ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Article	Citations
DeepWukong	148
A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic	99
Software Engineering for AI-Based Systems: A Survey	98
Test Selection for Deep Learning Systems	63
A Survey of Flaky Tests	56
Developing Cost-Effective Blockchain-Powered Applications	51
In-IDE Code Generation from Natural Language: Promise and Challenges	50
A Systematic Literature Review on the Use of Deep Learning in Software Engineering Research	47
Understanding Software-2.0	47
An Empirical Study of the Impact of Hyperparameter Tuning and Model Optimization on the Performance Properties of Deep Neural Networks	47
Security Smells in Ansible and Chef Scripts	46
Why an Android App Is Classified as Malware	38
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Black-box Testing of Android Apps	36
Why My Code Summarization Model Does Not Work	35
Women’s Participation in Open Source Software: A Survey of the Literature	34
Context-Aware Code Change Embedding for Better Patch Correctness Assessment	34
Context-aware Retrieval-based Deep Commit Message Generation	34
When and How to Make Breaking Changes	34
Opinion Mining for Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review	33
Accessibility in Software Practice: A Practitioner’s Perspective	32
Beyond Tests	31
NPC: N euron P ath C overage via Characterizing Decision Logic of Deep Neural Networks	30
Defining a Knowledge Graph Development Process Through a Systematic Review	30
The Agile Success Model	30
On the Impact of Sample Duplication in Machine-Learning-Based Android Malware Detection	30

Rise of the Planet of Serverless Computing: A Systematic Review	28
A Survey on Automated Driving System Testing: Landscapes and Trends	27
Code Structure–Guided Transformer for Source Code Summarization	26
Interpreting Deep Learning-based Vulnerability Detector Predictions Based on Heuristic Searching	26
SPI: Automated Identification of Security Patches via Commits	25
Stateful Serverless Computing with Crucial	25
An Empirical Study on Data Distribution-Aware Test Selection for Deep Learning Enhancement	25
How Should I Improve the UI of My App?	25
Efficient and Effective Feature Space Exploration for Testing Deep Learning Systems	24
Arachne: Search-Based Repair of Deep Neural Networks	24
IntDroid	24
Adversarial Robustness of Deep Code Comment Generation	23
Memory-Safety Challenge Considered Solved? An In-Depth Study with All Rust CVEs	23
A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Bias Mitigation Methods for Machine Learning Classifiers	23
Emoji-powered Sentiment and Emotion Detection from Software Developers’ Communication Data	22
An Empirical Study of the Impact of Data Splitting Decisions on the Performance of AIOps Solutions	22
Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments	21
Are Multi-Language Design Smells Fault-Prone? An Empirical Study	21
A Theory of Scrum Team Effectiveness	21
How Far Have We Progressed in Identifying Self-admitted Technical Debts? A Comprehensive Empirical Study	20
Towards Robustness of Deep Program Processing Models—Detection, Estimation, and Enhancement	20
Automated Identification and Qualitative Characterization of Safety Concerns Reported in UAV Software Platforms	19
SafeDrop: Detecting Memory Deallocation Bugs of Rust Programs via Static Data-flow Analysis	19
Automated Patch Transplantation	19
Enhancing Search-based Testing with Testability Transformations for Existing APIs	19
Technical Q8A Site Answer Recommendation via Question Boosting	19
History-based Model Repair Recommendations	19
FaaSLight : General Application-level Cold-start Latency Optimization for Function-as-a-Service in Serverless Computing	19
Verification Witnesses	18
The Weights Can Be Harmful: Pareto Search versus Weighted Search in Multi-objective Search-based Software Engineering	18
ActivFORMS: A Formally Founded Model-based Approach to Engineer Self-adaptive Systems	18
deGraphCS : Embedding Variable-based Flow Graph for Neural Code Search	18
A Survey of Learning-based Automated Program Repair	18
ReCDroid+: Automated End-to-End Crash Reproduction from Bug Reports for Android Apps	18
On the Significance of Category Prediction for Code-Comment Synchronization	17
Verifix: Verified Repair of Programming Assignments	17
The Influence of Human Aspects on Requirements Engineering-related Activities: Software Practitioners’ Perspective	17
Killing Stubborn Mutants with Symbolic Execution	17
Test Data Generation for Path Coverage of MPI Programs Using SAEO	16
Psychometrics in Behavioral Software Engineering: A Methodological Introduction with Guidelines	16
Predictive Models in Software Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities	16
