Journal: Information \& Software Technology

Volume 56, Issue 9

1063 -- 1075Chris Lokan, Emilia Mendes. Investigating the use of duration-based moving windows to improve software effort prediction: A replicated study
1076 -- 1085Wenbo Zhang, Xiaowei Zhou, Jianhua Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang, Hua Zhong. A class loading sensitive approach to detection of runtime type errors in component-based Java programs
1086 -- 1098Tianxiao Gu, Chun Cao, Chang Xu, Xiaoxing Ma, Linghao Zhang, Jian Lü. Low-disruptive dynamic updating of Java applications
1099 -- 1100Christa Schwanninger, David Benavides. Editorial for the special section on Software Product Line Engineering: Selected papers from Software Product Line conference in 2012
1101 -- 1121Abel Gómez, María del Carmen Penadés, José Hilario Canós, Marcos R. S. Borges, Manuel Llavador. A framework for variable content document generation with multiple actors
1122 -- 1143Steven She, Uwe Ryssel, Nele Andersen, Andrzej Wasowski, Krzysztof Czarnecki. Efficient synthesis of feature models
1144 -- 1165Mohsen Asadi, Samaneh Soltani, Dragan Gasevic, Marek Hatala, Ebrahim Bagheri. Toward automated feature model configuration with optimizing non-functional requirements

Volume 56, Issue 8

821 -- 838Carlos A. González, Jordi Cabot. Formal verification of static software models in MDE: A systematic review
839 -- 849Felipe Febrero, Coral Calero, Maria Ángeles Moraga. A Systematic Mapping Study of Software Reliability Modeling
850 -- 872Dan Tofan, Matthias Galster, Paris Avgeriou, Wes Schuitema. Past and future of software architectural decisions - A systematic mapping study
873 -- 889Bjørnar Tessem. Individual empowerment of agile and non-agile software developers in small teams
890 -- 910Nina Elisabeth Holt, Lionel C. Briand, Richard Torkar. Empirical evaluations on the cost-effectiveness of state-based testing: An industrial case study
911 -- 921Xiaodan Yu, Stacie Petter. Understanding agile software development practices using shared mental models theory
922 -- 949Miguel A. Teruel, Elena Navarro, Víctor López-Jaquero, Francisco Montero, Pascual González. A CSCW Requirements Engineering CASE Tool: Development and usability evaluation
950 -- 972Arda Goknil, Ivan Kurtev, Klaas van den Berg, Wietze Spijkerman. Change impact analysis for requirements: A metamodeling approach
973 -- 990Makrina Viola Kosti, Robert Feldt, Lefteris Angelis. Personality, emotional intelligence and work preferences in software engineering: An empirical study
991 -- 1011Sima Zamani, Sai Peck Lee, Ramin Shokripour, John Anvik. A noun-based approach to feature location using time-aware term-weighting
1012 -- 1032Hugo Bruneliere, Jordi Cabot, Grégoire Dupé, Frédéric Madiot. MoDisco: A model driven reverse engineering framework
1033 -- 1048Omar S. Gómez, Natalia Juristo Juzgado, Sira Vegas. Understanding replication of experiments in software engineering: A classification
1049 -- 1061Emilie Loup-Escande, Jean-Marie Burkhardt, Olivier Christmann, Simon Richir. Needs' elaboration between users, designers and project leaders: Analysis of a design process of a virtual reality-based software

