Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 170

Volume 170, December 2020

Regular Articles

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  Joel Scheuner, Philipp Leitner:
  Function-as-a-Service performance evaluation: A multivocal literature review. 110708

Special Section on Global Software Engineering: Challenges and Solutions; Edited by Dr Fabio Calefato, Dr Alpana Dubey, Dr Christof Ebert and Dr Paolo Tell

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  Viktoria Stray, Nils Brede Moe:
  Understanding coordination in global software engineering: A mixed-methods study on the use of meetings and Slack. 110717

Special Section on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation; Edited by Dr Árpád Beszédes, Dr Neil Ernst and Dr Mark Hills

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  Hamed Tahmooresi, Abbas Heydarnoori, Reza Nadri:
  Studying the Relationship Between the Usage of APIs Discussed in the Crowd and Post-Release Defects. 110724

New Trends and Ideas

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  Stefano Dalla Palma, Dario Di Nucci, Fabio Palomba, Damian Andrew Tamburri:
  Toward a catalog of software quality metrics for infrastructure code. 110726

Special Section on Software and Systems Reuse in the Big Data Era; Edited by Dr Apostolos Ampatzoglou and Dr Xin Peng

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  Quoc Anh Do, Tanmay Bhowmik, Gary L. Bradshaw:
  Capturing creative requirements via requirements reuse: A machine learning-based approach. 110730

Regular Articles

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  Sara Shafiee, Yves Wautelet, Lars Hvam, Enrico Sandrin, Cipriano Forza:
  Scrum versus Rational Unified Process in facing the main challenges of product configuration systems development. 110732
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  Kátia Romero Felizardo, Érica Ferreira de Souza, Bianca Minetto Napoleão, Nandamudi Lankalapalli Vijaykumar, Maria Teresa Baldassarre:
  Secondary studies in the academic context: A systematic mapping and survey. 110734
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  Raluca Lefticaru, Robert M. Hierons, Manuel Núñez:
  Implementation relations and testing for cyclic systems with refusals and discrete time. 110738
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  Christian D. Newman, Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Michael John Decker, Anthony Peruma, Dishant Kaushik, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Emily Hill:
  On the generation, structure, and semantics of grammar patterns in source code identifiers. 110740

Special Section on Software Engineering for Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems; Edited by Dr Danny Weyns, Dr Radu Calinescu and Dr Tomas Bures

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  Nianyu Li, Christos Tsigkanos, Zhi Jin, Zhenjiang Hu, Carlo Ghezzi:
  Early validation of cyber-physical space systems via multi-concerns integration. 110742

Regular Articles

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  Marçal Mora Cantallops, Salvador Sánchez-Alonso, Elena García-Barriocanal:
  A complex network analysis of the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) package ecosystem. 110744

Special Section on Software and Systems Reuse in the Big Data Era; Edited by Dr Apostolos Ampatzoglou and Dr Xin Peng

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  Anas Shatnawi, Abdelhak Seriai, Houari A. Sahraoui, Tewfik Ziadi, Abderrahmane Seriai:
  ReSIde: Reusable service identification from software families. 110748

Regular Articles

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  Valentina Lenarduzzi, Nyyti Saarimäki, Davide Taibi:
  Some SonarQube issues have a significant but small effect on faults and changes. A large-scale empirical study. 110750
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  Mojtaba Shahin, Muhammad Ali Babar, Muhammad Aufeef Chauhan:
  Architectural Design Space for Modelling and Simulation as a Service: A Review. 110752

Special Section on Intelligent Software Engineering; Edited by Professor David Lo, Dr Xin Xia, Dr Ge Li and Dr Hui Liu

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  Yuan Huang, Xinyu Hu, Nan Jia, Xiangping Chen, Zibin Zheng, Xiapu Luo:
  CommtPst: Deep learning source code for commenting positions prediction. 110754

Special section on New Generation of Bug Fixing

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  Zhou Xu, Kunsong Zhao, Meng Yan, Peipei Yuan, Ling Xu, Yan Lei, Xiaohong Zhang:
  Imbalanced metric learning for crashing fault residence prediction. 110763

Special Section on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security; Edited by Professor David Lo, Dr Bruce McMillin and Dr Zhenyu Chen

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  Siwei Zhou, Jianwen Xiang, W. Eric Wong:
  Reliability analysis of dynamic fault trees with spare gates using conditional binary decision diagrams. 110766

Special Section on Intelligent Software Engineering; Edited by Professor David Lo, Dr Xin Xia, Dr Ge Li and Dr Hui Liu

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  Junyu Lin, Lei Xu, Yingqi Liu, Xiangyu Zhang:
  Black-box adversarial sample generation based on differential evolution. 110767

Special section on New Generation of Bug Fixing

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  Ping Ma, Hangyuan Cheng, Jingxuan Zhang, Jifeng Xuan:
  Can this fault be detected: A study on fault detection via automated test generation. 110769

Regular Articles

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  Hao Jin, Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya:
  Constrained locating arrays for combinatorial interaction testing. 110771

Special Section on Intelligent Software Engineering; Edited by Professor David Lo, Dr Xin Xia, Dr Ge Li and Dr Hui Liu

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  Gang Hu, Min Peng, Yihan Zhang, Qianqian Xie, Mengting Yuan:
  Neural joint attention code search over structure embeddings for software Q&A sites. 110773

Special Section on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation; Edited by Dr Árpád Beszédes, Dr Neil Ernst and Dr Mark Hills

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  Abhishek Tiwari, Jyoti Prakash, Sascha Groß, Christian Hammer:
  A Large Scale Analysis of Android - Web Hybridization. 110775

Regular Articles

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  Dimitrios Tsoukalas, Dionysios D. Kehagias, Miltiadis G. Siavvas, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou:
  Technical debt forecasting: An empirical study on open-source repositories. 110777
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  Federico Giaimo, Hugo Sica de Andrade, Christian Berger:
  Continuous experimentation and the cyber-physical systems challenge: An overview of the literature and the industrial perspective. 110781
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  Can Li, Ling Xu, Meng Yan, Yan Lei:
  TagDC: A tag recommendation method for software information sites with a combination of deep learning and collaborative filtering. 110783
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  Alisa Ananjeva, John Stouby Persson, Anders Bruun:
  Integrating UX work with agile development through user stories: An action research study in a small software company. 110785

Special Section on Intelligent Software Engineering; Edited by Professor David Lo, Dr Xin Xia, Dr Ge Li and Dr Hui Liu

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  Yang Yang, Zheng Li, Liuliu He, Ruilian Zhao:
  A systematic study of reward for reinforcement learning based continuous integration testing. 110787

Regular Articles

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  Muhammad Waseem, Peng Liang, Mojtaba Shahin:
  A Systematic Mapping Study on Microservices Architecture in DevOps. 110798
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  Alireza Aghamohammadi, Maliheh Izadi, Abbas Heydarnoori:
  Generating summaries for methods of event-driven programs: An Android case study. 110800