Normalized Top-100 Software Engineering Conference Papers

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

Absolute citations are not necessarily a good indicator for the impact of a paper, as the number of citations usually grows with the age of a paper. The following list shows an alternative ranking, where the citations are normalized by the age of each paper.

Top 100 conference papers normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Islem Bouzenia, Premkumar T. Devanbu, and Michael Pradel:
    RepairAgent: An Autonomous, LLM-Based Agent for Program Repair.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    324 cites at Semantic Scholar
    6810% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Yangruibo Ding, Yanjun Fu, Omniyyah Ibrahim, Chawin Sitawarin, Xinyun Chen, Basel Alomair, David A. Wagner, Baishakhi Ray, and Yizheng Chen:
    Vulnerability Detection with Code Language Models: How Far Are We?
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    226 cites at Semantic Scholar
    4720% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Daye Nam, Andrew Macvean, Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Bogdan Vasilescu, and Brad A. Myers:
    Using an LLM to Help With Code Understanding.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2024
    584 cites at Semantic Scholar
    3669% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    David Harel, Hagi Lachover, Amnon Naamad, Amir Pnueli, Michal Politi, Rivi Sherman, and Aharon Shtull-Trauring:
    STATEMATE; A Working Environment for the Development of Complex Reactive Systems.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1988
    1275 cites at Semantic Scholar
    3444% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: Link
  5. 5
    Ziyao Zhang, Chong Wang, Yanlin Wang, Ensheng Shi, Yuchi Ma, Wanjun Zhong, Jiachi Chen, Mingzhi Mao, and Zibin Zheng:
    LLM Hallucinations in Practical Code Generation: Phenomena, Mechanism, and Mitigation.
    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2025
    162 cites at Semantic Scholar
    3355% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Koushik Sen, Darko Marinov, and Gul Agha:
    CUTE: A Concolic Unit Testing Engine for C.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2005
    🏆 Distinguished Paper
    2107 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2972% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Chunqiu Steven Xia, Yinlin Deng, Soren Dunn, and Lingming Zhang:
    Demystifying LLM-Based Software Engineering Agents.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2025
    🏆 Distinguished Paper
    141 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2907% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Yuchi Tian, Kexin Pei, Suman Jana, and Baishakhi Ray:
    DeepTest: Automated Testing of Deep-Neural-Network-Driven Autonomous Cars.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2018
    1483 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2842% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Ira D. Baxter, Andrew Yahin, Leonardo Mendonça de Moura, Marcelo Sant'Anna, and Lorraine Bier:
    Clone Detection Using Abstract Syntax Trees.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 1998
    1538 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2705% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    René Just, Darioush Jalali, and Michael D. Ernst:
    Defects4J: A Database of Existing Faults to Enable Controlled Testing Studies for Java Programs.
    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA): Tool Demonstrations, 2014
    🏆 ISSTA Impact Paper
    1635 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2674% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Leon J. Osterweil:
    Software Processes Are Software Too.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1987
    1051 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2635% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: Link
  12. 12
    Luca de Alfaro and Thomas A. Henzinger:
    Interface Automata.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2001
    1415 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2463% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    Avishree Khare, Saikat Dutta, Ziyang Li, Alaia Solko-Breslin, Rajeev Alur, and Mayur Naik:
    Understanding the Effectiveness of Large Language Models in Detecting Security Vulnerabilities.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2025
    119 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2438% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Sebastian G. Elbaum, Alexey G. Malishevsky, and Gregg Rothermel:
    Prioritizing Test Cases for Regression Testing.
    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2000
    1684 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2336% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    Matthew B. Dwyer, George S. Avrunin, and James C. Corbett:
    Patterns in Property Specifications for Finite-State Verification.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1999
    1663 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2264% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Peri L. Tarr, Harold Ossher, William H. Harrison, and Stanley M. Sutton Jr.:
    N Degrees of Separation: Multi-Dimensional Separation of Concerns.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1999
    🏆 ICSE Most Influential Paper
    1658 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2257% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    Gordon Fraser and Andrea Arcuri:
    EvoSuite: Automatic Test Suite Generation for Object-Oriented Software.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2011
    1280 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2237% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Mary Jean Harrold, Rajiv Gupta, and Mary Lou Soffa:
    A Methodology for Controlling the Size of a Test Suite.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 1990
    767 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2237% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    Ruiqi Wang, Jiyu Guo, Cuiyun Gao, Guodong Fan, Chun Yong Chong, and Xin Xia:
    Can LLMs Replace Human Evaluators? An Empirical Study of LLM-as-a-Judge in Software Engineering.
