Software Engineering Journal Papers from the 1990s

This webpage is an attempt to assemble a ranking of top-cited software engineering journal papers from the 1990s. The ranking has been created based on citations of papers published at top software engineering venues. More details are available here.

Top journal papers of the 1990s normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Gerard J. Holzmann:
    The Model Checker SPIN.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    4462 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2216% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Shyam R. Chidamber and Chris F. Kemerer:
    A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    2519 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1780% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Victor R. Basili, Lionel C. Briand, and Walcélio L. Melo:
    A Validation of Object-Oriented Design Metrics as Quality Indicators.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    1939 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1131% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Bogdan Korel:
    Automated Software Test Data Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    1083 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1101% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Carolyn B. Seaman:
    Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    1713 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1042% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Jeff Kramer and Jeff Magee:
    The Evolving Philosophers Problem: Dynamic Change Management.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    919 cites at Semantic Scholar
    920% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Emden R. Gansner, Eleftherios Koutsofios, Stephen C. North, and Kiem-Phong Vo:
    A Technique for Drawing Directed Graphs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    802 cites at Semantic Scholar
    860% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Bernard Berthomieu and Michel Diaz:
    Modeling and Verification of Time Dependent Systems Using Time Petri Nets.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    1173 cites at Semantic Scholar
    854% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    John Mylopoulos, Lawrence Chung, and Brian A. Nixon:
    Representing and Using Nonfunctional Requirements: A Process-Oriented Approach.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    1182 cites at Semantic Scholar
    792% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Norman C. Hutchinson and Larry L. Peterson:
    The X-Kernel: An Architecture for Implementing Network Protocols.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    978 cites at Semantic Scholar
    695% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Norman E. Fenton and Martin Neil:
    A Critique of Software Defect Prediction Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    1188 cites at Semantic Scholar
    692% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Alfonso Fuggetta, Gian Pietro Picco, and Giovanni Vigna:
    Understanding Code Mobility.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    1304 cites at Semantic Scholar
    688% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Yair Wand and Ron Weber:
    An Ontological Model of an Information System.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    709 cites at Semantic Scholar
    687% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Richard A. DeMillo and A. Jefferson Offutt:
    Constraint-Based Automatic Test Data Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    902 cites at Semantic Scholar
    633% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Jean Arlat, Martine Aguera, Louis Amat, Yves Crouzet, Jean-Charles Fabre, Jean-Claude Laprie, Eliane Martins, and David Powell:
    Fault Injection for Dependability Validation: A Methodology and Some Applications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    644 cites at Semantic Scholar
    614% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Ram Chillarege, Inderpal S. Bhandari, Jarir K. Chaar, Michael J. Halliday, Diane S. Moebus, Bonnie K. Ray, and Man-Yuen Wong:
    Orthogonal Defect Classification - A Concept for In-Process Measurements.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    882 cites at Semantic Scholar
    566% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Lionel C. Briand, John W. Daly, and Jürgen Wüst:
    A Unified Framework for Coupling Measurement in Object-Oriented Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    985 cites at Semantic Scholar
    557% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Mary Shaw, Robert DeLine, Daniel V. Klein, Theodore L. Ross, David M. Young, and Gregory Zelesnik:
    Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    1023 cites at Semantic Scholar
    534% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Keith Brian Gallagher and James R. Lyle:
    Using Program Slicing in Software Maintenance.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    765 cites at Semantic Scholar
    522% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Victor R. Basili, Forrest Shull, and Filippo Lanubile:
    Building Knowledge Through Families of Experiments.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    878 cites at Semantic Scholar
    485% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Most frequent authors in the 1990s top 100 ⌄

  1. 1
    Victor R. Basili
    5 papers in this ranking
  2. 2
    Chris F. Kemerer
    4 papers in this ranking
  3. 3
    Lionel C. Briand
    4 papers in this ranking
  4. 4
    David C. Luckham
    3 papers in this ranking
  5. 5
    Elaine J. Weyuker
    3 papers in this ranking
  6. 6
    James Vera
    3 papers in this ranking
  7. 7
    Jeff Kramer
    3 papers in this ranking
  8. 8
    Norman E. Fenton
    3 papers in this ranking
  9. 9
    Alfonso Fuggetta
    2 papers in this ranking
  10. 10
    Anthony Finkelstein
    2 papers in this ranking
  11. 11
    Bashar Nuseibeh
    2 papers in this ranking
  12. 12
    Carlo Ghezzi
    2 papers in this ranking
  13. 13
    David Lorge Parnas
    2 papers in this ranking
  14. 14
    Doug Bryan
    2 papers in this ranking
  15. 15
    Gregor von Bochmann
    2 papers in this ranking
  16. 16
    Jeffrey M. Voas
    2 papers in this ranking
  17. 17
    Jia Xu
    2 papers in this ranking
  18. 18
    John J. Kenney
    2 papers in this ranking
  19. 19
    Larry J. Morell
    2 papers in this ranking
  20. 20
    Larry M. Augustin
    2 papers in this ranking

Top journal papers from 1999 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Carolyn B. Seaman:
    Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    1713 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1042% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Norman E. Fenton and Martin Neil:
    A Critique of Software Defect Prediction Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    1188 cites at Semantic Scholar
    692% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Lionel C. Briand, John W. Daly, and Jürgen Wüst:
    A Unified Framework for Coupling Measurement in Object-Oriented Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    985 cites at Semantic Scholar
    557% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Victor R. Basili, Forrest Shull, and Filippo Lanubile:
    Building Knowledge Through Families of Experiments.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    878 cites at Semantic Scholar
    485% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Emil Lupu and Morris Sloman:
    Conflicts in Policy-Based Distributed Systems Management.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    691 cites at Semantic Scholar
    361% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Rodolphe Ortalo, Yves Deswarte, and Mohamed Kaâniche:
    Experimenting with Quantitative Evaluation Tools for Monitoring Operational Security.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    425 cites at Semantic Scholar
    183% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Sunita Chulani, Barry W. Boehm, and Bert Steece:
    Bayesian Analysis of Empirical Software Engineering Cost Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    340 cites at Semantic Scholar
    127% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Chris F. Kemerer and Sandra Slaughter:
    An Empirical Approach to Studying Software Evolution.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    330 cites at OpenAlex
    120% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Lionel C. Briand, Sandro Morasca, and Victor R. Basili:
    Defining and Validating Measures for Object-Based High-Level Design.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    231 cites at Semantic Scholar
    54% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Ingunn Myrtveit and Erik Stensrud:
    A Controlled Experiment to Assess the Benefits of Estimating with Analogy and Regression Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    204 cites at Semantic Scholar
    36% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Walter J. Gutjahr:
    Partition Testing vs. Random Testing: The Influence of Uncertainty.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    151 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Mayuram S. Krishnan and Marc I. Kellner:
    Measuring Process Consistency: Implications for Reducing Software Defects.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    146 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -3% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Michael Siff and Thomas W. Reps:
    Identifying Modules via Concept Analysis.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    127 cites at OpenAlex
    -15% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Ritu Agarwal, Prabuddha De, and Atish P. Sinha:
    Comprehending Object and Process Models: An Empirical Study.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    126 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -16% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    John M. Rushby:
    Systematic Formal Verification for Fault-Tolerant Time-Triggered Algorithms.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    124 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -17% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    William N. Robinson and Suzanne D. Pawlowski:
    Managing Requirements Inconsistency with Development Goal Monitors.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    104 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -31% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Wolfgang Emmerich, Anthony Finkelstein, Carlo Montangero, Stefano Antonelli, Stephen Armitage, and Richard Stevens:
    Managing Standards Compliance.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    98 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -35% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Scott Thibault, Renaud Marlet, and Charles Consel:
    Domain-Specific Languages: From Design to Implementation Application to Video Device Drivers Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    96 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -36% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    David L. Atkins, Thomas Ball, Glenn Bruns, and Kenneth C. Cox:
    Mawl: A Domain-Specific Language for Form-Based Services.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    87 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -42% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Gianfranco Ciardo, David M. Nicol, and Kishor S. Trivedi:
    Discrete-Event Simulation of Fluid Stochastic Petri Nets.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    78 cites at OpenAlex
    -48% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Carolyn B. Seaman:
    Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    1713 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1042% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Norman E. Fenton and Martin Neil:
    A Critique of Software Defect Prediction Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    1188 cites at Semantic Scholar
    692% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Lionel C. Briand, John W. Daly, and Jürgen Wüst:
    A Unified Framework for Coupling Measurement in Object-Oriented Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    985 cites at Semantic Scholar
    557% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Victor R. Basili, Forrest Shull, and Filippo Lanubile:
    Building Knowledge Through Families of Experiments.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    878 cites at Semantic Scholar
    485% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Emil Lupu and Morris Sloman:
    Conflicts in Policy-Based Distributed Systems Management.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    691 cites at Semantic Scholar
    361% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Rodolphe Ortalo, Yves Deswarte, and Mohamed Kaâniche:
    Experimenting with Quantitative Evaluation Tools for Monitoring Operational Security.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    425 cites at Semantic Scholar
    183% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Sunita Chulani, Barry W. Boehm, and Bert Steece:
    Bayesian Analysis of Empirical Software Engineering Cost Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    340 cites at Semantic Scholar
    127% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Chris F. Kemerer and Sandra Slaughter:
    An Empirical Approach to Studying Software Evolution.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    330 cites at OpenAlex
