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Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Volume 36
Volume 36, Number 1, January 2024
SPECIAL ISSUE - EMPIRICAL PAPERS
- Anna Maria Eilertsen
, Gail C. Murphy:
A study of refactorings during software change tasks. - Eman Abdullah AlOmar
, Anthony Peruma
, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
, Christian D. Newman
, Ali Ouni
:
Behind the scenes: On the relationship between developer experience and refactoring.
RESEARCH ARTICLES - METHODOLOGY
- Amjad AbuHassan, Mohammad R. Alshayeb
, Lahouari Ghouti:
Software refactoring side effects.
SPECIAL ISSUE - TECHNOLOGY PAPER
- Yang Zhang
, Chunhao Dong
:
MARS: Detecting brain class/method code smell based on metric-attention mechanism and residual network.
SPECIAL ISSUE - EMPIRICAL PAPER
- Rusen Halepmollasi
, Ayse Tosun:
Exploring the relationship between refactoring and code debt indicators.
RESEARCH ARTICLES - METHODOLOGY
- Ashraf Abdou
, Nagy Ramadan Darwish:
Severity classification of software code smells using machine learning techniques: A comparative study.
Volume 36, Number 2, February 2024
RESEARCH ARTICLES - EMPIRICAL
- Kamaljit Kaur
, Parminder Kaur
:
SABDM: A self-attention based bidirectional-RNN deep model for requirements classification.
RESEARCH ARTICLES - METHODOLOGY
- Yin Hang, Sangeen Khan
, Abdullah Alharbi, Shah Nazir
:
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.
REVIEW ARTICLES
- Habib Ullah Khan
, Farhad Ali, Shah Nazir
:
Systematic analysis of software development in cloud computing perceptions.
RESEARCH ARTICLES - METHODOLOGY
- Yandong Xu, Shah Nazir
:
Ranking the art design and applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
SPECIAL ISSUE - STANDARD PAPER
- Xiaobing Sun
, Lili Li, Lili Bo
, Xiaojun Wu, Ying Wei, Bin Li:
Automatic software vulnerability classification by extracting vulnerability triggers. - Muhammad Ovais Ahmad
, Iftikhar Ahmad
, Fawad Qayum:
Early career software developers and work preferences in software engineering.
REVIEW ARTICLES
- Muhammad Ovais Ahmad
, Tomas Gustavsson
:
The Pandora's box of social, process, and people debts in software engineering.
SPECIAL ISSUE - METHODOLOGY PAPER
- Yaohui Peng
, Jing Xie, Gang Hu, Mengting Yuan:
Transformer-based code search for software Q&A sites.
Volume 36, Number 3, March 2024
EDITORIAL - PERSPECTIVE
- Anne Caroline Melo Santos
, Methanias Colaço Júnior
, Edna de Carvalho Andrade:
Multimedia resources as a support for requirements engineering and software maintenance.
SPECIAL ISSUE - STANDARD PAPER
- Mirna Muñoz
, Mario Negrete Rodríguez
:
A guidance to implement or reinforce a DevOps approach in organizations: A case study.
RESEARCH ARTICLES - EMPIRICAL
- Rafiq Ahmad Khan
, Siffat Ullah Khan
, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Musaad Alzahrani:
Security risks of global software development life cycle: Industry practitioner's perspective.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Lorenz Klampfl
, Florian Klück
, Franz Wotawa
:
Using genetic algorithms for automating automated lane-keeping system testing.
SPECIAL ISSUE - METHODOLOGY PAPER
- Sen Yang
, Zhanwei Hui, Hui li, Changyou Zheng, Yifan Huang:
APP constraint analysis approach to select mobile devices for compatibility crowdtesting.
RESEARCH ARTICLES - STANDARDS
- Kaishun Wu
, Yaqing Shi, Jing Zhu, Yongming Yao, Shiqi Tang:
False negative of defects estimation in crowdsourced testing.
SPECIAL ISSUE - METHODOLOGY PAPER
- Yifan Wu, Yao Tong, An Liu, Lei Zhao, Xiaofang Zhang
:
Mobile crowdsourced test report prioritization based on text and image understanding.
SPECIAL ISSUE - STANDARD PAPER
- Huangzhao Zhang
, Shuai Lu, Zhuo Li, Zhi Jin, Lei Ma, Yang Liu, Ge Li:
CodeBERT-Attack: Adversarial attack against source code deep learning models via pre-trained model.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - METHODOLOGY
- Muhammad Azeem Akbar
, Víctor Leiva
:
A new taxonomy of global software development best practices using prioritization based on a fuzzy system.
