ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Article	Citations
DeepWukong	93
A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic	77
Assessing and Improving Malware Detection Sustainability through App Evolution Studies	72
Software Engineering for AI-Based Systems: A Survey	62
Practical Accuracy Estimation for Efficient Deep Neural Network Testing	49
Test Selection for Deep Learning Systems	45
Developing Cost-Effective Blockchain-Powered Applications	41
Security Smells in Ansible and Chef Scripts	40
A Survey of Flaky Tests	39
Monotone Precision and Recall Measures for Comparing Executions and Specifications of Dynamic Systems	38
Wireframe-based UI Design Search through Image Autoencoder	37
Predicting Node Failures in an Ultra-Large-Scale Cloud Computing Platform	36
Generating Question Titles for Stack Overflow from Mined Code Snippets	36
Smart Contract Repair	35
A Systematic Literature Review on the Use of Deep Learning in Software Engineering Research	30
Understanding Software-2.0	28
Why My Code Summarization Model Does Not Work	28
On the Impact of Sample Duplication in Machine-Learning-Based Android Malware Detection	28
Why Developers Refactor Source Code	27
Why an Android App Is Classified as Malware	26
When and How to Make Breaking Changes	26
An Empirical Study of the Impact of Hyperparameter Tuning and Model Optimization on the Performance Properties of Deep Neural Networks	26
Context-Aware Code Change Embedding for Better Patch Correctness Assessment	26
Handling SQL Databases in Automated System Test Generation	25
Context-aware Retrieval-based Deep Commit Message Generation	25

The Agile Success Model	25
Beyond Tests	23
In-IDE Code Generation from Natural Language: Promise and Challenges	22
Quality Indicators in Search-based Software Engineering	21
Opinion Mining for Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review	21
Modular Tree Network for Source Code Representation Learning	21
Visualizing Distributed System Executions	20
Emoji-powered Sentiment and Emotion Detection from Software Developers’ Communication Data	20
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Black-box Testing of Android Apps	20
Women’s Participation in Open Source Software: A Survey of the Literature	20
How Far Have We Progressed in Identifying Self-admitted Technical Debts? A Comprehensive Empirical Study	19
How Should I Improve the UI of My App?	18
Accessibility in Software Practice: A Practitioner’s Perspective	17
Automated Patch Transplantation	17
Interpreting Deep Learning-based Vulnerability Detector Predictions Based on Heuristic Searching	16
NPC: N euron P ath C overage via Characterizing Decision Logic of Deep Neural Networks	16
An Empirical Study on Data Distribution-Aware Test Selection for Deep Learning Enhancement	16
Stateful Serverless Computing with Crucial	16
IntDroid	16
Practical Constraint Solving for Generating System Test Data	16
Memory-Safety Challenge Considered Solved? An In-Depth Study with All Rust CVEs	15
Technical Q8A Site Answer Recommendation via Question Boosting	15
A Theory of Scrum Team Effectiveness	14
Are Multi-Language Design Smells Fault-Prone? An Empirical Study	14
History-based Model Repair Recommendations	14
psc2code	14
Killing Stubborn Mutants with Symbolic Execution	14
Adversarial Robustness of Deep Code Comment Generation	14
Fine-grained Code Coverage Measurement in Automated Black-box Android Testing	13
An Empirical Study of Developer Discussions in the Gitter Platform	13
Defining a Knowledge Graph Development Process Through a Systematic Review	13
Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments	13
Adaptive Hypermutation for Search-Based System Test Generation: A Study on REST APIs with EvoMaster	13
Are Comments on Stack Overflow Well Organized for Easy Retrieval by Developers?	12
Test Data Generation for Path Coverage of MPI Programs Using SAEO	12
SafeDrop: Detecting Memory Deallocation Bugs of Rust Programs via Static Data-flow Analysis	12
Enhancing Search-based Testing with Testability Transformations for Existing APIs	12
ActivFORMS: A Formally Founded Model-based Approach to Engineer Self-adaptive Systems	12
Towards Robustness of Deep Program Processing Models—Detection, Estimation, and Enhancement	12
Predicting Performance Anomalies in Software Systems at Run-time	11
KLEESpectre	11
Taming Reflection	11
Boosting Compiler Testing via Compiler Optimization Exploration	11
Toward an Objective Measure of Developers’ Cognitive Activities	11
A Survey on Automated Driving System Testing: Landscapes and Trends	11
Evaluation of Software Architectures under Uncertainty	11
