Journal of Software-Evolution and Process

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A Novel Vulnerability‐Detection Method Based on the Semantic Features of Source Code and the LLVM Intermediate Representation	36
Internet‐of‐things architectures for secure cyber–physical spaces: The VISOR experience report	32
Mobile crowdsourced test report prioritization based on text and image understanding	29
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Revisiting deep neural network test coverage from the test effectiveness perspective	27
On the sustainability of deep learning projects: Maintainers' perspective	23
PassSum: Leveraging paths of abstract syntax trees and self‐supervision for code summarization	19
SGDL: Smart contract vulnerability generation via deep learning	19
APP constraint analysis approach to select mobile devices for compatibility crowdtesting	17
Software development effort estimation using boosting algorithms and automatic tuning of hyperparameters with Optuna	17
A novel combinatorial testing approach with fuzzing strategy	16
An architecture refactoring approach to reducing software hierarchy complexity	15
Editorial for the special issue on software refactoring: Application breadth and technical depth	14
Code smell prioritization in object‐oriented software systems: A systematic literature review	13
BET‐BiLSTM Model: A Robust Solution for Automated Requirements Classification	13
Product and service quality risks: A survey about evolution and application in different business domains to facilitate quality engineering	13
Automated construction of reference model for software remodularization through software evolution	13
Crowdsourced bug report severity prediction based on text and image understanding via heterogeneous graph convolutional networks	13
Software integration model: An assessment tool for global software development vendors	12
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Characterizing and synthesizing the workflow structure of microservices in ByteDance Cloud	11
Empowering Software Engineers to Design More Secure Web Applications: Guidelines and Potential of Using LLMs as a Recommender Tool	11
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Requirement specification extraction and analysis based on propositional projection temporal logic	10
Evolutionary measures and their correlations with the performance of cross‐version defect prediction for object‐oriented projects	10
Understanding the quality and evolution of Android app build systems	10
Adaptive solving strategy synthesis for symbolic execution	10
Specifying features in terms of domain models: MuDForM method definition and case study	10
Exceptions Can Be Nested: An Exploratory Study on Nested Exceptions in Java Crashes	9
Generating Quality Assurance Constraints From Natural Language With LLMs	9
A Serious Game Approach to Introduce the Code Review Practice	9
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Challenges and solutions in the development of blockchain applications: Extraction from SLR and empirical study	9
Strategic Intelligence Management (ISO 56006)—Using AI by the Innovation Agent Task Force in the Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA)	9
A Simple Yet Practical Backdoor Prompt Attack Against Black‐Box Code Summarization Engines	9
Cheating your apps: Black‐box adversarial attacks on deep learning apps	8
When rationality meets intuition: A research agenda for software design decision‐making	8
MFLion‐DMN: Mayfly Lion‐optimized deep maxout network for prediction of software development effort	8
Functional Size Measurement With Conceptual Models: A Systematic Literature Review	8
Advanced security testing using a cyber‐attack forecasting model: A case study of financial institutions	7
Verification and validation of software process simulation models: A systematic mapping study	7
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Trustworthy and collaborative traceability management: Experts’ feedback on a blockchain‐enabled framework	7
Predicting Issue Resolution Time of OSS Using Multiple Features	7
Can non‐developers learn a simplified modeling notation quickly?	7
The Impact of COVID‐19 on Open Source Development Activities: A Multi‐Method Study	6
Leveraging Levy Flight and Greylag Goose Optimization for Enhanced Cross‐Project Defect Prediction in Software Evolution	6
Enhanced evolutionary automated program repair by finer‐granularity ingredients and better search algorithms	6
The effect of hoisting on variants of Hierarchical Delta Debugging	6
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Understanding Remote Work Experience: Insights Into Well‐Being	6
The Pandora's box of social, process, and people debts in software engineering	6
Hybrid mutation driven testing for natural language inference	6
Examining the training and education potential of the metaverse: Results from an empirical study of next generation SAFe training	6
Exploring the Effectiveness of Open‐Source Donation Platform: An Empirical Study on Opencollective	6
Combining object‐oriented metrics and centrality measures to predict faults in object‐oriented software: An empirical validation	6
