Information and Software Technology

Article	Citations
A comprehensive empirical evaluation of generating test suites for mobile applications with diversity	157
QLSN: Quantum key distribution for large scale networks	137
Metamorphic testing of chess engines	135
Prioritizing code documentation effort: Can we do it simpler but better?	129
Architectural design decisions that incur technical debt — An industrial case study	78
Automated formalization of structured natural language requirements	72
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	70
Machine learning for requirements engineering (ML4RE): A systematic literature review complemented by practitioners’ voices from Stack Overflow	69
SE3M: A model f	68
Lessons learned to improve the UX practices in agile projects involving data science and process automation	63
Understanding and evaluating software reuse costs and benefits from industrial cases—A systematic literature review	62
On the use of contextual information for machine learning based test case prioritization in continuous integration development	58
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	50
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Do users care about ad’s performance costs? Exploring the effects of the performance costs of in-app ads on user experience	49
Does shortening the release cycle affect refactoring activities: A case study of the JDT Core, Platform SWT, and UI projects	46
Automatically inferring user behavior models in large-scale web applications	42
An approach to explore sequential interactions in cognitive activities of software engineering	41
Developing Mobile Applications Via Model Driven Development: A Systematic Literature Review	39
Featherweight assisted vulnerability discovery	39
Guest Editors’ introduction to the special section on the 12th system analysis and modelling conference (SAM 2020)	38
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A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	37
Ensemble effort estimation for novice agile teams	34
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What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	33
Towards a taxonomy of privacy requirements based on the LGPD and ISO/IEC 29100	33
The role of awareness and gamification on technical debt management	33
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	32
Mind the product owner: An action research project into agile release planning	30
Systematic reviews in mobile app software engineering: A tertiary study	30
Studying the challenges of developing hardware description language programs	30
Challenges and recommendations to publishing and using credible evidence in software engineering	29
A light-weight data augmentation method for fault localization	29
Spectrum-based multi-fault localization using Chaotic Genetic Algorithm	28
Game industry problems: An extensive analysis of the gray literature	28
Stakeholder engagement in enterprise architecture practice: What inhibitors are there?	28
RSTrace+: Reviewer suggestion using software artifact traceability graphs	27
Consistent or not? An investigation of using Pull Request Template in GitHub	27
Introduction to special issue on software architectures for smart and adaptive systems (SASAS)	27
Making existing software quantum safe: A case study on IBM Db2	26
Knowledge and research mapping of the data and database forensics domains: A bibliometric analysis	26
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Integrating DSGEO into test case generation for path coverage of MPI programs	26
Automated engineering of domain-specific metamorphic testing environments	25
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A modeling assistant to manage technical debt in coupled evolution	25
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CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	24
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Variability testing of software product line: A preference-based dimensionality reduction approach	23
Detecting false-passing products and mitigating their impact on variability fault localization in software product lines	23
Help me with this: A categorization of open source software problems	23
Assessing attitudes towards evidence-based software engineering in a government agency	23
Laprob: A Label propagation-Based software bug localization method	22
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Social network analysis of open source software: A review and categorisation	22
Crex: Predicting patch correctness in automated repair of C programs through transfer learning of execution semantics	22
Leveraging Small Sample Learning for Business Process Management	22
A decentralized blockchain oriented framework for automated bug assignment	22
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Method-level bug localization using hybrid multi-objective search	21
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Insights on the relationship between decision-making style and personality in software engineering	19
Crowdsourced test report prioritization considering bug severity	19
Feature-based insight for forks in social coding platforms	19
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	18
Application of Deep Learning in Software Defect Prediction: Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis	18
MDSSED: A safety and security enhanced model-driven development approach for smart home apps	18
A comprehensive empirical study on bug characteristics of deep learning frameworks	18
