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{"title":"FCTree: Visualization of function calls in execution","authors":"Fangfang Zhou ,&nbsp;Yilun Fan ,&nbsp;Shenglan Lv ,&nbsp;Lijia Jiang ,&nbsp;Zhuo Chen ,&nbsp;Jian Yuan ,&nbsp;Feijiang Han ,&nbsp;Haojin Jiang ,&nbsp;Genghuai Bai ,&nbsp;Ying Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107545","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107545","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Function calls in execution contain rich bivariate, hierarchical, and chronological information. Many visualizations have been adopted to analyze function calls in execution for program testing, vulnerability locating, and malware detection. However, we conducted a pilot study and revealed that existing single-viewed function call visualizations fail to present the bivariate, hierarchical, and chronological information comprehensively. A new function call visualization named FCTree is proposed in this work to deal with this situation. Learned from advantages of existing visualizations and iterative discussions with actual users, FCTree uses a compact and aligned hierarchical layout design to present the bivariate and hierarchical information and adopts a glyph design to present the chronological information. Subjective and objective experiments in the laboratory and a field study in a real-world scenario were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of FCTree.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 107545"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A rule-based decision model to support technical debt decisions: A multiple case study of web and mobile app startups","authors":"Abdullah Aldaeej ,&nbsp;Carolyn Seaman","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107542","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107542","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><p>Software startups are immature software organizations that focus on the development of a single software product or service. This organizational context accumulates a lot of technical debt to cope with constraints such as limited resources and product-market fit uncertainty. While some research has explored technical debt in startups, there is no study that investigates how software startups should make technical debt decisions throughout the startup evolution stages.</p></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><p>The objective of this study is to understand how technical debt decisions are made, and how such decisions should have been made in hindsight.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>We conducted a multiple embedded case study to investigate technical debt decisions in five web/mobile app startups. For each case, we interviewed the case founder and developer (a total of 17 participants across cases). In addition, we collected some public documents about the five startups. The data were analyzed using qualitative data analysis techniques.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>We developed a rule-based decision model that summarizes the logic to effectively make technical debt decisions throughout the startup evolution stages. In addition, we evaluated the model by conducting follow-up interviews with three participants.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>The study provides a decision model that reflects actual practice, and is designed to help software teams in startups when making technical debt decisions throughout the startup evolution stages.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 107542"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On meetings involving remote software teams: A systematic literature review","authors":"Anielle S.L. de Andrade ,&nbsp;Victoria Jackson ,&nbsp;Rafael Prikladnicki ,&nbsp;André van der Hoek","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107541","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107541","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context:</h3><p>The adoption of remote work models and the global nature of software projects have significantly transformed collaboration and communication within the software development industry. Remote meetings have become a common means of collaboration for software development teams.</p></div><div><h3>Objective:</h3><p>This study seeks to enhance our understanding of remote meeting practices in software teams. It identifies the benefits of remote meetings, the problems associated with remote meetings, tools used to facilitate remote meetings and provides recommended good practices. The study employs a systematic literature review to assist remote teams in improving their meeting practices and identifying areas for future research.</p></div><div><h3>Methods:</h3><p>We conducted a systematic literature review that involved searching multiple databases and employing quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques on the identified set of studies to answer our research questions.</p></div><div><h3>Results:</h3><p>The search yielded 30 papers offering valuable insights into remote meeting practices in software teams. Remote meetings offer advantages over traditional in-person meetings such as increased effectiveness and ease of attendance. However, challenges exist such as technological issues, ineffective collaboration, and reduced team socialization. Identified good practices to mitigate the challenges include inserting breaks in longer meetings, catch-up time at the start of meeting, communicating goals in advance of the meeting, and pre-recording demos.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion:</h3><p>The study explored remote meetings in software teams. We identified advantages that remote meetings have in comparison to in-person meetings, challenges to remote meetings, and good practices along with supportive tooling. While the practices help in promoting effective meetings, additional research is required to further improve remote meeting experiences. Researching topics such as investigating different types of meetings common to software development teams along with the potential for novel tools to better support meetings will help identify additional practices and tools that can benefit remote teams.