OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology is 35. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Preference-wise Testing of Android Apps via Test Amplification	251
Mutant Reduction Evaluation: What is There and What is Missing?	178
Bounded Verification of Atomicity Violations for Interrupt-Driven Programs via Lazy Sequentialization	121
Reusing d-DNNFs for Efficient Feature-Model Counting	113
Test Generation Strategies for Building Failure Models and Explaining Spurious Failures	95
Automatic Identification of Game Stuttering via Gameplay Videos Analysis	83
Deceiving Humans and Machines Alike: Search-based Test Input Generation for DNNs Using Variational Autoencoders	82
Understanding the OSS Communities of Deep Learning Frameworks: A Comparative Case Study of P y T orch and T ensor	68
I Depended on You and You Broke Me: An Empirical Study of Manifesting Breaking Changes in Client Packages	63
KAPE: k NN-based Performance Testing for Deep Code Search	61
History-Driven Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries	59
Communicating Study Design Trade-offs in Software Engineering	59
Horus : Accelerating Kernel Fuzzing through Efficient Host-VM Memory Access Procedures	58
Securing the Ethereum from Smart Ponzi Schemes: Identification Using Static Features	57
An Empirical Study of the Non-Determinism of ChatGPT in Code Generation	56
An empirical study on vulnerability disclosure management of open source software systems	55
FoC: Figure out the Cryptographic Functions in Stripped Binaries with LLMs	53
A Survey on Failure Analysis and Fault Injection in AI Systems	51
FairGenerate: Enhancing Fairness Through Synthetic Data Generation and Two-Fold Biased Labels Removal	51
Assessing the Robustness of Test Selection Methods for Deep Neural Networks	49
Enhancing Android Malware Detection: The Influence of ChatGPT on Decision-centric Task	49
Better Supporting Human Aspects in Mobile eHealth Apps: Development and Validation of Enhanced Guidelines	47
Finding Information Leaks with Information Flow Fuzzing—RCR Report	47
Neuron Semantic-Guided Test Generation for Deep Neural Networks Fuzzing	43
Model Transformation Development Using Automated Requirements Analysis, Metamodel Matching, and Transformation by Example	41

Introducing Interactions in Multi-Objective Optimization of Software Architectures	41
Storage State Analysis and Extraction of Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contracts	41
Toward Interpretable Graph Tensor Convolution Neural Network for Code Semantics Embedding	40
Enhancing Search-based Testing with Testability Transformations for Existing APIs	40
Why Do Developers Reject Refactorings in Open-Source Projects?	37
JavaScript SBST Heuristics to Enable Effective Fuzzing of NodeJS Web APIs	37
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models to Improve Accuracy and Comprehensibility of Automated Code Review	36
Adopting Two Supervisors for Efficient Use of Large-Scale Remote Deep Neural Networks - RCR Report	36
Supporting Emotional Intelligence, Productivity and Team Goals while Handling Software Requirements Changes	35
Estimating Uncertainty in Labeled Changes by SZZ Tools on Just-In-Time Defect Prediction	35
An Empirical Study on Governance in Bitcoin’s Consensus Evolution	35