Exploratory study of existing research on software requirements prioritization: A systematic literature review	6
Engineering MLOps Pipelines With Data Quality: A Case Study on Tabular Datasets in Kaggle	6
Neural Networks‐Based Software Development Effort Estimation: A Systematic Literature Review	5
Manipulating a CI/CD Pipeline in an IoT Embedded Project: A Quasi‐Experiment	5
Integrating Security Controls in DevSecOps: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Research Directions	5
JointConf: Jointly autotuning configuration parameters for modularized graph databases	5
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An automated search‐based test model generation approach for structural testing of model transformations	5
DP‐GCN: Integrating GraphCodeBERT and GCN With Contrastive Learning for Software Defect Prediction	5
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From legacy to microservices: A type‐based approach for microservices identification using machine learning and semantic analysis	5
Model‐checking‐driven explorative testing of CRDT designs and implementations	5
Success factors analysis for requirement elicitation in global software development paradigm: An empirical study	5
Promoting social and human factors through a gamified automotive software development environment	5
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Impact of Code Smells on Software Quality: A Systematic Literature Review	5

CARLDA: An Approach for Stack Overflow API Mention Recognition Driven by Context and LLM‐Based Data Augmentation	5
Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering	5
The dynamic versus the stable team: The unspoken question in large‐scale agile development	5
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Context factors perceived important when looking for similar experiences in decision‐making for software components: An interview study	5
Minimizing Inter‐Dependencies in Functional Requirements for Timely Delivery of Software Projects: A Prioritization Approach Using AHP and Spanning Trees	4
About the special issue on: “Distributed Complex Systems: Governance, Engineering, and Maintenance”	4
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Sustainable software engineering—A contribution puzzle of different teams in large IT organizations	4
The LAGSSE Framework: Integrating Lean, Agile, and Green Principles for Sustainable Software Engineering	4
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CrossFix: Resolution of GitHub issues via similar bugs recommendation	4
Investigating the impact of structural holes on the value creation in mobile application service ecosystems: Evidence from computational experiments	4
ECP: Coprocessor Architecture to Protect Program Logic Consistency	4
A longitudinal case study on Nexus transformation: Impact on productivity, quality, and motivation	4
Building empirical knowledge on the relationship between code smells and design patterns: An exploratory study	4
A Multi‐Perspective Review on Embedded Systems Quality: State of the Field, Challenges, and Research Directions	4
A novel defect prediction method based on semantic feature enhancement	4
Towards practical application of mutation testing in industry — Traditional versus extreme mutation testing	4
An ecology‐oriented convergence evolution analysis method of crossover service ecosystems	4
Explainable AI Framework for Software Defect Prediction	4
E2E test execution optimization for web application based on state reuse	3
Exploring the context of use for voice user interfaces: Toward context‐dependent user experience quality testing	3
On the perception of graph layouts	3
A State‐Aware Fuzzing Method for Trusted Execution Environment Kernels	3
A Study of Factors That Influence the Software Project Success	3
Predictive maintenance of infrastructure code using “fluid” datasets: An exploratory study on Ansible defect proneness	3
UFR‐OSFA: Unified Feature Representation and Oppositional Structure Feature Alignment for Mixed‐Project Heterogeneous Defect Prediction	3
On the utilization of non‐quality assessed literature in software engineering research	3
Object Constraint Language based test case optimization with modified Average Percentage of Fault Detection metric	3
Code quality improvement using Aquila Optimizer	3
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Software bug localization based on optimized and ensembled deep learning models	3
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The Indispensable Role of Software Ecosystem Services	3
RobustNPR: Evaluating the robustness of neural program repair models	3
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Self‐Admitted Technical Debt Detection Approaches: A Decade Systematic Review	3
CoBRA without experts: New paradigm for software development effort estimation using COCOMO metrics	3
Mitigating Communication‐Related Process Loss in Agile Teams: A Case Study on Common Ground and Role‐Based Interaction	3
The Agile Coach Role Decoded: What Agile Coaches Deliver Versus What Team Members Experience	3
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Exploring factors affecting developer abandonment of open source software projects	3
