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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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Issue Information	32
PassSum: Leveraging paths of abstract syntax trees and self‐supervision for code summarization	31
On the sustainability of deep learning projects: Maintainers' perspective	29
Internet‐of‐things architectures for secure cyber–physical spaces: The VISOR experience report	26
A Novel Vulnerability‐Detection Method Based on the Semantic Features of Source Code and the LLVM Intermediate Representation	26
APP constraint analysis approach to select mobile devices for compatibility crowdtesting	24
Mobile crowdsourced test report prioritization based on text and image understanding	24
Revisiting deep neural network test coverage from the test effectiveness perspective	24
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SGDL: Smart contract vulnerability generation via deep learning	21
Context modeling for cyber‐physical systems	21
Software development effort estimation using boosting algorithms and automatic tuning of hyperparameters with Optuna	18
A novel combinatorial testing approach with fuzzing strategy	16
Editorial for the special issue on software refactoring: Application breadth and technical depth	14
An architecture refactoring approach to reducing software hierarchy complexity	14
Automated construction of reference model for software remodularization through software evolution	14
Crowdsourced bug report severity prediction based on text and image understanding via heterogeneous graph convolutional networks	13
BET‐BiLSTM Model: A Robust Solution for Automated Requirements Classification	13
Product and service quality risks: A survey about evolution and application in different business domains to facilitate quality engineering	12
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Designing and testing systems of systems: From variability models to test cases passing through desirability assessment	11
Characterizing and synthesizing the workflow structure of microservices in ByteDance Cloud	11
Software integration model: An assessment tool for global software development vendors	10
A Serious Game Approach to Introduce the Code Review Practice	10

Understanding the quality and evolution of Android app build systems	10
Code smell prioritization in object‐oriented software systems: A systematic literature review	10
Requirement specification extraction and analysis based on propositional projection temporal logic	10
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Evolutionary measures and their correlations with the performance of cross‐version defect prediction for object‐oriented projects	10
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Strategic Intelligence Management (ISO 56006)—Using AI by the Innovation Agent Task Force in the Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA)	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
Generating Quality Assurance Constraints From Natural Language With LLMs	8
POEML: a Process Orchestration, Execution, and Modeling Language	8
Cheating your apps: Black‐box adversarial attacks on deep learning apps	8
A Simple Yet Practical Backdoor Prompt Attack Against Black‐Box Code Summarization Engines	8
Advanced security testing using a cyber‐attack forecasting model: A case study of financial institutions	8
Verification and validation of software process simulation models: A systematic mapping study	8
Software change‐proneness prediction based on deep learning	8
MFLion‐DMN: Mayfly Lion‐optimized deep maxout network for prediction of software development effort	8
Can non‐developers learn a simplified modeling notation quickly?	8
Trustworthy and collaborative traceability management: Experts’ feedback on a blockchain‐enabled framework	7
Challenges and solutions in the development of blockchain applications: Extraction from SLR and empirical study	7
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Functional Size Measurement With Conceptual Models: A Systematic Literature Review	7
Predicting Issue Resolution Time of OSS Using Multiple Features	7
When rationality meets intuition: A research agenda for software design decision‐making	7
Exploratory study of existing research on software requirements prioritization: A systematic literature review	6
Formalizing model transformation patterns	6
Hybrid mutation driven testing for natural language inference	6
Combining object‐oriented metrics and centrality measures to predict faults in object‐oriented software: An empirical validation	6
Leveraging Levy Flight and Greylag Goose Optimization for Enhanced Cross‐Project Defect Prediction in Software Evolution	6
Issue Information	6
Engineering MLOps Pipelines With Data Quality: A Case Study on Tabular Datasets in Kaggle	6
Exploring the Effectiveness of Open‐Source Donation Platform: An Empirical Study on Opencollective	6
Examining the training and education potential of the metaverse: Results from an empirical study of next generation SAFe training	6
The effect of hoisting on variants of Hierarchical Delta Debugging	6
Integrating privacy debt and VSE's software developments	6
Understanding Remote Work Experience: Insights Into Well‐Being	6
Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering	5
The Pandora's box of social, process, and people debts in software engineering	5
