OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Software Quality Journal is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Application of the OIRE method—tool support and initial feedback from two chinese companies	35
Using knowledge discovery to propose a two-phase model checking for safety analysis of graph transformations	35
Machine learning for mHealth apps quality evaluation	21
Dynamic test prioritization of product lines: An application on configurable simulation models	20
Experience report on the application of genetic algorithms to reduce costs of the software validation process in the automotive sector during an engine control unit project	14
Quality aspects of digital forest service management: a case study	14
Quality attribute traceability based on Clone Microtactics	11
SleepReplacer: a novel tool-based approach for replacing thread sleeps in selenium WebDriver test code	10
Just-in-time defect prediction for mobile applications: using shallow or deep learning?	10
Implications of semi-supervised learning for design pattern selection	9
Systematic analysis of automated threat modelling techniques: Comparison of open-source tools	9
Test data generation method based on multiple convergence direction adaptive PSO	9
Evaluate and control service and transaction dependability of complex IoT systems	9
Comparison of open-source runtime testing tools for microservices	9
Exploratory study of the impact of project domain and size category on the detection of the God class design smell	8
LLM-BRC: A large language model-based bug report classification framework	8
Utilizing source code syntax patterns to detect bug inducing commits using machine learning models	8
Enhancing big data analytics deployment: uncovering stakeholder dynamics and balancing salience in project roles	7
Automatically generating taxonomy for grouping app reviews — a study of three apps	7
Quality enhancement in OSS development process: a quantitative framework approach	7
Implicit and explicit mixture of experts models for software defect prediction	7
Differential testing solidity compiler through deep contract manipulation and mutation	7
Quality attributes of test cases and test suites – importance & challenges from practitioners’ perspectives	6
Quality evaluation meta-model for open-source software: multi-method validation study	6
How consistency is handled in model-driven software engineering and UML: an expert opinion survey	6

TTAFPred: Prediction of time to aging failure for software systems based on a two-stream multi-scale features fusion network	6
KAD: a knowledge formalization-based anomaly detection approach for distributed systems	6
Comparative study of machine learning test case prioritization for continuous integration testing	6
MUT Model: a metric for characterizing metamorphic relations diversity	6
Towards semantically enhanced detection of emerging quality-related concerns in source code	5
Automatic bug localization using a combination of deep learning and model transformation through node classification	5
Matching terms of quality models and meta-models: toward a unified meta-model of OSS quality	5
Corrective commit probability: a measure of the effort invested in bug fixing	5
How do developers collaborate? Investigating GitHub heterogeneous networks	5
Feature-oriented clone and pull operations for distributed development and evolution	5
Towards random and enumerative testing for OCaml and WhyML properties	5
A comprehensive catalog of refactoring strategies to handle test smells in Java-based systems	5
UX debt in an agile development process: evidence and characterization	4
Collaborative process tailoring in evolutionary software development: a teamwork-quality perspective	4
Quantitative evaluation of molecular generation performance of graph-based GANs	4
Model-based test case generation from UML sequence diagrams using extended finite state machines	4
Unraveling the code: an in-depth empirical study on the impact of development practices in auxiliary functions implementation	4
A decision analysis approach for selecting software defect prediction method in the early phases	4
Identifying the severity of technical debt issues based on semantic and structural information	4
Predicting Android malware combining permissions and API call sequences	4
Enhancing human-machine pair inspection with risk number and code inspection diagram	4
Domain-specific implications of error-type metrics in risk-based software fault prediction	4
UI Test case prioritization on an industrial setting: A search for the best criteria	4