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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Confidence‐driven weighted retraining for predicting safety‐critical failures in autonomous driving systems	22
Towards a security‐driven automotive development lifecycle	22
Digital for real: A multicase study on the digital transformation of companies in the embedded systems domain	20
Quantum software testing: State of the art	20
Enhancing and securing cyber‐physical systems and Industry 4.0 through digital twins: A critical review	19
Towards roadmap to implement blockchain in healthcare systems based on a maturity model	19
Examining the training and education potential of the metaverse: Results from an empirical study of next generation SAFe training	18
Scaled agile framework. Dealing with software process‐related challenges of a financial group with the action research approach	18
Crowdsourcing usage, task assignment methods, and crowdsourcing platforms: A systematic literature review	17
Savalan: Multi objective and homogeneous method for software modules clustering	15
Towards an AI‐driven business development framework: A multi‐case study	15
A comprehensive study on security bug characteristics	15
Security and provenance for Internet of Health Things: A systematic literature review	15
Understanding software architecture erosion: A systematic mapping study	14
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	12
Characterizing commodity serverless computing platforms	12
MARS: Detecting brain class/method code smell based on metric–attention mechanism and residual network	12
TraceRank: Abnormal service localization with dis‐aggregated end‐to‐end tracing data in cloud native systems	12
The Pandora's box of social, process, and people debts in software engineering	10
On the value of filter feature selection techniques in homogeneous ensembles effort estimation	10
Multi‐upgradation software reliability growth model with dependency of faults under change point and imperfect debugging	10
Perceptions of open‐source software developers on collaborations: An interview and survey study	9
Towards the statistical construction of hybrid development methods	9
A guidance to implement or reinforce a DevOps approach in organizations: A case study	9
Behind the scenes: On the relationship between developer experience and refactoring	9

Selection of DevOps best test practices: A hybrid approach using ISM and fuzzy TOPSIS analysis	9
Security risks in cyber physical systems—A systematic mapping study	8
MPT‐embedding: An unsupervised representation learning of code for software defect prediction	8
A qualitative study of architectural design issues in DevOps	8
Goals and challenges in hybrid software development approaches	8
Quality culture boosts agile transformation—Action research in a business‐to‐business software business	7
Systematic analysis of software development in cloud computing perceptions	7
The impact of traceability on software maintenance and evolution: A mapping study	7
A framework for modeling structural association among De‐Motivators of scaling agile	7
Severity classification of software code smells using machine learning techniques: A comparative study	7
Evolution of technical debt remediation in Python: A case study on the Apache Software Ecosystem	7
Knowledge governance maturity assessment can help software engineers during the design of business digitalization projects	7
Teamwork quality in technology‐driven product teams in large‐scale agile organizations	7
From legacy to microservices: A type‐based approach for microservices identification using machine learning and semantic analysis	6
Safe and secure cyber‐physical systems	6
DevOps workflow verification and duration prediction using non‐Markovian stochastic Petri nets	6
FlexParser—The adaptive log file parser for continuous results in a changing world	6
Machine learning‐based test oracles for performance testing of cyber‐physical systems: An industrial case study on elevators dispatching algorithms	6
Software defect prediction with imbalanced distribution by radius‐synthetic minority over‐sampling technique	6
Experiences with the automotive SPICE for cybersecurity assessment model and tools	5
The development of data analytics maturity assessment framework: DAMAF	5
Osmotic management of distributed complex systems: A declarative decentralised approach	5
SABDM: A self‐attention based bidirectional‐RNN deep model for requirements classification	5
Software integration model: An assessment tool for global software development vendors	5
Quality evaluation models or frameworks for open source software: A systematic literature review	5
image2emmet: Automatic code generation from web user interface image	5
DevOps: Is there a gap between education and industry?	5
Towards evidence‐based decision‐making for identification and usage of assets in composite software: A research roadmap	5
Enhancing agile software development in the banking sector—A comprehensive case study at LHV	5
Modeling and verifying NDN‐based IoV using CSP	5
Exploring the context of use for voice user interfaces: Toward context‐dependent user experience quality testing	5
Software Process Evaluation from User Perceptions and Log Data	5
Uncertainty handling in cyber–physical systems: State‐of‐the‐art approaches, tools, causes, and future directions	5
ZaligVinder: A generic test framework for string solvers	5
A goal‐driven approach for the joint deployment of safety and security standards for operators of essential services	5
A case study of industry–academia communication in a joint software engineering research project	5
Implicit bias and negative stereotyping in global software development and why it is time to move on!	5
Blockchain for requirements traceability: A qualitative approach	4
On the relation between architectural smells and source code changes	4
An empirical comparison of validation methods for software prediction models	4
A model to discipline autonomy in cyber‐physical systems‐of‐systems and its application	4
AmPyfier: Test amplification in Python	4
Characterizing and synthesizing the workflow structure of microservices in ByteDance Cloud	4
Context modeling for cyber‐physical systems	4
Compliance checking of software processes: A systematic literature review	4
A graph sequence neural architecture for code completion with semantic structure features	4
A systematic mapping study on the employment of neural networks on software engineering projects: Where to go next?	4
