OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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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
Revisiting deep neural network test coverage from the test effectiveness perspective	21
Mobile crowdsourced test report prioritization based on text and image understanding	21
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Context modeling for cyber‐physical systems	20
A novel combinatorial testing approach with fuzzing strategy	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
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Product and service quality risks: A survey about evolution and application in different business domains to facilitate quality engineering	13
Characterizing and synthesizing the workflow structure of microservices in ByteDance Cloud	12
Software integration model: An assessment tool for global software development vendors	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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A Serious Game Approach to Introduce the Code Review Practice	10
Requirement specification extraction and analysis based on propositional projection temporal logic	10
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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Understanding the quality and evolution of Android app build systems	9
Software change‐proneness prediction based on deep learning	9
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
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
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
Functional Size Measurement With Conceptual Models: A Systematic Literature Review	7
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Neural Networks‐Based Software Development Effort Estimation: A Systematic Literature Review	6
Integrating privacy debt and VSE's software developments	6
Issue Information	6
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
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
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
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
Explainable AI Framework for Software Defect Prediction	4

A Multi‐Perspective Review on Embedded Systems Quality: State of the Field, Challenges, and Research Directions	4
Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance	4
Towards practical application of mutation testing in industry — Traditional versus extreme mutation testing	4
Towards a security‐driven automotive development lifecycle	4
Promoting social and human factors through a gamified automotive software development environment	4
An ecology‐oriented convergence evolution analysis method of crossover service ecosystems	4
From legacy to microservices: A type‐based approach for microservices identification using machine learning and semantic analysis	4
JointConf: Jointly autotuning configuration parameters for modularized graph databases	4
An automated search‐based test model generation approach for structural testing of model transformations	4
CrossFix: Resolution of GitHub issues via similar bugs recommendation	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 LAGSSE Framework: Integrating Lean, Agile, and Green Principles for Sustainable Software Engineering	4
Anti‐bloater class restructuring: An exploratory study	4
Success factors analysis for requirement elicitation in global software development paradigm: An empirical study	4
Issue Information	4
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Model‐checking‐driven explorative testing of CRDT designs and implementations	4
Sustainable software engineering—A contribution puzzle of different teams in large IT organizations	4
About the special issue on: “Distributed Complex Systems: Governance, Engineering, and Maintenance”	4
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Issue Information	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
ECP: Coprocessor Architecture to Protect Program Logic Consistency	4
The dynamic versus the stable team: The unspoken question in large‐scale agile development	4
Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering	4
Issue Information	4
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
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
Issue Information	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
Issue Information	3
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
Issue Information	3