The Case for Adaptive Security Interventions	11
On the Significance of Category Prediction for Code-Comment Synchronization	11
SPI: Automated Identification of Security Patches via Commits	11
An Empirical Study of the Impact of Data Splitting Decisions on the Performance of AIOps Solutions	11

Rise of the Planet of Serverless Computing: A Systematic Review	11
The Weights Can Be Harmful: Pareto Search versus Weighted Search in Multi-objective Search-based Software Engineering	11
Uncertainty-aware Prediction Validator in Deep Learning Models for Cyber-physical System Data	11
Why Do Smart Contracts Self-Destruct? Investigating the Selfdestruct Function on Ethereum	11
Unveiling Elite Developers’ Activities in Open Source Projects	11
ReCDroid+: Automated End-to-End Crash Reproduction from Bug Reports for Android Apps	10
Predictive Models in Software Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities	10
Computing Alignments of Well-Formed Process Models using Local Search	10
A Defect Estimator for Source Code	10
On the Faults Found in REST APIs by Automated Test Generation	10
Psychometrics in Behavioral Software Engineering: A Methodological Introduction with Guidelines	10
Time-travel Investigation: Toward Building a Scalable Attack Detection Framework on Ethereum	9
Efficient and Effective Feature Space Exploration for Testing Deep Learning Systems	9
Context- and Fairness-Aware In-Process Crowdworker Recommendation	9
Leveraging Control Flow Knowledge in SMT Solving of Program Verification	9
Verifix: Verified Repair of Programming Assignments	9
On the Reproducibility and Replicability of Deep Learning in Software Engineering	9
What You See is What it Means! Semantic Representation Learning of Code based on Visualization and Transfer Learning	9
Just-In-Time Defect Prediction on JavaScript Projects: A Replication Study	9
Arachne: Search-Based Repair of Deep Neural Networks	8
Monitoring Constraints and Metaconstraints with Temporal Logics on Finite Traces	8
Predicting Patch Correctness Based on the Similarity of Failing Test Cases	8
The Impact of Dormant Defects on Defect Prediction: A Study of 19 Apache Projects	8
L2S: A Framework for Synthesizing the Most Probable Program under a Specification	8
Industry–Academia Research Collaboration and Knowledge Co-creation: Patterns and Anti-patterns	8
Automatic API Usage Scenario Documentation from Technical Q&A Sites	8
Eagle	8
A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Bias Mitigation Methods for Machine Learning Classifiers	8
Code Structure–Guided Transformer for Source Code Summarization	8
deGraphCS : Embedding Variable-based Flow Graph for Neural Code Search	8
S EADS	7
Applying Bayesian Analysis Guidelines to Empirical Software Engineering Data: The Case of Programming Languages and Code Quality	7
Leveraging the Defects Life Cycle to Label Affected Versions and Defective Classes	7
Verification Witnesses	7
FaaSLight : General Application-level Cold-start Latency Optimization for Function-as-a-Service in Serverless Computing	7
The Influence of Human Aspects on Requirements Engineering-related Activities: Software Practitioners’ Perspective	7
Testing Relative to Usage Scope	7
Automatic Fault Detection for Deep Learning Programs Using Graph Transformations	7
SemMT: A Semantic-Based Testing Approach for Machine Translation Systems	7
Open Problems in Fuzzing RESTful APIs: A Comparison of Tools	7
Automatically Identifying the Quality of Developer Chats for Post Hoc Use	7
Toward a Holistic Approach to Verification and Validation of Autonomous Cognitive Systems	7
Using Relative Lines of Code to Guide Automated Test Generation for Python	7
Some Seeds Are Strong: Seeding Strategies for Search-based Test Case Selection	7
RegionTrack	7
Uncertainty-wise Requirements Prioritization with Search	6
Feature Matching-based Approaches to Improve the Robustness of Android Visual GUI Testing	6
Microservice Security Metrics for Secure Communication, Identity Management, and Observability	6
CodeMatcher: Searching Code Based on Sequential Semantics of Important Query Words	6
A Hybrid Approach to Formal Verification of Higher-Order Masked Arithmetic Programs	6
Detecting and Augmenting Missing Key Aspects in Vulnerability Descriptions	6
A Practical Approach for Dynamic Taint Tracking with Control-flow Relationships	6
Bug Localization in Model-Based Systems in the Wild	6
Guaranteeing Timed Opacity using Parametric Timed Model Checking	6
XCoS: Explainable Code Search Based on Query Scoping and Knowledge Graph	6
White-Box Fuzzing RPC-Based APIs with EvoMaster: An Industrial Case Study	6
