13
Evaluating and comparing memory error vulnerability detectors	13
Deep learning model for end-to-end approximation of COSMIC functional size based on use-case names	13
Measuring the cognitive load of software developers: An extended Systematic Mapping Study	13
Recommending refactorings via commit message analysis	13
UX work in software startups: A thematic analysis of the literature	13
From software architecture to analysis models and back: Model-driven refactoring aimed at availability improvement	13
Improving Stack Overflow question title generation with copying enhanced CodeBERT model and bi-modal information	13
Test coverage criteria for software product line testing: Systematic literature review	13
Efficient feature extraction model for validation performance improvement of duplicate bug report detection in software bug triage systems	13
Laprob: A Label propagation-Based software bug localization method	13
Consolidating a common perspective on Technical Debt and its Management through a Tertiary Study	12
Empirically developed framework for building trust in distributed agile teams	12
On deriving conceptual models from user requirements: An empirical study	12
A systematic process for Mining Software Repositories: Results from a systematic literature review	12
Controlled experimentation in continuous experimentation: Knowledge and challenges	12
A large scale empirical study of the impact of Spaghetti Code and Blob anti-patterns on program comprehension	12
Developing Mobile Applications Via Model Driven Development: A Systematic Literature Review	12
Analyzing the sensitivity of multi-objective software architecture refactoring to configuration characteristics	11
SHSE: A subspace hybrid sampling ensemble method for software defect number prediction	11
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	11
Recommending tags for pull requests in GitHub	11
Predicting long-time contributors for GitHub projects using machine learning	11
Boundary sampling to boost mutation testing for deep learning models	11
A search-based framework for automatic generation of testing environments for cyber–physical systems	11
Becoming an entrepreneur: A study of factors with women from the tech sector	11
Towards privacy compliance: A design science study in a small organization	11
Understanding the relationship of conflict and success in software development projects	11
BERT- and TF-IDF-based feature extraction for long-lived bug prediction in FLOSS: A comparative study	11
WCA: A weighting local search for constrained combinatorial test optimization	11

Mobile app privacy in software engineering research: A systematic mapping study	11
Context-Oriented Behavioral Programming	11
Large-scale intent analysis for identifying large-review-effort code changes	11
Assessing test artifact quality—A tertiary study	11
Automating user-feedback driven requirements prioritization	10
DevOps critical success factors — A systematic literature review	10
An empirical evaluation of the use of models to improve the understanding of safety compliance needs	10
Approaches to manage the user experience process in Agile software development: A systematic literature review	10
Prioritizing user concerns in app reviews – A study of requests for new features, enhancements and bug fixes	10
Identifying method-level mutation subsumption relations using Z3	10
On the impact of Continuous Integration on refactoring practice: An exploratory study on TravisTorrent	10
Exploring the Relation between Technical Debt Principal and Interest: An Empirical Approach	10
Demystifying the adoption of behavior-driven development in open source projects	10
Reducing efforts of software engineering systematic literature reviews updates using text classification	10
An empirical study of performance using Clone & Own and Software Product Lines in an industrial context	10
Model composition in Model Driven Engineering: A systematic literature review	10
Technical debt payment and prevention through the lenses of software architects	9
A Systematic Literature Review on prioritizing software test cases using Markov chains	9
Dealing with imbalanced data for interpretable defect prediction	9
Community detection in software ecosystem by comprehensively evaluating developer cooperation intensity	9
The impact of the distance metric and measure on SMOTE-based techniques in software defect prediction	9
Insights on the relationship between decision-making style and personality in software engineering	9
Digital-twin-based testing for cyber–physical systems: A systematic literature review	9
Method-level bug localization using hybrid multi-objective search	9
A survey on dataset quality in machine learning	9
Collaborative or individual identification of code smells? On the effectiveness of novice and professional developers	9
A model-driven framework to support strategic agility: Value-added perspective	9
Statement frequency coverage: A code coverage criterion for assessing test suite effectiveness	9
ManQ: Many-objective optimization-based automatic query reduction for IR-based bug localization	9
Tailoring the Scrum framework for software development: Literature mapping and feature-based support	9
Stakeholder engagement in enterprise architecture practice: What inhibitors are there?	9
A process for analysing the energy efficiency of software	9
A survey on smart contract vulnerabilities: Data sources, detection and repair	9
