ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Article	Citations
Finding Information Leaks with Information Flow Fuzzing—RCR Report	391
Mutant Reduction Evaluation: What is There and What is Missing?	202
Automatic Identification of Game Stuttering via Gameplay Videos Analysis	143
Test Generation Strategies for Building Failure Models and Explaining Spurious Failures	131
Better Supporting Human Aspects in Mobile eHealth Apps: Development and Validation of Enhanced Guidelines	99
Deceiving Humans and Machines Alike: Search-based Test Input Generation for DNNs Using Variational Autoencoders	94
Understanding the OSS Communities of Deep Learning Frameworks: A Comparative Case Study of P y T orch and T ensor	93
I Depended on You and You Broke Me: An Empirical Study of Manifesting Breaking Changes in Client Packages	92
Bounded Verification of Atomicity Violations for Interrupt-Driven Programs via Lazy Sequentialization	88
M2CVD: Enhancing Vulnerability Understanding through Multi-Model Collaboration for Code Vulnerability Detection	84
Reusing d-DNNFs for Efficient Feature-Model Counting	84
SPENCER: Self-Adaptive Model Distillation for Efficient Code Retrieval	80
History-Driven Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries	80
Horus : Accelerating Kernel Fuzzing through Efficient Host-VM Memory Access Procedures	72
TestLoop: A Process Model Describing Human-in-the-Loop Software Test Suite Generation	72
A Survey on Failure Analysis and Fault Injection in AI Systems	68
FairGenerate: Enhancing Fairness Through Synthetic Data Generation and Two-Fold Biased Labels Removal	66
KAPE: k NN-based Performance Testing for Deep Code Search	66
Enhancing Android Malware Detection: The Influence of ChatGPT on Decision-centric Task	60
Preference-wise Testing of Android Apps via Test Amplification	58
An empirical study on vulnerability disclosure management of open source software systems	57
Assessing the Robustness of Test Selection Methods for Deep Neural Networks	56
Neuron Semantic-Guided Test Generation for Deep Neural Networks Fuzzing	55
An Empirical Analysis of Machine Learning Model and Dataset Documentation, Supply Chain, and Licensing Challenges on Hugging Face	55
Securing the Ethereum from Smart Ponzi Schemes: Identification Using Static Features	55

Communicating Study Design Trade-offs in Software Engineering	53
FoC: Figure out the Cryptographic Functions in Stripped Binaries with LLMs	52
A Comprehensive View on TD Prevention Practices and Reasons for Not Preventing It	51
An Empirical Study of the Non-Determinism of ChatGPT in Code Generation	51
An Empirical Study on Governance in Bitcoin’s Consensus Evolution	48
Deep API Sequence Generation via Golden Solution Samples and API Seeds	45
Why Do Developers Reject Refactorings in Open-Source Projects?	44
JavaScript SBST Heuristics to Enable Effective Fuzzing of NodeJS Web APIs	43
Storage State Analysis and Extraction of Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contracts	43
FAVDisco: Modeling and Discovering File Access Vulnerabilities	41
Towards Automating Domain-Specific Data Generation for Text-to-SQL: A Comprehensive Approach	39
Adopting Two Supervisors for Efficient Use of Large-Scale Remote Deep Neural Networks - RCR Report	38
Characterizing Deep Learning Package Supply Chains in PyPI: Domains, Clusters, and Disengagement	38
Assessing and Analyzing the Correctness of GitHub Copilot’s Code Suggestions	38
PVDetector: Pretrained Vulnerability Detection on Vulnerability-enriched Code Semantic Graph	38
Toward Interpretable Graph Tensor Convolution Neural Network for Code Semantics Embedding	37
Do Current Language Models Support Code Intelligence for R Programming Language?	37
Supporting Emotional Intelligence, Productivity and Team Goals while Handling Software Requirements Changes	37
FormatFuzzer : Effective Fuzzing of Binary File Formats	37
Introducing Interactions in Multi-Objective Optimization of Software Architectures	36
