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.

Top 100 conference papers from 1976 to 2026 ⌄

1. 1

   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
2. 2

   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
3. 3

   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
4. 4

   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
5. 5

   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
6. 6

   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
7. 7

   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
8. 8

   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
9. 9

   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
10. 10

    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
11. 11

    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
12. 12

    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
13. 13

    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
14. 14

    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
15. 15

    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
16. 16

    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
17. 17

    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
18. 18

    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
19. 19

    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
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

    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
22. 22

    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
23. 23

    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
24. 24

    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
25. 25

    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
26. 26

    Carlos Pacheco, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Michael D. Ernst, and Thomas Ball:
    Feedback-Directed Random Test Generation.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2007
    🏆 ICSE Most Influential Paper
    

    932 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1282% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
27. 27

    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
28. 28

    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
29. 29

    Nachiappan Nagappan and Thomas Ball:
    Use of Relative Code Churn Measures to Predict System Defect Density.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2005
    

    901 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1213% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
30. 30

    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
31. 31

    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
32. 32

    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
33. 33

    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
34. 34

    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
35. 35

    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
36. 36

    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
37. 37

    Andrian Marcus and Jonathan I. Maletic:
    Recovering Documentation-to-Source-Code Traceability Links Using Latent Semantic Indexing.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2003
    

    786 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1063% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
38. 38

    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
39. 39

    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
40. 40

    Manos Renieris and Steven P. Reiss:
    Fault Localization With Nearest Neighbor Queries.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2003
    

    779 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1053% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
41. 41

    Chandrasekhar Boyapati, Sarfraz Khurshid, and Darko Marinov:
    Korat: Automated Testing Based on Java Predicates.
    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2002
    

    775 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1123% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
42. 42

    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
43. 43

    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
44. 44

    Thomas D. LaToza, Gina Venolia, and Robert DeLine:
    Maintaining Mental Models: A Study of Developer Work Habits.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2006
    

    767 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1203% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
45. 45

    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
46. 46

    Stéphane Ducasse, Matthias Rieger, and Serge Demeyer:
    A Language Independent Approach for Detecting Duplicated Code.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 1999
    

    766 cites at Semantic Scholar

    989% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
47. 47

    Pekka Abrahamsson, Juhani Warsta, Mikko T. Siponen, and Jussi Ronkainen:
    New Directions on Agile Methods: A Comparative Analysis.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2003
    

    754 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1016% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
48. 48

    Hoang Duong Thien Nguyen, Dawei Qi, Abhik Roychoudhury, and Satish Chandra:
    SemFix: Program Repair via Semantic Analysis.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2013
    🏆 ICSE Most Influential Paper
    

    753 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1229% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
49. 49

    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
50. 50

    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
51. 51

    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
52. 52

    Westley Weimer, ThanhVu Nguyen, Claire Le Goues, and Stephanie Forrest:
    Automatically Finding Patches Using Genetic Programming.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2009
    🏆 Distinguished Paper
    

    724 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1112% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
53. 53

    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
54. 54

    Gregg Rothermel, Roland H. Untch, Chengyun Chu, and Mary Jean Harrold:
    Test Case Prioritization: An Empirical Study.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 1999
    

    720 cites at Semantic Scholar

    924% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
55. 55

    Sudheendra Hangal and Monica S. Lam:
    Tracking down Software Bugs Using Automatic Anomaly Detection.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2002
    

    718 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1033% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
56. 56

    Ahmed E. Hassan:
    Predicting Faults Using the Complexity of Code Changes.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2009
    

    716 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1098% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
57. 57

    William G. J. Halfond and Alessandro Orso:
    AMNESIA: Analysis and Monitoring for NEutralizing SQL-Injection Attacks.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2005
    🏆 ASE Most Influential Paper
    