Volume 36, Number 4, April 2024
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Arif Ali Khan, Sajjad Mahmood, Kari Smolander:
Successful management of cloud-based global software development projects: A multivocal study.
SPECIAL ISSUE - TECHNOLOGY PAPERS
- Hongchen Cao, Shuai Li, Yuming Zhou, Ming Fan, Xuejiao Zhao, Yutian Tang
:
Cheating your apps: Black-box adversarial attacks on deep learning apps.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Ibtissam Abnane, Ali Idri, Alain Abran:
Optimized fuzzy clustering-based k-nearest neighbors imputation for mixed missing data in software development effort estimation.
RESEARCH ARTICLES
- Luana Almeida Martins, Heitor A. X. Costa
, Ivan Machado
:
On the diffusion of test smells and their relationship with test code quality of Java projects.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Aline Brito
, André C. Hora, Marco Túlio Valente:
Towards a catalog of composite refactorings. - Pankajeshwara Nand Sharma
, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Nigel Stanger
:
How are decisions made in open source software communities? - Uncovering rationale from python email repositories. - Stefano Dalla Palma
, Chiel van Asseldonk, Gemma Catolino, Dario Di Nucci
, Fabio Palomba
, Damian A. Tamburri:
"Through the looking-glass ..." An empirical study on blob infrastructure blueprints in the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications. - Mashal Kasem Alqudah, Rozilawati Razali, Musab Kasim AlQudah, Muawya N. Aldalaien
, Hamzeh Mohammad Alabool, Hamzah Ali Alkhazaleh:
A grounded theory of selecting lean and agile practices for software development. - Muhammad Ilyas, Siffat Ullah Khan
, Habib Ullah Khan
, Nasir Rashid:
Software integration model: An assessment tool for global software development vendors. - Xin Fan, Qi Chen
, Li Yu, Fangqi Liu, Jiahao Zhu, Wei Zheng:
Spectrum-based fault localization using empirical mode decomposition algorithm. - Reem Alfayez
, Robert Winn, Yunyan Ding, Ghaida Alfayez, Barry W. Boehm:
Technical debt (TD) through the lens of Twitter: A survey. - Alexandre Ouellet
, Mourad Badri:
Combining object-oriented metrics and centrality measures to predict faults in object-oriented software: An empirical validation.
SPECIAL ISSUE - EMPIRICAL PAPERS
- Mohammad Azzeh
, Yousef Alqasrawi, Yousef Elsheikh:
A soft computing approach for software defect density prediction.
SPECIAL ISSUE - TECHNOLOGY PAPERS
- Yuqi Zhang
, Yu Huang, Hengfeng Wei, Xiaoxing Ma:
Model-checking-driven explorative testing of CRDT designs and implementations.
RESEARCH ARTICLES - TECHNOLOGY
- Haoyu Wang
, Zan Wang, Shuang Liu, Jun Sun, Yingquan Zhao
, Yan Wan, Tai D. Nguyen:
sFuzz2.0: Storage-access pattern guided smart contract fuzzing.
SPECIAL ISSUE - METHODOLOGY PAPER
- Amany Mohamed
, Marwa Salah Farhan
, Mai Eldefrawi:
Code quality improvement using Aquila Optimizer.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Ming Yan
, Junjie Chen, Xuejie Cao, Zhuo Wu, Yuning Kang, Zan Wang:
Revisiting deep neural network test coverage from the test effectiveness perspective.
SPECIAL ISSUE - TECHNOLOGY PAPERS
- Xiaobing Wang, Chunyi Li
, Liang Zhao
:
Requirement specification extraction and analysis based on propositional projection temporal logic.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICALS
- Dimitrios Tsoukalas
, Miltiadis G. Siavvas
, Dionisis D. Kehagias, Apostolos Ampatzoglou
, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou
:
A practical approach for technical debt prioritization based on class-level forecasting.
SPECIAL ISSUES - METHODOLOGY PAPER
- Shin Hwei Tan
, Ziqiang Li, Lu Yan:
CrossFix: Resolution of GitHub issues via similar bugs recommendation.
