Information and Software Technology

Article	Citations
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	437
A systematic review of shared personal informatics	353
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	303
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	263
Unsupervised, robust, and lightweight detection of data pattern anomalies and outliers	133
Metamorphic Testing of Multimodal Human Trajectory Prediction	98
Gamified or Glorified? A systematic review of serious games for security & privacy in the SDLC	97
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	95
User-centric requirements prioritization in mHealth applications: Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment	94
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	92
LocVul: Line-level vulnerability localization based on a Sequence-to-Sequence approach	89
Toward a non-invasive robotic-supported approach for data loss detection in android applications	87
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	81
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	75
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	63
Taxonomy of Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions for the Superintelligent Systems	61
Uncovering challenges of cybersecurity cross-regulation in EU legislation	60
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	60
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	59
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	57
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	55
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	54
SEDMR: A spreadsheet error detection approach based on metamorphic testing	53
GNPSum: A code summarization enhancement framework based on Graph Node Position	51
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	48

Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	47
Vulnerability detection with Graph Attention Network and Metric Learning	47
Exploring continual learning in code intelligence with domain-wise distilled prompts	44
Editorial Board	42
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	42
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	40
Exploring the use of LLMs for the selection phase in systematic literature studies	39
Multiple Fault Localization of statements with an evolutionary algorithm that combines Ochiai and LDA as fitness function	38
A systematic literature review of agile software development projects	38
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	38
EdgeSim: Firmware vulnerability detection with control transfer-enhanced binary code similarity detection	38
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	37
CSJSS: Augmenting code summarization with joint structural semantic of abstract syntax trees	37
VulATMHD: Joint adaptive triplet mining and hybrid distillation for type-aware vulnerability classification	37
Research artifacts in secondary studies: A systematic mapping in software engineering	35
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	34
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation	33
A survey of coverage-guided greybox fuzzing with deep neural models	33
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	33
Introduction to software architecture for quantum computing systems special issue	32
RLSPL: A software product line for streamlining reinforcement learning project development	32
A multi-objective agile project planning model and a comparative meta-heuristic approach	31
Best practices for work from home: A qualitative survey in open source and distributed software development	31
Representation-based fairness evaluation and bias correction robustness assessment in neural networks	30
Accelerating similarity-based model matching with subtree equivalence	30
A survey of selected characteristics and contexts of the analysis and planning phase of software development projects and their connections to project success	30
Requirements engineering for older adult digital health software: A systematic literature review	29
Editorial Board	28
Editorial Board	28
An empirical study of emoji use in software development communication	28
Prioritisation of code clones using a genetic algorithm	28
Gated transformer network for multivariate security patch identification with mixture-of-experts	27
Test Code Flakiness in Mobile Apps: The Developer’s Perspective	27
Extraction and empirical evaluation of GUI-level invariants as GUI Oracles in mobile app testing	27
An alternative to code comment generation? Generating comment from bytecode	27
Detecting privacy requirements from User Stories with NLP transfer learning models	26
To group or not to group? Group sizes for requirements elicitation	26
AntiPhishX: An AI-driven service-oriented ensemble framework for detecting phishing and ai-powered phishing attacks	26
Towards automating self-admitted technical debt repayment	26
Graph-based code semantics learning for efficient semantic code clone detection	26
A method for real-world privacy-preserving Android malware detection through Federated Machine Learning	26
Broadening software value from technical to management perspectives: a stakeholder-driven exploration using a modified-Delphi approach	26
