Information and Software Technology

Article	Citations
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	214
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	192
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	182
Feature-based insight for forks in social coding platforms	159
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	104
Automatically inferring user behavior models in large-scale web applications	92
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	87
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	85
Insights on the relationship between decision-making style and personality in software engineering	83
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	81
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	79
Stakeholder engagement in enterprise architecture practice: What inhibitors are there?	74
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	70
Game industry problems: An extensive analysis of the gray literature	66
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	54
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	53
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	52
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	49
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	45
On the generalizability of Neural Program Models with respect to semantic-preserving program transformations	44
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	43
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	42
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	40
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation	40
From a Scrum Reference Ontology to the Integration of Applications for Data-Driven Software Development	40

An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	39
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level	39
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	39
A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing	38
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	37
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	36
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	36
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	35
Editorial Board	35
A multi-objective agile project planning model and a comparative meta-heuristic approach	34
Processes, challenges and recommendations of Gray Literature Review: An experience report	34
Graph-based code semantics learning for efficient semantic code clone detection	34
To group or not to group? Group sizes for requirements elicitation	34
Towards automating self-admitted technical debt repayment	32
Augmenting commit classification by using fine-grained source code changes and a pre-trained deep neural language model	31
Editorial Board	30
Comparison of multi-criteria decision-making methods for online controlled experiments in a launch decision-making framework	30
Editorial Board	29
Editorial Board	29
Editorial Board	29
Prioritisation of code clones using a genetic algorithm	29
An empirical study of emoji use in software development communication	28
Extraction and empirical evaluation of GUI-level invariants as GUI Oracles in mobile app testing	28
Test Code Flakiness in Mobile Apps: The Developer’s Perspective	28
Detecting privacy requirements from User Stories with NLP transfer learning models	28
An alternative to code comment generation? Generating comment from bytecode	27
Introduction to special issue on Agile UX: challenges, successes and barriers to improvement	27
Dev2vec: Representing domain expertise of developers in an embedding space	27
Prioritization of model smell refactoring using a covariance matrix-based adaptive evolution algorithm	26
Short communication: Evolution of secondary studies in software engineering	26
Community smells—The sources of social debt: A systematic literature review	26
A brief note, with thanks, on the contributions of Guenther Ruhe	25
Investigating replication challenges through multiple replications of an experiment	24
Usefulness and usability of heuristic walkthroughs for evaluating domain-specific developer tools in industry: Evidence from four field simulations	24
Generating feasible protocol test sequences from EFSM models using Monte Carlo tree search	24
Developers’ viewpoints to avoid bug-introducing changes	24
Towards a taxonomy of code review smells	23
An exploratory study of software artifacts on GitHub from the lens of documentation	23
Causal reasoning in Software Quality Assurance: A systematic review	23
Can an old fashioned feature extraction and a light-weight model improve vulnerability type identification performance?	23
Automatically repairing tensor shape faults in deep learning programs	23
Coverage-enhanced fault diagnosis for Deep Learning programs: A learning-based approach with hybrid metrics	23
UX Research practices related to Long-Term UX: A Systematic Literature Review	22
Personalizing label prediction for GitHub issues	22
Objectivity by design: The impact of AI-driven approach on employees' soft skills evaluation	22
Graph-based explainable vulnerability prediction	22
Improving effort-aware defect prediction by directly learning to rank software modules	22
Can serious gaming tactics bolster spear-phishing and phishing resilience? : Securing the human hacking in Information Security	22
Overlapping community detection in software ecosystem based on pheromone guided personalized PageRank algorithm	21
Microservice-based projects in agile world: A structured interview	21

FCTree: Visualization of function calls in execution	21
A mixed method study of DevOps challenges	21
DFL: A DOM sample generation oriented fuzzing framework for browser rendering engines	20
Introduction to the special issue on managing software processes using soft computing techniques	20