Volume 56, Issue 7

689 -- 717Sunil Nair, Jose Luis de la Vara, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Lionel C. Briand. An extended systematic literature review on provision of evidence for safety certification
718 -- 726Gonzalo Génova, Juan Lloréns, Anabel Fraga. Metamodeling generalization and other directed relationships in UML
727 -- 748Jessica Díaz, Jennifer Pérez, Juan Garbajosa. Agile product-line architecting in practice: A case study in smart grids
749 -- 762Gerson Sunyé, Eduardo Cunha de Almeida, Yves Le Traon, Benoit Baudry, Jean-Marc Jézéquel. Model-based testing of global properties on large-scale distributed systems
763 -- 792Sangsig Kim, Dae-Kyoo Kim, Lunjin Lu, Eunjee Song. Building hybrid access control by configuring RBAC and MAC features
793 -- 806Frank Elberzhager, Jürgen Münch, Danilo Assmann. Analyzing the relationships between inspections and testing to provide a software testing focus
807 -- 820Muhammad Sulayman, Emilia Mendes, Cathy Urquhart, Mehwish Riaz, Ewan D. Tempero. Towards a theoretical framework of SPI success factors for small and medium web companies

Volume 56, Issue 6

527 -- 544Marta Fernández-Diego, Fernando González-Ladrón-de-Guevara. Potential and limitations of the ISBSG dataset in enhancing software engineering research: A mapping review
545 -- 567Wei Ding, Peng Liang, Antony Tang, Hans van Vliet. Knowledge-based approaches in software documentation: A systematic literature review
568 -- 585Philip Achimugu, Ali Selamat, Roliana Ibrahim, Mohd Naz'ri Mahrin. A systematic literature review of software requirements prioritization research
586 -- 622Javier Espinazo-Pagán, Jesús García Molina. Querying large models efficiently
623 -- 643Timo O. A. Lehtinen, Mika Mäntylä, Jari Vanhanen, Juha Itkonen, Casper Lassenius. Perceived causes of software project failures - An analysis of their relationships
644 -- 669Dante Carrizo Moreno, Oscar Dieste, Natalia Juristo Juzgado. Systematizing requirements elicitation technique selection
670 -- 687José Matías Rivero, Julián Grigera, Gustavo Rossi, Esteban Robles Luna, Francisco Montero, Martin Gaedke. Mockup-Driven Development: Providing agile support for Model-Driven Web Engineering

Volume 56, Issue 5

463 -- 464Miroslaw Staron, Jörgen Hansson, Jan Bosch. Performance in software development - Special issue editorial
465 -- 476David Sammon, Tadhg Nagle, John McAvoy. Analysing ISD performance using narrative networks, routines and mindfulness
477 -- 494Ayça Tarhan, Seda Gunes Yilmaz. Systematic analyses and comparison of development performance and product quality of Incremental Process and Agile Process
495 -- 505Tanjila Kanij, John Grundy, Robert Merkel. Performance appraisal of software testers
506 -- 515Meghann L. Drury-Grogan. Performance on agile teams: Relating iteration objectives and critical decisions to project management success factors
516 -- 526Stefan Cedergren, Stig Larsson. Evaluating performance in the development of software-intensive products

Volume 56, Issue 4

375 -- 394Hussan Munir, Misagh Moayyed, Kai Petersen. Considering rigor and relevance when evaluating test driven development: A systematic review
395 -- 407Irman Hermadi, Chris Lokan, Ruhul A. Sarker. Dynamic stopping criteria for search-based test data generation for path testing
408 -- 437Timo O. A. Lehtinen, Risto Virtanen, Juha O. Viljanen, Mika Mäntylä, Casper Lassenius. A tool supporting root cause analysis for synchronous retrospectives in distributed software teams
438 -- 462Davide Di Ruscio, Patrizio Pelliccione. Simulating upgrades of complex systems: The case of Free and Open Source Software

Volume 56, Issue 3

273 -- 293Maria Leitner, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma. A systematic review on security in Process-Aware Information Systems - Constitution, challenges, and future directions
294 -- 308Péter Kárpáti, Yonathan Redda, Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre. Comparing attack trees and misuse cases in an industrial setting
309 -- 320Ban Al-Ani, Sabrina Marczak, David F. Redmiles, Rafael Prikladnicki. Facilitating contagion trust through tools in Global Systems Engineering teams
321 -- 334Daniel Aceituna, Gursimran Walia, Hyunsook Do, Seok-Won Lee. Model-based requirements verification method: Conclusions from two controlled experiments
335 -- 351Juan Alfonso Lara, David Lizcano, María-Aurora Martínez, Juan Pazos, Teresa Riera. A UML profile for the conceptual modelling of structurally complex data: Easing human effort in the KDD process
352 -- 373Yong-Yi Fanjiang, Yang Syu. Semantic-based automatic service composition with functional and non-functional requirements in design time: A genetic algorithm approach

