Journal: Information \& Software Technology

Volume 55, Issue 9

1529 -- 1550Carles Farré, Anna Queralt, Guillem Rull, Ernest Teniente, Toni Urpí. Automated reasoning on UML conceptual schemas with derived information and queries
1551 -- 1562Patrick J. Graydon, Tim P. Kelly. Using argumentation to evaluate software assurance standards
1563 -- 1579Kevin P. Brown, Miriam A. M. Capretz. ODEP-DPS: Ontology-driven engineering process for the collaborative development of semantic data providing services
1580 -- 1589Sara Tena, David Díez, Paloma Díaz, Ignacio Aedo. Standardizing the narrative of use cases: A controlled vocabulary of web user tasks
1590 -- 1601Olorisade Babatunde Kazeem, Sira Vegas, Natalia Juristo Juristo. Determining the effectiveness of three software evaluation techniques through informal aggregation
1602 -- 1613Young-Woo Kwon, Eli Tilevich. The impact of distributed programming abstractions on application energy consumption
1614 -- 1624Sharon Ryan, Rory V. O'Connor. Acquiring and sharing tacit knowledge in software development teams: An empirical study
1625 -- 1639Adam Vanya, Steven Klusener, Nico van Rooijen, Hans van Vliet. Multidimensional characterization of evolutionary clusters: An experience report
1640 -- 1650Magne Jørgensen. The influence of selection bias on effort overruns in software development projects
1651 -- 1677Belén Vela, Jose-Norberto Mazón, Carlos Blanco, Eduardo Fernández-Medina, Juan Trujillo, Esperanza Marcos. Development of Secure XML Data Warehouses with QVT

Volume 55, Issue 8

1355 -- 1373Roberto dos Santos Rocha, Marcelo Fantinato. The use of software product lines for business process management: A systematic literature review
1374 -- 1396Vahid Garousi, Ali Mesbah, Aysu Betin-Can, Shabnam Mirshokraie. A systematic mapping study of web application testing
1397 -- 1418Danijel Radjenovic, Marjan Hericko, Richard Torkar, Ales Zivkovic. Software fault prediction metrics: A systematic literature review
1419 -- 1436Yin Kia Chiam, Mark Staples, Xin Ye, Liming Zhu. Applying a selection method to choose Quality Attribute Techniques
1437 -- 1449Bixin Li, Xiaobing Sun, Jacky Keung. FCA-CIA: An approach of using FCA to support cross-level change impact analysis for object oriented Java programs
1450 -- 1461Ho-Won Jung. Investigating measurement scales and aggregation methods in SPICE assessment method
1462 -- 1476Gabriel Díaz, Juan Ramón Bermejo. Static analysis of source code security: Assessment of tools against SAMATE tests
1477 -- 1478Tim Menzies. Guest editorial for the Special Section on BEST PAPERS from the 2011 conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE)
1479 -- 1495Sandeep Krishnan, Chris Strasburg, Robyn R. Lutz, Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, Karin S. Dorman. Predicting failure-proneness in an evolving software product line
1496 -- 1511Ye Yang, Zhimin He, Ke Mao, Qi Li, Vu Nguyen, Barry W. Boehm, Ricardo Valerdi. Analyzing and handling local bias for calibrating parametric cost estimation models
1512 -- 1528Leandro L. Minku, Xin Yao. Ensembles and locality: Insight on improving software effort estimation

