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Software Engineering Journal Papers from the 2010s

This webpage is an attempt to assemble a ranking of top-cited software engineering journal papers from the 2010s. 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 2010s normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    W. Eric Wong, Ruizhi Gao, Yihao Li, Rui Abreu, and Franz Wotawa:
    A Survey on Software Fault Localization.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    1091 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1758% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Earl T. Barr, Mark Harman, Phil McMinn, Muzammil Shahbaz, and Shin Yoo:
    The Oracle Problem in Software Testing: A Survey.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    1075 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1711% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Claire Le Goues, ThanhVu Nguyen, Stephanie Forrest, and Westley Weimer:
    GenProg: A Generic Method for Automatic Software Repair.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    1193 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1422% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Tracy Hall, Sarah Beecham, David Bowes, David Gray, and Steve Counsell:
    A Systematic Literature Review on Fault Prediction Performance in Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    1089 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1289% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Yue Jia and Mark Harman:
    An Analysis and Survey of the Development of Mutation Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    1700 cites at OpenAlex
    1235% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Anton Barua, Stephen W. Thomas, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    What Are Developers Talking About? An Analysis of Topics and Trends in Stack Overflow.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    613 cites at Semantic Scholar
    985% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Yasutaka Kamei, Emad Shihab, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Audris Mockus, Anand Sinha, and Naoyasu Ubayashi:
    A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Just-in-Time Quality Assurance.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    679 cites at Semantic Scholar
    850% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Shane McIntosh, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Kenichi Matsumoto:
    An Empirical Comparison of Model Validation Techniques for Defect Prediction Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    506 cites at Semantic Scholar
    828% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Sergio Segura, Gordon Fraser, Ana Belén Sánchez, and Antonio Ruiz Cortés:
    A Survey on Metamorphic Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    532 cites at Semantic Scholar
    806% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Naouel Moha, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Laurence Duchien, and Anne-Françoise Le Meur:
    DECOR: A Method for the Specification and Detection of Code and Design Smells.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    815 cites at Semantic Scholar
    797% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Gordon Fraser and Andrea Arcuri:
    Whole Test Suite Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    618 cites at Semantic Scholar
    764% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Michele Tufano, Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Rocco Oliveto, Massimiliano Di Penta, Andrea De Lucia, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
    When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad (and Whether the Smells Go Away).
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    469 cites at Semantic Scholar
    760% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Michele Tufano, Cody Watson, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Martin White, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
    An Empirical Study on Learning Bug-Fixing Patches in the Wild via Neural Machine Translation.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    440 cites at Semantic Scholar
    754% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Jifeng Xuan, Matias Martinez, Favio Demarco, Maxime Clement, Sebastian R. Lamelas Marcote, Thomas Durieux, Daniel Le Berre, and Martin Monperrus:
    Nopol: Automatic Repair of Conditional Statement Bugs in Java Programs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    462 cites at Semantic Scholar
    747% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    William J. Martin, Federica Sarro, Yue Jia, Yuanyuan Zhang, and Mark Harman:
    A Survey of App Store Analysis for Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    450 cites at Semantic Scholar
    725% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Marco D'Ambros, Michele Lanza, and Romain Robbes:
    Evaluating Defect Prediction Approaches: A Benchmark and an Extensive Comparison.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    606 cites at Semantic Scholar
    673% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Martin J. Shepperd, Qinbao Song, Zhongbin Sun, and Carolyn Mair:
    Data Quality: Some Comments on the NASA Software Defect Datasets.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    530 cites at Semantic Scholar
    641% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Shane McIntosh, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Kenichi Matsumoto:
    The Impact of Automated Parameter Optimization on Defect Prediction Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    381 cites at Semantic Scholar
    640% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Nuthan Munaiah, Steven Kroh, Craig Cabrey, and Meiyappan Nagappan:
    Curating GitHub for Engineered Software Projects.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    402 cites at Semantic Scholar
    637% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Mika V. Mäntylä, Marco Zanoni, and Alessandro Marino:
    Comparing and Experimenting Machine Learning Techniques for Code Smell Detection.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    422 cites at Semantic Scholar
    619% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Most frequent authors in the 2010s top 100 ⌄

  1. 1
    Ahmed E. Hassan
    9 papers in this ranking
  2. 2
    Mark Harman
    6 papers in this ranking
  3. 3
    Shane McIntosh
    5 papers in this ranking
  4. 4
    David Lo
    4 papers in this ranking
  5. 5
    Gabriele Bavota
    4 papers in this ranking
  6. 6
    Gordon Fraser
    4 papers in this ranking
  7. 7
    Massimiliano Di Penta
    4 papers in this ranking
  8. 8
    Thomas Zimmermann
    4 papers in this ranking
  9. 9
    Tim Menzies
    4 papers in this ranking
  10. 10
    Xin Xia
    4 papers in this ranking
  11. 11
    Andrea Arcuri
    3 papers in this ranking
  12. 12
    Andrea De Lucia
    3 papers in this ranking
  13. 13
    Burak Turhan
    3 papers in this ranking
  14. 14
    Daniel M. Germán
    3 papers in this ranking
  15. 15
    Denys Poshyvanyk
    3 papers in this ranking
  16. 16
    Emad Shihab
    3 papers in this ranking
  17. 17
    Fabio Palomba
    3 papers in this ranking
  18. 18
    Martin J. Shepperd
    3 papers in this ranking
  19. 19
    Martin Monperrus
    3 papers in this ranking
  20. 20
    Matias Martinez
    3 papers in this ranking

Top journal papers from 2019 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Michele Tufano, Cody Watson, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Martin White, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
    An Empirical Study on Learning Bug-Fixing Patches in the Wild via Neural Machine Translation.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    440 cites at Semantic Scholar
    754% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Shane McIntosh, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Kenichi Matsumoto:
    The Impact of Automated Parameter Optimization on Defect Prediction Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    381 cites at Semantic Scholar
    640% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Marcel Böhme, Van-Thuan Pham, and Abhik Roychoudhury:
    Coverage-Based Greybox Fuzzing as Markov Chain.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    339 cites at OpenAlex
    558% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Luca Gazzola, Daniela Micucci, and Leonardo Mariani:
    Automatic Software Repair: A Survey.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    318 cites at OpenAlex
    517% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, and Philippe Grosjean:
    An Empirical Comparison of Dependency Network Evolution in Seven Software Packaging Ecosystems.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    277 cites at Semantic Scholar
    438% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Seyedrebvar Hosseini, Burak Turhan, and Dimuthu Gunarathna:
    A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis on Cross Project Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    264 cites at Semantic Scholar
    413% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Qinbao Song, Yuchen Guo, and Martin J. Shepperd:
    A Comprehensive Investigation of the Role of Imbalanced Learning for Software Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    250 cites at Semantic Scholar
    385% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Andrea Arcuri:
    RESTful API Automated Test Case Generation with EvoMaster.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    239 cites at Semantic Scholar
    364% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Morakot Choetkiertikul, Hoa Khanh Dam, Truyen Tran, Trang Pham, Aditya Ghose, and Tim Menzies:
    A Deep Learning Model for Estimating Story Points.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    197 cites at Semantic Scholar
    283% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Jie Zhang, Lingming Zhang, Mark Harman, Dan Hao, Yue Jia, and Lu Zhang:
    Predictive Mutation Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    174 cites at Semantic Scholar
    238% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Johannes C. Hofmeister, Janet Siegmund, and Daniel V. Holt:
    Shorter Identifier Names Take Longer to Comprehend.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    135 cites at Semantic Scholar
    162% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Gede Artha Azriadi Prana, Christoph Treude, Ferdian Thung, Thushari Atapattu, and David Lo:
    Categorizing the Content of GitHub README Files.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    135 cites at Semantic Scholar
    162% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Dayi Lin, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Ying Zou, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    An Empirical Study of Game Reviews on the Steam Platform.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    133 cites at Semantic Scholar
    158% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Yuhao Wu, Shaowei Wang, Cor-Paul Bezemer, and Katsuro Inoue:
    How Do Developers Utilize Source Code from Stack Overflow?
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    130 cites at Semantic Scholar
    152% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Axel Halin, Alexandre Nuttinck, Mathieu Acher, Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin, and Benoit Baudry:
    Test Them All, Is It Worth It? Assessing Configuration Sampling on the JHipster Web Development Stack.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    126 cites at Semantic Scholar
    145% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Daniel Martens and Walid Maalej:
    Towards Understanding and Detecting Fake Reviews in App Stores.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    124 cites at Semantic Scholar
    141% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Sven Amann, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Sarah Nadi, Tien N. Nguyen, and Mira Mezini:
    A Systematic Evaluation of Static API-Misuse Detectors.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    119 cites at Semantic Scholar
    131% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Qiao Huang, Xin Xia, and David Lo:
    Revisiting Supervised and Unsupervised Models for Effort-Aware Just-in-Time Defect Prediction.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    119 cites at Semantic Scholar
    131% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Moritz Beller, Georgios Gousios, Annibale Panichella, Sebastian Proksch, Sven Amann, and Andy Zaidman:
    Developer Testing in the IDE: Patterns, Beliefs, and Behavior.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    113 cites at Semantic Scholar
    119% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Masanari Kondo, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Yasutaka Kamei, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Osamu Mizuno:
    The Impact of Feature Reduction Techniques on Defect Prediction Models.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    110 cites at Semantic Scholar
    114% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Shane McIntosh, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Kenichi Matsumoto:
    The Impact of Automated Parameter Optimization on Defect Prediction Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    381 cites at Semantic Scholar
    640% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Marcel Böhme, Van-Thuan Pham, and Abhik Roychoudhury:
    Coverage-Based Greybox Fuzzing as Markov Chain.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    339 cites at OpenAlex
    558% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Luca Gazzola, Daniela Micucci, and Leonardo Mariani:
    Automatic Software Repair: A Survey.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    318 cites at OpenAlex
    517% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Seyedrebvar Hosseini, Burak Turhan, and Dimuthu Gunarathna:
    A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis on Cross Project Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    264 cites at Semantic Scholar
    413% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Qinbao Song, Yuchen Guo, and Martin J. Shepperd:
    A Comprehensive Investigation of the Role of Imbalanced Learning for Software Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    250 cites at Semantic Scholar
    385% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Morakot Choetkiertikul, Hoa Khanh Dam, Truyen Tran, Trang Pham, Aditya Ghose, and Tim Menzies:
    A Deep Learning Model for Estimating Story Points.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    197 cites at Semantic Scholar
    283% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Jie Zhang, Lingming Zhang, Mark Harman, Dan Hao, Yue Jia, and Lu Zhang:
    Predictive Mutation Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    174 cites at Semantic Scholar
    238% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Sven Amann, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Sarah Nadi, Tien N. Nguyen, and Mira Mezini:
    A Systematic Evaluation of Static API-Misuse Detectors.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    119 cites at Semantic Scholar
    131% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Moritz Beller, Georgios Gousios, Annibale Panichella, Sebastian Proksch, Sven Amann, and Andy Zaidman:
    Developer Testing in the IDE: Patterns, Beliefs, and Behavior.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    113 cites at Semantic Scholar
    119% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Fabio Palomba, Marco Zanoni, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Andrea De Lucia, and Rocco Oliveto:
    Toward a Smell-Aware Bug Prediction Model.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    109 cites at Semantic Scholar
    112% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Steffen Herbold, Alexander Trautsch, and Jens Grabowski:
    Correction of "A Comparative Study to Benchmark Cross-Project Defect Prediction Approaches".
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    103 cites at Semantic Scholar
    100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Simone Scalabrino, Gabriele Bavota, Barbara Russo, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Rocco Oliveto:
    Listening to the Crowd for the Release Planning of Mobile Apps.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    91 cites at Semantic Scholar
    77% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Fayola Peters, Thein Than Tun, Yijun Yu, and Bashar Nuseibeh:
    Text Filtering and Ranking for Security Bug Report Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    89 cites at Semantic Scholar
    73% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Zhiqiang Li, Xiao-Yuan Jing, Xiaoke Zhu, Hongyu Zhang, Baowen Xu, and Shi Ying:
    On the Multiple Sources and Privacy Preservation Issues for Heterogeneous Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    87 cites at Semantic Scholar
    69% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Paul Ralph:
    Toward Methodological Guidelines for Process Theories and Taxonomies in Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    86 cites at Semantic Scholar
    67% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Rahul Krishna and Tim Menzies:
    Bellwethers: A Baseline Method for Transfer Learning.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    82 cites at Semantic Scholar
    59% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Reza Matinnejad, Shiva Nejati, Lionel C. Briand, and Thomas Bruckmann:
    Test Generation and Test Prioritization for Simulink Models with Dynamic Behavior.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    81 cites at Semantic Scholar
    57% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Sylvain Frey, Awais Rashid, Pauline Anthonysamy, Maria Pinto-Albuquerque, and Syed Asad Naqvi:
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Study of Security Decisions in a Cyber-Physical Systems Game.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    80 cites at Semantic Scholar
    55% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Meng Yan, Xin Xia, Emad Shihab, David Lo, Jianwei Yin, and Xiaohu Yang:
    Automating Change-Level Self-Admitted Technical Debt Determination.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    73 cites at Semantic Scholar
    42% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Jianfeng Chen, Vivek Nair, Rahul Krishna, and Tim Menzies:
    "Sampling" as a Baseline Optimizer for Search-Based Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    71 cites at Semantic Scholar
    38% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TOSEM ⌄

  1. 1
    Michele Tufano, Cody Watson, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Martin White, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
    An Empirical Study on Learning Bug-Fixing Patches in the Wild via Neural Machine Translation.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    440 cites at Semantic Scholar
    754% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Andrea Arcuri:
    RESTful API Automated Test Case Generation with EvoMaster.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    239 cites at Semantic Scholar
    364% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Xiaoxue Ren, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia, David Lo, Xinyu Wang, and John Grundy:
    Neural Network-Based Detection of Self-Admitted Technical Debt: From Performance to Explainability.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    95 cites at Semantic Scholar
    84% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Stefan Wagner, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Michael Felderer, Antonio Vetrò, Marcos Kalinowski, Roel J. Wieringa, Dietmar Pfahl, Tayana Conte, Marie-Therese Christiansson, Desmond Greer, Casper Lassenius, Tomi Männistö, Maleknaz Nayebi, Markku Oivo, Birgit Penzenstadler, Rafael Prikladnicki, Guenther Ruhe, André Schekelmann, Sagar Sen, Rodrigo O. Spínola, Ahmet Tuzcu, Jose Luis de la Vara, and Dietmar Winkler:
    Status Quo in Requirements Engineering: A Theory and a Global Family of Surveys.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    88 cites at Semantic Scholar
    71% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Yue Li, Tian Tan, and Jingling Xue:
    Understanding and Analyzing Java Reflection.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    66 cites at Semantic Scholar
    28% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Yunho Kim, Seokhyeon Mun, Shin Yoo, and Moonzoo Kim:
    Precise Learn-to-Rank Fault Localization Using Dynamic and Static Features of Target Programs.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    49 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -5% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    He Jiang, Jingxuan Zhang, Xiaochen Li, Zhilei Ren, David Lo, Xindong Wu, and Zhongxuan Luo:
    Recommending New Features from Mobile App Descriptions.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    47 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -9% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Chetan Arora, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Shiva Nejati, and Lionel C. Briand:
    An Active Learning Approach for Improving the Accuracy of Automated Domain Model Extraction.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    39 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -24% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Abdul Razzaq, Asanka Wasala, Chris Exton, and Jim Buckley:
    The State of Empirical Evaluation in Static Feature Location.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    32 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -38% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Cong Tian, Chu Chen, Zhenhua Duan, and Liang Zhao:
    Differential Testing of Certificate Validation in SSL/TLS Implementations: An RFC-Guided Approach.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    30 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -42% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Pengfei Gao, Jun Zhang, Fu Song, and Chao Wang:
    Verifying and Quantifying Side-Channel Resistance of Masked Software Implementations.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    29 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -44% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Liyan Song, Leandro L. Minku, and Xin Yao:
    Software Effort Interval Prediction via Bayesian Inference and Synthetic Bootstrap Resampling.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    22 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -57% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Dines Bjørner:
    Domain Analysis and Description Principles, Techniques, and Modelling Languages.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    12 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -77% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Samuel J. Ellis, Titus H. Klinge, James I. Lathrop, Jack H. Lutz, Robyn R. Lutz, Andrew S. Miner, and Hugh D. Potter:
    Runtime Fault Detection in Programmed Molecular Systems.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    12 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -77% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Chunhui Wang, Fabrizio Pastore, and Lionel C. Briand:
    Oracles for Testing Software Timeliness with Uncertainty.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    12 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -77% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Porfirio Tramontana, Domenico Amalfitano, Nicola Amatucci, Atif M. Memon, and Anna Rita Fasolino:
    Developing and Evaluating Objective Termination Criteria for Random Testing.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    11 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -79% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Christoph Czepa and Uwe Zdun:
    How Understandable Are Pattern-Based Behavioral Constraints for Novice Software Designers?
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    10 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -81% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Feng Sheng, Huibiao Zhu, Jifeng He, Zongyuan Yang, and Jonathan P. Bowen:
    Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Linking Operational and Algebraic Semantics for MDESL.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    9 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -83% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Pedro Antonino, Thomas Gibson-Robinson, and A. W. Roscoe:
    Efficient Verification of Concurrent Systems Using Synchronisation Analysis and SAT/SMT Solving.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    6 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -88% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Carlo Bernaschina, Emanuele Falzone, Piero Fraternali, and Sergio Luis Herrera Gonzalez:
    The Virtual Developer: Integrating Code Generation and Manual Development with Conflict Resolution.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
    6 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -88% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

EMSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, and Philippe Grosjean:
    An Empirical Comparison of Dependency Network Evolution in Seven Software Packaging Ecosystems.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    277 cites at Semantic Scholar
    438% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Johannes C. Hofmeister, Janet Siegmund, and Daniel V. Holt:
    Shorter Identifier Names Take Longer to Comprehend.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    135 cites at Semantic Scholar
    162% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Gede Artha Azriadi Prana, Christoph Treude, Ferdian Thung, Thushari Atapattu, and David Lo:
    Categorizing the Content of GitHub README Files.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    135 cites at Semantic Scholar
    162% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Dayi Lin, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Ying Zou, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    An Empirical Study of Game Reviews on the Steam Platform.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    133 cites at Semantic Scholar
    158% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Yuhao Wu, Shaowei Wang, Cor-Paul Bezemer, and Katsuro Inoue:
    How Do Developers Utilize Source Code from Stack Overflow?
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    130 cites at Semantic Scholar
    152% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Axel Halin, Alexandre Nuttinck, Mathieu Acher, Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin, and Benoit Baudry:
    Test Them All, Is It Worth It? Assessing Configuration Sampling on the JHipster Web Development Stack.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    126 cites at Semantic Scholar
    145% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Daniel Martens and Walid Maalej:
    Towards Understanding and Detecting Fake Reviews in App Stores.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    124 cites at Semantic Scholar
    141% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Qiao Huang, Xin Xia, and David Lo:
    Revisiting Supervised and Unsupervised Models for Effort-Aware Just-in-Time Defect Prediction.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    119 cites at Semantic Scholar
    131% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Masanari Kondo, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Yasutaka Kamei, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Osamu Mizuno:
    The Impact of Feature Reduction Techniques on Defect Prediction Models.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    110 cites at Semantic Scholar
    114% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Luis Cruz and Rui Abreu:
    Catalog of Energy Patterns for Mobile Applications.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    103 cites at Semantic Scholar
    100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Sebastian Baltes and Stephan Diehl:
    Usage and Attribution of Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    98 cites at Semantic Scholar
    90% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Eriks Klotins, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, and Tony Gorschek:
    Software Engineering in Start-up Companies: An Analysis of 88 Experience Reports.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    97 cites at Semantic Scholar
    88% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Nishant Jha and Anas Mahmoud:
    Mining Non-Functional Requirements from App Store Reviews.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    96 cites at Semantic Scholar
    86% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Amiangshu Bosu, Anindya Iqbal, Rifat Shahriyar, and Partha Chakraborty:
    Understanding the Motivations, Challenges and Needs of Blockchain Software Developers: A Survey.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    95 cites at Semantic Scholar
    84% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Taher Ahmed Ghaleb, Daniel Alencar da Costa, and Ying Zou:
    An Empirical Study of the Long Duration of Continuous Integration Builds.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    95 cites at Semantic Scholar
    84% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Anna May, Johannes Wachs, and Anikó Hannák:
    Gender Differences in Participation and Reward on Stack Overflow.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    95 cites at Semantic Scholar
    84% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Kwabena Ebo Bennin, Jacky W. Keung, and Akito Monden:
    On the Relative Value of Data Resampling Approaches for Software Defect Prediction.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    80 cites at Semantic Scholar
    55% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Toshiki Mori and Naoshi Uchihira:
    Balancing the Trade-off Between Accuracy and Interpretability in Software Defect Prediction.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    79 cites at Semantic Scholar
    53% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Zhongxing Yu, Matias Martinez, Benjamin Danglot, Thomas Durieux, and Martin Monperrus:
    Alleviating Patch Overfitting with Automatic Test Generation: A Study of Feasibility and Effectiveness for the Nopol Repair System.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    78 cites at Semantic Scholar
    51% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul and Jens Krinke:
    Siamese: Scalable and Incremental Code Clone Search via Multiple Code Representations.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2019
    76 cites at Semantic Scholar
    48% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 2018 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Raula Gaikovina Kula, Daniel M. Germán, Ali Ouni, Takashi Ishio, and Katsuro Inoue:
    Do Developers Update Their Library Dependencies? - An Empirical Study on the Impact of Security Advisories on Library Migration.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    362 cites at Semantic Scholar
    542% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Annibale Panichella, Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew, and Paolo Tonella:
    Automated Test Case Generation as a Many-Objective Optimisation Problem with Dynamic Selection of the Targets.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    337 cites at Semantic Scholar
    498% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Fausto Fasano, Rocco Oliveto, and Andrea De Lucia:
    On the Diffuseness and the Impact on Maintainability of Code Smells: A Large Scale Empirical Investigation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    329 cites at Semantic Scholar
    484% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Xin Xia, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo, Zhenchang Xing, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Shanping Li:
    Measuring Program Comprehension: A Large-Scale Field Study with Professionals.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    313 cites at OpenAlex
    455% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Kwabena Ebo Bennin, Jacky Keung, Passakorn Phannachitta, Akito Monden, and Solomon Mensah:
    MAHAKIL: Diversity Based Oversampling Approach to Alleviate the Class Imbalance Issue in Software Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    290 cites at OpenAlex
    415% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Klaas-Jan Stol and Brian Fitzgerald:
    The ABC of Software Engineering Research.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    277 cites at Semantic Scholar
    391% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Jaechang Nam, Wei Fu, Sunghun Kim, Tim Menzies, and Lin Tan:
    Heterogeneous Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    275 cites at OpenAlex
    388% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Fabio Calefato, Filippo Lanubile, Federico Maiorano, and Nicole Novielli:
    Sentiment Polarity Detection for Software Development.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    250 cites at Semantic Scholar
    344% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Davide Falessi, Natalia Juristo, Claes Wohlin, Burak Turhan, Jürgen Münch, Andreas Jedlitschka, and Markku Oivo:
    Empirical Software Engineering Experts on the Use of Students and Professionals in Experiments.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    240 cites at Semantic Scholar
    326% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Torgeir Dingsøyr, Nils Brede Moe, Tor Erlend Fægri, and Eva Amdahl Seim:
    Exploring Software Development at the Very Large-Scale: A Revelatory Case Study and Research Agenda for Agile Method Adaptation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    225 cites at Semantic Scholar
    299% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Shane McIntosh and Yasutaka Kamei:
    Are Fix-Inducing Changes a Moving Target? A Longitudinal Case Study of Just-In-Time Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    217 cites at Semantic Scholar
    285% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Irit Hadar, Tomer Hasson, Oshrat Ayalon, Eran Toch, Michael Birnhack, Sofia Sherman, and Arod Balissa:
    Privacy by Designers: Software Developers' Privacy Mindset.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    214 cites at Semantic Scholar
    280% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Steffen Herbold, Alexander Trautsch, and Jens Grabowski:
    A Comparative Study to Benchmark Cross-Project Defect Prediction Approaches.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    207 cites at OpenAlex
    267% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Robert DeLine, and Andrew Begel:
    Data Scientists in Software Teams: State of the Art and Challenges.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    204 cites at OpenAlex
    262% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Joshua Garcia, Mahmoud Hammad, and Sam Malek:
    Lightweight, Obfuscation-Resilient Detection and Family Identification of Android Malware.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    182 cites at Semantic Scholar
    223% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Yuming Zhou, Yibiao Yang, Hongmin Lu, Lin Chen, Yanhui Li, Yangyang Zhao, Junyan Qian, and Baowen Xu:
    How Far We Have Progressed in the Journey? An Examination of Cross-Project Defect Prediction.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    174 cites at Semantic Scholar
    209% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Qiao Huang, Emad Shihab, Xin Xia, David Lo, and Shanping Li:
    Identifying Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Open Source Projects Using Text Mining.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    174 cites at Semantic Scholar
    209% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Radu Calinescu, Danny Weyns, Simos Gerasimou, Muhammad Usman Iftikhar, Ibrahim Habli, and Tim Kelly:
    Engineering Trustworthy Self-Adaptive Software with Dynamic Assurance Cases.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    171 cites at Semantic Scholar
    203% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Maria Paasivaara, Benjamin Behm, Casper Lassenius, and Minna Hallikainen:
    Large-Scale Agile Transformation at Ericsson: A Case Study.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    154 cites at Semantic Scholar
    173% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Sergio Segura, José Antonio Parejo, Javier Troya, and Antonio Ruiz Cortés:
    Metamorphic Testing of RESTful Web APIs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    137 cites at Semantic Scholar
    143% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Annibale Panichella, Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew, and Paolo Tonella:
    Automated Test Case Generation as a Many-Objective Optimisation Problem with Dynamic Selection of the Targets.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    337 cites at Semantic Scholar
    498% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Xin Xia, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo, Zhenchang Xing, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Shanping Li:
    Measuring Program Comprehension: A Large-Scale Field Study with Professionals.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    313 cites at OpenAlex
    455% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Kwabena Ebo Bennin, Jacky Keung, Passakorn Phannachitta, Akito Monden, and Solomon Mensah:
    MAHAKIL: Diversity Based Oversampling Approach to Alleviate the Class Imbalance Issue in Software Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    290 cites at OpenAlex
    415% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Jaechang Nam, Wei Fu, Sunghun Kim, Tim Menzies, and Lin Tan:
    Heterogeneous Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    275 cites at OpenAlex
    388% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Shane McIntosh and Yasutaka Kamei:
    Are Fix-Inducing Changes a Moving Target? A Longitudinal Case Study of Just-In-Time Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    217 cites at Semantic Scholar
    285% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Steffen Herbold, Alexander Trautsch, and Jens Grabowski:
    A Comparative Study to Benchmark Cross-Project Defect Prediction Approaches.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    207 cites at OpenAlex
    267% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Robert DeLine, and Andrew Begel:
    Data Scientists in Software Teams: State of the Art and Challenges.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    204 cites at OpenAlex
    262% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Radu Calinescu, Danny Weyns, Simos Gerasimou, Muhammad Usman Iftikhar, Ibrahim Habli, and Tim Kelly:
    Engineering Trustworthy Self-Adaptive Software with Dynamic Assurance Cases.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    171 cites at Semantic Scholar
    203% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Sergio Segura, José Antonio Parejo, Javier Troya, and Antonio Ruiz Cortés:
    Metamorphic Testing of RESTful Web APIs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    137 cites at Semantic Scholar
    143% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Dario Di Nucci, Fabio Palomba, Giuseppe De Rosa, Gabriele Bavota, Rocco Oliveto, and Andrea De Lucia:
    A Developer Centered Bug Prediction Model.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    123 cites at Semantic Scholar
    118% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Saskia Bick, Kai Spohrer, Rashina Hoda, Alexander Scheerer, and Armin Heinzl:
    Coordination Challenges in Large-Scale Software Development: A Case Study of Planning Misalignment in Hybrid Settings.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    115 cites at Semantic Scholar
    104% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Marinos Kintis, Mike Papadakis, Yue Jia, Nicos Malevris, Yves Le Traon, and Mark Harman:
    Detecting Trivial Mutant Equivalences via Compiler Optimisations.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    96 cites at Semantic Scholar
    70% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Jehad Al Dallal and Anas Abdin:
    Empirical Evaluation of the Impact of Object-Oriented Code Refactoring on Quality Attributes: A Systematic Literature Review.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    94 cites at Semantic Scholar
    67% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Mirco Franzago, Davide Di Ruscio, Ivano Malavolta, and Henry Muccini:
    Collaborative Model-Driven Software Engineering: A Classification Framework and a Research Map.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    94 cites at OpenAlex
    67% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Stepan Shevtsov, Mihaly Berekmeri, Danny Weyns, and Martina Maggio:
    Control-Theoretical Software Adaptation: A Systematic Literature Review.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    87 cites at Semantic Scholar
    54% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Rodrigo Morales, Rubén Saborido, Foutse Khomh, Francisco Chicano, and Giuliano Antoniol:
    EARMO: An Energy-Aware Refactoring Approach for Mobile Apps.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    81 cites at OpenAlex
    44% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Luciano García-Bañuelos, Nick van Beest, Marlon Dumas, Marcello La Rosa, and Willem Mertens:
    Complete and Interpretable Conformance Checking of Business Processes.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    79 cites at Semantic Scholar
    40% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Fabio Palomba, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Rocco Oliveto, and Andrea De Lucia:
    The Scent of a Smell: An Extensive Comparison Between Textual and Structural Smells.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    77 cites at OpenAlex
    37% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Thibaud Lutellier, Devin Chollak, Joshua Garcia, Lin Tan, Derek Rayside, Nenad Medvidovic, and Robert Kroeger:
    Measuring the Impact of Code Dependencies on Software Architecture Recovery Techniques.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    73 cites at Semantic Scholar
    30% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Abhijeet Banerjee, Lee Kee Chong, Clément Ballabriga, and Abhik Roychoudhury:
    EnergyPatch: Repairing Resource Leaks to Improve Energy-Efficiency of Android Apps.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2018
    64 cites at Semantic Scholar
    14% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TOSEM ⌄

  1. 1
    Klaas-Jan Stol and Brian Fitzgerald:
    The ABC of Software Engineering Research.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    277 cites at Semantic Scholar
    391% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Joshua Garcia, Mahmoud Hammad, and Sam Malek:
    Lightweight, Obfuscation-Resilient Detection and Family Identification of Android Malware.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    182 cites at Semantic Scholar
    223% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Yuming Zhou, Yibiao Yang, Hongmin Lu, Lin Chen, Yanhui Li, Yangyang Zhao, Junyan Qian, and Baowen Xu:
    How Far We Have Progressed in the Journey? An Examination of Cross-Project Defect Prediction.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    174 cites at Semantic Scholar
    209% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Iago Abal, Jean Melo, Stefan Stanciulescu, Claus Brabrand, Márcio Ribeiro, and Andrzej Wasowski:
    Variability Bugs in Highly Configurable Systems: A Qualitative Analysis.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    107 cites at Semantic Scholar
    90% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Yi Xiang, Yuren Zhou, Zibin Zheng, and Miqing Li:
    Configuring Software Product Lines by Combining Many-Objective Optimization and SAT Solvers.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    80 cites at Semantic Scholar
    42% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Alexander von Rhein, Jörg Liebig, Andreas Janker, Christian Kästner, and Sven Apel:
    Variability-Aware Static Analysis at Scale: An Empirical Study.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    69 cites at Semantic Scholar
    22% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Tao Chen, Ke Li, Rami Bahsoon, and Xin Yao:
    FEMOSAA: Feature-Guided and Knee-Driven Multi-Objective Optimization for Self-Adaptive Software.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    60 cites at Semantic Scholar
    6% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Sergey Mechtaev, Xiang Gao, Shin Hwei Tan, and Abhik Roychoudhury:
    Test-Equivalence Analysis for Automatic Patch Generation.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    52 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -8% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Federica Sarro and Alessio Petrozziello:
    Linear Programming as a Baseline for Software Effort Estimation.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    52 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -8% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Yuanyuan Zhang, Mark Harman, Gabriela Ochoa, Guenther Ruhe, and Sjaak Brinkkemper:
    An Empirical Study of Meta- and Hyper-Heuristic Search for Multi-Objective Release Planning.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    51 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -10% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Javier Troya, Sergio Segura, José Antonio Parejo, and Antonio Ruiz Cortés:
    Spectrum-Based Fault Localization in Model Transformations.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    46 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -18% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Marcel Böhme:
    STADS: Software Testing as Species Discovery.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    35 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -38% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Andrea De Lucia, Vincenzo Deufemia, Carmine Gravino, and Michele Risi:
    Detecting the Behavior of Design Patterns Through Model Checking and Dynamic Analysis.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    30 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -47% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Tomasz Kuchta, Hristina Palikareva, and Cristian Cadar:
    Shadow Symbolic Execution for Testing Software Patches.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    28 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -50% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Mario Linares-Vásquez, Gabriele Bavota, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
    Multi-Objective Optimization of Energy Consumption of GUIs in Android Apps.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    27 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -52% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Seyedeh Sepideh Emam and James Miller:
    Inferring Extended Probabilistic Finite-State Automaton Models from Software Executions.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    25 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -56% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Juan de Lara and Esther Guerra:
    Refactoring Multi-Level Models.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    21 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -63% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Santiago A. Vidal, Iñaki berra, Santiago Zulliani, Claudia A. Marcos, and J. Andrés Díaz Pace:
    Assessing the Refactoring of Brain Methods.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    17 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -70% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Adrián Riesco and Kazuhiro Ogata:
    Prove It! Inferring Formal Proof Scripts from CafeOBJ Proof Scores.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    15 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -73% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Khanh Nguyen, Kai Wang, Yingyi Bu, Lu Fang, and Guoqing Xu:
    Understanding and Combating Memory Bloat in Managed Data-Intensive Systems.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018
    8 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -86% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

EMSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Raula Gaikovina Kula, Daniel M. Germán, Ali Ouni, Takashi Ishio, and Katsuro Inoue:
    Do Developers Update Their Library Dependencies? - An Empirical Study on the Impact of Security Advisories on Library Migration.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    362 cites at Semantic Scholar
    542% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Fausto Fasano, Rocco Oliveto, and Andrea De Lucia:
    On the Diffuseness and the Impact on Maintainability of Code Smells: A Large Scale Empirical Investigation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    329 cites at Semantic Scholar
    484% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Fabio Calefato, Filippo Lanubile, Federico Maiorano, and Nicole Novielli:
    Sentiment Polarity Detection for Software Development.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    250 cites at Semantic Scholar
    344% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Davide Falessi, Natalia Juristo, Claes Wohlin, Burak Turhan, Jürgen Münch, Andreas Jedlitschka, and Markku Oivo:
    Empirical Software Engineering Experts on the Use of Students and Professionals in Experiments.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    240 cites at Semantic Scholar
    326% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Torgeir Dingsøyr, Nils Brede Moe, Tor Erlend Fægri, and Eva Amdahl Seim:
    Exploring Software Development at the Very Large-Scale: A Revelatory Case Study and Research Agenda for Agile Method Adaptation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    225 cites at Semantic Scholar
    299% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Irit Hadar, Tomer Hasson, Oshrat Ayalon, Eran Toch, Michael Birnhack, Sofia Sherman, and Arod Balissa:
    Privacy by Designers: Software Developers' Privacy Mindset.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    214 cites at Semantic Scholar
    280% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Qiao Huang, Emad Shihab, Xin Xia, David Lo, and Shanping Li:
    Identifying Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Open Source Projects Using Text Mining.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    174 cites at Semantic Scholar
    209% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Maria Paasivaara, Benjamin Behm, Casper Lassenius, and Minna Hallikainen:
    Large-Scale Agile Transformation at Ericsson: A Case Study.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    154 cites at Semantic Scholar
    173% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Jianmei Guo, Dingyu Yang, Norbert Siegmund, Sven Apel, Atrisha Sarkar, Pavel Valov, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Andrzej Wasowski, and Huiqun Yu:
    Data-Efficient Performance Learning for Configurable Systems.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    134 cites at Semantic Scholar
    138% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Jens Krinke, and David Clark:
    A Comparison of Code Similarity Analysers.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    134 cites at Semantic Scholar
    138% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Suhas Kabinna, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Weiyi Shang, Mark D. Syer, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    Examining the Stability of Logging Statements.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    129 cites at Semantic Scholar
    129% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Xuan-Bach Dinh Le, Ferdian Thung, David Lo, and Claire Le Goues:
    Overfitting in Semantics-Based Automated Program Repair.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    115 cites at Semantic Scholar
    104% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Alessio Ferrari, Gloria Gori, Benedetta Rosadini, Iacopo Trotta, Stefano Bacherini, Alessandro Fantechi, and Stefania Gnesi:
    Detecting Requirements Defects with NLP Patterns: An Industrial Experience in the Railway Domain.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    97 cites at Semantic Scholar
    72% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Safwat Hassan, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Cor-Paul Bezemer, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    Studying the Dialogue Between Users and Developers of Free Apps in the Google Play Store.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    94 cites at Semantic Scholar
    67% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Yuanrui Fan, Xin Xia, David Lo, and Shanping Li:
    Early Prediction of Merged Code Changes to Prioritize Reviewing Tasks.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    84 cites at Semantic Scholar
    49% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Shaowei Wang, David Lo, Bogdan Vasilescu, and Alexander Serebrenik:
    EnTagRec ++: An Enhanced Tag Recommendation System for Software Information Sites.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    81 cites at OpenAlex
    44% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Andrea Arcuri:
    An Experience Report on Applying Software Testing Academic Results in Industry: We Need Usable Automated Test Generation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    78 cites at Semantic Scholar
    38% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Mauricio Finavaro Aniche, Gabriele Bavota, Christoph Treude, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, and Arie van Deursen:
    Code Smells for Model-View-Controller Architectures.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    77 cites at Semantic Scholar
    37% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Zhe Yu, Nicholas A. Kraft, and Tim Menzies:
    Finding Better Active Learners for Faster Literature Reviews.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    77 cites at Semantic Scholar
    37% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Shaowei Wang, Tse-Hsun Chen, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    Understanding the Factors for Fast Answers in Technical Q&A Websites - An Empirical Study of Four Stack Exchange Websites.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
    76 cites at Semantic Scholar
    35% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 2017 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Shane McIntosh, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Kenichi Matsumoto:
    An Empirical Comparison of Model Validation Techniques for Defect Prediction Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    506 cites at Semantic Scholar
    828% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Michele Tufano, Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Rocco Oliveto, Massimiliano Di Penta, Andrea De Lucia, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
    When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad (and Whether the Smells Go Away).
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    469 cites at Semantic Scholar
    760% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Jifeng Xuan, Matias Martinez, Favio Demarco, Maxime Clement, Sebastian R. Lamelas Marcote, Thomas Durieux, Daniel Le Berre, and Martin Monperrus:
    Nopol: Automatic Repair of Conditional Statement Bugs in Java Programs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    462 cites at Semantic Scholar
    747% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    William J. Martin, Federica Sarro, Yue Jia, Yuanyuan Zhang, and Mark Harman:
    A Survey of App Store Analysis for Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    450 cites at Semantic Scholar
    725% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Nuthan Munaiah, Steven Kroh, Craig Cabrey, and Meiyappan Nagappan:
    Curating GitHub for Engineered Software Projects.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    402 cites at Semantic Scholar
    637% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Matias Martinez, Thomas Durieux, Romain Sommerard, Jifeng Xuan, and Martin Monperrus:
    Automatic Repair of Real Bugs in Java: A Large-Scale Experiment on the Defects4j Dataset.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    263 cites at Semantic Scholar
    382% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Daniel Méndez Fernández, Stefan Wagner, Marcos Kalinowski, Michael Felderer, Priscilla Mafra, Antonio Vetrò, Tayana Conte, Marie-Therese Christiansson, Des Greer, Casper Lassenius, Tomi Männistö, M. Nayabi, Markku Oivo, Birgit Penzenstadler, Dietmar Pfahl, Rafael Prikladnicki, Günther Ruhe, André Schekelmann, Sagar Sen, Rodrigo O. Spínola, Ahmet Tuzcu, Jose Luis de la Vara, and Roel J. Wieringa:
    Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering - Contemporary Problems, Causes, and Effects in Practice.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    244 cites at Semantic Scholar
    347% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Everton da S. Maldonado, Emad Shihab, and Nikolaos Tsantalis:
    Using Natural Language Processing to Automatically Detect Self-Admitted Technical Debt.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    221 cites at Semantic Scholar
    305% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Alexey Zagalsky, Fernando Marques Figueira Filho, Leif Singer, and Daniel M. Germán:
    How Social and Communication Channels Shape and Challenge a Participatory Culture in Software Development.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    202 cites at Semantic Scholar
    270% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Daniel Alencar da Costa, Shane McIntosh, Weiyi Shang, Uirá Kulesza, Roberta Coelho, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    A Framework for Evaluating the Results of the SZZ Approach for Identifying Bug-Introducing Changes.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    201 cites at Semantic Scholar
    269% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Xin Xia, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Zhenchang Xing:
    What Do Developers Search for on the Web?
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    183 cites at Semantic Scholar
    236% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Robbert Jongeling, Proshanta Sarkar, Subhajit Datta, and Alexander Serebrenik:
    On Negative Results When Using Sentiment Analysis Tools for Software Engineering Research.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    178 cites at Semantic Scholar
    226% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Xin Xia, David Lo, Ying Ding, Jafar M. Al-Kofahi, Tien N. Nguyen, and Xinyu Wang:
    Improving Automated Bug Triaging with Specialized Topic Model.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    173 cites at Semantic Scholar
    217% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Xiao-Yuan Jing, Fei Wu, Xiwei Dong, and Baowen Xu:
    An Improved SDA Based Defect Prediction Framework for Both Within-Project and Cross-Project Class-Imbalance Problems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    170 cites at Semantic Scholar
    212% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Marco Kuhrmann, Daniel Méndez Fernández, and Maya Daneva:
    On the Pragmatic Design of Literature Studies in Software Engineering: An Experience-Based Guideline.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    164 cites at Semantic Scholar
    201% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    André N. Meyer, Laura E. Barton, Gail C. Murphy, Thomas Zimmermann, and Thomas Fritz:
    The Work Life of Developers: Activities, Switches and Perceived Productivity.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    162 cites at Semantic Scholar
    197% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Amiangshu Bosu, Jeffrey C. Carver, Christian Bird, Jonathan D. Orbeck, and Christopher Chockley:
    Process Aspects and Social Dynamics of Contemporary Code Review: Insights from Open Source Development and Industrial Practice at Microsoft.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    150 cites at Semantic Scholar
    175% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Alireza Sadeghi, Hamid Bagheri, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek:
    A Taxonomy and Qualitative Comparison of Program Analysis Techniques for Security Assessment of Android Software.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    143 cites at Semantic Scholar
    162% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Lannan Luo, Jiang Ming, Dinghao Wu, Peng Liu, and Sencun Zhu:
    Semantics-Based Obfuscation-Resilient Binary Code Similarity Comparison with Applications to Software and Algorithm Plagiarism Detection.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    138 cites at Semantic Scholar
    153% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Jing Jiang, David Lo, Jia-Huan He, Xin Xia, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, and Li Zhang:
    Why and How Developers Fork What from Whom in GitHub.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    129 cites at Semantic Scholar
    137% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Shane McIntosh, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Kenichi Matsumoto:
    An Empirical Comparison of Model Validation Techniques for Defect Prediction Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    506 cites at Semantic Scholar
    828% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Michele Tufano, Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Rocco Oliveto, Massimiliano Di Penta, Andrea De Lucia, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
    When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad (and Whether the Smells Go Away).
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    469 cites at Semantic Scholar
    760% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Jifeng Xuan, Matias Martinez, Favio Demarco, Maxime Clement, Sebastian R. Lamelas Marcote, Thomas Durieux, Daniel Le Berre, and Martin Monperrus:
    Nopol: Automatic Repair of Conditional Statement Bugs in Java Programs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    462 cites at Semantic Scholar
    747% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    William J. Martin, Federica Sarro, Yue Jia, Yuanyuan Zhang, and Mark Harman:
    A Survey of App Store Analysis for Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    450 cites at Semantic Scholar
    725% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Everton da S. Maldonado, Emad Shihab, and Nikolaos Tsantalis:
    Using Natural Language Processing to Automatically Detect Self-Admitted Technical Debt.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    221 cites at Semantic Scholar
    305% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Alexey Zagalsky, Fernando Marques Figueira Filho, Leif Singer, and Daniel M. Germán:
    How Social and Communication Channels Shape and Challenge a Participatory Culture in Software Development.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    202 cites at Semantic Scholar
    270% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Daniel Alencar da Costa, Shane McIntosh, Weiyi Shang, Uirá Kulesza, Roberta Coelho, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    A Framework for Evaluating the Results of the SZZ Approach for Identifying Bug-Introducing Changes.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    201 cites at Semantic Scholar
    269% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Xin Xia, David Lo, Ying Ding, Jafar M. Al-Kofahi, Tien N. Nguyen, and Xinyu Wang:
    Improving Automated Bug Triaging with Specialized Topic Model.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    173 cites at Semantic Scholar
    217% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Xiao-Yuan Jing, Fei Wu, Xiwei Dong, and Baowen Xu:
    An Improved SDA Based Defect Prediction Framework for Both Within-Project and Cross-Project Class-Imbalance Problems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    170 cites at Semantic Scholar
    212% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    André N. Meyer, Laura E. Barton, Gail C. Murphy, Thomas Zimmermann, and Thomas Fritz:
    The Work Life of Developers: Activities, Switches and Perceived Productivity.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    162 cites at Semantic Scholar
    197% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Amiangshu Bosu, Jeffrey C. Carver, Christian Bird, Jonathan D. Orbeck, and Christopher Chockley:
    Process Aspects and Social Dynamics of Contemporary Code Review: Insights from Open Source Development and Industrial Practice at Microsoft.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    150 cites at Semantic Scholar
    175% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Alireza Sadeghi, Hamid Bagheri, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek:
    A Taxonomy and Qualitative Comparison of Program Analysis Techniques for Security Assessment of Android Software.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    143 cites at Semantic Scholar
    162% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Lannan Luo, Jiang Ming, Dinghao Wu, Peng Liu, and Sencun Zhu:
    Semantics-Based Obfuscation-Resilient Binary Code Similarity Comparison with Applications to Software and Algorithm Plagiarism Detection.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    138 cites at Semantic Scholar
    153% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Scott A. Carr, Francesco Logozzo, and Mathias Payer:
    Automatic Contract Insertion with CCBot.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    125 cites at Semantic Scholar
    129% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Chetan Arora, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Lionel C. Briand, and Frank Zimmer:
    Automated Extraction and Clustering of Requirements Glossary Terms.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    97 cites at Semantic Scholar
    78% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Patrick Rempel and Patrick Mäder:
    Preventing Defects: The Impact of Requirements Traceability Completeness on Software Quality.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    97 cites at Semantic Scholar
    78% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Tao Chen and Rami Bahsoon:
    Self-Adaptive and Online QoS Modeling for Cloud-Based Software Services.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    95 cites at Semantic Scholar
    74% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Laura Moreno, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Andrian Marcus, and Gerardo Canfora:
    ARENA: An Approach for the Automated Generation of Release Notes.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    90 cites at Semantic Scholar
    65% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Regina Hebig, Djamel Eddine Khelladi, and Reda Bendraou:
    Approaches to Co-Evolution of Metamodels and Models: A Survey.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    85 cites at Semantic Scholar
    56% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Davide Fucci, Hakan Erdogmus, Burak Turhan, Markku Oivo, and Natalia Juristo:
    A Dissection of the Test-Driven Development Process: Does It Really Matter to Test-First or to Test-Last?
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
    83 cites at Semantic Scholar
    52% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TOSEM ⌄

  1. 1
    Artem Polyvyanyy, Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, and Moe Thandar Wynn:
    Impact-Driven Process Model Repair.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2017
    65 cites at Semantic Scholar
    19% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Shin Yoo, Xiaoyuan Xie, Fei-Ching Kuo, Tsong Yueh Chen, and Mark Harman:
    Human Competitiveness of Genetic Programming in Spectrum-Based Fault Localisation: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2017
    62 cites at Semantic Scholar
    14% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Chris Mills, Gabriele Bavota, Sonia Haiduc, Rocco Oliveto, Andrian Marcus, and Andrea De Lucia:
    Predicting Query Quality for Applications of Text Retrieval to Software Engineering Tasks.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2017
    40 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -27% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Shams Azad, Peter C. Rigby, and Latifa Guerrouj:
    Generating API Call Rules from Version History and Stack Overflow Posts.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2017
    36 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -34% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Giuseppe Scanniello, Michele Risi, Porfirio Tramontana, and Simone Romano:
    Fixing Faults in C and Java Source Code: Abbreviated vs. Full-Word Identifier Names.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2017
    31 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -43% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Robert M. Hierons and Uraz Cengiz Türker:
    Parallel Algorithms for Generating Distinguishing Sequences for Observable Non-Deterministic FSMs.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2017
    13 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -76% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Daniel Di Nardo, Fabrizio Pastore, and Lionel C. Briand:
    Augmenting Field Data for Testing Systems Subject to Incremental Requirements Changes.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2017
    10 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -82% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Juan de Lara and Esther Guerra:
    A Posteriori Typing for Model-Driven Engineering: Concepts, Analysis, and Applications.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2017
    9 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -83% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Luciano Baresi, Angelo Morzenti, Alfredo Motta, Mohammad Mehdi Pourhashem Kallehbasti, and Matteo Rossi:
    A Logic-Based Approach for the Verification of UML Timed Models.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2017
    7 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -87% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Alireza Sadeghi, Naeem Esfahani, and Sam Malek:
    Ensuring the Consistency of Adaptation Through Inter- and Intra-Component Dependency Analysis.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2017
    5 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -91% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Vijay Krishna Palepu, Guoqing Xu, and James A. Jones:
    Dynamic Dependence Summaries.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2017
    4 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -93% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Chris Karanikolas, Grigoris Dimitroulakos, and Konstantinos Masselos:
    Early Evaluation of Implementation Alternatives of Composite Data Structures Toward Maintainability.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2017
    4 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -93% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    David S. Rosenblum:
    Editorial.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2017
    0 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

EMSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Nuthan Munaiah, Steven Kroh, Craig Cabrey, and Meiyappan Nagappan:
    Curating GitHub for Engineered Software Projects.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    402 cites at Semantic Scholar
    637% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Matias Martinez, Thomas Durieux, Romain Sommerard, Jifeng Xuan, and Martin Monperrus:
    Automatic Repair of Real Bugs in Java: A Large-Scale Experiment on the Defects4j Dataset.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    263 cites at Semantic Scholar
    382% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Daniel Méndez Fernández, Stefan Wagner, Marcos Kalinowski, Michael Felderer, Priscilla Mafra, Antonio Vetrò, Tayana Conte, Marie-Therese Christiansson, Des Greer, Casper Lassenius, Tomi Männistö, M. Nayabi, Markku Oivo, Birgit Penzenstadler, Dietmar Pfahl, Rafael Prikladnicki, Günther Ruhe, André Schekelmann, Sagar Sen, Rodrigo O. Spínola, Ahmet Tuzcu, Jose Luis de la Vara, and Roel J. Wieringa:
    Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering - Contemporary Problems, Causes, and Effects in Practice.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    244 cites at Semantic Scholar
    347% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Xin Xia, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Zhenchang Xing:
    What Do Developers Search for on the Web?
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    183 cites at Semantic Scholar
    236% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Robbert Jongeling, Proshanta Sarkar, Subhajit Datta, and Alexander Serebrenik:
    On Negative Results When Using Sentiment Analysis Tools for Software Engineering Research.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    178 cites at Semantic Scholar
    226% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Marco Kuhrmann, Daniel Méndez Fernández, and Maya Daneva:
    On the Pragmatic Design of Literature Studies in Software Engineering: An Experience-Based Guideline.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    164 cites at Semantic Scholar
    201% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Jing Jiang, David Lo, Jia-Huan He, Xin Xia, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, and Li Zhang:
    Why and How Developers Fork What from Whom in GitHub.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    129 cites at Semantic Scholar
    137% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Sohaib Shahid Bajwa, Xiaofeng Wang, Anh Nguyen-Duc, and Pekka Abrahamsson:
    "Failures" to Be Celebrated: An Analysis of Major Pivots of Software Startups.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    125 cites at Semantic Scholar
    129% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Boyuan Chen and Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang:
    Characterizing Logging Practices in Java-Based Open Source Software Projects - a Replication Study in Apache Software Foundation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    125 cites at Semantic Scholar
    129% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Ahmad Jbara and Dror G. Feitelson:
    How Programmers Read Regular Code: A Controlled Experiment Using Eye Tracking.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    81 cites at Semantic Scholar
    49% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Haoran Niu, Iman Keivanloo, and Ying Zou:
    Learning to Rank Code Examples for Code Search Engines.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    81 cites at Semantic Scholar
    49% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Tim Menzies, Ye Yang, George Mathew, Barry W. Boehm, and Jairus Hihn:
    Negative Results for Software Effort Estimation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    72 cites at Semantic Scholar
    32% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Oscar Dieste, Alejandrina M. Aranda, Fernando Uyaguari Uyaguari, Burak Turhan, Ayse Tosun, Davide Fucci, Markku Oivo, and Natalia Juristo:
    Empirical Evaluation of the Effects of Experience on Code Quality and Programmer Productivity: An Exploratory Study.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    60 cites at Semantic Scholar
    10% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Feng Zhang, Iman Keivanloo, and Ying Zou:
    Data Transformation in Cross-Project Defect Prediction.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    59 cites at Semantic Scholar
    8% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: Link
  15. 15
    Pooyan Behnamghader, Duc Minh Le, Joshua Garcia, Daniel Link, Arman Shahbazian, and Nenad Medvidovic:
    A Large-Scale Study of Architectural Evolution in Open-Source Software Systems.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    56 cites at Semantic Scholar
    3% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Ehsan Noei, Mark D. Syer, Ying Zou, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Iman Keivanloo:
    A Study of the Relation of Mobile Device Attributes with the User-Perceived Quality of Android Apps.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    52 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -5% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Morakot Choetkiertikul, Hoa Khanh Dam, Truyen Tran, and Aditya Ghose:
    Predicting the Delay of Issues with Due Dates in Software Projects.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    46 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -16% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Ayse Tosun, Oscar Dieste, Davide Fucci, Sira Vegas, Burak Turhan, Hakan Erdogmus, Adrian Santos, Markku Oivo, Kimmo Toro, Janne Järvinen, and Natalia Juristo:
    An Industry Experiment on the Effects of Test-Driven Development on External Quality and Productivity.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    45 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -17% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Heng Li, Weiyi Shang, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    Which Log Level Should Developers Choose for a New Logging Statement?
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    43 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -21% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Anand Ashok Sawant and Alberto Bacchelli:
    Fine-GRAPE: Fine-Grained APi Usage Extractor - an Approach and Dataset to Investigate API Usage.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    43 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -21% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 2016 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    W. Eric Wong, Ruizhi Gao, Yihao Li, Rui Abreu, and Franz Wotawa:
    A Survey on Software Fault Localization.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    1091 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1758% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Sergio Segura, Gordon Fraser, Ana Belén Sánchez, and Antonio Ruiz Cortés:
    A Survey on Metamorphic Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    532 cites at Semantic Scholar
    806% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Mika V. Mäntylä, Marco Zanoni, and Alessandro Marino:
    Comparing and Experimenting Machine Learning Techniques for Code Smell Detection.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    422 cites at Semantic Scholar
    619% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Shane McIntosh, Yasutaka Kamei, Bram Adams, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    An Empirical Study of the Impact of Modern Code Review Practices on Software Quality.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    342 cites at Semantic Scholar
    482% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Christoffer Rosen and Emad Shihab:
    What Are Mobile Developers Asking About? A Large Scale Study Using Stack Overflow.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    321 cites at Semantic Scholar
    447% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Eirini Kalliamvakou, Georgios Gousios, Kelly Blincoe, Leif Singer, Daniel M. Germán, and Daniela E. Damian:
    An in-Depth Study of the Promises and Perils of Mining GitHub.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    298 cites at Semantic Scholar
    407% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Xin Xia, David Lo, Sinno Jialin Pan, Nachiappan Nagappan, and Xinyu Wang:
    HYDRA: Massively Compositional Model for Cross-Project Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    251 cites at Semantic Scholar
    327% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Stuart McIlroy, Nasir Ali, Hammad Khalid, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    Analyzing and Automatically Labelling the Types of User Issues That Are Raised in Mobile App Reviews.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    194 cites at Semantic Scholar
    230% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Paul W. McBurney and Collin McMillan:
    Automatic Source Code Summarization of Context for Java Methods.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    182 cites at Semantic Scholar
    210% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Carmine Giardino, Nicolò Paternoster, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Tony Gorschek, and Pekka Abrahamsson:
    Software Development in Startup Companies: The Greenfield Startup Model.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    175 cites at Semantic Scholar
    198% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Neil Walkinshaw, Ramsay Taylor, and John Derrick:
    Inferring Extended Finite State Machine Models from Software Executions.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    175 cites at Semantic Scholar
    198% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Motahareh Bahrami Zanjani, Huzefa H. Kagdi, and Christian Bird:
    Automatically Recommending Peer Reviewers in Modern Code Review.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    170 cites at Semantic Scholar
    189% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Duksan Ryu, Okjoo Choi, and Jongmoon Baik:
    Value-Cognitive Boosting with a Support Vector Machine for Cross-Project Defect Prediction.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    160 cites at Semantic Scholar
    172% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Zhi Quan Zhou, Shaowen Xiang, and Tsong Yueh Chen:
    Metamorphic Testing for Software Quality Assessment: A Study of Search Engines.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    159 cites at Semantic Scholar
    171% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Ali Ouni, Marouane Kessentini, Houari A. Sahraoui, Katsuro Inoue, and Kalyanmoy Deb:
    Multi-Criteria Code Refactoring Using Search-Based Software Engineering: An Industrial Case Study.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    147 cites at Semantic Scholar
    150% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Kevin Allix, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Quentin Jérome, Jacques Klein, Radu State, and Yves Le Traon:
    Empirical Assessment of Machine Learning-Based Malware Detectors for Android - Measuring the Gap Between in-the-Lab and in-the-Wild Validation Scenarios.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    143 cites at Semantic Scholar
    143% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Sira Vegas, Cecilia Apa, and Natalia Juristo Juzgado:
    Crossover Designs in Software Engineering Experiments: Benefits and Perils.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    132 cites at Semantic Scholar
    125% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Giuliano Antoniol:
    Linguistic Antipatterns: What They Are and How Developers Perceive Them.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    125 cites at Semantic Scholar
    113% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Feng Zhang, Audris Mockus, Iman Keivanloo, and Ying Zou:
    Towards Building a Universal Defect Prediction Model with Rank Transformed Predictors.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    121 cites at Semantic Scholar
    106% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Yuepu Guo, Rodrigo Oliveira Spínola, and Carolyn B. Seaman:
    Exploring the Costs of Technical Debt Management - a Case Study.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    120 cites at Semantic Scholar
    104% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    W. Eric Wong, Ruizhi Gao, Yihao Li, Rui Abreu, and Franz Wotawa:
    A Survey on Software Fault Localization.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    1091 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1758% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Sergio Segura, Gordon Fraser, Ana Belén Sánchez, and Antonio Ruiz Cortés:
    A Survey on Metamorphic Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    532 cites at Semantic Scholar
    806% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Xin Xia, David Lo, Sinno Jialin Pan, Nachiappan Nagappan, and Xinyu Wang:
    HYDRA: Massively Compositional Model for Cross-Project Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    251 cites at Semantic Scholar
    327% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Paul W. McBurney and Collin McMillan:
    Automatic Source Code Summarization of Context for Java Methods.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    182 cites at Semantic Scholar
    210% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Carmine Giardino, Nicolò Paternoster, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Tony Gorschek, and Pekka Abrahamsson:
    Software Development in Startup Companies: The Greenfield Startup Model.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    175 cites at Semantic Scholar
    198% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Motahareh Bahrami Zanjani, Huzefa H. Kagdi, and Christian Bird:
    Automatically Recommending Peer Reviewers in Modern Code Review.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    170 cites at Semantic Scholar
    189% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Zhi Quan Zhou, Shaowen Xiang, and Tsong Yueh Chen:
    Metamorphic Testing for Software Quality Assessment: A Study of Search Engines.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    159 cites at Semantic Scholar
    171% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Sira Vegas, Cecilia Apa, and Natalia Juristo Juzgado:
    Crossover Designs in Software Engineering Experiments: Benefits and Perils.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    132 cites at Semantic Scholar
    125% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Helen Sharp, Yvonne Dittrich, and Cleidson R. B. de Souza:
    The Role of Ethnographic Studies in Empirical Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    118 cites at Semantic Scholar
    101% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Antonio Filieri, Giordano Tamburrelli, and Carlo Ghezzi:
    Supporting Self-Adaptation via Quantitative Verification and Sensitivity Analysis at Run Time.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    113 cites at Semantic Scholar
    92% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Dan Hao, Lu Zhang, Lei Zang, Yanbo Wang, Xingxia Wu, and Tao Xie:
    To Be Optimal or Not in Test-Case Prioritization.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    92 cites at Semantic Scholar
    57% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Mehdi Mirakhorli and Jane Cleland-Huang:
    Detecting, Tracing, and Monitoring Architectural Tactics in Code.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    85 cites at Semantic Scholar
    45% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Xin Ye, Razvan C. Bunescu, and Chang Liu:
    Mapping Bug Reports to Relevant Files: A Ranking Model, a Fine-Grained Benchmark, and Feature Evaluation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    80 cites at Semantic Scholar
    36% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Shane McIntosh, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Kenichi Matsumoto:
    Comments on "Researcher Bias: The Use of Machine Learning in Software Defect Prediction".
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    77 cites at OpenAlex
    31% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Jose Luis de la Vara, Markus Borg, Krzysztof Wnuk, and Leon Moonen:
    An Industrial Survey of Safety Evidence Change Impact Analysis Practice.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    73 cites at Semantic Scholar
    24% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Taek Lee, Jaechang Nam, DongGyun Han, Sunghun Kim, and Hoh Peter In:
    Developer Micro Interaction Metrics for Software Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    69 cites at Semantic Scholar
    17% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Marcel Böhme and Soumya Paul:
    A Probabilistic Analysis of the Efficiency of Automated Software Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    68 cites at Semantic Scholar
    16% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Xiao-Ning Shen, Leandro L. Minku, Rami Bahsoon, and Xin Yao:
    Dynamic Software Project Scheduling Through a Proactive-Rescheduling Method.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    62 cites at Semantic Scholar
    6% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Tse-Hsun Chen, Weiyi Shang, Zhen Ming Jiang, Ahmed E. Hassan, Mohamed N. Nasser, and Parminder Flora:
    Finding and Evaluating the Performance Impact of Redundant Data Access for Applications That Are Developed Using Object-Relational Mapping Frameworks.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    60 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Alessandro Marchetto, Md. Mahfuzul Islam, M. Waseem Asghar, Angelo Susi, and Giuseppe Scanniello:
    A Multi-Objective Technique to Prioritize Test Cases.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    60 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TOSEM ⌄

