Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Volume 32

Volume 32, Number 1, January 2020

Research Articles - Methodology

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  Lorenzo Pagliari, Raffaela Mirandola, Catia Trubiani:
  Engineering cyber-physical systems through performance-based modelling and analysis: A case study experience report.
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  Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Zohaib Iqbal, Muhammad Uzair Khan:
  An automated model-based approach for unit-level performance test generation of mobile applications.
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  Amir Ghaemi, Bahman Arasteh:
  SFLA-based heuristic method to generate software structural test data.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Saurabh Tiwari, Atul Gupta:
  Use case specifications: How complete are they?
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  Pedro Miguel Ortega-Cabezas, Antonio Colmenar-Santos, David Borge Diez, Jorge Juan Blanes-Peiró:
  Application of rule-based expert systems in hardware-in-the-loop simulation case study: Software and performance validation of an engine electronic control unit.

Volume 32, Number 2, February 2020

Special Issue: Security- and Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems
Editorial

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  Atif Mashkoor, Johannes Sametinger, Miklós Biró, Alexander Egyed:
  Security- and safety-critical cyber-physical systems.

Special Issue Papers

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  Maryam Zahid, Irum Inayat, Maya Daneva, Zahid Mehmood:
  A security risk mitigation framework for cyber physical systems.
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  Silvia Bonfanti, Angelo Gargantini, Atif Mashkoor:
  Design and validation of a C++ code generator from Abstract State Machines specifications.
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  Sarah Benyagoub, Yamine Aït Ameur, Meriem Ouederni, Atif Mashkoor, Ahmed Medeghri:
  Formal design of scalable conversation protocols using Event-B: Validation, experiments, and benchmarks.
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  Natalia Chaudhry, Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf, Muhammad Taimoor Khan:
  Security assessment of data management systems for cyber physical system applications.
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  Xabier Larrucea, Pablo González-Nalda, Ismael Etxeberria Agiriano, Mari Carmen Otero:
  Analysing encryption mechanisms and functional safety in a ROS-based architecture.

Volume 32, Number 3, March 2020

Special Issue: Addressing Evolving Requirements Faced by the Software Industry
Editorial

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  Miklós Biró, Ricardo Colomo Palacios, Richard Messnarz:
  Addressing evolving requirements faced by the software industry.

Special Issue Papers

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  Harjinder Rahanu, Elli Georgiadou, Kerstin V. Siakas, Margaret Ross:
  Health, safety, and well-being through ethical behaviours in computer and information systems development and deployment.
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  Timo Varkoi, Timo Mäkinen, Frank Cameron, Risto Nevalainen:
  Validating effectiveness of safety requirements' compliance evaluation in process assessments.
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  Mehvish Rashid, Paul M. Clarke, Rory V. O'Connor:
  A mechanism to explore proactive knowledge retention in open source software communities.
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  Barbara Gallina:
  Quantitative evaluation of tailoring within SPICE-compliant security-informed safety-oriented process lines.
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  Xabier Larrucea, Izaskun Santamaría, Borja Fernández-Gauna:
  Managing security debt across PLC phases in a VSE context.
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  Jakub Stolfa, Svatopluk Stolfa, Christian Baio, Utimia Madaleno, Petr Dolejsi, Federico Brugnoli, Richard Messnarz:
  DRIVES - EU blueprint project for the automotive sector - A literature review of drivers of change in automotive industry.

Volume 32, Number 4, April 2020

Research Articles - Methodology

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  Manziba Akanda Nishi, Kostadin Damevski:
  Automatically identifying valid API versions for software development tutorials on the Web.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Hirohisa Aman, Sousuke Amasaki, Tomoyuki Yokogawa, Minoru Kawahara:
  Empirical study of abnormality in local variables and its application to fault-prone Java method analysis.
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  Yang Zhang, Huaimin Wang, Yiwen Wu, Dongyang Hu, Tao Wang:
  GitHub's milestone tool: A mixed-methods analysis on its use.
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  Sandra L. Ramirez-Mora, Hanna Oktaba, Juana Patlán Pérez:
  Group maturity, team efficiency, and team effectiveness in software development: A case study in a CMMI-DEV Level 5 organization.
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  Arif Ali Khan, Muhammad Azeem Akbar:
  Systematic literature review and empirical investigation of motivators for requirements change management process in global software development.