Volume 56, Issue 2

103 -- 116Laura García-Borgoñon, M. A. Barcelona, J. A. García-García, M. Alba, María José Escalona. Software process modeling languages: A systematic literature review
117 -- 133Shareeful Islam, Haralambos Mouratidis, Edgar R. Weippl. An empirical study on the implementation and evaluation of a goal-driven software development risk management model
134 -- 162Andrea Delgado, Barbara Weber, Francisco Ruiz, Ignacio García Rodríguez de Guzmán, Mario Piattini. An integrated approach based on execution measures for the continuous improvement of business processes realized by services
163 -- 182Gabriele Bavota, Andrea De Lucia, Rocco Oliveto, Genoveffa Tortora. Enhancing software artefact traceability recovery processes with link count information
183 -- 198Jacqui Finlay, Russel Pears, Andy M. Connor. Data stream mining for predicting software build outcomes using source code metrics
199 -- 219Francisco Ortin, Miguel A. Labrador, Jose Manuel Redondo. A hybrid class- and prototype-based object model to support language-neutral structural intercession
220 -- 237Yuming Zhou, Yibiao Yang, Baowen Xu, Hareton Leung, Xiaoyu Zhou. Source code size estimation approaches for object-oriented systems from UML class diagrams: A comparative study
238 -- 251Wes Masri, Rawad Abou Assi, Marwa El-Ghali. Generating profile-based signatures for online intrusion and failure detection
252 -- 271Trent Kroeger, Neil J. Davidson, Stephen C. Cook. Understanding the characteristics of quality for software engineering processes: A Grounded Theory investigation

Volume 56, Issue 12

1537 -- 1542Chintan Amrit, Maya Daneva, Daniela E. Damian. Human factors in software development: On its underlying theories and the value of learning from related disciplines. A guest editorial introduction to the special issue
1543 -- 1555Daniel Schall. Who to follow recommendation in large-scale online development communities
1556 -- 1577Maria Paasivaara, Casper Lassenius. Communities of practice in a large distributed agile software development organization - Case Ericsson
1578 -- 1596Sherlock A. Licorish, Stephen G. MacDonell. Understanding the attitudes, knowledge sharing behaviors and task performance of core developers: A longitudinal study
1597 -- 1612Mika Mäntylä, Juha Itkonen. How are software defects found? The role of implicit defect detection, individual responsibility, documents, and knowledge
1613 -- 1628Ohad Barzilay, Cathy Urquhart. Understanding reuse of software examples: A case study of prejudice in a community of practice

Volume 56, Issue 11

1421 -- 1422Geir Kjetil Hanssen, Carina Frota Alves, Jan Bosch. Special issue editorial: Understanding software ecosystems
1423 -- 1435Stefan Koch, Markus Kerschbaum. Joining a smartphone ecosystem: Application developers' motivations and decision criteria
1436 -- 1456Yvonne Dittrich. Software engineering beyond the project - Sustaining software ecosystems
1457 -- 1475Jakob Axelsson, Efi Papatheocharous, Jesper Andersson. Characteristics of software ecosystems for Federated Embedded Systems: A case study
1476 -- 1492Henrik Bærbak Christensen, Klaus Marius Hansen, Morten Kyng, Konstantinos Manikas. Analysis and design of software ecosystem architectures - Towards the 4S telemedicine ecosystem
1493 -- 1507Krzysztof Wnuk, Per Runeson, Matilda Lantz, Oskar Weijden. Bridges and barriers to hardware-dependent software ecosystem participation - A case study
1508 -- 1519Slinger Jansen. Measuring the health of open source software ecosystems: Beyond the scope of project health
1520 -- 1535Thorsten Berger, Rolf-Helge Pfeiffer, Reinhard Tartler, Steffen Dienst, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Andrzej Wasowski, Steven She. Variability mechanisms in software ecosystems

