ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

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
FairGenerate: Enhancing Fairness Through Synthetic Data Generation and Two-Fold Biased Labels Removal	51
A Survey on Failure Analysis and Fault Injection in AI Systems	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
Finding Information Leaks with Information Flow Fuzzing—RCR Report	47
Better Supporting Human Aspects in Mobile eHealth Apps: Development and Validation of Enhanced Guidelines	47
Neuron Semantic-Guided Test Generation for Deep Neural Networks Fuzzing	43
Storage State Analysis and Extraction of Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contracts	41

Model Transformation Development Using Automated Requirements Analysis, Metamodel Matching, and Transformation by Example	41
Introducing Interactions in Multi-Objective Optimization of Software Architectures	41
Enhancing Search-based Testing with Testability Transformations for Existing APIs	40
Toward Interpretable Graph Tensor Convolution Neural Network for Code Semantics Embedding	40
JavaScript SBST Heuristics to Enable Effective Fuzzing of NodeJS Web APIs	37
Why Do Developers Reject Refactorings in Open-Source Projects?	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
A Comprehensive View on TD Prevention Practices and Reasons for Not Preventing It	34
HeMiRCA: Fine-Grained Root Cause Analysis for Microservices with Heterogeneous Data Sources	34
Help Them Understand: Testing and Improving Voice User Interfaces	34
I Know What You Are Searching for: Code Snippet Recommendation from Stack Overflow Posts	33
Deep API Sequence Generation via Golden Solution Samples and API Seeds	32
Characterizing Deep Learning Package Supply Chains in PyPI: Domains, Clusters, and Disengagement	32
An Accurate Identifier Renaming Prediction and Suggestion Approach	31
FAVDisco: Modeling and Discovering File Access Vulnerabilities	29
Assessing and Analyzing the Correctness of GitHub Copilot’s Code Suggestions	29
Enhancing Security and Acuity of Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection based on Federated Learning and BiLSTM-Attention	28
Systematic Literature Review on Software Security Vulnerability Information Extraction	28
Towards Automating Domain-Specific Data Generation for Text-to-SQL: A Comprehensive Approach	28
FormatFuzzer : Effective Fuzzing of Binary File Formats	27
A Survey of Learning-based Automated Program Repair	27
Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments	27
Do Current Language Models Support Code Intelligence for R Programming Language?	26
Try with Simpler - An Evaluation of Improved Principal Component Analysis in Log-based Anomaly Detection	26
An Empirical Study on GitHub Pull Requests’ Reactions	26
Industry–Academia Research Collaboration and Knowledge Co-creation: Patterns and Anti-patterns	26
Revisiting the Identification of the Co-evolution of Production and Test Code	26
Editorial: Toward the Future with Eight Issues Per Year	25
GIST : Generated Inputs Sets Transferability in Deep Learning	25
Editorial: ICSE and the Incredible Contradictions of Software Engineering	25
Reinforcement Learning Informed Evolutionary Search for Autonomous Systems Testing	24
SimClone: Detecting Tabular Data Clones Using Value Similarity	24
Evaluation of Software Architectures under Uncertainty	23
Assessing the Early Bird Heuristic (for Predicting Project Quality)	23
Contemporary Software Modernization: Strategies, Driving Forces, and Research Opportunities	23
Vulnerability Repair via Concolic Execution and Code Mutations	23
Assessing and Improving an Evaluation Dataset for Detecting Semantic Code Clones via Deep Learning	23
PatchCensor: Patch Robustness Certification for Transformers via Exhaustive Testing	23
AutoRIC: Automated Neural Network Repairing Based on Constrained Optimization	22
An Empirical Study of Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation: Challenges and Opportunities	22
APIRO: A Framework for Automated Security Tools API Recommendation	22
A Systematic Literature Review of Multi-Label Learning in Software Engineering	22
A Characterization Study of Merge Conflicts in Java Projects	21
SimADFuzz: Simulation-Feedback Fuzz Testing for Autonomous Driving Systems	21
Cleaning Up Confounding: Accounting for Endogeneity Using Instrumental Variables and Two-Stage Models	21
SCOPE : Performance Testing for Serverless Computing	21

When Fine-Tuning LLMs Meets Data Privacy: An Empirical Study of Federated Learning in LLM-Based Program Repair	21
Towards On-The-Fly Code Performance Profiling	21
Adaptive Hypermutation for Search-Based System Test Generation: A Study on REST APIs with EvoMaster	20
