Information and Software Technology

Article	Citations
Predictive maintenance using digital twins: A systematic literature review	141
Automation of systematic literature reviews: A systematic literature review	129
BGNN4VD: Constructing Bidirectional Graph Neural-Network for Vulnerability Detection	122
Successful combination of database search and snowballing for identification of primary studies in systematic literature studies	108
Large-scale machine learning systems in real-world industrial settings: A review of challenges and solutions	84
Improving high-impact bug report prediction with combination of interactive machine learning and active learning	78
Understanding and addressing quality attributes of microservices architecture: A Systematic literature review	72
A risk prediction model for software project management based on similarity analysis of context histories	70
COSTE: Complexity-based OverSampling TEchnique to alleviate the class imbalance problem in software defect prediction	69
Investigation on the stability of SMOTE-based oversampling techniques in software defect prediction	67
From monolithic systems to Microservices: An assessment framework	62
Guidelines for the search strategy to update systematic literature reviews in software engineering	60
Quantum computing challenges in the software industry. A fuzzy AHP-based approach	59
Drivers, barriers and impacts of digitalisation in rural areas from the viewpoint of experts	58
Challenges and solutions when adopting DevSecOps: A systematic review	50
Quality Assessment in Systematic Literature Reviews: A Software Engineering Perspective	50
VUDENC: Vulnerability Detection with Deep Learning on a Natural Codebase for Python	49
Towards a unified criteria model for usability evaluation in the context of open source software based on a fuzzy Delphi method	45
On the generalizability of Neural Program Models with respect to semantic-preserving program transformations	42
Transparency and explainability of AI systems: From ethical guidelines to requirements	42
Toward successful DevSecOps in software development organizations: A decision-making framework	41
An Abstract Syntax Tree based static fuzzing mutation for vulnerability evolution analysis	39
The impact of using biased performance metrics on software defect prediction research	38
A study of effectiveness of deep learning in locating real faults	37
Code smell detection using feature selection and stacking ensemble: An empirical investigation	37

Software security patch management - A systematic literature review of challenges, approaches, tools and practices	34
A microservice composition approach based on the choreography of BPMN fragments	34
A Systematic Comparison of search-Based approaches for LDA hyperparameter tuning	34
Case Study Research in Software Engineering—It is a Case, and it is a Study, but is it a Case Study?	34
Self-Attention Networks for Code Search	33
Security in agile software development: A practitioner survey	33
The do’s and don’ts of infrastructure code: A systematic gray literature review	32
What skills do IT companies look for in new developers? A study with Stack Overflow jobs	30
PostFinder: Mining Stack Overflow posts to support software developers	30
The impact of personality traits and knowledge collection behavior on programmer creativity	30
Spectrum-based multi-fault localization using Chaotic Genetic Algorithm	30
A graph-based clustering algorithm for software systems modularization	30
iContractML 2.0: A domain-specific language for modeling and deploying smart contracts onto multiple blockchain platforms	30
Predicting the precise number of software defects: Are we there yet?	29
Automated formalization of structured natural language requirements	29
BERT- and TF-IDF-based feature extraction for long-lived bug prediction in FLOSS: A comparative study	28
Big Data analytics in Agile software development: A systematic mapping study	28
Requirements engineering for artificial intelligence systems: A systematic mapping study	27
Overcoming cultural barriers to being agile in distributed teams	27
Augmenting commit classification by using fine-grained source code changes and a pre-trained deep neural language model	27
The Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering: Past, Present and Future	26
Industry-Academia research collaboration in software engineering: The Certus model	26
Grey Literature in Software Engineering: A critical review	26
MEGDroid: A model-driven event generation framework for dynamic android malware analysis	26
Improving Agile Software Development using User-Centered Design and Lean Startup	26
On the diffuseness of technical debt items and accuracy of remediation time when using SonarQube	26
Why many challenges with GUI test automation (will) remain	25
Predicting continuous integration build failures using evolutionary search	25
Guiding the selection of research methodology in industry–academia collaboration in software engineering	25
Integrated framework for incorporating sustainability design in software engineering life-cycle: An empirical study	25
Motivations, benefits, and issues for adopting Micro-Frontends: A Multivocal Literature Review	25
Towards automatically generating block comments for code snippets	25
A survey on dataset quality in machine learning	24
How far are we from reproducible research on code smell detection? A systematic literature review	24
An optimized case-based software project effort estimation using genetic algorithm	23
