ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Article	Citations
Finding Information Leaks with Information Flow Fuzzing—RCR Report	354
An empirical study on vulnerability disclosure management of open source software systems	199
Mutant Reduction Evaluation: What is There and What is Missing?	137
Automatic Identification of Game Stuttering via Gameplay Videos Analysis	128
Test Generation Strategies for Building Failure Models and Explaining Spurious Failures	94
Reusing d-DNNFs for Efficient Feature-Model Counting	93
Bounded Verification of Atomicity Violations for Interrupt-Driven Programs via Lazy Sequentialization	85
Neuron Semantic-Guided Test Generation for Deep Neural Networks Fuzzing	85
M2CVD: Enhancing Vulnerability Understanding through Multi-Model Collaboration for Code Vulnerability Detection	84
Preference-wise Testing of Android Apps via Test Amplification	78
SPENCER: Self-Adaptive Model Distillation for Efficient Code Retrieval	76
Horus : Accelerating Kernel Fuzzing through Efficient Host-VM Memory Access Procedures	76
TestLoop: A Process Model Describing Human-in-the-Loop Software Test Suite Generation	76
A Survey on Failure Analysis and Fault Injection in AI Systems	72
FairGenerate: Enhancing Fairness Through Synthetic Data Generation and Two-Fold Biased Labels Removal	67
FoC: Figure out the Cryptographic Functions in Stripped Binaries with LLMs	65
KAPE: k NN-based Performance Testing for Deep Code Search	64
Enhancing Android Malware Detection: The Influence of ChatGPT on Decision-centric Task	62
Deceiving Humans and Machines Alike: Search-based Test Input Generation for DNNs Using Variational Autoencoders	56
Securing the Ethereum from Smart Ponzi Schemes: Identification Using Static Features	56
Better Supporting Human Aspects in Mobile eHealth Apps: Development and Validation of Enhanced Guidelines	55
Understanding the OSS Communities of Deep Learning Frameworks: A Comparative Case Study of P y T orch and T ensor	54
History-Driven Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries	53
Assessing the Robustness of Test Selection Methods for Deep Neural Networks	53
An Empirical Study of the Non-Determinism of ChatGPT in Code Generation	51

Communicating Study Design Trade-offs in Software Engineering	51
A Comprehensive View on TD Prevention Practices and Reasons for Not Preventing It	50
I Depended on You and You Broke Me: An Empirical Study of Manifesting Breaking Changes in Client Packages	50
An Empirical Study on Governance in Bitcoin’s Consensus Evolution	47
Try with Simpler - An Evaluation of Improved Principal Component Analysis in Log-based Anomaly Detection	47
Deep API Sequence Generation via Golden Solution Samples and API Seeds	45
Model Transformation Development Using Automated Requirements Analysis, Metamodel Matching, and Transformation by Example	43
Assessing and Analyzing the Correctness of GitHub Copilot’s Code Suggestions	41
PVDetector: Pretrained Vulnerability Detection on Vulnerability-enriched Code Semantic Graph	41
Adopting Two Supervisors for Efficient Use of Large-Scale Remote Deep Neural Networks - RCR Report	40
Supporting Emotional Intelligence, Productivity and Team Goals while Handling Software Requirements Changes	39
Help Them Understand: Testing and Improving Voice User Interfaces	37
FAVDisco: Modeling and Discovering File Access Vulnerabilities	37
Systematic Literature Review on Software Security Vulnerability Information Extraction	36
Characterizing Deep Learning Package Supply Chains in PyPI: Domains, Clusters, and Disengagement	36
Towards Automating Domain-Specific Data Generation for Text-to-SQL: A Comprehensive Approach	36
Enhancing Security and Acuity of Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection based on Federated Learning and BiLSTM-Attention	36
Storage State Analysis and Extraction of Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contracts	35
I Know What You Are Searching for: Code Snippet Recommendation from Stack Overflow Posts	34
Do Current Language Models Support Code Intelligence for R Programming Language?	33
Toward Interpretable Graph Tensor Convolution Neural Network for Code Semantics Embedding	32
An Accurate Identifier Renaming Prediction and Suggestion Approach	32
FormatFuzzer : Effective Fuzzing of Binary File Formats	32
Estimating Uncertainty in Labeled Changes by SZZ Tools on Just-In-Time Defect Prediction	31
Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments	31
Introducing Interactions in Multi-Objective Optimization of Software Architectures	31
A Survey of Learning-based Automated Program Repair	30
Why Do Developers Reject Refactorings in Open-Source Projects?	30
When Fine-Tuning LLMs Meets Data Privacy: An Empirical Study of Federated Learning in LLM-Based Program Repair	30
HeMiRCA: Fine-Grained Root Cause Analysis for Microservices with Heterogeneous Data Sources	30
