Journal of Systems and Software : Volume 178

New Issue: Journal of Systems and Software New issue available on ScienceDirect Journal of Systems and Software Volume 178 , August 2021 Editorial Board Article Number 110997 Regular Articles Characterizing top ranked code examples in Google Article Number 110971 Andre Hora An empirical characterization of event sourced systems and their schema evolution — Lessons from industry Article Number 110970 Michiel Overeem, Marten Spoor, Slinger Jansen, Sjaak Brinkkemper Brain and autonomic nervous system activity measurement in software engineering: A systematic literature review Article Number 110946 Barbara Weber, Thomas Fischer, René Riedl Synthesizing researches on Knowledge Management and Agile Software Development using the Meta-ethnography method Article Number 110973 Bianca Minetto Napoleão, Érica Ferreira de Souza, Glauco Antonio Ruiz, Katia Romero Felizardo, Giovani Volnei Meinerz, Nandamudi Lankalapalli Vijaykumar Graphical abstract A formal specification animation method for operation validation Article Number 110948 Shaoying Liu, Weikai Miao System quality and security certification in seven weeks: A multi-case study in Spanish SMEs Article Number 110960 Domingo Gaitero, Marcela Genero, Mario Piattini An empirical study on the co-occurrence between refactoring actions and Self-Admitted Technical Debt removal Article Number 110976 Martina Iammarino, Fiorella Zampetti, Lerina Aversano, Massimiliano Di Penta A study on correlations between architectural smells and design patterns Article Number 110984 Ilaria Pigazzini, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Bartosz Walter Machine learning based success prediction for crowdsourcing software projects Article Number 110965 Inam Illahi, Hui Liu, Qasim Umer, Nan Niu Digging into group establishment: Intervention design and evaluation Article Number 110974 Ville Isomöttönen, Emmi Ritvos A three-step hybrid specification approach to error prevention Article Number 110975 Shaoying Liu On the Understandability of Language Constructs to Structure the State and Behavior in Abstract State Machine Specifications: A Controlled Experiment Article Number 110987 Philipp Paulweber, Georg Simhandl, Uwe Zdun An extensive study on smell-aware bug localization Article Number 110986 Aoi Takahashi, Natthawute Sae-Lim, Shinpei Hayashi, Motoshi Saeki Graphical abstract Mining guidelines for architecting robotics software Article Number 110969 Ivano Malavolta, Grace A. Lewis, Bradley Schmerl, Patricia Lago, David Garlan Special Section on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation; Edited by Dr Árpád Beszédes, Dr Neil Ernst and Dr Mark Hills Introduction to the Special Issue on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation 2018 Article Number 110702 Neil A. Ernst, Mark Hills, Árpád Beszédes Special Section on Software Engineering for Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems; Edited by Dr Danny Weyns, Dr Radu Calinescu and Dr Tomas Bures Special Issue on software engineering for trustworthy cyber–physical systems Article Number 110972 Tomas Bures, Radu Calinescu, Danny Weyns Special section on New Generation of Bug Fixing Special Issue on New Generation of Bug Fixing Article Number 110992 Xiapu Luo, Weiyi Shang, Xiaobing Sun, Tao Zhang A scheduling-driven approach to efficiently assign bug fixing tasks to developers Article Number 110967 Vahid Etemadi, Omid Bushehrian, Reza Akbari, Gregorio Robles Read the full issue on ScienceDirect