Help Them Understand: Testing and Improving Voice User Interfaces	35
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models to Improve Accuracy and Comprehensibility of Automated Code Review	33
An Accurate Identifier Renaming Prediction and Suggestion Approach	33
Estimating Uncertainty in Labeled Changes by SZZ Tools on Just-In-Time Defect Prediction	32
I Know What You Are Searching for: Code Snippet Recommendation from Stack Overflow Posts	32
A Survey of Learning-based Automated Program Repair	32
Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments	32
Systematic Literature Review on Software Security Vulnerability Information Extraction	32
Try with Simpler - An Evaluation of Improved Principal Component Analysis in Log-based Anomaly Detection	32
When Fine-Tuning LLMs Meets Data Privacy: An Empirical Study of Federated Learning in LLM-Based Program Repair	31
Enhancing Security and Acuity of Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection based on Federated Learning and BiLSTM-Attention	31
Towards On-The-Fly Code Performance Profiling	31
HeMiRCA: Fine-Grained Root Cause Analysis for Microservices with Heterogeneous Data Sources	31
On-the-fly Generation-Quality Enhancement of Deep Code Models via Model Collaboration	30
Why Do GitHub Actions Workflows Fail? An Empirical Study	30
Assessing the Early Bird Heuristic (for Predicting Project Quality)	30
Vulnerability Repair via Concolic Execution and Code Mutations	29
APIRO: A Framework for Automated Security Tools API Recommendation	29
A Systematic Literature Review of Multi-Label Learning in Software Engineering	28
AutoRIC: Automated Neural Network Repairing Based on Constrained Optimization	28
Exploring Data-Efficient Adaptation of Large Language Models for Code Generation	27
SimClone: Detecting Tabular Data Clones Using Value Similarity	27
An Empirical Study on GitHub Pull Requests’ Reactions	27
Editorial: Toward the Future with Eight Issues Per Year	26
Reinforcement Learning Informed Evolutionary Search for Autonomous Systems Testing	26
GIST : Generated Inputs Sets Transferability in Deep Learning	26
Mapping the Trust Terrain: LLMs in Software Engineering - Insights and Perspectives	25
PatchCensor: Patch Robustness Certification for Transformers via Exhaustive Testing	25
Editorial: ICSE and the Incredible Contradictions of Software Engineering	25
Assessing and Improving an Evaluation Dataset for Detecting Semantic Code Clones via Deep Learning	24

An Empirical Study of Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation: Challenges and Opportunities	24
Contemporary Software Modernization: Strategies, Driving Forces, and Research Opportunities	24
SimADFuzz: Simulation-Feedback Fuzz Testing for Autonomous Driving Systems	24
A Survey of Learning-based Method Name Prediction	24
Simulator-based Explanation and Debugging of Hazard-triggering Events in DNN-based Safety-critical Systems	23
Industry–Academia Research Collaboration and Knowledge Co-creation: Patterns and Anti-patterns	23
Revisiting the Identification of the Co-evolution of Production and Test Code	23
Leveraging Reviewer Experience in Code Review Comment Generation	23
Towards Learning Generalizable Code Embeddings Using Task-agnostic Graph Convolutional Networks	23
SCOPE : Performance Testing for Serverless Computing	23
Security of Language Models for Code: A Systematic Literature Review	22
Efficient Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection through Transfer Learning for Large-Scale Software Systems	22
Commit Messages Generation Based on Core Changes	22
SourcererJBF: A Java Build Framework For Large-Scale Compilation	22
Characterizing Installation- and Run-Time Compatibility Issues in Android Benign Apps and Malware	22
Graphuzz: Data-driven Seed Scheduling for Coverage-guided Greybox Fuzzing	22
Learning from Very Little Data: On the Value of Landscape Analysis for Predicting Software Project Health	22
Monitoring data for Anomaly Detection in Cloud-Based Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study	21
