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# ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 2023: all accepted papers

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1. **[A Survey on Automated Driving System Testing: Landscapes and Trends ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3579642)**Shuncheng Tang, Zhenya Zhang, Yi Zhang et al.*157 citations*
2. **[Rise of the Planet of Serverless Computing: A Systematic Review ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3579643)**Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen, Xin Jin et al.*140 citations*
3. **[A Survey of Learning-based Automated Program Repair ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3631974)**Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Yuxiang Ma et al.*132 citations*
4. **[Testing RESTful APIs: A Survey ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3617175)**Amid Golmohammadi, Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri*109 citations*
5. **[A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Bias Mitigation Methods for Machine Learning Classifiers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3583561)**Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro et al.*104 citations*
6. **[Security Misconfigurations in Open Source Kubernetes Manifests: An Empirical Study ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3579639)**Akond Rahman, Shazibul Islam Shamim, Dibyendu Brinto Bose et al.*103 citations*
7. **[Toward Understanding Deep Learning Framework Bugs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3587155)**Junjie Chen, Yihua Liang, Qingchao Shen et al.*89 citations*
8. **[Ethics in the Age of AI: An Analysis of AI Practitioners’ Awareness and Challenges ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3635715)**Aastha Pant, Rashina Hoda, Simone V. Spiegler et al.*80 citations*
9. **[FaaSLight : General Application-level Cold-start Latency Optimization for Function-as-a-Service in Serverless Computing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3585007)**Xuanzhe Liu, Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen et al.*79 citations*
10. **[Early Validation and Verification of System Behaviour in Model-based Systems Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3631976)**Johan Cederbladh, Antonio Cicchetti, Jagadish Suryadevara*64 citations*
11. **[Asteria-Pro: Enhancing Deep Learning-based Binary Code Similarity Detection by Incorporating Domain Knowledge ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3604611)**Shouguo Yang, Chaopeng Dong, Yang Xiao et al.*58 citations*
12. **[NSFuzz: Towards Efficient and State-Aware Network Service Fuzzing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3580598)**Shisong Qin, Fan Hu, Zheyu Ma et al.*52 citations*
13. **[Digital Twin-based Anomaly Detection with Curriculum Learning in Cyber-physical Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3582571)**Qinghua Xu, Shaukat Ali, Tao Yue*48 citations*
14. **[Finding Near-optimal Configurations in Colossal Spaces with Statistical Guarantees ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3611663)**Jeho Oh, Don S. Batory, Rubén Heradio*48 citations*
15. **[Open Problems in Fuzzing RESTful APIs: A Comparison of Tools ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3597205)**Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri*48 citations*
16. **[Dissecting American Fuzzy Lop: A FuzzBench Evaluation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3580596)**Andrea Fioraldi, Alessandro Mantovani, Dominik Maier et al.*47 citations*
17. **[An Extractive-and-Abstractive Framework for Source Code Summarization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3632742)**Weisong Sun, Chunrong Fang, Yuchen Chen et al.*43 citations*
18. **[Automated Identification of Toxic Code Reviews Using ToxiCR ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3583562)**Jaydeb Sarker, Asif Kamal Turzo, Ming Dong et al.*43 citations*
19. **[Vision Transformer Inspired Automated Vulnerability Repair ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3632746)**Michael C. Fu, Van Nguyen, Chakkrit Kla Tantithamthavorn et al.*41 citations*
20. **[White-Box Fuzzing RPC-Based APIs with EvoMaster: An Industrial Case Study ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3585009)**Man Zhang, Andrea Arcuri, Yonggang Li et al.*40 citations*
21. **[CodeEditor : Learning to Edit Source Code with Pre-trained Models ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3597207)**Jia Li, Ge Li, Zhuo Li et al.*38 citations*
22. **[Testing of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents with Surrogate Models ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3631970)**Matteo Biagiola, Paolo Tonella*38 citations*
23. **[Modern Code Reviews—Survey of Literature and Practice ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3585004)**Deepika Badampudi, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Ricardo Britto*37 citations*
24. **[Towards Practical Binary Code Similarity Detection: Vulnerability Verification via Patch Semantic Analysis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3604608)**Shouguo Yang, Zhengzi Xu, Yang Xiao et al.*36 citations*