JavaScript SBST Heuristics to Enable Effective Fuzzing of NodeJS Web APIs	30
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models to Improve Accuracy and Comprehensibility of Automated Code Review	30
Towards On-The-Fly Code Performance Profiling	29
Why Do GitHub Actions Workflows Fail? An Empirical Study	29
On-the-fly Generation-Quality Enhancement of Deep Code Models via Model Collaboration	28
SCOPE : Performance Testing for Serverless Computing	28
SimADFuzz: Simulation-Feedback Fuzz Testing for Autonomous Driving Systems	28
Assessing the Early Bird Heuristic (for Predicting Project Quality)	28
APIRO: A Framework for Automated Security Tools API Recommendation	27
Vulnerability Repair via Concolic Execution and Code Mutations	27
AutoRIC: Automated Neural Network Repairing Based on Constrained Optimization	26
A Systematic Literature Review of Multi-Label Learning in Software Engineering	25
SimClone: Detecting Tabular Data Clones Using Value Similarity	25
Exploring Data-Efficient Adaptation of Large Language Models for Code Generation	25
Editorial: Toward the Future with Eight Issues Per Year	24
GIST : Generated Inputs Sets Transferability in Deep Learning	24
Reinforcement Learning Informed Evolutionary Search for Autonomous Systems Testing	24
PatchCensor: Patch Robustness Certification for Transformers via Exhaustive Testing	23
A Survey of Learning-based Method Name Prediction	23
An Empirical Study on GitHub Pull Requests’ Reactions	23

Contemporary Software Modernization: Strategies, Driving Forces, and Research Opportunities	23
Industry–Academia Research Collaboration and Knowledge Co-creation: Patterns and Anti-patterns	23
Editorial: ICSE and the Incredible Contradictions of Software Engineering	23
Revisiting the Identification of the Co-evolution of Production and Test Code	23
Mapping the Trust Terrain: LLMs in Software Engineering - Insights and Perspectives	23
Leveraging Reviewer Experience in Code Review Comment Generation	23
Assessing and Improving an Evaluation Dataset for Detecting Semantic Code Clones via Deep Learning	22
Efficient Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection through Transfer Learning for Large-Scale Software Systems	22
An Empirical Study of Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation: Challenges and Opportunities	22
Graphuzz: Data-driven Seed Scheduling for Coverage-guided Greybox Fuzzing	22
Simulator-based Explanation and Debugging of Hazard-triggering Events in DNN-based Safety-critical Systems	22
Towards Learning Generalizable Code Embeddings Using Task-agnostic Graph Convolutional Networks	22
Learning from Very Little Data: On the Value of Landscape Analysis for Predicting Software Project Health	22
Characterizing Installation- and Run-Time Compatibility Issues in Android Benign Apps and Malware	21
Commit Messages Generation Based on Core Changes	21
Security of Language Models for Code: A Systematic Literature Review	21
SourcererJBF: A Java Build Framework For Large-Scale Compilation	21
You Don’t Have to Say Where to Edit! jLED—Joint Learning to Localize and Edit Source Code	20
Beyond Fidelity: Explaining Vulnerability Localization of Learning-Based Detectors	20
Monitoring data for Anomaly Detection in Cloud-Based Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study	20
Cleaning Up Confounding: Accounting for Endogeneity Using Instrumental Variables and Two-Stage Models	19
A Characterization Study of Merge Conflicts in Java Projects	19
Test Input Prioritization for 3D Point Clouds	19
Feature Matching-based Approaches to Improve the Robustness of Android Visual GUI Testing	19
Exploring Fine-Grained Bug Report Categorization with Large Language Models and Prompt Engineering: An Empirical Study	19
Demystifying Hidden Sensitive Operations in Android Apps	19
Actor-Driven Decomposition of Microservices through Multi-level Scalability Assessment	18
Exploring the Capabilities of LLMs for Code-Change-Related Tasks	18
Fold2Vec: Towards a Statement-Based Representation of Code for Code Comprehension	18
Automatic Rule Checking for Microservices: Supporting Security Analysis with Explainability	18
A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Bias Mitigation Methods for Machine Learning Classifiers	18
Developer Perspectives on Licensing and Copyright Issues Arising from Generative AI for Software Development	18
Evolution-Aware Constraint Derivation Approach for Software Remodularization	18
Demo2Test: Transfer Testing of Agent in Competitive Environment with Failure Demonstrations	18
MR-Scout: Automated Synthesis of Metamorphic Relations from Existing Test Cases	18
Generation-based Differential Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries	18
Battling against Protocol Fuzzing: Protecting Networked Embedded Devices from Dynamic Fuzzers	17
