Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Volume 30

Volume 30, Number 1, January 2018

Research Articles

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  Tahere Yaghoobi:
  Prioritizing key success factors of software projects using fuzzy AHP.
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  Brian P. Eddy, Nicholas A. Kraft, Jeff Gray:
  Impact of structural weighting on a latent Dirichlet allocation-based feature location technique.
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  Raman Goyal, Gabriel Ferreira, Christian Kästner, James D. Herbsleb:
  Identifying unusual commits on GitHub.

Research Article - Methodology

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  Jingdong Jia, Hanlin Mo, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Zupeng Chen:
  Grouping environmental factors influencing individual decision-making behavior in software projects: A cluster analysis.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Khaled Walid Al-Sabbagh, Lucas Gren:
  The connections between group maturity, software development velocity, and planning effectiveness.
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  Abdul Rehman Gilal, Jafreezal Jaafar, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Mazni Omar, Shuib Basri, Izzatdin Abdul Aziz:
  Finding an effective classification technique to develop a software team composition model.

Volume 30, Number 2, February 2018

Special Issue on Software Visualization
Guest Editorial

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  Christopher Parnin, Johan Fabry:
  Special edition of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process for the 4th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2016).

Special Issue Papers

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  Roberto Erick Lopez-Herrejon, Sheny Illescas, Alexander Egyed:
  A systematic mapping study of information visualization for software product line engineering.
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  Leonel Merino, Mohammad Ghafari, Oscar Nierstrasz:
  Towards actionable visualization for software developers.
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  Teemu Sirkiä:
  Jsvee & Kelmu: Creating and tailoring program animations for computing education.
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  Evan Wilde, Daniel M. Germán:
  Merge-Tree: Visualizing the integration of commits into Linux.

Volume 30, Number 3, March 2018

High Assurance Systems Engineering
Editorial

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  Radu F. Babiceanu, Hélène Waeselynck:
  Emerging high assurance solutions for safe, secure, and reliable software systems.

Special Issue Papers

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  Marco Mori, Andrea Ceccarelli, Paolo Lollini, Bernhard Frömel, Francesco Brancati, Andrea Bondavalli:
  Systems-of-systems modeling using a comprehensive viewpoint-based SysML profile.
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  Michaël Lauer, Matthieu Amy, Jean-Charles Fabre, Matthieu Roy, William Excoffon, Miruna Stoicescu:
  Resilient computing on ROS using adaptive fault tolerance.
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  Marcello M. Bersani, Marisol García-Valls:
  Online verification in cyber-physical systems: Practical bounds for meaningful temporal costs.
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  Paul Hyden, Richard G. McGrath, Ira S. Moskowitz, Stephen Russell:
  Managing risk in high assurance systems by optimizing topological resources.
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  Md. Shahrear Iqbal, Mohammad Zulkernine, Fehmi Jaafar, Yuan Gu:
  Protecting Internet users from becoming victimized attackers of click-fraud.
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  Tommaso Zoppi, Andrea Ceccarelli, Francesco Lo Piccolo, Paolo Lollini, Gabriele Giunta, Vito Morreale, Andrea Bondavalli:
  Labelling relevant events to support the crisis management operator.
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  Van Chan Ngo, Axel Legay:
  Formal verification of probabilistic SystemC models with statistical model checking.
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  Yuan Fei, Huibiao Zhu, Xi Wu, Huixing Fang, Shengchao Qin:
  Comparative modelling and verification of Pthreads and Dthreads.
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  Sunint Kaur Khalsa, Yvan Labiche:
  Extending Category Partition's Base Choice criterion to better support constraints.

Volume 30, Number 4, April 2018

Research Articles

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  Adnane Ghannem, Marouane Kessentini, Mohammad Salah Hamdi, Ghizlane El-Boussaidi:
  Model refactoring by example: A multi-objective search based software engineering approach.
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  José Miguel Horcas, Julien Monteil, Mélanie Bouroche, Mónica Pinto, Lidia Fuentes, Siobhán Clarke:
  Context-dependent reconfiguration of autonomous vehicles in mixed traffic.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Andriy V. Miranskyy, Zainab Al-zanbouri, David Godwin, Ayse Basar Bener:
  Database engines: Evolution of greenness.
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  Yao Lu, Xinjun Mao, Zude Li, Yang Zhang, Tao Wang, Gang Yin:
  Internal quality assurance for external contributions in GitHub: An empirical investigation.
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  Ricardo Britto, Daniela S. Cruzes, Darja Smite, Aivars Sablis:
  Onboarding software developers and teams in three globally distributed legacy projects: A multi-case study.

Research Article - Standards

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  Ali Idri, Ibtissam Abnane, Alain Abran:
  Evaluating Pred(p) and standardized accuracy criteria in software development effort estimation.

Volume 30, Number 5, May 2018

Selected functional safety and cybersecurity concerns in system, software, and service process improvement and innovation
Editorial

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  Atif Mashkoor, Miklós Biró, Richard Messnarz, Ricardo Colomo Palacios:
  Selected functional safety and cybersecurity concerns in system, software, and service process improvement and innovation.