DeepBackground: Metamorphic testing for Deep-Learning-driven image recognition systems accompanied by Background-Relevance	23
Empirically developed framework for building trust in distributed agile teams	23
Digital-twin-based testing for cyber–physical systems: A systematic literature review	23
DevOps critical success factors — A systematic literature review	22
On preserving the behavior in software refactoring: A systematic mapping study	22
Cloud applications monitoring: An industrial study	22
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	22
A three-stage transfer learning framework for multi-source cross-project software defect prediction	22
Detecting privacy requirements from User Stories with NLP transfer learning models	22
Joint feature representation learning and progressive distribution matching for cross-project defect prediction	22
A comparison of machine learning algorithms on design smell detection using balanced and imbalanced dataset: A study of God class	22
Assessing safety-critical systems from operational testing: A study on autonomous vehicles	22
Negative effects of gamification in education software: Systematic mapping and practitioner perceptions	21
Improving Stack Overflow question title generation with copying enhanced CodeBERT model and bi-modal information	21
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	21

A dynamic evolutionary multi-objective virtual machine placement heuristic for cloud data centers	21
Crowdsourced software testing: A systematic literature review	21
Continuous Systems and Software Engineering for Industry 4.0: A disruptive view	20
A survey on smart contract vulnerabilities: Data sources, detection and repair	19
Effectiveness of Kotlin vs. Java in android app development tasks	19
Self-adaptive systems: A systematic literature review across categories and domains	19
RSTrace+: Reviewer suggestion using software artifact traceability graphs	19
A systematic review of scheduling approaches on multi-tenancy cloud platforms	19
Revisiting heterogeneous defect prediction methods: How far are we?	19
On the value of encouraging gender tolerance and inclusiveness in software engineering communities	18
Zero-shot learning for requirements classification: An exploratory study	18
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	18
Convergence rate of Artificial Neural Networks for estimation in software development projects	18
Understanding Hypotheses Engineering in Software Startups through a Gray Literature Review	18
Towards a taxonomy of code review smells	18
Game industry problems: An extensive analysis of the gray literature	18
Empirical software product line engineering: A systematic literature review	18
UX work in software startups: A thematic analysis of the literature	18
Prioritizing user concerns in app reviews – A study of requests for new features, enhancements and bug fixes	17
Mobile app privacy in software engineering research: A systematic mapping study	17
Mining the Technical Roles of GitHub Users	17
On deriving conceptual models from user requirements: An empirical study	17
Measuring the cognitive load of software developers: An extended Systematic Mapping Study	16
Evaluating and comparing memory error vulnerability detectors	16
The organization of software teams in the quest for continuous delivery: A grounded theory approach	16
A systematic process for Mining Software Repositories: Results from a systematic literature review	16
Human values in software development artefacts: A case study on issue discussions in three Android applications	16
Leveraging developer information for efficient effort-aware bug prediction	15
Reducing efforts of software engineering systematic literature reviews updates using text classification	15
Microservice extraction based on knowledge graph from monolithic applications	15
CASMS: Combining clustering with attention semantic model for identifying security bug reports	15
Consolidating a common perspective on Technical Debt and its Management through a Tertiary Study	15
“Won’t We Fix this Issue?” Qualitative characterization and automated identification of wontfix issues on GitHub	15
A decision model for programming language ecosystem selection: Seven industry case studies	15
Automating user-feedback driven requirements prioritization	15
Controlled experimentation in continuous experimentation: Knowledge and challenges	15
SHSE: A subspace hybrid sampling ensemble method for software defect number prediction	15
A comprehensive investigation of the impact of feature selection techniques on crashing fault residence prediction models	15
Approaches to manage the user experience process in Agile software development: A systematic literature review	15
The effectiveness of data augmentation in code readability classification	15
A search-based framework for automatic generation of testing environments for cyber–physical systems	14
From software architecture to analysis models and back: Model-driven refactoring aimed at availability improvement	14
Mastering scrum with a focus on team maturity and key components of scrum	14
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	14
Identifying method-level mutation subsumption relations using Z3	14
Developing Mobile Applications Via Model Driven Development: A Systematic Literature Review	14
Sentiment analysis tools in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	13
An empirical study on self-admitted technical debt in modern code review	13