Volume 56, Issue 10

1167 -- 1182Marc Oriol, Jordi Marco, Xavier Franch. Quality models for web services: A systematic mapping
1183 -- 1199Ivan do Carmo Machado, John D. McGregor, Yguaratã Cerqueira Cavalcanti, Eduardo Santana de Almeida. On strategies for testing software product lines: A systematic literature review
1200 -- 1218Nicolò Paternoster, Carmine Giardino, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Tony Gorschek, Pekka Abrahamsson. Software development in startup companies: A systematic mapping study
1219 -- 1232Upulee Kanewala, James M. Bieman. Testing scientific software: A systematic literature review
1233 -- 1252Mayara Costa Figueiredo, Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Marcelo Zílio Pereira, Rafael Prikladnicki, Jorge Luis Nicolas Audy. Knowledge transfer, translation and transformation in the work of information technology architects
1253 -- 1267Vieri Del Bianco, Luigi Lavazza, Geng Liu, Sandro Morasca, Abedallah Zaid Abualkishik. Model-based early and rapid estimation of COSMIC functional size - An experimental evaluation
1268 -- 1288Milos Savic, Gordana Rakic, Zoran Budimac, Mirjana Ivanovic. A language-independent approach to the extraction of dependencies between source code entities
1289 -- 1308Sigrid Schefer-Wenzl, Mark Strembeck. Model-driven specification and enforcement of RBAC break-glass policies for process-aware information systems
1309 -- 1321Christina Manteli, Bart van den Hooff, Hans van Vliet. The effect of governance on global software development: An empirical research in transactive memory systems
1322 -- 1344Chu-Ti Lin, Kai-Wei Tang, Gregory M. Kapfhammer. Test suite reduction methods that decrease regression testing costs by identifying irreplaceable tests
1345 -- 1359Debboub Soumeya, Meslati Djamel. Study of advanced separation of concerns approaches using the GoF design patterns: A quantitative and qualitative comparison
1360 -- 1376Yi-Chen Wu, Chin-Feng Fan. Automatic test case generation for structural testing of function block diagrams
1377 -- 1389Lutz Prechelt, Alexander Pepper. Why software repositories are not used for defect-insertion circumstance analysis more often: A case study
1390 -- 1402Arnon Sturm, Oded Kramer. Evaluating the productivity of a reference-based programming approach: A controlled experiment
1403 -- 1420Kai Petersen, Mahvish Khurum, Lefteris Angelis. Reasons for bottlenecks in very large-scale system of systems development

Volume 56, Issue 1

1 -- 5Muhammad Ali Babar, Christian Lescher. Global software engineering: Identifying challenges is important and providing solutions is even better
6 -- 19Hina Shah, Mary Jean Harrold, Saurabh Sinha. Global software testing under deadline pressure: Vendor-side experiences
20 -- 38Sebastian Barney, Varun Mohankumar, Panagiota Chatzipetrou, Aybüke Aurum, Claes Wohlin, Lefteris Angelis. Software quality across borders: Three case studies on company internal alignment
39 -- 0Emilia Mendes, Marcela Genero. Guest Editorial: Special section of the best papers from the 16th International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering
40 -- 53He Zhang, Juan Li, Liming Zhu, D. Ross Jeffery, Yan Liu, Qing Wang, Mingshu Li. Investigating dependencies in software requirements for change propagation analysis
54 -- 78June M. Verner, O. Pearl Brereton, Barbara A. Kitchenham, Mahmood Turner, Mahmood Niazi. Risks and risk mitigation in global software development: A tertiary study
79 -- 101A. César C. França, Fabio Q. B. da Silva, Adelnei de L. C. Felix, David E. S. Carneiro. Motivation in software engineering industrial practice: A cross-case analysis of two software organisations