Journal of Systems and Software

24/10/2024

Why is the gender gap still a challenge in Software Engineering academia? Our latest research dives into co-authorship networks and promotion biases. Discover the hidden dynamics!



https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4632660

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24/10/2024

Meet - your associate editor

We asked Senior Associate Editor, Alexander Serebrenik a few questions and here’s what he said.

❔Give us a short description about what you do in your academic job.
I study human and social aspects of software engineering at ; I am also involved in a number of -related initiatives at the local, national and international level.

❔What do I enjoy most?
Learning about the amazing new ideas researchers are working on!

❔What do you do in your free time?
Social media takes part of it. I also like visiting virtual museums and reading.

❔What is the one piece of advice you would like to give authors who submit to JSS?
When preparing a revision please highlight the differences in the text. 2) Please be ready to review someone else’s work.

❔What is the academic achievement you are most proud of?
Having contributed to the increased attention of the research community to the fact that developers are humans.

❔What have you learned in the past year in your JSS role?
A small personal mail to a late reviewer works better than an official mail sent by the editorial system.

❔What made you choose the broad field of computing/software engineering as a career?
Actually I wanted to study maths; but the admission officer said that my entrance test score was too high for maths so I should try CS.

27/07/2024

Software developers often submit questions to technical Q&A sites like Stack Overflow (SO) to resolve code-level problems. In practice, they include example code snippets with questions to explain the programming issues. Existing research suggests that users attempt to reproduce the reported issues....

01/07/2024

Our LinkedIn presence now has a page for updates on JSS published research. Follow our page on LinkedIn.

01/07/2024

Are you working on testing or analysis for AI-enabled systems? Don't miss the chance to submit your work to our Special Issue!

Automated Testing and Analysis for Dependable AI-enabled Software and Systems
Guest editors:​
Matteo Camilli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Michael Felderer, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Alessandro Marchetto, University of Trento, Italy
Andrea Stocco, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and fortiss GmbH, Germany

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-and-software/about/call-for-papers?fbclid=IwAR3PgrP2T65w7ZY2GPSJ3RXVAPxRZQWB2XDcNuUPW6d-16sMGI-74M5V9vA -testing-and-analysis-for-dependable-ai-enabled-software-and-systems

We've extended the deadline to August 31, 2024

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05/06/2024

There is something new happening at JSS. Introducing the “Dear Researchers” column. It’s a new column sharing the perspective of software practitioners with researchers.

We ask practitioners to write articles to researchers pointing out interesting problems and blind spots in research.

“We encourage those working as software engineers, or even those working in industrial research who have engaged in practical projects within the past few years, to share your knowledge. “

More on the editorial at

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016412122400089X?via%3Dihub

05/06/2024

Each year, out of over one thousand submissions, we pick the best paper for JSS. Of all the papers that we have published this year, this one alone had scientists up late, missing sleep, in order to read just one more compelling section of scientific bombshells. This paper in question and winner of the 2023 JSS Paper of the Year award is:

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GitHub Copilot AI pair programmer: Asset or Liability?
Arghavan Moradi Dakhel, Vahid Majdinasab, Amin Nikanjam, Foutse Khomh, Michel C. Desmarais, Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0164121223001292

In this paper the authors extensively study the usage and potential utility of Copilot AI in assisting in programming tasks. They believe that, currently, Copilot could be an asset for experienced developers but is a potential liability for novice developers. We hope you enjoy this paper and join us in celebrating the authors’ great work.



Do you use Copilot to assist you in programming?

15/04/2024

JSS awarded one paper from 2013 as the Most Influential Paper (MIP) award based on Scholar citations and downloads.

🏆 Agile requirements prioritization in large-scale outsourced system projects: An empirical study
By Maya Daneva, Egbert van der Veen, Chintan Amrit, Smita Ghaisas, Klaas Sikkel, Ramesh Kumar, Nirav Ajmeri, Uday Ramteerthkar, Roel Wieringa



🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0164121212003536

29/03/2024

We are thrilled to announce the JSS reviewers of the year for 2023.

Dario Di Nucci,
Hasan Sozer,
Eman AlOmar,
Fiorella Zampetti,
Tao Zhang,
Amin Nikanjam,
Torvald Mårtensson,
Hao Zhong

Please congratulate these scholars!!

29/03/2024

🥁We are thrilled to announce the editor of the year for 2023 -
Aldeida Aleti 🥳👏

Please congratulate Aldeida on this achievement!!

🔗https://users.monash.edu.au/~aldeidaa/

21/03/2024

Software vulnerability prediction is gaining great attention in cyber security. Today’s discusses the effect of the easy and hard negatives in vulnerability prediction datasets on the performance of vulnerability prediction.

Highlights
The negative sample affects the performance of vulnerability prediction models.

Models trained on hard negatives perform poorly predicting easy negatives.

Models trained on easy negatives perform poorly predicting hard negatives.

Models perform better as easy negatives are increased in the training set.

21/03/2024

📢Call for Papers! 🤖✨

Contribute to the Special Issue on **Automated Testing and Analysis for Dependable AI-enabled Software and Systems**

🗓️ Deadline: May 30, 2024

Important dates
Manuscript Submission Deadline: May 30, 2024
Notification to authors (first round): June 30, 2024
Submission of revised papers (second round): July 31, 2024
Completion of the review and revision process (final notification): October 31, 2024

🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-and-software/about/call-for-papers?fbclid=IwAR3PgrP2T65w7ZY2GPSJ3RXVAPxRZQWB2XDcNuUPW6d-16sMGI-74M5V9vA -testing-and-analysis-for-dependable-ai-enabled-software-and-systems