SPECIAL ISSUE - TECHNOLOGY PAPERS
- Ying Fu
, Meng Ren
, Fuchen Ma
, Xin Yang, Heyuan Shi
, Shanshan Li
, Xiangke Liao
:
EVMFuzz: Differential fuzz testing of Ethereum virtual machine. - Zhouxian Jiang
, Honghui Li
, Rui Wang
:
Efficient generation of valid test inputs for deep neural networks via gradient search. - Ying Yin
, Yucen Shi, Yuhai Zhao, Fazal Wahab
:
Multi-graph learning-based software defect location.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICALS
- Jinfu Chen
, Yuechao Gu
, Saihua Cai
, Haibo Chen, Jingyi Chen
:
A novel test case prioritization approach for black-box testing based on K-medoids clustering.
RESEARCH ARTICLES - TECHNOLOGY
- Yuanqing Mei
, Xutong Liu
, Zeyu Lu, Yibiao Yang, Huihui Liu, Yuming Zhou
:
Cross-version defect prediction using threshold-based active learning.
RESEARCH ARTICLES - STANDARDS
- Ebru Gökalp, Bora Çaliskanbas, Altan Koçyigit:
A reference model for software product line capability assessment.
RESEARCH ARTICLES - TECHNOLOGY
- Maria Raffaella Martina
, Elisabetta Bianchini
, Sara Sinceri, Martina Francesconi, Vincenzo Gemignani:
Software medical device maintenance: DevOps based approach for problem and modification management.
SPECIAL ISSUE - TECHNOLOGY PAPERS
- Bochuan Chen, Xiao Guo
, Yuting Chen
, Xiaofeng Yu
, Lei Bu
:
Constructing exception handling chains for testing Java virtual machine implementations. - Zhenbang Chen
, Guofeng Zhang, Zehua Chen, Ziqi Shuai
, Weiyu Pan, Yufeng Zhang, Ji Wang:
Adaptive solving strategy synthesis for symbolic execution.
PERSPECTIVE PAPERS
- José Antonio Martínez-López
, Félix García
, Francisco Ruiz
, Aurora Vizcaíno
:
Contributions of enterprise architecture to software engineering: A systematic literature review.
SPECIAL ISSUE - STANDARD PAPERS
- Yongxin Zhao
, Wenhan Wu, Yuan Fei, Zhihao Liu
, Yang Li, Yilong Yang, Ling Shi, Bo Zhang:
An architecture refactoring approach to reducing software hierarchy complexity.
SPECIAL ISSUE - EMPIRICAL PAPERS
- Hongliang Ge, Wenkang Zhong
, Chuanyi Li
, Jidong Ge
, Hao Hu, Bin Luo:
RobustNPR: Evaluating the robustness of neural program repair models.
Volume 36, Number 5, May 2024
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Akshay Jadhav
, Shishir Kumar Shandilya:
Towards effective feature selection in estimating software effort using machine learning. - Mansi Agnihotri
, Anuradha Chug:
Severity Factor (SF): An aid to developers for application of refactoring operations to improve software quality. - Anas Dakkak
, Jan Bosch, Helena Holmström Olsson
:
Towards AIOps enabled services in continuously evolving software-intensive embedded systems.
SPECIAL ISSUE - TECHNOLOGY PAPER
- Mahshid Helali Moghadam, Markus Borg, Mehrdad Saadatmand, Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad
, Markus Bohlin, Björn Lisper:
Machine learning testing in an ADAS case study using simulation-integrated bio-inspired search-based testing.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Affan Yasin
, Rubia Fatima
, Javed Ali Khan
, Lin Liu, Raian Ali
, Jianmin Wang
:
Counteracting sociocultural barriers in global software engineering using group activities. - Gulzar Alam
, Sajjad Mahmood
, Mohammad R. Alshayeb
, Mahmood Niazi
, Saad Zafar:
Maturity model for secure software testing. - Rafiq Ahmad Khan
, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Saima Rafi, Alaa Omran Almagrabi, Musaad Alzahrani:
Evaluation of requirement engineering best practices for secure software development in GSD: An ISM analysis. - Lukas Daubner
, Barbora Buhnova
, Tomás Pitner
:
Forensic experts' view of forensic-ready software systems: A qualitative study.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - TECHNOLOGY
- Iman Hemati Moghadam
, Mel Ó Cinnéide, Ali Sardarian, Faezeh Zarepour:
Model-based source code refactoring with interaction and visual cues.
