Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 204

Volume 204, October 2023

Regular Articles

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  Fandi Bi, Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Ziyi Huang, Felix Ocker:
  Characteristics, causes, and consequences of technical debt in the automation domain. 111725

In Practice

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  Neil A. Ernst, John Klein, Marco Bartolini, Jeremy Coles, Nick Rees:
  Architecting complex, long-lived scientific software. 111732

Regular Articles

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  Raluca Florea, Viktoria Stray, Dag I. K. Sjøberg:
  On the roles of software testers: An exploratory study. 111742

Special Section on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS)

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  Jingyu Liu, Jun Ai, Minyan Lu, Jie Wang, Haoxiang Shi:
  Semantic feature learning for software defect prediction from source code and external knowledge. 111753

Special Section on Service Oriented Software Engineering

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  Lulu Wang, Peng Hu, Xianglong Kong, Wenjie Ouyang, Bixin Li, Haixin Xu, Tao Shao:
  Microservice architecture recovery based on intra-service and inter-service features. 111754
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  Rafik Tighilt, Manel Abdellatif, Imen Trabelsi, Loïc Madern, Naouel Moha, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc:
  On the maintenance support for microservice-based systems through the specification and the detection of microservice antipatterns. 111755

Regular Articles

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  Guodong Fan, Shizhan Chen, Hongyue Wu, Cuiyun Gao, Jianmao Xiao, Xiao Xue, Zhiyong Feng:
  Dialog summarization for software collaborative platform via tuning pre-trained models. 111763
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  Marwa Daaji, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Mohsen Gammoudi, Salah Bouktif, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer:
  BPEL process defects prediction using multi-objective evolutionary search. 111767

Special Section on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS)

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  He Liu, Cheng Wei, Bo Sun, Yinxue Zeng:
  Adaptive robustness evaluation for complex system prognostics and health management software platform. 111768
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  Lvyuan Wu, Zhiyu Xi, Zheng Zheng, Xiaoli Li:
  Application of metamorphic testing on UAV path planning software. 111769

Special Section on Software Reuse for the Next Generation

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  Daniel-Jesus Munoz, Mónica Pinto, Lidia Fuentes, Don S. Batory:
  Transforming Numerical Feature Models into Propositional Formulas and the Universal Variability Language. 111770

Regular Articles

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  Jefferson Seide Molléri, Casper Lassenius, Magne Jørgensen:
  Backsourcing of IT with focus on software development - A systematic literature review. 111771
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  Jinfu Chen, Wei Lin, Saihua Cai, Yemin Yin, Haibo Chen, Dave Towey:
  BiTCN_DRSN: An effective software vulnerability detection model based on an improved temporal convolutional network. 111772

Special Section on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems

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  Xi Deng, Jiwei Yan, Shixin Zhang, Jun Yan, Jian Zhang:
  Variable-strength combinatorial testing of exported activities based on misexposure prediction. 111773

Regular Articles

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  Dror G. Feitelson:
  "We do not appreciate being experimented on": Developer and researcher views on the ethics of experiments on open-source projects. 111774
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  Haiyang Liu, Yuqi Fan, Lin Feng, Zhenchun Wei:
  Vulnerable smart contract function locating based on Multi-Relational Nested Graph Convolutional Network. 111775
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  Son Nguyen, Cuong Tran Manh, Trung Kien Tran, Tan M. Nguyen, Thu-Trang Nguyen, Kien-Tuan Ngo, Hieu Dinh Vo:
  ARist: An effective API argument recommendation approach. 111786

Special Issue on Advanced Security on Software and Systems

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  Yilin Wang, Xiangping Chen, Yuan Huang, Hao-Nan Zhu, Jing Bian, Zibin Zheng:
  An empirical study on real bug fixes from solidity smart contract projects. 111787

Special Section on Service Oriented Software Engineering

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  Wesley K. G. Assunção, Jacob Krüger, Sébastien Mosser, Sofiane Selaoui:
  How do microservices evolve? An empirical analysis of changes in open-source microservice repositories. 111788

Special Section on Innovations in Software Engineering (ISEC 2022 Issue)

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  Vartika Agrahari, Shriram Shanbhag, Sridhar Chimalakonda, A. Eashaan Rao:
  A catalogue of game-specific anti-patterns based on GitHub and Game Development Stack Exchange. 111789

Special Issue on Advanced Security on Software and Systems

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  Xiaobing Sun, Zhenlei Ye, Lili Bo, Xiaoxue Wu, Ying Wei, Tao Zhang, Bin Li:
  Automatic software vulnerability assessment by extracting vulnerability elements. 111790

Special Section on Human-Centric Software Engineering - Approaches, Technologies, and Applications

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  Xiao Liu, Kelly Blincoe, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, John Grundy:
  Human-centric software engineering - Approaches, technologies, and applications. 111791

Regular Articles

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  Meira Levy, Eduard C. Groen, Kuldar Taveter, Daniel Amyot, Eric Yu, Lin Liu, Ita Richardson, Maria Spichkova, Alexandra Jussli, Sébastien Mosser:
  Sustaining human health: A requirements engineering perspective. 111792
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  Andrea Janes, Xiaozhou Li, Valentina Lenarduzzi:
  Open tracing tools: Overview and critical comparison. 111793

Special Section on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS)

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  Yi Zhao, Hao Chen, Liang Zen, Zhao Li:
  Effective software security enhancement using an improved PointNet++. 111794

Regular Articles

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  Mikko Kokkoniemi, Ville Isomöttönen:
  A systematic mapping study on group work research in computing education projects. 111795
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  Morteza Zakeri Nasrabadi, Saeed Parsa, Mohammad Ramezani, Chanchal Roy, Masoud Ekhtiarzadeh:
  A systematic literature review on source code similarity measurement and clone detection: Techniques, applications, and challenges. 111796
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  Victor Pezzi Gazzinelli Cruz, Henrique Rocha, Marco Túlio Valente:
  Snapshot testing in practice: Benefits and drawbacks. 111797

Special Section on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS)

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  Pan Liu, Yihao Li:
  Using expression parsing and algebraic operations to generate test sequences. 111798

Special Issue on Advanced Security on Software and Systems

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  Yue Yan, Shujuan Jiang, Yanmei Zhang, Cheng Zhang:
  An effective fault localization approach based on PageRank and mutation analysis. 111799

Regular Articles

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  Martin G. Salido Ortega, Gilberto Borrego, Ramón René Palacio Cinco, Luis-Felipe Rodríguez:
  Agile software engineers' affective states, their performance and software quality: A systematic mapping review. 111800