Manipulating a CI/CD Pipeline in an IoT Embedded Project: A Quasi‐Experiment	5
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Issue Information	5
CARLDA: An Approach for Stack Overflow API Mention Recognition Driven by Context and LLM‐Based Data Augmentation	5
Neural Networks‐Based Software Development Effort Estimation: A Systematic Literature Review	5
From legacy to microservices: A type‐based approach for microservices identification using machine learning and semantic analysis	5
The dynamic versus the stable team: The unspoken question in large‐scale agile development	5
Issue Information	5
Compliance checking of software processes: A systematic literature review	5
Enhanced evolutionary automated program repair by finer‐granularity ingredients and better search algorithms	5
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Integrating Security Controls in DevSecOps: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Research Directions	5
An ecology‐oriented convergence evolution analysis method of crossover service ecosystems	5
Model‐checking‐driven explorative testing of CRDT designs and implementations	5
Issue Information	4
Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance	4
Investigating the impact of structural holes on the value creation in mobile application service ecosystems: Evidence from computational experiments	4
Promoting social and human factors through a gamified automotive software development environment	4
Success factors analysis for requirement elicitation in global software development paradigm: An empirical study	4
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
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Anti‐bloater class restructuring: An exploratory study	4
A Multi‐Perspective Review on Embedded Systems Quality: State of the Field, Challenges, and Research Directions	4
ECP: Coprocessor Architecture to Protect Program Logic Consistency	4
Explainable AI Framework for Software Defect Prediction	4
The LAGSSE Framework: Integrating Lean, Agile, and Green Principles for Sustainable Software Engineering	4
Context factors perceived important when looking for similar experiences in decision‐making for software components: An interview study	4
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About the special issue on: “Distributed Complex Systems: Governance, Engineering, and Maintenance”	4
Building empirical knowledge on the relationship between code smells and design patterns: An exploratory study	4
Towards practical application of mutation testing in industry — Traditional versus extreme mutation testing	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
Issue Information	3
Performance testing as a service using cloud computing environment: A survey	3
A novel defect prediction method based on semantic feature enhancement	3
Towards AIOps enabled services in continuously evolving software‐intensive embedded systems	3
Software bug localization based on optimized and ensembled deep learning models	3
Mutation‐based data augmentation for software defect prediction	3
Issue Information	3
Are duplicates really harmful? An empirical study on bug report summarization techniques	3
Predictive maintenance of infrastructure code using “fluid” datasets: An exploratory study on Ansible defect proneness	3
The impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the globalization on how automotive assessments will be performed in the future	3
Exploring factors affecting developer abandonment of open source software projects	3
Constructing exception handling chains for testing Java virtual machine implementations	3
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CrossFix: Resolution of GitHub issues via similar bugs recommendation	3
CyberESP: An Integrated Cybersecurity Framework for SMEs	3
How Software Design Affects Energy Performance: A Systematic Literature Review	3
Object Constraint Language based test case optimization with modified Average Percentage of Fault Detection metric	3
Richen: Automated enrichment of Git documentation with usage examples and scenarios	3
On the perception of graph layouts	3
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Contributions to Systems Software and Service Process Improvement and Innovation Based on Recent Advances	3
Towards Explainable Code Readability Classification With Graph Neural Networks	3
RobustNPR: Evaluating the robustness of neural program repair models	3
Code quality improvement using Aquila Optimizer	3
Assessing BizDevOps maturity using international standards: Case studies and lessons learned	3
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Minimizing Inter‐Dependencies in Functional Requirements for Timely Delivery of Software Projects: A Prioritization Approach Using AHP and Spanning Trees	3
CoBRA without experts: New paradigm for software development effort estimation using COCOMO metrics	3
Contributions of enterprise architecture to software engineering: A systematic literature review	3
Software Process Evaluation from User Perceptions and Log Data	3
Exploring the context of use for voice user interfaces: Toward context‐dependent user experience quality testing	3
Issue Information	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
UFR‐OSFA: Unified Feature Representation and Oppositional Structure Feature Alignment for Mixed‐Project Heterogeneous Defect Prediction	3
A Study of Factors That Influence the Software Project Success	3