Volume 55, Issue 7

1119 -- 1142Ana M. Fernández-Sáez, Marcela Genero, Michel R. V. Chaudron. Empirical studies concerning the maintenance of UML diagrams and their use in the maintenance of code: A systematic mapping study
1143 -- 1164Rosalba Giuffrida, Yvonne Dittrich. Empirical studies on the use of social software in global software development - A systematic mapping study
1165 -- 1199Dhavleesh Rattan, Rajesh Kumar Bhatia, Maninder Singh. Software clone detection: A systematic review
1200 -- 1211Aurora Vizcaíno, Félix García, José Carlos Villar, Mario Piattini, Javier Portillo-Rodríguez. Applying Q-methodology to analyse the success factors in GSD
1212 -- 1223ChangSup Keum, Sungwon Kang, Myungchul Kim. Architecture-based testing of service-oriented applications in distributed systems
1224 -- 1236Richard Berntsson-Svensson, Thomas Olsson, Björn Regnell. An investigation of how quality requirements are specified in industrial practice
1237 -- 1259Abhinaya Kasoju, Kai Petersen, Mika Mäntylä. Analyzing an automotive testing process with evidence-based software engineering
1260 -- 1276Lerina Aversano, Maria Tortorella. Quality evaluation of floss projects: Application to ERP systems
1277 -- 1278Martin Shepperd, Forrest Shull. Guest Editorial for Special Section from Empirical Software Engineering & Measurement (ESEM) 2011
1279 -- 1288Andrew Austin, Casper Holmgreen, Laurie Williams. A comparison of the efficiency and effectiveness of vulnerability discovery techniques
1289 -- 1303Kathryn T. Stolee, Sebastian G. Elbaum, Anita Sarma. Discovering how end-user programmers and their communities use public repositories: A study on Yahoo! Pipes
1304 -- 1315Sebastian Nanz, Faraz Torshizi, Michela Pedroni, Bertrand Meyer. Design of an empirical study for comparing the usability of concurrent programming languages
1316 -- 1340Fabio Q. B. da Silva, A. César C. França, Marcos Suassuna, Leila M. R. de Sousa Mariz, Isabella Rossiley, Regina C. G. de Miranda, Tatiana B. Gouveia, Cleviton V. F. Monteiro, Evisson Lucena, Elisa S. F. Cardozo, Edval Espindola. Team building criteria in software projects: A mix-method replicated study
1341 -- 1354He Zhang, Muhammad Ali Babar. Systematic reviews in software engineering: An empirical investigation

Volume 55, Issue 6

919 -- 920Claes Wohlin, Rafael Prikladnicki. Systematic literature reviews in software engineering
921 -- 940Krzysztof Wnuk, Tony Gorschek, Showayb Zahda. Obsolete software requirements
941 -- 965Begoña Moros, Ambrosio Toval, Francisca Rosique, Pedro Sánchez. Transforming and tracing reused requirements models to home automation models
966 -- 985Ah-Rim Han, Doo-Hwan Bae. Dynamic profiling-based approach to identifying cost-effective refactorings
986 -- 1003Mika Mäntylä, Juha Itkonen. More testers - The effect of crowd size and time restriction in software testing
1004 -- 1016Milena Vujosevic-Janicic, Mladen Nikolic, Dusan Tosic, Viktor Kuncak. Software verification and graph similarity for automated evaluation of students' assignments
1017 -- 1044Saeed Khalafinejad, Seyed-Hassan Mirian-Hosseinabadi. Translation of Z specifications to executable code: Application to the database domain
1045 -- 1062André Takeshi Endo, Adenilso da Silva Simão. Evaluating test suite characteristics, cost, and effectiveness of FSM-based testing methods
1063 -- 0Stefan Biffl. Guest Editorial for the Special Section on the Euromicro 2011 Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA)
1064 -- 1084Thomas Goldschmidt, Axel Uhl. Retainment policies - A formal framework for change retainment for trace-based model transformations
1085 -- 1100Federico Ciccozzi, Antonio Cicchetti, Mikael Sjödin. Round-trip support for extra-functional property management in model-driven engineering of embedded systems
1101 -- 1118Burak Turhan, Ayse Tosun Misirli, Ayse Bener. Empirical evaluation of the effects of mixed project data on learning defect predictors

Volume 55, Issue 5

777 -- 794Zengyang Li, Peng Liang, Paris Avgeriou. Application of knowledge-based approaches in software architecture: A systematic mapping study
795 -- 821Eric Ceret, Sophie Dupuy-Chessa, Gaëlle Calvary, Agnès Front, Dominique Rieu. A taxonomy of design methods process models
822 -- 835Cheng Zhang, David Budgen. A survey of experienced user perceptions about software design patterns
836 -- 864Rajwinder Kaur Panesar-Walawege, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Lionel C. Briand. Supporting the verification of compliance to safety standards via model-driven engineering: Approach, tool-support and empirical validation
865 -- 0Robert M. Hierons, Mercedes G. Merayo. Guest Editorial: Special Section from the 11th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2011)
866 -- 879Xiaoyuan Xie, W. Eric Wong, Tsong Yueh Chen, Baowen Xu. Metamorphic slice: An application in spectrum-based fault localization
880 -- 896Jian Xu, Zhenyu Zhang, W. K. Chan, T. H. Tse, Shanping Li. A general noise-reduction framework for fault localization of Java programs
897 -- 917Bo Jiang, Ke Zhai, W. K. Chan, T. H. Tse, Zhenyu Zhang. On the adoption of MC/DC and control-flow adequacy for a tight integration of program testing and statistical fault localization

