Information and Software Technology

Article	Citations
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	467
A hybrid approach for machine-generated code detection based on statistical, authorship, and semantic feature extraction	348
Taxonomy of Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions for the Superintelligent Systems	304
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	119
Unsupervised, robust, and lightweight detection of data pattern anomalies and outliers	113
Metamorphic Testing of Multimodal Human Trajectory Prediction	106
User-centric requirements prioritization in mHealth applications: Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment	104
LocVul: Line-level vulnerability localization based on a Sequence-to-Sequence approach	99
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	99
Enabling a model-driven workflow for ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration in legal threat modeling	92
Toward a non-invasive robotic-supported approach for data loss detection in android applications	89
Gamified or Glorified? A systematic review of serious games for security & privacy in the SDLC	79
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	76
A hybrid XGBoost and SHAP framework for prioritization and interaction analysis of factors driving metaverse adoption in an engineering context	65
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	65
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	61
A systematic review of shared personal informatics	61
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	61
Uncovering challenges of cybersecurity cross-regulation in EU legislation	60
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	56
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	55
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	53
A data-centric method for microservice identification: From data models analysis to source code assignment	50
SEDMR: A spreadsheet error detection approach based on metamorphic testing	47
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	46

Exploring continual learning in code intelligence with domain-wise distilled prompts	45
Editorial Board	45
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	45
EdgeSim: Firmware vulnerability detection with control transfer-enhanced binary code similarity detection	43
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	42
VulATMHD: Joint adaptive triplet mining and hybrid distillation for type-aware vulnerability classification	41
Research artifacts in secondary studies: A systematic mapping in software engineering	41
Multiple Fault Localization of statements with an evolutionary algorithm that combines Ochiai and LDA as fitness function	41
CSJSS: Augmenting code summarization with joint structural semantic of abstract syntax trees	41
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation	40
A survey of coverage-guided greybox fuzzing with deep neural models	39
GNPSum: A code summarization enhancement framework based on Graph Node Position	38
A systematic literature review of agile software development projects	37
Vulnerability detection with Graph Attention Network and Metric Learning	36
Exploring the use of LLMs for the selection phase in systematic literature studies	35
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	34
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	34
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	34
AntiPhishX: An AI-driven service-oriented ensemble framework for detecting phishing and ai-powered phishing attacks	33
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	33
A multi-objective agile project planning model and a comparative meta-heuristic approach	33
Introduction to software architecture for quantum computing systems special issue	33
Accelerating similarity-based model matching with subtree equivalence	32
An alternative to code comment generation? Generating comment from bytecode	32
RLSPL: A software product line for streamlining reinforcement learning project development	31
Towards automating self-admitted technical debt repayment	31
An empirical study of emoji use in software development communication	31
Extraction and empirical evaluation of GUI-level invariants as GUI Oracles in mobile app testing	31
Editorial Board	31
Gated transformer network for multivariate security patch identification with mixture-of-experts	30
Prioritisation of code clones using a genetic algorithm	30
A method for real-world privacy-preserving Android malware detection through Federated Machine Learning	28
Graph-based code semantics learning for efficient semantic code clone detection	28
Best practices for work from home: A qualitative survey in open source and distributed software development	28
Broadening software value from technical to management perspectives: a stakeholder-driven exploration using a modified-Delphi approach	28
To group or not to group? Group sizes for requirements elicitation	28
DevNous: An LLM-based multi-agent system for grounding IT project management in unstructured conversation	28
Requirements engineering for older adult digital health software: A systematic literature review	27
A survey of selected characteristics and contexts of the analysis and planning phase of software development projects and their connections to project success	27
Test Code Flakiness in Mobile Apps: The Developer’s Perspective	27
Representation-based fairness evaluation and bias correction robustness assessment in neural networks	26
Objectivity by design: The impact of AI-driven approach on employees' soft skills evaluation	26
Comparison of multi-criteria decision-making methods for online controlled experiments in a launch decision-making framework	26
Editorial Board	26
A brief note, with thanks, on the contributions of Guenther Ruhe	26
Automatically repairing tensor shape faults in deep learning programs	25
Usefulness and usability of heuristic walkthroughs for evaluating domain-specific developer tools in industry: Evidence from four field simulations	25
Coverage-enhanced fault diagnosis for Deep Learning programs: A learning-based approach with hybrid metrics	25
Graph-based explainable vulnerability prediction	25
Causal reasoning in Software Quality Assurance: A systematic review	23