Becoming an entrepreneur: A study of factors with women from the tech sector	13
Technical debt payment and prevention through the lenses of software architects	13
Use of personas in Requirements Engineering: A systematic mapping study	13
Large-scale intent analysis for identifying large-review-effort code changes	13
Sustainable software engineering: Reflections on advances in research and practice	13
Dealing with imbalanced data for interpretable defect prediction	13
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level	13
Laprob: A Label propagation-Based software bug localization method	13
An onboarding model for integrating newcomers into agile project teams	13
A model-driven framework to support strategic agility: Value-added perspective	13
Context-Oriented Behavioral Programming	13
Spectral clustering based mutant reduction for mutation testing	13
Towards privacy compliance: A design science study in a small organization	13
A property specification pattern catalog for real-time system verification with UPPAAL	12
Dynamic random testing with test case clustering and distance-based parameter adjustment	12
Insights on the relationship between decision-making style and personality in software engineering	12
Recommending tags for pull requests in GitHub	12
Boundary sampling to boost mutation testing for deep learning models	12
A systematic literature review of capstone courses in software engineering	12
A process for analysing the energy efficiency of software	12
A novel detection model for abnormal network traffic based on bidirectional temporal convolutional network	12
Tailoring the Scrum framework for software development: Literature mapping and feature-based support	12
Predicting long-time contributors for GitHub projects using machine learning	12
Exploring the challenges in software testing of the 5G system at Nokia: A survey	11
A taxonomy of metrics for GUI-based testing research: A systematic literature review	11
ALBFL: A novel neural ranking model for software fault localization via combining static and dynamic features	11
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	11
Detecting code smells using industry-relevant data	11
Exploring the Relation between Technical Debt Principal and Interest: An Empirical Approach	11
Assessing test artifact quality—A tertiary study	11
Analyzing the sensitivity of multi-objective software architecture refactoring to configuration characteristics	11
An empirical study of performance using Clone & Own and Software Product Lines in an industrial context	11

Influences of UX factors in the Agile UX context of software startups	11
Application of Deep Learning in Software Defect Prediction: Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis	11
Stakeholder engagement in enterprise architecture practice: What inhibitors are there?	11
Analyzing privacy policies through syntax-driven semantic analysis of information types	11
A mapping study on documentation in Continuous Software Development	11
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	11
The journey to technical excellence in agile software development	11
Method-level bug localization using hybrid multi-objective search	11
Improving microservices extraction using evolutionary search	10
Community detection in software ecosystem by comprehensively evaluating developer cooperation intensity	10
Topic modeling for feature location in software models: Studying both code generation and interpreted models	10
Improving requirements specification use by transferring attention with eye tracking data	10
Personalizing label prediction for GitHub issues	10
Towards building a pragmatic cross-project defect prediction model combining non-effort based and effort-based performance measures for a balanced evaluation	10
The impact of the distance metric and measure on SMOTE-based techniques in software defect prediction	10
Mind the product owner: An action research project into agile release planning	10
Does maturity level influence the use of Agile UX methods by digital startups? Evaluating design thinking, lean startup, and lean user experience	10
Agile software development and UX design: A case study of integration by mutual adjustment	10
On the impact of Continuous Integration on refactoring practice: An exploratory study on TravisTorrent	10
A literature review on optimization techniques for adaptation planning in adaptive systems: State of the art and research directions	10
From a Scrum Reference Ontology to the Integration of Applications for Data-Driven Software Development	10
Architectural design decisions that incur technical debt — An industrial case study	10
SRPTackle: A semi-automated requirements prioritisation technique for scalable requirements of software system projects	9
The practical roles of enterprise architecture artifacts: A classification and relationship	9
Visual Resume: Exploring developers’ online contributions for hiring	9
Alternatives for testing of context-aware software systems in non-academic settings: results from a Rapid Review	9
Antecedents of psychological safety in agile software development teams	9
Challenges and recommendations to publishing and using credible evidence in software engineering	9
CodeCity: A comparison of on-screen and virtual reality	9
The impact of using a domain language for an agile requirements management	9
Performance analysis of out-of-distribution detection on trained neural networks	9