Counteracting sociocultural barriers in global software engineering using group activities	4
Security risks of global software development life cycle: Industry practitioner's perspective	4
Understanding the relation between repeat developer interactions and bug resolution times in large open source ecosystems: A multisystem study	4

Process improvement guidance for successful automotive SPI implementation	4
Success factors analysis for requirement elicitation in global software development paradigm: An empirical study	4
Simplified abstract syntax tree based semantic features learning for software change prediction	4
The effect of hoisting on variants of Hierarchical Delta Debugging	4
Using artificial intelligence to find design errors in the engineering drawings	4
Business process management approach for improving agile software process and agile maturity	4
Code smell prioritization in object‐oriented software systems: A systematic literature review	4
Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance	4
Performance testing as a service using cloud computing environment: A survey	4
Towards practical application of mutation testing in industry — Traditional versus extreme mutation testing	3
Synthesis of context‐aware business‐to‐business processes for location‐based services through choreographies	3
Blending agile methodologies to support automotive SPICE compliance	3
On the perception of graph layouts	3
Model‐driven engineering of safety and security software systems: A systematic mapping study and future research directions	3
Advanced security testing using a cyber‐attack forecasting model: A case study of financial institutions	3
Exploring factors affecting developer abandonment of open source software projects	3
The athletic heart syndrome in web service evolution	3
A Token‐based Compilation Error Categorization and Its Applications	3
How agile coaches create an agile mindset in development teams: Insights from an interview study	3
On the analysis of power law distribution in software component sizes	3
On the utilization of non‐quality assessed literature in software engineering research	3
Automatic software vulnerability classification by extracting vulnerability triggers	3
A novel test case prioritization approach for black‐box testing based on K‐medoids clustering	3
Internet‐of‐things architectures for secure cyber–physical spaces: The VISOR experience report	3
An empirical study to compare three web test automation approaches: NLP‐based, programmable, and capture&replay	3
ExVivoMicroTest: ExVivo Testing of Microservices	3
Predicting the lifetime of pull requests in open‐source projects	3
Model‐based generation of test scripts across product variants: An experience report from the railway industry	3
Qualitative software engineering research: Reflections and guidelines	3
Designing and testing systems of systems: From variability models to test cases passing through desirability assessment	3
On the diffusion of test smells and their relationship with test code quality of Java projects	2
Exploring the relationship between refactoring and code debt indicators	2
Prediction of bug‐fixing time based on distinguishable sequences fusion in open source software	2
EVMFuzz: Differential fuzz testing of Ethereum virtual machine	2
Automated generation of terminological dictionary from textual business rules	2
Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering	2
Quantitative software project management with mixed data: A comparison of radial, nonradial, and ensemble data envelopment analysis models	2
Risks and risk mitigation in global software development: An update	2
Readiness and maturity models for Industry 4.0: A systematic literature review	2
A reference model for software product line capability assessment	2
Cheating your apps: Black‐box adversarial attacks on deep learning apps	2
Social network sites and requirements engineering: A systematic literature review	2
Using genetic algorithms for automating automated lane‐keeping system testing	2
Ranking the art design and applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning	2
WIFLF: An approach independent of the target project for cross‐project defect prediction	2
Model‐checking‐driven explorative testing of CRDT designs and implementations	2
An approach for semantic interoperability in autonomic distributed intelligent systems	2
Mission‐critical open‐source software adoption model validation using Partial Least Square ‐ Structural Equation Modeling	2
Implementing game requirements using design patterns	2
Revisiting deep neural network test coverage from the test effectiveness perspective	2
Technical debt (TD) through the lens of Twitter: A survey	2
An exploratory semantic analysis of logging questions	2
A Developer Relations (DevRel) model to govern developers in Software Ecosystems	2
Build conflicts in the wild	2
Understanding the use of spectrum‐based fault localization	2
CodeBERT‐Attack: Adversarial attack against source code deep learning models via pre‐trained model	2
Open source software reliability model with nonlinear fault detection and fault introduction	2
Sparse reward for reinforcement learning‐based continuous integration testing	2
Embracing modern C++ features: An empirical assessment on the KDE community	2
A novel combinatorial testing approach with fuzzing strategy	2
A study of refactorings during software change tasks	2
A practical approach for technical debt prioritization based on class‐level forecasting	2
Fight silent horror unit test methods by consulting a TestWizard	2
Version‐based and risk‐enabled testing, monitoring, and visualization of microservice systems	2
The HURRIER process for experimentation in business‐to‐business mission‐critical systems	2
Effort prediction for the software project construction phase	2
An empirical evaluation of deep learning‐based source code vulnerability detection: Representation versus models	2
Combining object‐oriented metrics and centrality measures to predict faults in object‐oriented software: An empirical validation	2
Machine learning testing in an ADAS case study using simulation‐integrated bio‐inspired search‐based testing	2
CoBRA without experts: New paradigm for software development effort estimation using COCOMO metrics	2
User‐centered approaches in software development processes: Qualitative research into the practice of Hungarian companies	2
Incorporating statistical and machine learning techniques into the optimization of correction factors for software development effort estimation	2