SPOLRE: Semantic Preserving Object Layout Reconstruction for Image Captioning System Testing	17
Certified Cost Bounds for Abstract Programs	17
MeDeT: Medical Device Digital Twins Creation with Few-shot Meta-learning	17
Variable Renaming-Based Adversarial Test Generation for Code Model: Benchmark and Enhancement	17
Testing Causality in Scientific Modelling Software	17
Adaptive Modelling Languages: Abstract Syntax and Model Migration	17
Time-travel Investigation: Toward Building a Scalable Attack Detection Framework on Ethereum	17
Adopting Two Supervisors for Efficient Use of Large-Scale Remote Deep Neural Networks	17
Automating TODO-missed Methods Detection and Patching	17
Enhancing Task In-Progress Time Predictions through Affective and Personality Factors	17
Interpreting Deep Neural Networks via Relative Activation-Deactivation Abstractions	16
Programming Smart Playtesting	16
An In-depth Study of Java Deserialization Remote-Code Execution Exploits and Vulnerabilities	16
Improving Deep Assertion Generation via Fine-Tuning Retrieval-Augmented Pre-trained Language Models	16
PonziHunter: Hunting Ethereum Ponzi Contract via Static Analysis and Contrastive Learning on the Bytecode Level	16
A Roadmap for Integrating Sustainability into Software Engineering Education	15
Efficient Management of Containers for Software Defined Vehicles	15
Duplicate Bug Report Detection: How Far Are We?	15
All in One: Design, Verification, and Implementation of SNOW-optimal Read Atomic Transactions	15
Autonomous Driving System Testing via Diversity-Oriented Driving Scenario Exploration	15
Stress Testing Control Loops in Cyber-Physical Systems—RCR Report	15
Measuring and Clustering Heterogeneous Chatbot Designs	15
Bypassing Guardrails: Lessons Learned from Red Teaming ChatGPT	15
Coverage-directed Differential Testing of X.509 Certificate Validation in SSL/TLS Implementations	15
Is It Hard to Generate Holistic Commit Message?	15
LogUpdater: Automated Detection and Repair of Specific Defects in Logging Statements	14
Can GitHub Issues Help in App Review Classifications?	14
Fairness Concerns in App Reviews: A Study on AI-Based Mobile Apps	14
CITYWALK : Enhancing LLM-Based C++ Unit Test Generation via Project-Dependency Awareness and Language-Specific Knowledge	14
AdaptiveLog: An Adaptive Log Analysis Framework with the Collaboration of Large and Small Language Model	14
Input Distribution Coverage: Measuring Feature Interaction Adequacy in Neural Network Testing	14
An Interleaving Guided Metamorphic Testing Approach for Concurrent Programs	14
Refactoring in Computational Notebooks	14
The Influence of Human Aspects on Requirements Engineering-related Activities: Software Practitioners’ Perspective	14
OSS Effort Estimation Using Software Features Similarity and Developer Activity-Based Metrics	14
Differentiable Quantum Programming with Unbounded Loops	14
AI for DevSecOps: A Landscape and Future Opportunities	14
On the Impact of Lower Recall and Precision in Defect Prediction for Guiding Search-based Software Testing	13
Preparation and Utilization of Mixed States for Testing Quantum Programs	13
Studying the Impact of TensorFlow and PyTorch Bindings on Machine Learning Software Quality	13
Automatic Core-Developer Identification on GitHub: A Validation Study	13
Reputation Gaming in Crowd Technical Knowledge Sharing	13
A Comparative Study on Method Comment and Inline Comment	13

DiPri : Distance-Based Seed Prioritization for Greybox Fuzzing	13
Visualization Task Taxonomy to Understand the Fuzzing Internals	13
Exploring Development Methods for Reactive Synthesis Specifications	13
Obfuscated Clone Search in JavaScript based on Reinforcement Subsequence Learning	12
Mitigating Regression Faults Induced by Feature Evolution in Deep Learning Systems	12
Large Language Models for Cyber Security: A Systematic Literature Review	12
Towards Practical Binary Code Similarity Detection: Vulnerability Verification via Patch Semantic Analysis	12
Can Coverage Criteria Guide Failure Discovery for Image Classifiers? An Empirical Study	12
Towards Robustness of Deep Program Processing Models—Detection, Estimation, and Enhancement	12
Let’s Discover More API Relations: A Large Language Model-Based AI Chain for Unsupervised API Relation Inference	12
MORepair: Teaching LLMs to Repair Code via Multi-Objective Fine-Tuning	12
The IDEA of Us: An Identity-Aware Architecture for Autonomous Systems	12
A Systematic Literature Review on the Use of Deep Learning in Software Engineering Research	12
A Hypothesis Testing-based Framework for Software Cross-modal Retrieval in Heterogeneous Semantic Spaces	12
Software Engineering by and for Humans in an AI Era	12
Identifying and Explaining Safety-critical Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicles via Key Features	12
On the Significance of Category Prediction for Code-Comment Synchronization	12