An automatic methodology for the quality enhancement of requirements using genetic algorithms	9
Statement frequency coverage: A code coverage criterion for assessing test suite effectiveness	9
A multi-objective agile project planning model and a comparative meta-heuristic approach	9
On the effectiveness of testing sentiment analysis systems with metamorphic testing	9
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	9
A Systematic Literature Review on prioritizing software test cases using Markov chains	9
UX professionals’ learning and usage of UX methods in agile	9
Community smells—The sources of social debt: A systematic literature review	9
A system-based view of blockchain governance	9
Memorization and generalization in neural code intelligence models	9
Relationships between software architecture and source code in practice: An exploratory survey and interview	9
When should we (not) use the mean magnitude of relative error (MMRE) as an error measure in software development effort estimation?	9
A comprehensive empirical study on bug characteristics of deep learning frameworks	9
Defining adaptivity and logical architecture for engineering (smart) self-adaptive cyber–physical systems	9
Efilter: An effective fault localization based on information entropy with unlabelled test cases	9
Aligned metric representation based balanced multiset ensemble learning for heterogeneous defect prediction	9
Test case generation for agent-based models: A systematic literature review	8
S-DABT: Schedule and Dependency-aware Bug Triage in open-source bug tracking systems	8
On the practitioners’ understanding of coupling smells — A grey literature based Grounded-Theory study	8
Applications of statistical causal inference in software engineering	8
Refactoring embedded software: A study in healthcare domain	8
Multifaceted infrastructure for self-adaptive IoT systems	8
Uses of business process modeling in agile software development projects	8
Classifying issue reports according to feature descriptions in a user manual based on a deep learning model	8
Collaboration in software ecosystems: A study of work groups in open environment	8
User story extraction from natural language for requirements elicitation: Identify software-related information from online news	8
Using mutual information to test from Finite State Machines: Test suite selection	8
RLTCP: A reinforcement learning approach to prioritizing automated user interface tests	8
Governance and Management of Green IT: A Multi-Case Study	8
Scripted and scriptless GUI testing for web applications: An industrial case	8
Summarizing source code with hierarchical code representation	8
Reflections on Surrogate-Assisted Search-Based Testing: A Taxonomy and Two Replication Studies based on Industrial ADAS and Simulink Models	8
Collaborative program comprehension via software visualization in extended reality	8
PAFL: Probabilistic Automaton-based Fault Localization for Recurrent Neural Networks	8
FRL-MFPG: Propagation-aware fault root cause location for microservice intelligent operation and maintenance	8
Metamorphic testing of OpenStreetMap	8
Short communication: Evolution of secondary studies in software engineering	8
Increasing the UX maturity level of clients: A study of best practices in an agile environment	8
Predicting reliability of software in industrial systems using a Petri net based approach: A case study on a safety system used in nuclear power plant	8
Understanding in-app advertising issues based on large scale app review analysis	8
SedSVD: Statement-level software vulnerability detection based on Relational Graph Convolutional Network with subgraph embedding	7
Icon2Code: Recommending code implementations for Android GUI components	7
Comparison of multi-criteria decision-making methods for online controlled experiments in a launch decision-making framework	7
A new combination method based on Pearson coefficient and information entropy for multi-sensor data fusion	7
Machine learning in software defect prediction: A business-driven systematic mapping study	7
A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing	7
Leveraging Small Sample Learning for Business Process Management	7
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	7
Guidelines for the development of a critical software under emergency	7
An empirical study on ML DevOps adoption trends, efforts, and benefits analysis	7
Information needs and presentation in agile software development	7
Keyword-guided abstractive code summarization via incorporating structural and contextual information	7
A systematic literature review on counterexample explanation	7
Service Design Handover to user experience design – a systematic literature review	7
Fast and curious: A model for building efficient monitoring- and decision-making frameworks based on quantitative data	7
A decentralized blockchain oriented framework for automated bug assignment	7
A probabilistic framework for mutation testing in deep neural networks	7
Improving effort-aware defect prediction by directly learning to rank software modules	7
Automated event extraction of CVE descriptions	7
Like, dislike, or just do it? How developers approach software development tasks	7
Graph-based code semantics learning for efficient semantic code clone detection	7
HYDRA: Feedback-driven black-box exploitation of injection vulnerabilities	7
ST-TLF: Cross-version defect prediction framework based transfer learning	7
Consistent or not? An investigation of using Pull Request Template in GitHub	7