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 107541"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hidden code vulnerability detection: A study of the Graph-BiLSTM algorithm","authors":"Kao Ge,&nbsp;Qing-Bang Han","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107544","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107544","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context:</h3><p>The accelerated growth of the Internet and the advent of artificial intelligence have led to a heightened interdependence of open source products, which has in turn resulted in a rise in the frequency of security incidents. Consequently, the cost-effective, fast and efficient detection of hidden code vulnerabilities in open source software products has become an urgent challenge for both academic and engineering communities.</p></div><div><h3>Objectives:</h3><p>In response to this pressing need, a novel and efficient code vulnerability detection model has been proposed: the Graph-Bi-Directional Long Short-Term Memory Network Algorithm (Graph-BiLSTM). The algorithm is designed to enable the detection of vulnerabilities in Github’s code commit records on a large scale, at low cost and in an efficient manner.</p></div><div><h3>Methods:</h3><p>In order to extract the most effective code vulnerability features, state-of-the-art vulnerability datasets were compared in order to identify the optimal training dataset. Initially, the Joern tool was employed to transform function-level code blocks into Code Property Graphs (CPGs). Thereafter, structural features (degree centrality, Katz centrality, and closeness centrality) of these CPGs were computed and combined with the embedding features of the node sequences to form a two-dimensional feature vector space for the function-level code blocks. Subsequently, the BiLSTM network algorithm was employed for the automated extraction and iterative model training of a substantial number of vulnerability code samples. Finally, the trained algorithmic model was applied to code commit records of open-source software products on GitHub, achieving effective detection of hidden code vulnerabilities.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion:</h3><p>Experimental results indicate that the PrimeVul dataset represents the most optimal resource for vulnerability detection. Moreover, the Graph-BiLSTM model demonstrated superior performance in terms of accuracy, training cost, and inference time when compared to state-of-the-art algorithms for the detection of vulnerabilities in open-source software code on GitHub. This highlights the significant value of the model for engineering applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 107544"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Automated description generation for software patches","authors":"Thanh Trong Vu,&nbsp;Tuan-Dung Bui,&nbsp;Thanh-Dat Do,&nbsp;Thu-Trang Nguyen,&nbsp;Hieu Dinh Vo,&nbsp;Son Nguyen","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107543","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107543","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Software patches are pivotal in refining and evolving codebases, addressing bugs, vulnerabilities, and optimizations. Patch descriptions provide detailed accounts of changes, aiding comprehension and collaboration among developers. However, manual description creation poses challenges in terms of time consumption and variations in quality and detail. In this paper, we propose <span>PatchExplainer</span>, an approach that addresses these challenges by framing patch description generation as a machine translation task. In <span>PatchExplainer</span>, we leverage explicit representations of critical elements, historical context, and syntactic conventions. Moreover, the translation model in <span>PatchExplainer</span> is designed with an awareness of description similarity. Particularly, the model is <em>explicitly</em> trained to recognize and incorporate similarities present in patch descriptions clustered into groups, improving its ability to generate accurate and consistent descriptions across similar patches. The dual objectives maximize similarity and accurately predict affiliating groups. Our experimental results on a large dataset of real-world software patches show that <span>PatchExplainer</span> consistently outperforms existing methods, with improvements up to 189% in <em>BLEU</em>, 5.7X in <em>Exact Match</em> rate, and 154% in <em>Semantic Similarity</em>, affirming its effectiveness in generating software patch descriptions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 107543"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584924001484/pdfft?md5=d70964a215e22a7c1a1c6018c85b6e2f&pid=1-s2.0-S0950584924001484-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142241468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Qubernetes: Towards a unified cloud-native execution platform for hybrid classic-quantum computing","authors":"Vlad Stirbu,&nbsp;Otso Kinanen,&nbsp;Majid Haghparast,&nbsp;Tommi Mikkonen","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107529","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107529","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context:</h3><p>The emergence of quantum computing proposes a revolutionary paradigm that can radically transform numerous scientific and industrial application domains. The ability of quantum computers to scale computations beyond what the current computers are capable of implies better performance and efficiency for certain algorithmic tasks.