Survey of Code Search Based on Deep Learning	12
Testing RESTful APIs: A Survey	12
How Do Successful and Failed Projects Differ? A Socio-Technical Analysis	12
Rise of Distributed Deep Learning Training in the Big Model Era: From a Software Engineering Perspective	12
Understanding Real-Time Collaborative Programming: A Study of Visual Studio Live Share	12
NSFuzz: Towards Efficient and State-Aware Network Service Fuzzing	12
Data Complexity: A New Perspective for Analyzing the Difficulty of Defect Prediction Tasks	12
Less Is More: Unlocking Semi-Supervised Deep Learning for Vulnerability Detection	11
Guided Feature Identification and Removal for Resource-constrained Firmware	11
Mobile Application Online Cross-Project Just-in-Time Software Defect Prediction Framework	11
Fairness Testing of Machine Translation Systems	11
Some Seeds Are Strong: Seeding Strategies for Search-based Test Case Selection	11
Identifying Performance Issues in Cloud Service Systems Based on Relational-Temporal Features	11
Representation Learning for Stack Overflow Posts: How Far Are We?	11
What Constitutes the Deployment and Runtime Configuration System? An Empirical Study on OpenStack Projects	11
BiRD: Race Detection in Software Binaries under Relaxed Memory Models	11
Simulating Software Evolution to Evaluate the Reliability of Early Decision-making among Design Alternatives toward Maintainability	11
Grammar Mutation for Testing Input Parsers	11
Test Oracle Generation for REST APIs	11
Revealing the Unseen: AI Chain on LLMs for Predicting Implicit Dataflows to Generate Dataflow Graphs in Dynamically Typed Code	11
Exploring JVM Garbage Collector Testing with Event-Coverage	10
The Havoc Paradox in Generator-Based Fuzzing — RCR Report	10
Decision Support Model for Selecting the Optimal Blockchain Oracle Platform: An Evaluation of Key Factors	10
Divide-and-Conquer: Automating Code Revisions via Localization-and-Revision	10
Large Language Model for Vulnerability Detection and Repair: Literature Review and the Road Ahead	10
Understanding Vulnerability Inducing Commits of the Linux Kernel	10
An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Defects and Source Code’s Unnaturalness	10
Toward Better Comprehension of Breaking Changes in the NPM Ecosystem	10
Fast, Fine-Grained Equivalence Checking for Neural Decompilers	10
Verification Witnesses	10
Revisiting Sentiment Analysis for Software Engineering in the Era of Large Language Models	10
SemMT: A Semantic-Based Testing Approach for Machine Translation Systems	10
Analysis of EMF meta-model duplication in open-source repositories	10
Addressing OSS Community Managers’ Challenges in Contributor Retention	10
What You See is What it Means! Semantic Representation Learning of Code based on Visualization and Transfer Learning	10
Automated Abstract Transformer Synthesis for Reduced Product Domains	10
Open Problems in Fuzzing RESTful APIs: A Comparison of Tools	10
CCIHunter: Enhancing Smart Contract Code-Comment Inconsistencies Detection via Two-Stage Pre-training	10
Model Driven Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and DevOps for Software and Systems Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study of Synergies and Challenges	9
Microservice Security Metrics for Secure Communication, Identity Management, and Observability	9
Digital Twin-based Anomaly Detection with Curriculum Learning in Cyber-physical Systems	9
Just-in-Time Detection of Silent Security Patches	9
Learning Software Bug Reports: A Systematic Literature Review	9
Benchmarking and Categorizing the Performance of Neural Program Repair Systems for Java	9
Large Language Model-Aware In-Context Learning for Code Generation	9
A Review of Learning-based Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection: A Perspective on Code Representation	9
Making Software Development More Diverse and Inclusive: Key Themes, Challenges, and Future Directions	9
From Triumph to Uncertainty: The Journey of Software Engineering in the AI Era	9
AceCoder : An Effective Prompting Technique Specialized in Code Generation	9
Finding Information Leaks with Information Flow Fuzzing	9
How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for Collaboration	9
Recommending Variable Names for Extract Local Variable Refactorings	9
Automated Identification of Toxic Code Reviews Using ToxiCR	9
AcTracer: Active Testing of Large Language Model via Multi-Stage Sampling	9
Sustainability in the Field of Software Engineering: A Tertiary Study	9
Prompt-based Code Completion via Multi-Retrieval Augmented Generation	9
Identifying Affected Third-Party Java Libraries from Textual Descriptions of Vulnerabilities and Libraries	9
Editorial: The End of the Journey	9
DRIVE: Dockerfile Rule Mining and Violation Detection	9
VexIR2Vec : An Architecture-Neutral Embedding Framework for Binary Similarity	9