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
An Empirical Study of the Impact of Hyperparameter Tuning and Model Optimization on the Performance Properties of Deep Neural Networks	47
A Systematic Literature Review on the Use of Deep Learning in Software Engineering Research	47
Understanding Software-2.0	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
When and How to Make Breaking Changes	34
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
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
Interpreting Deep Learning-based Vulnerability Detector Predictions Based on Heuristic Searching	26
Code Structure–Guided Transformer for Source Code Summarization	26
How Should I Improve the UI of My App?	25
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
IntDroid	24
Efficient and Effective Feature Space Exploration for Testing Deep Learning Systems	24
Arachne: Search-Based Repair of Deep Neural Networks	24
A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Bias Mitigation Methods for Machine Learning Classifiers	23
Adversarial Robustness of Deep Code Comment Generation	23
Memory-Safety Challenge Considered Solved? An In-Depth Study with All Rust CVEs	23
An Empirical Study of the Impact of Data Splitting Decisions on the Performance of AIOps Solutions	22
Emoji-powered Sentiment and Emotion Detection from Software Developers’ Communication Data	22
A Theory of Scrum Team Effectiveness	21
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
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
FaaSLight : General Application-level Cold-start Latency Optimization for Function-as-a-Service in Serverless Computing	19
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
ReCDroid+: Automated End-to-End Crash Reproduction from Bug Reports for Android Apps	18
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
Killing Stubborn Mutants with Symbolic Execution	17
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
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
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
Why Do Smart Contracts Self-Destruct? Investigating the Selfdestruct Function on Ethereum	15
How Software Refactoring Impacts Execution Time	15
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

On the Faults Found in REST APIs by Automated Test Generation	14
Evaluation of Software Architectures under Uncertainty	14
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
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
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
Testing RESTful APIs: A Survey	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
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
SemMT: A Semantic-Based Testing Approach for Machine Translation Systems	12
Automated Identification of Toxic Code Reviews Using ToxiCR	12
Toward Understanding Deep Learning Framework Bugs	11
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Hybrid Approach to Formal Verification of Higher-Order Masked Arithmetic Programs	7
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