25. **[Fair Enough: Searching for Sufficient Measures of Fairness ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3585006)**Suvodeep Majumder, Joymallya Chakraborty, Gina R. Bai et al.*34 citations*
26. **[Prompt Sapper: A LLM-Empowered Production Tool for Building AI Chains ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3638247)**Yu Cheng, Jieshan Chen, Qing Yun Huang et al.*33 citations*
27. **[COMET: Coverage-guided Model Generation For Deep Learning Library Testing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3583566)**Meiziniu Li, Jialun Cao, Yongqiang Tian et al.*32 citations*
28. **[LibAM: An Area Matching Framework for Detecting Third-Party Libraries in Binaries ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3625294)**Siyuan Li, Yongpan Wang, Chaopeng Dong et al.*32 citations*
29. **[Learning to Detect Memory-related Vulnerabilities ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3624744)**Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Lili Bo et al.*28 citations*
30. **[Representation Learning for Stack Overflow Posts: How Far Are We? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3635711)**Junda He, Xin Zhou, Bowen Xu et al.*28 citations*
31. **[Poison Attack and Poison Detection on Deep Source Code Processing Models ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3630008)**Jia Li, Zhuo Li, Huangzhao Zhang et al.*27 citations*
32. **[Actor-Driven Decomposition of Microservices through Multi-level Scalability Assessment ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3583563)**Matteo Camilli, Carmine Colarusso, Barbara Russo et al.*26 citations*
33. **[NSFuzz: Towards Efficient and State-Aware Network Service Fuzzing - RCR Report ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3580599)**Fan Hu, Shisong Qin, Zheyu Ma et al.*26 citations*
34. **[Acrobats and Safety Nets: Problematizing Large-Scale Agile Software Development ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3617169)**Knut H. Rolland, Brian F. Fitzgerald, Torgeir Dingsøyr et al.*25 citations*
35. **[Generation-based Differential Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3628159)**Jiawei Liu, Yuheng Huang, Zhijie Wang et al.*25 citations*
36. **[GraphPrior: Mutation-based Test Input Prioritization for Graph Neural Networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3607191)**Xueqi Dang, Yinghua Li, Mike Papadakis et al.*25 citations*
37. **[How Important Are Good Method Names in Neural Code Generation? A Model Robustness Perspective ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3630010)**Guang Yang, Yu Zhou, Wenhua Yang et al.*25 citations*
38. **[A Comparative Study on Method Comment and Inline Comment ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3582570)**Yuan Huang, Hanyang Guo, Xi Ding et al.*24 citations*
39. **[An Accurate Identifier Renaming Prediction and Suggestion Approach ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3603109)**Jingxuan Zhang, Junpeng Luo, Jiahui Liang et al.*24 citations*
40. **[Attack as Detection: Using Adversarial Attack Methods to Detect Abnormal Examples ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3631977)**Zhe Zhao, Guangke Chen, Tong Liu et al.*24 citations*
41. **[Causality-driven Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3635709)**Luca Giamattei, Antonio Guerriero, Roberto Pietrantuono et al.*24 citations*
42. **[Katana : Dual Slicing Based Context for Learning Bug Fixes ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3579640)**Mifta Sintaha, Noor Nashid, Ali Mesbah*24 citations*
43. **[Search-Based Software Testing Driven by Automatically Generated and Manually Defined Fitness Functions ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3624745)**Federico Formica, Tony Fan, Claudio Menghi*23 citations*
44. **[Survey of Code Search Based on Deep Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3628161)**Yutao Xie, Jiayi Lin, Hande Dong et al.*23 citations*
45. **[A Closer Look at the Security Risks in the Rust Ecosystem ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3624738)**Xiaoye Zheng, Zhiyuan Wan, Yun Zhang et al.*22 citations*
46. **[Fuzzing Configurations of Program Options ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3580597)**Zenong Zhang, George Klees, Eric Wang et al.*22 citations*
47. **[Safety of Perception Systems for Automated Driving: A Case Study on Apollo ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3631969)**Sangeeth Kochanthara, Tajinder Singh, Alexandru Forrai et al.*22 citations*
48. **[The Human Side of Fuzzing: Challenges Faced by Developers during Fuzzing Activities ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3611668)**Olivier Nourry, Yutaro Kashiwa, Bin Lin et al.*22 citations*
49. **[Automatic Core-Developer Identification on GitHub: A Validation Study ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3593803)**Thomas Bock, Nils Alznauer, Mitchell Joblin et al.*20 citations*
50. **[I Depended on You and You Broke Me: An Empirical Study of Manifesting Breaking Changes in Client Packages ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3576037)**Daniel Venturini, Filipe R. Cogo, Ivanilton Polato et al.*20 citations*