  1. 1
    Ali Ouni, Marouane Kessentini, Houari A. Sahraoui, Katsuro Inoue, and Kalyanmoy Deb:
    Multi-Criteria Code Refactoring Using Search-Based Software Engineering: An Industrial Case Study.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    147 cites at Semantic Scholar
    150% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Ivan Candela, Gabriele Bavota, Barbara Russo, and Rocco Oliveto:
    Using Cohesion and Coupling for Software Remodularization: Is It Enough?
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    88 cites at Semantic Scholar
    50% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Minghui Zhou, Audris Mockus, Xiujuan Ma, Lu Zhang, and Hong Mei:
    Inflow and Retention in OSS Communities with Commercial Involvement: A Case Study of Three Hybrid Projects.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    78 cites at Semantic Scholar
    33% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Jaspreet Bhatia, Travis D. Breaux, and Florian Schaub:
    Mining Privacy Goals from Privacy Policies Using Hybridized Task Recomposition.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    46 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -22% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Gregory Gay, Ajitha Rajan, Matt Staats, Michael W. Whalen, and Mats Per Erik Heimdahl:
    The Effect of Program and Model Structure on the Effectiveness of MC/DC Test Adequacy Coverage.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    40 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -32% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Islem Baki and Houari A. Sahraoui:
    Multi-Step Learning and Adaptive Search for Learning Complex Model Transformations from Examples.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    36 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -39% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Haipeng Cai, Raúl A. Santelices, and Douglas Thain:
    DiaPro: Unifying Dynamic Impact Analyses for Improved and Variable Cost-Effectiveness.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    19 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -68% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Fei He, Xiaowei Gao, Miaofei Wang, Bow-Yaw Wang, and Lijun Zhang:
    Learning Weighted Assumptions for Compositional Verification of Markov Decision Processes.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    15 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -74% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Ricardo M. Czekster, Paulo Fernandes, Lucelene Lopes, Afonso Sales, Alan R. Santos, and Thais Webber:
    Stochastic Performance Analysis of Global Software Development Teams.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    10 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -83% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Saba Alimadadi, Sheldon Sequeira, Ali Mesbah, and Karthik Pattabiraman:
    Understanding JavaScript Event-Based Interactions with Clematis.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    8 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -86% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Chunbai Yang, Shangru Wu, and W. K. Chan:
    Hierarchical Program Paths.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    6 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -90% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Kapil Anand, Khaled Elwazeer, Aparna Kotha, Matthew Smithson, Rajeev Barua, and Angelos D. Keromytis:
    A Stack Memory Abstraction and Symbolic Analysis Framework for Executables.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    3 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -95% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Petr Bauch, Vojtech Havel, and Jiri Barnat:
    Control Explicit-Data Symbolic Model Checking.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    3 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -95% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Nuno Machado, Daniel Quinta, Brandon Lucia, and Luís E. T. Rodrigues:
    Concurrency Debugging with Differential Schedule Projections.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    3 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -95% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Esteban Pavese, Víctor A. Braberman, and Sebastián Uchitel:
    Less Is More: Estimating Probabilistic Rewards over Partial System Explorations.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    2 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -97% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Robert M. Hierons, Miqing Li, Xiaohui Liu, Sergio Segura, and Wei Zheng:
    SIP: Optimal Product Selection from Feature Models Using Many-Objective Evolutionary Optimization.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    0 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    David S. Rosenblum:
    Editorial.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2016
    0 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

EMSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Mika V. Mäntylä, Marco Zanoni, and Alessandro Marino:
    Comparing and Experimenting Machine Learning Techniques for Code Smell Detection.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    422 cites at Semantic Scholar
    619% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Shane McIntosh, Yasutaka Kamei, Bram Adams, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    An Empirical Study of the Impact of Modern Code Review Practices on Software Quality.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    342 cites at Semantic Scholar
    482% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Christoffer Rosen and Emad Shihab:
    What Are Mobile Developers Asking About? A Large Scale Study Using Stack Overflow.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    321 cites at Semantic Scholar
    447% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Eirini Kalliamvakou, Georgios Gousios, Kelly Blincoe, Leif Singer, Daniel M. Germán, and Daniela E. Damian:
    An in-Depth Study of the Promises and Perils of Mining GitHub.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    298 cites at Semantic Scholar
    407% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Stuart McIlroy, Nasir Ali, Hammad Khalid, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    Analyzing and Automatically Labelling the Types of User Issues That Are Raised in Mobile App Reviews.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    194 cites at Semantic Scholar
    230% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Neil Walkinshaw, Ramsay Taylor, and John Derrick:
    Inferring Extended Finite State Machine Models from Software Executions.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    175 cites at Semantic Scholar
    198% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Duksan Ryu, Okjoo Choi, and Jongmoon Baik:
    Value-Cognitive Boosting with a Support Vector Machine for Cross-Project Defect Prediction.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    160 cites at Semantic Scholar
    172% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Kevin Allix, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Quentin Jérome, Jacques Klein, Radu State, and Yves Le Traon:
    Empirical Assessment of Machine Learning-Based Malware Detectors for Android - Measuring the Gap Between in-the-Lab and in-the-Wild Validation Scenarios.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    143 cites at Semantic Scholar
    143% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Giuliano Antoniol:
    Linguistic Antipatterns: What They Are and How Developers Perceive Them.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    125 cites at Semantic Scholar
    113% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Feng Zhang, Audris Mockus, Iman Keivanloo, and Ying Zou:
    Towards Building a Universal Defect Prediction Model with Rank Transformed Predictors.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    121 cites at Semantic Scholar
    106% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Yuepu Guo, Rodrigo Oliveira Spínola, and Carolyn B. Seaman:
    Exploring the Costs of Technical Debt Management - a Case Study.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    120 cites at Semantic Scholar
    104% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Kim Herzig, Sascha Just, and Andreas Zeller:
    The Impact of Tangled Code Changes on Defect Prediction Models.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    97 cites at Semantic Scholar
    65% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Abram Hindle, Anahita Alipour, and Eleni Stroulia:
    A Contextual Approach Towards More Accurate Duplicate Bug Report Detection and Ranking.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    92 cites at Semantic Scholar
    57% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Slim Bechikh, Mel Ó Cinnéide, and Kalyanmoy Deb:
    On the Use of Many Quality Attributes for Software Refactoring: A Many-Objective Search-Based Software Engineering Approach.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    89 cites at Semantic Scholar
    52% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Hussan Munir, Krzysztof Wnuk, and Per Runeson:
    Open Innovation in Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    88 cites at Semantic Scholar
    50% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Claus Hunsen, Bo Zhang, Janet Siegmund, Christian Kästner, Olaf Leßenich, Martin Becker, and Sven Apel:
    Preprocessor-Based Variability in Open-Source and Industrial Software Systems: An Empirical Study.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    86 cites at Semantic Scholar
    46% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Ingo Scholtes, Pavlin Mavrodiev, and Frank Schweitzer:
    From Aristotle to Ringelmann: A Large-Scale Analysis of Team Productivity and Coordination in Open Source Software Projects.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    79 cites at Semantic Scholar
    35% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Viet Hung Nguyen, Stanislav Dashevskyi, and Fabio Massacci:
    An Automatic Method for Assessing the Versions Affected by a Vulnerability.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    64 cites at Semantic Scholar
    9% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Leonardo Teixeira Passos, Leopoldo Teixeira, Nicolas Dintzner, Sven Apel, Andrzej Wasowski, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Paulo Borba, and Jianmei Guo:
    Coevolution of Variability Models and Related Software Artifacts - A Fresh Look at Evolution Patterns in the Linux Kernel.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    63 cites at Semantic Scholar
    7% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Daniel M. Germán, Bram Adams, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    Continuously Mining Distributed Version Control Systems: An Empirical Study of How Linux Uses Git.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2016
    50 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -15% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 2015 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Earl T. Barr, Mark Harman, Phil McMinn, Muzammil Shahbaz, and Shin Yoo:
    The Oracle Problem in Software Testing: A Survey.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    1075 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1711% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Claire Le Goues, Neal J. Holtschulte, Edward K. Smith, Yuriy Brun, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Stephanie Forrest, and Westley Weimer:
    The ManyBugs and IntroClass Benchmarks for Automated Repair of C Programs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    338 cites at Semantic Scholar
    470% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Amy J. Ko, Thomas D. LaToza, and Margaret M. Burnett:
    A Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments of Software Engineering Tools with Human Participants.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    289 cites at Semantic Scholar
    387% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Adnan Shaout, Patrice Koligheu, Slim Bechikh, Kalyanmoy Deb, and Ali Ouni:
    Many-Objective Software Remodularization Using NSGA-III.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    267 cites at Semantic Scholar
    350% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Denys Poshyvanyk, and Andrea De Lucia:
    Mining Version Histories for Detecting Code Smells.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    253 cites at Semantic Scholar
    326% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Soo Ling Lim, Peter J. Bentley, Natalie Kanakam, Fuyuki Ishikawa, and Shinichi Honiden:
    Investigating Country Differences in Mobile App User Behavior and Challenges for Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    186 cites at Semantic Scholar
    213% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Matias Martinez and Martin Monperrus:
    Mining Software Repair Models for Reasoning on the Search Space of Automated Program Fixing.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    185 cites at Semantic Scholar
    212% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Zhen Ming Jiang and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    A Survey on Load Testing of Large-Scale Software Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    177 cites at Semantic Scholar
    198% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Gabriele Bavota, Mario Linares Vásquez, Carlos Eduardo Bernal-Cárdenas, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
    The Impact of API Change- and Fault-Proneness on the User Ratings of Android Apps.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    170 cites at Semantic Scholar
    186% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Daniela S. Cruzes, Tore Dybå, Per Runeson, and Martin Höst:
    Case Studies Synthesis: A Thematic, Cross-Case, and Narrative Synthesis Worked Example.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    170 cites at Semantic Scholar
    186% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Chetan Arora, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Lionel C. Briand, and Frank Zimmer:
    Automated Checking of Conformance to Requirements Templates Using Natural Language Processing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    154 cites at Semantic Scholar
    159% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Yuan Tian, David Lo, Xin Xia, and Chengnian Sun:
    Automated Prediction of Bug Report Priority Using Multi-Factor Analysis.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    150 cites at Semantic Scholar
    153% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Marco Autili, Lars Grunske, Markus Lumpe, Patrizio Pelliccione, and Antony Tang:
    Aligning Qualitative, Real-Time, and Probabilistic Property Specification Patterns Using a Structured English Grammar.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    148 cites at Semantic Scholar
    149% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Ulrike Abelein and Barbara Paech:
    Understanding the Influence of User Participation and Involvement on System Success - a Systematic Mapping Study.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    145 cites at Semantic Scholar
    144% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Hamid Bagheri, Alireza Sadeghi, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek:
    COVERT: Compositional Analysis of Android Inter-App Permission Leakage.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    143 cites at Semantic Scholar
    141% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Minghui Zhou and Audris Mockus:
    Who Will Stay in the FLOSS Community? Modeling Participant's Initial Behavior.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    125 cites at Semantic Scholar
    111% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Annibale Panichella, Rocco Oliveto, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Andrea De Lucia:
    Improving Multi-Objective Test Case Selection by Injecting Diversity in Genetic Algorithms.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    121 cites at Semantic Scholar
    104% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Sarah Nadi, Thorsten Berger, Christian Kästner, and Krzysztof Czarnecki:
    Where Do Configuration Constraints Stem From? An Extraction Approach and an Empirical Study.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    120 cites at Semantic Scholar
    102% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Tao Yue, Lionel C. Briand, and Yvan Labiche:
    aToucan: An Automated Framework to Derive UML Analysis Models from Use Case Models.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    112 cites at Semantic Scholar
    89% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Ronald Jabangwe, Jürgen Börstler, Darja Smite, and Claes Wohlin:
    Empirical Evidence on the Link Between Object-Oriented Measures and External Quality Attributes: A Systematic Literature Review.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    112 cites at Semantic Scholar
    89% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Earl T. Barr, Mark Harman, Phil McMinn, Muzammil Shahbaz, and Shin Yoo:
    The Oracle Problem in Software Testing: A Survey.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    1075 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1711% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Claire Le Goues, Neal J. Holtschulte, Edward K. Smith, Yuriy Brun, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Stephanie Forrest, and Westley Weimer:
    The ManyBugs and IntroClass Benchmarks for Automated Repair of C Programs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    338 cites at Semantic Scholar
    470% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Denys Poshyvanyk, and Andrea De Lucia:
    Mining Version Histories for Detecting Code Smells.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    253 cites at Semantic Scholar
    326% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Soo Ling Lim, Peter J. Bentley, Natalie Kanakam, Fuyuki Ishikawa, and Shinichi Honiden:
    Investigating Country Differences in Mobile App User Behavior and Challenges for Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    186 cites at Semantic Scholar
    213% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Zhen Ming Jiang and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    A Survey on Load Testing of Large-Scale Software Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    177 cites at Semantic Scholar
    198% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Gabriele Bavota, Mario Linares Vásquez, Carlos Eduardo Bernal-Cárdenas, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
    The Impact of API Change- and Fault-Proneness on the User Ratings of Android Apps.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    170 cites at Semantic Scholar
    186% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Chetan Arora, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Lionel C. Briand, and Frank Zimmer:
    Automated Checking of Conformance to Requirements Templates Using Natural Language Processing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    154 cites at Semantic Scholar
    159% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Marco Autili, Lars Grunske, Markus Lumpe, Patrizio Pelliccione, and Antony Tang:
    Aligning Qualitative, Real-Time, and Probabilistic Property Specification Patterns Using a Structured English Grammar.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    148 cites at Semantic Scholar
    149% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Hamid Bagheri, Alireza Sadeghi, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek:
    COVERT: Compositional Analysis of Android Inter-App Permission Leakage.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    143 cites at Semantic Scholar
    141% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Minghui Zhou and Audris Mockus:
    Who Will Stay in the FLOSS Community? Modeling Participant's Initial Behavior.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    125 cites at Semantic Scholar
    111% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Annibale Panichella, Rocco Oliveto, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Andrea De Lucia:
    Improving Multi-Objective Test Case Selection by Injecting Diversity in Genetic Algorithms.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    121 cites at Semantic Scholar
    104% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Sarah Nadi, Thorsten Berger, Christian Kästner, and Krzysztof Czarnecki:
    Where Do Configuration Constraints Stem From? An Extraction Approach and an Empirical Study.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    120 cites at Semantic Scholar
    102% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Justyna Petke, Myra B. Cohen, Mark Harman, and Shin Yoo:
    Practical Combinatorial Interaction Testing: Empirical Findings on Efficiency and Early Fault Detection.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    105 cites at Semantic Scholar
    77% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Gregory Gay, Matt Staats, Michael W. Whalen, and Mats Per Erik Heimdahl:
    The Risks of Coverage-Directed Test Case Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    104 cites at Semantic Scholar
    75% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Abdelilah Sakti, Gilles Pesant, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc:
    Instance Generator and Problem Representation to Improve Object Oriented Code Coverage.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    86 cites at Semantic Scholar
    45% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Christoph Treude, Martin P. Robillard, and Barthélémy Dagenais:
    Extracting Development Tasks to Navigate Software Documentation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    86 cites at Semantic Scholar
    45% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Nikolaos Tsantalis, Davood Mazinanian, and Giri Panamoottil Krishnan:
    Assessing the Refactorability of Software Clones.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    86 cites at Semantic Scholar
    45% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Ning Chen and Sunghun Kim:
    STAR: Stack Trace Based Automatic Crash Reproduction via Symbolic Execution.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    80 cites at Semantic Scholar
    35% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Fabian Pittke, Henrik Leopold, and Jan Mendling:
    Automatic Detection and Resolution of Lexical Ambiguity in Process Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    80 cites at Semantic Scholar
    35% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Sofia Charalampidou, and Paris Avgeriou:
    The Effect of GoF Design Patterns on Stability: A Case Study.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
    76 cites at Semantic Scholar
    28% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TOSEM ⌄

