OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Software-Evolution and Process is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mobile crowdsourced test report prioritization based on text and image understanding	35
Software defect prediction with imbalanced distribution by radius‐synthetic minority over‐sampling technique	31
Revisiting deep neural network test coverage from the test effectiveness perspective	25
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On the sustainability of deep learning projects: Maintainers' perspective	22
SGDL: Smart contract vulnerability generation via deep learning	22
Context modeling for cyber‐physical systems	21
Internet‐of‐things architectures for secure cyber–physical spaces: The VISOR experience report	20
PassSum: Leveraging paths of abstract syntax trees and self‐supervision for code summarization	18
Software development effort estimation using boosting algorithms and automatic tuning of hyperparameters with Optuna	16
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APP constraint analysis approach to select mobile devices for compatibility crowdtesting	15
Symptom‐based improvement recommendations	15
A Novel Vulnerability‐Detection Method Based on the Semantic Features of Source Code and the LLVM Intermediate Representation	15
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Software integration model: An assessment tool for global software development vendors	12
The impact of traceability on software maintenance and evolution: A mapping study	12
Characterizing and synthesizing the workflow structure of microservices in ByteDance Cloud	12
BET‐BiLSTM Model: A Robust Solution for Automated Requirements Classification	12
Confidence‐driven weighted retraining for predicting safety‐critical failures in autonomous driving systems	11
Code smell prioritization in object‐oriented software systems: A systematic literature review	11
Automated construction of reference model for software remodularization through software evolution	10
Designing and testing systems of systems: From variability models to test cases passing through desirability assessment	10
Editorial for the special issue on software refactoring: Application breadth and technical depth	10
Crowdsourced bug report severity prediction based on text and image understanding via heterogeneous graph convolutional networks	10

Software change‐proneness prediction based on deep learning	9
Product and service quality risks: A survey about evolution and application in different business domains to facilitate quality engineering	9
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A novel combinatorial testing approach with fuzzing strategy	9
Specifying features in terms of domain models: MuDForM method definition and case study	9
An architecture refactoring approach to reducing software hierarchy complexity	9
Requirement specification extraction and analysis based on propositional projection temporal logic	8
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Enhancing agile software development in the banking sector—A comprehensive case study at LHV	8
Evolutionary measures and their correlations with the performance of cross‐version defect prediction for object‐oriented projects	8
Adaptive solving strategy synthesis for symbolic execution	8
A Serious Game Approach to Introduce the Code Review Practice	7
Understanding the quality and evolution of Android app build systems	7
Osmotic management of distributed complex systems: A declarative decentralised approach	7
Can non‐developers learn a simplified modeling notation quickly?	6
Trustworthy and collaborative traceability management: Experts’ feedback on a blockchain‐enabled framework	6
When rationality meets intuition: A research agenda for software design decision‐making	6
MARS: Detecting brain class/method code smell based on metric–attention mechanism and residual network	6
Predicting Issue Resolution Time of OSS Using Multiple Features	6
MFLion‐DMN: Mayfly Lion‐optimized deep maxout network for prediction of software development effort	6
Challenges and solutions in the development of blockchain applications: Extraction from SLR and empirical study	6
Perceptions of open‐source software developers on collaborations: An interview and survey study	6
Verification and validation of software process simulation models: A systematic mapping study	5
Behind the scenes: On the relationship between developer experience and refactoring	5
The effect of hoisting on variants of Hierarchical Delta Debugging	5
Integrating privacy debt and VSE's software developments	5
Cheating your apps: Black‐box adversarial attacks on deep learning apps	5
POEML: a Process Orchestration, Execution, and Modeling Language	5
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Issue Information	5
Understanding Remote Work Experience: Insights Into Well‐Being	5
Advanced security testing using a cyber‐attack forecasting model: A case study of financial institutions	5
Identification and prioritization of security challenges of big data on cloud computing based on SLR: A fuzzy‐TOPSIS analysis approach	5
Enhanced evolutionary automated program repair by finer‐granularity ingredients and better search algorithms	5
Exploratory study of existing research on software requirements prioritization: A systematic literature review	5
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
A longitudinal case study on Nexus transformation: Impact on productivity, quality, and motivation	4
Issue Information	4
Compliance checking of software processes: A systematic literature review	4
The Pandora's box of social, process, and people debts in software engineering	4
A graph sequence neural architecture for code completion with semantic structure features	4
Neural Networks‐Based Software Development Effort Estimation: A Systematic Literature Review	4
From legacy to microservices: A type‐based approach for microservices identification using machine learning and semantic analysis	4
Context factors perceived important when looking for similar experiences in decision‐making for software components: An interview study	4