Usefulness and usability of heuristic walkthroughs for evaluating domain-specific developer tools in industry: Evidence from four field simulations	25
Automatically repairing tensor shape faults in deep learning programs	25
A brief note, with thanks, on the contributions of Guenther Ruhe	25
Comparison of multi-criteria decision-making methods for online controlled experiments in a launch decision-making framework	25
Community smells—The sources of social debt: A systematic literature review	24
Investigating replication challenges through multiple replications of an experiment	24
An exploratory study of software artifacts on GitHub from the lens of documentation	24
Editorial Board	24

Dev2vec: Representing domain expertise of developers in an embedding space	23
Introduction to special issue on Agile UX: challenges, successes and barriers to improvement	23
Graph-based explainable vulnerability prediction	23
Can serious gaming tactics bolster spear-phishing and phishing resilience? : Securing the human hacking in Information Security	22
Prioritization of model smell refactoring using a covariance matrix-based adaptive evolution algorithm	22
Coverage-enhanced fault diagnosis for Deep Learning programs: A learning-based approach with hybrid metrics	22
Improving effort-aware defect prediction by directly learning to rank software modules	22
Fairness on a budget, across the board: A cost-effective evaluation of fairness-aware practices across contexts, tasks, and sensitive attributes	22
Can an old fashioned feature extraction and a light-weight model improve vulnerability type identification performance?	22
Objectivity by design: The impact of AI-driven approach on employees' soft skills evaluation	22
UX Research practices related to Long-Term UX: A Systematic Literature Review	22
FCTree: Visualization of function calls in execution	21
A multi-criteria accessibility index for quantifying digital fairness in e-commerce	21
Causal reasoning in Software Quality Assurance: A systematic review	21
Overlapping community detection in software ecosystem based on pheromone guided personalized PageRank algorithm	20
Microservice-based projects in agile world: A structured interview	20
Towards green game software engineering: A comparative analysis of energy consumption between the widespread unity and unreal video game engines	20
Introduction to the special issue on managing software processes using soft computing techniques	20
A systematic mapping study on graph machine learning for static source code analysis	20
Using LLMs to enhance code quality: A systematic literature review	20
An expressive and modular layer activation mechanism for Context-Oriented Programming	20
Edge AI assurance: A systematic mapping study	20
DFL: A DOM sample generation oriented fuzzing framework for browser rendering engines	20
A model-driven approach for engineering Mobility Digital Twins: The Bologna case study	20
A mixed method study of DevOps challenges	19
Sustainability-aware reference architectures: Needs and future research directions	19
Skills development for software engineers: Systematic literature review	19
Editorial Board	19
Genetic model-based success probability prediction of quantum software development projects	19
MT-Nod: Metamorphic testing for detecting non-optimal decisions of autonomous driving systems in interactive scenarios	19
Editorial Board	19
FRL-MFPG: Propagation-aware fault root cause location for microservice intelligent operation and maintenance	19
A low-code assessment platform for urban digital twins	19
Cross-Modal Retrieval-enhanced code Summarization based on joint learning for retrieval and generation	19
Editorial Board	19
Empirical analysis of generative AI tool adoption in software development	18
A joint optimization approach for bug triage leveraging individual ability and collective responsibility of developers	18
Layered microservices architecture: A multitree-based domain-driven approach	18
A survey on Cryptoagility and Agile Practices in the light of quantum resistance	18
CSVD-AES: Cross-project software vulnerability detection based on active learning with metric fusion	18
A taxonomy of microservice integration techniques	18
Technical risk model of machine learning based software project development - A multinational empirical study using modified Delphi-AHP method	18
Privacy by design: Aligning GDPR and software engineering specifications with a requirements engineering approach	17
Data preprocessing for machine learning based code smell detection: A systematic literature review	17
Investigating the relationship between coordination strategy and coordination effectiveness in agile software development projects	17
A random forest model for early-stage software effort estimation for the SEERA dataset	17
Dynamic robustness evaluation for automated model selection in operation	17
Application of knowledge graph in software engineering field: A systematic literature review	17
Constrained detecting arrays: Mathematical structures for fault identification in combinatorial interaction testing	17
Leveraging a combination of machine learning and formal concept analysis to locate the implementation of features in software variants	16
MLOps best practices, challenges and maturity models: A systematic literature review	16