  1. 1
    Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Adnan Shaout, Patrice Koligheu, Slim Bechikh, Kalyanmoy Deb, and Ali Ouni:
    Many-Objective Software Remodularization Using NSGA-III.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    267 cites at Semantic Scholar
    350% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Tao Yue, Lionel C. Briand, and Yvan Labiche:
    aToucan: An Automated Framework to Derive UML Analysis Models from Use Case Models.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    112 cites at Semantic Scholar
    89% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Gordon Fraser, Matt Staats, Phil McMinn, Andrea Arcuri, and Frank Padberg:
    Does Automated Unit Test Generation Really Help Software Testers? A Controlled Empirical Study.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    111 cites at Semantic Scholar
    87% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Peter A. Whigham, Caitlin A. Owen, and Stephen G. MacDonell:
    A Baseline Model for Software Effort Estimation.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    106 cites at Semantic Scholar
    79% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Sebastian Proksch, Johannes Lerch, and Mira Mezini:
    Intelligent Code Completion with Bayesian Networks.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    92 cites at Semantic Scholar
    55% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Milos Gligoric, Alex Groce, Chaoqiang Zhang, Rohan Sharma, Mohammad Amin Alipour, and Darko Marinov:
    Guidelines for Coverage-Based Comparisons of Non-Adequate Test Suites.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    61 cites at Semantic Scholar
    3% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Mariano Ceccato, Alessandro Marchetto, Leonardo Mariani, Cu D. Nguyen, and Paolo Tonella:
    Do Automatically Generated Test Cases Make Debugging Easier? An Experimental Assessment of Debugging Effectiveness and Efficiency.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    54 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -9% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Robert Dyer, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan, and Tien N. Nguyen:
    Boa: Ultra-Large-Scale Software Repository and Source-Code Mining.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    52 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -12% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Phil McMinn, Chris J. Wright, and Gregory M. Kapfhammer:
    The Effectiveness of Test Coverage Criteria for Relational Database Schema Integrity Constraints.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    42 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -29% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Will Dietz, Peng Li, John Regehr, and Vikram S. Adve:
    Understanding Integer Overflow in C/C++.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    37 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -38% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Giuseppe Scanniello, Carmine Gravino, Michele Risi, Genoveffa Tortora, and Gabriella Dodero:
    Documenting Design-Pattern Instances: A Family of Experiments on Source-Code Comprehensibility.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    35 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -41% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Matthew B. Dwyer and David S. Rosenblum:
    Editorial Journal-First Publication for the Software Engineering Community.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    33 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -44% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Antonio Carzaniga, Alessandra Gorla, Nicolò Perino, and Mauro Pezzè:
    Automatic Workarounds: Exploiting the Intrinsic Redundancy of Web Applications.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    26 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -56% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Pradeep K. Murukannaiah and Munindar P. Singh:
    Platys: An Active Learning Framework for Place-Aware Application Development and Its Evaluation.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    26 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -56% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Stefano Di Alesio, Lionel C. Briand, Shiva Nejati, and Arnaud Gotlieb:
    Combining Genetic Algorithms and Constraint Programming to Support Stress Testing of Task Deadlines.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    24 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -60% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Anas Mahmoud and Gary Bradshaw:
    Estimating Semantic Relatedness in Source Code.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    21 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -65% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Seyedeh Sepideh Emam and James Miller:
    Test Case Prioritization Using Extended Digraphs.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    17 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -71% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Jooyong Yi, Dawei Qi, Shin Hwei Tan, and Abhik Roychoudhury:
    Software Change Contracts.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    14 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -76% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Cosmin Radoi and Danny Dig:
    Effective Techniques for Static Race Detection in Java Parallel Loops.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    11 cites at OpenAlex
    -81% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Karim Ali, Marianna Rapoport, Ondrej Lhoták, Julian Dolby, and Frank Tip:
    Type-Based Call Graph Construction Algorithms for Scala.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2015
    10 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -83% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

EMSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Amy J. Ko, Thomas D. LaToza, and Margaret M. Burnett:
    A Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments of Software Engineering Tools with Human Participants.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    289 cites at Semantic Scholar
    387% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Matias Martinez and Martin Monperrus:
    Mining Software Repair Models for Reasoning on the Search Space of Automated Program Fixing.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    185 cites at Semantic Scholar
    212% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Daniela S. Cruzes, Tore Dybå, Per Runeson, and Martin Höst:
    Case Studies Synthesis: A Thematic, Cross-Case, and Narrative Synthesis Worked Example.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    170 cites at Semantic Scholar
    186% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Yuan Tian, David Lo, Xin Xia, and Chengnian Sun:
    Automated Prediction of Bug Report Priority Using Multi-Factor Analysis.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    150 cites at Semantic Scholar
    153% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Ulrike Abelein and Barbara Paech:
    Understanding the Influence of User Participation and Involvement on System Success - a Systematic Mapping Study.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    145 cites at Semantic Scholar
    144% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Ronald Jabangwe, Jürgen Börstler, Darja Smite, and Claes Wohlin:
    Empirical Evidence on the Link Between Object-Oriented Measures and External Quality Attributes: A Systematic Literature Review.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    112 cites at Semantic Scholar
    89% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Patrick Mäder and Alexander Egyed:
    Do Developers Benefit from Requirements Traceability When Evolving and Maintaining a Software System?
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    106 cites at Semantic Scholar
    79% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Viviane A. Santos, Alfredo Goldman, and Cleidson R. B. de Souza:
    Fostering Effective Inter-Team Knowledge Sharing in Agile Software Development.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    103 cites at Semantic Scholar
    74% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Julian M. Bass:
    How Product Owner Teams Scale Agile Methods to Large Distributed Enterprises.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    100 cites at Semantic Scholar
    69% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Mohammed Misbhauddin and Mohammad R. Alshayeb:
    UML Model Refactoring: A Systematic Literature Review.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    93 cites at Semantic Scholar
    57% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Abram Hindle:
    Green Mining: A Methodology of Relating Software Change and Configuration to Power Consumption.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    86 cites at Semantic Scholar
    45% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Weiyi Shang, Meiyappan Nagappan, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    Studying the Relationship Between Logging Characteristics and the Code Quality of Platform Software.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    84 cites at Semantic Scholar
    42% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    José del Sagrado, Isabel María del Águila, and Francisco Javier Orellana:
    Multi-Objective Ant Colony Optimization for Requirements Selection.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    83 cites at Semantic Scholar
    40% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Felienne Hermans, Martin Pinzger, and Arie van Deursen:
    Detecting and Refactoring Code Smells in Spreadsheet Formulas.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    80 cites at Semantic Scholar
    35% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Mohammad Gharehyazie, Daryl Posnett, Bogdan Vasilescu, and Vladimir Filkov:
    Developer Initiation and Social Interactions in OSS: A Case Study of the Apache Software Foundation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    62 cites at Semantic Scholar
    4% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Tien-Duy B. Le, David Lo, and Ferdian Thung:
    Should I Follow This Fault Localization Tool's Output? - Automated Prediction of Fault Localization Effectiveness.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    58 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -2% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Barbara Russo, Giancarlo Succi, and Witold Pedrycz:
    Mining System Logs to Learn Error Predictors: A Case Study of a Telemetry System.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    40 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -33% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Mariano Ceccato, Andrea Capiluppi, Paolo Falcarin, and Cornelia Boldyreff:
    A Large Study on the Effect of Code Obfuscation on the Quality of Java Code.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    38 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -36% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Nicolas Bettenburg, Ahmed E. Hassan, Bram Adams, and Daniel M. Germán:
    Management of Community Contributions.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    32 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -46% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Fábio Roberto Octaviano, Kátia Romero Felizardo, José Carlos Maldonado, and Sandra Camargo Pinto Ferraz Fabbri:
    Semi-Automatic Selection of Primary Studies in Systematic Literature Reviews: Is It Reasonable?
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2015
    30 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -49% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 2014 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Anton Barua, Stephen W. Thomas, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    What Are Developers Talking About? An Analysis of Topics and Trends in Stack Overflow.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    613 cites at Semantic Scholar
    985% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Martin J. Shepperd, David Bowes, and Tracy Hall:
    Researcher Bias: The Use of Machine Learning in Software Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    371 cites at Semantic Scholar
    557% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Ahmet Okutan and Olcay Taner Yildiz:
    Software Defect Prediction Using Bayesian Networks.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    354 cites at Semantic Scholar
    527% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Riccardo Scandariato, James Walden, Aram Hovsepyan, and Wouter Joosen:
    Predicting Vulnerable Software Components via Text Mining.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    338 cites at Semantic Scholar
    498% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Gordon Fraser and Andrea Arcuri:
    A Large-Scale Evaluation of Automated Unit Test Generation Using EvoSuite.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    255 cites at Semantic Scholar
    351% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Lin Tan, Chen Liu, Zhenmin Li, Xuanhui Wang, Yuanyuan Zhou, and ChengXiang Zhai:
    Bug Characteristics in Open Source Software.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    251 cites at Semantic Scholar
    344% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Matthias Galster, Danny Weyns, Dan Tofan, Bartosz Michalik, and Paris Avgeriou:
    Variability in Software Systems - A Systematic Literature Review.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    239 cites at Semantic Scholar
    323% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, and Nachiappan Nagappan:
    An Empirical Study of RefactoringChallenges and Benefits at Microsoft.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    225 cites at Semantic Scholar
    298% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Christopher Henard, Mike Papadakis, Gilles Perrouin, Jacques Klein, Patrick Heymans, and Yves Le Traon:
    Bypassing the Combinatorial Explosion: Using Similarity to Generate and Prioritize T-Wise Test Configurations for Software Product Lines.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    224 cites at Semantic Scholar
    297% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Huai Liu, Fei-Ching Kuo, Dave Towey, and Tsong Yueh Chen:
    How Effectively Does Metamorphic Testing Alleviate the Oracle Problem?
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    206 cites at Semantic Scholar
    265% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Walid Maalej, Rebecca Tiarks, Tobias Roehm, and Rainer Koschke:
    On the Comprehension of Program Comprehension.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    195 cites at Semantic Scholar
    245% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Sarah Rastkar, Gail C. Murphy, and Gabriel Murray:
    Automatic Summarization of Bug Reports.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    176 cites at Semantic Scholar
    212% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Lech Madeyski, Wojciech Orzeszyna, Richard Torkar, and Mariusz Jozala:
    Overcoming the Equivalent Mutant Problem: A Systematic Literature Review and a Comparative Experiment of Second Order Mutation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    174 cites at Semantic Scholar
    208% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Tracy Hall, Min Zhang, David Bowes, and Yi Sun:
    Some Code Smells Have a Significant but Small Effect on Faults.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    172 cites at Semantic Scholar
    204% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Gabriele Bavota, Rocco Oliveto, Malcom Gethers, Denys Poshyvanyk, and Andrea De Lucia:
    Methodbook: Recommending Move Method Refactorings via Relational Topic Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    162 cites at Semantic Scholar
    187% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Markus Borg, Per Runeson, and Anders Ardö:
    Recovering from a Decade: A Systematic Mapping of Information Retrieval Approaches to Software Traceability.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    161 cites at Semantic Scholar
    185% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Juan de Lara, Esther Guerra, and Jesús Sánchez Cuadrado:
    When and How to Use Multilevel Modelling.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    152 cites at Semantic Scholar
    169% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Janet Siegmund, Christian Kästner, Jörg Liebig, Sven Apel, and Stefan Hanenberg:
    Measuring and Modeling Programming Experience.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    151 cites at Semantic Scholar
    167% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Yu Pei, Carlo A. Furia, Martin Nordio, Yi Wei, Bertrand Meyer, and Andreas Zeller:
    Automated Fixing of Programs with Contracts.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    147 cites at OpenAlex
    160% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Yulei Sui, Ding Ye, and Jingling Xue:
    Detecting Memory Leaks Statically with Full-Sparse Value-Flow Analysis.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    142 cites at Semantic Scholar
    151% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Martin J. Shepperd, David Bowes, and Tracy Hall:
    Researcher Bias: The Use of Machine Learning in Software Defect Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    371 cites at Semantic Scholar
    557% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Riccardo Scandariato, James Walden, Aram Hovsepyan, and Wouter Joosen:
    Predicting Vulnerable Software Components via Text Mining.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    338 cites at Semantic Scholar
    498% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Matthias Galster, Danny Weyns, Dan Tofan, Bartosz Michalik, and Paris Avgeriou:
    Variability in Software Systems - A Systematic Literature Review.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    239 cites at Semantic Scholar
    323% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, and Nachiappan Nagappan:
    An Empirical Study of RefactoringChallenges and Benefits at Microsoft.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    225 cites at Semantic Scholar
    298% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Christopher Henard, Mike Papadakis, Gilles Perrouin, Jacques Klein, Patrick Heymans, and Yves Le Traon:
    Bypassing the Combinatorial Explosion: Using Similarity to Generate and Prioritize T-Wise Test Configurations for Software Product Lines.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    224 cites at Semantic Scholar
    297% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Huai Liu, Fei-Ching Kuo, Dave Towey, and Tsong Yueh Chen:
    How Effectively Does Metamorphic Testing Alleviate the Oracle Problem?
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    206 cites at Semantic Scholar
    265% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Sarah Rastkar, Gail C. Murphy, and Gabriel Murray:
    Automatic Summarization of Bug Reports.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    176 cites at Semantic Scholar
    212% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Lech Madeyski, Wojciech Orzeszyna, Richard Torkar, and Mariusz Jozala:
    Overcoming the Equivalent Mutant Problem: A Systematic Literature Review and a Comparative Experiment of Second Order Mutation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    174 cites at Semantic Scholar
    208% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Gabriele Bavota, Rocco Oliveto, Malcom Gethers, Denys Poshyvanyk, and Andrea De Lucia:
    Methodbook: Recommending Move Method Refactorings via Relational Topic Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    162 cites at Semantic Scholar
    187% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Yu Pei, Carlo A. Furia, Martin Nordio, Yi Wei, Bertrand Meyer, and Andreas Zeller:
    Automated Fixing of Programs with Contracts.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    147 cites at OpenAlex
    160% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Yulei Sui, Ding Ye, and Jingling Xue:
    Detecting Memory Leaks Statically with Full-Sparse Value-Flow Analysis.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    142 cites at Semantic Scholar
    151% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Dimitrios Athanasiou, Ariadi Nugroho, Joost Visser, and Andy Zaidman:
    Test Code Quality and Its Relation to Issue Handling Performance.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    130 cites at Semantic Scholar
    130% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Wael Kessentini, Marouane Kessentini, Houari A. Sahraoui, Slim Bechikh, and Ali Ouni:
    A Cooperative Parallel Search-Based Software Engineering Approach for Code-Smells Detection.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    120 cites at Semantic Scholar
    112% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Henrik Leopold, Jan Mendling, and Artem Polyvyanyy:
    Supporting Process Model Validation Through Natural Language Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    112 cites at Semantic Scholar
    98% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Yepang Liu, Chang Xu, Shing-Chi Cheung, and Jian Lu:
    GreenDroid: Automated Diagnosis of Energy Inefficiency for Smartphone Applications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    111 cites at Semantic Scholar
    97% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Qiang He, Jun Yan, Hai Jin, and Yun Yang:
    Quality-Aware Service Selection for Service-Based Systems Based on Iterative Multi-Attribute Combinatorial Auction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    108 cites at Semantic Scholar
    91% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Christian Kästner, Alexander Dreiling, and Klaus Ostermann:
    Variability Mining: Consistent Semi-Automatic Detection of Product-Line Features.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    100 cites at Semantic Scholar
    77% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Venera Arnaoudova, Laleh Mousavi Eshkevari, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc:
    REPENT: Analyzing the Nature of Identifier Renamings.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    91 cites at Semantic Scholar
    61% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Alexandre Bartel, Jacques Klein, Martin Monperrus, and Yves Le Traon:
    Static Analysis for Extracting Permission Checks of a Large Scale Framework: The Challenges and Solutions for Analyzing Android.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    84 cites at Semantic Scholar
    49% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Alex Groce, Todd Kulesza, Chaoqiang Zhang, Shalini Shamasunder, Margaret M. Burnett, Weng-Keen Wong, Simone Stumpf, Shubhomoy Das, Amber Shinsel, Forrest Bice, and Kevin McIntosh:
    You Are the Only Possible Oracle: Effective Test Selection for End Users of Interactive Machine Learning Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2014
    77 cites at Semantic Scholar
    36% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TOSEM ⌄

  1. 1
    Gordon Fraser and Andrea Arcuri:
    A Large-Scale Evaluation of Automated Unit Test Generation Using EvoSuite.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    255 cites at Semantic Scholar
    351% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Walid Maalej, Rebecca Tiarks, Tobias Roehm, and Rainer Koschke:
    On the Comprehension of Program Comprehension.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    195 cites at Semantic Scholar
    245% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Tracy Hall, Min Zhang, David Bowes, and Yi Sun:
    Some Code Smells Have a Significant but Small Effect on Faults.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    172 cites at Semantic Scholar
    204% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Juan de Lara, Esther Guerra, and Jesús Sánchez Cuadrado:
    When and How to Use Multilevel Modelling.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    152 cites at Semantic Scholar
    169% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Kathryn T. Stolee, Sebastian G. Elbaum, and Daniel Dobos:
    Solving the Search for Source Code.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    128 cites at Semantic Scholar
    127% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Gabriele Bavota, Malcom Gethers, Rocco Oliveto, Denys Poshyvanyk, and Andrea De Lucia:
    Improving Software Modularization via Automated Analysis of Latent Topics and Dependencies.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    118 cites at Semantic Scholar
    109% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Peter C. Rigby, Daniel M. Germán, Laura L. E. Cowen, and Margaret-Anne D. Storey:
    Peer Review on Open-Source Software Projects: Parameters, Statistical Models, and Theory.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    118 cites at Semantic Scholar
    109% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Dan Hao, Lingming Zhang, Lu Zhang, Gregg Rothermel, and Hong Mei:
    A Unified Test Case Prioritization Approach.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    108 cites at Semantic Scholar
    91% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Wes Masri and Rawad Abou Assi:
    Prevalence of Coincidental Correctness and Mitigation of Its Impact on Fault Localization.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    92 cites at Semantic Scholar
    63% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Dilan Sahin, Marouane Kessentini, Slim Bechikh, and Kalyanmoy Deb:
    Code-Smell Detection as a Bilevel Problem.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    90 cites at Semantic Scholar
    59% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Filippo Ricca, Giuseppe Scanniello, Marco Torchiano, Gianna Reggio, and Egidio Astesiano:
    Assessing the Effect of Screen Mockups on the Comprehension of Functional Requirements.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    79 cites at OpenAlex
    40% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Robert Feldt, and Tony Gorschek:
    A Taxonomy for Requirements Engineering and Software Test Alignment.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    74 cites at Semantic Scholar
    31% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Klaas-Jan Stol, Paris Avgeriou, Muhammad Ali Babar, Yan Lucas, and Brian Fitzgerald:
    Key Factors for Adopting Inner Source.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    71 cites at Semantic Scholar
    26% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Hassan Eldib, Chao Wang, and Patrick Schaumont:
    Formal Verification of Software Countermeasures Against Side-Channel Attacks.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    66 cites at Semantic Scholar
    17% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Xiao Liu, Yun Yang, Dong Yuan, and Jinjun Chen:
    Do We Need to Handle Every Temporal Violation in Scientific Workflow Systems?
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    64 cites at Semantic Scholar
    13% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Yuming Zhou, Baowen Xu, Hareton Leung, and Lin Chen:
    An in-Depth Study of the Potentially Confounding Effect of Class Size in Fault Prediction.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    64 cites at Semantic Scholar
    13% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    ThanhVu Nguyen, Deepak Kapur, Westley Weimer, and Stephanie Forrest:
    DIG: A Dynamic Invariant Generator for Polynomial and Array Invariants.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    62 cites at Semantic Scholar
    10% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Lionel C. Briand, Davide Falessi, Shiva Nejati, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, and Tao Yue:
    Traceability and SysML Design Slices to Support Safety Inspections: A Controlled Experiment.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    54 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -4% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Giuseppe Scanniello, Carmine Gravino, Marcela Genero, José A. Cruz-Lemus, and Genoveffa Tortora:
    On the Impact of UML Analysis Models on Source-Code Comprehensibility and Modifiability.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    54 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -4% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Pingyu Zhang and Sebastian G. Elbaum:
    Amplifying Tests to Validate Exception Handling Code: An Extended Study in the Mobile Application Domain.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2014
    44 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -22% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

EMSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Anton Barua, Stephen W. Thomas, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    What Are Developers Talking About? An Analysis of Topics and Trends in Stack Overflow.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    613 cites at Semantic Scholar
    985% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Ahmet Okutan and Olcay Taner Yildiz:
    Software Defect Prediction Using Bayesian Networks.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    354 cites at Semantic Scholar
    527% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Lin Tan, Chen Liu, Zhenmin Li, Xuanhui Wang, Yuanyuan Zhou, and ChengXiang Zhai:
    Bug Characteristics in Open Source Software.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    251 cites at Semantic Scholar
    344% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Markus Borg, Per Runeson, and Anders Ardö:
    Recovering from a Decade: A Systematic Mapping of Information Retrieval Approaches to Software Traceability.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    161 cites at Semantic Scholar
    185% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Janet Siegmund, Christian Kästner, Jörg Liebig, Sven Apel, and Stefan Hanenberg:
    Measuring and Modeling Programming Experience.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    151 cites at Semantic Scholar
    167% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Elizabeth Bjarnason, Per Runeson, Markus Borg, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Emelie Engström, Björn Regnell, Giedre Sabaliauskaite, Annabella Loconsole, Tony Gorschek, and Robert Feldt:
    Challenges and Practices in Aligning Requirements with Verification and Validation: A Case Study of Six Companies.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    130 cites at Semantic Scholar
    130% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Gabriele Bavota, Andrea De Lucia, Andrian Marcus, and Rocco Oliveto:
    Automating Extract Class Refactoring: An Improved Method and Its Evaluation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    116 cites at Semantic Scholar
    105% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Jeffrey C. Carver, Natalia Juristo Juzgado, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, and Sira Vegas:
    Replications of Software Engineering Experiments.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    99 cites at Semantic Scholar
    75% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Hans-Christian Estler, Martin Nordio, Carlo A. Furia, Bertrand Meyer, and Johannes Schneider:
    Agile vs. Structured Distributed Software Development: A Case Study.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    95 cites at Semantic Scholar
    68% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Norsaremah Salleh, Emilia Mendes, and John Grundy:
    Investigating the Effects of Personality Traits on Pair Programming in a Higher Education Setting Through a Family of Experiments.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    81 cites at Semantic Scholar
    43% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Juha Itkonen and Mika Mäntylä:
    Are Test Cases Needed? Replicated Comparison Between Exploratory and Test-Case-Based Software Testing.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    65 cites at Semantic Scholar
    15% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Aiko Yamashita:
    Assessing the Capability of Code Smells to Explain Maintenance Problems: An Empirical Study Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Data.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    64 cites at Semantic Scholar
    13% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Jehad Al-Dallal and Sandro Morasca:
    Predicting Object-Oriented Class Reuse-Proneness Using Internal Quality Attributes.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    36 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -36% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Osama Al-Baik and James Miller:
    Waste Identification and Elimination in Information Technology Organizations.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    35 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -38% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Erik M. Fredericks, Byron DeVries, and Betty H. C. Cheng:
    AutoRELAX: Automatically RELAXing a Goal Model to Address Uncertainty.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    34 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -40% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Mariano Ceccato, Massimiliano Di Penta, Paolo Falcarin, Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, and Paolo Tonella:
    A Family of Experiments to Assess the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Source Code Obfuscation Techniques.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    24 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -58% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Ahmad Jbara, Adam Matan, and Dror G. Feitelson:
    High-MCC Functions in the Linux Kernel.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    24 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -58% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Ning Chen, Steven C. H. Hoi, and Xiaokui Xiao:
    Software Process Evaluation: A Machine Learning Framework with Application to Defect Management Process.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    23 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -59% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Per Runeson, Andreas Stefik, and Anneliese Amschler Andrews:
    Variation Factors in the Design and Analysis of Replicated Controlled Experiments - Three (Dis)similar Studies on Inspections Versus Unit Testing.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    23 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -59% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Georgios Gousios and Diomidis Spinellis:
    Conducting Quantitative Software Engineering Studies with Alitheia Core.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
    21 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -63% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 2013 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Yasutaka Kamei, Emad Shihab, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Audris Mockus, Anand Sinha, and Naoyasu Ubayashi:
    A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Just-in-Time Quality Assurance.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    679 cites at Semantic Scholar
    850% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Gordon Fraser and Andrea Arcuri:
    Whole Test Suite Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    618 cites at Semantic Scholar
    764% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Martin J. Shepperd, Qinbao Song, Zhongbin Sun, and Carolyn Mair:
    Data Quality: Some Comments on the NASA Software Defect Datasets.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    530 cites at Semantic Scholar
    641% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Xiaoyuan Xie, Tsong Yueh Chen, Fei-Ching Kuo, and Baowen Xu:
    A Theoretical Analysis of the Risk Evaluation Formulas for Spectrum-Based Fault Localization.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    362 cites at Semantic Scholar
    406% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Aldeida Aleti, Barbora Buhnova, Lars Grunske, Anne Koziolek, and Indika Meedeniya:
    Software Architecture Optimization Methods: A Systematic Literature Review.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    334 cites at Semantic Scholar
    367% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Ivano Malavolta, Patricia Lago, Henry Muccini, Patrizio Pelliccione, and Antony Tang:
    What Industry Needs from Architectural Languages: A Survey.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    334 cites at Semantic Scholar
    367% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Dag I. K. Sjøberg, Aiko Fallas Yamashita, Bente Cecilie Dahlum Anda, Audris Mockus, and Tore Dybå:
    Quantifying the Effect of Code Smells on Maintenance Effort.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    308 cites at OpenAlex
    331% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Rashina Hoda, James Noble, and Stuart Marshall:
    Self-Organizing Roles on Agile Software Development Teams.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    305 cites at Semantic Scholar
    327% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Andreas Classen, Maxime Cordy, Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Patrick Heymans, Axel Legay, and Jean-François Raskin:
    Featured Transition Systems: Foundations for Verifying Variability-Intensive Systems and Their Application to LTL Model Checking.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    256 cites at Semantic Scholar
    258% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Tim Menzies, Andrew Butcher, David R. Cok, Andrian Marcus, Lucas Layman, Forrest Shull, Burak Turhan, and Thomas Zimmermann:
    Local Versus Global Lessons for Defect Prediction and Effort Estimation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    256 cites at Semantic Scholar
    258% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Shivkumar Shivaji, E. James Whitehead Jr., Ram Akella, and Sunghun Kim:
    Reducing Features to Improve Code Change-Based Bug Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    246 cites at Semantic Scholar
    244% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Marcello La Rosa, Marlon Dumas, Reina Uba, and Remco M. Dijkman:
    Business Process Model Merging: An Approach to Business Process Consolidation.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    240 cites at Semantic Scholar
    236% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Nikolaos Mittas and Lefteris Angelis:
    Ranking and Clustering Software Cost Estimation Models Through a Multiple Comparisons Algorithm.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    239 cites at Semantic Scholar
    234% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Hadi Hemmati, Andrea Arcuri, and Lionel C. Briand:
    Achieving Scalable Model-Based Testing Through Test Case Diversity.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    204 cites at Semantic Scholar
    185% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Martin P. Robillard, Eric Bodden, David Kawrykow, Mira Mezini, and Tristan Ratchford:
    Automated API Property Inference Techniques.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    198 cites at OpenAlex
    177% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Wei-neng Chen and Jun Zhang:
    Ant Colony Optimization for Software Project Scheduling and Staffing with an Event-Based Scheduler.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    197 cites at Semantic Scholar
    176% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Roberto Natella, Domenico Cotroneo, João Durães, and Henrique Madeira:
    On Fault Representativeness of Software Fault Injection.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    194 cites at OpenAlex
    171% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Dongsun Kim, Yida Tao, Sunghun Kim, and Andreas Zeller:
    Where Should We Fix This Bug? A Two-Phase Recommendation Model.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    191 cites at Semantic Scholar
    167% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Thorsten Berger, Steven She, Rafael Lotufo, Andrzej Wasowski, and Krzysztof Czarnecki:
    A Study of Variability Models and Languages in the Systems Software Domain.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    189 cites at Semantic Scholar
    164% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Karel Dejaeger, Thomas Verbraken, and Bart Baesens:
    Toward Comprehensible Software Fault Prediction Models Using Bayesian Network Classifiers.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    188 cites at Semantic Scholar
    163% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Yasutaka Kamei, Emad Shihab, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Audris Mockus, Anand Sinha, and Naoyasu Ubayashi:
    A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Just-in-Time Quality Assurance.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    679 cites at Semantic Scholar
    850% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Gordon Fraser and Andrea Arcuri:
    Whole Test Suite Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    618 cites at Semantic Scholar
    764% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Martin J. Shepperd, Qinbao Song, Zhongbin Sun, and Carolyn Mair:
    Data Quality: Some Comments on the NASA Software Defect Datasets.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    530 cites at Semantic Scholar
    641% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Aldeida Aleti, Barbora Buhnova, Lars Grunske, Anne Koziolek, and Indika Meedeniya:
    Software Architecture Optimization Methods: A Systematic Literature Review.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    334 cites at Semantic Scholar
    367% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Ivano Malavolta, Patricia Lago, Henry Muccini, Patrizio Pelliccione, and Antony Tang:
    What Industry Needs from Architectural Languages: A Survey.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    334 cites at Semantic Scholar
    367% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Dag I. K. Sjøberg, Aiko Fallas Yamashita, Bente Cecilie Dahlum Anda, Audris Mockus, and Tore Dybå:
    Quantifying the Effect of Code Smells on Maintenance Effort.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    308 cites at OpenAlex
    331% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Rashina Hoda, James Noble, and Stuart Marshall:
    Self-Organizing Roles on Agile Software Development Teams.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    305 cites at Semantic Scholar
    327% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Andreas Classen, Maxime Cordy, Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Patrick Heymans, Axel Legay, and Jean-François Raskin:
    Featured Transition Systems: Foundations for Verifying Variability-Intensive Systems and Their Application to LTL Model Checking.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    256 cites at Semantic Scholar
    258% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Tim Menzies, Andrew Butcher, David R. Cok, Andrian Marcus, Lucas Layman, Forrest Shull, Burak Turhan, and Thomas Zimmermann:
    Local Versus Global Lessons for Defect Prediction and Effort Estimation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    256 cites at Semantic Scholar
    258% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Shivkumar Shivaji, E. James Whitehead Jr., Ram Akella, and Sunghun Kim:
    Reducing Features to Improve Code Change-Based Bug Prediction.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    246 cites at Semantic Scholar
    244% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Nikolaos Mittas and Lefteris Angelis:
    Ranking and Clustering Software Cost Estimation Models Through a Multiple Comparisons Algorithm.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    239 cites at Semantic Scholar
    234% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Martin P. Robillard, Eric Bodden, David Kawrykow, Mira Mezini, and Tristan Ratchford:
    Automated API Property Inference Techniques.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    198 cites at OpenAlex
    177% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Wei-neng Chen and Jun Zhang:
    Ant Colony Optimization for Software Project Scheduling and Staffing with an Event-Based Scheduler.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    197 cites at Semantic Scholar
    176% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Roberto Natella, Domenico Cotroneo, João Durães, and Henrique Madeira:
    On Fault Representativeness of Software Fault Injection.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    194 cites at OpenAlex
    171% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Dongsun Kim, Yida Tao, Sunghun Kim, and Andreas Zeller:
    Where Should We Fix This Bug? A Two-Phase Recommendation Model.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    191 cites at Semantic Scholar
    167% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Thorsten Berger, Steven She, Rafael Lotufo, Andrzej Wasowski, and Krzysztof Czarnecki:
    A Study of Variability Models and Languages in the Systems Software Domain.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    189 cites at Semantic Scholar
    164% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Karel Dejaeger, Thomas Verbraken, and Bart Baesens:
    Toward Comprehensible Software Fault Prediction Models Using Bayesian Network Classifiers.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    188 cites at Semantic Scholar
    163% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Walid Maalej and Martin P. Robillard:
    Patterns of Knowledge in API Reference Documentation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    187 cites at Semantic Scholar
    162% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, and Paolo Avesani:
    A Machine Learning Approach to Software Requirements Prioritization.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    170 cites at Semantic Scholar
    138% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Joseph Lawrance, Christopher Bogart, Margaret M. Burnett, Rachel K. E. Bellamy, Kyle Rector, and Scott D. Fleming:
    How Programmers Debug, Revisited: An Information Foraging Theory Perspective.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    163 cites at Semantic Scholar
    128% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TOSEM ⌄

  1. 1
    Xiaoyuan Xie, Tsong Yueh Chen, Fei-Ching Kuo, and Baowen Xu:
    A Theoretical Analysis of the Risk Evaluation Formulas for Spectrum-Based Fault Localization.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    362 cites at Semantic Scholar
    406% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Marcello La Rosa, Marlon Dumas, Reina Uba, and Remco M. Dijkman:
    Business Process Model Merging: An Approach to Business Process Consolidation.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    240 cites at Semantic Scholar
    236% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Hadi Hemmati, Andrea Arcuri, and Lionel C. Briand:
    Achieving Scalable Model-Based Testing Through Test Case Diversity.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    204 cites at Semantic Scholar
    185% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Tao Yue, Lionel C. Briand, and Yvan Labiche:
    Facilitating the Transition from Use Case Models to Analysis Models: Approach and Experiments.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    134 cites at Semantic Scholar
    87% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Zibin Zheng and Michael R. Lyu:
    Personalized Reliability Prediction of Web Services.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    105 cites at Semantic Scholar
    47% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Shin Yoo, Mark Harman, and David Clark:
    Fault Localization Prioritization: Comparing Information-Theoretic and Coverage-Based Approaches.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    103 cites at Semantic Scholar
    44% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Collin McMillan, Denys Poshyvanyk, Mark Grechanik, Qing Xie, and Chen Fu:
    Portfolio: Searching for Relevant Functions and Their Usages in Millions of Lines of Code.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    90 cites at Semantic Scholar
    26% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Leandro L. Minku and Xin Yao:
    Software Effort Estimation as a Multiobjective Learning Problem.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    88 cites at Semantic Scholar
    23% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Nicolás D'Ippolito, Víctor A. Braberman, Nir Piterman, and Sebastián Uchitel:
    Synthesizing Nonanomalous Event-Based Controllers for Liveness Goals.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    85 cites at Semantic Scholar
    19% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Scott D. Fleming, Christopher Scaffidi, David Piorkowski, Margaret M. Burnett, Rachel K. E. Bellamy, Joseph Lawrance, and Irwin Kwan:
    An Information Foraging Theory Perspective on Tools for Debugging, Refactoring, and Reuse Tasks.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    78 cites at Semantic Scholar
    9% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Jun Sun, Yang Liu, Jin Song Dong, Yan Liu, Ling Shi, and Étienne André:
    Modeling and Verifying Hierarchical Real-Time Systems Using Stateful Timed CSP.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    72 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    David Notkin:
    Editorial - Looking Back.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    57 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -20% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Mira Balaban and Azzam Maraee:
    Finite Satisfiability of UML Class Diagrams with Constrained Class Hierarchy.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    52 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -27% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Matteo Pradella, Angelo Morzenti, and Pierluigi San Pietro:
    Bounded Satisfiability Checking of Metric Temporal Logic Specifications.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    52 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -27% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Davide Falessi, Lionel C. Briand, Giovanni Cantone, Rafael Capilla, and Philippe Kruchten:
    The Value of Design Rationale Information.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    50 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -30% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Martin Monperrus and Mira Mezini:
    Detecting Missing Method Calls as Violations of the Majority Rule.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    49 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -31% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Hong Zhu and Ian Bayley:
    An Algebra of Design Patterns.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    36 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -50% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Neil Walkinshaw and Kirill Bogdanov:
    Automated Comparison of State-Based Software Models in Terms of Their Language and Structure.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    34 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -52% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Guido de Caso, Víctor A. Braberman, Diego Garbervetsky, and Sebastián Uchitel:
    Enabledness-Based Program Abstractions for Behavior Validation.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    23 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -68% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Dawei Qi, Hoang D. T. Nguyen, and Abhik Roychoudhury:
    Path Exploration Based on Symbolic Output.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2013
    22 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -69% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

EMSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Emad Shihab, Akinori Ihara, Yasutaka Kamei, Walid M. Ibrahim, Masao Ohira, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Ken-ichi Matsumoto:
    Studying Re-Opened Bugs in Open Source Software.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    141 cites at Semantic Scholar
    97% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Janet Feigenspan, Christian Kästner, Sven Apel, Jörg Liebig, Michael Schulze, Raimund Dachselt, Maria Papendieck, Thomas Leich, and Gunter Saake:
    Do Background Colors Improve Program Comprehension in the #Ifdef Hell?
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    95 cites at OpenAlex
    33% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Huzefa H. Kagdi, Malcom Gethers, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
    Integrating Conceptual and Logical Couplings for Change Impact Analysis in Software.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    83 cites at Semantic Scholar
    16% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Marijn Heule and Sicco Verwer:
    Software Model Synthesis Using Satisfiability Solvers.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    62 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -13% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Neil Walkinshaw, Bernard Lambeau, Christophe Damas, Kirill Bogdanov, and Pierre Dupont:
    STAMINA: A Competition to Encourage the Development and Assessment of Software Model Inference Techniques.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    56 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -22% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Chris Parnin, Christian Bird, and Emerson R. Murphy-Hill:
    Adoption and Use of Java Generics.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    54 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -24% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Yeong-Seok Seo and Doo-Hwan Bae:
    On the Value of Outlier Elimination on Software Effort Estimation Research.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    52 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -27% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Dennis Pagano and Walid Maalej:
    How Do Open Source Communities Blog?
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    49 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -31% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Nicolas Bettenburg and Ahmed E. Hassan:
    Studying the Impact of Social Interactions on Software Quality.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    48 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -33% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Gursimran Singh Walia and Jeffrey C. Carver:
    Using Error Abstraction and Classification to Improve Requirement Quality: Conclusions from a Family of Four Empirical Studies.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    33 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -54% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Julius Davies, Daniel M. Germán, Michael W. Godfrey, and Abram Hindle:
    Software Bertillonage - Determining the Provenance of Software Development Artifacts.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    30 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -58% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Uzma Raja:
    All Complaints Are Not Created Equal: Text Analysis of Open Source Software Defect Reports.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    20 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -72% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Elizabeth Ashlee Holbrook, Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, and Wenbin Li:
    A Study of Methods for Textual Satisfaction Assessment.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    12 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -83% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Parastoo Mohagheghi, Wasif Gilani, Alin Stefanescu, and Miguel A. Fernández:
    An Empirical Study of the State of the Practice and Acceptance of Model-Driven Engineering in Four Industrial Cases.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    10 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -86% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Tim Menzies and Günes Koru:
    Predictive Models in Software Engineering.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    9 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -87% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Andrea Arcuri and Gordon Fraser:
    Parameter Tuning or Default Values? An Empirical Investigation in Search-Based Software Engineering.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    3 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -96% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Mel Ó Cinnéide and Myra B. Cohen:
    Introduction to the Special Issue on Search Based Software Engineering.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    3 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -96% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Bogdan Dit, Meghan Revelle, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
    Integrating Information Retrieval, Execution and Link Analysis Algorithms to Improve Feature Location in Software.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    3 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -96% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Gabriele Bavota, Andrea De Lucia, Andrian Marcus, and Rocco Oliveto:
    Using Structural and Semantic Measures to Improve Software Modularization.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    2 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -97% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Fabian Beck and Stephan Diehl:
    On the Impact of Software Evolution on Software Clustering.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2013
    2 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -97% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 2012 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Claire Le Goues, ThanhVu Nguyen, Stephanie Forrest, and Westley Weimer:
    GenProg: A Generic Method for Automatic Software Repair.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    1193 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1422% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Tracy Hall, Sarah Beecham, David Bowes, David Gray, and Steve Counsell:
    A Systematic Literature Review on Fault Prediction Performance in Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    1089 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1289% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Marco D'Ambros, Michele Lanza, and Romain Robbes:
    Evaluating Defect Prediction Approaches: A Benchmark and an Extensive Comparison.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    606 cites at Semantic Scholar
    673% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Tony Gorschek, A. K. M. Moinul Islam, Chow Kian Cheng, Rahadian Bayu Permadi, and Robert Feldt:
    Evaluation and Measurement of Software Process Improvement - A Systematic Literature Review.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    300 cites at Semantic Scholar
    283% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Gordon Fraser and Andreas Zeller:
    Mutation-Driven Generation of Unit Tests and Oracles.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    286 cites at OpenAlex
    265% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Ekrem Kocaguneli, Tim Menzies, and Jacky W. Keung:
    On the Value of Ensemble Effort Estimation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    272 cites at Semantic Scholar
    247% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Karel Dejaeger, Wouter Verbeke, David Martens, and Bart Baesens:
    Data Mining Techniques for Software Effort Estimation: A Comparative Study.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    229 cites at Semantic Scholar
    192% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Soo Ling Lim and Anthony Finkelstein:
    StakeRare: Using Social Networks and Collaborative Filtering for Large-Scale Requirements Elicitation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    221 cites at OpenAlex
    182% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Ekrem Kocaguneli, Tim Menzies, Ayse Bener, and Jacky W. Keung:
    Exploiting the Essential Assumptions of Analogy-Based Effort Estimation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    208 cites at Semantic Scholar
    165% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, and Premkumar T. Devanbu:
    Clones: What Is That Smell?
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    203 cites at Semantic Scholar
    159% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Andrea Arcuri, Muhammad Zohaib Z. Iqbal, and Lionel C. Briand:
    Random Testing: Theoretical Results and Practical Implications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    185 cites at Semantic Scholar
    136% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Valeria Cardellini, Emiliano Casalicchio, Vincenzo Grassi, Stefano Iannucci, Francesco Lo Presti, and Raffaela Mirandola:
    MOSES: A Framework for QoS Driven Runtime Adaptation of Service-Oriented Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    184 cites at Semantic Scholar
    135% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Christian Kästner, Sven Apel, Thomas Thüm, and Gunter Saake:
    Type Checking Annotation-Based Product Lines.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    183 cites at Semantic Scholar
    133% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Ali Mesbah, Arie van Deursen, and Danny Roest:
    Invariant-Based Automatic Testing of Modern Web Applications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    163 cites at Semantic Scholar
    108% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Collin McMillan, Mark Grechanik, Denys Poshyvanyk, Chen Fu, and Qing Xie:
    Exemplar: A Source Code Search Engine for Finding Highly Relevant Applications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    150 cites at Semantic Scholar
    91% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Hong Mei, Dan Hao, Lingming Zhang, Lu Zhang, Ji Zhou, and Gregg Rothermel:
    A Static Approach to Prioritizing JUnit Test Cases.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    150 cites at Semantic Scholar
    91% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Franz Brosch, Heiko Koziolek, Barbora Buhnova, and Ralf H. Reussner:
    Architecture-Based Reliability Prediction with the Palladio Component Model.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    141 cites at Semantic Scholar
    80% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Cheng Zhang and David Budgen:
    What Do We Know About the Effectiveness of Software Design Patterns?
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    139 cites at Semantic Scholar
    77% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Radu Mateescu, Pascal Poizat, and Gwen Salaün:
    Adaptation of Service Protocols Using Process Algebra and On-the-Fly Reduction Techniques.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    138 cites at Semantic Scholar
    76% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Hoan Anh Nguyen, Tung Thanh Nguyen, Nam H. Pham, Jafar M. Al-Kofahi, and Tien N. Nguyen:
    Clone Management for Evolving Software.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    135 cites at Semantic Scholar
    72% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Claire Le Goues, ThanhVu Nguyen, Stephanie Forrest, and Westley Weimer:
    GenProg: A Generic Method for Automatic Software Repair.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    1193 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1422% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Tracy Hall, Sarah Beecham, David Bowes, David Gray, and Steve Counsell:
    A Systematic Literature Review on Fault Prediction Performance in Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    1089 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1289% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Tony Gorschek, A. K. M. Moinul Islam, Chow Kian Cheng, Rahadian Bayu Permadi, and Robert Feldt:
    Evaluation and Measurement of Software Process Improvement - A Systematic Literature Review.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    300 cites at Semantic Scholar
    283% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Gordon Fraser and Andreas Zeller:
    Mutation-Driven Generation of Unit Tests and Oracles.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    286 cites at OpenAlex
    265% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Ekrem Kocaguneli, Tim Menzies, and Jacky W. Keung:
    On the Value of Ensemble Effort Estimation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    272 cites at Semantic Scholar
    247% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Karel Dejaeger, Wouter Verbeke, David Martens, and Bart Baesens:
    Data Mining Techniques for Software Effort Estimation: A Comparative Study.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    229 cites at Semantic Scholar
    192% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Soo Ling Lim and Anthony Finkelstein:
    StakeRare: Using Social Networks and Collaborative Filtering for Large-Scale Requirements Elicitation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    221 cites at OpenAlex
    182% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Ekrem Kocaguneli, Tim Menzies, Ayse Bener, and Jacky W. Keung:
    Exploiting the Essential Assumptions of Analogy-Based Effort Estimation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    208 cites at Semantic Scholar
    165% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Andrea Arcuri, Muhammad Zohaib Z. Iqbal, and Lionel C. Briand:
    Random Testing: Theoretical Results and Practical Implications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    185 cites at Semantic Scholar
    136% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Valeria Cardellini, Emiliano Casalicchio, Vincenzo Grassi, Stefano Iannucci, Francesco Lo Presti, and Raffaela Mirandola:
    MOSES: A Framework for QoS Driven Runtime Adaptation of Service-Oriented Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    184 cites at Semantic Scholar
    135% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Ali Mesbah, Arie van Deursen, and Danny Roest:
    Invariant-Based Automatic Testing of Modern Web Applications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    163 cites at Semantic Scholar
    108% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Collin McMillan, Mark Grechanik, Denys Poshyvanyk, Chen Fu, and Qing Xie:
    Exemplar: A Source Code Search Engine for Finding Highly Relevant Applications.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    150 cites at Semantic Scholar
    91% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Hong Mei, Dan Hao, Lingming Zhang, Lu Zhang, Ji Zhou, and Gregg Rothermel:
    A Static Approach to Prioritizing JUnit Test Cases.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    150 cites at Semantic Scholar
    91% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Franz Brosch, Heiko Koziolek, Barbora Buhnova, and Ralf H. Reussner:
    Architecture-Based Reliability Prediction with the Palladio Component Model.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    141 cites at Semantic Scholar
    80% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Cheng Zhang and David Budgen:
    What Do We Know About the Effectiveness of Software Design Patterns?
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    139 cites at Semantic Scholar
    77% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Radu Mateescu, Pascal Poizat, and Gwen Salaün:
    Adaptation of Service Protocols Using Process Algebra and On-the-Fly Reduction Techniques.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    138 cites at Semantic Scholar
    76% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Hoan Anh Nguyen, Tung Thanh Nguyen, Nam H. Pham, Jafar M. Al-Kofahi, and Tien N. Nguyen:
    Clone Management for Evolving Software.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    135 cites at Semantic Scholar
    72% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Mirco Tribastone, Stephen Gilmore, and Jane Hillston:
    Scalable Differential Analysis of Process Algebra Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    132 cites at Semantic Scholar
    68% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Anita Sarma, David F. Redmiles, and André van der Hoek:
    Palantír: Early Detection of Development Conflicts Arising from Parallel Code Changes.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    124 cites at Semantic Scholar
    58% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Salima Benbernou, and Michael P. Papazoglou:
    On the Evolution of Services.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
    122 cites at Semantic Scholar
    56% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TOSEM ⌄