An expressive and modular layer activation mechanism for Context-Oriented Programming	20
Analyzing the sensitivity of multi-objective software architecture refactoring to configuration characteristics	20
Cross-Modal Retrieval-enhanced code Summarization based on joint learning for retrieval and generation	20
Impact of software development processes on the outcomes of student computing projects: A tale of two universities	20
Introduction to the Special Issue on: Grey Literature and Multivocal Literature Reviews (MLRs) in software engineering	20
Genetic model-based success probability prediction of quantum software development projects	19
The impact of knowledge inertia on process tailoring in the dynamic development of software projects in Chinese industries	19
FRL-MFPG: Propagation-aware fault root cause location for microservice intelligent operation and maintenance	19
Skills development for software engineers: Systematic literature review	19
MT-Nod: Metamorphic testing for detecting non-optimal decisions of autonomous driving systems in interactive scenarios	19
Constrained detecting arrays: Mathematical structures for fault identification in combinatorial interaction testing	19
Editorial Board	18
Editorial Board	18
Leveraging a combination of machine learning and formal concept analysis to locate the implementation of features in software variants	18
Technical risk model of machine learning based software project development - A multinational empirical study using modified Delphi-AHP method	17
Dynamic robustness evaluation for automated model selection in operation	17
DLRegion: Coverage-guided fuzz testing of deep neural networks with region-based neuron selection strategies	17
A survey on Cryptoagility and Agile Practices in the light of quantum resistance	17
An information theoretic notion of software testability	17
A methodology to automatically translate user requirements into visualizations: Experimental validation	17
Editorial Board	16
Automating user-feedback driven requirements prioritization	16
Perceived impact of agile principles: Insights from a survey-based study on agile software development project success	16
Exploring the means to measure explainability: Metrics, heuristics and questionnaires	16
SE3M: A model f	16
Application of knowledge graph in software engineering field: A systematic literature review	16
A random forest model for early-stage software effort estimation for the SEERA dataset	16
Challenges and recommendations to publishing and using credible evidence in software engineering	16
Convergence rate of Artificial Neural Networks for estimation in software development projects	16
Antecedents of psychological safety in agile software development teams	16
Editorial Board	15
On the use of contextual information for machine learning based test case prioritization in continuous integration development	15
When should we (not) use the mean magnitude of relative error (MMRE) as an error measure in software development effort estimation?	15
PAREI: A progressive approach for Web API recommendation by combining explicit and implicit information	15
Studying the challenges of developing hardware description language programs	15
Preventing technical debt with the TAP framework for Technical Debt Aware Management	15
The journey to technical excellence in agile software development	15
Crex: Predicting patch correctness in automated repair of C programs through transfer learning of execution semantics	15
Editorial Board	15
Human error management in requirements engineering: Should we fix the people, the processes, or the environment?	15
Integrating DSGEO into test case generation for path coverage of MPI programs	15
Information and software technology: Special section on techdebt 2021	14
Service Design Handover to user experience design – a systematic literature review	14
Reinforcement learning for test case prioritization based on LLEed K-means clustering and dynamic priority factor	14
Context-based statement-level vulnerability localization	14
Vulnerability detection with feature fusion and learnable edge-type embedding graph neural network	14
A software product line approach for developing hybrid software systems	14
Towards antifragility of cloud systems: An adaptive chaos driven framework	14
A field experiment on trialsourcing and the effect of contract types on outsourced software development	14
Making vulnerability prediction more practical: Prediction, categorization, and localization	14
HYDRA: Feedback-driven black-box exploitation of injection vulnerabilities	14
Are your apps accessible? A GCN-based accessibility checker for low vision users	13
A novel detection model for abnormal network traffic based on bidirectional temporal convolutional network	13
The need for more informative defect prediction: A systematic literature review	13
Does it matter who pays back Technical Debt? An empirical study of self-fixed TD	13
Case study identification: A trivial indicator outperforms human classifiers	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
How far are we from reproducible research on code smell detection? A systematic literature review	12
BGNN4VD: Constructing Bidirectional Graph Neural-Network for Vulnerability Detection	12
Diversity-aware fairness testing of machine learning classifiers through hashing-based sampling	12
Exploring the communication functions of comments during bug fixing in Open Source Software projects	12
Like, dislike, or just do it? How developers approach software development tasks	12
The yea-paradox: Cognitive bias in technology acceptance surveys	12
Automation of systematic literature reviews: A systematic literature review	12
Test case recommendation based on balanced distance of test targets	12