Feature Matching-based Approaches to Improve the Robustness of Android Visual GUI Testing	20
Exploring the Capabilities of LLMs for Code-Change-Related Tasks	20
Demo2Test: Transfer Testing of Agent in Competitive Environment with Failure Demonstrations	20
Towards Learning Generalizable Code Embeddings Using Task-agnostic Graph Convolutional Networks	20
Simulator-based Explanation and Debugging of Hazard-triggering Events in DNN-based Safety-critical Systems	20
MR-Scout: Automated Synthesis of Metamorphic Relations from Existing Test Cases	20
Test Input Prioritization for 3D Point Clouds	20
SourcererJBF: A Java Build Framework For Large-Scale Compilation	20
Learning from Very Little Data: On the Value of Landscape Analysis for Predicting Software Project Health	20
Graphuzz: Data-driven Seed Scheduling for Coverage-guided Greybox Fuzzing	20
Efficient Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection through Transfer Learning for Large-Scale Software Systems	20
Demystifying Hidden Sensitive Operations in Android Apps	20
Actor-Driven Decomposition of Microservices through Multi-level Scalability Assessment	19
Beyond Fidelity: Explaining Vulnerability Localization of Learning-Based Detectors	19
Characterizing Installation- and Run-Time Compatibility Issues in Android Benign Apps and Malware	19
Commit Messages Generation Based on Core Changes	19
You Don’t Have to Say Where to Edit! jLED—Joint Learning to Localize and Edit Source Code	18
A Roadmap for Integrating Sustainability into Software Engineering Education	17
Exploring Fine-Grained Bug Report Categorization with Large Language Models and Prompt Engineering: An Empirical Study	17
Efficient Management of Containers for Software Defined Vehicles	17
A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Bias Mitigation Methods for Machine Learning Classifiers	17
Duplicate Bug Report Detection: How Far Are We?	17
Monitoring data for Anomaly Detection in Cloud-Based Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study	17
Developer Perspectives on Licensing and Copyright Issues Arising from Generative AI for Software Development	16
Coverage-directed Differential Testing of X.509 Certificate Validation in SSL/TLS Implementations	16
Measuring and Clustering Heterogeneous Chatbot Designs	16
Bypassing Guardrails: Lessons Learned from Red Teaming ChatGPT	16
Variable Renaming-Based Adversarial Test Generation for Code Model: Benchmark and Enhancement	16
Adopting Two Supervisors for Efficient Use of Large-Scale Remote Deep Neural Networks	16
SPOLRE: Semantic Preserving Object Layout Reconstruction for Image Captioning System Testing	16
Generation-based Differential Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries	16
Time-travel Investigation: Toward Building a Scalable Attack Detection Framework on Ethereum	16
Fold2Vec: Towards a Statement-Based Representation of Code for Code Comprehension	16
An In-depth Study of Java Deserialization Remote-Code Execution Exploits and Vulnerabilities	16
Is It Hard to Generate Holistic Commit Message?	15
All in One: Design, Verification, and Implementation of SNOW-optimal Read Atomic Transactions	15
Fairness Concerns in App Reviews: A Study on AI-Based Mobile Apps	15
Adaptive Modelling Languages: Abstract Syntax and Model Migration	15
Evolution-Aware Constraint Derivation Approach for Software Remodularization	15
Battling against Protocol Fuzzing: Protecting Networked Embedded Devices from Dynamic Fuzzers	15
Certified Cost Bounds for Abstract Programs	15
Testing Causality in Scientific Modelling Software	15
Programming Smart Playtesting	14
Improving Deep Assertion Generation via Fine-Tuning Retrieval-Augmented Pre-trained Language Models	14
Autonomous Driving System Testing via Diversity-Oriented Driving Scenario Exploration	14
Automating TODO-missed Methods Detection and Patching	14
MeDeT: Medical Device Digital Twins Creation with Few-shot Meta-learning	14
Stress Testing Control Loops in Cyber-Physical Systems - RCR Report	14
Enhancing Task In-Progress Time Predictions through Affective and Personality Factors	13
OSS Effort Estimation Using Software Features Similarity and Developer Activity-Based Metrics	13
On the Impact of Lower Recall and Precision in Defect Prediction for Guiding Search-based Software Testing	13
On the Significance of Category Prediction for Code-Comment Synchronization	13
AI for DevSecOps: A Landscape and Future Opportunities	13
Differentiable Quantum Programming with Unbounded Loops	13
Can GitHub Issues Help in App Review Classifications?	13
An Interleaving Guided Metamorphic Testing Approach for Concurrent Programs	13
PonziHunter: Hunting Ethereum Ponzi Contract via Static Analysis and Contrastive Learning on the Bytecode Level	13
