Most Influential Paper Award


At least one award for the most influential papers will be given to articles published in the past at QRS. The award will be given on a ten-year basis. QRS 2025 will be awarded to authors of papers published at QRS ten years ago that were judged to have the greatest impact on the theory or practice of software quality, reliability, and security in the ten years since its initial publication.

Paper for the 2025 award

Deep Learning for Just-in-Time Defect Prediction,
Xinli Yang, David Lo (H-index: 104), Xin Xia (H-index: 77), Yun Zhang, and Jianling Sun,
In the 15th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security,
pp. 17-26, Vancouver, Canada, August 3-5, 2015 [PDF]

Number of citations: 477