Volume 55, Issue 4

651 -- 659Maksym Petrenko, Václav Rajlich. Concept location using program dependencies and information retrieval (DepIR)
660 -- 672Stephen Wood, George Michaelides, Christopher Thomson. Successful extreme programming: Fidelity to the methodology or good teamworking?
673 -- 689Ghassan Beydoun, Graham C. Low, Paul Bogg. Suitability assessment framework of agent-based software architectures
690 -- 698Oleksiy Mazhelis, Pasi Tyrväinen, Lauri Frank. Vertical software industry evolution: The impact of software costs and limited customer base
699 -- 718Verónica Andrea Bollati, Juan Manuel Vara, Álvaro Jiménez, Esperanza Marcos. Applying MDE to the (semi-)automatic development of model transformations
719 -- 721Filippo Ricca, Thomas R. Dean, Susan Elliott Sim. Guest Editorial: Special Section on International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2011
722 -- 740Stefan Hanenberg, Stefan Endrikat. Aspect-orientation is a rewarding investment into future code changes - As long as the aspects hardly change
741 -- 754Andrea De Lucia, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Annibale Panichella, Sebastiano Panichella. Applying a smoothing filter to improve IR-based traceability recovery processes: An empirical investigation
755 -- 775Lile Hattori, Marco D'Ambros, Michele Lanza, Mircea Lungu. Answering software evolution questions: An empirical evaluation

Volume 55, Issue 3

489 -- 490Klaus Schmid, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Tomoji Kishi. Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Issue on Software Reuse and Product Lines
491 -- 507Norbert Siegmund, Marko Rosenmüller, Christian Kästner, Paolo G. Giarrusso, Sven Apel, Sergiy S. Kolesnikov. Scalable prediction of non-functional properties in software product lines: Footprint and memory consumption
508 -- 524Carlo Ghezzi, Amir Molzam Sharifloo. Model-based verification of quantitative non-functional properties for software product lines
525 -- 540Stuart Hutchesson, John A. McDermid. Trusted Product Lines
541 -- 562Victor Guana, Darío Correal. Improving software product line configuration: A quality attribute-driven approach
563 -- 580Nadia Gámez, Lidia Fuentes. Architectural evolution of FamiWare using cardinality-based feature models
581 -- 594Emelie Engström, Per Runeson. Test overlay in an emerging software product line - An industrial case study
595 -- 606Henric Andersson, Erik Herzog, Johan Ölvander. Experience from model and software reuse in aircraft simulator product line engineering
607 -- 629Razieh Behjati, Tao Yue, Lionel C. Briand, Bran Selic. SimPL: A product-line modeling methodology for families of integrated control systems
630 -- 650Thomas Buchmann, Alexander Dotor, Bernhard Westfechtel. MOD2-SCM: A model-driven product line for software configuration management systems