51. **[Revisiting the Identification of the Co-evolution of Production and Test Code ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3607183)**Weifeng Sun, Meng Ling Yan, Zhongxin Liu et al.*20 citations*
52. **[What’s (Not) Working in Programmer User Studies? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3587157)**Matthew C. Davis, Emad Aghayi, Thomas D. LaToza et al.*20 citations*
53. **[Challenges of Working from Home in Software Development During Covid-19 Lockdowns ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3579636)**Katharina Müller, Christian Koch, Dirk Riehle et al.*19 citations*
54. **[Characterizing and Detecting WebAssembly Runtime Bugs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3624743)**Yixuan Zhang, Shangtong Cao, Haoyu Wang et al.*19 citations*
55. **[Estimating Software Functional Size via Machine Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3582575)**Luigi Lavazza, Angela Locoro, Geng Liu et al.*19 citations*
56. **[Smart Contract Code Repair Recommendation based on Reinforcement Learning and Multi-metric Optimization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3637229)**Hanyang Guo, Yingye Chen, Xiangping Chen et al.*19 citations*
57. **[Snippet Comment Generation Based on Code Context Expansion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3611664)**Hanyang Guo, Xiangping Chen, Yuan Huang et al.*19 citations*
58. **[Aspect-level Information Discrepancies across Heterogeneous Vulnerability Reports: Severity, Types and Detection Methods ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3624734)**Jiamou Sun, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia et al.*18 citations*
59. **[LoGenText-Plus : Improving Neural Machine Translation Based Logging Texts Generation with Syntactic Templates ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3624740)**Zishuo Ding, Yiming Tang, Xiaoyu Cheng et al.*18 citations*
60. **[Measuring and Clustering Heterogeneous Chatbot Designs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3637228)**Pablo C. Cañizares, Jose María López-Morales, Sara Pérez-Soler et al.*18 citations*
61. **[Seed Selection for Testing Deep Neural Networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3607190)**Yuhan Zhi, Xiaofei Xie, Chao Qun Shen et al.*18 citations*
62. **[Improving Automated Program Repair with Domain Adaptation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3631972)**Armin Zirak, Hadi Hemmati*17 citations*
63. **[PTM-APIRec: Leveraging Pre-trained Models of Source Code in API Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3632745)**Zhihao Li, Chuanyi Li, Ze Jun Tang et al.*17 citations*
64. **[PatchCensor: Patch Robustness Certification for Transformers via Exhaustive Testing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3591870)**Yuheng Huang, Lei Ma, Yuanchun Li*17 citations*
65. **[QuoTe : Quality-oriented Testing for Deep Learning Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3582573)**Jialuo Chen, Jingyi Wang, Xingjun Ma et al.*17 citations*
66. **[Automated Test Suite Generation for Software Product Lines Based on Quality-Diversity Optimization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3628158)**Yi Xiang, Han Pang Huang, Sizhe Li et al.*16 citations*
67. **[Code-line-level Bugginess Identification: How Far have We Come, and How Far have We Yet to Go? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3582572)**Zhaoqiang Guo, Shiran Liu, Xutong Liu et al.*16 citations*
68. **[Deep Is Better? An Empirical Comparison of Information Retrieval and Deep Learning Approaches to Code Summarization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3631975)**Tingwei Zhu, Zhong Li, Minxue Pan et al.*16 citations*
69. **[Faire: Repairing Fairness of Neural Networks via Neuron Condition Synthesis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3617168)**Tianlin Li, Xiaofei Xie, Jian Wang et al.*16 citations*
70. **[StubCoder : Automated Generation and Repair of Stub Code for Mock Objects ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3617171)**Hengcheng Zhu, Lili Wei, Valerio Terragni et al.*16 citations*
71. **[Testing Causality in Scientific Modelling Software ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3607184)**Andrew G. Clark, Michael S. Foster, Benedikt Prifling et al.*16 citations*
72. **[The Lost World: Characterizing and Detecting Undiscovered Test Smells ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3631973)**Yanming Yang, Xing Hu, Xin Xia et al.*16 citations*
73. **[Client-Specific Upgrade Compatibility Checking via Knowledge-Guided Discovery ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3582569)**Chenguang Zhu, Mengshi Zhang, Xiuheng Wu et al.*15 citations*
74. **[Tiny, Always-on, and Fragile: Bias Propagation through Design Choices in On-device Machine Learning Workflows ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3591867)**Wiebke Toussaint Hutiri, Aaron Yi Ding, Fahim Kawsar et al.*15 citations*
75. **[Variable-based Fault Localization via Enhanced Decision Tree ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3624741)**Jiajun Jiang, Yumeng Wang, Junjie Chen et al.*15 citations*
