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ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology is a peer-reviewed journal published by ACM, covering Software Engineering Research, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Software Reliability and Analysis Research. Over its lifetime it has published 1,901 papers, which have received 63,736 citations.

PublisherACM
Reference styleNumbered (ACM)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] Ada Smith, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. A representative article title. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 12, 3, Article 45 (2023).

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Publishes research inSoftware Engineering Research Software Testing and Debugging Techniques Software Reliability and Analysis Research Software System Performance and Reliability Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
ISSN1049-331X
Citation impact (2-yr)6.75
h-index120
i10-index827
Top institutions publishing hereSingapore Management University
Journal websitetosem.acm.org
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Papers published in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology per year

53
2014
27
2015
20
2016
21
2017
27
2018
34
2019
41
2020
79
2021
152
2022
159
2023
268
2024
373
2025

Citation impact of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology by publication year

2.4K
2014
1.1K
2015
663
2016
651
2017
1K
2018
861
2019
1.2K
2020
2.7K
2021
4.2K
2022
2.9K
2023
3.7K
2024
1.6K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Two case studies of open source software development

Audris Mockus, Roy T. Fielding, James D. Herbsleb · 1 Jul 2002

According to its proponents, open source style software development has the capacity to compete successfully, and perhaps in many cases displace, traditional commercial development methods. In order to begin investigating such claims, we examine data from two major open source projects, the Apache web server and the Mozilla browser. By using email archives of source…

1,690 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Developing multiagent systems

Franco Zambonelli, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Wooldridge · 1 Jul 2003

Systems composed of interacting autonomous agents offer a promising software engineering approach for developing applications in complex domains. However, this multiagent system paradigm introduces a number of new abstractions and design/development issues when compared with more traditional approaches to software development. Accordingly, new analysis and design methodologies, as well as new tools, are needed to…

1,272 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A formal basis for architectural connection

Robert J. Allen, David Garlan · 1 Jul 1997

As software systems become more complex, the overall system structure—or software architecture—becomes a central design problem. An important step toward an engineering discipline of software is a formal basis for describing and analyzing these designs. In the article we present a formal approach to one aspect of architectural design: the interactions among components. The key…

1,241 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Alloy

Daniel Jackson · 1 Apr 2002

Alloy is a little language for describing structural properties. It offers a declaration syntax compatible with graphical object models, and a set-based formula syntax powerful enough to express complex constraints and yet amenable to a fully automatic semantic analysis. Its meaning is given by translation to an even smaller (formally defined) kernel. This paper presents…

1,171 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The STATEMATE semantics of statecharts

David Harel, A. Naamad · 1 Oct 1996

We describe the semantics of statecharts as implemented in the STATEMATE system. This was the first executable semantics defined for the language and has been in use for almost a decade. In terms of the controversy around whether changes made in a given step should take effect in the current step or in the next…

1,042 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

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