Best Papers JSS 2020

Each year JSS receives well over 1000 submissions, and 2020 was no exception. From these submissions we like to, each year, honor a few of the best submissions. In 2020, the papers we would like to honor as our official “Best Paper Award Winners” are:

🥇 Are unit and integration test definitions still valid for modern Java projects? An empirical study on open-source projects

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121219301955

🥇 CrossRec: Supporting software developers by recommending third-party libraries

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121219302341

🥇 Exploring onboarding success, organizational fit, and turnover intention of software professionals

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016412121930216X

🥇 Understanding coordination in global software engineering: A mixed-methods study on the use of meetings and Slack

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121220301564

🥇 The long and winding road: MBSE adoption for functional avionics of spacecraft

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121219302274

From among these excellent papers, which already represent the top five from over one thousand submissions, we would like to further distinguish our two “Diamond Best Paper Awards”. These two papers, listed below, represent some of the best work submitted to JSS in the past year. For anyone looking to submit to JSS, consider looking to these papers as examples!

🏆🥇 CrossRec: Supporting software developers by recommending third-party libraries

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121219302341

🏆🥇 Exploring onboarding success, organizational fit, and turnover intention of software professionals

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016412121930216X

Congratulations to the authors on a job well done!

All the best,
‪Paris Avgeriou‬
David C. Shepherd