Case Study Research in Software Engineering—It is a Case, and it is a Study, but is it a Case Study?	18
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	18
Reflections on Surrogate-Assisted Search-Based Testing: A Taxonomy and Two Replication Studies based on Industrial ADAS and Simulink Models	18
A systematic process for Mining Software Repositories: Results from a systematic literature review	18

An exploratory study on just-in-time multi-programming-language bug prediction	18
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	17
Classifying issue reports according to feature descriptions in a user manual based on a deep learning model	17
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	17
Experiences from conducting rapid reviews in collaboration with practitioners — Two industrial cases	17
Antecedents of psychological safety in agile software development teams	16
Detecting code smells using industry-relevant data	16
Understanding in-app advertising issues based on large scale app review analysis	16
Tailoring the Scrum framework for software development: Literature mapping and feature-based support	16
ST-TLF: Cross-version defect prediction framework based transfer learning	16
Improving requirements specification use by transferring attention with eye tracking data	16
Summarizing source code with hierarchical code representation	15
Theories in Agile Software Development: Past, Present, and Future Introduction to the XP 2020 Special Section	15
Deep learning-based software bug classification	15
PAREI: A progressive approach for Web API recommendation by combining explicit and implicit information	15
Bringing architecture-based adaption to the mainstream	15
Predictive maintenance using digital twins: A systematic literature review	15
Human error management in requirements engineering: Should we fix the people, the processes, or the environment?	15
The journey to technical excellence in agile software development	15
Task assignment to counter the effect of developer turnover in software maintenance: A knowledge diffusion model	15
DCM-GIFT: An Android malware dynamic classification method based on gray-scale image and feature-selection tree	15
Technical debt payment and prevention through the lenses of software architects	15
From monolithic systems to Microservices: An assessment framework	15
Multi-objective integer programming approaches to Next Release Problem — Enhancing exact methods for finding whole pareto front	14
DeepBackground: Metamorphic testing for Deep-Learning-driven image recognition systems accompanied by Background-Relevance	14
Evaluating and comparing memory error vulnerability detectors	14
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A risk prediction model for software project management based on similarity analysis of context histories	14
Investigation on the stability of SMOTE-based oversampling techniques in software defect prediction	13
Human values in software development artefacts: A case study on issue discussions in three Android applications	13
Use of personas in Requirements Engineering: A systematic mapping study	13
It’s about time: How to study intertemporal choice in systems design	13
Improving DevOps team performance through context-capability coalignment: Towards a profile for public sector organizations	13
Editorial Board	13
Digital-twin-based testing for cyber–physical systems: A systematic literature review	13
An Abstract Syntax Tree based static fuzzing mutation for vulnerability evolution analysis	13
Automating modern code review processes with code similarity measurement	13
E-code: Mastering efficient code generation through pretrained models and expert encoder group	13
When should we (not) use the mean magnitude of relative error (MMRE) as an error measure in software development effort estimation?	13
Towards privacy compliance: A design science study in a small organization	13
How ReadMe files are structured in open source Java projects	13
Boosting fault localization of statements by combining topic modeling and Ochiai	13
Testing infrastructures to support mobile application testing: A systematic mapping study	12
A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing	12
Enhancing software modularization via semantic outliers filtration and label propagation	12
BugRadar: Bug localization by knowledge graph link prediction	12
Deciphering refactoring branch dynamics in modern code review: An empirical study on Qt	12
Spectral clustering based mutant reduction for mutation testing	12
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	12
Strategic digital product management: Nine approaches	12
From a Scrum Reference Ontology to the Integration of Applications for Data-Driven Software Development	12
Case study identification: A trivial indicator outperforms human classifiers	12
The need for more informative defect prediction: A systematic literature review	11
Stratified random sampling for neural network test input selection	11
Guiding the way: A systematic literature review on mentoring practices in open source software projects	11
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	11
Approaches to manage the user experience process in Agile software development: A systematic literature review	11
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	11
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	11
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Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	11
Revisiting heterogeneous defect prediction methods: How far are we?	11
Prevalence and severity of design anti-patterns in open source programs—A large-scale study	11