SPECIAL ISSUE - TECHNOLOGY PAPER
- Ningning Chen
, Huibiao Zhu:
A process calculus SMrCaIT for IoT.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - METHODOLOGY
- Apostolos Kritikos
, Ioannis Stamelos
:
A resilience-based framework for assessing the evolution of open source software projects.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Lisa Grabinger
, Florian Hauser
, Jürgen Mottok
:
On the perception of graph layouts.
REVIEW ARTICLES
- Julio Suárez
, Aurora Vizcaíno
:
Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering. - Necmettin Ozkan, Tugba Gurgen Erdogan, Sevval Bal, Mehmet Sahin Gök
:
A bibliometric analysis of Agile software development publications originating from Turkey.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Walter Lucas
, Fausto Carvalho
, Rafael Campos Nunes
, Rodrigo Bonifácio
, João Saraiva
, Paola R. G. Accioly
:
Embracing modern C++ features: An empirical assessment on the KDE community.
SPECIAL ISSUE - EMPIRICAL PAPER
- Pei Liu
, Li Li
, Kui Liu
, Shane McIntosh, John C. Grundy:
Understanding the quality and evolution of Android app build systems.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - STANDARD
- Davide Di Ruscio
, Ludovico Iovino
, Alfonso Pierantonio:
AMINO: A quality assessment framework for modeling ecosystems.
SPECIAL ISSUE - EMPIRICAL PAPER
- Maurizio Leotta
, Filippo Ricca
, Alessandro Marchetto
, Dario Olianas:
An empirical study to compare three web test automation approaches: NLP-based, programmable, and capture&replay.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Muhammad Yaseen:
Empirical exploration of critical challenges of requirements implementation in global software development.
SPECIAL ISSUE - EMPIRICAL PAPERS
- Maleknaz Nayebi
, Bram Adams
:
Image-based communication on social coding platforms. - Binnur Görer
, Fatma Basak Aydemir
:
RoboREIT: An interactive robotic tutor with instructive feedback component for requirements elicitation interview training.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - METHODOLOGY
- Ho Le Thi Kim Nhung
, Vo Van Hai
, Petr Silhavy, Zdenka Prokopova, Radek Silhavy
:
Incorporating statistical and machine learning techniques into the optimization of correction factors for software development effort estimation. - Cheah Wai Shiang
, Michelle Ten LiBin, Eaqerzilla Phang, Nurfauza binti Jali, Muhammad Asyraf bin Khairuddin:
eAOM: Extended agent-oriented modeling as an alternative methodology for blockchain enabling application development.
SPECIAL ISSUE - EMPIRICAL PAPER
- Ersin Ersoy
, Engin Çalli, Batuhan Erdogan, Selami Bagriyanik
, Hasan Sözer
:
A longitudinal case study on Nexus transformation: Impact on productivity, quality, and motivation.
Volume 36, Number 6, June 2024
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Muhammad Yaseen:
Exploratory study of existing research on software requirements prioritization: A systematic literature review.
REVIEW ARTICLE
- Per Lenberg, Robert Feldt, Lucas Gren
, Lars Göran Wallgren Tengberg, Inga Tidefors, Daniel Graziotin
:
Qualitative software engineering research: Reflections and guidelines.
SPECIAL ISSUE - EMPIRICAL PAPER
- Lu Zhang
, Shizhan Chen
, Xiao Xue, Hongyue Wu, Zhiyong Feng:
Investigating the impact of structural holes on the value creation in mobile application service ecosystems: Evidence from computational experiments.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Zijie Huang
, Zhiqing Shao, Guisheng Fan, Huiqun Yu, Kang Yang
, Ziyi Zhou:
Bug report priority prediction using social and technical features.
SPECIAL ISSUE - TECHNOLOGY PAPER
- Yaroslav Alekseev, Mikhail Onischuck
, Arseniy Zorin
, Vitaliy Chernyi
, Evgeniy Iliyn, Vladimir M. Itsykson
:
ATSM: A coverage-based framework and a tool for test suite minimization.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Affan Yasin
, Rubia Fatima
, Jiangbin Zheng, Javed Ali Khan
, Arif Ali Khan
:
Gamifying requirements: An empirical analysis of game-based technique for novices.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - METHODOLOGY
- Changan Niu
, Chuanyi Li
, Vincent Ng, Jidong Ge
, Liguo Huang, Bin Luo:
PassSum: Leveraging paths of abstract syntax trees and self-supervision for code summarization. - Yue Yan
, Shujuan Jiang, Yanmei Zhang
, Cheng Zhang
:
Improving fault localization via weighted execution graph and graph attention network.