    120% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Lionel C. Briand, Sandro Morasca, and Victor R. Basili:
    Defining and Validating Measures for Object-Based High-Level Design.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    231 cites at Semantic Scholar
    54% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Ingunn Myrtveit and Erik Stensrud:
    A Controlled Experiment to Assess the Benefits of Estimating with Analogy and Regression Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    204 cites at Semantic Scholar
    36% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Walter J. Gutjahr:
    Partition Testing vs. Random Testing: The Influence of Uncertainty.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    151 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Mayuram S. Krishnan and Marc I. Kellner:
    Measuring Process Consistency: Implications for Reducing Software Defects.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    146 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -3% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Michael Siff and Thomas W. Reps:
    Identifying Modules via Concept Analysis.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    127 cites at OpenAlex
    -15% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Ritu Agarwal, Prabuddha De, and Atish P. Sinha:
    Comprehending Object and Process Models: An Empirical Study.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    126 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -16% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    John M. Rushby:
    Systematic Formal Verification for Fault-Tolerant Time-Triggered Algorithms.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    124 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -17% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    William N. Robinson and Suzanne D. Pawlowski:
    Managing Requirements Inconsistency with Development Goal Monitors.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    104 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -31% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Wolfgang Emmerich, Anthony Finkelstein, Carlo Montangero, Stefano Antonelli, Stephen Armitage, and Richard Stevens:
    Managing Standards Compliance.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    98 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -35% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Scott Thibault, Renaud Marlet, and Charles Consel:
    Domain-Specific Languages: From Design to Implementation Application to Video Device Drivers Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    96 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -36% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    David L. Atkins, Thomas Ball, Glenn Bruns, and Kenneth C. Cox:
    Mawl: A Domain-Specific Language for Form-Based Services.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    87 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -42% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Gianfranco Ciardo, David M. Nicol, and Kishor S. Trivedi:
    Discrete-Event Simulation of Fluid Stochastic Petri Nets.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    78 cites at OpenAlex
    -48% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 1998 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Alfonso Fuggetta, Gian Pietro Picco, and Giovanni Vigna:
    Understanding Code Mobility.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    1304 cites at Semantic Scholar
    688% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Axel van Lamsweerde, Robert Darimont, and Emmanuel Letier:
    Managing Conflicts in Goal-Driven Requirements Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    684 cites at Semantic Scholar
    313% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Rocco De Nicola, Gian-Luigi Ferrari, and Rosario Pugliese:
    KLAIM: A Kernel Language for Agents Interaction and Mobility.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    628 cites at Semantic Scholar
    280% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Colette Rolland, Carine Souveyet, and Camille Ben Achour:
    Guiding Goal Modeling Using Scenarios.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    517 cites at Semantic Scholar
    212% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Shyam R. Chidamber, David P. Darcy, and Chris F. Kemerer:
    Managerial Use of Metrics for Object-Oriented Software: An Exploratory Analysis.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    496 cites at Semantic Scholar
    200% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    João Carreira, Henrique Madeira, and João Gabriel Silva:
    Xception: A Technique for the Experimental Evaluation of Dependability in Modern Computers.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    452 cites at Semantic Scholar
    173% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Richard H. Carver, Steve Counsell, and Reuben V. Nithi:
    An Evaluation of the MOOD Set of Object-Oriented Software Metrics.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    430 cites at Semantic Scholar
    160% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Alistair G. Sutcliffe, Neil A. M. Maiden, Shailey Minocha, and Darrel Manuel:
    Supporting Scenario-Based Requirements Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    397 cites at Semantic Scholar
    140% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Raymond J. A. Buhr:
    Use Case Maps as Architectural Entities for Complex Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    343 cites at Semantic Scholar
    107% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Daniel Le Métayer:
    Describing Software Architecture Styles Using Graph Grammars.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    308 cites at Semantic Scholar
    86% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Gregg Rothermel and Mary Jean Harrold:
    Empirical Studies of a Safe Regression Test Selection Technique.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    274 cites at Semantic Scholar
    66% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Axel van Lamsweerde and Laurent Willemet:
    Inferring Declarative Requirements Specifications from Operational Scenarios.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    271 cites at Semantic Scholar
    64% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Michael Jackson and Pamela Zave:
    Distributed Feature Composition: A Virtual Architecture for Telecommunications Services.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    269 cites at Semantic Scholar
    63% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Lorenzo Alvisi and Keith Marzullo:
    Message Logging: Pessimistic, Optimistic, Causal, and Optimal.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    241 cites at Semantic Scholar
    46% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Dirk O. Keck and Paul Julius Kühn:
    The Feature and Service Interaction Problem in Telecommunications Systems. A Survey.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    236 cites at Semantic Scholar
    43% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Constance L. Heitmeyer, James Kirby, Bruce G. Labaw, Myla Archer, and Ramesh Bharadwaj:
    Using Abstraction and Model Checking to Detect Safety Violations in Requirements Specifications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    219 cites at Semantic Scholar
    32% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Phyllis G. Frankl, Richard G. Hamlet, Bev Littlewood, and Lorenzo Strigini:
    Evaluating Testing Methods by Delivered Reliability.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    208 cites at Semantic Scholar
    26% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    William Chan, Richard J. Anderson, Paul Beame, Steve Burns, Francesmary Modugno, David Notkin, and Jon Damon Reese:
    Model Checking Large Software Specifications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    199 cites at OpenAlex
    20% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Dennis K. Peters and David Lorge Parnas:
    Using Test Oracles Generated from Program Documentation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    189 cites at Semantic Scholar
    14% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    John C. Grundy, John G. Hosking, and Warwick B. Mugridge:
    Inconsistency Management for Multiple-View Software Development Environments.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    188 cites at Semantic Scholar
    14% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Alfonso Fuggetta, Gian Pietro Picco, and Giovanni Vigna:
    Understanding Code Mobility.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    1304 cites at Semantic Scholar
    688% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Axel van Lamsweerde, Robert Darimont, and Emmanuel Letier:
    Managing Conflicts in Goal-Driven Requirements Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    684 cites at Semantic Scholar
    313% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Rocco De Nicola, Gian-Luigi Ferrari, and Rosario Pugliese:
    KLAIM: A Kernel Language for Agents Interaction and Mobility.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    628 cites at Semantic Scholar
    280% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Colette Rolland, Carine Souveyet, and Camille Ben Achour:
    Guiding Goal Modeling Using Scenarios.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    517 cites at Semantic Scholar
    212% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Shyam R. Chidamber, David P. Darcy, and Chris F. Kemerer:
    Managerial Use of Metrics for Object-Oriented Software: An Exploratory Analysis.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    496 cites at Semantic Scholar
    200% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    João Carreira, Henrique Madeira, and João Gabriel Silva:
    Xception: A Technique for the Experimental Evaluation of Dependability in Modern Computers.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    452 cites at Semantic Scholar
    173% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Richard H. Carver, Steve Counsell, and Reuben V. Nithi:
    An Evaluation of the MOOD Set of Object-Oriented Software Metrics.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    430 cites at Semantic Scholar
    160% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Alistair G. Sutcliffe, Neil A. M. Maiden, Shailey Minocha, and Darrel Manuel:
    Supporting Scenario-Based Requirements Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    397 cites at Semantic Scholar
    140% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Raymond J. A. Buhr:
    Use Case Maps as Architectural Entities for Complex Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    343 cites at Semantic Scholar
    107% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Daniel Le Métayer:
    Describing Software Architecture Styles Using Graph Grammars.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    308 cites at Semantic Scholar
    86% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Gregg Rothermel and Mary Jean Harrold:
    Empirical Studies of a Safe Regression Test Selection Technique.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    274 cites at Semantic Scholar
    66% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Axel van Lamsweerde and Laurent Willemet:
    Inferring Declarative Requirements Specifications from Operational Scenarios.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    271 cites at Semantic Scholar
    64% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Michael Jackson and Pamela Zave:
    Distributed Feature Composition: A Virtual Architecture for Telecommunications Services.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    269 cites at Semantic Scholar
    63% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Lorenzo Alvisi and Keith Marzullo:
    Message Logging: Pessimistic, Optimistic, Causal, and Optimal.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    241 cites at Semantic Scholar
    46% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Dirk O. Keck and Paul Julius Kühn:
    The Feature and Service Interaction Problem in Telecommunications Systems. A Survey.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    236 cites at Semantic Scholar
    43% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Constance L. Heitmeyer, James Kirby, Bruce G. Labaw, Myla Archer, and Ramesh Bharadwaj:
    Using Abstraction and Model Checking to Detect Safety Violations in Requirements Specifications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    219 cites at Semantic Scholar
    32% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Phyllis G. Frankl, Richard G. Hamlet, Bev Littlewood, and Lorenzo Strigini:
    Evaluating Testing Methods by Delivered Reliability.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    208 cites at Semantic Scholar
    26% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    William Chan, Richard J. Anderson, Paul Beame, Steve Burns, Francesmary Modugno, David Notkin, and Jon Damon Reese:
    Model Checking Large Software Specifications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    199 cites at OpenAlex
    20% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Dennis K. Peters and David Lorge Parnas:
    Using Test Oracles Generated from Program Documentation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    189 cites at Semantic Scholar
    14% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    John C. Grundy, John G. Hosking, and Warwick B. Mugridge:
    Inconsistency Management for Multiple-View Software Development Environments.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    188 cites at Semantic Scholar
    14% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 1997 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Gerard J. Holzmann:
    The Model Checker SPIN.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    4462 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2216% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    David M. Cohen, Siddhartha R. Dalal, Michael L. Fredman, and Gardner C. Patton:
    The AETG System: An Approach to Testing Based on Combinatiorial Design.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    1092 cites at Semantic Scholar
    467% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Martin J. Shepperd and Chris Schofield:
    Estimating Software Project Effort Using Analogies.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    1054 cites at Semantic Scholar
    447% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    David B. Stewart, Richard Volpe, and Pradeep K. Khosla:
    Design of Dynamically Reconfigurable Real-Time Software Using Port-Based Objects.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    337 cites at Semantic Scholar
    75% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Erland Jonsson and Tomas Olovsson:
    A Quantitative Model of the Security Intrusion Process Based on Attacker Behavior.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    308 cites at Semantic Scholar
    60% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Matt Kaufmann and J Strother Moore:
    An Industrial Strength Theorem Prover for a Logic Based on Common Lisp.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    278 cites at Semantic Scholar
    44% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, Robert C. Miller, Alan S. Ferrency, Andrew Faulring, Bruce D. Kyle, Andrew Mickish, Alex Klimovitski, and Patrick Doane:
    The Amulet Environment: New Models for Effective User Interface Software Development.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    266 cites at Semantic Scholar
    38% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    David W. Binkley:
    Semantics Guided Regression Test Cost Reduction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    222 cites at Semantic Scholar
    15% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Don S. Batory and Bart J. Geraci:
    Composition Validation and Subjectivity in GenVoca Generators.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    211 cites at Semantic Scholar
    10% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Gavin Lowe and A. W. Roscoe:
    Using CSP to Detect Errors in the TMN Protocol.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    206 cites at Semantic Scholar
    7% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Krishnakumar Pillai and V. S. S. Nair:
    A Model for Software Development Effort and Cost Estimation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    202 cites at Semantic Scholar
    5% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Riccardo Focardi and Roberto Gorrieri:
    The Compositional Security Checker: A Tool for the Verification of Information Flow Security Properties.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    199 cites at Semantic Scholar
    3% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Aloysius K. Mok and Deji Chen:
    A Multiframe Model for Real-Time Tasks.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    198 cites at OpenAlex
    3% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Dar-Tzen Peng, Kang G. Shin, and Tarek F. Abdelzaher:
    Assignment and Scheduling Communicating Periodic Tasks in Distributed Real-Time Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    175 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -9% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Bev Littlewood and David Wright:
    Some Conservative Stopping Rules for the Operational Testing of Safety-Critical Software.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    142 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -26% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Adam A. Porter and Philip M. Johnson:
    Assessing Software Review Meetings: Results of a Comparative Analysis of Two Experimental Studies.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    141 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -27% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Matthew J. Gallagher and V. Lakshmi Narasimhan:
    ADTEST: A Test Data Generation Suite for Ada Software Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    131 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -32% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Filippo Lanubile and Giuseppe Visaggio:
    Extracting Reusable Funtions by Flow Graph-Based Program Slicing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    119 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -38% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    David S. Rosenblum and Elaine J. Weyuker:
    Using Coverage Information to Predict the Cost-Effectiveness of Regression Testing Strategies.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    96 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -50% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Arup Mukherjee and Daniel P. Siewiorek:
    Measuring Software Dependability by Robustness Benchmarking.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    95 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -51% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Gerard J. Holzmann:
    The Model Checker SPIN.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    4462 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2216% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    David M. Cohen, Siddhartha R. Dalal, Michael L. Fredman, and Gardner C. Patton:
    The AETG System: An Approach to Testing Based on Combinatiorial Design.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    1092 cites at Semantic Scholar
    467% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Martin J. Shepperd and Chris Schofield:
    Estimating Software Project Effort Using Analogies.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    1054 cites at Semantic Scholar
    447% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    David B. Stewart, Richard Volpe, and Pradeep K. Khosla:
    Design of Dynamically Reconfigurable Real-Time Software Using Port-Based Objects.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    337 cites at Semantic Scholar
    75% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Erland Jonsson and Tomas Olovsson:
    A Quantitative Model of the Security Intrusion Process Based on Attacker Behavior.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    308 cites at Semantic Scholar
    60% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Matt Kaufmann and J Strother Moore:
    An Industrial Strength Theorem Prover for a Logic Based on Common Lisp.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    278 cites at Semantic Scholar
    44% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, Robert C. Miller, Alan S. Ferrency, Andrew Faulring, Bruce D. Kyle, Andrew Mickish, Alex Klimovitski, and Patrick Doane:
    The Amulet Environment: New Models for Effective User Interface Software Development.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    266 cites at Semantic Scholar
    38% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    David W. Binkley:
    Semantics Guided Regression Test Cost Reduction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    222 cites at Semantic Scholar
    15% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Don S. Batory and Bart J. Geraci:
    Composition Validation and Subjectivity in GenVoca Generators.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    211 cites at Semantic Scholar
    10% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Gavin Lowe and A. W. Roscoe:
    Using CSP to Detect Errors in the TMN Protocol.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    206 cites at Semantic Scholar
    7% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Krishnakumar Pillai and V. S. S. Nair:
    A Model for Software Development Effort and Cost Estimation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    202 cites at Semantic Scholar
    5% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Riccardo Focardi and Roberto Gorrieri:
    The Compositional Security Checker: A Tool for the Verification of Information Flow Security Properties.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    199 cites at Semantic Scholar
    3% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Aloysius K. Mok and Deji Chen:
    A Multiframe Model for Real-Time Tasks.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    198 cites at OpenAlex
    3% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Dar-Tzen Peng, Kang G. Shin, and Tarek F. Abdelzaher:
    Assignment and Scheduling Communicating Periodic Tasks in Distributed Real-Time Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    175 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -9% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Bev Littlewood and David Wright:
    Some Conservative Stopping Rules for the Operational Testing of Safety-Critical Software.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    142 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -26% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Adam A. Porter and Philip M. Johnson:
    Assessing Software Review Meetings: Results of a Comparative Analysis of Two Experimental Studies.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    141 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -27% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Matthew J. Gallagher and V. Lakshmi Narasimhan:
    ADTEST: A Test Data Generation Suite for Ada Software Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    131 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -32% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Filippo Lanubile and Giuseppe Visaggio:
    Extracting Reusable Funtions by Flow Graph-Based Program Slicing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    119 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -38% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    David S. Rosenblum and Elaine J. Weyuker:
    Using Coverage Information to Predict the Cost-Effectiveness of Regression Testing Strategies.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    96 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -50% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Arup Mukherjee and Daniel P. Siewiorek:
    Measuring Software Dependability by Robustness Benchmarking.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    95 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -51% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 1996 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Victor R. Basili, Lionel C. Briand, and Walcélio L. Melo:
    A Validation of Object-Oriented Design Metrics as Quality Indicators.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    1939 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1131% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Lionel C. Briand, Sandro Morasca, and Victor R. Basili:
    Property-Based Software Engineering Measurement.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    836 cites at Semantic Scholar
    431% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Gregg Rothermel and Mary Jean Harrold:
    Analyzing Regression Test Selection Techniques.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    819 cites at Semantic Scholar
    420% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Rajeev Alur, Thomas A. Henzinger, and Pei-Hsin Ho:
    Automatic Symbolic Verification of Embedded Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    669 cites at Semantic Scholar
    325% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Martín Abadi and Roger M. Needham:
    Prudent Engineering Practice for Cryptographic Protocols.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    577 cites at OpenAlex
    266% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Niclas Ohlsson and Hans Alberg:
    Predicting Fault-Prone Software Modules in Telephone Switches.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    380 cites at Semantic Scholar
    141% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Mats Per Erik Heimdahl and Nancy G. Leveson:
    Completeness and Consistency in Hierarchical State-Based Requirements.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    346 cites at Semantic Scholar
    120% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Richard N. Taylor, Nenad Medvidovic, Kenneth M. Anderson, E. James Whitehead Jr., Jason E. Robbins, Kari A. Nies, Peyman Oreizy, and Deborah L. Dubrow:
    A Component- and Message-Based Architectural Style for GUI Software.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    321 cites at OpenAlex
    104% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Phil Stocks and David A. Carrington:
    A Framework for Specification-Based Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    286 cites at Semantic Scholar
    82% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Matthew K. Franklin and Michael K. Reiter:
    The Design and Implementation of a Secure Auction Service.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    276 cites at OpenAlex
    75% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Martin Hitz and Behzad Montazeri:
    Chidamber and Kemerer's Metrics Suite: A Measurement Theory Perspective.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    266 cites at Semantic Scholar
    69% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Deepak Gupta, Pankaj Jalote, and Gautam Barua:
    A Formal Framework for On-Line Software Version Change.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    253 cites at Semantic Scholar
    61% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    James C. Corbett:
    Evaluating Deadlock Detection Methods for Concurrent Software.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    250 cites at Semantic Scholar
    59% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Joseph D. Blackburn, Gary D. Scudder, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove:
    Improving Speed and Productivity of Software Development: A Global Survey of Software Developers.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    200 cites at Semantic Scholar
    27% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Nicholas J. Puketza, Kui Zhang, Mandy Chung, Biswanath Mukherjee, and Ronald A. Olsson:
    A Methodology for Testing Intrusion Detection Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    191 cites at Semantic Scholar
    21% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Li Gong and Xiaolei Qian:
    Computational Issues in Secure Interoperation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    173 cites at Semantic Scholar
    10% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    John McLean:
    A General Theory of Composition for a Class of "Possibilistic'' Properties.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    171 cites at Semantic Scholar
    9% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Sergio Bandinelli, Elisabetta Di Nitto, and Alfonso Fuggetta:
    Supporting Cooperation in the SPADE-1 Environment.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    166 cites at Semantic Scholar
    5% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Tsong Yueh Chen and Yuen-Tak Yu:
    On the Expected Number of Failures Detected by Subdomain Testing and Random Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    154 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -2% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Rajashekar Kailar:
    Accountability in Electronic Commerce Protocols.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    154 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -2% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Victor R. Basili, Lionel C. Briand, and Walcélio L. Melo:
    A Validation of Object-Oriented Design Metrics as Quality Indicators.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    1939 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1131% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Lionel C. Briand, Sandro Morasca, and Victor R. Basili:
    Property-Based Software Engineering Measurement.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    836 cites at Semantic Scholar
    431% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Gregg Rothermel and Mary Jean Harrold:
    Analyzing Regression Test Selection Techniques.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    819 cites at Semantic Scholar
    420% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Rajeev Alur, Thomas A. Henzinger, and Pei-Hsin Ho:
    Automatic Symbolic Verification of Embedded Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    669 cites at Semantic Scholar
    325% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Martín Abadi and Roger M. Needham:
    Prudent Engineering Practice for Cryptographic Protocols.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    577 cites at OpenAlex
    266% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Niclas Ohlsson and Hans Alberg:
    Predicting Fault-Prone Software Modules in Telephone Switches.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    380 cites at Semantic Scholar
    141% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Mats Per Erik Heimdahl and Nancy G. Leveson:
    Completeness and Consistency in Hierarchical State-Based Requirements.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    346 cites at Semantic Scholar
    120% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Richard N. Taylor, Nenad Medvidovic, Kenneth M. Anderson, E. James Whitehead Jr., Jason E. Robbins, Kari A. Nies, Peyman Oreizy, and Deborah L. Dubrow:
    A Component- and Message-Based Architectural Style for GUI Software.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    321 cites at OpenAlex
    104% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Phil Stocks and David A. Carrington:
    A Framework for Specification-Based Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    286 cites at Semantic Scholar
    82% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Matthew K. Franklin and Michael K. Reiter:
    The Design and Implementation of a Secure Auction Service.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    276 cites at OpenAlex
    75% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Martin Hitz and Behzad Montazeri:
    Chidamber and Kemerer's Metrics Suite: A Measurement Theory Perspective.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    266 cites at Semantic Scholar
    69% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Deepak Gupta, Pankaj Jalote, and Gautam Barua:
    A Formal Framework for On-Line Software Version Change.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    253 cites at Semantic Scholar
    61% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    James C. Corbett:
    Evaluating Deadlock Detection Methods for Concurrent Software.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    250 cites at Semantic Scholar
    59% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Joseph D. Blackburn, Gary D. Scudder, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove:
    Improving Speed and Productivity of Software Development: A Global Survey of Software Developers.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    200 cites at Semantic Scholar
    27% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Nicholas J. Puketza, Kui Zhang, Mandy Chung, Biswanath Mukherjee, and Ronald A. Olsson:
    A Methodology for Testing Intrusion Detection Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    191 cites at Semantic Scholar
    21% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Li Gong and Xiaolei Qian:
    Computational Issues in Secure Interoperation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    173 cites at Semantic Scholar
    10% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    John McLean:
    A General Theory of Composition for a Class of "Possibilistic'' Properties.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    171 cites at Semantic Scholar
    9% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Sergio Bandinelli, Elisabetta Di Nitto, and Alfonso Fuggetta:
    Supporting Cooperation in the SPADE-1 Environment.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    166 cites at Semantic Scholar
    5% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Tsong Yueh Chen and Yuen-Tak Yu:
    On the Expected Number of Failures Detected by Subdomain Testing and Random Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    154 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -2% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Rajashekar Kailar:
    Accountability in Electronic Commerce Protocols.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
    154 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -2% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 1995 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Mary Shaw, Robert DeLine, Daniel V. Klein, Theodore L. Ross, David M. Young, and Gregory Zelesnik:
    Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    1023 cites at Semantic Scholar
    534% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    David C. Luckham, John J. Kenney, Larry M. Augustin, James Vera, Doug Bryan, and Walter Mann:
    Specification and Analysis of System Architecture Using Rapide.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    923 cites at Semantic Scholar
    472% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    David C. Luckham, John J. Kenney, Larry M. Augustin, James Vera, Doug Bryan, and Walter Mann:
    Correction to "Specification and Analysis of System Architecture Using Rapide".
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    923 cites at Semantic Scholar
    472% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: Link
  4. 4
    Koral Ilgun, Richard A. Kemmerer, and Phillip A. Porras:
    State Transition Analysis: A Rule-Based Intrusion Detection Approach.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    876 cites at Semantic Scholar
    442% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Sam Owre, John M. Rushby, Natarajan Shankar, and Friedrich W. von Henke:
    Formal Verification for Fault-Tolerant Architectures: Prolegomena to the Design of PVS.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    682 cites at Semantic Scholar
    322% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Hafedh Mili, Fatma Mili, and Ali Mili:
    Reusing Software: Issues and Research Directions.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    678 cites at Semantic Scholar
    320% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    R. Geoff Dromey:
    A Model for Software Product Quality.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    670 cites at Semantic Scholar
    315% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Barbara A. Kitchenham, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, and Norman E. Fenton:
    Towards a Framework for Software Measurement Validation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    655 cites at Semantic Scholar
    306% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    David C. Luckham and James Vera:
    An Event-Based Architecture Definition Language.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    583 cites at Semantic Scholar
    261% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Krishnamoorthy Srinivasan and Douglas Fisher:
    Machine Learning Approaches to Estimating Software Development Effort.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    550 cites at Semantic Scholar
    241% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Adam A. Porter, Lawrence G. Votta, and Victor R. Basili:
    Comparing Detection Methods for Software Requirements Inspections: A Replicated Experiment.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    481 cites at Semantic Scholar
    198% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Jerome A. Rolia and Kenneth C. Sevcik:
    The Method of Layers.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    443 cites at Semantic Scholar
    174% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    David Garlan and Dewayne E. Perry:
    Introduction to the Special Issue on Software Architecture.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    404 cites at Semantic Scholar
    150% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Mark Moriconi, Xiaolei Qian, and Robert A. Riemenschneider:
    Correct Architecture Refinement.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    389 cites at Semantic Scholar
    141% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    David S. Rosenblum:
    A Practical Approach to Programming With Assertions.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    370 cites at Semantic Scholar
    129% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Paola Inverardi and Alexander L. Wolf:
    Formal Specification and Analysis of Software Architectures Using the Chemical Abstract Machine Model.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    305 cites at Semantic Scholar
    89% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Magne Jørgensen:
    Experience With the Accuracy of Software Maintenance Task Effort Prediction Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    293 cites at Semantic Scholar
    81% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Robert H. Bourdeau and Betty H. C. Cheng:
    A Formal Semantics for Object Model Diagrams.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    217 cites at Semantic Scholar
    34% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Richard Gerber, Seongsoo Hong, and Manas Saksena:
    Guaranteeing Real-Time Requirements With Resource-Based Calibration of Periodic Processes.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    203 cites at Semantic Scholar
    26% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Alan Burns, Ken Tindell, and Andy J. Wellings:
    Effective Analysis for Engineering Real-Time Fixed Priority Schedulers.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    192 cites at Semantic Scholar
    19% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Mary Shaw, Robert DeLine, Daniel V. Klein, Theodore L. Ross, David M. Young, and Gregory Zelesnik:
    Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    1023 cites at Semantic Scholar
    534% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    David C. Luckham, John J. Kenney, Larry M. Augustin, James Vera, Doug Bryan, and Walter Mann:
    Specification and Analysis of System Architecture Using Rapide.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    923 cites at Semantic Scholar
    472% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    David C. Luckham, John J. Kenney, Larry M. Augustin, James Vera, Doug Bryan, and Walter Mann:
    Correction to "Specification and Analysis of System Architecture Using Rapide".