Hidden code vulnerability detection: A study of the Graph-BiLSTM algorithm	11
Making vulnerability prediction more practical: Prediction, categorization, and localization	11
Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems and Software Ecosystems	11
Enhanced abbreviation–expansion pair detection for glossary term extraction	11
Service Design Handover to user experience design – a systematic literature review	11
BGNN4VD: Constructing Bidirectional Graph Neural-Network for Vulnerability Detection	10
Alternatives for testing of context-aware software systems in non-academic settings: results from a Rapid Review	10
Synthesizing research on programmers’ mental models of programs, tasks and concepts — A systematic literature review	10
Knowledge diffusion trajectories of agile software development research: A main path analysis	10
Towards a unified criteria model for usability evaluation in the context of open source software based on a fuzzy Delphi method	10
Vulnerability detection based on federated learning	10
Understanding Hypotheses Engineering in Software Startups through a Gray Literature Review	10
An automated test data generation method for void pointers and function pointers in C/C++ libraries and embedded projects	10
An empirical comparison of combinatorial testing and search-based testing in the context of automated and autonomous driving systems	10
A taxonomy for mining and classifying privacy requirements in issue reports	10
Architecting for sustainability of and in the cloud: A systematic literature review	10
The impact of the distance metric and measure on SMOTE-based techniques in software defect prediction	10

A systematic literature review of capstone courses in software engineering	10
Fast and curious: A model for building efficient monitoring- and decision-making frameworks based on quantitative data	10
A checklist for the evaluation of software process line approaches	9
Maintainability enhancement based on uncertain model transformations	9
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	9
Microservice extraction based on knowledge graph from monolithic applications	9
Relationships between software architecture and source code in practice: An exploratory survey and interview	9
Empirically developed framework for building trust in distributed agile teams	9
The impact of human aspects on the interactions between software developers and end-users in software engineering: A systematic literature review	9
Requirements engineering for artificial intelligence systems: A systematic mapping study	9
Towards building a pragmatic cross-project defect prediction model combining non-effort based and effort-based performance measures for a balanced evaluation	9
Preventing technical debt with the TAP framework for Technical Debt Aware Management	9
A DQN-based agent for automatic software refactoring	9
An empirical study of IoT security aspects at sentence-level in developer textual discussions	9
Are your apps accessible? A GCN-based accessibility checker for low vision users	9
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	9
Relative estimates of software development effort: Are they more accurate or less time-consuming to produce than absolute estimates, and to what extent are they person-independent?	9
A fault localization approach based on fault propagation context	9
Analysing the synergies between Multi-agent Systems and Digital Twins: A systematic literature review	9
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	9
Can test input selection methods for deep neural network guarantee test diversity? A large-scale empirical study	9
On the effectiveness of testing sentiment analysis systems with metamorphic testing	9
Security in agile software development: A practitioner survey	9
On meetings involving remote software teams: A systematic literature review	9
UX work in software startups: A thematic analysis of the literature	9
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	9
Towards antifragility of cloud systems: An adaptive chaos driven framework	9
The yea-paradox: Cognitive bias in technology acceptance surveys	8
Exploring granular test coverage and its evolution with matrix visualizations	8
Editorial Board	8
Information and software technology: Special section on techdebt 2021	8
Technical debt management automation: State of the art and future perspectives	8
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	8
AGL: Incorporating behavioral aspects into domain-driven design	8
A tertiary study on links between source code metrics and external quality attributes	8
Characteristics and generative mechanisms of software development productivity distributions	8
An empirical study on bugs in JavaScript engines	8
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Investigating the relationship between personalities and agile team climate: A replicated study	8
WINE: Warning miner for improving bug finders	8
Special section on IST for ICSOB2021	8
Validating class integration test order generation systems with Metamorphic Testing	8
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Why and how bug blocking relations are breakable: An empirical study on breakable blocking bugs	8
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	8
Introduction to Special Issue on Visualization Applied to Software Engineering	8
Retrieving arXiv, SocArXiv, and SSRN metadata for initial review screening	8
Git command recommendations using crowd-sourced knowledge	8
FrMi: Fault-revealing Mutant Identification using killability severity	8
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