Volume 55, Issue 2

189 -- 200Yulkeidi Martínez, Cristina Cachero, Santiago Meliá. MDD vs. traditional software development: A practitioner's subjective perspective
201 -- 214Ali Ebnenasir. Action-based discovery of satisfying subsets: A distributed method for model correction
215 -- 225Natalia Juristo Juzgado, Sira Vegas, Martín Solari, Silvia Abrahão, Isabel Ramos. A process for managing interaction between experimenters to get useful similar replications
226 -- 240José Miguel Cañete Valdeón. How influential has academic and industrial research been in current software life cycles? A retrospective analysis of four mainstream activities
241 -- 251Moataz A. Ahmed, Irfan Ahmad, Jarallah AlGhamdi. Probabilistic size proxy for software effort prediction: A framework
252 -- 266Freddy Munoz, Benoit Baudry, Romain Delamare, Yves Le Traon. Usage and testability of AOP: An empirical study of AspectJ
267 -- 287K. Rinkevics, Richard Torkar. Equality in cumulative voting: A systematic review with an improvement proposal
288 -- 300Hai Hu, Chang-Hai Jiang, Kai-Yuan Cai, W. Eric Wong, Aditya P. Mathur. Enhancing software reliability estimates using modified adaptive testing
301 -- 319Beatriz Pérez Lamancha, Macario Polo, Danilo Caivano, Mario Piattini, Giuseppe Visaggio. Automated generation of test oracles using a model-driven approach
320 -- 343Sara Mahdavi-Hezavehi, Matthias Galster, Paris Avgeriou. Variability in quality attributes of service-based software systems: A systematic literature review
344 -- 356Wan-Hui Tseng, Chin-Feng Fan. Systematic scenario test case generation for nuclear safety systems
357 -- 364Arjan J. Mooij. System integration by developing adapters using a database abstraction
365 -- 394Pieter Van Gorp, Remco M. Dijkman. A visual token-based formalization of BPMN 2.0 based on in-place transformations
395 -- 411Abid Mehmood, Dayang N. A. Jawawi. Aspect-oriented model-driven code generation: A systematic mapping study
412 -- 427Claudia de O. Melo, Daniela S. Cruzes, Fabio Kon, Reidar Conradi. Interpretative case studies on agile team productivity and management
428 -- 441Matthias Galster, Paris Avgeriou, Dan Tofan. Constraints for the design of variability-intensive service-oriented reference architectures - An industrial case study
443 -- 444Antonia Bertolino, Kendra Cooper. Guest Editorial for Special Section from Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE) 2011
445 -- 458Il-Chul Yoon, Alan Sussman, Atif M. Memon, Adam A. Porter. Testing component compatibility in evolving configurations
459 -- 474Pietro Abate, Roberto Di Cosmo, Ralf Treinen, Stefano Zacchiroli. A modular package manager architecture
475 -- 488William Otte, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Douglas C. Schmidt. Efficient and deterministic application deployment in component-based enterprise distributed real-time and embedded systems

Volume 55, Issue 12

2049 -- 2075Barbara Kitchenham, Pearl Brereton. A systematic review of systematic review process research in software engineering
2076 -- 2098Zhongxing Yu, Chenggang Bai, Kai-Yuan Cai. Mutation-oriented test data augmentation for GUI software fault localization
2099 -- 2124Owen Eriksson, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Pär J. Ågerfalk. Ontological and linguistic metamodelling revisited: A language use approach
2125 -- 2139Javier Ferrer, J. Francisco Chicano, Enrique Alba. Estimating software testing complexity
2140 -- 2153Chang-ai Sun, Yimeng Zhai, Yan Shang, Zhenyu Zhang. BPELDebugger: An effective BPEL-specific fault localization framework
2154 -- 2171Guus van Waardenburg, Hans van Vliet. When agile meets the enterprise
2172 -- 2190Jung Ho Bae, Heung Seok Chae, Carl K. Chang. A metric towards evaluating understandability of state machines: An empirical study
2191 -- 2208May Haydar, Alexandre Petrenko, Sergiy Boroday, Houari A. Sahraoui. A formal approach for run-time verification of web applications using scope-extended LTL
2209 -- 2222Andrea Avancini, Mariano Ceccato. Comparison and integration of genetic algorithms and dynamic symbolic execution for security testing of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities
2223 -- 2242Aiko Fallas Yamashita, Leon Moonen. To what extent can maintenance problems be predicted by code smell detection? - An empirical study