    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2025
    109 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2225% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    Saleema Amershi, Andrew Begel, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Harald C. Gall, Ece Kamar, Nachiappan Nagappan, Besmira Nushi, and Thomas Zimmermann:
    Software Engineering for Machine Learning: A Case Study.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2019
    1001 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2222% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  21. 21
    Chunqiu Steven Xia, Yuxiang Wei, and Lingming Zhang:
    Automated Program Repair in the Era of Large Pre-Trained Language Models.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2023
    352 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2158% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  22. 22
    Yinlin Deng, Chunqiu Steven Xia, Haoran Peng, Chenyuan Yang, and Lingming Zhang:
    Large Language Models Are Zero-Shot Fuzzers: Fuzzing Deep-Learning Libraries via Large Language Models.
    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2023
    351 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2151% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  23. 23
    Wei Ma, Daoyuan Wu, Yuqiang Sun, Tianwen Wang, Shangqing Liu, Jian Zhang, Yue Xue, and Yang Liu:
    Combining Fine-Tuning and LLM-Based Agents for Intuitive Smart Contract Auditing with Justifications.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    104 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2118% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  24. 24
    Haifeng Ruan, Yuntong Zhang, and Abhik Roychoudhury:
    SpecRover: Code Intent Extraction via LLMs.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    99 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2011% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  25. 25
    Michael Fu and Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn:
    LineVul: A Transformer-Based Line-Level Vulnerability Prediction.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2022
    🏆 Distinguished Paper
    507 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1988% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  26. 26
    Michael D. Ernst, Jake Cockrell, William G. Griswold, and David Notkin:
    Dynamically Discovering Likely Program Invariants to Support Program Evolution.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1999
    1457 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1971% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  27. 27
    Chunqiu Steven Xia and Lingming Zhang:
    Automated Program Repair via Conversation: Fixing 162 out of 337 Bugs for $0.42 Each Using ChatGPT.
    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2024
    315 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1933% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  28. 28
    Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su, Mark Gabel, and Premkumar T. Devanbu:
    On the Naturalness of Software.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2012
    🏆 ICSE Most Influential Paper
    1012 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1932% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  29. 29
    Andrea Arcuri and Lionel C. Briand:
    A Practical Guide for Using Statistical Tests to Assess Randomized Algorithms in Software Engineering.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2011
    🏆 ICSE Most Influential Paper
    1094 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1898% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  30. 30
    Kevin Allix, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Jacques Klein, and Yves Le Traon:
    AndroZoo: Collecting Millions of Android Apps for the Research Community.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2016
    1102 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1892% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  31. 31
    Sungmin Kang, Juyeon Yoon, and Shin Yoo:
    Large Language Models Are Few-Shot Testers: Exploring LLM-Based General Bug Reproduction.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2023
    302 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1837% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  32. 32
    Matthew Jin, Syed Shahriar, Michele Tufano, Xin Shi, Shuai Lu, Neel Sundaresan, and Alexey Svyatkovskiy:
    InferFix: End-to-End Program Repair with LLMs.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2023
    302 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1837% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  33. 33
    James A. Jones and Mary Jean Harrold:
    Empirical Evaluation of the Tarantula Automatic Fault-Localization Technique.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2005
    🏆 ASE Most Influential Paper
    1316 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1818% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  34. 34
    Chunqiu Steven Xia, Matteo Paltenghi, Jia Le Tian, Michael Pradel, and Lingming Zhang:
    Fuzz4All: Universal Fuzzing with Large Language Models.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2024
    291 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1778% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  35. 35
    John Anvik, Lyndon Hiew, and Gail C. Murphy:
    Who Should Fix This Bug?