    714 cites at Semantic Scholar

    941% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
58. 58

    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
59. 59

    Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Harald C. Gall, Emanuel Giger, and Brendan Murphy:
    Cross-Project Defect Prediction: A Large Scale Experiment on Data vs. Domain vs. Process.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2009
    🏆 FSE Test of Time
    

    713 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1093% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
60. 60

    Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Chris Parnin, and Andrew P. Black:
    How We Refactor, and How We Know It.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2009
    🏆 Distinguished Paper
    

    701 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1073% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
61. 61

    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
62. 62

    Lei Ma, Felix Juefei-Xu, Fuyuan Zhang, Jiyuan Sun, Minhui Xue, Bo Li, Chunyang Chen, Ting Su, Li Li, Yang Liu, Jianjun Zhao, and Yadong Wang:
    DeepGauge: Multi-Granularity Testing Criteria for Deep Learning Systems.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2018
    

    698 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1285% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
63. 63

    Jeff Magee and Jeff Kramer:
    Dynamic Structure in Software Architectures.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 1996
    

    682 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1123% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
64. 64

    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
65. 65

    Xiaodong Gu, Hongyu Zhang, and Sunghun Kim:
    Deep Code Search.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2018
    

    679 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1247% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
66. 66

    Jian Zhou, Hongyu Zhang, and David Lo:
    Where Should the Bugs Be Fixed? More Accurate Information Retrieval-Based Bug Localization Based on Bug Reports.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2012
    

    675 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1255% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
67. 67

    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
68. 68

    Holger Cleve and Andreas Zeller:
    Locating Causes of Program Failures.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2005
    

    673 cites at Semantic Scholar

    881% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
69. 69

    Michael W. Godfrey and Qiang Tu:
    Evolution in Open Source Software: A Case Study.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2000
    

    672 cites at Semantic Scholar

    872% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
70. 70

    John C. Knight:
    Safety Critical Systems: Challenges and Directions.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2002
    

    669 cites at Semantic Scholar

    956% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
71. 71

    Andreas Zeller:
    Isolating Cause-Effect Chains from Computer Programs.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2002
    🏆 Distinguished Paper
    

    653 cites at Semantic Scholar

    931% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
72. 72

    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
73. 73

    Richard N. Taylor, Nenad Medvidovic, Kenneth M. Anderson, E. James Whitehead Jr., and Jason E. Robbins:
    A Component- and Message-Based Architectural Style for GUI Software.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1995
    

    650 cites at Semantic Scholar

    968% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
74. 74

    René Just, Darioush Jalali, Laura Inozemtseva, Michael D. Ernst, Reid Holmes, and Gordon Fraser:
    Are Mutants a Valid Substitute for Real Faults in Software Testing?
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2014
    🏆 FSE Test of Time 🏆 Distinguished Paper
    

    648 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1000% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
75. 75

    Radu Marinescu:
    Detection Strategies: Metrics-Based Rules for Detecting Design Flaws.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2004
    

    641 cites at Semantic Scholar

    946% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
76. 76

    Georgios Gousios, Martin Pinzger, and Arie van Deursen:
    An Exploratory Study of the Pull-Based Software Development Model.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2014
    

    638 cites at Semantic Scholar

    983% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
77. 77

    Marco D'Ambros, Michele Lanza, and Romain Robbes:
    An Extensive Comparison of Bug Prediction Approaches.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2010
    

    637 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1093% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
78. 78

    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
79. 79

    Chris Parnin and Alessandro Orso:
    Are Automated Debugging Techniques Actually Helping Programmers?
    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2011
    🏆 ISSTA Impact Paper
    

    632 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1054% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
80. 80

    Jean Mayrand, Claude Leblanc, and Ettore Merlo:
    Experiment on the Automatic Detection of Function Clones in a Software System Using Metrics.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 1996
    

    632 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1033% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
81. 81

    Hitesh Sajnani, Vaibhav Saini, Jeffrey Svajlenko, Chanchal K. Roy, and Cristina V. Lopes:
    SourcererCC: Scaling Code Clone Detection to Big-Code.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2016
    

    627 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1034% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
82. 82

    Sergey Mechtaev, Jooyong Yi, and Abhik Roychoudhury:
    Angelix: Scalable Multiline Program Patch Synthesis via Symbolic Analysis.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2016
    

    624 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1028% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
83. 83

    John D. Musa and Kazuhira Okumoto:
    A Logarithmic Poisson Execution Time Model for Software Reliability Measurement.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1984
    

    623 cites at Semantic Scholar

    983% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: Link
84. 84

    Christian Bird, Alex Gourley, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Michael Gertz, and Anand Swaminathan:
    Mining Email Social Networks.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2006
    

    623 cites at Semantic Scholar

    958% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
85. 85

    E. Burton Swanson:
    The Dimensions of Maintenance.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1976
    

    617 cites at Semantic Scholar

    1078% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: Link
86. 86

    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
87. 87

    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
88. 88

    Jean-Rémy Falleri, Floréal Morandat, Xavier Blanc, Matias Martinez, and Martin Monperrus:
    Fine-Grained and Accurate Source Code Differencing.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2014
    🏆 ASE Most Influential Paper
    

    605 cites at Semantic Scholar

    927% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
89. 89

    Willem Visser, Corina S. Pasareanu, and Sarfraz Khurshid:
    Test Input Generation with Java PathFinder.
    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2004
    

    595 cites at Semantic Scholar

    871% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
90. 90

    Georgios Gousios:
    The GHTorent Dataset and Tool Suite.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2013
    

    594 cites at Semantic Scholar

    949% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
91. 91

    James A. Clause, Wanchun Li, and Alessandro Orso:
    Dytan: A Generic Dynamic Taint Analysis Framework.
    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2007
    

    593 cites at Semantic Scholar

    779% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
92. 92

    Gail C. Murphy, David Notkin, and Kevin J. Sullivan:
    Software Reflexion Models: Bridging the Gap Between Source and High-Level Models.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 1995
    

    592 cites at Semantic Scholar

    873% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
93. 93

    Michael Fischer, Martin Pinzger, and Harald C. Gall:
    Populating a Release History Database from Version Control and Bug Tracking Systems.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2003
    

    591 cites at Semantic Scholar

    775% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
94. 94

    Thomas Zimmermann and Nachiappan Nagappan:
    Predicting Defects Using Network Analysis on Dependency Graphs.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2008
    

    589 cites at Semantic Scholar

    976% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
95. 95

    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
96. 96

    Xiaoyin Wang, Lu Zhang, Tao Xie, John Anvik, and Jiasu Sun:
    An Approach to Detecting Duplicate Bug Reports Using Natural Language and Execution Information.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2008
    

    583 cites at Semantic Scholar

    965% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
97. 97

    Hassan Gomaa:
    Designing Concurrent, Distributed, and Real-Time Applications with UML.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2001
    

    580 cites at Semantic Scholar

    950% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: Link
98. 98

    Susmit Jha, Sumit Gulwani, Sanjit A. Seshia, and Ashish Tiwari:
    Oracle-Guided Component-Based Program Synthesis.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2010
    🏆 ICSE Most Influential Paper
    

    579 cites at Semantic Scholar

    984% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
99. 99

    Xiaodong Gu, Hongyu Zhang, Dongmei Zhang, and Sunghun Kim:
    Deep API Learning.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2016
    🏆 FSE Test of Time
    

    578 cites at Semantic Scholar

    945% above average of year

    Visited: Jun-2026

    Paper: DOI
100. 100

     Chanchal Kumar Roy and James R. Cordy:
     NICAD: Accurate Detection of Near-Miss Intentional Clones Using Flexible Pretty-Printing and Code Normalization.
     IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2008
     

     576 cites at Semantic Scholar

     952% above average of year

     Visited: Jun-2026

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