SPECIAL ISSUE - TECHNOLOGY PAPER
- Bo Wang
, Guizhuang Liu, Youfang Lin, Shuang Ren, Honghui Li, Dalin Zhang:
Enhanced evolutionary automated program repair by finer-granularity ingredients and better search algorithms.
SPECIAL ISSUE - EMPIRICAL PAPERS
- Higor Amario de Souza
, Marcelo de Souza Lauretto
, Fabio Kon
, Marcos Lordello Chaim
:
Understanding the use of spectrum-based fault localization. - Jianmao Xiao, Zhipeng Xu
, Donghua Zhang, Shiping Chen
, Chenyu Liu, Zhiyong Feng, Guodong Fan, Chuying Ouyang
:
Modeling and exploring the evolution of the mobile software ecosystem: How far are we?
SPECIAL ISSUE - METHODOLOGY PAPER
- Qiao Yu
, Yi Zhu, Hui Han, Yu Zhao, Shujuan Jiang, Junyan Qian:
Evolutionary measures and their correlations with the performance of cross-version defect prediction for object-oriented projects.
REVIEW ARTICLE
- Yue Li
, He Zhang, Bohan Liu
, Liming Dong, Haojie Gong, Guoping Rong:
Verification and validation of software process simulation models: A systematic mapping study.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Muhammad Yaseen:
Requirement elicitation model for global software development vendors.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - METHODOLOGY
- Rui Mao
, Li Zhang, Xiaofang Zhang
:
Mutation-based data augmentation for software defect prediction. - Robert Deckers
, Patricia Lago
:
Specifying features in terms of domain models: MuDForM method definition and case study.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - STANDARDS
- Waqas Haider, Muhammad Ilyas
, Shah Khalid, Sikandar Ali
:
Factors influencing sustainability aspects in crowdsourced software development: A systematic literature review.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - TECHNOLOGY
- Shuo Li
, Cheng Chen, Zheng Huang, Zhijun Ding:
Change-aware model checking for evolving concurrent programs based on Program Dependence Net.
RESEARCH ARTICLE - EMPIRICAL
- Ankur Kumar, Mohammad Nadeem, Mohammad Shameem:
Multicriteria decision-making-based framework for implementing DevOps practices: A fuzzy best-worst approach.
Volume 36, Number 7, July 2024
Research Articles - Technology
- Tianyuan Hu
, Jingyue Li, Xiangfei Xu, Bixin Li:
SoliTester: Detecting exploitable external-risky vulnerability in smart contracts using contract account triggering method.
Special Issue - Standard Paper
- Andreas M. Klein
, Jana Deutschländer
, Kristina Kölln
, Maria Rauschenberger
, María José Escalona
:
Exploring the context of use for voice user interfaces: Toward context-dependent user experience quality testing.
Research Articles - Standards
- Mohammadreza Namdar, Rassoul Noorossana
:
A robust optimization model for software development costs considering time value of money.
Review Articles
- Zadia Codabux, Kazi Zakia Sultana
, Md. Naseef-Ur-Rahman Chowdhury:
A catalog of metrics at source code level for vulnerability prediction: A systematic mapping study.
Research Article - Empiricals
- Derek Reimanis
, Clemente Izurieta:
A study of behavioral decay in design patterns.
Research Articles - Methodology
- Anna Vacca
, Michele Fredella, Andrea Di Sorbo
, Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Mario Piattini:
Functional suitability assessment of smart contracts: A survey and first proposal. - Fedia Ghedass
, Faouzi Ben Charrada:
On the use of big data frameworks in big service management.
Research Articles - Empirical
- Jaswinder Singh
, Anu Gupta, Preet Kanwal:
The vital role of community in open source software development: A framework for assessment and ranking.
Special Issue - Empirical Papers
- Sergio Di Martino
, Anna Rita Fasolino
, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace
, Porfirio Tramontana
:
GUI testing of Android applications: Investigating the impact of the number of testers on different exploratory testing strategies.
Research Article - Empiricals
- Junxiao Han
, Jiakun Liu, David Lo
, Chen Zhi, Yishan Chen, Shuiguang Deng:
On the sustainability of deep learning projects: Maintainers' perspective.