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2006
    🏆 ICSE Most Influential Paper 🏆 Distinguished Paper
    1105 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1777% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  36. 36
    James C. Corbett, Matthew B. Dwyer, John Hatcliff, Shawn Laubach, Corina S. Pasareanu, Robby, and Hongjun Zheng:
    Bandera: Extracting Finite-State Models from Java Source Code.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2000
    🏆 ICSE Most Influential Paper
    1281 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1753% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  37. 37
    Xueying Du, Mingwei Liu, Kaixin Wang, Hanlin Wang, Junwei Liu, Yixuan Chen, Jiayi Feng, Chaofeng Sha, Xin Peng, and Yiling Lou:
    Evaluating Large Language Models in Class-Level Code Generation.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2024
    287 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1752% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  38. 38
    Toufique Ahmed, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Christoph Treude, and Michael Pradel:
    Can LLMs Replace Manual Annotation of Software Engineering Artifacts?
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2025
    81 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1628% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  39. 39
    Xu Zhang, Yong Xu, Qingwei Lin, Bo Qiao, Hongyu Zhang, Yingnong Dang, Chunyu Xie, Xinsheng Yang, Qian Cheng, Ze Li, Junjie Chen, Xiaoting He, Randolph Yao, Jian-Guang Lou, Murali Chintalapati, Furao Shen, and Dongmei Zhang:
    Robust Log-Based Anomaly Detection on Unstable Log Data.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2019
    734 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1602% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  40. 40
    Nicolas Bettenburg, Sascha Just, Adrian Schröter, Cathrin Weiss, Rahul Premraj, and Thomas Zimmermann:
    What Makes a Good Bug Report?
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2008
    🏆 Distinguished Paper
    920 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1581% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  41. 41
    Lingxiao Jiang, Ghassan Misherghi, Zhendong Su, and Stéphane Glondu:
    DECKARD: Scalable and Accurate Tree-Based Detection of Code Clones.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2007
    1133 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1580% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  42. 42
    Jieming Zhu, Shilin He, Pinjia He, Jinyang Liu, and Michael R. Lyu:
    Loghub: A Large Collection of System Log Datasets for AI-Driven Log Analytics.
    IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2023
    260 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1567% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  43. 43
    Jiahao Fan, Yi Li, Shaohua Wang, and Tien N. Nguyen:
    A C/C++ Code Vulnerability Dataset with Code Changes and CVE Summaries.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2020
    614 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1567% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  44. 44
    Claudio Spiess, David Gros, Kunal Suresh Pai, Michael Pradel, Md. Rafiqul Islam Rabin, Amin Alipour, Susmit Jha, Prem Devanbu, and Toufique Ahmed:
    Calibration and Correctness of Language Models for Code.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    78 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1564% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  45. 45
    Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Shao Kun Deng, Shengyu Fu, and Neel Sundaresan:
    IntelliCode Compose: Code Generation Using Transformer.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2020
    610 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1556% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  46. 46
    Bo Jiang, Ye Liu, and W. K. Chan:
    ContractFuzzer: Fuzzing Smart Contracts for Vulnerability Detection.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2018
    829 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1545% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  47. 47
    Lezhi Ma, Shangqing Liu, Yi Li, Xiaofei Xie, and Lei Bu:
    SpecGen: Automated Generation of Formal Program Specifications via Large Language Models.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    77 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1542% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  48. 48
    Barry W. Boehm, John R. Brown, and Myron Lipow:
    Quantitative Evaluation of Software Quality.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1976
    858 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1538% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: Link
  49. 49
    Matteo Vaccargiu, Azmat Ullah, and Pierluigi Gallo:
    A Blockchain-Oriented Software Engineering Architecture for Carbon Credit Certification Systems.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    2 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1533% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  50. 50
    Jian Zhang, Xu Wang, Hongyu Zhang, Hailong Sun, Kaixuan Wang, and Xudong Liu:
    A Novel Neural Source Code Representation Based on Abstract Syntax Tree.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2019
    700 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1524% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  51. 51
    Thomas Zimmermann, Peter Weißgerber, Stephan Diehl, and Andreas Zeller:
    Mining Version Histories to Guide Software Changes.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2004
    🏆 ICSE Most Influential Paper
    993 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1521% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  52. 52
    Jeff Magee, Naranker Dulay, Susan Eisenbach, and Jeff Kramer:
    Specifying Distributed Software Architectures.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 1995
    984 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1517% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  53. 53
    Eirini Kalliamvakou, Georgios Gousios, Kelly Blincoe, Leif Singer, Daniel M. Germán, and Daniela E. Damian:
    The Promises and Perils of Mining GitHub.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2014
    946 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1505% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  54. 54
    Yuqiang Sun, Daoyuan Wu, Yue Xue, Han Liu, Haijun Wang, Zhengzi Xu, Xiaofei Xie, and Yang Liu:
    GPTScan: Detecting Logic Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts by Combining GPT with Program Analysis.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2024
    248 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1500% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  55. 55
    Barbara A. Kitchenham, Tore Dybå, and Magne Jørgensen:
    Evidence-Based Software Engineering.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2004
    979 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1498% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  56. 56
    Nan Jiang, Thibaud Lutellier, and Lin Tan:
    CURE: Code-Aware Neural Machine Translation for Automatic Program Repair.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2021
    400 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1460% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  57. 57
    Xing Hu, Ge Li, Xin Xia, David Lo, and Zhi Jin:
    Deep Code Comment Generation.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2018
    784 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1455% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  58. 58
    Nhan Nguyen and Sarah Nadi:
    An Empirical Evaluation of GitHub Copilot's Code Suggestions.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2022
    375 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1445% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  59. 59
    Yuntong Zhang, Haifeng Ruan, Zhiyu Fan, and Abhik Roychoudhury:
    AutoCodeRover: Autonomous Program Improvement.
    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2024
    235 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1417% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  60. 60
    Junkai Chen, Zhiyuan Pan, Xing Hu, Zhenhao Li, Ge Li, and Xin Xia:
    Reasoning Runtime Behavior of a Program with LLM: How Far Are We?
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    71 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1414% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  61. 61
    Yinghao Chen, Zehao Hu, Chen Zhi, Junxiao Han, Shuiguang Deng, and Jianwei Yin:
    ChatUniTest: A Framework for LLM-Based Test Generation.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2024
    233 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1404% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  62. 62
    Alberto Bacchelli and Christian Bird:
    Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2013
    829 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1363% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  63. 63
    Nan Jiang, Kevin Liu, Thibaud Lutellier, and Lin Tan:
    Impact of Code Language Models on Automated Program Repair.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2023
    228 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1362% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  64. 64
    Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball, and Andreas Zeller:
    Mining Metrics to Predict Component Failures.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2006
    859 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1359% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  65. 65
    James H. Andrews, Lionel C. Briand, and Yvan Labiche:
    Is Mutation an Appropriate Tool for Testing Experiments?