Actor-Driven Decomposition of Microservices through Multi-level Scalability Assessment	21
You Don’t Have to Say Where to Edit! jLED—Joint Learning to Localize and Edit Source Code	21
Beyond Fidelity: Explaining Vulnerability Localization of Learning-Based Detectors	21
Test Input Prioritization for 3D Point Clouds	20
Cleaning Up Confounding: Accounting for Endogeneity Using Instrumental Variables and Two-Stage Models	20
Exploring Fine-Grained Bug Report Categorization with Large Language Models and Prompt Engineering: An Empirical Study	20
A Characterization Study of Merge Conflicts in Java Projects	19
Demystifying Hidden Sensitive Operations in Android Apps	19
Exploring the Capabilities of LLMs for Code-Change-Related Tasks	19
Battling against Protocol Fuzzing: Protecting Networked Embedded Devices from Dynamic Fuzzers	19
Automatic Rule Checking for Microservices: Supporting Security Analysis with Explainability	19
MR-Scout: Automated Synthesis of Metamorphic Relations from Existing Test Cases	19
Fold2Vec: Towards a Statement-Based Representation of Code for Code Comprehension	19
Fairness Concerns in App Reviews: A Study on AI-Based Mobile Apps	19
Demo2Test: Transfer Testing of Agent in Competitive Environment with Failure Demonstrations	19
A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Bias Mitigation Methods for Machine Learning Classifiers	19
Evolution-Aware Constraint Derivation Approach for Software Remodularization	19
Developer Perspectives on Licensing and Copyright Issues Arising from Generative AI for Software Development	19
Variable Renaming-Based Adversarial Test Generation for Code Model: Benchmark and Enhancement	18
Automating TODO-missed Methods Detection and Patching	18
Time-travel Investigation: Toward Building a Scalable Attack Detection Framework on Ethereum	18
MeDeT: Medical Device Digital Twins Creation with Few-shot Meta-learning	18
Certified Cost Bounds for Abstract Programs	18
Improving Deep Assertion Generation via Fine-Tuning Retrieval-Augmented Pre-trained Language Models	18
Adopting Two Supervisors for Efficient Use of Large-Scale Remote Deep Neural Networks	18
SPOLRE: Semantic Preserving Object Layout Reconstruction for Image Captioning System Testing	18
Autonomous Driving System Testing via Diversity-Oriented Driving Scenario Exploration	17
Bypassing Guardrails: Lessons Learned from Red Teaming ChatGPT	17
Programming Smart Playtesting	17
All in One: Design, Verification, and Implementation of SNOW-optimal Read Atomic Transactions	17
Coverage-directed Differential Testing of X.509 Certificate Validation in SSL/TLS Implementations	17
PonziHunter: Hunting Ethereum Ponzi Contract via Static Analysis and Contrastive Learning on the Bytecode Level	17
Enhancing Task In-Progress Time Predictions through Affective and Personality Factors	17
Stress Testing Control Loops in Cyber-Physical Systems—RCR Report	17
Testing Causality in Scientific Modelling Software	17
Interpreting Deep Neural Networks via Relative Activation-Deactivation Abstractions	17
An In-depth Study of Java Deserialization Remote-Code Execution Exploits and Vulnerabilities	16
Is It Hard to Generate Holistic Commit Message?	16
Adaptive Modelling Languages: Abstract Syntax and Model Migration	16
Efficient Management of Containers for Software Defined Vehicles	16
A Roadmap for Integrating Sustainability into Software Engineering Education	16
Measuring and Clustering Heterogeneous Chatbot Designs	15
An Interleaving Guided Metamorphic Testing Approach for Concurrent Programs	15
Survey of Code Search Based on Deep Learning	15
AI for DevSecOps: A Landscape and Future Opportunities	15
Duplicate Bug Report Detection: How Far Are We?	15
Differentiable Quantum Programming with Unbounded Loops	15
Reputation Gaming in Crowd Technical Knowledge Sharing	15
AdaptiveLog: An Adaptive Log Analysis Framework with the Collaboration of Large and Small Language Model	15
Refactoring in Computational Notebooks	15