Impact analysis of regulatory requirement changes on business process compliance	16
Detection of code smells in react with TypeScript applications	16
DLRegion: Coverage-guided fuzz testing of deep neural networks with region-based neuron selection strategies	16
Workarounds in Software Engineering: The Impact of Technostress and the Moderating Roles of Neutralization, Autonomy, and Behavioral Control	16
Does it smell? A homogeneous stacking approach for code smell prediction	16
Editorial Board	16
Perceived impact of agile principles: Insights from a survey-based study on agile software development project success	16
Pythonic vs Refactorable Pythonic: On the relationship between Pythonic idioms and code quality in machine learning projects	16
Editorial Board	16
The impact of knowledge inertia on process tailoring in the dynamic development of software projects in Chinese industries	16
SolBERT: Advancing solidity smart contract similarity analysis via self-supervised pre-training and contrastive fine-tuning	15
VulSEG: Enhanced graph-based vulnerability detection system with advanced text embedding	15
POSVIA: Inconsistency analyzer for open-source Proof-of-Concept reports	15
Studying the challenges of developing hardware description language programs	15
Integrating DSGEO into test case generation for path coverage of MPI programs	15
JIT-CF: Integrating contrastive learning with feature fusion for enhanced just-in-time defect prediction	15
Requirements-driven analysis of variability in configurable software	15
An exploratory study of sustaining organisational agility	15
On the use of contextual information for machine learning based test case prioritization in continuous integration development	15
MT4Image: An efficient metamorphic testing approach for image processing applications	15
FairST: A novel approach for machine learning bias repair through latent sensitive attribute translation	15
Equitable cybersecurity: Towards generating requirements through the lens of security literacy	15
SE3M: A model f	15
Editorial Board	15
Multi-source cross-domain vulnerability detection based on code pre-trained model	15
Exploring the means to measure explainability: Metrics, heuristics and questionnaires	14
Human error management in requirements engineering: Should we fix the people, the processes, or the environment?	14
Psychological safety in software workplaces: A systematic literature review	14
Towards antifragility of cloud systems: An adaptive chaos driven framework	14

Information and software technology: Special section on techdebt 2021	14
The journey to technical excellence in agile software development	14
PAREI: A progressive approach for Web API recommendation by combining explicit and implicit information	14
A software vulnerability detection method based on multi-modality with unified processing	14
Service Design Handover to user experience design – a systematic literature review	14
Crex: Predicting patch correctness in automated repair of C programs through transfer learning of execution semantics	14
SRSPSQL: A dual-stage Text-to-SQL framework with semantic rewriting and schema pruning	14
Antecedents of psychological safety in agile software development teams	14
Case study identification: A trivial indicator outperforms human classifiers	14
Directed fuzzing based on path constraints and deviation path correction	14
Reinforcement learning for test case prioritization based on LLEed K-means clustering and dynamic priority factor	13
Vulnerability detection with feature fusion and learnable edge-type embedding graph neural network	13
Are your apps accessible? A GCN-based accessibility checker for low vision users	13
Preventing technical debt with the TAP framework for Technical Debt Aware Management	13
A systematic literature review of capstone courses in software engineering	13
Synthesizing research on programmers’ mental models of programs, tasks and concepts — A systematic literature review	13
The need for more informative defect prediction: A systematic literature review	13
Making vulnerability prediction more practical: Prediction, categorization, and localization	13
A software product line approach for developing hybrid software systems	13
Alternatives for testing of context-aware software systems in non-academic settings: results from a Rapid Review	13
The yea-paradox: Cognitive bias in technology acceptance surveys	13
Context-based statement-level vulnerability localization	13
MT-Boost: A metamorphic-testing based training method for enhancing the robustness of deep neural network classifiers	13
A multiple case study on reuse in Game Software Engineering	13
VDMPAGR: A vulnerability detection model based on pointer analysis and graph representation	12
Test case recommendation based on balanced distance of test targets	12
Diversity-aware fairness testing of machine learning classifiers through hashing-based sampling	12
Memorization and generalization in neural code intelligence models	12
Assessing and improving syntactic adversarial robustness of pre-trained models for code translation	12
A novel detection model for abnormal network traffic based on bidirectional temporal convolutional network	12
Editorial Board	12