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    923 cites at Semantic Scholar
    472% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: Link
  4. 4
    Koral Ilgun, Richard A. Kemmerer, and Phillip A. Porras:
    State Transition Analysis: A Rule-Based Intrusion Detection Approach.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    876 cites at Semantic Scholar
    442% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Sam Owre, John M. Rushby, Natarajan Shankar, and Friedrich W. von Henke:
    Formal Verification for Fault-Tolerant Architectures: Prolegomena to the Design of PVS.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    682 cites at Semantic Scholar
    322% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Hafedh Mili, Fatma Mili, and Ali Mili:
    Reusing Software: Issues and Research Directions.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    678 cites at Semantic Scholar
    320% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    R. Geoff Dromey:
    A Model for Software Product Quality.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    670 cites at Semantic Scholar
    315% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Barbara A. Kitchenham, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, and Norman E. Fenton:
    Towards a Framework for Software Measurement Validation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    655 cites at Semantic Scholar
    306% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    David C. Luckham and James Vera:
    An Event-Based Architecture Definition Language.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    583 cites at Semantic Scholar
    261% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Krishnamoorthy Srinivasan and Douglas Fisher:
    Machine Learning Approaches to Estimating Software Development Effort.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    550 cites at Semantic Scholar
    241% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Adam A. Porter, Lawrence G. Votta, and Victor R. Basili:
    Comparing Detection Methods for Software Requirements Inspections: A Replicated Experiment.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    481 cites at Semantic Scholar
    198% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Jerome A. Rolia and Kenneth C. Sevcik:
    The Method of Layers.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    443 cites at Semantic Scholar
    174% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    David Garlan and Dewayne E. Perry:
    Introduction to the Special Issue on Software Architecture.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    404 cites at Semantic Scholar
    150% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Mark Moriconi, Xiaolei Qian, and Robert A. Riemenschneider:
    Correct Architecture Refinement.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    389 cites at Semantic Scholar
    141% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    David S. Rosenblum:
    A Practical Approach to Programming With Assertions.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    370 cites at Semantic Scholar
    129% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Paola Inverardi and Alexander L. Wolf:
    Formal Specification and Analysis of Software Architectures Using the Chemical Abstract Machine Model.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    305 cites at Semantic Scholar
    89% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Magne Jørgensen:
    Experience With the Accuracy of Software Maintenance Task Effort Prediction Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    293 cites at Semantic Scholar
    81% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Robert H. Bourdeau and Betty H. C. Cheng:
    A Formal Semantics for Object Model Diagrams.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    217 cites at Semantic Scholar
    34% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Richard Gerber, Seongsoo Hong, and Manas Saksena:
    Guaranteeing Real-Time Requirements With Resource-Based Calibration of Periodic Processes.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    203 cites at Semantic Scholar
    26% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Alan Burns, Ken Tindell, and Andy J. Wellings:
    Effective Analysis for Engineering Real-Time Fixed Priority Schedulers.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1995
    192 cites at Semantic Scholar
    19% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 1994 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Shyam R. Chidamber and Chris F. Kemerer:
    A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    2519 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1780% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Bashar Nuseibeh, Jeff Kramer, and Anthony Finkelstein:
    A Framework for Expressing the Relationships Between Multiple Views in Requirements Specification.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    707 cites at Semantic Scholar
    428% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Nancy G. Leveson, Mats Per Erik Heimdahl, Holly Hildreth, and Jon Damon Reese:
    Requirements Specification for Process-Control Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    618 cites at Semantic Scholar
    361% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Norman E. Fenton:
    Software Measurement: A Necessary Scientific Basis.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    507 cites at OpenAlex
    278% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    James A. Whittaker and Michael G. Thomason:
    A Markov Chain Model for Statistical Software Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    447 cites at Semantic Scholar
    234% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Anthony Finkelstein, Dov M. Gabbay, Anthony Hunter, Jeff Kramer, and Bashar Nuseibeh:
    Inconsistency Handling in Multperspective Specifications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    398 cites at Semantic Scholar
    197% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Jack E. Matson, Bruce E. Barrett, and Joseph M. Mellichamp:
    Software Development Cost Estimation Using Function Points.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    350 cites at Semantic Scholar
    161% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    James M. Bieman and Linda M. Ott:
    Measuring Functional Cohesion.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    303 cites at Semantic Scholar
    126% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Elaine J. Weyuker, Tarak Goradia, and Ashutosh Singh:
    Automatically Generating Test Data from a Boolean Specification.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    293 cites at Semantic Scholar
    119% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Gang Luo, Gregor von Bochmann, and Alexandre Petrenko:
    Test Selection Based on Communicating Nondeterministic Finite-State Machines Using a Generalized WP-Method.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    292 cites at Semantic Scholar
    118% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    William B. Frakes and Thomas P. Pole:
    An Empirical Study of Representation Methods for Reusable Software Components.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    288 cites at Semantic Scholar
    115% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Santanu Paul and Atul Prakash:
    A Framework for Source Code Search Using Program Patterns.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    248 cites at Semantic Scholar
    85% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Farnam Jahanian and Aloysius K. Mok:
    Modechart: A Specification Language for Real-Time Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    240 cites at Semantic Scholar
    79% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    A. Jefferson Offutt and Stephen D. Lee:
    An Empirical Evaluation of Weak Mutation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    214 cites at Semantic Scholar
    60% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Gianfranco Ciardo, Reinhard German, and Christoph Lindemann:
    A Characterization of the Stochastic Process Underlying a Stochastic Petri Net.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    201 cites at OpenAlex
    50% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Michael González Harbour, Mark H. Klein, and John P. Lehoczky:
    Timing Analysis for Fixed-Priority Scheduling of Hard Real-Time Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    180 cites at Semantic Scholar
    34% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Hemant D. Pande, William Landi, and Barbara G. Ryder:
    Interprocedural Def-Use Associations for C Systems with Single Level Pointers.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    142 cites at Semantic Scholar
    6% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Tsong Yueh Chen and Yuen-Tak Yu:
    On the Relationship Between Partition and Random Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    138 cites at Semantic Scholar
    3% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Les Hatton and Andy Roberts:
    How Accurate Is Scientific Software?
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    137 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    David Lorge Parnas, Jan Madey, and Michal Iglewski:
    Precise Documentation of Well-Structured Programs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    118 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -12% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Shyam R. Chidamber and Chris F. Kemerer:
    A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    2519 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1780% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Bashar Nuseibeh, Jeff Kramer, and Anthony Finkelstein:
    A Framework for Expressing the Relationships Between Multiple Views in Requirements Specification.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    707 cites at Semantic Scholar
    428% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Nancy G. Leveson, Mats Per Erik Heimdahl, Holly Hildreth, and Jon Damon Reese:
    Requirements Specification for Process-Control Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    618 cites at Semantic Scholar
    361% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Norman E. Fenton:
    Software Measurement: A Necessary Scientific Basis.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    507 cites at OpenAlex
    278% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    James A. Whittaker and Michael G. Thomason:
    A Markov Chain Model for Statistical Software Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    447 cites at Semantic Scholar
    234% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Anthony Finkelstein, Dov M. Gabbay, Anthony Hunter, Jeff Kramer, and Bashar Nuseibeh:
    Inconsistency Handling in Multperspective Specifications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    398 cites at Semantic Scholar
    197% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Jack E. Matson, Bruce E. Barrett, and Joseph M. Mellichamp:
    Software Development Cost Estimation Using Function Points.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    350 cites at Semantic Scholar
    161% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    James M. Bieman and Linda M. Ott:
    Measuring Functional Cohesion.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    303 cites at Semantic Scholar
    126% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Elaine J. Weyuker, Tarak Goradia, and Ashutosh Singh:
    Automatically Generating Test Data from a Boolean Specification.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    293 cites at Semantic Scholar
    119% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Gang Luo, Gregor von Bochmann, and Alexandre Petrenko:
    Test Selection Based on Communicating Nondeterministic Finite-State Machines Using a Generalized WP-Method.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    292 cites at Semantic Scholar
    118% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    William B. Frakes and Thomas P. Pole:
    An Empirical Study of Representation Methods for Reusable Software Components.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    288 cites at Semantic Scholar
    115% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Santanu Paul and Atul Prakash:
    A Framework for Source Code Search Using Program Patterns.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    248 cites at Semantic Scholar
    85% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Farnam Jahanian and Aloysius K. Mok:
    Modechart: A Specification Language for Real-Time Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    240 cites at Semantic Scholar
    79% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    A. Jefferson Offutt and Stephen D. Lee:
    An Empirical Evaluation of Weak Mutation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    214 cites at Semantic Scholar
    60% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Gianfranco Ciardo, Reinhard German, and Christoph Lindemann:
    A Characterization of the Stochastic Process Underlying a Stochastic Petri Net.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    201 cites at OpenAlex
    50% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Michael González Harbour, Mark H. Klein, and John P. Lehoczky:
    Timing Analysis for Fixed-Priority Scheduling of Hard Real-Time Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    180 cites at Semantic Scholar
    34% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Hemant D. Pande, William Landi, and Barbara G. Ryder:
    Interprocedural Def-Use Associations for C Systems with Single Level Pointers.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    142 cites at Semantic Scholar
    6% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Tsong Yueh Chen and Yuen-Tak Yu:
    On the Relationship Between Partition and Random Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    138 cites at Semantic Scholar
    3% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Les Hatton and Andy Roberts:
    How Accurate Is Scientific Software?