Research Articles - Technology

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  Michael John Decker, Michael L. Collard, L. Gwenn Volkert, Jonathan I. Maletic:
  srcDiff: A syntactic differencing approach to improve the understandability of deltas.

Volume 32, Number 5, May 2020

Research Articles - Methodology

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  Muhammad Rashid Naeem, Tao Lin, Hamad Naeem, Hailu Liu:
  A machine learning approach for classification of equivalent mutants.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Sikandar Ali, Hongqi Li, Siffat Ullah Khan, Muhammad Faisal Abrar, Yanhong Zhao:
  Practitioner's view of barriers to software outsourcing partnership formation: An empirical exploration.
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  Xiang Chen, Yanzhou Mu, Yubin Qu, Chao Ni, Meng Liu, Tong He, Shangqing Liu:
  Do different cross-project defect prediction methods identify the same defective modules?
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  Geng Liu, Luigi Lavazza, Davide Tosi:
  Evolution of functional size measures through ICONIX process phases.

Volume 32, Number 6, June 2020

Review Articles

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  Manal M. Alhammad, Ana María Moreno:
  Challenges of gamification in software process improvement.
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  Nasir Mehmood Minhas, Sohaib Masood, Kai Petersen, Aamer Nadeem:
  A systematic mapping of test case generation techniques using UML interaction diagrams.

Research Articles - Methodology

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  Sikandar Ali, Jiwei Huang, Siffat Ullah Khan, Hongqi Li:
  A framework for modelling structural association amongst barriers to software outsourcing partnership formation: An interpretive structural modelling approach.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Lucas Gren, Alfredo Goldman, Christian Jacobsson:
  Agile ways of working: A team maturity perspective.
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  Helena Holmström Olsson, Jan Bosch:
  Going digital: Disruption and transformation in software-intensive embedded systems ecosystems.

Volume 32, Number 7, July 2020

Review Article

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  Yasir Mahmood, Nazri Kama, Azri Azmi:
  A systematic review of studies on use case points and expert-based estimation of software development effort.

Research Articles - Methodology

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  Hina Saeeda, Junyu Dong, Yong Wang, Muhammad Adil Abid:
  A proposed framework for improved software requirements elicitation process in SCRUM: Implementation by a real-life Norway-based IT project.
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  Nazakat Ali, Daneth Horn, Jang-Eui Hong:
  A hybrid DevOps process supporting software reuse: A pilot project.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Harry M. Sneed, Chris Verhoef:
  Cost-driven software migration: An experience report.
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  Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Arif Ali Khan, Abdul Wahid Khan, Sajjad Mahmood:
  Requirement change management challenges in GSD: An analytical hierarchy process approach.

Volume 32, Number 8, August 2020

Research Articles - Methodology

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  Theresia Ratih Dewi Saputri, Seok-Won Lee:
  Addressing sustainability in the requirements engineering process: From elicitation to functional decomposition.
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  Bahareh Bafandeh Mayvan, Abbas Rasoolzadegan, Abbas Javan Jafari:
  Bad smell detection using quality metrics and refactoring opportunities.
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  Shanquan Gao, Lei Liu, Yuzhou Liu, Huaxiao Liu, Yihui Wang:
  Updating the goal model with user reviews for the evolution of an app.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer, Marco Kuhrmann, Kadir Herkiloglu, Sigrid Eldh:
  Exploring the industry's challenges in software testing: An empirical study.
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  Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Sajjad Mahmood, Ahmed Alsanad, Abeer Abdul-Aziz Alsanad, Abdu Gumaei, Syed Furqan Qadri:
  A multivocal study to improve the implementation of global requirements change management process: A client-vendor prospective.

Volume 32, Number 9, September 2020

Research Articles - Methodology

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  Ashima Singh, Sukhpal Singh Gill:
  Measuring the maturity of Indian small and medium enterprises for unofficial readiness for capability maturity model integration-based software process improvement.
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  Xuan Zhang, Xu Wang, Wei Yun, Chen Gao, Mengting Han, Hui Liu:
  Pattern-based software process modeling for dependability.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Nikolaos Mittas, Lefteris Angelis:
  Data-driven benchmarking in software development effort estimation: The few define the bulk.
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  Ibtissam Abnane, Ali Idri, Alain Abran:
  Fuzzy case-based-reasoning-based imputation for incomplete data in software engineering repositories.
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  Munish Saini, Rohan Verma, Antarpuneet Singh, Kuljit Kaur Chahal:
  Investigating diversity and impact of the popularity metrics for ranking software packages.

