Journal of Software-Evolution and Process

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Software-Evolution and Process is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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A Novel Vulnerability‐Detection Method Based on the Semantic Features of Source Code and the LLVM Intermediate Representation36
Internet‐of‐things architectures for secure cyber–physical spaces: The VISOR experience report32
Mobile crowdsourced test report prioritization based on text and image understanding29
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Revisiting deep neural network test coverage from the test effectiveness perspective27
On the sustainability of deep learning projects: Maintainers' perspective23
SGDL: Smart contract vulnerability generation via deep learning19
PassSum: Leveraging paths of abstract syntax trees and self‐supervision for code summarization19
Software development effort estimation using boosting algorithms and automatic tuning of hyperparameters with Optuna17
APP constraint analysis approach to select mobile devices for compatibility crowdtesting17
A novel combinatorial testing approach with fuzzing strategy16
An architecture refactoring approach to reducing software hierarchy complexity15
Editorial for the special issue on software refactoring: Application breadth and technical depth14
Code smell prioritization in object‐oriented software systems: A systematic literature review13
BET‐BiLSTM Model: A Robust Solution for Automated Requirements Classification13
Product and service quality risks: A survey about evolution and application in different business domains to facilitate quality engineering13
Automated construction of reference model for software remodularization through software evolution13
Crowdsourced bug report severity prediction based on text and image understanding via heterogeneous graph convolutional networks13
Software integration model: An assessment tool for global software development vendors12
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Characterizing and synthesizing the workflow structure of microservices in ByteDance Cloud11
Empowering Software Engineers to Design More Secure Web Applications: Guidelines and Potential of Using LLMs as a Recommender Tool11
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Adaptive solving strategy synthesis for symbolic execution10
Specifying features in terms of domain models: MuDForM method definition and case study10
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Requirement specification extraction and analysis based on propositional projection temporal logic10
Evolutionary measures and their correlations with the performance of cross‐version defect prediction for object‐oriented projects10
Understanding the quality and evolution of Android app build systems10
Challenges and solutions in the development of blockchain applications: Extraction from SLR and empirical study9
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 Engines9
Exceptions Can Be Nested: An Exploratory Study on Nested Exceptions in Java Crashes9
Generating Quality Assurance Constraints From Natural Language With LLMs9
A Serious Game Approach to Introduce the Code Review Practice9
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Functional Size Measurement With Conceptual Models: A Systematic Literature Review8
Cheating your apps: Black‐box adversarial attacks on deep learning apps8
When rationality meets intuition: A research agenda for software design decision‐making8
MFLion‐DMN: Mayfly Lion‐optimized deep maxout network for prediction of software development effort8
Predicting Issue Resolution Time of OSS Using Multiple Features7
Can non‐developers learn a simplified modeling notation quickly?7
Advanced security testing using a cyber‐attack forecasting model: A case study of financial institutions7
Verification and validation of software process simulation models: A systematic mapping study7
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Trustworthy and collaborative traceability management: Experts’ feedback on a blockchain‐enabled framework7
Exploratory study of existing research on software requirements prioritization: A systematic literature review6
Engineering MLOps Pipelines With Data Quality: A Case Study on Tabular Datasets in Kaggle6
The Impact of COVID‐19 on Open Source Development Activities: A Multi‐Method Study6
Leveraging Levy Flight and Greylag Goose Optimization for Enhanced Cross‐Project Defect Prediction in Software Evolution6
Enhanced evolutionary automated program repair by finer‐granularity ingredients and better search algorithms6
The effect of hoisting on variants of Hierarchical Delta Debugging6
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Understanding Remote Work Experience: Insights Into Well‐Being6
The Pandora's box of social, process, and people debts in software engineering6
Hybrid mutation driven testing for natural language inference6
Examining the training and education potential of the metaverse: Results from an empirical study of next generation SAFe training6
Exploring the Effectiveness of Open‐Source Donation Platform: An Empirical Study on Opencollective6
Combining object‐oriented metrics and centrality measures to predict faults in object‐oriented software: An empirical validation6
Impact of Code Smells on Software Quality: A Systematic Literature Review5
CARLDA: An Approach for Stack Overflow API Mention Recognition Driven by Context and LLM‐Based Data Augmentation5
Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering5
The dynamic versus the stable team: The unspoken question in large‐scale agile development5
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Context factors perceived important when looking for similar experiences in decision‐making for software components: An interview study5