Testing, Validation, and Verification of Robotic and Autonomous Systems: A Systematic Review	16
Just-In-Time Defect Prediction on JavaScript Projects: A Replication Study	16
Detecting and Augmenting Missing Key Aspects in Vulnerability Descriptions	15
Toward an Objective Measure of Developers’ Cognitive Activities	15
Securing the Ethereum from Smart Ponzi Schemes: Identification Using Static Features	15
The Impact of Dormant Defects on Defect Prediction: A Study of 19 Apache Projects	15
Adaptive Hypermutation for Search-Based System Test Generation: A Study on REST APIs with EvoMaster	15
Why Do Smart Contracts Self-Destruct? Investigating the Selfdestruct Function on Ethereum	15
How Software Refactoring Impacts Execution Time	15

Boosting Compiler Testing via Compiler Optimization Exploration	14
Predicting Performance Anomalies in Software Systems at Run-time	14
Time-travel Investigation: Toward Building a Scalable Attack Detection Framework on Ethereum	14
An Empirical Study of Developer Discussions in the Gitter Platform	14
On the Reproducibility and Replicability of Deep Learning in Software Engineering	14
On the Faults Found in REST APIs by Automated Test Generation	14
Evaluation of Software Architectures under Uncertainty	14
Predicting Patch Correctness Based on the Similarity of Failing Test Cases	13
Are Comments on Stack Overflow Well Organized for Easy Retrieval by Developers?	13
Self-Collaboration Code Generation via ChatGPT	13
The Case for Adaptive Security Interventions	13
Testing RESTful APIs: A Survey	12
L2S: A Framework for Synthesizing the Most Probable Program under a Specification	12
Pied-Piper: Revealing the Backdoor Threats in Ethereum ERC Token Contracts	12
Uncertainty-aware Prediction Validator in Deep Learning Models for Cyber-physical System Data	12
Refining ChatGPT-Generated Code: Characterizing and Mitigating Code Quality Issues	12
Industry–Academia Research Collaboration and Knowledge Co-creation: Patterns and Anti-patterns	12
SemMT: A Semantic-Based Testing Approach for Machine Translation Systems	12
Ethics in the Age of AI: An Analysis of AI Practitioners’ Awareness and Challenges	12
Applying Bayesian Analysis Guidelines to Empirical Software Engineering Data: The Case of Programming Languages and Code Quality	12
Automated Identification of Toxic Code Reviews Using ToxiCR	12
Security Misconfigurations in Open Source Kubernetes Manifests: An Empirical Study	11
Taming Reflection	11
Leveraging Control Flow Knowledge in SMT Solving of Program Verification	11
Automatic Fault Detection for Deep Learning Programs Using Graph Transformations	11
CodeEditor : Learning to Edit Source Code with Pre-trained Models	11
Context- and Fairness-Aware In-Process Crowdworker Recommendation	11
White-Box Fuzzing RPC-Based APIs with EvoMaster: An Industrial Case Study	11
Monitoring Constraints and Metaconstraints with Temporal Logics on Finite Traces	11
Open Problems in Fuzzing RESTful APIs: A Comparison of Tools	11
Toward Understanding Deep Learning Framework Bugs	11
Black-box Safety Analysis and Retraining of DNNs based on Feature Extraction and Clustering	10
Automatically Identifying the Quality of Developer Chats for Post Hoc Use	10
Microservice Security Metrics for Secure Communication, Identity Management, and Observability	10
Automatic API Usage Scenario Documentation from Technical Q&A Sites	10
Testing the Plasticity of Reinforcement Learning-based Systems	10
Dissecting American Fuzzy Lop: A FuzzBench Evaluation	10
Is My Transaction Done Yet? An Empirical Study of Transaction Processing Times in the Ethereum Blockchain Platform	10
APIRO: A Framework for Automated Security Tools API Recommendation	10
Some Seeds Are Strong: Seeding Strategies for Search-based Test Case Selection	10
Eagle	9
Digital Twin-based Anomaly Detection with Curriculum Learning in Cyber-physical Systems	9
Similarity-based Web Element Localization for Robust Test Automation	9
Input Distribution Coverage: Measuring Feature Interaction Adequacy in Neural Network Testing	9
Actor-Driven Decomposition of Microservices through Multi-level Scalability Assessment	9
Towards a Consistent Interpretation of AIOps Models	9
What You See is What it Means! Semantic Representation Learning of Code based on Visualization and Transfer Learning	9
S EADS	9
Turnover of Companies in OpenStack: Prevalence and Rationale	9
Leveraging the Defects Life Cycle to Label Affected Versions and Defective Classes	9
Correlating Automated and Human Evaluation of Code Documentation Generation Quality	9
Adversarial Specification Mining	8
How Do Successful and Failed Projects Differ? A Socio-Technical Analysis	8
Evaluating Surprise Adequacy for Deep Learning System Testing	8
An In-depth Study of Java Deserialization Remote-Code Execution Exploits and Vulnerabilities	8