Generation-based Differential Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries	15
OSS Effort Estimation Using Software Features Similarity and Developer Activity-Based Metrics	15
Automatic Core-Developer Identification on GitHub: A Validation Study	15
Can GitHub Issues Help in App Review Classifications?	15
Exploring Development Methods for Reactive Synthesis Specifications	14
Inferring Input Grammars from Code with Symbolic Parsing	14
Input Distribution Coverage: Measuring Feature Interaction Adequacy in Neural Network Testing	14
Preparation and Utilization of Mixed States for Testing Quantum Programs	14
The Influence of Human Aspects on Requirements Engineering-related Activities: Software Practitioners’ Perspective	14
On the Impact of Lower Recall and Precision in Defect Prediction for Guiding Search-based Software Testing	14
MORepair: Teaching LLMs to Repair Code via Multi-Objective Fine-Tuning	14
DiPri : Distance-Based Seed Prioritization for Greybox Fuzzing	14

LogUpdater: Automated Detection and Repair of Specific Defects in Logging Statements	14
Studying the Impact of TensorFlow and PyTorch Bindings on Machine Learning Software Quality	14
Visualization Task Taxonomy to Understand the Fuzzing Internals	14
On the Significance of Category Prediction for Code-Comment Synchronization	13
Can Coverage Criteria Guide Failure Discovery for Image Classifiers? An Empirical Study	13
Obfuscated Clone Search in JavaScript based on Reinforcement Subsequence Learning	13
CITYWALK : Enhancing LLM-Based C++ Unit Test Generation via Project-Dependency Awareness and Language-Specific Knowledge	13
Mitigating Regression Faults Induced by Feature Evolution in Deep Learning Systems	13
Rise of Distributed Deep Learning Training in the Big Model Era: From a Software Engineering Perspective	13
Towards Robustness of Deep Program Processing Models—Detection, Estimation, and Enhancement	13
A Comparative Study on Method Comment and Inline Comment	13
Let’s Discover More API Relations: A Large Language Model-Based AI Chain for Unsupervised API Relation Inference	13
A Hypothesis Testing-based Framework for Software Cross-modal Retrieval in Heterogeneous Semantic Spaces	13
Data Complexity: A New Perspective for Analyzing the Difficulty of Defect Prediction Tasks	12
Identifying and Explaining Safety-critical Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicles via Key Features	12
NSFuzz: Towards Efficient and State-Aware Network Service Fuzzing	12
Guided Feature Identification and Removal for Resource-constrained Firmware	12
PanicFI: An Infrastructure for Fixing Panic Bugs in Real-World Rust Programs	12
Testing RESTful APIs: A Survey	12
How Do Successful and Failed Projects Differ? A Socio-Technical Analysis	12
Towards Practical Binary Code Similarity Detection: Vulnerability Verification via Patch Semantic Analysis	12
Large Language Models for Cyber Security: A Systematic Literature Review	12
Fast, Fine-Grained Equivalence Checking for Neural Decompilers	12
Sustainability of Machine Learning-Enabled Systems: The Machine Learning Practitioner’s Perspective	12
Understanding Real-Time Collaborative Programming: A Study of Visual Studio Live Share	12
Software Engineering by and for Humans in an AI Era	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
SemMT: A Semantic-Based Testing Approach for Machine Translation Systems	12
Grammar Mutation for Testing Input Parsers	11
BiRD: Race Detection in Software Binaries under Relaxed Memory Models	11
Fairness Testing of Machine Translation Systems	11
Decision Support Model for Selecting the Optimal Blockchain Oracle Platform: An Evaluation of Key Factors	11
Revealing the Unseen: AI Chain on LLMs for Predicting Implicit Dataflows to Generate Dataflow Graphs in Dynamically Typed Code	11
What Constitutes the Deployment and Runtime Configuration System? An Empirical Study on OpenStack Projects	11
Exploring JVM Garbage Collector Testing with Event-Coverage	11
Some Seeds Are Strong: Seeding Strategies for Search-based Test Case Selection	11