  1. 1
    Christian Kästner, Sven Apel, Thomas Thüm, and Gunter Saake:
    Type Checking Annotation-Based Product Lines.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    183 cites at Semantic Scholar
    133% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Jehad Al-Dallal and Lionel C. Briand:
    A Precise Method-Method Interaction-Based Cohesion Metric for Object-Oriented Classes.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    129 cites at Semantic Scholar
    65% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Denys Poshyvanyk, Malcom Gethers, and Andrian Marcus:
    Concept Location Using Formal Concept Analysis and Information Retrieval.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    114 cites at Semantic Scholar
    45% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Reid Holmes and Robert J. Walker:
    Systematizing Pragmatic Software Reuse.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    106 cites at Semantic Scholar
    35% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Andrew Meneely, Ben H. Smith, and Laurie A. Williams:
    Validating Software Metrics: A Spectrum of Philosophies.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    101 cites at Semantic Scholar
    29% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Adam Kiezun, Vijay Ganesh, Shay Artzi, Philip J. Guo, Pieter Hooimeijer, and Michael D. Ernst:
    HAMPI: A Solver for Word Equations over Strings, Regular Expressions, and Context-Free Grammars.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    83 cites at Semantic Scholar
    6% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Anna Queralt and Ernest Teniente:
    Verification and Validation of UML Conceptual Schemas with OCL Constraints.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    76 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -3% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Alessandro Cimatti, Marco Roveri, Angelo Susi, and Stefano Tonetta:
    Validation of Requirements for Hybrid Systems: A Formal Approach.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    53 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -32% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Alessandro Fantechi, Stefania Gnesi, Alessandro Lapadula, Franco Mazzanti, Rosario Pugliese, and Francesco Tiezzi:
    A Logical Verification Methodology for Service-Oriented Computing.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    46 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -41% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Dario Fischbein, Nicolás D'Ippolito, Greg Brunet, Marsha Chechik, and Sebastián Uchitel:
    Weak Alphabet Merging of Partial Behavior Models.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    34 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -57% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Jaymie Strecker and Atif M. Memon:
    Accounting for Defect Characteristics in Evaluations of Testing Techniques.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    21 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -73% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Anders Mattsson, Brian Fitzgerald, Björn Lundell, and Brian Lings:
    An Approach for Modeling Architectural Design Rules in UML and Its Application to Embedded Software.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    13 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -83% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Devdatta Kulkarni, Tanvir Ahmed, and Anand Tripathi:
    A Generative Programming Framework for Context-Aware CSCW Applications.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    11 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -86% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Yuanfang Cai and Kevin J. Sullivan:
    A Formal Model for Automated Software Modularity and Evolvability Analysis.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    10 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -87% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Dawei Qi, Abhik Roychoudhury, Zhenkai Liang, and Kapil Vaswani:
    DARWIN: An Approach to Debugging Evolving Programs.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    6 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -92% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Paul Jennings, Arka P. Ghosh, and Samik Basu:
    A Two-Phase Approximation for Model Checking Probabilistic Unbounded Until Properties of Probabilistic Systems.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    3 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -96% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Abhik Roychoudhury, Ankit Goel, and Bikram Sengupta:
    Symbolic Message Sequence Charts.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    2 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -97% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Macneil Shonle, William G. Griswold, and Sorin Lerner:
    A Framework for the Checking and Refactoring of Crosscutting Concepts.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    2 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -97% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    David Notkin:
    Editorial.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012
    0 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

EMSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Marco D'Ambros, Michele Lanza, and Romain Robbes:
    Evaluating Defect Prediction Approaches: A Benchmark and an Extensive Comparison.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    606 cites at Semantic Scholar
    673% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, and Premkumar T. Devanbu:
    Clones: What Is That Smell?
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    203 cites at Semantic Scholar
    159% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Martin Monperrus, Michael Eichberg, Elif Tekes, and Mira Mezini:
    What Should Developers Be Aware of? An Empirical Study on the Directives of API Documentation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    92 cites at Semantic Scholar
    17% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Mohammad Azzeh:
    A Replicated Assessment and Comparison of Adaptation Techniques for Analogy-Based Effort Estimation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    59 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -25% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Cuauhtémoc López Martín, Claudia Isaza, and Arturo Chavoya:
    Software Development Effort Prediction of Industrial Projects Applying a General Regression Neural Network.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    57 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -27% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Jayalath B. Ekanayake, Jonas Tappolet, Harald C. Gall, and Abraham Bernstein:
    Time Variance and Defect Prediction in Software Projects - Towards an Exploitation of Periods of Stability and Change as Well as a Notion of Concept Drift in Software Projects.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    35 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -55% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Lile Hattori, Michele Lanza, and Romain Robbes:
    Refining Code Ownership with Synchronous Changes.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    23 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -71% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Foutse Khomh, Massimiliano Di Penta, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol:
    An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Antipatterns on Class Change- and Fault-Proneness.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    18 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -77% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Krzysztof Wnuk, Martin Höst, and Björn Regnell:
    Replication of an Experiment on Linguistic Tool Support for Consolidation of Requirements from Multiple Sources.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    14 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -82% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Serdar Tasiran, M. Erkan Keremoglu, and Kivanç Muslu:
    Location Pairs: A Test Coverage Metric for Shared-Memory Concurrent Programs.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    13 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -83% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Sushil Krishna Bajracharya and Cristina Videira Lopes:
    Analyzing and Mining a Code Search Engine Usage Log.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    5 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -94% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Burak Turhan:
    On the Dataset Shift Problem in Software Engineering Prediction Models.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    3 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -96% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Minna Pikkarainen, Outi Salo, Raija Kuusela, and Pekka Abrahamsson:
    Strengths and Barriers Behind the Successful Agile Deployment - Insights from the Three Software Intensive Companies in Finland.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    1 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -99% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Fabio Calefato, Daniela E. Damian, and Filippo Lanubile:
    Computer-Mediated Communication to Support Distributed Requirements Elicitations and Negotiations Tasks.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    0 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Michael W. Godfrey and Jim Whitehead:
    Introduction to the Special Issue on Software Repository Mining in 2009.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    0 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Jesús M. González-Barahona and Gregorio Robles:
    On the Reproducibility of Empirical Software Engineering Studies Based on Data Retrieved from Development Repositories.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    0 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Rashina Hoda, James Noble, and Stuart Marshall:
    Developing a Grounded Theory to Explain the Practices of Self-Organizing Agile Teams.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    0 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Tomaz Kosar, Marjan Mernik, and Jeffrey C. Carver:
    Program Comprehension of Domain-Specific and General-Purpose Languages: Comparison Using a Family of Experiments.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    0 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Hongmin Lu, Yuming Zhou, Baowen Xu, Hareton Leung, and Lin Chen:
    The Ability of Object-Oriented Metrics to Predict Change-Proneness: A Meta-Analysis.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    0 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Renato Maia, Renato Cerqueira, Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, and Tomás Guisasola-Gorham:
    A Qualitative Human-Centric Evaluation of Flexibility in Middleware Implementations.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    0 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 2011 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Yue Jia and Mark Harman:
    An Analysis and Survey of the Development of Mutation Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    1700 cites at OpenAlex
    1235% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Pratyusa K. Manadhata and Jeannette M. Wing:
    An Attack Surface Metric.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    676 cites at Semantic Scholar
    431% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Andreas Bauer, Martin Leucker, and Christian Schallhart:
    Runtime Verification for LTL and TLTL.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    641 cites at Semantic Scholar
    403% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Yonghee Shin, Andrew Meneely, Laurie A. Williams, and Jason A. Osborne:
    Evaluating Complexity, Code Churn, and Developer Activity Metrics as Indicators of Software Vulnerabilities.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    610 cites at Semantic Scholar
    379% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Lee Naish, Hua Jie Lee, and Kotagiri Ramamohanarao:
    A Model for Spectra-Based Software Diagnosis.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    538 cites at Semantic Scholar
    322% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Radu Calinescu, Lars Grunske, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Raffaela Mirandola, and Giordano Tamburrelli:
    Dynamic QoS Management and Optimization in Service-Based Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    410 cites at Semantic Scholar
    222% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Martin P. Robillard and Robert DeLine:
    A Field Study of API Learning Obstacles.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    405 cites at Semantic Scholar
    218% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Kata Praditwong, Mark Harman, and Xin Yao:
    Software Module Clustering as a Multi-Objective Search Problem.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    399 cites at Semantic Scholar
    213% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Qinbao Song, Zihan Jia, Martin J. Shepperd, Shi Ying, and Jin Liu:
    A General Software Defect-Proneness Prediction Framework.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    379 cites at Semantic Scholar
    198% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Norsaremah Salleh, Emilia Mendes, and John C. Grundy:
    Empirical Studies of Pair Programming for CS/SE Teaching in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    352 cites at Semantic Scholar
    176% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    John Anvik and Gail C. Murphy:
    Reducing the Effort of Bug Report Triage: Recommenders for Development-Oriented Decisions.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    325 cites at Semantic Scholar
    155% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Martin Ivarsson and Tony Gorschek:
    A Method for Evaluating Rigor and Industrial Relevance of Technology Evaluations.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    317 cites at Semantic Scholar
    149% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Ivica Crnkovic, Séverine Sentilles, Aneta Vulgarakis, and Michel R. V. Chaudron:
    A Classification Framework for Software Component Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    307 cites at Semantic Scholar
    141% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Steve Adolph, Wendy Hall, and Philippe Kruchten:
    Using Grounded Theory to Study the Experience of Software Development.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    253 cites at Semantic Scholar
    99% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Brady J. Garvin, Myra B. Cohen, and Matthew B. Dwyer:
    Evaluating Improvements to a Meta-Heuristic Search for Constrained Interaction Testing.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    253 cites at Semantic Scholar
    99% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Matthias Weidlich, Jan Mendling, and Mathias Weske:
    Efficient Consistency Measurement Based on Behavioral Profiles of Process Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    226 cites at Semantic Scholar
    77% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Xun Yuan, Myra B. Cohen, and Atif M. Memon:
    GUI Interaction Testing: Incorporating Event Context.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    196 cites at Semantic Scholar
    54% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Andy Zaidman, Bart Van Rompaey, Arie van Deursen, and Serge Demeyer:
    Studying the Co-Evolution of Production and Test Code in Open Source and Industrial Developer Test Processes Through Repository Mining.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    181 cites at Semantic Scholar
    42% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Oscar Dieste and Natalia Juristo Juzgado:
    Systematic Review and Aggregation of Empirical Studies on Elicitation Techniques.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    163 cites at Semantic Scholar
    28% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Bas Cornelissen, Andy Zaidman, and Arie van Deursen:
    A Controlled Experiment for Program Comprehension Through Trace Visualization.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    151 cites at Semantic Scholar
    19% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Yue Jia and Mark Harman:
    An Analysis and Survey of the Development of Mutation Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    1700 cites at OpenAlex
    1235% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Pratyusa K. Manadhata and Jeannette M. Wing:
    An Attack Surface Metric.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    676 cites at Semantic Scholar
    431% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Yonghee Shin, Andrew Meneely, Laurie A. Williams, and Jason A. Osborne:
    Evaluating Complexity, Code Churn, and Developer Activity Metrics as Indicators of Software Vulnerabilities.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    610 cites at Semantic Scholar
    379% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Radu Calinescu, Lars Grunske, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Raffaela Mirandola, and Giordano Tamburrelli:
    Dynamic QoS Management and Optimization in Service-Based Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    410 cites at Semantic Scholar
    222% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Kata Praditwong, Mark Harman, and Xin Yao:
    Software Module Clustering as a Multi-Objective Search Problem.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    399 cites at Semantic Scholar
    213% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Qinbao Song, Zihan Jia, Martin J. Shepperd, Shi Ying, and Jin Liu:
    A General Software Defect-Proneness Prediction Framework.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    379 cites at Semantic Scholar
    198% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Norsaremah Salleh, Emilia Mendes, and John C. Grundy:
    Empirical Studies of Pair Programming for CS/SE Teaching in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    352 cites at Semantic Scholar
    176% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Ivica Crnkovic, Séverine Sentilles, Aneta Vulgarakis, and Michel R. V. Chaudron:
    A Classification Framework for Software Component Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    307 cites at Semantic Scholar
    141% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Matthias Weidlich, Jan Mendling, and Mathias Weske:
    Efficient Consistency Measurement Based on Behavioral Profiles of Process Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    226 cites at Semantic Scholar
    77% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Xun Yuan, Myra B. Cohen, and Atif M. Memon:
    GUI Interaction Testing: Incorporating Event Context.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    196 cites at Semantic Scholar
    54% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Oscar Dieste and Natalia Juristo Juzgado:
    Systematic Review and Aggregation of Empirical Studies on Elicitation Techniques.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    163 cites at Semantic Scholar
    28% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Bas Cornelissen, Andy Zaidman, and Arie van Deursen:
    A Controlled Experiment for Program Comprehension Through Trace Visualization.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    151 cites at Semantic Scholar
    19% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Alexander Egyed:
    Automatically Detecting and Tracking Inconsistencies in Software Design Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    147 cites at Semantic Scholar
    15% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Renée C. Bryce, Sreedevi Sampath, and Atif M. Memon:
    Developing a Single Model and Test Prioritization Strategies for Event-Driven Software.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    146 cites at OpenAlex
    15% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Luciano Baresi and Sam Guinea:
    Self-Supervising BPEL Processes.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    138 cites at Semantic Scholar
    8% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Irwin Kwan, Adrian Schröter, and Daniela E. Damian:
    Does Socio-Technical Congruence Have an Effect on Software Build Success? A Study of Coordination in a Software Project.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    134 cites at Semantic Scholar
    5% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Leonardo Mariani, Fabrizio Pastore, and Mauro Pezzè:
    Dynamic Analysis for Diagnosing Integration Faults.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    106 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -17% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    James H. Andrews, Tim Menzies, and Felix Chun Hang Li:
    Genetic Algorithms for Randomized Unit Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    103 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -19% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K. N. Leung:
    A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    101 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -21% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Cleidson R. B. de Souza and David F. Redmiles:
    The Awareness Network, To Whom Should I Display My Actions? And, Whose Actions Should I Monitor?
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    92 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -28% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TOSEM ⌄