An extensible, feature-based framework for fine-grained code quality assessment	12
Evaluating and improving LLM-based competitive program generation	12
Studying logging practice in machine learning-based applications	12
DeepRegion: Black-box efficient testing for DNNs based on region analysis	12
UCD-LLM: A use case diagram requirement modeling multi-agent framework with large language model	12
Like, dislike, or just do it? How developers approach software development tasks	12
Transparency and explainability of AI systems: From ethical guidelines to requirements	12
Challenges to Lean Principles Adoption in Software Project Management: A Study of Software Development Firms in Developing Countries	11
Negative effects of gamification in education software: Systematic mapping and practitioner perceptions	11
Android malware detection by using graph optimization of static features based on pre-trained language models	11
A systematic mapping study of bug reproduction and localization	11
Editorial Board	11
Successful combination of database search and snowballing for identification of primary studies in systematic literature studies	11
How do software practitioners perceive human-centric defects?	11
Data migration for column family database evolution	11
Communication factors and practices in distributed software development projects	11
Uncertainty propagation from sensor data to deep learning models in autonomous driving	11
Speeding up constraint-based program repair using a search-based technique	11
A search-based framework for automatic generation of testing environments for cyber–physical systems	11
Double-counting in software engineering tertiary studies — An overlooked threat to validity	11
CLeBPI: Contrastive Learning for Bug Priority Inference	11
SedSVD: Statement-level software vulnerability detection based on Relational Graph Convolutional Network with subgraph embedding	10
DeKeDVer: A deep learning-based multi-type software vulnerability classification framework using vulnerability description and source code	10
Introduction to the Special Section on the Best Papers from REFSQ 2022	10
An empirical study on ML DevOps adoption trends, efforts, and benefits analysis	10
Predicting the precise number of software defects: Are we there yet?	10
Meta-Fair: AI-assisted fairness testing of large language models	10
Reporting case studies in systematic literature studies—An evidential problem	10
Fine-tuning and prompt engineering for large language models-based code review automation	10
An empirical study on self-admitted technical debt in modern code review	10
Understanding the product knowledge acquisition process in multiprovider software evolution scenarios: An exploratory study	10
Introduction to the special issue on dependable systems and applications	10
Information needs and presentation in agile software development	10
Dealing with imbalanced data for interpretable defect prediction	10
Beyond hard vs. soft: A mixed-methods approach to developing a competency model for E-commerce software engineers	10
Aligned metric representation based balanced multiset ensemble learning for heterogeneous defect prediction	10
Nez: A design-driven skeleton model for building continuum AI-based and analytic systems	10
Don’t settle for the first! How many GitHub Copilot solutions should you check?	10
Native cross-platform app development using the SequalsK transpiler	10
Machine translation-based fine-grained comments generation for solidity smart contracts	10
Case study identification with GPT-4 and implications for mapping studies	10
An empirical study on capability of Large Language Models in understanding code semantics	10
A deep learning-based automated framework for functional User Interface testing	10
FAIR-CARE: A comparative evaluation of unfairness mitigation approaches	10
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
Speculation for RE: addressing unanticipated consequence	9
Squeeziness for non-deterministic systems	9
Understanding how early-stage researchers leverage socio-technical affordances for distributed research support	9
Probabilistic program performance analysis with confidence intervals	9
RoseMatcher: Identifying the impact of user reviews on app updates	9
Progress on class integration test order generation approaches: A systematic literature review	9
SENEM: A software engineering-enabled educational metaverse	9
Enabling efficient and low-effort decentralized federated learning with the EdgeFL framework	9
Why and how do organizations create user-led open source consortia? A systematic literature review	9
Unveiling security weaknesses in autonomous driving systems: An in-depth empirical study	9
Using clarification questions to improve software developers’ Web search	9
Copiloting the future: How generative AI transforms Software Engineering	9
Issues-Driven features for software fault prediction	9
Code review guidelines for GUI-based testing artifacts	9
How do practitioners gain confidence in assurance cases?	9
The discovery effort worthiness index: How much product discovery should you do and how can this be integrated into delivery?	9
Relating team atmosphere and group dynamics to student software development teams’ performance	9
Guidelines for the development of a critical software under emergency	9