Journal of Software-Evolution and Process

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Issue Information	39
Software development effort estimation using boosting algorithms and automatic tuning of hyperparameters with Optuna	31
SGDL: Smart contract vulnerability generation via deep learning	29
PassSum: Leveraging paths of abstract syntax trees and self‐supervision for code summarization	28
On the sustainability of deep learning projects: Maintainers' perspective	27
A Novel Vulnerability‐Detection Method Based on the Semantic Features of Source Code and the LLVM Intermediate Representation	26
Internet‐of‐things architectures for secure cyber–physical spaces: The VISOR experience report	24
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
A novel combinatorial testing approach with fuzzing strategy	20
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Context modeling for cyber‐physical systems	20
An architecture refactoring approach to reducing software hierarchy complexity	19
Editorial for the special issue on software refactoring: Application breadth and technical depth	18
Automated construction of reference model for software remodularization through software evolution	16
BET‐BiLSTM Model: A Robust Solution for Automated Requirements Classification	15
Crowdsourced bug report severity prediction based on text and image understanding via heterogeneous graph convolutional networks	14
Product and service quality risks: A survey about evolution and application in different business domains to facilitate quality engineering	13
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Software integration model: An assessment tool for global software development vendors	12
Characterizing and synthesizing the workflow structure of microservices in ByteDance Cloud	12
Code smell prioritization in object‐oriented software systems: A systematic literature review	11
Designing and testing systems of systems: From variability models to test cases passing through desirability assessment	11

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Requirement specification extraction and analysis based on propositional projection temporal logic	10
A Serious Game Approach to Introduce the Code Review Practice	10
Understanding the quality and evolution of Android app build systems	9
Software change‐proneness prediction based on deep learning	9
Specifying features in terms of domain models: MuDForM method definition and case study	9
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Adaptive solving strategy synthesis for symbolic execution	9
Evolutionary measures and their correlations with the performance of cross‐version defect prediction for object‐oriented projects	9
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A Simple Yet Practical Backdoor Prompt Attack Against Black‐Box Code Summarization Engines	8
POEML: a Process Orchestration, Execution, and Modeling Language	8
MARS: Detecting brain class/method code smell based on metric–attention mechanism and residual network	8
When rationality meets intuition: A research agenda for software design decision‐making	8
Advanced security testing using a cyber‐attack forecasting model: A case study of financial institutions	8
Cheating your apps: Black‐box adversarial attacks on deep learning apps	8
Verification and validation of software process simulation models: A systematic mapping study	8
Trustworthy and collaborative traceability management: Experts’ feedback on a blockchain‐enabled framework	8
Strategic Intelligence Management (ISO 56006)—Using AI by the Innovation Agent Task Force in the Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA)	8
MFLion‐DMN: Mayfly Lion‐optimized deep maxout network for prediction of software development effort	8
Challenges and solutions in the development of blockchain applications: Extraction from SLR and empirical study	8
Can non‐developers learn a simplified modeling notation quickly?	8
Functional Size Measurement With Conceptual Models: A Systematic Literature Review	7
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Osmotic management of distributed complex systems: A declarative decentralised approach	7
Formalizing model transformation patterns	7
Predicting Issue Resolution Time of OSS Using Multiple Features	7
Identification and prioritization of security challenges of big data on cloud computing based on SLR: A fuzzy‐TOPSIS analysis approach	7
Leveraging Levy Flight and Greylag Goose Optimization for Enhanced Cross‐Project Defect Prediction in Software Evolution	6
On the analysis of power law distribution in software component sizes	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	6
Integrating privacy debt and VSE's software developments	6
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The effect of hoisting on variants of Hierarchical Delta Debugging	6
Exploratory study of existing research on software requirements prioritization: A systematic literature review	6
Understanding Remote Work Experience: Insights Into Well‐Being	6
A graph sequence neural architecture for code completion with semantic structure features	6
Hybrid mutation driven testing for natural language inference	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	5
Manipulating a CI/CD Pipeline in an IoT Embedded Project: A Quasi‐Experiment	5
CARLDA: An Approach for Stack Overflow API Mention Recognition Driven by Context and LLM‐Based Data Augmentation	5
Enhanced evolutionary automated program repair by finer‐granularity ingredients and better search algorithms	5
Examining the training and education potential of the metaverse: Results from an empirical study of next generation SAFe training	5
Integrating Security Controls in DevSecOps: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Research Directions	5
The Pandora's box of social, process, and people debts in software engineering	5
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Compliance checking of software processes: A systematic literature review	5
Towards practical application of mutation testing in industry — Traditional versus extreme mutation testing	4

Sustainable software engineering—A contribution puzzle of different teams in large IT organizations	4
Promoting social and human factors through a gamified automotive software development environment	4
About the special issue on: “Distributed Complex Systems: Governance, Engineering, and Maintenance”	4
An ecology‐oriented convergence evolution analysis method of crossover service ecosystems	4