Research Article - Methodologys
- Yu Qiao
, Jian Wang, Zhengli Liu, Wei Tang, Xiangfei Lu, Bing Li:
An ecology-oriented convergence evolution analysis method of crossover service ecosystems.
Review Articles
- Hüseyin Ünlü
, Onur Demirörs, Vahid Garousi
:
Readiness and maturity models for Industry 4.0: A systematic literature review.
Research Articles - Technology
- Zhen Yang
, Song Huang
, Changyou Zheng
, Xingya Wang
, Yang Wang
, Chunyan Xia:
MetaLiDAR: Automated metamorphic testing of LiDAR-based autonomous driving systems.
Research Article - Technologys
- Hao Ren, Yanhui Li
, Lin Chen, Yulu Cao
, Xiaowei Zhang, Changhai Nie:
Just-in-time identification for cross-project correlated issues.
Research Article - Empiricals
- Mohammad Shameem, Chiranjeev Kumar, Bibhas Chandra, Arif Ali Khan, Md. Nadeem Ahmed, J. M. Verner, Mohammad Nadeem, Muhammad Azeem Akbar:
The impact of personality traits and cultural values on coordination effectiveness: A study of software development teams effectiveness.
Research Articles - Technology
- Edna Dias Canedo
, Emille Catarine Rodrigues Cançado
, Alana Paula Barbosa Mota
, Ian Nery Bandeira
, Pedro Henrique Teixeira Costa
, Fernanda Lima
, Luis Henrique Vieira Amaral
, Rodrigo Bonifácio
:
Using Design Thinking to break social barriers: An experience report with former inmates.
Research Articles - Standards
- Xiangping Zhang
, Jianxun Liu, Min Shi:
GRRLN: Gated Recurrent Residual Learning Networks for code clone detection.
Volume 36, Number 8, August 2024
Perspective
- Xinjie Wei, Jie Wang, Chang-Ai Sun
, Dave Towey
, Shoufeng Zhang, Wanqing Zuo, Yiming Yu, Ruoyi Ruan, Guyang Song:
Log-based anomaly detection for distributed systems: State of the art, industry experience, and open issues.
Special Issue - Empirical Paper
- Sristy Sumana Nath
, Banani Roy:
Practitioners' expectations on automated release note generation techniques.
Research Article - Standards
- Maria Nabi, Muhammad Ilyas
, Jamil Ahmad:
Challenges and solutions in the development of blockchain applications: Extraction from SLR and empirical study.
Special Issue - Empirical Paper
- Roxane Koitz-Hristov
, Thomas Sterner, Lukas Stracke, Franz Wotawa
:
On the suitability of checked coverage and genetic parameter tuning in test suite reduction.
Research Article - Methodology
- Saad Shafiq, Christoph Mayr-Dorn, Atif Mashkoor, Alexander Egyed:
Balanced knowledge distribution among software development teams - Observations from open- and closed-source software development.
Special Issue - Methodology Paper
- Luca Negrini
, Vincenzo Arceri
, Agostino Cortesi
, Pietro Ferrara:
Tarsis: An effective automata-based abstract domain for string analysis.
Special Issue - Technology Paper
- Francesco Altiero
, Anna Corazza
, Sergio Di Martino
, Adriano Peron
, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace
:
Regression test prioritization leveraging source code similarity with tree kernels.
Research Article - Empirical
- Megha Khanna, Ankita Bansal:
An assessment of heterogenous ensemble classifiers for analyzing change-proneness in open-source software systems.
Research Article - Standards
- Eduardo Sanjurjo, Oscar Pedreira
, Félix García, Mario Piattini:
Assessing BizDevOps maturity using international standards: Case studies and lessons learned. - Waqas Ali, Lili Bo
, Xiaobing Sun, Xiaoxue Wu, Aakash Ali, Ying Wei:
Software bug localization based on optimized and ensembled deep learning models.
Research Article - Technology
- Swapna R.
, Niranjan Polala:
MFLion-DMN: Mayfly Lion-optimized deep maxout network for prediction of software development effort. - Jie Cai
, Qian Cai, Bin Li, Jiale Zhang, Xiaobing Sun:
Application programming interface recommendation for smart contract using deep learning from augmented code representation.
Editorial
- Guglielmo De Angelis
, Hyunsook Do, Bao N. Nguyen:
Introduction to the special issue: "Software Quality for Modern Systems".
Special Issue - Technology Paper
- Yang Zhang
, Shuai Hong:
ReInstancer: An automatic refactoring approach for Instanceof pattern matching.