Special Issue Papers

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  Richard Messnarz, Christian Kreiner, Georg Macher, Alastair Walker:
  Extending Automotive SPICE 3.0 for the use in ADAS and future self-driving service architectures.
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  Marcin Wolski, Bartosz Walter, Szymon Kupinski, Jakub Chojnacki:
  Software quality model for a research-driven organization - An experience report.
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  Onur Erdogan, Muhammed Emre Pekkaya, Halime Gök:
  More effective sprint retrospective with statistical analysis.
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  Silvia Bonfanti, Angelo Gargantini, Atif Mashkoor:
  A systematic literature review of the use of formal methods in medical software systems.
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  Johannes Leupolz, Axel Habermaier, Wolfgang Reif:
  Quantitative and qualitative safety analysis of a hemodialysis machine with S#.
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  Verena Geist, Christine Natschläger, Christa Illibauer, Klaus-Dieter Schewe:
  Towards functional safety and security for adaptive and flexible business processes.
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  Alastair Walker:
  Cybersecurity in safety-critical systems.

Volume 30, Number 6, June 2018

Special Issue on Program Comprehension
Editorial

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  Gabriele Bavota, Jonathan I. Maletic, Michael L. Collard:
  Introduction to the special issue on program comprehension.

Special Issue Papers

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  Natthawute Sae-Lim, Shinpei Hayashi, Motoshi Saeki:
  Context-based approach to prioritize code smells for prefactoring.
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  Simone Scalabrino, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Rocco Oliveto, Denys Poshyvanyk:
  A comprehensive model for code readability.

Volume 30, Number 7, July 2018

Special issue on Software Engineering for Connected Health
Guest Editorial

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  Noel Carroll, Craig E. Kuziemsky, Ita Richardson:
  Special issue on software engineering for Connected Health: Challenges and research roadmap.

Special Issue Papers

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  Özden Özcan Top, Fergal McCaffery:
  A hybrid assessment approach for medical device software development companies.
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  Andrea M. Plaza, Jessica Díaz, Jennifer Pérez:
  Software architectures for health care cyber-physical systems: A systematic literature review.
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  Sofia Ouhbi, José Luis Fernández-Alemán, Ambrosio Toval, José Rivera Pozo, Ali Idri:
  Sustainability requirements for connected health applications.
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  Benjamin Eze, Craig E. Kuziemsky, Liam Peyton:
  Cloud-based performance management of community care services.
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  Philip Weber, João Bosco Ferreira Filho, Behzad Bordbar, Mark Lee, Ian Litchfield, Ruth Backman:
  Automated conflict detection between medical care pathways.

Volume 30, Number 8, August 2018

Research Articles

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  Amin Jalali, Fabrizio Maria Maggi, Hajo A. Reijers:
  A hybrid approach for aspect-oriented business process modeling.
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  Philipp Diebold, Sven Theobald:
  How is agile development currently being used in regulated embedded domains?
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  Asma Hachemi, Mohamed Ahmed-Nacer:
  Reusing process patterns in software process models modification.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Nasir Rashid, Siffat Ullah Khan:
  Using agile methods for the development of green and sustainable software: Success factors for GSD vendors.
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  Muhammad Salam, Siffat Ullah Khan:
  Challenges in the development of green and sustainable software for software multisourcing vendors: Findings from a systematic literature review and industrial survey.

Research Article - Standards

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  Haithem Mezni, Mokhtar Sellami, Jaber Kouki:
  Security-aware SaaS placement using swarm intelligence.

Volume 30, Number 9, September 2018

Cover Image

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  Václav Rajlich:
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Perspective Paper

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  Václav Rajlich:
  Five recommendations for software evolvability.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Daniel Kulesz, Verena Käfer, Stefan Wagner:
  Spreadsheet guardian: An approach to protecting semantic correctness throughout the evolution of spreadsheets.
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  Cristiano Tolfo, Raul Sidnei Wazlawick, Marcelo Gitirana Gomes Ferreira, Fernando Antônio Forcellini:
  Agile practices and the promotion of entrepreneurial skills in software development.
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  Ismael Edrein Espinosa-Curiel, Josefina Rodríguez-Jacobo, Erika Vázquez-Alfaro, José Alberto Fernández-Zepeda, Daniel Fajardo-Delgado:
  Analysis of the changes in communication and social interactions during the transformation of a traditional team into an agile team.

Research Articles - Standards

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  Indira Nurdiani, Jürgen Börstler, Samuel A. Fricker:
  Literature review of flexibility attributes: A flexibility framework for software developing organization.
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  Muhammad Asim, Artsiom Yautsiukhin, Achim D. Brucker, Thar Baker, Qi Shi, Brett Lempereur:
  Security policy monitoring of BPMN-based service compositions.