Self-Planning Code Generation with Large Language Models	8
Fair Enough: Searching for Sufficient Measures of Fairness	8
An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of an Ensemble of Stand-alone Sentiment Detection Tools for Software Engineering Datasets	8
NSFuzz: Towards Efficient and State-Aware Network Service Fuzzing	8
Parameter Coverage for Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems under Uncertainty	8
Asteria-Pro: Enhancing Deep Learning-based Binary Code Similarity Detection by Incorporating Domain Knowledge	8
Automating App Review Response Generation Based on Contextual Knowledge	8
Guaranteeing Timed Opacity using Parametric Timed Model Checking	8
HybridCISave : A Combined Build and Test Selection Approach in Continuous Integration	8
Diversifying Focused Testing for Unit Testing	8
Toward a Holistic Approach to Verification and Validation of Autonomous Cognitive Systems	8
Uncertainty-wise Requirements Prioritization with Search	8
Dealing with Belief Uncertainty in Domain Models	8
A Comparative Study on Method Comment and Inline Comment	7
Duplicate Bug Report Detection: How Far Are We?	7
A Practical Approach for Dynamic Taint Tracking with Control-flow Relationships	7
Early Validation and Verification of System Behaviour in Model-based Systems Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review	7
Mutation Testing in Evolving Systems: Studying the Relevance of Mutants to Code Evolution	7
XCoS: Explainable Code Search Based on Query Scoping and Knowledge Graph	7
GraphPrior: Mutation-based Test Input Prioritization for Graph Neural Networks	7
Do Performance Aspirations Matter for Guiding Software Configuration Tuning? An Empirical Investigation under Dual Performance Objectives	7
Classifying Mobile Applications Using Word Embeddings	7
Continuous Integration and Delivery Practices for Cyber-Physical Systems: An Interview-Based Study	7
An Empirical Study on Type Annotations	7
Feature Matching-based Approaches to Improve the Robustness of Android Visual GUI Testing	7

Model Transformation Development Using Automated Requirements Analysis, Metamodel Matching, and Transformation by Example	7
Predictive Mutation Analysis via the Natural Language Channel in Source Code	7
Characterizing and Detecting WebAssembly Runtime Bugs	7
Exploring Better Black-Box Test Case Prioritization via Log Analysis	7
Automated, Cost-effective, and Update-driven App Testing	7
Using Personality Detection Tools for Software Engineering Research: How Far Can We Go?	7
1-to-1 or 1-to-n? Investigating the Effect of Function Inlining on Binary Similarity Analysis	7
Influential Global and Local Contexts Guided Trace Representation for Fault Localization	7
CodeMatcher: Searching Code Based on Sequential Semantics of Important Query Words	7
Navigating the Complexity of Generative AI Adoption in Software Engineering	7
A Hybrid Approach to Formal Verification of Higher-Order Masked Arithmetic Programs	7
Measuring and Modeling Group Dynamics in Open-Source Software Development: A Tensor Decomposition Approach	6
Prompt Sapper: A LLM-Empowered Production Tool for Building AI Chains	6
Structured Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Code Generation	6
Bug Localization in Model-Based Systems in the Wild	6
Towards Learning Generalizable Code Embeddings Using Task-agnostic Graph Convolutional Networks	6
Super-optimization of Smart Contracts	6
MICOSE4aPS: Industrially Applicable Maturity Metric to Improve Systematic Reuse of Control Software	6
Towards Practical Binary Code Similarity Detection: Vulnerability Verification via Patch Semantic Analysis	6
Fold2Vec: Towards a Statement-Based Representation of Code for Code Comprehension	6
Katana : Dual Slicing Based Context for Learning Bug Fixes	6
Nudge: Accelerating Overdue Pull Requests toward Completion	6
Making Sense of the Unknown: How Managers Make Cyber Security Decisions	6
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Learned Embeddings with Engineered Features for Accurate Prediction of Correct Patches	6
RegionTrack	6
Video Game Bad Smells: What They Are and How Developers Perceive Them	6
iBiR : Bug-report-driven Fault Injection	6
Verification of Distributed Systems via Sequential Emulation	6
TokenAware: Accurate and Efficient Bookkeeping Recognition for Token Smart Contracts	6
What Is the Intended Usage Context of This Model? An Exploratory Study of Pre-Trained Models on Various Model Repositories	6
What’s (Not) Working in Programmer User Studies?	6
Coverage-Based Debloating for Java Bytecode	5
Modern Code Reviews—Survey of Literature and Practice	5
Code-line-level Bugginess Identification: How Far have We Come, and How Far have We Yet to Go?	5