Research Article - Methodology
- Chaochao Shen, Wenhua Yang
, Haitao Jia, Minxue Pan, Yu Zhou:
Richen: Automated enrichment of Git documentation with usage examples and scenarios.
Volume 36, Number 9, September 2024
Research Articles - Empirical
- Maha Alharbi
, Mohammad R. Alshayeb
:
An empirical investigation of the relationship between pattern grime and code smells.
Research Article - Empirical
- Carianne Pretorius, Maryam Razavian
, Katrin Eling, Fred Langerak
:
When rationality meets intuition: A research agenda for software design decision-making.
Research Articles - Empirical
- Mohamed El-Attar:
On the accessibility of the grayscale version of a PoN-enabled use case notation.
Research Articles - Methodology
- Alexander Poth
:
Product and service quality risks: A survey about evolution and application in different business domains to facilitate quality engineering.
Research Article - Empirical
- Efi Papatheocharous, Claes Wohlin, Deepika Badampudi, Jan Carlson, Krzysztof Wnuk:
Context factors perceived important when looking for similar experiences in decision-making for software components: An interview study. - Pedro Delgado-Pérez
, Ignacio Meléndez-Lapi, Juan Boubeta-Puig
:
Gas-centered mutation testing of Ethereum Smart Contracts.
Research Articles - Empirical
- Maryam Hassanali
, Mohammadreza Soltanaghaei
, Taghi Javdani Gandomani
, Farsad Zamani Boroujeni
:
Software development effort estimation using boosting algorithms and automatic tuning of hyperparameters with Optuna.
Research Articles - Technology
- Jie Dai
, Qingshan Li, Shenglong Xie, Daizhen Li, Hua Chu:
PCG: A joint framework of graph collaborative filtering for bug triaging.
Special Issue - Technology Paper
- Huangzhao Zhang
, Zhuo Li
, Jia Li, Zhi Jin, Ge Li:
WELL: Applying bug detectors to bug localization via weakly supervised learning. - Chi Zhang
, Xiaoli Wang, Jinfu Chen
, Saihua Cai
, Rexford Nii Ayitey Sosu:
A novel defect prediction method based on semantic feature enhancement.
Special Issue - Methodology Paper
- Alexander Poth
, Pegah Momen:
Sustainable software engineering - A contribution puzzle of different teams in large IT organizations.
Research Article - Standards
- Mazni Omar, Abdul Rehman Gilal, Mazida Ahmad, Huda Ibrahim, Azman Yasin, Hapini Awang, Abdullah Almogahed:
Enhancing agile project success: a comprehensive study of risk management approaches among Malaysian practitioners.
Editorial
- Xiwei Xu, Jens Heidrich
:
Special issues on emerging technologies and their importance for software and systems processes.
Volume 36, Number 10, October 2024
Special Issue - Methodology Paper
- Yong Liu
, Zezhong Yang, Luxi Fan, Yonghao Wu, Xiang Chen
, Xiaotang Zhou:
Multi-objective optimization-based and fault localization-oriented test case generation for novice programs.
Research Article - Methodology
- Besma Ben Amara
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An approach for serious game design and development based on iterative evaluation.
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- Yufei Zhou, Xutong Liu
, Zhaoqiang Guo
, Yuming Zhou
, Corey Zhang, Junyan Qian
:
Deep learning or classical machine learning? An empirical study on line-level software defect prediction.
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- Fang Hou
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:
A survey of the state-of-the-art approaches for evaluating trust in software ecosystems. - Everton Cavalcante
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Looking back and forward: A retrospective and future directions on software engineering for systems-of-systems.
Special Issue - Technology Paper
- Xin Zhou
, Jinwei Xu, Xiaokang Li, Lingli Cao, Lingjie Li, Yanze Wang, Shanshan Li, Hui Liu:
A blockchain-based and microservices-architected software composition analysis system.
Research Article - Methodology
- Karam Ignaim
, João M. Fernandes
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Improving an emergency repair process with feature models.
Research Article - Technology
- Linghan Meng, Yanhui Li
, Lin Chen, Mingliang Ma, Yuming Zhou
, Baowen Xu:
Hybrid mutation driven testing for natural language inference.