Volume 30, Number 10, October 2018

Perspective Paper

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  Fatma Lahmar, Haithem Mezni:
  Multicloud service composition: A survey of current approaches and issues.

Research Article - Methodology

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  Amira Ali, Huda Amin Maghawry, Nagwa L. Badr:
  Automated parallel GUI testing as a service for mobile applications.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Malek Ahmad Theeb Almomani, Shuib Basri, Abdul Rehman Gilal:
  Empirical study of software process improvement in Malaysian small and medium enterprises: The human aspects.
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  Nasir Rashid, Siffat Ullah Khan:
  Agile practices for global software development vendors in the development of green and sustainable software.

Research Articles - Standards

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  Zhiyuan Chen, Young-Woo Kwon, Myoungkyu Song:
  Clone refactoring inspection by summarizing clone refactorings and detecting inconsistent changes during software evolution.
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  Ning Ge, Arnaud Dieumegard, Eric Jenn, Laurent Voisin:
  Correct-by-construction specification to verified code.

Practice Paper

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  Martin Kalenda, Petr Hyna, Bruno Rossi:
  Scaling agile in large organizations: Practices, challenges, and success factors.

Volume 30, Number 11, November 2018

Research Articles

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  Ramtin Jabbari, Nauman Bin Ali, Kai Petersen, Binish Tanveer:
  Towards a benefits dependency network for DevOps based on a systematic literature review.
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  Taher Ahmed Ghaleb, Musab A. AlTurki, Khalid Aljasser:
  Program comprehension through reverse-engineered sequence diagrams: A systematic review.
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  Anton V. Uzunov, Eduardo B. Fernández, Katrina Falkner:
  Assessing and improving the quality of security methodologies for distributed systems.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Jan Bosch, Helena Holmström Olsson:
  Ecosystem traps and where to find them.
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  Mohammad Shameem, Rakesh Ranjan Kumar, Chiranjeev Kumar, Bibhas Chandra, Arif Ali Khan:
  Prioritizing challenges of agile process in distributed software development environment using analytic hierarchy process.
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  Jennifer Brings, Marian Daun, Sarah Brinckmann, Kevin Keller, Thorsten Weyer:
  Approaches, success factors, and barriers for technology transfer in software engineering - Results of a systematic literature review.
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  Taisa Guidini Gonçalves, Káthia Marçal de Oliveira, Christophe Kolski:
  HCI in practice: An empirical study with software process capability maturity model consultants in Brazil.

Research Articles - Standards

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  Xiaoyu Liu, LiGuo Huang, Alexander Egyed, Jidong Ge:
  Do code data sharing dependencies support an early prediction of software actual change impact set?
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  Francesco Mercaldo, Andrea Di Sorbo, Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Aniello Cimitile, Fabio Martinelli:
  An exploratory study on the evolution of Android malware quality.
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  Yi Bian, Zheng Li, Junxia Guo, Ruilian Zhao:
  Concrete hyperheuristic framework for test case prioritization.

Volume 30, Number 12, December 2018

Cover Image

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  Swarnima Singh Gautam, Vrijendra Singh:
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Research Article

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  Swarnima Singh Gautam, Vrijendra Singh:
  The state-of-the-art in software development effort estimation.

Research Articles - Methodology

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  Julián Alberto García-García, Laura García-Borgoñón, María José Escalona, Manuel Mejías:
  A model-based solution for process modeling in practice environments: PLM4BS.
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  Guglielmo De Angelis, Alessio Ferrari, Stefania Gnesi, Andrea Polini:
  Requirements elicitation and refinement in collaborative research projects.
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  Xuan Zhang, Xu Wang, Yanni Kang:
  Trustworthiness requirement-oriented software process modeling.
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  Pooja Sharma, Amrit Lal Sangal:
  Framework for empirical examination and modeling structural dependencies among inhibitors that impact SPI implementation initiatives in software SMEs.
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  Omar El Beggar:
  Multicriteria decision aid for agile methods evaluation using fuzzy PROMETHEE.
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  Xiaoyan Zhu, Yueyang He, Long Cheng, Xiaolin Jia, Lei Zhu:
  Software change-proneness prediction through combination of bagging and resampling methods.

Research Articles - Empirical

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  Mohammad Azzeh, Ali Bou Nassif:
  Project productivity evaluation in early software effort estimation.
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  Aleksander Fabijan, Pavel A. Dmitriev, Colin McFarland, Lukas Vermeer, Helena Holmström Olsson, Jan Bosch:
  Experimentation growth: Evolving trustworthy A/B testing capabilities in online software companies.
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  Ali Idri, Ibtissam Abnane, Alain Abran:
  Support vector regression-based imputation in analogy-based software development effort estimation.
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  Ricardo Pérez-Castillo, Mario Piattini:
  An empirical study on how project context impacts on code cloning.

Research Articles - Standards

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  Yuzhou Liu, Lei Liu, Huaxiao Liu, Xiaoyu Wang:
  Analyzing reviews guided by App descriptions for the software development and evolution.