Neural Networks‐Based Software Development Effort Estimation: A Systematic Literature Review5
Manipulating a CI/CD Pipeline in an IoT Embedded Project: A Quasi‐Experiment5
Integrating Security Controls in DevSecOps: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Research Directions5
JointConf: Jointly autotuning configuration parameters for modularized graph databases5
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An automated search‐based test model generation approach for structural testing of model transformations5
DP‐GCN: Integrating GraphCodeBERT and GCN With Contrastive Learning for Software Defect Prediction5
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From legacy to microservices: A type‐based approach for microservices identification using machine learning and semantic analysis5
Model‐checking‐driven explorative testing of CRDT designs and implementations5
Success factors analysis for requirement elicitation in global software development paradigm: An empirical study5
Promoting social and human factors through a gamified automotive software development environment5
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ECP: Coprocessor Architecture to Protect Program Logic Consistency4
A longitudinal case study on Nexus transformation: Impact on productivity, quality, and motivation4
Minimizing Inter‐Dependencies in Functional Requirements for Timely Delivery of Software Projects: A Prioritization Approach Using AHP and Spanning Trees4
About the special issue on: “Distributed Complex Systems: Governance, Engineering, and Maintenance”4
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Towards practical application of mutation testing in industry — Traditional versus extreme mutation testing4
An ecology‐oriented convergence evolution analysis method of crossover service ecosystems4
Explainable AI Framework for Software Defect Prediction4
CrossFix: Resolution of GitHub issues via similar bugs recommendation4
Investigating the impact of structural holes on the value creation in mobile application service ecosystems: Evidence from computational experiments4
Sustainable software engineering—A contribution puzzle of different teams in large IT organizations4
The LAGSSE Framework: Integrating Lean, Agile, and Green Principles for Sustainable Software Engineering4
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Building empirical knowledge on the relationship between code smells and design patterns: An exploratory study4
A Multi‐Perspective Review on Embedded Systems Quality: State of the Field, Challenges, and Research Directions4
A novel defect prediction method based on semantic feature enhancement4
RobustNPR: Evaluating the robustness of neural program repair models3
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Self‐Admitted Technical Debt Detection Approaches: A Decade Systematic Review3
CoBRA without experts: New paradigm for software development effort estimation using COCOMO metrics3
Mitigating Communication‐Related Process Loss in Agile Teams: A Case Study on Common Ground and Role‐Based Interaction3
The Agile Coach Role Decoded: What Agile Coaches Deliver Versus What Team Members Experience3
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Exploring factors affecting developer abandonment of open source software projects3
Assessing BizDevOps maturity using international standards: Case studies and lessons learned3
Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance3
Towards AIOps enabled services in continuously evolving software‐intensive embedded systems3
Contributions to Systems Software and Service Process Improvement and Innovation Based on Recent Advances3
Mutation‐based data augmentation for software defect prediction3
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Richen: Automated enrichment of Git documentation with usage examples and scenarios3
How Software Design Affects Energy Performance: A Systematic Literature Review3
Towards Explainable Code Readability Classification With Graph Neural Networks3
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Constructing exception handling chains for testing Java virtual machine implementations3
Contributions of enterprise architecture to software engineering: A systematic literature review3
CyberESP: An Integrated Cybersecurity Framework for SMEs3
Performance testing as a service using cloud computing environment: A survey3
The impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the globalization on how automotive assessments will be performed in the future3
E2E test execution optimization for web application based on state reuse3
Exploring the context of use for voice user interfaces: Toward context‐dependent user experience quality testing3
On the perception of graph layouts3
A State‐Aware Fuzzing Method for Trusted Execution Environment Kernels3
A Study of Factors That Influence the Software Project Success3
Predictive maintenance of infrastructure code using “fluid” datasets: An exploratory study on Ansible defect proneness3
UFR‐OSFA: Unified Feature Representation and Oppositional Structure Feature Alignment for Mixed‐Project Heterogeneous Defect Prediction3
On the utilization of non‐quality assessed literature in software engineering research3
Object Constraint Language based test case optimization with modified Average Percentage of Fault Detection metric3
Code quality improvement using Aquila Optimizer3
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Software bug localization based on optimized and ensembled deep learning models3
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The Indispensable Role of Software Ecosystem Services3
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