Research Article - Empirical
- Geanderson E. dos Santos
, Igor Muzetti, Eduardo Figueiredo:
Two sides of the same coin: A study on developers' perception of defects. - Merve Özdes Demir
, Oumout Chouseinoglou
, Ayça Kolukisa Tarhan
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Factors affecting architectural decision-making process and challenges in software projects: An industrial survey.
Research Article - Methodology
- Fanyi Meng
, Hai Yu
, Chun Yong Chong
, Ying Wang, Zhiliang Zhu:
Automated construction of reference model for software remodularization through software evolution.
Research Article - Empirical
- Dániel Vince
, Ákos Kiss:
Evaluation of the fixed-point iteration of minimizing delta debugging.
Special Issue - Technology Paper
- Xiaodong Liu, Zhikun Chen
, Yu Qian, Chenxing Zhong, Huang Huang
, Shanshan Li, Dong Shao:
Towards a security-optimized approach for the microservice-oriented decomposition.
Volume 36, Number 11, November 2024
Research Article - Methodology
- Yifan Wu, Chendong Lin, An Liu, Lei Zhao, Xiaofang Zhang
:
Crowdsourced bug report severity prediction based on text and image understanding via heterogeneous graph convolutional networks.
Review Article
- Mohammed Almashhadani, Alok Mishra
, Ali Yazici
:
Software maintenance practices using agile methods towards cloud environment: A systematic mapping.
Special Issue - Empirical Paper
- Selina Demi, Mary Sánchez-Gordón
, Monica Kristiansen, Xabier Larrucea:
Trustworthy and collaborative traceability management: Experts' feedback on a blockchain-enabled framework.
Research Article - Empirical
- Chaymae Miloudi
, Laila Cheikhi
, Ali Idri
, Alain Abran
:
On the value of instance selection for bug resolution prediction performance.
Special Issue - Empirical Paper
- Gloria Piedad Gasca Hurtado, Mirna Muñoz
, Samer Sameh:
Promoting social and human factors through a gamified automotive software development environment.
Research Article - Methodology
- Kunxiang Jin
, Kevin Lano:
Object Constraint Language based test case optimization with modified Average Percentage of Fault Detection metric. - Maxime Bédard, Abderrahmane Leshob
, Imen Benzarti, Hafedh Mili, Raqeebir Rab, Omar Hussain:
A rule-based method to effectively adopt robotic process automation.
Research Article - Technology
- Chia-Yi Su
, Collin McMillan:
Semantic similarity loss for neural source code summarization.
Research Article - Empirical
- Bohan Liu
, He Zhang, Liming Dong, Zhiqi Wang, Shanshan Li:
Metrics for software process simulation modeling.
Volume 36, Number 12, December 2024
Perspective
- Vitor Queiroz de Campos, José Maria N. David, Victor Ströele
, Regina Braga
:
Aligning technical knowledge to an industry domain in global software development: A systematic mapping.
Research Article - Methodology
- Hanting Chu
, Pengcheng Zhang, Hai Dong, Yan Xiao, Shunhui Ji
:
SGDL: Smart contract vulnerability generation via deep learning.
Perspective
- Felix Lange
, Immanuel Kunz
:
Evolution of secure development lifecycles and maturity models in the context of hosted solutions.
Research Article - Methodology
- Fernando Pinciroli
:
Selection of agile project management approaches based on project complexity.
Research Article - Empirical
- Xutong Liu
, Yufei Zhou, Zeyu Lu, Yuanqing Mei
, Yibiao Yang, Junyan Qian, Yuming Zhou
:
Unveiling the impact of unchanged modules across versions on the evaluation of within-project defect prediction models.
Special Issue - Empirical Paper
- Jianwei Shi
, Jonas Mönnich
, Jil Klünder
, Kurt Schneider
:
Organizing Graphical User Interface tests from behavior-driven development as videos to obtain stakeholders' feedback.
Research Article - Empirical
- Abdul Wahid Khan
, Shah Zaib, Meshari D. Alanazi, Shabana Habib:
Identification and prioritization of the challenges faced by vendor organizations in the shape of cyber security: A FUZZY-AHP -based systematic approach.
Research Article - Technology
- Shunhui Ji
, Jiahao Gong, Hai Dong, Pengcheng Zhang, Shaoqing Zhu:
IABC-TCG: Improved artificial bee colony algorithm-based test case generation for smart contracts.
Special Issue - Standard Paper
- Jasmin Fluri, Fabrizio Fornari, Ela Pustulka:
On the importance of CI/CD practices for database applications.

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