Towards practical application of mutation testing in industry — Traditional versus extreme mutation testing	4
Manipulating a CI/CD Pipeline in an IoT Embedded Project: A Quasi‐Experiment	4
Leveraging Levy Flight and Greylag Goose Optimization for Enhanced Cross‐Project Defect Prediction in Software Evolution	4
Hybrid mutation driven testing for natural language inference	4

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A framework for modeling structural association among De‐Motivators of scaling agile	4
Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering	4
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An ecology‐oriented convergence evolution analysis method of crossover service ecosystems	4
CARLDA: An Approach for Stack Overflow API Mention Recognition Driven by Context and LLM‐Based Data Augmentation	4
Model‐checking‐driven explorative testing of CRDT designs and implementations	4
Combining object‐oriented metrics and centrality measures to predict faults in object‐oriented software: An empirical validation	4
On the analysis of power law distribution in software component sizes	4
Examining the training and education potential of the metaverse: Results from an empirical study of next generation SAFe training	4
Formalizing model transformation patterns	4
Towards a security‐driven automotive development lifecycle	3
Characterizing commodity serverless computing platforms	3
Building empirical knowledge on the relationship between code smells and design patterns: An exploratory study	3
Explainable AI Framework for Software Defect Prediction	3
Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance	3
Investigating the impact of structural holes on the value creation in mobile application service ecosystems: Evidence from computational experiments	3
Fight silent horror unit test methods by consulting a TestWizard	3
Success factors analysis for requirement elicitation in global software development paradigm: An empirical study	3
The dynamic versus the stable team: The unspoken question in large‐scale agile development	3
Anti‐bloater class restructuring: An exploratory study	3
Issue Information	3
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ECP: Coprocessor Architecture to Protect Program Logic Consistency	3
About the special issue on: “Distributed Complex Systems: Governance, Engineering, and Maintenance”	3
Promoting social and human factors through a gamified automotive software development environment	3
Issue Information	3
Modeling and verifying NDN‐based IoV using CSP	3
JointConf: Jointly autotuning configuration parameters for modularized graph databases	3
Performance testing as a service using cloud computing environment: A survey	3
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CrossFix: Resolution of GitHub issues via similar bugs recommendation	2
A systematic mapping study on the employment of neural networks on software engineering projects: Where to go next?	2
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A Multi‐Perspective Review on Embedded Systems Quality: State of the Field, Challenges, and Research Directions	2
How Software Design Affects Energy Performance: A Systematic Literature Review	2
On the perception of graph layouts	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
Issue Information	2
Software Process Evaluation from User Perceptions and Log Data	2
Predictive maintenance of infrastructure code using “fluid” datasets: An exploratory study on Ansible defect proneness	2
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The impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the globalization on how automotive assessments will be performed in the future	2
Model inspections in the engineering of collaborative cyber‐physical systems with instance‐level review diagrams	2
Code quality improvement using Aquila Optimizer	2
Are duplicates really harmful? An empirical study on bug report summarization techniques	2
A Study of Factors That Influence the Software Project Success	2
Issue Information	2
Contributions of enterprise architecture to software engineering: A systematic literature review	2
Exploring factors affecting developer abandonment of open source software projects	2
Object Constraint Language based test case optimization with modified Average Percentage of Fault Detection metric	2
Effort prediction for the software project construction phase	2
Contributions to Systems Software and Service Process Improvement and Innovation Based on Recent Advances	2
Software bug localization based on optimized and ensembled deep learning models	2
Mutation‐based data augmentation for software defect prediction	2
CoBRA without experts: New paradigm for software development effort estimation using COCOMO metrics	2
Issue Information	2
Towards AIOps enabled services in continuously evolving software‐intensive embedded systems	2
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Sparse reward for reinforcement learning‐based continuous integration testing	2
On the utilization of non‐quality assessed literature in software engineering research	2
Assessing BizDevOps maturity using international standards: Case studies and lessons learned	2
A novel defect prediction method based on semantic feature enhancement	2
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E2E test execution optimization for web application based on state reuse	2
Regression test prioritization leveraging source code similarity with tree kernels	2
Issue Information	2
Exploring the context of use for voice user interfaces: Toward context‐dependent user experience quality testing	2
Constructing exception handling chains for testing Java virtual machine implementations	2
Richen: Automated enrichment of Git documentation with usage examples and scenarios	2
Application programming interface recommendation according to the knowledge indexed by app feature mined from app stores	2
Formal methods by stealth: The INSPEX experience	2
Issue Information	2
RobustNPR: Evaluating the robustness of neural program repair models	2