Testing the Plasticity of Reinforcement Learning-based Systems	6
Dealing with Belief Uncertainty in Domain Models	6
How Software Refactoring Impacts Execution Time	6
Diversifying Focused Testing for Unit Testing	6
Automated Identification and Qualitative Characterization of Safety Concerns Reported in UAV Software Platforms	6
Black-box Safety Analysis and Retraining of DNNs based on Feature Extraction and Clustering	5
An Empirical Study on Type Annotations	5
Influential Global and Local Contexts Guided Trace Representation for Fault Localization	5
Automating App Review Response Generation Based on Contextual Knowledge	5
Testing, Validation, and Verification of Robotic and Autonomous Systems: A Systematic Review	5
Correlating Automated and Human Evaluation of Code Documentation Generation Quality	5
Reliable Fix Patterns Inferred from Static Checkers for Automated Program Repair	5
Verification of Distributed Systems via Sequential Emulation	5
Towards a Consistent Interpretation of AIOps Models	5
Security Misconfigurations in Open Source Kubernetes Manifests: An Empirical Study	5
Model Transformation Development Using Automated Requirements Analysis, Metamodel Matching, and Transformation by Example	5
Securing the Ethereum from Smart Ponzi Schemes: Identification Using Static Features	5
Classifying Mobile Applications Using Word Embeddings	5
Digital Twin-based Anomaly Detection with Curriculum Learning in Cyber-physical Systems	5
Multi-objective Integer Programming Approaches for Solving the Multi-criteria Test-suite Minimization Problem	5
A Survey of Learning-based Automated Program Repair	5
Adversarial Specification Mining	5
Simulator-based Explanation and Debugging of Hazard-triggering Events in DNN-based Safety-critical Systems	4
APIRO: A Framework for Automated Security Tools API Recommendation	4

The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Learned Embeddings with Engineered Features for Accurate Prediction of Correct Patches	4
Characterizing and Detecting WebAssembly Runtime Bugs	4
Automated, Cost-effective, and Update-driven App Testing	4
Parallel Test Prioritization	4
iBiR : Bug-report-driven Fault Injection	4
Towards Learning Generalizable Code Embeddings Using Task-agnostic Graph Convolutional Networks	4
Pied-Piper: Revealing the Backdoor Threats in Ethereum ERC Token Contracts	4
Mutation Testing in Evolving Systems: Studying the Relevance of Mutants to Code Evolution	4
MICOSE4aPS: Industrially Applicable Maturity Metric to Improve Systematic Reuse of Control Software	4
iSENSE2.0	4
Parameter Coverage for Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems under Uncertainty	4
An In-depth Study of Java Deserialization Remote-Code Execution Exploits and Vulnerabilities	4
Examining Penetration Tester Behavior in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition	4
Making Sense of the Unknown: How Managers Make Cyber Security Decisions	4
Super-optimization of Smart Contracts	4
Assessing and Improving an Evaluation Dataset for Detecting Semantic Code Clones via Deep Learning	4
Predictive Mutation Analysis via the Natural Language Channel in Source Code	4
Testing RESTful APIs: A Survey	4
Input Distribution Coverage: Measuring Feature Interaction Adequacy in Neural Network Testing	4
Toward Understanding Deep Learning Framework Bugs	4
Turnover of Companies in OpenStack: Prevalence and Rationale	4
Is My Transaction Done Yet? An Empirical Study of Transaction Processing Times in the Ethereum Blockchain Platform	3
Using Personality Detection Tools for Software Engineering Research: How Far Can We Go?	3
There’s no Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Lessons Learned from Exploring the Overhead Introduced by the Greenkeeper Dependency Bot in Npm	3
Hierarchical Distribution-aware Testing of Deep Learning	3
Automated Identification of Toxic Code Reviews Using ToxiCR	3
I Know What You Are Searching for: Code Snippet Recommendation from Stack Overflow Posts	3
IFDS-based Context Debloating for Object-Sensitive Pointer Analysis	3
An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of an Ensemble of Stand-alone Sentiment Detection Tools for Software Engineering Datasets	3
Exploring Better Black-Box Test Case Prioritization via Log Analysis	3
Evaluating Surprise Adequacy for Deep Learning System Testing	3
OSS Effort Estimation Using Software Features Similarity and Developer Activity-Based Metrics	3
Measuring Task Conflict and Person Conflict in Software Testing	3
Parametric Timed Pattern Matching	3
Do Performance Aspirations Matter for Guiding Software Configuration Tuning? An Empirical Investigation under Dual Performance Objectives	3