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    137 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    David Lorge Parnas, Jan Madey, and Michal Iglewski:
    Precise Documentation of Well-Structured Programs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    118 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -12% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 1993 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Emden R. Gansner, Eleftherios Koutsofios, Stephen C. North, and Kiem-Phong Vo:
    A Technique for Drawing Directed Graphs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    802 cites at Semantic Scholar
    860% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Ricky W. Butler and George B. Finelli:
    The Infeasibility of Quantifying the Reliability of Life-Critical Real-Time Software.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    469 cites at Semantic Scholar
    461% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Anish Arora and Mohamed G. Gouda:
    Closure and Convergence: A Foundation of Fault-Tolerant Computing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    318 cites at Semantic Scholar
    281% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Phyllis G. Frankl and Stewart N. Weiss:
    An Experimental Comparison of the Effectiveness of Branch Testing and Data Flow Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    314 cites at Semantic Scholar
    276% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Sergio Bandinelli, Alfonso Fuggetta, and Carlo Ghezzi:
    Process Model Evolution in the SPADE Environment.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    313 cites at Semantic Scholar
    275% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Giovanni Chiola, Marco Ajmone Marsan, Gianfranco Balbo, and Gianni Conte:
    Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets: A Definition at the Net Level and Its Implications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    294 cites at Semantic Scholar
    252% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Daniel I. Katcher, Hiroshi Arakawa, and Jay K. Strosnider:
    Engineering and Analysis of Fixed Priority Schedulers.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    245 cites at Semantic Scholar
    193% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Jia Xu and David Lorge Parnas:
    On Satisfying Timing Constraints in Hard-Real-Time Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    233 cites at OpenAlex
    179% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Wei-lun Kao, Ravishankar K. Iyer, and Dong Tang:
    FINE: A Fault Injection and Monitoring Environment for Tracing the UNIX System Behavior Under Faults.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    226 cites at Semantic Scholar
    170% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Joanne M. Atlee and John D. Gannon:
    State-Based Model Checking of Event-Driven System Requirements.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    225 cites at OpenAlex
    169% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Phyllis G. Frankl and Elaine J. Weyuker:
    A Formal Analysis of the Fault-Detecting Ability of Testing Methods.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    213 cites at Semantic Scholar
    155% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Lionel C. Briand, Victor R. Basili, and Christopher J. Hetmanski:
    Developing Interpretable Models with Optimized Set Reduction for Identifying High-Risk Software Components.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    202 cites at Semantic Scholar
    142% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Jia Xu:
    Multiprocessor Scheduling of Processes with Release Times, Deadlines, Precedence, and Exclusion Relations.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    179 cites at Semantic Scholar
    114% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Anders P. Ravn, Hans Rischel, and Kirsten Mark Hansen:
    Specifying and Verifying Requirements of Real-Time Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    167 cites at OpenAlex
    100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Andrew Sears:
    Layout Appropriateness: A Metric for Evaluating User Interface Widget Layout.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    156 cites at Semantic Scholar
    87% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Paul Helman and Gunar E. Liepins:
    Statistical Foundations of Audit Trail Analysis for the Detection of Computer Misuse.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    155 cites at Semantic Scholar
    86% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Maria Letizia Jaccheri and Reidar Conradi:
    Techniques for Process Model Evolution in EPOS.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    154 cites at Semantic Scholar
    84% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Connie U. Smith and Lloyd G. Williams:
    Software Performance Engineering: A Case Study Including Performance Comparison with Design Alternatives.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    139 cites at Semantic Scholar
    66% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Oded Berman and Noushin Ashrafi:
    Optimization Models for Reliability of Modular Software Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    125 cites at Semantic Scholar
    50% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    David Lorge Parnas:
    Predicate Logic for Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    109 cites at Semantic Scholar
    30% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Emden R. Gansner, Eleftherios Koutsofios, Stephen C. North, and Kiem-Phong Vo:
    A Technique for Drawing Directed Graphs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    802 cites at Semantic Scholar
    860% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Ricky W. Butler and George B. Finelli:
    The Infeasibility of Quantifying the Reliability of Life-Critical Real-Time Software.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    469 cites at Semantic Scholar
    461% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Anish Arora and Mohamed G. Gouda:
    Closure and Convergence: A Foundation of Fault-Tolerant Computing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    318 cites at Semantic Scholar
    281% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Phyllis G. Frankl and Stewart N. Weiss:
    An Experimental Comparison of the Effectiveness of Branch Testing and Data Flow Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    314 cites at Semantic Scholar
    276% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Sergio Bandinelli, Alfonso Fuggetta, and Carlo Ghezzi:
    Process Model Evolution in the SPADE Environment.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    313 cites at Semantic Scholar
    275% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Giovanni Chiola, Marco Ajmone Marsan, Gianfranco Balbo, and Gianni Conte:
    Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets: A Definition at the Net Level and Its Implications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    294 cites at Semantic Scholar
    252% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Daniel I. Katcher, Hiroshi Arakawa, and Jay K. Strosnider:
    Engineering and Analysis of Fixed Priority Schedulers.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    245 cites at Semantic Scholar
    193% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Jia Xu and David Lorge Parnas:
    On Satisfying Timing Constraints in Hard-Real-Time Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    233 cites at OpenAlex
    179% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Wei-lun Kao, Ravishankar K. Iyer, and Dong Tang:
    FINE: A Fault Injection and Monitoring Environment for Tracing the UNIX System Behavior Under Faults.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    226 cites at Semantic Scholar
    170% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Joanne M. Atlee and John D. Gannon:
    State-Based Model Checking of Event-Driven System Requirements.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    225 cites at OpenAlex
    169% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Phyllis G. Frankl and Elaine J. Weyuker:
    A Formal Analysis of the Fault-Detecting Ability of Testing Methods.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    213 cites at Semantic Scholar
    155% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Lionel C. Briand, Victor R. Basili, and Christopher J. Hetmanski:
    Developing Interpretable Models with Optimized Set Reduction for Identifying High-Risk Software Components.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    202 cites at Semantic Scholar
    142% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Jia Xu:
    Multiprocessor Scheduling of Processes with Release Times, Deadlines, Precedence, and Exclusion Relations.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    179 cites at Semantic Scholar
    114% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Anders P. Ravn, Hans Rischel, and Kirsten Mark Hansen:
    Specifying and Verifying Requirements of Real-Time Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    167 cites at OpenAlex
    100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Andrew Sears:
    Layout Appropriateness: A Metric for Evaluating User Interface Widget Layout.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    156 cites at Semantic Scholar
    87% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Paul Helman and Gunar E. Liepins:
    Statistical Foundations of Audit Trail Analysis for the Detection of Computer Misuse.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    155 cites at Semantic Scholar
    86% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Maria Letizia Jaccheri and Reidar Conradi:
    Techniques for Process Model Evolution in EPOS.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    154 cites at Semantic Scholar
    84% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Connie U. Smith and Lloyd G. Williams:
    Software Performance Engineering: A Case Study Including Performance Comparison with Design Alternatives.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    139 cites at Semantic Scholar
    66% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Oded Berman and Noushin Ashrafi:
    Optimization Models for Reliability of Modular Software Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    125 cites at Semantic Scholar
    50% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    David Lorge Parnas:
    Predicate Logic for Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
    109 cites at Semantic Scholar
    30% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 1992 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    John Mylopoulos, Lawrence Chung, and Brian A. Nixon:
    Representing and Using Nonfunctional Requirements: A Process-Oriented Approach.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    1182 cites at Semantic Scholar
    792% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Ram Chillarege, Inderpal S. Bhandari, Jarir K. Chaar, Michael J. Halliday, Diane S. Moebus, Bonnie K. Ray, and Man-Yuen Wong:
    Orthogonal Defect Classification - A Concept for In-Process Measurements.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    882 cites at Semantic Scholar
    566% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Carl A. Waldspurger, Tad Hogg, Bernardo A. Huberman, Jeffrey O. Kephart, and W. Scott Stornetta:
    Spawn: A Distributed Computational Economy.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    765 cites at Semantic Scholar
    478% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Stephen G. Eick, Joseph L. Steffen, and Eric E. Sumner Jr.:
    Seesoft-A Tool For Visualizing Line Oriented Software Statistics.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    745 cites at Semantic Scholar
    462% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    John C. Munson and Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar:
    The Detection of Fault-Prone Programs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    499 cites at Semantic Scholar
    277% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Henri E. Bal, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum:
    Orca: A Language For Parallel Programming of Distributed Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    491 cites at Semantic Scholar
    271% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Jeffrey M. Voas:
    PIE: A Dynamic Failure-Based Technique.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    452 cites at Semantic Scholar
    241% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Norman F. Schneidewind:
    Methodology For Validating Software Metrics.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    399 cites at Semantic Scholar
    201% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Keith W. Miller, Larry J. Morell, Robert E. Noonan, Stephen K. Park, David M. Nicol, Branson W. Murrill, and Jeffrey M. Voas:
    Estimating the Probability of Failure When Testing Reveals No Failures.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    328 cites at Semantic Scholar
    148% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Balasubramaniam Ramesh and Vasant Dhar:
    Supporting Systems Development by Capturing Deliberations During Requirements Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    328 cites at Semantic Scholar
    148% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Nicolas Halbwachs, Fabienne Lagnier, and Christophe Ratel:
    Programming and Verifying Real-Time Systems by Means of the Synchronous Data-Flow Language LUSTRE.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    292 cites at Semantic Scholar