Simulating Software Evolution to Evaluate the Reliability of Early Decision-making among Design Alternatives toward Maintainability	11
Test Oracle Generation for REST APIs	11
Automated Abstract Transformer Synthesis for Reduced Product Domains	10
Mobile Application Online Cross-Project Just-in-Time Software Defect Prediction Framework	10
The Havoc Paradox in Generator-Based Fuzzing — RCR Report	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
How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for Collaboration	10
Recommending Variable Names for Extract Local Variable Refactorings	10
Identifying Performance Issues in Cloud Service Systems Based on Relational-Temporal Features	10
Divide-and-Conquer: Automating Code Revisions via Localization-and-Revision	10
An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Defects and Source Code’s Unnaturalness	10
Analysis of EMF meta-model duplication in open-source repositories	10
Representation Learning for Stack Overflow Posts: How Far Are We?	10
CCIHunter: Enhancing Smart Contract Code-Comment Inconsistencies Detection via Two-Stage Pre-training	10
Editorial: The End of the Journey	10
What You See is What it Means! Semantic Representation Learning of Code based on Visualization and Transfer Learning	10
Verification Witnesses	10
Revisiting Sentiment Analysis for Software Engineering in the Era of Large Language Models	10
Addressing OSS Community Managers’ Challenges in Contributor Retention	10
Open Problems in Fuzzing RESTful APIs: A Comparison of Tools	10
Less Is More: Unlocking Semi-Supervised Deep Learning for Vulnerability Detection	10
Understanding Vulnerability Inducing Commits of the Linux Kernel	10
Benchmarking and Categorizing the Performance of Neural Program Repair Systems for Java	10
Large Language Model-Aware In-Context Learning for Code Generation	9
From Triumph to Uncertainty: The Journey of Software Engineering in the AI Era	9
Model Driven Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and DevOps for Software and Systems Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study of Synergies and Challenges	9
Prompt-based Code Completion via Multi-Retrieval Augmented Generation	9
DRIVE: Dockerfile Rule Mining and Violation Detection	9
Making Software Development More Diverse and Inclusive: Key Themes, Challenges, and Future Directions	9
A Review of Learning-based Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection: A Perspective on Code Representation	9
FQN Inference in Partial Code by Prompt-tuned Language Model of Code	9
My Fuzzers Won’t Build: An Empirical Study of Fuzzing Build Failures	9
Digital Twin-based Anomaly Detection with Curriculum Learning in Cyber-physical Systems	9
Influential Global and Local Contexts Guided Trace Representation for Fault Localization	9
Finding Information Leaks with Information Flow Fuzzing	9
Learning Software Bug Reports: A Systematic Literature Review	9
Automated Identification of Toxic Code Reviews Using ToxiCR	9
Just-in-Time Detection of Silent Security Patches	9
Software Security Analysis in 2030 and Beyond: A Research Roadmap	9
Enumerating Valid Non-Alpha-Equivalent Programs for Interpreter Testing	9
AceCoder : An Effective Prompting Technique Specialized in Code Generation	9
Leveraging Symmetry in GR(1) Synthesis	9
Identifying Affected Third-Party Java Libraries from Textual Descriptions of Vulnerabilities and Libraries	9
Sustainability in the Field of Software Engineering: A Tertiary Study	9
VexIR2Vec : An Architecture-Neutral Embedding Framework for Binary Similarity	9
AcTracer: Active Testing of Large Language Model via Multi-Stage Sampling	9
Microservice Security Metrics for Secure Communication, Identity Management, and Observability	9
Learning-based Relaxation of Completeness Requirements for Data Entry Forms	9
Improving Code Reviewer Recommendation: Accuracy, Latency, Workload, and Bystanders	9
Rise of the Planet of Serverless Computing: A Systematic Review	9