Assessing BizDevOps maturity using international standards: Case studies and lessons learned	3
Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance	3
Towards AIOps enabled services in continuously evolving software‐intensive embedded systems	3
Contributions to Systems Software and Service Process Improvement and Innovation Based on Recent Advances	3
Mutation‐based data augmentation for software defect prediction	3
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Richen: Automated enrichment of Git documentation with usage examples and scenarios	3
How Software Design Affects Energy Performance: A Systematic Literature Review	3
Towards Explainable Code Readability Classification With Graph Neural Networks	3
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Constructing exception handling chains for testing Java virtual machine implementations	3
Contributions of enterprise architecture to software engineering: A systematic literature review	3
CyberESP: An Integrated Cybersecurity Framework for SMEs	3
Performance testing as a service using cloud computing environment: A survey	3
The impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the globalization on how automotive assessments will be performed in the future	3
A Flexible Framework to Ensure Traceability, Consistency, and Propagation of KPIs Evolution	2
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Regression test prioritization leveraging source code similarity with tree kernels	2
Multicriteria decision‐making–based framework for implementing DevOps practices: A fuzzy best–worst approach	2
An approach for serious game design and development based on iterative evaluation	2
On the accessibility of the grayscale version of a PoN‐enabled use case notation	2
ECLYPSE: A Python Framework for Simulation and Emulation of the Cloud‐Edge Continuum	2
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Evaluation of requirement engineering best practices for secure software development in GSD: An ISM analysis	2
Using Dynamic and Static Techniques to Establish Traceability Links Between Production Code and Test Code on Python Projects: A Replication Study	2
Refactoring to Standard C++20 Modules	2
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Enhancing OCR‐based Engineering Diagram Analysis by Integrating Diverse External Legends with VLMs	2
Assessing English teaching linguistic and artificial intelligence for efficient learning using analytical hierarchy process and Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution	2
GUI testing of Android applications: Investigating the impact of the number of testers on different exploratory testing strategies	2
PathCovAVTest: Testing for Violations of Autonomous Driving Systems Based on Path Coverage of Traffic Regulation Scenarios	2
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A Process Model for AI‐Enabled Software Development: A Synthesis From Validation Studies in White Literature	2

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A robust optimization model for software development costs considering time value of money	2
sFuzz2.0: Storage‐access pattern guided smart contract fuzzing	2
Ensemble Deep Network for Secured Refactoring Framework by Predicting Code‐Bad Smells in Software Projects	2
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Investigating the Effectiveness of COSMIC Method for Sizing Chatbots' Requirements: A Comparative Analysis	2
Identification and prioritization of the challenges faced by vendor organizations in the shape of cyber security: A FUZZY‐AHP ‐based systematic approach	2
Optimizing Managerial Decision‐Making Through Agile Practices: A Software Engineering Management Team Perspective	2
Prioritization Method for Crowdsourced Test Report by Integrating Text and Image Information	2
Measuring software engineer's contribution in practice: An industrial experience report	2
Towards a catalog of composite refactorings	2
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Editorial: Best papers of the 14th International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP 2020) and 15th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE 2020)	2
Understanding the use of spectrum‐based fault localization	1
Enabling Quantum Privacy and Security by Design: Imperatives for Contemporary State‐of‐the‐Art in Quantum Software Engineering	1
Multi‐objective optimization‐based and fault localization‐oriented test case generation for novice programs	1
Readiness and maturity models for Industry 4.0: A systematic literature review	1
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RM2EIS: Automatic Generation of Enterprise Information Systems From Contract‐Based Requirements Model	1
Towards Multi‐Class Socio‐Technical Congruence: Assessing Coordination in Collaborative Software Development Settings	1
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Balanced knowledge distribution among software development teams—Observations from open‐ and closed‐source software development	1
Mission‐critical open‐source software adoption model validation using Partial Least Square ‐ Structural Equation Modeling	1
GRRLN: Gated Recurrent Residual Learning Networks for code clone detection	1
Toward Platform Engineering, the Evolution of DevOps—A Systematic Mapping	1
Locality‐Based Self‐Adjustable Ensemble Approach for Effort Estimation	1
A Multilevel Approach to TARA: Proposals for Attack Feasibility in Interference‐Free Scenarios	1
Key Success Factors of Cybersecurity Awareness in Distributed Teams	1
How agile coaches create an agile mindset in development teams: Insights from an interview study	1
Exploring the Relationship Between Trait Emotional Intelligence and Performance in the Context of SME Software Engineering	1
Unveiling the impact of unchanged modules across versions on the evaluation of within‐project defect prediction models	1
Empirical exploration of critical challenges of requirements implementation in global software development	1
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Utilizing Creator Profiles for Predicting Valuable User Enhancement Reports	1
Guest editors' introduction to the special issue “Automatic Software Testing from the Trenches”	1
Tarsis: An effective automata‐based abstract domain for string analysis	1
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NG_MDERANK: A software vulnerability feature knowledge extraction method based on N‐gram similarity	1
Experiences with the automotive SPICE for cybersecurity assessment model and tools	1
Overcoming Data Shortage in Critical Domains With Data Augmentation for Natural Language Software Requirements	1
PredictPP: A Rank‐Based Weighted Ensemble Model for Prediction of Software Project Productivity	1
Just‐in‐time identification for cross‐project correlated issues	1
From Data to Knowledge: Mining Linux Vulnerability Characteristics and Evolution With Knowledge Graphs	1
Experiences With New SW Paradigms for Systems Software and Service Process Improvement and Innovation	1
An Approach Based on Metadata to Implement Convention Over Configuration Decoupled From Framework Logic	1
Quality culture boosts agile transformation—Action research in a business‐to‐business software business	1
Evaluation of the fixed‐point iteration of minimizing delta debugging	1
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A software process improvement framework based on best practices	1
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A resilience‐based framework for assessing the evolution of open source software projects	1
Modeling Software Reliability With Power Law Testing Effort Function Under Operational Uncertain Environment	1
A research landscape on software defect prediction	1
IABC‐TCG: Improved artificial bee colony algorithm‐based test case generation for smart contracts	1
Continuous Deployment Adoption: Insights From a Public Sector Implementation	1
Understanding Software‐centered Evolutive Ecosystems through Activity Theory	1
A Validation Methodology for XAI Decision Support Systems Against Relational Domain Properties	1
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Robust AI‐Driven Artifact Model Generation for Development Standards in Regulated Domains	1
A reference model for software product line capability assessment	1
Identifying safety issues from energy conservation requirements	1
Ensuring Confidentiality in Supply Chains With an Application to Life‐Cycle Assessment	1
Using artificial intelligence to find design errors in the engineering drawings	1
Safety and security of cyber‐physical systems	1
Maturity model for secure software testing	1
Better Knowledge Enhancement for Privacy‐Preserving Cross‐Project Defect Prediction	1
Cloud and Edge Computing as Effective Trends in Business Model Innovation: A Bibliometric Review	1
Merge Conflict Prediction Using Feature Selection and Stacking Heterogeneous Ensembles: An Empirical Investigation	1
Log‐based anomaly detection for distributed systems: State of the art, industry experience, and open issues	1
Release conventions of open‐source software: An exploratory study	1
A Semiautomated Approach for Detecting Ambiguities in Software Requirements Using SpanBERT and Named Entity Recognition	1
Model‐driven engineering of safety and security software systems: A systematic mapping study and future research directions	1
An empirical study to compare three web test automation approaches: NLP‐based, programmable, and capture&replay	1
“Through the looking‐glass …” An empirical study on blob infrastructure blueprints in the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications	1
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UCLP: Unsupervised Classification of Key Aspects in Vulnerability Descriptions Through Label Profile	1
Transformer‐based code search for software Q&A sites	1
Evaluating the Test Adequacy of Benchmarks for LLMs on Code Generation	1
Security risks of global software development life cycle: Industry practitioner's perspective	1
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A classification scheme to improve conclusion instability using Bellwether moving windows	1
Improving an emergency repair process with feature models	1
A practical approach for technical debt prioritization based on class‐level forecasting	1
Qualitative software engineering research: Reflections and guidelines	1