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

Case study identification: A trivial indicator outperforms human classifiers	14
Towards antifragility of cloud systems: An adaptive chaos driven framework	14
VDMPAGR: A vulnerability detection model based on pointer analysis and graph representation	14
Alternatives for testing of context-aware software systems in non-academic settings: results from a Rapid Review	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
MACO: Multi-agent collaborative optimization for unit test case generation	14
Context-based statement-level vulnerability localization	14
Information and software technology: Special section on techdebt 2021	14
A software product line approach for developing hybrid software systems	14
Antecedents of psychological safety in agile software development teams	14
The journey to technical excellence in agile software development	14
Service Design Handover to user experience design – a systematic literature review	14
Are your apps accessible? A GCN-based accessibility checker for low vision users	14
A multiple case study on reuse in Game Software Engineering	14
Editorial Board	13
Synthesizing research on programmers’ mental models of programs, tasks and concepts — A systematic literature review	13
A systematic literature review of capstone courses in software engineering	13
A novel detection model for abnormal network traffic based on bidirectional temporal convolutional network	13
DeepRegion: Black-box efficient testing for DNNs based on region analysis	13
An extensible, feature-based framework for fine-grained code quality assessment	13
Reinforcement learning for test case prioritization based on LLEed K-means clustering and dynamic priority factor	13
The yea-paradox: Cognitive bias in technology acceptance surveys	13
Preventing technical debt with the TAP framework for Technical Debt Aware Management	13
Test case recommendation based on balanced distance of test targets	13
Making vulnerability prediction more practical: Prediction, categorization, and localization	13
Directed fuzzing based on path constraints and deviation path correction	13
The need for more informative defect prediction: A systematic literature review	13
Vulnerability detection with feature fusion and learnable edge-type embedding graph neural network	13
MT-Boost: A metamorphic-testing based training method for enhancing the robustness of deep neural network classifiers	13
Evaluating and improving LLM-based competitive program generation	12
Diversity-aware fairness testing of machine learning classifiers through hashing-based sampling	12
Like, dislike, or just do it? How developers approach software development tasks	12
UCD-LLM: A use case diagram requirement modeling multi-agent framework with large language model	12
Uncertainty propagation from sensor data to deep learning models in autonomous driving	12
Does the legal framework for medical software compliance align with medical practice? insights from China’s experience	12
Studying logging practice in machine learning-based applications	12
Transparency and explainability of AI systems: From ethical guidelines to requirements	12
Mutation testing based on non-cooperative Stackelberg game	12
Memorization and generalization in neural code intelligence models	12
Assessing and improving syntactic adversarial robustness of pre-trained models for code translation	12
Negative effects of gamification in education software: Systematic mapping and practitioner perceptions	12
Editorial Board	11
A search-based framework for automatic generation of testing environments for cyber–physical systems	11
Communication factors and practices in distributed software development projects	11
Case study identification with GPT-4 and implications for mapping studies	11
Information needs and presentation in agile software development	11
Aligning processes with high-level requirements: Goal-model-based compliance checking	11
CLeBPI: Contrastive Learning for Bug Priority Inference	11
Double-counting in software engineering tertiary studies — An overlooked threat to validity	11
Nez: A design-driven skeleton model for building continuum AI-based and analytic systems	11
Introduction to the special issue on dependable systems and applications	11
Dealing with imbalanced data for interpretable defect prediction	11
Native cross-platform app development using the SequalsK transpiler	11
Machine translation-based fine-grained comments generation for solidity smart contracts	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
How do software practitioners perceive human-centric defects?	11
Introduction to the Special Section on the Best Papers from REFSQ 2022	11
Don’t settle for the first! How many GitHub Copilot solutions should you check?	11
DeKeDVer: A deep learning-based multi-type software vulnerability classification framework using vulnerability description and source code	11
Test case prioritization: A systematic review using snowballing and TCPFramework with approach combinators	10
SENEM: A software engineering-enabled educational metaverse	10
A deep learning-based automated framework for functional User Interface testing	10
Editorial Board	10
Understanding the product knowledge acquisition process in multiprovider software evolution scenarios: An exploratory study	10
Editorial Board	10
An empirical study on capability of Large Language Models in understanding code semantics	10
SedSVD: Statement-level software vulnerability detection based on Relational Graph Convolutional Network with subgraph embedding	10
The impact of stressors on the relationship between personality traits, knowledge collection behaviour and programmer creativity intention in software engineering	10
Code review guidelines for GUI-based testing artifacts	10
Many-objective optimization of non-functional attributes based on refactoring of software models	10
An investigation of causes and effects of trust in Boundary Artefacts	10
Fine-tuning and prompt engineering for large language models-based code review automation	10
SiftFuzz: Boosting structural diversity via efficient seed fusion	10
An empirical study on ML DevOps adoption trends, efforts, and benefits analysis	10
Beyond hard vs. soft: A mixed-methods approach to developing a competency model for E-commerce software engineers	10
FAIR-CARE: A comparative evaluation of unfairness mitigation approaches	10
Why and how do organizations create user-led open source consortia? A systematic literature review	10
Visualizations for the evolution of Variant-Rich Systems: A systematic mapping study	10
Editorial Board	10
Meta-Fair: AI-assisted fairness testing of large language models	10
Data migration for column family database evolution	10
Editorial Board	10