Research Articles - Standards

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  Ali Sajedi Badashian, Eleni Stroulia:
  Guidelines for evaluating bug-assignment research.

Volume 32, Number 10, October 2020

Review Articles

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  Antonio Manjavacas, Aurora Vizcaíno, Francisco Ruiz, Mario Piattini:
  Global software development governance: Challenges and solutions.

Research Articles - Methodology

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  Sidra Tariq, Muhammad Usman, Alvis Cheuk M. Fong:
  Selecting best predictors from large software repositories for highly accurate software effort estimation.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Arif Ali Khan, Mohammad Shameem:
  Multicriteria decision-making taxonomy for DevOps challenging factors using analytical hierarchy process.
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  Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Sajjad Mahmood, Zhiqiu Huang, Arif Ali Khan, Mohammad Shameem:
  Readiness model for requirements change management in global software development.
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  Nemitari Ajienka, Peter Vangorp, Andrea Capiluppi:
  An empirical analysis of source code metrics and smart contract resource consumption.

Volume 32, Number 11, November 2020

Special Issue: EuroSPI
Special Issue - Editorial

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  Miklós Biró, Ricardo Colomo Palacios, Richard Messnarz:
  Current perspectives on the software engineering process.

Research Article - Methodology

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  Elli Georgiadou, Kerstin V. Siakas, Eleni Berki, John Estdale, Harjinder Rahanu, Margaret Ross:
  The sociocultural dimension of the Software Process Improvement Manifesto: Pilot validation by experts.

Special Issue Papers

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  Mirna Muñoz, Adriana Peña, Jezreel Mejía, Gloria Piedad Gasca Hurtado, María Clara Gómez-Alvarez, Claude Y. Laporte:
  Analysis of 13 implementations of the software engineering management and engineering basic profile guide of ISO/IEC 29110 in very small entities using different life cycles.
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  Gilbert Regan, Fergal McCaffery, Pangkaj Chandra Paul, Jan Reich, Eric Armengaud, Cem Kaypmaz, Marc Zeller, Joe Zhensheng Guo, Simone Longo, Eoin O'Carroll, Ioannis Sorokos:
  Quality improvement mechanism for cyber physical systems - An evaluation.

Special Issue - Review Article

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  Ricardo Colomo Palacios, Mary Sánchez-Gordón, Daniel Arias-Aranda:
  A critical review on blockchain assessment initiatives: A technology evolution viewpoint.

Special Issue - Empirical Papers

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  Marçal Mora Cantallops, Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, Elena García-Barriocanal, Salvador Sánchez-Alonso:
  Evolution and prospects of the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) package ecosystem.
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  Zulal Akarsu, Murat Yilmaz:
  Managing the social aspects of software development ecosystems: An industrial case study on personality.

Volume 32, Number 12, December 2020

Review Article

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  Muhammad Faisal Abrar, Muhammad Sohail Khan, Sikandar Ali, Muhammad Faran Majeed, Ibrar Ali Shah, Nasir Rashid, Naimat Ullah:
  De-motivators for the adoption of agile methodologies for large-scale software development teams: An SLR from management perspective.

Research Articles - Methodology

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  Macario Polo, Oscar Pedreira, Ángeles Saavedra Places, Ignacio García Rodríguez de Guzmán:
  Automated generation of oracled test cases with regular expressions and combinatorial techniques.

Research Articles - Technology

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  Javed Ali Khan, Lin Liu, Lijie Wen, Raian Ali:
  Conceptualising, extracting and analysing requirements arguments in users' forums: The CrowdRE-Arg framework.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Temitope Elizabeth Abioye, Oluwasefunmi 'Tale Arogundade, Sanjay Misra, Adio T. Akinwale, Olusola John Adeniran:
  Toward ontology-based risk management framework for software projects: An empirical study.

Research Articles - Standards

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  Mahmood Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad R. Alshayeb:
  GLOB: A global project management readiness framework.