  1. 1
    Andreas Bauer, Martin Leucker, and Christian Schallhart:
    Runtime Verification for LTL and TLTL.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    641 cites at Semantic Scholar
    403% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Lee Naish, Hua Jie Lee, and Kotagiri Ramamohanarao:
    A Model for Spectra-Based Software Diagnosis.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    538 cites at Semantic Scholar
    322% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    John Anvik and Gail C. Murphy:
    Reducing the Effort of Bug Report Triage: Recommenders for Development-Oriented Decisions.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    325 cites at Semantic Scholar
    155% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Martin Erwig and Eric Walkingshaw:
    The Choice Calculus: A Representation for Software Variation.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    140 cites at Semantic Scholar
    10% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Matthew Arnold, Martin T. Vechev, and Eran Yahav:
    QVM: An Efficient Runtime for Detecting Defects in Deployed Systems.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    104 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -18% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Susan Elliott Sim, Medha Umarji, Sukanya Ratanotayanon, and Cristina V. Lopes:
    How Well Do Search Engines Support Code Retrieval on the Web?
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    103 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -19% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Simon Miles, Paul Groth, Steve Munroe, and Luc Moreau:
    PrIMe: A Methodology for Developing Provenance-Aware Applications.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    83 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -35% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Barthélémy Dagenais and Martin P. Robillard:
    Recommending Adaptive Changes for Framework Evolution.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    81 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -36% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Jinjun Chen and Yun Yang:
    Temporal Dependency-Based Checkpoint Selection for Dynamic Verification of Temporal Constraints in Scientific Workflow Systems.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    66 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -48% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Changhai Nie and Hareton Leung:
    The Minimal Failure-Causing Schema of Combinatorial Testing.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    61 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -52% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    David W. Binkley, Mark Harman, and Kiran Lakhotia:
    FlagRemover: A Testability Transformation for Transforming Loop-Assigned Flags.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    40 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -69% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Zhenyu Chen, Tsong Yueh Chen, and Baowen Xu:
    A Revisit of Fault Class Hierarchies in General Boolean Specifications.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    38 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -70% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Ali Ebnenasir and Sandeep S. Kulkarni:
    Feasibility of Stepwise Design of Multitolerant Programs.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    25 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -80% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Shahar Maoz, David Harel, and Asaf Kleinbort:
    A Compiler for Multimodal Scenarios: Transforming LSCs into AspectJ.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    20 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -84% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Josh Dehlinger and Robyn R. Lutz:
    Gaia-PL: A Product Line Engineering Approach for Efficiently Designing Multiagent Systems.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    12 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -91% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Robin A. Gandhi and Seok Won Lee:
    Discovering Multidimensional Correlations Among Regulatory Requirements to Understand Risk.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    11 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -91% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Eli Tilevich and Sriram Gopal:
    Expressive and Extensible Parameter Passing for Distributed Object Systems.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    2 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -98% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Madeline Diep, Matthew B. Dwyer, and Sebastian G. Elbaum:
    Lattice-Based Sampling for Path Property Monitoring.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2011
    0 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

EMSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Martin P. Robillard and Robert DeLine:
    A Field Study of API Learning Obstacles.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    405 cites at Semantic Scholar
    218% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Martin Ivarsson and Tony Gorschek:
    A Method for Evaluating Rigor and Industrial Relevance of Technology Evaluations.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    317 cites at Semantic Scholar
    149% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Steve Adolph, Wendy Hall, and Philippe Kruchten:
    Using Grounded Theory to Study the Experience of Software Development.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    253 cites at Semantic Scholar
    99% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Brady J. Garvin, Myra B. Cohen, and Matthew B. Dwyer:
    Evaluating Improvements to a Meta-Heuristic Search for Constrained Interaction Testing.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    253 cites at Semantic Scholar
    99% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Andy Zaidman, Bart Van Rompaey, Arie van Deursen, and Serge Demeyer:
    Studying the Co-Evolution of Production and Test Code in Open Source and Industrial Developer Test Processes Through Repository Mining.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    181 cites at Semantic Scholar
    42% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Steffen Herbold, Jens Grabowski, and Stephan Waack:
    Calculation and Optimization of Thresholds for Sets of Software Metrics.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    87 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -32% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Juan José Durillo, Yuanyuan Zhang, Enrique Alba, Mark Harman, and Antonio J. Nebro:
    A Study of the Bi-Objective Next Release Problem.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    81 cites at OpenAlex
    -36% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Natalia Juristo Juzgado and Sira Vegas:
    The Role of Non-Exact Replications in Software Engineering Experiments.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    77 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -40% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Meghan Revelle, Malcom Gethers, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
    Using Structural and Textual Information to Capture Feature Coupling in Object-Oriented Software.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    67 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -47% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Tore Dybå, Rafael Prikladnicki, Kari Rönkkö, Carolyn B. Seaman, and Jonathan Sillito:
    Qualitative Research in Software Engineering.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    60 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -53% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Segla Kpodjedo, Filippo Ricca, Philippe Galinier, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol:
    Design Evolution Metrics for Defect Prediction in Object Oriented Systems.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    60 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -53% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Laurie McLeod, Stephen G. MacDonell, and Bill Doolin:
    Qualitative Research on Software Development: A Longitudinal Case Study Methodology.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    53 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -58% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Alessandro Marchetto and Paolo Tonella:
    Using Search-Based Algorithms for Ajax Event Sequence Generation During Testing.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    52 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -59% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Anna Corazza, Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, and Emilia Mendes:
    Investigating the Use of Support Vector Regression for Web Effort Estimation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    50 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -61% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Trosky Boris Callo Arias, Pieter van der Spek, and Paris Avgeriou:
    A Practice-Driven Systematic Review of Dependency Analysis Solutions.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    42 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -67% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Carol K. Gonzales and Gondy Leroy:
    Eliciting User Requirements Using Appreciative Inquiry.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    39 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -69% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Anne Martens, Heiko Koziolek, Lutz Prechelt, and Ralf H. Reussner:
    From Monolithic to Component-Based Performance Evaluation of Software Architectures - A Series of Experiments Analysing Accuracy and Effort.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    35 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -73% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Iain Bate and Usman Khan:
    WCET Analysis of Modern Processors Using Multi-Criteria Optimisation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    33 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -74% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Michel Wermelinger, Yijun Yu, Angela Lozano, and Andrea Capiluppi:
    Assessing Architectural Evolution: A Case Study.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    32 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -75% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    David Budgen, Andy J. Burn, and Barbara A. Kitchenham:
    Reporting Computing Projects Through Structured Abstracts: A Quasi-Experiment.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2011
    27 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -79% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

Top journal papers from 2010 normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Naouel Moha, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Laurence Duchien, and Anne-Françoise Le Meur:
    DECOR: A Method for the Specification and Detection of Code and Design Smells.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    815 cites at Semantic Scholar
    797% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Shaukat Ali, Lionel C. Briand, Hadi Hemmati, and Rajwinder Kaur Panesar-Walawege:
    A Systematic Review of the Application and Empirical Investigation of Search-Based Test Case Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    499 cites at Semantic Scholar
    449% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Mark Harman and Phil McMinn:
    A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Search-Based Testing: Local, Global, and Hybrid Search.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    452 cites at Semantic Scholar
    398% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Raymond P. L. Buse and Westley Weimer:
    Learning a Metric for Code Readability.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    414 cites at Semantic Scholar
    356% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Darja Smite, Claes Wohlin, Tony Gorschek, and Robert Feldt:
    Empirical Evidence in Global Software Engineering: A Systematic Review.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    389 cites at Semantic Scholar
    328% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Thomas Zimmermann, Rahul Premraj, Nicolas Bettenburg, Sascha Just, Adrian Schröter, and Cathrin Weiss:
    What Makes a Good Bug Report?
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    330 cites at OpenAlex
    263% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Suresh Thummalapenta, Luigi Cerulo, Lerina Aversano, and Massimiliano Di Penta:
    An Empirical Study on the Maintenance of Source Code Clones.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    219 cites at Semantic Scholar
    141% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Kai Petersen and Claes Wohlin:
    The Effect of Moving from a Plan-Driven to an Incremental Software Development Approach with Agile Practices - An Industrial Case Study.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    209 cites at Semantic Scholar
    130% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Shay Artzi, Adam Kiezun, Julian Dolby, Frank Tip, Danny Dig, Amit M. Paradkar, and Michael D. Ernst:
    Finding Bugs in Web Applications Using Dynamic Test Generation and Explicit-State Model Checking.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    199 cites at Semantic Scholar
    119% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Hyunsook Do, Siavash Mirarab, Ladan Tahvildari, and Gregg Rothermel:
    The Effects of Time Constraints on Test Case Prioritization: A Series of Controlled Experiments.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    183 cites at Semantic Scholar
    102% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Jo Erskine Hannay, Erik Arisholm, Harald Engvik, and Dag I. K. Sjøberg:
    Effects of Personality on Pair Programming.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    170 cites at Semantic Scholar
    87% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Friedrich Steimann, Thomas Pawlitzki, Sven Apel, and Christian Kästner:
    Types and Modularity for Implicit Invocation with Implicit Announcement.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    157 cites at Semantic Scholar
    73% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Raed Shatnawi:
    A Quantitative Investigation of the Acceptable Risk Levels of Object-Oriented Metrics in Open-Source Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    154 cites at Semantic Scholar
    70% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Yi Liu, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, and Naeem Seliya:
    Evolutionary Optimization of Software Quality Modeling with Multiple Repositories.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    152 cites at Semantic Scholar
    67% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Mohammad Azzeh, Daniel Neagu, and Peter I. Cowling:
    Fuzzy Grey Relational Analysis for Software Effort Estimation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    151 cites at Semantic Scholar
    66% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Kieran Conboy and Brian Fitzgerald:
    Method and Developer Characteristics for Effective Agile Method Tailoring: A Study of XP Expert Opinion.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    147 cites at Semantic Scholar
    62% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Noura Limam and Raouf Boutaba:
    Assessing Software Service Quality and Trustworthiness at Selection Time.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    141 cites at Semantic Scholar
    55% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Barbara Staudt Lerner, Stefan Christov, Leon J. Osterweil, Reda Bendraou, Udo Kannengiesser, and Alexander E. Wise:
    Exception Handling Patterns for Process Modeling.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    133 cites at Semantic Scholar
    46% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Barbara A. Kitchenham, Pearl Brereton, Mark Turner, Mahmood Niazi, Stephen G. Linkman, Rialette Pretorius, and David Budgen:
    Refining the Systematic Literature Review Process - Two Participant-Observer Case Studies.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    133 cites at Semantic Scholar
    46% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Elaine J. Weyuker, Thomas J. Ostrand, and Robert M. Bell:
    Comparing the Effectiveness of Several Modeling Methods for Fault Prediction.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    132 cites at Semantic Scholar
    45% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Naouel Moha, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Laurence Duchien, and Anne-Françoise Le Meur:
    DECOR: A Method for the Specification and Detection of Code and Design Smells.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    815 cites at Semantic Scholar
    797% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Shaukat Ali, Lionel C. Briand, Hadi Hemmati, and Rajwinder Kaur Panesar-Walawege:
    A Systematic Review of the Application and Empirical Investigation of Search-Based Test Case Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    499 cites at Semantic Scholar
    449% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Mark Harman and Phil McMinn:
    A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Search-Based Testing: Local, Global, and Hybrid Search.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    452 cites at Semantic Scholar
    398% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Raymond P. L. Buse and Westley Weimer:
    Learning a Metric for Code Readability.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    414 cites at Semantic Scholar
    356% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Thomas Zimmermann, Rahul Premraj, Nicolas Bettenburg, Sascha Just, Adrian Schröter, and Cathrin Weiss:
    What Makes a Good Bug Report?
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    330 cites at OpenAlex
    263% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Shay Artzi, Adam Kiezun, Julian Dolby, Frank Tip, Danny Dig, Amit M. Paradkar, and Michael D. Ernst:
    Finding Bugs in Web Applications Using Dynamic Test Generation and Explicit-State Model Checking.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    199 cites at Semantic Scholar
    119% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Hyunsook Do, Siavash Mirarab, Ladan Tahvildari, and Gregg Rothermel:
    The Effects of Time Constraints on Test Case Prioritization: A Series of Controlled Experiments.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    183 cites at Semantic Scholar
    102% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Jo Erskine Hannay, Erik Arisholm, Harald Engvik, and Dag I. K. Sjøberg:
    Effects of Personality on Pair Programming.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    170 cites at Semantic Scholar
    87% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Raed Shatnawi:
    A Quantitative Investigation of the Acceptable Risk Levels of Object-Oriented Metrics in Open-Source Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    154 cites at Semantic Scholar
    70% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Yi Liu, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, and Naeem Seliya:
    Evolutionary Optimization of Software Quality Modeling with Multiple Repositories.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    152 cites at Semantic Scholar
    67% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Noura Limam and Raouf Boutaba:
    Assessing Software Service Quality and Trustworthiness at Selection Time.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    141 cites at Semantic Scholar
    55% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Barbara Staudt Lerner, Stefan Christov, Leon J. Osterweil, Reda Bendraou, Udo Kannengiesser, and Alexander E. Wise:
    Exception Handling Patterns for Process Modeling.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    133 cites at Semantic Scholar
    46% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Xun Yuan and Atif M. Memon:
    Generating Event Sequence-Based Test Cases Using GUI Runtime State Feedback.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    131 cites at Semantic Scholar
    44% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Gerhard Friedrich, Mariagrazia Fugini, Enrico Mussi, Barbara Pernici, and Gaston Tagni:
    Exception Handling for Repair in Service-Based Processes.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    130 cites at Semantic Scholar
    43% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Michael Bowman, Lionel C. Briand, and Yvan Labiche:
    Solving the Class Responsibility Assignment Problem in Object-Oriented Analysis with Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    125 cites at Semantic Scholar
    38% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Stephen G. MacDonell, Martin J. Shepperd, Barbara A. Kitchenham, and Emilia Mendes:
    How Reliable Are Systematic Reviews in Empirical Software Engineering?
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    121 cites at Semantic Scholar
    33% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Michele Sama, Sebastian G. Elbaum, Franco Raimondi, David S. Rosenblum, and Zhimin Wang:
    Context-Aware Adaptive Applications: Fault Patterns and Their Automated Identification.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    116 cites at Semantic Scholar
    28% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Engin Uzuncaova, Sarfraz Khurshid, and Don S. Batory:
    Incremental Test Generation for Software Product Lines.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    112 cites at Semantic Scholar
    23% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Ivano Malavolta, Henry Muccini, Patrizio Pelliccione, and Damien A. Tamburri:
    Providing Architectural Languages and Tools Interoperability Through Model Transformation Technologies.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    108 cites at Semantic Scholar
    19% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    George K. Baah, Andy Podgurski, and Mary Jean Harrold:
    The Probabilistic Program Dependence Graph and Its Application to Fault Diagnosis.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
    105 cites at OpenAlex
    16% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

TOSEM ⌄

  1. 1
    Friedrich Steimann, Thomas Pawlitzki, Sven Apel, and Christian Kästner:
    Types and Modularity for Implicit Invocation with Implicit Announcement.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    157 cites at Semantic Scholar
    73% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Kieran Conboy and Brian Fitzgerald:
    Method and Developer Characteristics for Effective Agile Method Tailoring: A Study of XP Expert Opinion.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    147 cites at Semantic Scholar
    62% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Param Vir Singh:
    The Small-World Effect: The Influence of Macro-Level Properties of Developer Collaboration Networks on Open-Source Project Success.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    94 cites at Semantic Scholar
    4% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Ekwa Duala-Ekoko and Martin P. Robillard:
    Clone Region Descriptors: Representing and Tracking Duplication in Source Code.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    81 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -11% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Kevin J. Sullivan, William G. Griswold, Hridesh Rajan, Yuanyuan Song, Yuanfang Cai, Macneil Shonle, and Nishit Tewari:
    Modular Aspect-Oriented Design with XPIs.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    56 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -38% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Amy J. Ko and Brad A. Myers:
    Extracting and Answering Why and Why Not Questions About Java Program Output.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    55 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -39% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Jon Whittle and Praveen K. Jayaraman:
    Synthesizing Hierarchical State Machines from Expressive Scenario Descriptions.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    42 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -54% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Chang Xu, Shing-Chi Cheung, W. K. Chan, and Chunyang Ye:
    Partial Constraint Checking for Context Consistency in Pervasive Computing.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    38 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -58% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Julien Ponge, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, and Farouk Toumani:
    Analysis and Applications of Timed Service Protocols.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    34 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -63% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Jamie Payton, Christine Julien, Gruia-Catalin Roman, and Vasanth Rajamani:
    Semantic Self-Assessment of Query Results in Dynamic Environments.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    10 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -89% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Robert Dyer and Hridesh Rajan:
    Supporting Dynamic Aspect-Oriented Features.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    9 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -90% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Chunqing Chen, Jin Song Dong, Jun Sun, and Andrew P. Martin:
    A Verification System for Interval-Based Specification Languages.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    8 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -91% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Antonio Brogi, Razvan Popescu, and Matteo Tanca:
    Design and Implementation of Sator: A Web Service Aggregator.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    7 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -92% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    David Notkin:
    Editorial.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2010
    0 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -100% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

EMSE ⌄

  1. 1
    Darja Smite, Claes Wohlin, Tony Gorschek, and Robert Feldt:
    Empirical Evidence in Global Software Engineering: A Systematic Review.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    389 cites at Semantic Scholar
    328% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Suresh Thummalapenta, Luigi Cerulo, Lerina Aversano, and Massimiliano Di Penta:
    An Empirical Study on the Maintenance of Source Code Clones.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    219 cites at Semantic Scholar
    141% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Kai Petersen and Claes Wohlin:
    The Effect of Moving from a Plan-Driven to an Incremental Software Development Approach with Agile Practices - An Industrial Case Study.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    209 cites at Semantic Scholar
    130% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Mohammad Azzeh, Daniel Neagu, and Peter I. Cowling:
    Fuzzy Grey Relational Analysis for Software Effort Estimation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    151 cites at Semantic Scholar
    66% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Barbara A. Kitchenham, Pearl Brereton, Mark Turner, Mahmood Niazi, Stephen G. Linkman, Rialette Pretorius, and David Budgen:
    Refining the Systematic Literature Review Process - Two Participant-Observer Case Studies.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    133 cites at Semantic Scholar
    46% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Elaine J. Weyuker, Thomas J. Ostrand, and Robert M. Bell:
    Comparing the Effectiveness of Several Modeling Methods for Fault Prediction.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    132 cites at Semantic Scholar
    45% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Jeffrey C. Carver, Letizia Jaccheri, Sandro Morasca, and Forrest Shull:
    A Checklist for Integrating Student Empirical Studies with Research and Teaching Goals.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    110 cites at Semantic Scholar
    21% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Seiyoung Lee and Hwan-Seung Yong:
    Distributed Agile: Project Management in a Global Environment.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    108 cites at Semantic Scholar
    19% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Xuchang Zou, Raffaella Settimi, and Jane Cleland-Huang:
    Improving Automated Requirements Trace Retrieval: A Study of Term-Based Enhancement Methods.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    107 cites at Semantic Scholar
    18% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Zibin Zheng and Michael R. Lyu:
    An Adaptive QoS-Aware Fault Tolerance Strategy for Web Services.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    77 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -15% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Davide Falessi, Muhammad Ali Babar, Giovanni Cantone, and Philippe Kruchten:
    Applying Empirical Software Engineering to Software Architecture: Challenges and Lessons Learned.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    65 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -28% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    Andrea De Lucia, Carmine Gravino, Rocco Oliveto, and Genoveffa Tortora:
    An Experimental Comparison of ER and UML Class Diagrams for Data Modelling.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    60 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -34% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Gerardo Cepeda Porras and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc:
    An Empirical Study on the Efficiency of Different Design Pattern Representations in UML Class Diagrams.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    56 cites at OpenAlex
    -38% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Nikolaos Mittas and Lefteris Angelis:
    LSEbA: Least Squares Regression and Estimation by Analogy in a Semi-Parametric Model for Software Cost Estimation.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    53 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -42% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Hideaki Hata, Osamu Mizuno, and Tohru Kikuno:
    Fault-Prone Module Detection Using Large-Scale Text Features Based on Spam Filtering.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    43 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -53% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Günes Koru, Hongfang Liu, Dongsong Zhang, and Khaled El Emam:
    Testing the Theory of Relative Defect Proneness for Closed-Source Software.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    27 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -70% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Constantin Sârbu, Andréas Johansson, Neeraj Suri, and Nachiappan Nagappan:
    Profiling the Operational Behavior of OS Device Drivers.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    22 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -76% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Hans Christian Benestad, Bente Anda, and Erik Arisholm:
    Understanding Cost Drivers of Software Evolution: A Quantitative and Qualitative Investigation of Change Effort in Two Evolving Software Systems.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    20 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -78% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Michael Kläs, Haruka Nakao, Frank Elberzhager, and Jürgen Münch:
    Support Planning and Controlling of Early Quality Assurance by Combining Expert Judgment and Defect Data - a Case Study.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    20 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -78% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Swapna S. Gokhale and Robert E. Mullen:
    A Multiplicative Model of Software Defect Repair Times.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2010
    17 cites at Semantic Scholar
    -81% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

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