    120% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Norman Wilde and Ross Huitt:
    Maintenance Support for Object-Oriented Programs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    275 cites at Semantic Scholar
    108% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Lionel C. Briand, Victor R. Basili, and William M. Thomas:
    A Pattern Recognition Approach for Software Engineering Data Analysis.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    251 cites at Semantic Scholar
    90% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Michael Daskalantonakis:
    A Practical View of Software Measurement and Implementation Experiences Within Motorola.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    245 cites at Semantic Scholar
    85% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Nachimuthu Karunanithi, L. Darrell Whitley, and Yashwant K. Malaiya:
    Prediction of Software Reliability Using Connectionist Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    234 cites at Semantic Scholar
    77% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Richard N. Taylor, David L. Levine, and Cheryl D. Kelly:
    Structural Testing of Concurrent Programs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    224 cites at Semantic Scholar
    69% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    J. Eliot B. Moss:
    Working with Persistent Objects: To Swizzle or Not to Swizzle.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    184 cites at Semantic Scholar
    39% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Zohar Manna and Richard J. Waldinger:
    Fundamentals of Deductive Program Synthesis.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    179 cites at Semantic Scholar
    35% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Warren Harrison:
    An Entropy-Based Measure of Software Complexity.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    176 cites at Semantic Scholar
    33% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Alan C. Shaw:
    Communicating Real-Time State Machines.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    174 cites at Semantic Scholar
    31% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    John Mylopoulos, Lawrence Chung, and Brian A. Nixon:
    Representing and Using Nonfunctional Requirements: A Process-Oriented Approach.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    1182 cites at Semantic Scholar
    792% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Ram Chillarege, Inderpal S. Bhandari, Jarir K. Chaar, Michael J. Halliday, Diane S. Moebus, Bonnie K. Ray, and Man-Yuen Wong:
    Orthogonal Defect Classification - A Concept for In-Process Measurements.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    882 cites at Semantic Scholar
    566% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Carl A. Waldspurger, Tad Hogg, Bernardo A. Huberman, Jeffrey O. Kephart, and W. Scott Stornetta:
    Spawn: A Distributed Computational Economy.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    765 cites at Semantic Scholar
    478% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Stephen G. Eick, Joseph L. Steffen, and Eric E. Sumner Jr.:
    Seesoft-A Tool For Visualizing Line Oriented Software Statistics.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    745 cites at Semantic Scholar
    462% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    John C. Munson and Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar:
    The Detection of Fault-Prone Programs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    499 cites at Semantic Scholar
    277% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Henri E. Bal, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum:
    Orca: A Language For Parallel Programming of Distributed Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    491 cites at Semantic Scholar
    271% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Jeffrey M. Voas:
    PIE: A Dynamic Failure-Based Technique.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    452 cites at Semantic Scholar
    241% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Norman F. Schneidewind:
    Methodology For Validating Software Metrics.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    399 cites at Semantic Scholar
    201% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Keith W. Miller, Larry J. Morell, Robert E. Noonan, Stephen K. Park, David M. Nicol, Branson W. Murrill, and Jeffrey M. Voas:
    Estimating the Probability of Failure When Testing Reveals No Failures.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    328 cites at Semantic Scholar
    148% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Balasubramaniam Ramesh and Vasant Dhar:
    Supporting Systems Development by Capturing Deliberations During Requirements Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    328 cites at Semantic Scholar
    148% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Nicolas Halbwachs, Fabienne Lagnier, and Christophe Ratel:
    Programming and Verifying Real-Time Systems by Means of the Synchronous Data-Flow Language LUSTRE.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    292 cites at Semantic Scholar
    120% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Norman Wilde and Ross Huitt:
    Maintenance Support for Object-Oriented Programs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    275 cites at Semantic Scholar
    108% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Lionel C. Briand, Victor R. Basili, and William M. Thomas:
    A Pattern Recognition Approach for Software Engineering Data Analysis.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    251 cites at Semantic Scholar
    90% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Michael Daskalantonakis:
    A Practical View of Software Measurement and Implementation Experiences Within Motorola.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    245 cites at Semantic Scholar
    85% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Nachimuthu Karunanithi, L. Darrell Whitley, and Yashwant K. Malaiya:
    Prediction of Software Reliability Using Connectionist Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    234 cites at Semantic Scholar
    77% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Richard N. Taylor, David L. Levine, and Cheryl D. Kelly:
    Structural Testing of Concurrent Programs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    224 cites at Semantic Scholar
    69% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    J. Eliot B. Moss:
    Working with Persistent Objects: To Swizzle or Not to Swizzle.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    184 cites at Semantic Scholar
    39% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Zohar Manna and Richard J. Waldinger:
    Fundamentals of Deductive Program Synthesis.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    179 cites at Semantic Scholar
    35% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Warren Harrison:
    An Entropy-Based Measure of Software Complexity.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    176 cites at Semantic Scholar
    33% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Alan C. Shaw:
    Communicating Real-Time State Machines.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    174 cites at Semantic Scholar
    31% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 1991 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Bernard Berthomieu and Michel Diaz:
    Modeling and Verification of Time Dependent Systems Using Time Petri Nets.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    1173 cites at Semantic Scholar
    854% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Norman C. Hutchinson and Larry L. Peterson:
    The X-Kernel: An Architecture for Implementing Network Protocols.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    978 cites at Semantic Scholar
    695% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Richard A. DeMillo and A. Jefferson Offutt:
    Constraint-Based Automatic Test Data Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    902 cites at Semantic Scholar
    633% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Keith Brian Gallagher and James R. Lyle:
    Using Program Slicing in Software Maintenance.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    765 cites at Semantic Scholar
    522% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Susumu Fujiwara, Gregor von Bochmann, Ferhat Khendek, Mokhtar Amalou, and Abderrazak Ghedamsi:
    Test Selection Based on Finite State Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    707 cites at Semantic Scholar
    475% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Yoëlle S. Maarek, Daniel M. Berry, and Gail E. Kaiser:
    An Information Retrieval Approach For Automatically Constructing Software Libraries.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    510 cites at Semantic Scholar
    315% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Elaine J. Weyuker and Bingchiang Jeng:
    Analyzing Partition Testing Strategies.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    393 cites at Semantic Scholar
    219% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Carlo Ghezzi, Dino Mandrioli, Sandro Morasca, and Mauro Pezzè:
    A Unified High-Level Petri Net Formalism for Time-Critical Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    386 cites at Semantic Scholar
    214% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Thomas Kunz:
    The Influence of Different Workload Descriptions on a Heuristic Load Balancing Scheme.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    315 cites at Semantic Scholar
    156% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Howard B. Reubenstein and Richard C. Waters:
    The Requirements Apprentice: Automated Assistance for Requirements Acquisition.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    305 cites at Semantic Scholar
    148% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Brigitte Plateau and Karim Atif:
    Stochastic Automata Network For Modeling Parallel Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    282 cites at Semantic Scholar
    129% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Julio César Sampaio do Prado Leite and Peter A. Freeman:
    Requirements Validation Through Viewpoint Resolution.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    278 cites at Semantic Scholar
    126% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Roy S. Freedman:
    Testability of Software Components.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    273 cites at Semantic Scholar
    122% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Geoffrey K. Gill and Chris F. Kemerer:
    Cyclomatic Complexity Density and Software Maintenance Productivity.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    271 cites at Semantic Scholar
    120% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Matthew S. Jaffe, Nancy G. Leveson, Mats Per Erik Heimdahl, and Bonnie E. Melhart:
    Software Requirements Analysis for Real-Time Process-Control Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    256 cites at Semantic Scholar
    108% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Michiel van Genuchten:
    Why Is Software Late? An Empirical Study of Reasons For Delay in Software Development.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    240 cites at Semantic Scholar
    95% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Michael D. Vose:
    A Linear Algorithm For Generating Random Numbers With a Given Distribution.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    227 cites at Semantic Scholar
    85% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Kuo-Chung Tai, Richard H. Carver, and Evelyn E. Obaid:
    Debugging Concurrent Ada Programs by Deterministic Execution.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    182 cites at Semantic Scholar
    48% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Richard W. Selby and Victor R. Basili:
    Analyzing Error-Prone System Structure.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    176 cites at Semantic Scholar
    43% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Dave E. Eckhardt, Alper K. Caglayan, John C. Knight, Larry D. Lee, David F. McAllister, Mladen A. Vouk, and John P. J. Kelly:
    An Experimental Evaluation of Software Redundancy as a Strategy For Improving Reliability.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    173 cites at OpenAlex
    41% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Bernard Berthomieu and Michel Diaz:
    Modeling and Verification of Time Dependent Systems Using Time Petri Nets.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    1173 cites at Semantic Scholar
    854% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Norman C. Hutchinson and Larry L. Peterson:
    The X-Kernel: An Architecture for Implementing Network Protocols.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    978 cites at Semantic Scholar
    695% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Richard A. DeMillo and A. Jefferson Offutt:
    Constraint-Based Automatic Test Data Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    902 cites at Semantic Scholar
    633% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Keith Brian Gallagher and James R. Lyle:
    Using Program Slicing in Software Maintenance.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    765 cites at Semantic Scholar
    522% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Susumu Fujiwara, Gregor von Bochmann, Ferhat Khendek, Mokhtar Amalou, and Abderrazak Ghedamsi:
    Test Selection Based on Finite State Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    707 cites at Semantic Scholar
    475% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Yoëlle S. Maarek, Daniel M. Berry, and Gail E. Kaiser:
    An Information Retrieval Approach For Automatically Constructing Software Libraries.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    510 cites at Semantic Scholar
    315% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Elaine J. Weyuker and Bingchiang Jeng:
    Analyzing Partition Testing Strategies.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    393 cites at Semantic Scholar
    219% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Carlo Ghezzi, Dino Mandrioli, Sandro Morasca, and Mauro Pezzè:
    A Unified High-Level Petri Net Formalism for Time-Critical Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    386 cites at Semantic Scholar
    214% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Thomas Kunz:
    The Influence of Different Workload Descriptions on a Heuristic Load Balancing Scheme.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    315 cites at Semantic Scholar
    156% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Howard B. Reubenstein and Richard C. Waters:
    The Requirements Apprentice: Automated Assistance for Requirements Acquisition.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    305 cites at Semantic Scholar
    148% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Brigitte Plateau and Karim Atif:
    Stochastic Automata Network For Modeling Parallel Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    282 cites at Semantic Scholar
    129% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Julio César Sampaio do Prado Leite and Peter A. Freeman:
    Requirements Validation Through Viewpoint Resolution.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    278 cites at Semantic Scholar
    126% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Roy S. Freedman:
    Testability of Software Components.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    273 cites at Semantic Scholar
    122% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Geoffrey K. Gill and Chris F. Kemerer:
    Cyclomatic Complexity Density and Software Maintenance Productivity.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    271 cites at Semantic Scholar
    120% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Matthew S. Jaffe, Nancy G. Leveson, Mats Per Erik Heimdahl, and Bonnie E. Melhart:
    Software Requirements Analysis for Real-Time Process-Control Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    256 cites at Semantic Scholar
    108% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Michiel van Genuchten:
    Why Is Software Late? An Empirical Study of Reasons For Delay in Software Development.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    240 cites at Semantic Scholar
    95% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Michael D. Vose:
    A Linear Algorithm For Generating Random Numbers With a Given Distribution.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    227 cites at Semantic Scholar
    85% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Kuo-Chung Tai, Richard H. Carver, and Evelyn E. Obaid:
    Debugging Concurrent Ada Programs by Deterministic Execution.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    182 cites at Semantic Scholar
    48% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Richard W. Selby and Victor R. Basili:
    Analyzing Error-Prone System Structure.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    176 cites at Semantic Scholar
    43% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Dave E. Eckhardt, Alper K. Caglayan, John C. Knight, Larry D. Lee, David F. McAllister, Mladen A. Vouk, and John P. J. Kelly:
    An Experimental Evaluation of Software Redundancy as a Strategy For Improving Reliability.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    173 cites at OpenAlex
    41% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 1990 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Bogdan Korel:
    Automated Software Test Data Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    1083 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1101% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Jeff Kramer and Jeff Magee:
    The Evolving Philosophers Problem: Dynamic Change Management.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    919 cites at Semantic Scholar
    920% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Yair Wand and Ron Weber:
    An Ontological Model of an Information System.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    709 cites at Semantic Scholar
    687% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Jean Arlat, Martine Aguera, Louis Amat, Yves Crouzet, Jean-Charles Fabre, Jean-Claude Laprie, Eliane Martins, and David Powell:
    Fault Injection for Dependability Validation: A Methodology and Some Applications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    644 cites at Semantic Scholar
    614% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Douglas R. Smith:
    KIDS: A Semiautomatic Program Development System.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    521 cites at Semantic Scholar
    478% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Andy Podgurski and Lori A. Clarke:
    A Formal Model of Program Dependences and Its Implications for Software Testing, Debugging, and Maintenance.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    452 cites at Semantic Scholar
    401% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Jia Xu and David Lorge Parnas:
    Scheduling Processes with Release Times, Deadlines, Precedence, and Exclusion Relations.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    406 cites at Semantic Scholar
    350% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Richard G. Hamlet and Ross Taylor:
    Partition Testing Does Not Inspire Confidence.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    403 cites at OpenAlex
    347% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Larry J. Morell:
    A Theory of Fault-Based Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    329 cites at Semantic Scholar
    265% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Yih-Farn Chen, Michael Y. Nishimoto, and C. V. Ramamoorthy:
    The C Information Abstraction System.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    312 cites at Semantic Scholar
    246% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Graham C. Low and D. Ross Jeffery:
    Function Points in the Estimation and Evaluation of the Software Process.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    254 cites at Semantic Scholar
    182% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Michele Angelaccio, Tiziana Catarci, and Giuseppe Santucci:
    QBD*: A Graphical Query Language with Recursion.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    194 cites at Semantic Scholar
    115% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Victor M. Markowitz and Johann A. Makowsky:
    Identifying Extended Entity-Relationship Object Structures in Relational Schemas.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    191 cites at Semantic Scholar
    112% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    James K. Mullin:
    Optimal Semijoins for Distributed Database Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    178 cites at Semantic Scholar
    97% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Susan S. Brilliant, John C. Knight, and Nancy G. Leveson:
    Analysis of Faults in an N-Version Software Experiment.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    173 cites at Semantic Scholar
    92% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Sarah Brocklehurst, P. Y. Chan, Bev Littlewood, and John Snell:
    Recalibrating Software Reliability Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    166 cites at Semantic Scholar
    84% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Jeffrey J. P. Tsai, Kwang-Ya Fang, Horng-Yuan Chen, and Yao-Dong Bi:
    A Noninterference Monitoring and Replay Mechanism for Real-Time Software Testing and Debugging.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    151 cites at Semantic Scholar
    68% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Rajiv Gupta and Mary Lou Soffa:
    Region Scheduling: An Approach for Detecting and Redistributing Parallelism.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    138 cites at Semantic Scholar
    53% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Nancy G. Leveson, Stephen S. Cha, John C. Knight, and Timothy J. Shimeall:
    The Use of Self Checks and Voting in Software Error Detection: An Empirical Study.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    138 cites at Semantic Scholar
    53% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Elaine J. Weyuker:
    The Cost of Data Flow Testing: An Empirical Study.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    132 cites at Semantic Scholar
    46% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Bogdan Korel:
    Automated Software Test Data Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    1083 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1101% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Jeff Kramer and Jeff Magee:
    The Evolving Philosophers Problem: Dynamic Change Management.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    919 cites at Semantic Scholar
    920% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Yair Wand and Ron Weber:
    An Ontological Model of an Information System.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    709 cites at Semantic Scholar
    687% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Jean Arlat, Martine Aguera, Louis Amat, Yves Crouzet, Jean-Charles Fabre, Jean-Claude Laprie, Eliane Martins, and David Powell:
    Fault Injection for Dependability Validation: A Methodology and Some Applications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    644 cites at Semantic Scholar
    614% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Douglas R. Smith:
    KIDS: A Semiautomatic Program Development System.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    521 cites at Semantic Scholar
    478% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Andy Podgurski and Lori A. Clarke:
    A Formal Model of Program Dependences and Its Implications for Software Testing, Debugging, and Maintenance.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    452 cites at Semantic Scholar
    401% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Jia Xu and David Lorge Parnas:
    Scheduling Processes with Release Times, Deadlines, Precedence, and Exclusion Relations.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    406 cites at Semantic Scholar
    350% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Richard G. Hamlet and Ross Taylor:
    Partition Testing Does Not Inspire Confidence.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    403 cites at OpenAlex
    347% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Larry J. Morell:
    A Theory of Fault-Based Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    329 cites at Semantic Scholar
    265% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Yih-Farn Chen, Michael Y. Nishimoto, and C. V. Ramamoorthy:
    The C Information Abstraction System.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    312 cites at Semantic Scholar
    246% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Graham C. Low and D. Ross Jeffery:
    Function Points in the Estimation and Evaluation of the Software Process.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    254 cites at Semantic Scholar
    182% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Michele Angelaccio, Tiziana Catarci, and Giuseppe Santucci:
    QBD*: A Graphical Query Language with Recursion.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    194 cites at Semantic Scholar
    115% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Victor M. Markowitz and Johann A. Makowsky:
    Identifying Extended Entity-Relationship Object Structures in Relational Schemas.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    191 cites at Semantic Scholar
    112% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    James K. Mullin:
    Optimal Semijoins for Distributed Database Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    178 cites at Semantic Scholar
    97% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Susan S. Brilliant, John C. Knight, and Nancy G. Leveson:
    Analysis of Faults in an N-Version Software Experiment.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    173 cites at Semantic Scholar
    92% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Sarah Brocklehurst, P. Y. Chan, Bev Littlewood, and John Snell:
    Recalibrating Software Reliability Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    166 cites at Semantic Scholar
    84% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Jeffrey J. P. Tsai, Kwang-Ya Fang, Horng-Yuan Chen, and Yao-Dong Bi:
    A Noninterference Monitoring and Replay Mechanism for Real-Time Software Testing and Debugging.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    151 cites at Semantic Scholar
    68% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Rajiv Gupta and Mary Lou Soffa:
    Region Scheduling: An Approach for Detecting and Redistributing Parallelism.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    138 cites at Semantic Scholar
    53% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Nancy G. Leveson, Stephen S. Cha, John C. Knight, and Timothy J. Shimeall:
    The Use of Self Checks and Voting in Software Error Detection: An Empirical Study.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    138 cites at Semantic Scholar
    53% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Elaine J. Weyuker:
    The Cost of Data Flow Testing: An Empirical Study.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    132 cites at Semantic Scholar
    46% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI