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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 1987 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
    2131 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2983% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    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
    1788 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2868% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    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
    1705 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2359% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    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
    1680 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2268% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    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
    2237% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-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
    1554 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2725% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-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
    1531 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2851% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-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
    1474 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1978% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-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
    1421 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2469% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    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
    1362 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2356% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    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
    1346 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1847% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 12
    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
    1282 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1749% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-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
    1273 cites at Semantic Scholar
    3426% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-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
    1162 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1613% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    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
    1151 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1933% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    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
    1128 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1934% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    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
    1117 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1788% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    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
    1080 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2300% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  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
    1028 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1939% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    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
    1005 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1533% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  21. 21
    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
    1005 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1354% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  22. 22
    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
    1004 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1567% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  23. 23
    Barbara A. Kitchenham, Tore Dybå, and Magne Jørgensen:
    Evidence-Based Software Engineering.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2004
    1000 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1525% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  24. 24
    Jeff Magee, Naranker Dulay, Susan Eisenbach, and Jeff Kramer:
    Specifying Distributed Software Architectures.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 1995
    982 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1512% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  25. 25
    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
    955 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1308% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  26. 26
    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
    949 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1622% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  27. 27
    Nachiappan Nagappan and Thomas Ball:
    Use of Relative Code Churn Measures to Predict System Defect Density.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2005
    919 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1229% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-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
    913 cites at OpenAlex
    1338% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  29. 29
    Alberto Bacchelli and Christian Bird:
    Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2013
    880 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1430% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-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
    876 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1338% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  31. 31
    Axel van Lamsweerde:
    Requirements Engineering in the Year 00: A Research Perspective.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2000
    863 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1144% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  32. 32
    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
    863 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1563% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  33. 33
    Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball, and Andreas Zeller:
    Mining Metrics to Predict Component Failures.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2006
    862 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1357% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  34. 34
    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
    796 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1669% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  35. 35
    Andrian Marcus and Jonathan I. Maletic:
    Recovering Documentation-to-Source-Code Traceability Links Using Latent Semantic Indexing.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2003
    794 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1072% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  36. 36
    Xing Hu, Ge Li, Xin Xia, David Lo, and Zhi Jin:
    Deep Code Comment Generation.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2018
    794 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1430% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  37. 37
    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
    787 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1268% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  38. 38
    David Harel and Eran Gery:
    Executable Object Modeling with Statecharts.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1996
    787 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1310% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: Link
  39. 39
    Thomas D. LaToza, Gina Venolia, and Robert DeLine:
    Maintaining Mental Models: A Study of Developer Work Habits.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2006
    785 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1227% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  40. 40
    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
    784 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1263% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  41. 41
    Manos Renieris and Steven P. Reiss:
    Fault Localization With Nearest Neighbor Queries.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2003
    784 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1057% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  42. 42
    Peyman Oreizy, Nenad Medvidovic, and Richard N. Taylor:
    Architecture-Based Runtime Software Evolution.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 1998
    🏆 ICSE Most Influential Paper
    782 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1322% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  43. 43
    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
    779 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1127% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  44. 44
    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
    775 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1306% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  45. 45
    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
    1171% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  46. 46
    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
    773 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2249% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  47. 47
    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
    763 cites at Semantic Scholar
    976% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  48. 48
    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
    760 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1022% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  49. 49
    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
    748 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1200% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  50. 50
    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
    735 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1136% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  51. 51
    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
    733 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1529% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  52. 52
    Ahmed E. Hassan:
    Predicting Faults Using the Complexity of Code Changes.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2009
    730 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1127% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  53. 53
    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
    730 cites at Semantic Scholar
    929% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  54. 54
    Song Wang, Taiyue Liu, and Lin Tan:
    Automatically Learning Semantic Features for Defect Prediction.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2016
    729 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1188% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  55. 55
    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
    725 cites at Semantic Scholar
    949% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  56. 56
    Sudheendra Hangal and Monica S. Lam:
    Tracking down Software Bugs Using Automatic Anomaly Detection.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2002
    724 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1040% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  57. 57
    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
    722 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1114% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  58. 58
    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
    722 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1292% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  59. 59
    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
    717 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1312% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: Link
  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
    714 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1100% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  61. 61
    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
    700 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1137% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  62. 62
    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
    699 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1287% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  63. 63
    Xiaodong Gu, Hongyu Zhang, and Sunghun Kim:
    Deep Code Search.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2018
    698 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1245% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  64. 64
    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
    686 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1222% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  65. 65
    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
    685 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1663% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  66. 66
    Jeff Magee and Jeff Kramer:
    Dynamic Structure in Software Architectures.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 1996
    677 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1113% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  67. 67
    John C. Knight:
    Safety Critical Systems: Challenges and Directions.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2002
    676 cites at Semantic Scholar
    965% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  68. 68
    Holger Cleve and Andreas Zeller:
    Locating Causes of Program Failures.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2005
    676 cites at Semantic Scholar
    878% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  69. 69
    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
    675 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1020% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  70. 70
    Michael W. Godfrey and Qiang Tu:
    Evolution in Open Source Software: A Case Study.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2000
    674 cites at Semantic Scholar
    872% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  71. 71
    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
    669 cites at Semantic Scholar
    3414% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  72. 72
    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
    666 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1005% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  73. 73
    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
    662 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1213% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  74. 74
    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
    660 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1172% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  75. 75
    Andreas Zeller:
    Isolating Cause-Effect Chains from Computer Programs.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2002
    🏆 Distinguished Paper
    658 cites at Semantic Scholar
    936% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
    Paper: DOI
  76. 76
    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
    652 cites at Semantic Scholar
    971% above average of year
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  77. 77
    Chris Parnin and Alessandro Orso:
    Are Automated Debugging Techniques Actually Helping Programmers?
    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2011
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    652 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1076% above average of year
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  78. 78
    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
    650 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1048% above average of year
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  79. 79
    Sergey Mechtaev, Jooyong Yi, and Abhik Roychoudhury:
    Angelix: Scalable Multiline Program Patch Synthesis via Symbolic Analysis.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2016
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    1043% above average of year
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    Radu Marinescu:
    Detection Strategies: Metrics-Based Rules for Detecting Design Flaws.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2004
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  81. 81
    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
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  82. 82
    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
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  83. 83
    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
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    1032% above average of year
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  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
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    963% above average of year
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  85. 85
    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
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    937% above average of year
    Visited: Sep-2026
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  86. 86
    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
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    Georgios Gousios:
    The GHTorent Dataset and Tool Suite.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2013
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  88. 88
    Shilin He, Jieming Zhu, Pinjia He, and Michael R. Lyu:
    Experience Report: System Log Analysis for Anomaly Detection.
    IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2016
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  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
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  90. 90
    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
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    Thomas Zimmermann and Nachiappan Nagappan:
    Predicting Defects Using Network Analysis on Dependency Graphs.
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  92. 92
    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
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  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
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    Chanchal Kumar Roy and James R. Cordy:
    NICAD: Accurate Detection of Near-Miss Intentional Clones Using Flexible Pretty-Printing and Code Normalization.
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    Ke Mao, Mark Harman, and Yue Jia:
    Sapienz: Multi-Objective Automated Testing for Android Applications.
    ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2016
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  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
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  97. 97
    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
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    928% above average of year
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  98. 98
    Hassan Gomaa:
    Designing Concurrent, Distributed, and Real-Time Applications with UML.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2001
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    Spiros Mancoridis, Brian S. Mitchell, Chris Rorres, Yih-Farn Chen, and Emden R. Gansner:
    Using Automatic Clustering to Produce High-Level System Organizations of Source Code.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 1998
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    952% above average of year
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    Giriprasad Sridhara, Emily Hill, Divya Muppaneni, Lori L. Pollock, and K. Vijay-Shanker:
    Towards Automatically Generating Summary Comments for Java Methods.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2010
    🏆 ASE Most Influential Paper
    573 cites at Semantic Scholar
    965% above average of year
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