Examining Penetration Tester Behavior in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition	5
Testing Feedforward Neural Networks Training Programs	5
IFDS-based Context Debloating for Object-Sensitive Pointer Analysis	5
Uncertainty-Aware Robustness Assessment of Industrial Elevator Systems	5
COMET: Coverage-guided Model Generation For Deep Learning Library Testing	5
Reliable Fix Patterns Inferred from Static Checkers for Automated Program Repair	5
A Study on Blockchain Architecture Design Decisions and Their Security Attacks and Threats	5
Recommending Faulty Configurations for Interacting Systems Under Test Using Multi-objective Search	5
Representation Learning for Stack Overflow Posts: How Far Are We?	5
I Depended on You and You Broke Me: An Empirical Study of Manifesting Breaking Changes in Client Packages	5
Testing of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents with Surrogate Models	5
TestSGD : Interpretable Testing of Neural Networks against Subtle Group Discrimination	5
QuoTe : Quality-oriented Testing for Deep Learning Systems	5
Storage State Analysis and Extraction of Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contracts	5
A Characterization Study of Merge Conflicts in Java Projects	4
Precise Quantitative Analysis of Binarized Neural Networks: A BDD-based Approach	4
Client-Specific Upgrade Compatibility Checking via Knowledge-Guided Discovery	4
NSFuzz: Towards Efficient and State-Aware Network Service Fuzzing - RCR Report	4
sem2vec : Semantics-aware Assembly Tracelet Embedding	4
Automated Mapping of Adaptive App GUIs from Phones to TVs	4
Anchor : Fast and Precise Value-flow Analysis for Containers via Memory Orientation	4
Parallel Test Prioritization	4
The Human Side of Fuzzing: Challenges Faced by Developers during Fuzzing Activities	4
Simulator-based Explanation and Debugging of Hazard-triggering Events in DNN-based Safety-critical Systems	4
Method-level Bug Prediction: Problems and Promises	4
Assessing and Improving an Evaluation Dataset for Detecting Semantic Code Clones via Deep Learning	4
Retrieving API Knowledge from Tutorials and Stack Overflow Based on Natural Language Queries	4
ArchRepair : Block-Level Architecture-Oriented Repairing for Deep Neural Networks	4
Architecting Internet of Things Systems with Blockchain	4
Dependency Update Strategies and Package Characteristics	4
Parametric Timed Pattern Matching	4
Finding Near-optimal Configurations in Colossal Spaces with Statistical Guarantees	4
Hierarchical Distribution-aware Testing of Deep Learning	4
PatchCensor: Patch Robustness Certification for Transformers via Exhaustive Testing	4
I Know What You Are Searching for: Code Snippet Recommendation from Stack Overflow Posts	4
Do Developers Really Know How to Use Git Commands? A Large-scale Study Using Stack Overflow	4
Preference-wise Testing of Android Apps via Test Amplification	4
Buddy Stacks: Protecting Return Addresses with Efficient Thread-Local Storage and Runtime Re-Randomization	4
On the Reliability and Explainability of Language Models for Program Generation	4
OSS Effort Estimation Using Software Features Similarity and Developer Activity-Based Metrics	4
A Machine Learning Approach for Automated Filling of Categorical Fields in Data Entry Forms	4
Estimating Probabilistic Safe WCET Ranges of Real-Time Systems at Design Stages	3
Testing Multi-Subroutine Quantum Programs: From Unit Testing to Integration Testing	3
Vision Transformer Inspired Automated Vulnerability Repair	3
How Are Multilingual Systems Constructed: Characterizing Language Use and Selection in Open-Source Multilingual Software	3
Guided Feature Identification and Removal for Resource-constrained Firmware	3
Fairness Testing: A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of Trends	3
Security Responses in Software Development	3
An Accurate Identifier Renaming Prediction and Suggestion Approach	3
Causality-driven Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems	3
A Taxonomy of Information Attributes for Test Case Prioritisation: Applicability, Machine Learning	3
DeepGD: A Multi-Objective Black-Box Test Selection Approach for Deep Neural Networks	3
On Wasted Contributions: Understanding the Dynamics of Contributor-Abandoned Pull Requests–A Mixed-Methods Study of 10 Large Open-Source Projects	3
Open Source License Inconsistencies on GitHub	3
Fine-grained Coverage-based Fuzzing	3
Seed Selection for Testing Deep Neural Networks	3
Enablers and Barriers of Empathy in Software Developer and User Interactions: A Mixed Methods Case Study	3
Facet-oriented Modelling	3
What Constitutes the Deployment and Runtime Configuration System? An Empirical Study on OpenStack Projects	3
StubCoder : Automated Generation and Repair of Stub Code for Mock Objects	3
StreamGen	3