Journal of Software-Evolution and Process

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PassSum: Leveraging paths of abstract syntax trees and self‐supervision for code summarization	37
Software development effort estimation using boosting algorithms and automatic tuning of hyperparameters with Optuna	27
SGDL: Smart contract vulnerability generation via deep learning	26
On the sustainability of deep learning projects: Maintainers' perspective	26
A Novel Vulnerability‐Detection Method Based on the Semantic Features of Source Code and the LLVM Intermediate Representation	25
Internet‐of‐things architectures for secure cyber–physical spaces: The VISOR experience report	23
APP constraint analysis approach to select mobile devices for compatibility crowdtesting	22
Mobile crowdsourced test report prioritization based on text and image understanding	21
Revisiting deep neural network test coverage from the test effectiveness perspective	21
Context modeling for cyber‐physical systems	19
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Software integration model: An assessment tool for global software development vendors	16
BET‐BiLSTM Model: A Robust Solution for Automated Requirements Classification	16
Characterizing and synthesizing the workflow structure of microservices in ByteDance Cloud	15
Editorial for the special issue on software refactoring: Application breadth and technical depth	14
An architecture refactoring approach to reducing software hierarchy complexity	14
Designing and testing systems of systems: From variability models to test cases passing through desirability assessment	14
Symptom‐based improvement recommendations	13
Product and service quality risks: A survey about evolution and application in different business domains to facilitate quality engineering	13
The impact of traceability on software maintenance and evolution: A mapping study	13
Crowdsourced bug report severity prediction based on text and image understanding via heterogeneous graph convolutional networks	13
A novel combinatorial testing approach with fuzzing strategy	12
Automated construction of reference model for software remodularization through software evolution	12

Confidence‐driven weighted retraining for predicting safety‐critical failures in autonomous driving systems	11
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Code smell prioritization in object‐oriented software systems: A systematic literature review	10
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Requirement specification extraction and analysis based on propositional projection temporal logic	9
Software change‐proneness prediction based on deep learning	9
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Understanding the quality and evolution of Android app build systems	9
Evolutionary measures and their correlations with the performance of cross‐version defect prediction for object‐oriented projects	9
A Serious Game Approach to Introduce the Code Review Practice	9
Adaptive solving strategy synthesis for symbolic execution	9
Strategic Intelligence Management (ISO 56006)—Using AI by the Innovation Agent Task Force in the Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA)	8
Can non‐developers learn a simplified modeling notation quickly?	8
POEML: a Process Orchestration, Execution, and Modeling Language	8
Trustworthy and collaborative traceability management: Experts’ feedback on a blockchain‐enabled framework	8
MFLion‐DMN: Mayfly Lion‐optimized deep maxout network for prediction of software development effort	8
Specifying features in terms of domain models: MuDForM method definition and case study	8
Cheating your apps: Black‐box adversarial attacks on deep learning apps	8
Functional Size Measurement With Conceptual Models: A Systematic Literature Review	7
Predicting Issue Resolution Time of OSS Using Multiple Features	7
MARS: Detecting brain class/method code smell based on metric–attention mechanism and residual network	7
Osmotic management of distributed complex systems: A declarative decentralised approach	7
Challenges and solutions in the development of blockchain applications: Extraction from SLR and empirical study	7
Perceptions of open‐source software developers on collaborations: An interview and survey study	7
Advanced security testing using a cyber‐attack forecasting model: A case study of financial institutions	7
Behind the scenes: On the relationship between developer experience and refactoring	7
Verification and validation of software process simulation models: A systematic mapping study	7
When rationality meets intuition: A research agenda for software design decision‐making	7
Identification and prioritization of security challenges of big data on cloud computing based on SLR: A fuzzy‐TOPSIS analysis approach	7
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Neural Networks‐Based Software Development Effort Estimation: A Systematic Literature Review	6
Understanding Remote Work Experience: Insights Into Well‐Being	6
On the analysis of power law distribution in software component sizes	6
Exploratory study of existing research on software requirements prioritization: A systematic literature review	6
Leveraging Levy Flight and Greylag Goose Optimization for Enhanced Cross‐Project Defect Prediction in Software Evolution	6
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Integrating privacy debt and VSE's software developments	6
Enhanced evolutionary automated program repair by finer‐granularity ingredients and better search algorithms	6
Exploring the Effectiveness of Open‐Source Donation Platform: An Empirical Study on Opencollective	6
A graph sequence neural architecture for code completion with semantic structure features	6
Formalizing model transformation patterns	6
Integrating Security Controls in DevSecOps: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Research Directions	5
Compliance checking of software processes: A systematic literature review	5
Combining object‐oriented metrics and centrality measures to predict faults in object‐oriented software: An empirical validation	5
CARLDA: An Approach for Stack Overflow API Mention Recognition Driven by Context and LLM‐Based Data Augmentation	5
Manipulating a CI/CD Pipeline in an IoT Embedded Project: A Quasi‐Experiment	5
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The effect of hoisting on variants of Hierarchical Delta Debugging	5
The Pandora's box of social, process, and people debts in software engineering	5
Hybrid mutation driven testing for natural language inference	5

Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering	5
Model‐checking‐driven explorative testing of CRDT designs and implementations	5
Examining the training and education potential of the metaverse: Results from an empirical study of next generation SAFe training	5
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From legacy to microservices: A type‐based approach for microservices identification using machine learning and semantic analysis	5
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Characterizing commodity serverless computing platforms	4
Anti‐bloater class restructuring: An exploratory study	4
An ecology‐oriented convergence evolution analysis method of crossover service ecosystems	4
A longitudinal case study on Nexus transformation: Impact on productivity, quality, and motivation	4
JointConf: Jointly autotuning configuration parameters for modularized graph databases	4
Explainable AI Framework for Software Defect Prediction	4
Towards a security‐driven automotive development lifecycle	4
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Context factors perceived important when looking for similar experiences in decision‐making for software components: An interview study	4
The dynamic versus the stable team: The unspoken question in large‐scale agile development	4
Sustainable software engineering—A contribution puzzle of different teams in large IT organizations	4
An automated search‐based test model generation approach for structural testing of model transformations	4
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ECP: Coprocessor Architecture to Protect Program Logic Consistency	4
Towards practical application of mutation testing in industry — Traditional versus extreme mutation testing	4
Success factors analysis for requirement elicitation in global software development paradigm: An empirical study	4
Promoting social and human factors through a gamified automotive software development environment	4
Performance testing as a service using cloud computing environment: A survey	4
Building empirical knowledge on the relationship between code smells and design patterns: An exploratory study	4
The impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the globalization on how automotive assessments will be performed in the future	3
Software bug localization based on optimized and ensembled deep learning models	3
Object Constraint Language based test case optimization with modified Average Percentage of Fault Detection metric	3
Issue Information	3
Exploring factors affecting developer abandonment of open source software projects	3
A novel defect prediction method based on semantic feature enhancement	3
About the special issue on: “Distributed Complex Systems: Governance, Engineering, and Maintenance”	3
Fight silent horror unit test methods by consulting a TestWizard	3
Application programming interface recommendation according to the knowledge indexed by app feature mined from app stores	3
Formal methods by stealth: The INSPEX experience	3
Contributions to Systems Software and Service Process Improvement and Innovation Based on Recent Advances	3
A systematic mapping study on the employment of neural networks on software engineering projects: Where to go next?	3
CoBRA without experts: New paradigm for software development effort estimation using COCOMO metrics	3
Predictive maintenance of infrastructure code using “fluid” datasets: An exploratory study on Ansible defect proneness	3
Code quality improvement using Aquila Optimizer	3
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Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance	3
A Multi‐Perspective Review on Embedded Systems Quality: State of the Field, Challenges, and Research Directions	3
Contributions of enterprise architecture to software engineering: A systematic literature review	3
Sparse reward for reinforcement learning‐based continuous integration testing	3
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E2E test execution optimization for web application based on state reuse	3
On the utilization of non‐quality assessed literature in software engineering research	3
How Software Design Affects Energy Performance: A Systematic Literature Review	3
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Constructing exception handling chains for testing Java virtual machine implementations	3
Investigating the impact of structural holes on the value creation in mobile application service ecosystems: Evidence from computational experiments	3
CrossFix: Resolution of GitHub issues via similar bugs recommendation	3
Towards AIOps enabled services in continuously evolving software‐intensive embedded systems	3
Assessing BizDevOps maturity using international standards: Case studies and lessons learned	3
A Study of Factors That Influence the Software Project Success	3
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GUI testing of Android applications: Investigating the impact of the number of testers on different exploratory testing strategies	2
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Measuring software engineer's contribution in practice: An industrial experience report	2
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Prediction of bug‐fixing time based on distinguishable sequences fusion in open source software	2
Identification and prioritization of the challenges faced by vendor organizations in the shape of cyber security: A FUZZY‐AHP ‐based systematic approach	2
Software Process Evaluation from User Perceptions and Log Data	2
On the perception of graph layouts	2
Richen: Automated enrichment of Git documentation with usage examples and scenarios	2
Mutation‐based data augmentation for software defect prediction	2
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Transformer‐based code search for software Q&A sites	2
A robust optimization model for software development costs considering time value of money	2
Evaluation of requirement engineering best practices for secure software development in GSD: An ISM analysis	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
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
The Indispensable Role of Software Ecosystem Services	2
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Implicit bias and negative stereotyping in global software development and why it is time to move on!	2
Multicriteria decision‐making–based framework for implementing DevOps practices: A fuzzy best–worst approach	2

Exploring the context of use for voice user interfaces: Toward context‐dependent user experience quality testing	2
RobustNPR: Evaluating the robustness of neural program repair models	2
Model inspections in the engineering of collaborative cyber‐physical systems with instance‐level review diagrams	2
Regression test prioritization leveraging source code similarity with tree kernels	2
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An approach for semantic interoperability in autonomic distributed intelligent systems	2
A Flexible Framework to Ensure Traceability, Consistency, and Propagation of KPIs Evolution	2
“Through the looking‐glass …” An empirical study on blob infrastructure blueprints in the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications	2
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On the accessibility of the grayscale version of a PoN‐enabled use case notation	2
An approach for serious game design and development based on iterative evaluation	2
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Are duplicates really harmful? An empirical study on bug report summarization techniques	2
A Process Model for AI‐Enabled Software Development: A Synthesis From Validation Studies in White Literature	2
Towards a catalog of composite refactorings	2
sFuzz2.0: Storage‐access pattern guided smart contract fuzzing	2
Identifying safety issues from energy conservation requirements	2
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The athletic heart syndrome in web service evolution	1
Software refactoring side effects	1
Security risks of global software development life cycle: Industry practitioner's perspective	1
A reference model for software product line capability assessment	1
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Understanding the use of spectrum‐based fault localization	1
Mission‐critical open‐source software adoption model validation using Partial Least Square ‐ Structural Equation Modeling	1
Maturity model for secure software testing	1
Risks and risk mitigation in global software development: An update	1
Cloud and Edge Computing as Effective Trends in Business Model Innovation: A Bibliometric Review	1
Teamwork quality in technology‐driven product teams in large‐scale agile organizations	1
Readiness and maturity models for Industry 4.0: A systematic literature review	1
An Empirical Study on How Sapienz Achieves Coverage and Crash Detection	1
Improving an emergency repair process with feature models	1
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Introduction to the special issue on automation of software test and test code quality	1
Refactoring to Standard C++20 Modules	1
Scaled agile framework. Dealing with software process‐related challenges of a financial group with the action research approach	1
Ensemble Deep Network for Secured Refactoring Framework by Predicting Code‐Bad Smells in Software Projects	1
Balanced knowledge distribution among software development teams—Observations from open‐ and closed‐source software development	1
A classification scheme to improve conclusion instability using Bellwether moving windows	1
Experiences with the automotive SPICE for cybersecurity assessment model and tools	1
Release conventions of open‐source software: An exploratory study	1
Guest editors' introduction to the special issue “Automatic Software Testing from the Trenches”	1
Severity classification of software code smells using machine learning techniques: A comparative study	1
A resilience‐based framework for assessing the evolution of open source software projects	1
Understanding software architecture erosion: A systematic mapping study	1
GRRLN: Gated Recurrent Residual Learning Networks for code clone detection	1
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Ensuring Confidentiality in Supply Chains With an Application to Life‐Cycle Assessment	1
Evaluation of the fixed‐point iteration of minimizing delta debugging	1
Just‐in‐time identification for cross‐project correlated issues	1
Qualitative software engineering research: Reflections and guidelines	1
Log‐based anomaly detection for distributed systems: State of the art, industry experience, and open issues	1
A research landscape on software defect prediction	1
Better Knowledge Enhancement for Privacy‐Preserving Cross‐Project Defect Prediction	1
Tarsis: An effective automata‐based abstract domain for string analysis	1
Model‐driven engineering of safety and security software systems: A systematic mapping study and future research directions	1
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Using Dynamic and Static Techniques to Establish Traceability Links Between Production Code and Test Code on Python Projects: A Replication Study	1
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Safety and security of cyber‐physical systems	1
Empirical exploration of critical challenges of requirements implementation in global software development	1
Exploring the relationship between refactoring and code debt indicators	1
How agile coaches create an agile mindset in development teams: Insights from an interview study	1
A software process improvement framework based on best practices	1
Quality culture boosts agile transformation—Action research in a business‐to‐business software business	1
Overcoming Data Shortage in Critical Domains With Data Augmentation for Natural Language Software Requirements	1
Enabling Quantum Privacy and Security by Design: Imperatives for Contemporary State‐of‐the‐Art in Quantum Software Engineering	1
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Modeling Software Reliability With Power Law Testing Effort Function Under Operational Uncertain Environment	1
Unveiling the impact of unchanged modules across versions on the evaluation of within‐project defect prediction models	1
Using artificial intelligence to find design errors in the engineering drawings	1
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A practical approach for technical debt prioritization based on class‐level forecasting	1
An Approach Based on Metadata to Implement Convention Over Configuration Decoupled From Framework Logic	1
Comparing the Efficacy of Rapid Review With a Systematic Review in the Software Engineering Field	0
Quantum software testing: State of the art	0
On the use of big data frameworks in big service management	0
Evolution of secure development lifecycles and maturity models in the context of hosted solutions	0
The HURRIER process for experimentation in business‐to‐business mission‐critical systems	0
A Token‐based Compilation Error Categorization and Its Applications	0
Modeling and verifying NLSR protocol of NDN for CPS using UPPAAL	0
Version‐based and risk‐enabled testing, monitoring, and visualization of microservice systems	0
A hybrid‐ensemble model for software defect prediction for balanced and imbalanced datasets using AI‐based techniques with feature preservation: SMERKP‐XGB	0
Quality evaluation models or frameworks for open source software: A systematic literature review	0
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Towards an ontology for process compliance with the (machinery) legislations	0
Blockchain for requirements traceability: A qualitative approach	0
Strategic Patterns to Foster the Evolution of Emerging Software Ecosystems	0
Functional suitability assessment of smart contracts: A survey and first proposal	0
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