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From legacy to microservices: A type‐based approach for microservices identification using machine learning and semantic analysis	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
ECP: Coprocessor Architecture to Protect Program Logic Consistency	4
Context factors perceived important when looking for similar experiences in decision‐making for software components: An interview study	4
Anti‐bloater class restructuring: An exploratory study	4
Explainable AI Framework for Software Defect Prediction	4
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A Multi‐Perspective Review on Embedded Systems Quality: State of the Field, Challenges, and Research Directions	4
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Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance	4
Model‐checking‐driven explorative testing of CRDT designs and implementations	4
Towards a security‐driven automotive development lifecycle	4
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An automated search‐based test model generation approach for structural testing of model transformations	4
Building empirical knowledge on the relationship between code smells and design patterns: An exploratory study	4
CrossFix: Resolution of GitHub issues via similar bugs recommendation	4
The dynamic versus the stable team: The unspoken question in large‐scale agile development	4
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Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering	4
The LAGSSE Framework: Integrating Lean, Agile, and Green Principles for Sustainable Software Engineering	4
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Success factors analysis for requirement elicitation in global software development paradigm: An empirical study	4
Code quality improvement using Aquila Optimizer	3
Contributions of enterprise architecture to software engineering: A systematic literature review	3
A novel defect prediction method based on semantic feature enhancement	3
Investigating the impact of structural holes on the value creation in mobile application service ecosystems: Evidence from computational experiments	3
Performance testing as a service using cloud computing environment: A survey	3
Issue Information	3
RobustNPR: Evaluating the robustness of neural program repair models	3
On the utilization of non‐quality assessed literature in software engineering research	3
E2E test execution optimization for web application based on state reuse	3
Towards AIOps enabled services in continuously evolving software‐intensive embedded systems	3
Object Constraint Language based test case optimization with modified Average Percentage of Fault Detection metric	3
Assessing BizDevOps maturity using international standards: Case studies and lessons learned	3
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CyberESP: An Integrated Cybersecurity Framework for SMEs	3
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CoBRA without experts: New paradigm for software development effort estimation using COCOMO metrics	3
On the perception of graph layouts	3
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Exploring the context of use for voice user interfaces: Toward context‐dependent user experience quality testing	3
The impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the globalization on how automotive assessments will be performed in the future	3
Constructing exception handling chains for testing Java virtual machine implementations	3
How Software Design Affects Energy Performance: A Systematic Literature Review	3
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Exploring factors affecting developer abandonment of open source software projects	3
A Study of Factors That Influence the Software Project Success	3
Fight silent horror unit test methods by consulting a TestWizard	3
UFR‐OSFA: Unified Feature Representation and Oppositional Structure Feature Alignment for Mixed‐Project Heterogeneous Defect Prediction	3
Towards Explainable Code Readability Classification With Graph Neural Networks	3
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Mutation‐based data augmentation for software defect prediction	3
Contributions to Systems Software and Service Process Improvement and Innovation Based on Recent Advances	3
Software bug localization based on optimized and ensembled deep learning models	3
Sparse reward for reinforcement learning‐based continuous integration testing	3
Predictive maintenance of infrastructure code using “fluid” datasets: An exploratory study on Ansible defect proneness	3
Prioritization Method for Crowdsourced Test Report by Integrating Text and Image Information	2
Software Process Evaluation from User Perceptions and Log Data	2
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Security risks of global software development life cycle: Industry practitioner's perspective	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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Evaluation of requirement engineering best practices for secure software development in GSD: An ISM analysis	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
Implicit bias and negative stereotyping in global software development and why it is time to move on!	2
Measuring software engineer's contribution in practice: An industrial experience report	2
The Indispensable Role of Software Ecosystem Services	2
Are duplicates really harmful? An empirical study on bug report summarization techniques	2
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
sFuzz2.0: Storage‐access pattern guided smart contract fuzzing	2

A practical approach for technical debt prioritization based on class‐level forecasting	2
Tarsis: An effective automata‐based abstract domain for string analysis	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
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GUI testing of Android applications: Investigating the impact of the number of testers on different exploratory testing strategies	2
A systematic mapping study on the employment of neural networks on software engineering projects: Where to go next?	2
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Richen: Automated enrichment of Git documentation with usage examples and scenarios	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
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A classification scheme to improve conclusion instability using Bellwether moving windows	2
Exploring the relationship between refactoring and code debt indicators	2
On the accessibility of the grayscale version of a PoN‐enabled use case notation	2