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2005
    🏆 ICSE Most Influential Paper 🏆 Distinguished Paper
    991 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1345% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  66. 66
    Brenda S. Baker:
    On Finding Duplication and Near-Duplication in Large Software Systems.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 1995
    870 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1330% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  67. 67
    James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold, and John T. Stasko:
    Visualization of Test Information to Assist Fault Localization.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2002
    903 cites at OpenAlex
    1325% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  68. 68
    Peyman Oreizy, Nenad Medvidovic, and Richard N. Taylor:
    Architecture-Based Runtime Software Evolution.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1998
    🏆 ICSE Most Influential Paper
    780 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1323% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  69. 69
    David Harel and Eran Gery:
    Executable Object Modeling with Statecharts.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1996
    787 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1311% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: Link
  70. 70
    Rick Kazman, Leonard J. Bass, Mike Webb, and Gregory D. Abowd:
    SAAM: A Method for Analyzing the Properties of Software Architectures.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1994
    713 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1309% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: Link
  71. 71
    Raimund Moser, Witold Pedrycz, and Giancarlo Succi:
    A Comparative Analysis of the Efficiency of Change Metrics and Static Code Attributes for Defect Prediction.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2008
    770 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1307% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  72. 72
    Toufique Ahmed and Premkumar T. Devanbu:
    Few-Shot Training LLMs for Project-Specific Code-Summarization.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2022
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  74. 74
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    698 cites at Semantic Scholar
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  75. 75
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    1282% above average of year
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  76. 76
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    213 cites at Semantic Scholar
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    Paper: DOI
  77. 77
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    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2012
    675 cites at Semantic Scholar
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    Paper: DOI
  78. 78
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    209 cites at Semantic Scholar
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    Paper: DOI
  79. 79
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    Paper: DOI
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    Paper: DOI
  83. 83
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    753 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1229% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  84. 84
    Li Li, Alexandre Bartel, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Jacques Klein, Yves Le Traon, Steven Arzt, Siegfried Rasthofer, Eric Bodden, Damien Octeau, and Patrick D. McDaniel:
    IccTA: Detecting Inter-Component Privacy Leaks in Android Apps.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2015
    🏆 ICSE Most Influential Paper
    675 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1227% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  85. 85
    Nachiappan Nagappan and Thomas Ball:
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    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2005
    901 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1213% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  86. 86
    Brittany Johnson, Yoonki Song, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, and Robert W. Bowdidge:
    Why Don't Software Developers Use Static Analysis Tools to Find Bugs?
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2013
    744 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1213% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  87. 87
    Aravind Machiry, Rohan Tahiliani, and Mayur Naik:
    Dynodroid: An Input Generation System for Android Apps.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2013
    🏆 FSE Test of Time
    742 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1210% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  88. 88
    Song Wang, Taiyue Liu, and Lin Tan:
    Automatically Learning Semantic Features for Defect Prediction.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2016
    722 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1205% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  89. 89
    Claire Le Goues, Michael Dewey-Vogt, Stephanie Forrest, and Westley Weimer:
    A Systematic Study of Automated Program Repair: Fixing 55 out of 105 Bugs for $8 Each.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2012
    650 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1205% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  90. 90
    Thomas D. LaToza, Gina Venolia, and Robert DeLine:
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    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2006
    767 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1203% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  91. 91
    Yingwei Ma, Qingping Yang, Rongyu Cao, Binhua Li, Fei Huang, and Yongbin Li:
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    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Companion, 2025
    61 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1201% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  92. 92
    Thomas Durieux, João F. Ferreira, Rui Abreu, and Pedro Cruz:
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    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2020
    479 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1200% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  93. 93
    Toufique Ahmed, Kunal Suresh Pai, Premkumar T. Devanbu, and Earl T. Barr:
    Automatic Semantic Augmentation of Language Model Prompts (for Code Summarization).
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2024
    200 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1191% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  94. 94
    Aidan Z. H. Yang, Claire Le Goues, Ruben Martins, and Vincent J. Hellendoorn:
    Large Language Models for Test-Free Fault Localization.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2024
    199 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1184% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  95. 95
    Amy Moormann Zaremski and Jeannette M. Wing:
    Specification Matching of Software Components.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 1995
    774 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1172% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  96. 96
    Mengshi Zhang, Yuqun Zhang, Lingming Zhang, Cong Liu, and Sarfraz Khurshid:
    DeepRoad: GAN-Based Metamorphic Testing and Input Validation Framework for Autonomous Driving Systems.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2018
    635 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1160% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  97. 97
    Kewen Peng and Tim Menzies:
    Documenting Evidence of a Reuse of '"Why Should I Trust You?": Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier'.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Replications and Negative Results (RENE), 2021
    322 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1156% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  98. 98
    Axel van Lamsweerde:
    Requirements Engineering in the Year 00: A Research Perspective.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2000
    858 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1141% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  99. 99
    Shuzheng Gao, Cuiyun Gao, Wenchao Gu, and Michael R. Lyu:
    Search-Based LLMs for Code Optimization.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    🏆 Distinguished Paper
    58 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1137% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  100. 100
    Martin White, Michele Tufano, Christopher Vendome, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
    Deep Learning Code Fragments for Code Clone Detection.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2016
    682 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1133% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

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