Assessing and improving syntactic adversarial robustness of pre-trained models for code translation	12
Alternatives for testing of context-aware software systems in non-academic settings: results from a Rapid Review	12
Memorization and generalization in neural code intelligence models	12
Speeding up constraint-based program repair using a search-based technique	12
Requirements engineering: Foundation for software quality (REFSQ2020)	12
Successful combination of database search and snowballing for identification of primary studies in systematic literature studies	11
Double-counting in software engineering tertiary studies — An overlooked threat to validity	11
A search-based framework for automatic generation of testing environments for cyber–physical systems	11
SHSE: A subspace hybrid sampling ensemble method for software defect number prediction	11
Fine-tuning and prompt engineering for large language models-based code review automation	11

Negative effects of gamification in education software: Systematic mapping and practitioner perceptions	11
Transparency and explainability of AI systems: From ethical guidelines to requirements	11
Introduction to the special issue on dependable systems and applications	11
Case study identification with GPT-4 and implications for mapping studies	11
An empirical study on ML DevOps adoption trends, efforts, and benefits analysis	11
A systematic mapping study of bug reproduction and localization	11
“Won’t We Fix this Issue?” Qualitative characterization and automated identification of wontfix issues on GitHub	11
Code smell detection using feature selection and stacking ensemble: An empirical investigation	11
How do software practitioners perceive human-centric defects?	11
Predicting the precise number of software defects: Are we there yet?	11
Introduction to the Special Section on the Best Papers from REFSQ 2022	11
Mobile app privacy in software engineering research: A systematic mapping study	11
Multi-objective software performance optimisation at the architecture level using randomised search rules	11
Studying logging practice in machine learning-based applications	11
Progress on class integration test order generation approaches: A systematic literature review	10
DeKeDVer: A deep learning-based multi-type software vulnerability classification framework using vulnerability description and source code	10
RoseMatcher: Identifying the impact of user reviews on app updates	10
An empirical study on self-admitted technical debt in modern code review	10
Understanding how early-stage researchers leverage socio-technical affordances for distributed research support	10
Dealing with imbalanced data for interpretable defect prediction	10
Inferring data model from service interactions for response generation in service virtualization	10
Native cross-platform app development using the SequalsK transpiler	10
Probabilistic program performance analysis with confidence intervals	10
Machine translation-based fine-grained comments generation for solidity smart contracts	10
Information needs and presentation in agile software development	10
Visualizations for the evolution of Variant-Rich Systems: A systematic mapping study	10
CLeBPI: Contrastive Learning for Bug Priority Inference	10
Enabling efficient and low-effort decentralized federated learning with the EdgeFL framework	10
SedSVD: Statement-level software vulnerability detection based on Relational Graph Convolutional Network with subgraph embedding	10
Editorial Board	9
The discovery effort worthiness index: How much product discovery should you do and how can this be integrated into delivery?	9
The impact of using biased performance metrics on software defect prediction research	9
SENEM: A software engineering-enabled educational metaverse	9
Predicting vulnerability inducing function versions using node embeddings and graph neural networks	9
Impact of minimum viable product on software ecosystem failure	9
Job satisfaction in agile information systems development: A stakeholder perspective	9
Why and how do organizations create user-led open source consortia? A systematic literature review	9
Issues-Driven features for software fault prediction	9
Guidelines for the development of a critical software under emergency	9
Motivations, benefits, and issues for adopting Micro-Frontends: A Multivocal Literature Review	9
Squeeziness for non-deterministic systems	9
A unifying framework for the systematic analysis of Git workflows	9
Locality-based security bug report identification via active learning	9
Relating team atmosphere and group dynamics to student software development teams’ performance	9
An investigation of causes and effects of trust in Boundary Artefacts	9
The impact of stressors on the relationship between personality traits, knowledge collection behaviour and programmer creativity intention in software engineering	9
Metamorphic testing of OpenStreetMap	9
An empirical study on secure usage of mobile health apps: The attack simulation approach	9
Code review guidelines for GUI-based testing artifacts	9
Reporting case studies in systematic literature studies—An evidential problem	9
Improving high-impact bug report prediction with combination of interactive machine learning and active learning	9
The lifecycle of Technical Debt that manifests in both source code and issue trackers	9
Measuring the cognitive load of software developers: An extended Systematic Mapping Study	9
A deep learning-based automated framework for functional User Interface testing	9
Aligned metric representation based balanced multiset ensemble learning for heterogeneous defect prediction	9
On preserving the behavior in software refactoring: A systematic mapping study	9
Many-objective optimization of non-functional attributes based on refactoring of software models	9