76. **[ArchRepair : Block-Level Architecture-Oriented Repairing for Deep Neural Networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3585005)**Hua Qi, Zhijie Wang, Qing Guo et al.*14 citations*
77. **[DatAFLow : Toward a Data-Flow-Guided Fuzzer ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3587156)**Adrian Herrera, Mathias Payer, Antony L. Hosking*14 citations*
78. **[Dependency Update Strategies and Package Characteristics ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3603110)**Abbas Javan Jafari, Diego Elias Costa, Emad Shihab et al.*14 citations*
79. **[How Are Multilingual Systems Constructed: Characterizing Language Use and Selection in Open-Source Multilingual Software ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3631967)**Wen Li, Austin Marino, Haoran Yang et al.*14 citations*
80. **[On the Caching Schemes to Speed Up Program Reduction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3617172)**Yongqiang Tian, Xueyan Zhang, Yiwen Dong et al.*14 citations*
81. **[Semantic-Enriched Code Knowledge Graph to Reveal Unknowns in Smart Contract Code Reuse ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3597206)**Qing Yun Huang, Dianshu Liao, Zhenchang Xing et al.*14 citations*
82. **[Towards Causal Analysis of Empirical Software Engineering Data: The Impact of Programming Languages on Coding Competitions ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3611667)**Carlo A. Furia, Richard Torkar, ROBERT H. FELDT*14 citations*
83. **[XCoS: Explainable Code Search Based on Query Scoping and Knowledge Graph ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3593800)**Chong Wang, Xin Peng, Zhenchang Xing et al.*14 citations*
84. **[API Entity and Relation Joint Extraction from Text via Dynamic Prompt-tuned Language Model ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3607188)**Qing Yun Huang, Yanbang Sun, Zhenchang Xing et al.*13 citations*
85. **[An Empirical Study on GitHub Pull Requests’ Reactions ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3597208)**Mohamed Amine Batoun, Ka Lai Yung, Yuan Tian et al.*13 citations*
86. **[Automatically Detecting Incompatible Android APIs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3624737)**Pei Liu, Yanjie Zhao, Mattia Fazzini et al.*13 citations*
87. **[CLFuzz: Vulnerability Detection of Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation via Semantic-aware Fuzzing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3628160)**Yuanhang Zhou, Fuchen Ma, Yuanliang Chen et al.*13 citations*
88. **[DRIVE: Dockerfile Rule Mining and Violation Detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3617173)**Yu Zhou, Weilin Zhan, Zi Li et al.*13 citations*
89. **[Extraction of Phrase-based Concepts in Vulnerability Descriptions through Unsupervised Labeling ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3579638)**Sofonias Yitagesu, Zhenchang Xing, Xiaowang Zhang et al.*13 citations*
90. **[A First Look at Dark Mode in Real-world Android Apps ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3604607)**Suyu Ma, Chunyang Chen, Hourieh Khalajzadeh et al.*12 citations*
91. **[A Systematic Review of Automated Query Reformulations in Source Code Search ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3607179)**Mohammad Masudur Rahman, Chanchal Kumar Roy*12 citations*
92. **[ALL: Supporting Experiential Accessibility Education and Inclusive Software Development ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3625292)**Weishi Shi, Heather Moses, Qi Yu et al.*12 citations*
93. **[FormatFuzzer : Effective Fuzzing of Binary File Formats ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3628157)**Rafael Dutra, Rahul Gopinath, Andreas Zeller*12 citations*
94. **[Hierarchical Distribution-aware Testing of Deep Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3625290)**Wei Huang, Xingyu Zhao, Alec Banks et al.*12 citations*
95. **[Fine-grained Coverage-based Fuzzing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3587158)**Wei‐Cheng Wu, Bernard Nongpoh, Marwan Nour et al.*11 citations*
96. **[Framework for SQL Error Message Design: A Data-Driven Approach ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3607180)**Toni Taipalus, Hilkka Grahn*11 citations*
97. **[Reliable Fix Patterns Inferred from Static Checkers for Automated Program Repair ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3579637)**Kui Liu, Jingtang Zhang, Li Li et al.*11 citations*
98. **[TestSGD : Interpretable Testing of Neural Networks against Subtle Group Discrimination ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3591869)**Mengdi Zhang, Jun Sun, Jingyi Wang et al.*11 citations*
99. **[Understanding Developers Well-Being and Productivity: A 2-year Longitudinal Analysis during the COVID-19 Pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3638244)**Daniel Russo, Paul H. P. Hanel, Niels van Berkel*11 citations*
100. **[Building Domain-Specific Machine Learning Workflows: A Conceptual Framework for the State of the Practice ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3638243)**Bentley Oakes, Michalis Famelis, Houari A. Sahraoui*10 citations*

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