A Machine Learning Approach for Automated Filling of Categorical Fields in Data Entry Forms	3
Katana : Dual Slicing Based Context for Learning Bug Fixes	3
A Formal Framework of Software Product Line Analyses	3
A Study on Blockchain Architecture Design Decisions and Their Security Attacks and Threats	3
Software Architectural Migration	3
Guided Feature Identification and Removal for Resource-constrained Firmware	3
Do Developers Really Know How to Use Git Commands? A Large-scale Study Using Stack Overflow	3
A Taxonomy of Information Attributes for Test Case Prioritisation: Applicability, Machine Learning	3
Automatic Core-Developer Identification on GitHub: A Validation Study	3
How Do Successful and Failed Projects Differ? A Socio-Technical Analysis	3
Measuring and Modeling Group Dynamics in Open-Source Software Development: A Tensor Decomposition Approach	3
Coverage-Based Debloating for Java Bytecode	3
Asteria-Pro: Enhancing Deep Learning-based Binary Code Similarity Detection by Incorporating Domain Knowledge	3
Fold2Vec: Towards a Statement-Based Representation of Code for Code Comprehension	3
TestSGD : Interpretable Testing of Neural Networks against Subtle Group Discrimination	3
Nudge: Accelerating Overdue Pull Requests toward Completion	3
TokenAware: Accurate and Efficient Bookkeeping Recognition for Token Smart Contracts	3
Fair Enough: Searching for Sufficient Measures of Fairness	3
Similarity-based Web Element Localization for Robust Test Automation	3
Facet-oriented Modelling	3
Recommending Faulty Configurations for Interacting Systems Under Test Using Multi-objective Search	3
A Comparative Study on Method Comment and Inline Comment	3
Architecting Internet of Things Systems with Blockchain	3
COMET: Coverage-guided Model Generation For Deep Learning Library Testing	3
Buddy Stacks: Protecting Return Addresses with Efficient Thread-Local Storage and Runtime Re-Randomization	3
Actor-Driven Decomposition of Microservices through Multi-level Scalability Assessment	2
XCode : Towards Cross-Language Code Representation with Large-Scale Pre-Training	2
LaF: Labeling-free Model Selection for Automated Deep Neural Network Reusing	2
Client-Specific Upgrade Compatibility Checking via Knowledge-Guided Discovery	2
Storage State Analysis and Extraction of Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contracts	2
Fine-Grained Coverage-Based Fuzzing	2
On Wasted Contributions: Understanding the Dynamics of Contributor-Abandoned Pull Requests–A Mixed-Methods Study of 10 Large Open-Source Projects	2
ConE: A Concurrent Edit Detection Tool for Large-scale Software Development	2
Mutant Reduction Evaluation: What is There and What is Missing?	2
All in One: Design, Verification, and Implementation of SNOW-optimal Read Atomic Transactions	2
Challenges of Working from Home in Software Development During Covid-19 Lockdowns	2
Mastering Variation in Human Studies	2
A Characterization Study of Merge Conflicts in Java Projects	2
Dissecting American Fuzzy Lop: A FuzzBench Evaluation	2
Speeding Up Data Manipulation Tasks with Alternative Implementations	2
Retrieving API Knowledge from Tutorials and Stack Overflow Based on Natural Language Queries	2
CodeEditor : Learning to Edit Source Code with Pre-trained Models	2
NSFuzz: Towards Efficient and State-Aware Network Service Fuzzing	2
GraphPrior: Mutation-based Test Input Prioritization for Graph Neural Networks	2
LibAM: An Area Matching Framework for Detecting Third-Party Libraries in Binaries	2
Preference-wise Testing of Android Apps via Test Amplification	2
Duplicate Bug Report Detection: How Far Are We?	2
On the Discoverability of npm Vulnerabilities in Node.js Projects	2
Finding Near-optimal Configurations in Colossal Spaces with Statistical Guarantees	2
HINNPerf: Hierarchical Interaction Neural Network for Performance Prediction of Configurable Systems	2
QuoTe : Quality-oriented Testing for Deep Learning Systems	2
Testing Feedforward Neural Networks Training Programs	2
HybridCISave : A Combined Build and Test Selection Approach in Continuous Integration	2
What Constitutes the Deployment and Runtime Configuration System? An Empirical Study on OpenStack Projects	2
What’s (Not) Working in Programmer User Studies?	2
Testing Abstractions for Cyber-Physical Control Systems	2
Video Game Bad Smells: What They Are and How Developers Perceive Them	2
Security Responses in Software Development	2
A Systematic Review of Automated Query Reformulations in Source Code Search	2
1-to-1 or 1-to-n? Investigating the Effect of Function Inlining on Binary Similarity Analysis	2