An empirical study on self-admitted technical debt in modern code review	9
From a Scrum Reference Ontology to the Integration of Applications for Data-Driven Software Development	9
Dynamic random testing with test case clustering and distance-based parameter adjustment	9
SRPTackle: A semi-automated requirements prioritisation technique for scalable requirements of software system projects	8
Alternatives for testing of context-aware software systems in non-academic settings: results from a Rapid Review	8
Microservice extraction based on knowledge graph from monolithic applications	8
Orientation-based Ant colony algorithm for synthesizing the test scenarios in UML activity diagram	8
Analyzing privacy policies through syntax-driven semantic analysis of information types	8
Aligned metric representation based balanced multiset ensemble learning for heterogeneous defect prediction	8
Performance analysis of out-of-distribution detection on trained neural networks	8
A literature review on optimization techniques for adaptation planning in adaptive systems: State of the art and research directions	8
Influences of UX factors in the Agile UX context of software startups	8
Detecting Java software similarities by using different clustering techniques	8
Mastering scrum with a focus on team maturity and key components of scrum	8
Sentiment analysis tools in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	8
“Won’t We Fix this Issue?” Qualitative characterization and automated identification of wontfix issues on GitHub	8
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	8
The journey to technical excellence in agile software development	8
Agile software development and UX design: A case study of integration by mutual adjustment	8
Efilter: An effective fault localization based on information entropy with unlabelled test cases	8
Exploring the challenges in software testing of the 5G system at Nokia: A survey	7
Automatic patch linkage detection in code review using textual content and file location features	7
Metamorphic testing of OpenStreetMap	7
Assessing the effectiveness of approximate functional sizing approaches for effort estimation	7
A multi-objective agile project planning model and a comparative meta-heuristic approach	7
Web service design defects detection: A bi-level multi-objective approach	7
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level	7
Mind the product owner: An action research project into agile release planning	7
Improving requirements specification use by transferring attention with eye tracking data	7
Defining adaptivity and logical architecture for engineering (smart) self-adaptive cyber–physical systems	7
CodeCity: A comparison of on-screen and virtual reality	7
Using mutual information to test from Finite State Machines: Test suite selection	7
On the practitioners’ understanding of coupling smells — A grey literature based Grounded-Theory study	7
UX professionals’ learning and usage of UX methods in agile	7
Personalizing label prediction for GitHub issues	7
Spectral clustering based mutant reduction for mutation testing	7
Topic modeling for feature location in software models: Studying both code generation and interpreted models	7
Relationships between software architecture and source code in practice: An exploratory survey and interview	7
A comprehensive empirical study on bug characteristics of deep learning frameworks	7
Does maturity level influence the use of Agile UX methods by digital startups? Evaluating design thinking, lean startup, and lean user experience	7
An onboarding model for integrating newcomers into agile project teams	7
S-DABT: Schedule and Dependency-aware Bug Triage in open-source bug tracking systems	7
A taxonomy of metrics for GUI-based testing research: A systematic literature review	7
Feature selection and embedding based cross project framework for identifying crashing fault residence	7
Sustainable software engineering: Reflections on advances in research and practice	7
Short communication: Evolution of secondary studies in software engineering	7
Multifaceted infrastructure for self-adaptive IoT systems	7
Towards building a pragmatic cross-project defect prediction model combining non-effort based and effort-based performance measures for a balanced evaluation	7
Using simulated annealing for locating array construction	7
Application of Deep Learning in Software Defect Prediction: Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis	7
Alignment and granularity of requirements and architecture in agile development: A functional perspective	7
Test case generation for agent-based models: A systematic literature review	7
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	6
Summarizing source code with hierarchical code representation	6
Social network analysis of open source software: A review and categorisation	6
Leveraging Small Sample Learning for Business Process Management	6
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	6
Comparing manual and automated feature location in conceptual models: A Controlled experiment	6
On the value of quality attributes for refactoring ATL model transformations: A multi-objective approach	6
Architectural design decisions that incur technical debt — An industrial case study	6
Classifying issue reports according to feature descriptions in a user manual based on a deep learning model	6
Challenges and recommendations to publishing and using credible evidence in software engineering	6