OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Software Quality Journal is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Construction of a quality model for machine learning systems	33
Quantum service-oriented computing: current landscape and challenges	31
Transferability of machine learning models learned from public intrusion detection datasets: the CICIDS2017 case study	21
MHCPDP: multi-source heterogeneous cross-project defect prediction via multi-source transfer learning and autoencoder	20
Challenges concerning test case specifications in automotive software testing: assessment of frequency and criticality	15
A hierarchical model for quantifying software security based on static analysis alerts and software metrics	14
Model-based test case generation from UML sequence diagrams using extended finite state machines	14
Does maintainability relate to the energy consumption of software? A case study	13
Exploratory study of the impact of project domain and size category on the detection of the God class design smell	11
A longitudinal exploratory study on code smells in server side web applications	10
Test input generation from cause–effect graphs	9
Machine learning techniques for software testing effort prediction	9
A survey on runtime testing of dynamically adaptable and distributed systems	9
Minimizing incident response time in real-world scenarios using quantum computing	9
Ergo, SMIRK is safe: a safety case for a machine learning component in a pedestrian automatic emergency brake system	9
An empirical study on the effect of community smells on bug prediction	9
Continuous design control for machine learning in certified medical systems	8
Critical scenario identification for realistic testing of autonomous driving systems	8
Empirical analysis on productivity prediction and locality for use case points method	8
Test-driven development with mutation testing – an experimental study	8
Scrum for safety: an agile methodology for safety-critical software systems	7
MATTER: A tool for generating end-to-end IoT test scripts	7
Exploring human factors of the agile software tester	7
Systematic analysis of automated threat modelling techniques: Comparison of open-source tools	7
Ontology-based metamorphic testing for chatbots	7

Copula-based software metrics aggregation	6
A decision analysis approach for selecting software defect prediction method in the early phases	6
Technological diversity of quantum computing providers: a comparative study and a proposal for API Gateway integration	6
Comparison of open-source runtime testing tools for microservices	6
An empirical evaluation of defect prediction approaches in within-project and cross-project context	6
Codes of conduct in Open Source Software—for warm and fuzzy feelings or equality in community?	6
How consistency is handled in model-driven software engineering and UML: an expert opinion survey	6
Learning and analysis of sensors behavior in IoT systems using statistical model checking	5
Scrum metaprocess: a process line approach for customizing Scrum	5
Comparative study of machine learning test case prioritization for continuous integration testing	5
Exposing bugs in JavaScript engines through test transplantation and differential testing	5
A new method for detecting various variants of GoF design patterns using conceptual signatures	5
Toward prioritization of self-admitted technical debt: an approach to support decision to payment	5
TestDCat 3.0: catalog of test debt subtypes and management activities	5
Software fault prediction using deep learning techniques	5
Machine learning application development: practitioners’ insights	5
Corrective commit probability: a measure of the effort invested in bug fixing	5
On business adoption and use of reproducible builds for open and closed source software	4
From DevOps to DevSecOps is not enough. CyberDevOps: an extreme shifting-left architecture to bring cybersecurity within software security lifecycle pipeline	4
Just-in-time defect prediction for mobile applications: using shallow or deep learning?	4
Data sampling and kernel manifold discriminant alignment for mixed-project heterogeneous defect prediction	4
QRev: migrating quantum code towards hybrid information systems	4
Collaborative process tailoring in evolutionary software development: a teamwork-quality perspective	4
Discussing the applicability of a process core ontology and aspects of its internal quality	4
An autonomous performance testing framework using self-adaptive fuzzy reinforcement learning	4
Prioritization and parallel execution of test cases for certification testing of embedded systems	4
Test data generation method based on multiple convergence direction adaptive PSO	4
Building an open-source system test generation tool: lessons learned and empirical analyses with EvoMaster	4
An improved text classification modelling approach to identify security messages in heterogeneous projects	3
Model-based testing leveraged for automated web tests	3
Integration testing for robotic systems	3
Using knowledge discovery to propose a two-phase model checking for safety analysis of graph transformations	3
Reductions and abstractions for formal verification of distributed round-based algorithms	3
A dataset of regressions in web applications detected by end-to-end tests	3
Evaluate and control service and transaction dependability of complex IoT systems	3
TeqReq: a new family of test-related requirements attributes	3
ReSuMo: a regression strategy and tool for mutation testing of solidity smart contracts	3
UI Test case prioritization on an industrial setting: A search for the best criteria	3
SleepReplacer: a novel tool-based approach for replacing thread sleeps in selenium WebDriver test code	3
.NET/C# instrumentation for search-based software testing	2
Identifying and managing data quality requirements: a design science study in the field of automated driving	2
Towards semantically enhanced detection of emerging quality-related concerns in source code	2
Programming languages ranking based on energy measurements	2
The temporality of technical debt introduction on new code and confounding factors	2
Dynamic test prioritization of product lines: An application on configurable simulation models	2
Reconciliation of scrum and the project management process of the ISO/IEC 29110 standard-Entry profile—an experimental evaluation through usability measures	2
Assessing the specification of modelling language semantics: a study on UML PSSM	2
How do developers collaborate? Investigating GitHub heterogeneous networks	2
Predicting Android malware combining permissions and API call sequences	1
MUT Model: a metric for characterizing metamorphic relations diversity	1

Utilizing source code syntax patterns to detect bug inducing commits using machine learning models	1
Do developer perceptions have borders? Comparing C code responses across continents	1
Formal verification process of the compliance of a multicore AUTOSAR OS	1
Special issue on information systems quality for digital transformation	1
Does PageRank apply to service ranking in microservice regression testing?	1
Towards improving agility in public administration	1
Successful intrusion detection with a single deep autoencoder: theory and practice	1
Matching terms of quality models and meta-models: toward a unified meta-model of OSS quality	1
Feature-oriented clone and pull operations for distributed development and evolution	1
Automatically generating taxonomy for grouping app reviews — a study of three apps	1
Implications of semi-supervised learning for design pattern selection	1
Keyword-labeled self-admitted technical debt and static code analysis have significant relationship but limited overlap	1
An empirical investigation on the challenges of creating custom static analysis rules for defect localization	1
A systems interpretation of the software evolution laws and their impact on technical debt management and software maintainability	1
A dynamic random testing strategy in the context of cloud computing	1
A microservice-based framework for multi-level testing of cyber-physical systems	1
A metric for quantifying the ripple effects among requirements	1
Empirical validation of a quality framework for evaluating modelling languages in MDE environments	1
KAD: a knowledge formalization-based anomaly detection approach for distributed systems	1
Automatic bug localization using a combination of deep learning and model transformation through node classification	1
Implicit and explicit mixture of experts models for software defect prediction	1
Evaluating testing strategies for resource related failures in mobile applications	1
An effective approach to improve the performance of eCPDP (early cross-project defect prediction) via data-transformation and parameter optimization	1
Exploring API behaviours through generated examples	1
Special issue on information systems quality management in practice	1
A replication study on the intuitiveness of programming language syntax	1
Exploring the role of big data analytics and dynamic capabilities in ESG programs within pharmaceuticals	1
Evaluating the complexity of deriving adaptive $$S'$$-homing and $$S'$$-synchronizing sequences for nondeterministic FSMs	1