Automatic Core-Developer Identification on GitHub: A Validation Study	13
DiPri : Distance-Based Seed Prioritization for Greybox Fuzzing	13
Reputation Gaming in Crowd Technical Knowledge Sharing	13
Can Coverage Criteria Guide Failure Discovery for Image Classifiers? An Empirical Study	12
A Hypothesis Testing-based Framework for Software Cross-modal Retrieval in Heterogeneous Semantic Spaces	12
Refactoring in Computational Notebooks	12
Preparation and Utilization of Mixed States for Testing Quantum Programs	12
Visualization Task Taxonomy to Understand the Fuzzing Internals	12
Understanding Real-Time Collaborative Programming: A Study of Visual Studio Live Share	12
How Do Successful and Failed Projects Differ? A Socio-Technical Analysis	12
The Influence of Human Aspects on Requirements Engineering-related Activities: Software Practitioners’ Perspective	12
Survey of Code Search Based on Deep Learning	12
Studying the Impact of TensorFlow and PyTorch Bindings on Machine Learning Software Quality	12
MORepair: Teaching LLMs to Repair Code via Multi-Objective Fine-Tuning	12
Data Complexity: A New Perspective for Analyzing the Difficulty of Defect Prediction Tasks	12
Rise of Distributed Deep Learning Training in the Big Model Era: From a Software Engineering Perspective	12
A Comparative Study on Method Comment and Inline Comment	12
AdaptiveLog: An Adaptive Log Analysis Framework with the Collaboration of Large and Small Language Model	12
LogUpdater: Automated Detection and Repair of Specific Defects in Logging Statements	12
Input Distribution Coverage: Measuring Feature Interaction Adequacy in Neural Network Testing	12

Towards Practical Binary Code Similarity Detection: Vulnerability Verification via Patch Semantic Analysis	11
Towards Robustness of Deep Program Processing Models—Detection, Estimation, and Enhancement	11
Software Engineering by and for Humans in an AI Era	11
The IDEA of Us: An Identity-Aware Architecture for Autonomous Systems	11
Verification Witnesses	11
Testing RESTful APIs: A Survey	11
Let’s Discover More API Relations: A Large Language Model-Based AI Chain for Unsupervised API Relation Inference	11
NSFuzz: Towards Efficient and State-Aware Network Service Fuzzing	11
Some Seeds Are Strong: Seeding Strategies for Search-based Test Case Selection	11
Obfuscated Clone Search in JavaScript based on Reinforcement Subsequence Learning	11
A Systematic Literature Review on the Use of Deep Learning in Software Engineering Research	11
Mitigating Regression Faults Induced by Feature Evolution in Deep Learning Systems	11
Identifying and Explaining Safety-critical Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicles via Key Features	11
Identifying Performance Issues in Cloud Service Systems Based on Relational-Temporal Features	11
Fairness Testing of Machine Translation Systems	10
BiRD: Race Detection in Software Binaries under Relaxed Memory Models	10
What Constitutes the Deployment and Runtime Configuration System? An Empirical Study on OpenStack Projects	10
Revealing the Unseen: AI Chain on LLMs for Predicting Implicit Dataflows to Generate Dataflow Graphs in Dynamically Typed Code	10
Toward Better Comprehension of Breaking Changes in the NPM Ecosystem	10
Large Language Model for Vulnerability Detection and Repair: Literature Review and the Road Ahead	10
The Case for Adaptive Security Interventions	10
Guided Feature Identification and Removal for Resource-constrained Firmware	10
Decision Support Model for Selecting the Optimal Blockchain Oracle Platform: An Evaluation of Key Factors	10
Less Is More: Unlocking Semi-Supervised Deep Learning for Vulnerability Detection	10
Open Problems in Fuzzing RESTful APIs: A Comparison of Tools	10
Mobile Application Online Cross-Project Just-in-Time Software Defect Prediction Framework	10
Simulating Software Evolution to Evaluate the Reliability of Early Decision-making among Design Alternatives toward Maintainability	10
Representation Learning for Stack Overflow Posts: How Far Are We?	9
Understanding Vulnerability Inducing Commits of the Linux Kernel	9
Automated Identification of Toxic Code Reviews Using ToxiCR	9
Digital Twin-based Anomaly Detection with Curriculum Learning in Cyber-physical Systems	9
Editorial: The End of the Journey	9
What You See is What it Means! Semantic Representation Learning of Code based on Visualization and Transfer Learning	9
Grammar Mutation for Testing Input Parsers	9
Automated Abstract Transformer Synthesis for Reduced Product Domains	9
Influential Global and Local Contexts Guided Trace Representation for Fault Localization	9
From Triumph to Uncertainty: The Journey of Software Engineering in the AI Era	9