</p></div><div><h3>Objective:</h3><p>However, to benefit from such improvement, quantum computers must be integrated with existing software systems, a process that is not straightforward. In this paper, we propose a unified execution model that addresses the challenges that emerge from building hybrid classical-quantum applications at scale.</p></div><div><h3>Method:</h3><p>Following the Design Science Research methodology, we proposed a convention for mapping quantum resources and artifacts to Kubernetes concepts. Then, in an experimental Kubernetes cluster, we conducted experiments for scheduling and executing quantum tasks on both quantum simulators and hardware.</p></div><div><h3>Results:</h3><p>The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed platform Qubernetes (or Kubernetes for quantum) exposes the quantum computation tasks and hardware capabilities following established cloud-native principles, allowing seamless integration into the larger Kubernetes ecosystem.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion:</h3><p>The quantum computing potential cannot be realized without seamless integration into classical computing. By validating that it is practical to execute quantum tasks in a Kubernetes infrastructure, we pave the way for leveraging the existing Kubernetes ecosystem as an enabler for hybrid classical-quantum computing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 107529"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584924001344/pdfft?md5=f5a427a08f3dbd8b3b7ccb4f62b577ea&pid=1-s2.0-S0950584924001344-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141838848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Extraction and empirical evaluation of GUI-level invariants as GUI Oracles in mobile app testing","authors":"Ali Asghar Yarifard ,&nbsp;Saeed Araban ,&nbsp;Samad Paydar ,&nbsp;Vahid Garousi ,&nbsp;Maurizio Morisio ,&nbsp;Riccardo Coppola","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107531","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107531","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><p>Mobile apps (software) are used in almost all aspects of daily life by billions of people. Given the widespread use of mobile apps in various domains, the demand for systematic testing of their Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) is crucial. Despite the significant advances in automated mobile app testing over the last decade, certain challenges remain, most notably the app-specific GUI test-oracle problem, which can significantly hinder the effective detection of defects in mobile apps. In this study, we introduce the use of GUI-level invariants, referred to as GUI invariants, as app-specific GUI oracles in GUI test cases to address this challenge.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>We propose a semi-automatic solution to extract GUI invariants and use them as app-specific GUI oracles in test cases. We use the mutation testing technique to evaluate the (fault detection) effectiveness of the GUI oracles used. In addition, we evaluate their quality aspects, namely correctness, understandability, and compatibility, from the perspective of human experts using a questionnaire survey.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The empirical results show that the GUI oracles used are effective and helpful, as they improved the fault-detection effectiveness of the empirical test suites ranging from 18% to 32%. These results also highlight the efficacy of GUI oracles used in identifying various defects, including crashing and non-crashing functional issues, and surpassing the performance of existing tools in fault-detection rates. Additionally, the questionnaire survey outcomes indicate that the GUI oracles used are correct, understandable, and compatible.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Based on the empirical results, we can conclude that using GUI invariants as GUI oracles can be useful and effective in mobile app testing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 107531"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584924001368/pdfft?md5=df482f7792ae43af274444769943b80c&pid=1-s2.0-S0950584924001368-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141844371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A PRISMA-driven systematic mapping study on system assurance weakeners","authors":"Kimya Khakzad Shahandashti ,&nbsp;Alvine B. Belle ,&nbsp;Timothy C. Lethbridge ,&nbsp;Oluwafemi Odu ,&nbsp;Mithila Sivakumar","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107526","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107526","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context:</h3><p>An assurance case is a structured hierarchy of claims aiming at demonstrating that a mission-critical system supports specific requirements (e.g., safety, security, privacy). The presence of assurance weakeners (i.e., assurance deficits, logical fallacies) in assurance cases reflects insufficient evidence, knowledge, or gaps in reasoning. These weakeners can undermine confidence in assurance arguments, potentially hindering the verification of mission-critical system capabilities which could result in catastrophic outcomes (e.g., loss of lives). Given the growing interest in employing assurance cases to ensure that systems are developed to meet their requirements, exploring the management of assurance weakeners becomes beneficial.</p></div><div><h3>Objective:</h3><p>As a stepping stone for future research on assurance weakeners, we aim to initiate the first comprehensive systematic mapping study on this subject.</p></div><div><h3>Methods:</h3><p>We followed the well-established PRISMA 2020 and SEGRESS guidelines to conduct our systematic mapping study. We searched for primary studies in five digital libraries and focused on the 2012–2023 publication year range. Our selection criteria focused on studies addressing assurance weakeners from a qualitative standpoint, resulting in the inclusion of 39 primary studies in our systematic review.