Volume 55, Issue 11

1845 -- 1859Bardia Mohabbati, Mohsen Asadi, Dragan Gasevic, Marek Hatala, Hausi A. Müller. Combining service-orientation and software product line engineering: A systematic mapping study
1860 -- 1883Renato Lima Novais, André Torres, Thiago Souto Mendes, Manoel G. Mendonça, Nico Zazworka. Software evolution visualization: A systematic mapping study
1884 -- 1903Waldemar Hummer, Patrick Gaubatz, Mark Strembeck, Uwe Zdun, Schahram Dustdar. Enforcement of entailment constraints in distributed service-based business processes
1904 -- 1924Oumout Chouseinoglou, Deniz Iren, N. Alpay Karagöz, Semih Bilgen. AiOLoS: A model for assessing organizational learning in software development organizations
1925 -- 1947César Andrés, Carlos Camacho, Luis Llana. A formal framework for software product lines
1948 -- 1973Angel Jesus Varela-Vaca, Rafael M. Gasca. Towards the automatic and optimal selection of risk treatments for business processes using a constraint programming approach
1974 -- 1980Bhoopendra Pachauri, Ajay Kumar, Joydip Dhar. Modeling optimal release policy under fuzzy paradigm in imperfect debugging environment
1981 -- 1993Emad Shihab, Yasutaka Kamei, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan. Is lines of code a good measure of effort in effort-aware models?
1994 -- 2012Chun Yong Chong, Sai Peck Lee, Teck Chaw Ling. Efficient software clustering technique using an adaptive and preventive dendrogram cutting approach
2013 -- 2027Yi-Chen Wu, Chin-Feng Fan. Defining a test coverage criterion for model-level testing of FBD programs
2028 -- 2048Jehad Al-Dallal. Object-oriented class maintainability prediction using internal quality attributes

Volume 55, Issue 10

1679 -- 1694Ishan Banerjee, Bao N. Nguyen, Vahid Garousi, Atif M. Memon. Graphical user interface (GUI) testing: Systematic mapping and repository
1695 -- 1709Hendrik Meth, Manuel Brhel, Alexander Maedche. The state of the art in automated requirements elicitation
1710 -- 1725Yeong-Seok Seo, Doo-Hwan Bae, Ross Jeffery. AREION: Software effort estimation based on multiple regressions with adaptive recursive data partitioning
1726 -- 1740Volker Spinke. An object-oriented implementation of concurrent and hierarchical state machines
1741 -- 1750Farhad Daneshgar, Graham C. Low, Lugkana Worasinchai. An investigation of 'build vs. buy' decision for software acquisition by small to medium enterprises
1751 -- 1766Jurij Laznik, Matjaz B. Juric. Context aware exception handling in business process execution language
1767 -- 1780Lwin Khin Shar, Hee Beng Kuan Tan. Predicting SQL injection and cross site scripting vulnerabilities through mining input sanitization patterns
1781 -- 1795Erik Rogstad, Lionel C. Briand, Richard Torkar. Test case selection for black-box regression testing of database applications
1796 -- 1809Luigi Lavazza, Sandro Morasca, Gabriela Robiolo. Towards a simplified definition of Function Points
1810 -- 1822Daniel Rodríguez, Roberto Ruiz, José C. Riquelme, Rachel Harrison. A study of subgroup discovery approaches for defect prediction
1823 -- 1843Irit Hadar, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Tsvi Kuflik, Anna Perini, Filippo Ricca, Angelo Susi. Comparing the comprehensibility of requirements models expressed in Use Case and Tropos: Results from a family of experiments

Volume 55, Issue 1

1 -- 17Ali Shahrokni, Robert Feldt. A systematic review of software robustness
18 -- 34Javier Andrade Garda, Juan Ares Casal, María-Aurora Martínez, Juan Pazos, Santiago Rodríguez Yánez, Julio Romera, Sonia Suárez. An architectural model for software testing lesson learned systems
35 -- 57Raian Ali, Fabiano Dalpiaz, Paolo Giorgini. Reasoning with contextual requirements: Detecting inconsistency and conflicts
58 -- 87Susanne Patig, Manuela Stolz. A pattern-based approach for the verification of business process descriptions
88 -- 110Javier Troya, Antonio Vallecillo, Francisco Durán, Steffen Zschaler. Model-driven performance analysis of rule-based domain specific visual models
111 -- 0Lionel C. Briand, John Clark. Guest Editorial: Special section of the best papers from the 2nd International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering 2010
112 -- 125Kiran Lakhotia, Mark Harman, Hamilton Gross. AUSTIN: An open source tool for search based software testing of C programs
126 -- 152Yuanyuan Zhang, Mark Harman, Soo Ling Lim. Empirical evaluation of search based requirements interaction management
153 -- 172Phil McMinn. An identification of program factors that impact crossover performance in evolutionary test input generation for the branch coverage of C programs
173 -- 187Paolo Tonella, Angelo Susi, Francis Palma. Interactive requirements prioritization using a genetic algorithm