A Process Model for AI‐Enabled Software Development: A Synthesis From Validation Studies in White Literature	2
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Towards a catalog of composite refactorings	2
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Regression test prioritization leveraging source code similarity with tree kernels	2
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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A research landscape on software defect prediction	1
Safety and security of cyber‐physical systems	1
Unveiling the impact of unchanged modules across versions on the evaluation of within‐project defect prediction models	1
From Data to Knowledge: Mining Linux Vulnerability Characteristics and Evolution With Knowledge Graphs	1
A software process improvement framework based on best practices	1
Experiences with the automotive SPICE for cybersecurity assessment model and tools	1
Qualitative software engineering research: Reflections and guidelines	1
NG_MDERANK: A software vulnerability feature knowledge extraction method based on N‐gram similarity	1
Cloud and Edge Computing as Effective Trends in Business Model Innovation: A Bibliometric Review	1
How agile coaches create an agile mindset in development teams: Insights from an interview study	1
An Approach Based on Metadata to Implement Convention Over Configuration Decoupled From Framework Logic	1
Merge Conflict Prediction Using Feature Selection and Stacking Heterogeneous Ensembles: An Empirical Investigation	1
Ensuring Confidentiality in Supply Chains With an Application to Life‐Cycle Assessment	1
Introduction to the special issue on automation of software test and test code quality	1
Readiness and maturity models for Industry 4.0: A systematic literature review	1
Overcoming Data Shortage in Critical Domains With Data Augmentation for Natural Language Software Requirements	1
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Balanced knowledge distribution among software development teams—Observations from open‐ and closed‐source software development	1
Synthesis of context‐aware business‐to‐business processes for location‐based services through choreographies	1
Ensemble Deep Network for Secured Refactoring Framework by Predicting Code‐Bad Smells in Software Projects	1
IABC‐TCG: Improved artificial bee colony algorithm‐based test case generation for smart contracts	1
Refactoring to Standard C++20 Modules	1
Understanding Software‐centered Evolutive Ecosystems through Activity Theory	1
The athletic heart syndrome in web service evolution	1
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Empirical exploration of critical challenges of requirements implementation in global software development	1
A reference model for software product line capability assessment	1
Towards Multi‐Class Socio‐Technical Congruence: Assessing Coordination in Collaborative Software Development Settings	1
Better Knowledge Enhancement for Privacy‐Preserving Cross‐Project Defect Prediction	1
GRRLN: Gated Recurrent Residual Learning Networks for code clone detection	1
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Log‐based anomaly detection for distributed systems: State of the art, industry experience, and open issues	1
Enabling Quantum Privacy and Security by Design: Imperatives for Contemporary State‐of‐the‐Art in Quantum Software Engineering	1
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A resilience‐based framework for assessing the evolution of open source software projects	1
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Release conventions of open‐source software: An exploratory study	1
Evaluating the Test Adequacy of Benchmarks for LLMs on Code Generation	1
Model‐driven engineering of safety and security software systems: A systematic mapping study and future research directions	1
Understanding software architecture erosion: A systematic mapping study	1
A Semiautomated Approach for Detecting Ambiguities in Software Requirements Using SpanBERT and Named Entity Recognition	1
A robust optimization model for software development costs considering time value of money	1
Using artificial intelligence to find design errors in the engineering drawings	1
Transformer‐based code search for software Q&A sites	1
A novel approach for visualization, monitoring, and control techniques for Scrum metric planning using the analytic hierarchy process	1
A Flexible Framework to Ensure Traceability, Consistency, and Propagation of KPIs Evolution	1
An empirical study to compare three web test automation approaches: NLP‐based, programmable, and capture&replay	1
Evaluation of the fixed‐point iteration of minimizing delta debugging	1
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Identifying safety issues from energy conservation requirements	1
Improving an emergency repair process with feature models	1
A Validation Methodology for XAI Decision Support Systems Against Relational Domain Properties	1
Guest editors' introduction to the special issue “Automatic Software Testing from the Trenches”	1
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Just‐in‐time identification for cross‐project correlated issues	1
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Severity classification of software code smells using machine learning techniques: A comparative study	1
Scaled agile framework. Dealing with software process‐related challenges of a financial group with the action research approach	1
Mission‐critical open‐source software adoption model validation using Partial Least Square ‐ Structural Equation Modeling	1
Understanding the use of spectrum‐based fault localization	1
Multi‐objective optimization‐based and fault localization‐oriented test case generation for novice programs	1
An Empirical Study on How Sapienz Achieves Coverage and Crash Detection	1
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Modeling Software Reliability With Power Law Testing Effort Function Under Operational Uncertain Environment	1
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Maturity model for secure software testing	1
UCLP: Unsupervised Classification of Key Aspects in Vulnerability Descriptions Through Label Profile	1
Key Success Factors of Cybersecurity Awareness in Distributed Teams	1
PredictPP: A Rank‐Based Weighted Ensemble Model for Prediction of Software Project Productivity	1
An approach for semantic interoperability in autonomic distributed intelligent systems	1
Quality culture boosts agile transformation—Action research in a business‐to‐business software business	1