</p></div><div><h3>Results:</h3><p>Our systematic mapping study reports a taxonomy (map) that provides a uniform categorization of assurance weakeners and approaches proposed to manage them from a qualitative perspective. The taxonomy classifies weakeners in four categories: aleatory, epistemic, ontological, and argument uncertainty. Additionally, it classifies approaches supporting the management of weakeners in three main categories: representation, identification and mitigation approaches.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion:</h3><p>Our study findings suggest that the SACM (Structured Assurance Case Metamodel) – a standard specified by the OMG (Object Management Group) – offers a comprehensive range of capabilities to capture structured arguments and reason about their potential assurance weakeners. Our findings also suggest novel assurance weakener management approaches should be proposed to better assure mission-critical systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 107526"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584924001319/pdfft?md5=5f5782fecf500fafd6a0caffa9ef549f&pid=1-s2.0-S0950584924001319-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141846295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An empirical study on compatibility issues in Android API field evolution","authors":"Tarek Mahmud ,&nbsp;Meiru Che ,&nbsp;Guowei Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107530","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107530","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context:</h3><p>The continuous evolution of the Android operating system requires regular API updates, which may affect the functionality of Android apps. This is becoming increasingly common due to the frequent evolution of the Android platform, which introduces new APIs and deprecates existing ones. Recent studies investigated API evolution to ensure the reliability of Android apps; however, they focused on API methods alone.</p></div><div><h3>Objectives:</h3><p>This study aims to understand how API fields evolve and how this affects API compatibility in real-world Android apps and their development.</p></div><div><h3>Method:</h3><p>We perform an empirical study on compatibility issues in Android API field evolution by analyzing the nature and resolution of these issues across 681 open-source Android apps.</p></div><div><h3>Results:</h3><p>Our experimental results yield interesting findings: (1) On average two API field compatibility issues exist per app in each tag; (2) Although API method evolution and API field evolution are related, current API method-level analysis techniques may fail to detect numerous API field compatibility issues; (3) Different types of checks are preferred when addressing different types of compatibility issues; (4) It takes on average three and a half months for an API field compatibility issue to get fixed since when it is introduced; (5) Developers pay proper attention to API field compatibility issues and address them soon after becoming aware of them in the apps.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion:</h3><p>These findings highlight the significance of including API fields in future research on API evolution and can assist developers and researchers in understanding, detecting, and handling compatibility issues in API field evolution.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 107530"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141846783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The quantum frontier of software engineering: A systematic mapping study","authors":"Manuel De Stefano,&nbsp;Fabiano Pecorelli,&nbsp;Dario Di Nucci,&nbsp;Fabio Palomba,&nbsp;Andrea De Lucia","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107525","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107525","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context:</h3><p>Quantum computing is becoming a reality, and quantum software engineering (QSE) is emerging as a new discipline to enable developers to design and develop quantum programs.</p></div><div><h3>Objective:</h3><p>This paper presents a systematic mapping study of the current state of QSE research, aiming to identify the most investigated topics, the types and number of studies, the main reported results, and the most studied quantum computing tools/frameworks. Additionally, the study aims to explore the research community’s interest in QSE, how it has evolved, and any prior contributions to the discipline before its formal introduction through the Talavera Manifesto.</p></div><div><h3>Method:</h3><p>We searched for relevant articles in several databases and applied inclusion and exclusion criteria to select the most relevant studies. After evaluating the quality of the selected resources, we extracted relevant data from the primary studies and analyzed them.</p></div><div><h3>Results:</h3><p>We found that QSE research has primarily focused on software testing, with little attention given to other topics, such as software engineering management. The most commonly studied technology for techniques and tools is Qiskit, although, in most studies, either multiple or none specific technologies were employed. The researchers most interested in QSE are interconnected through direct collaborations, and several strong collaboration clusters have been identified. Most articles in QSE have been published in non-thematic venues, with a preference for conferences.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions:</h3><p>The study’s implications are providing a centralized source of information for researchers and practitioners in the field, facilitating knowledge transfer, and contributing to the advancement and growth of QSE.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54983,"journal":{"name":"Information and Software Technology","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 107525"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584924001307/pdfft?md5=d0ccf8db440c2e6dfde8fed9283c96a6&pid=1-s2.0-S0950584924001307-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}