Recommending Variable Names for Extract Local Variable Refactorings	9
Making Software Development More Diverse and Inclusive: Key Themes, Challenges, and Future Directions	9
Revisiting Sentiment Analysis for Software Engineering in the Era of Large Language Models	9
SemMT: A Semantic-Based Testing Approach for Machine Translation Systems	9
Exploring JVM Garbage Collector Testing with Event-Coverage	9
Test Oracle Generation for REST APIs	9
Learning Software Bug Reports: A Systematic Literature Review	9
DRIVE: Dockerfile Rule Mining and Violation Detection	9
Benchmarking and Categorizing the Performance of Neural Program Repair Systems for Java	9
Microservice Security Metrics for Secure Communication, Identity Management, and Observability	9
Divide-and-Conquer: Automating Code Revisions via Localization-and-Revision	9
An Empirical Study on the Relationship Between Defects and Source Code’s Unnaturalness	9
V ex IR2V ec : An Architecture-Neutral Embedding Framework for Binary Similarity	8
Identifying Affected Third-Party Java Libraries from Textual Descriptions of Vulnerabilities and Libraries	8
Finding Information Leaks with Information Flow Fuzzing	8
AceCoder : An Effective Prompting Technique Specialized in Code Generation	8
Challenges of Working from Home in Software Development During Covid-19 Lockdowns	8
Enumerating Valid Non-Alpha-Equivalent Programs for Interpreter Testing	8
Snippet Comment Generation Based on Code Context Expansion	8
Blindspots in Python and Java APIs Result in Vulnerable Code	8
Large Language Model-Aware In-Context Learning for Code Generation	8
Rise of the Planet of Serverless Computing: A Systematic Review	8
Sustainability in the Field of Software Engineering: A Tertiary Study	8
FQN Inference in Partial Code by Prompt-tuned Language Model of Code	8
Exploring Automated Assertion Generation via Large Language Models	8
Software Security Analysis in 2030 and Beyond: A Research Roadmap	8
A Road-Map to Readily Available Early Validation and Verification of System Behaviour in Model-Based Systems Engineering using Software Engineering Best Practices	8
Temporal-Incremental Learning for Android Malware Detection	8
Prompt-based Code Completion via Multi-Retrieval Augmented Generation	8
A Review of Learning-based Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection: A Perspective on Code Representation	8
How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for Collaboration	8
AcTracer: Active Testing of Large Language Model via Multi-Stage Sampling	8
My Fuzzers Won’t Build: An Empirical Study of Fuzzing Build Failures	8
Improving Automated Program Repair with Domain Adaptation	8
Learning-based Relaxation of Completeness Requirements for Data Entry Forms	8
Making Sense of the Unknown: How Managers Make Cyber Security Decisions	8
A Comprehensive Study of Governance Issues in Decentralized Finance Applications	7
µOpTime: Statically Reducing the Execution Time of Microbenchmark Suites Using Stability Metrics	7
Poracle: Testing Patches under Preservation Conditions to Combat the Overfitting Problem of Program Repair	7
Using Personality Detection Tools for Software Engineering Research: How Far Can We Go?	7
On the Faults Found in REST APIs by Automated Test Generation	7
S pectre : Automated Aliasing Specifications Generation for Library APIs with Fuzzing	7
Bias Testing and Mitigation in LLM-based Code Generation	7
Poison Attack and Poison Detection on Deep Source Code Processing Models	7
The Good, the Bad, and the Missing: Neural Code Generation for Machine Learning Tasks	7
Accountability in Code Review: The Role of Intrinsic Drivers and the Impact of LLMs	7
A Machine Learning Approach for Automated Filling of Categorical Fields in Data Entry Forms	7
A Closer Look at the Security Risks in the Rust Ecosystem	7
Asteria-Pro: Enhancing Deep Learning-based Binary Code Similarity Detection by Incorporating Domain Knowledge	7
Automatic Repair of Quantum Programs via Unitary Operation	7
An Empirical Study of the Impact of Hyperparameter Tuning and Model Optimization on the Performance Properties of Deep Neural Networks	7
Improving Code Reviewer Recommendation: Accuracy, Latency, Workload, and Bystanders	7
ReCDroid+: Automated End-to-End Crash Reproduction from Bug Reports for Android Apps	7
Finding Near-optimal Configurations in Colossal Spaces with Statistical Guarantees	7
deGraphCS : Embedding Variable-based Flow Graph for Neural Code Search	7
OptRCA: A More Efficient and Accurate Approach for Automated Root Cause Analysis and Explanation	7
Privacy in Chatbot Conversation-Driven Development: A Comprehensive Review and Requirements Proposal	7
Exploring Better Black-Box Test Case Prioritization via Log Analysis	7