2026

Journal

• Mohammed Mehedi Hasan (*), Hao Li (*), Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2026). Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tool Descriptions Are Smelly! Towards Improving AI Agent Efficiency with Augmented MCP Tool Descriptions, Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), ACM, to appear.
• Kosei Horikawa, Hao Li (*), Yutaro Kashiwa, Bram Adams, Hajimu Iida and Ahmed E. Hassan (2026). Agentic Refactoring: An Empirical Study of AI Coding Agents, Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), ACM, to appear.
• Lin Geng (*), Hao Li (*), Sidney Givigi and Bram Adams (2026). SwarmUpdate: Hierarchical Software Updates and Deep Learning Model Patching for Heterogeneous UAV Swarms, Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), ACM, to appear.
• Worawalan Chatlatanagulchai, Hao Li (*), Yutaro Kashiwa, Brittany Reid, Kundjanasith Thonglek, Pattara Leelaprute, Arnon Rungsawang, Bundit Manaskasemsak, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Hajimu Iida (2026). Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding, Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), ACM, to appear.
• Mohammed Mehedi Hasan (*), Hao Li (*), Emad Fallahzadeh (*), Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2026). Model Context Protocol (MCP) at First Glance: Studying the Security and Maintainability of MCP Servers, Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), ACM, to appear.
• Adekunle Ajibode (*), Abdul Ali Bangash (*), Oussama Ben Sghaier (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2026). On the synchronization between Hugging Face pre-trained language models and their upstream GitHub repository, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 31(5), Springer.
• Mohammed Mehedi Hasan (*), Hao Li (*), Emad Fallahzadeh (*), Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2026). An Empirical Study of Testing Practices in Open Source AI Agent Frameworks and Agentic Applications, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 31(5), Springer.
• Yu Shi (*), Abdul Ali Bangash (*), Emad Fallahzadeh (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2026). HAFix: History-Augmented Large Language Models for Bug Fixing, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 31(4), Springer.
• Doriane Olewicki (*), Leuson Da Silva, Oussama Ben Sghaier (*), Suhaib Mujahid, Arezou Amini, Benjamin Mah, Marco Castelluccio, Sarra Habchi, Foutse Khomh and Bram Adams (2026). Impact of LLM-based Review Assistant in Practice: A Mixed Open-/Closed-source Case Study, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), IEEE, to appear.
• Hao Li (*), Hicham Masri (*), Filipe Roseiro Côgo, Abdul Ali Bangash (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2026). Understanding Prompt Management in GitHub Repositories: A Call for Best Practices, IEEE Software, IEEE, to appear.
• Aaditya Bhatia (*), Foutse Khomh, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2026). An Empirical Study of Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Machine Learning Software, Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), ACM, to appear.
• Marcos Macedo (*), Yuan Tian, Filipe Roseiro Côgo and Bram Adams (2026). Output Format Biases in the Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code Translation, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 31(41), Springer.
• Jaskirat Singh (*), Emad Fallahzadeh (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2025). On the Impact of Black-box Deployment Strategies for Edge AI on Latency and Model Performance - Empirical Study on ONNX, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), Springer, to appear.

Conference

• Suzhen Zhong (*), Ying Zou and Bram Adams (2026). Developer-LLM Conversations: An Empirical Study of Interactions and Generated Code Quality, in Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Advances in Software and Computing (CASCON) (York, ON), IEEE.
• Mateus Karvat, Bram Adams and Sidney Givigi (2026). From Leaderboard to Deployment: Code Quality Challenges in AV Perception Repositories, in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (Naples, Italy), IEEE.
• James Jewitt (*), Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Hao Li (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2026). Permissive-Washing in the Open AI Supply Chain: A Large-Scale Audit of License Integrity, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) (Jeju, Korea), ACM. (Acceptance ratio: 18.5%)

Other

• Carmen Armenti, Hao Li (*), Marco Raglianti, Bram Adams and Michele Lanza (2026). Toward Visual Exploration of Agent Trajectories [short], in Proceedings of the IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT) (Benevento, Italy), IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 32/48=66.7%)
• Ahmed E. Hassan, Hao Li (*), Dayi Lin, Bram Adams, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Yutaro Kashiwa, Dong Qiu, Haoxiang Zhang and Miku Watanabe (2026). Agentic Software Engineering: A Roadmap to Software Engineering 3.0, Technical Briefing in the Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). (Acceptance ratio: 9/12=75%)

2025

Journal

• Shenyu Zheng (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2025). On Build Hermeticity in Bazel-based Build Systems, IEEE Software, 42, p. 55-63, IEEE.
• Adekunle Ajibode (*), Abdul Ali Bangash (*), Filipe Roseiro Côgo, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2025). Towards Semantic Versioning of Open Pre-trained Language Model Releases on Hugging Face, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 30(3), Springer.
• Zhimin Zhao (*), Abdul Ali Bangash (*), Filipe Roseiro Côgo, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2025). On the Workflows and Smells of Leaderboard Operations (LBOps): An Exploratory Study of Foundation Model Leaderboards, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 51(4), p. 929-946, IEEE.
• Amir M. Ebrahimi (*), Bram Adams, Gustavo A. Oliva and Ahmed E. Hassan (2025). UPC Sentinel: An Accurate Approach for Detecting Upgradeability Proxy Contracts in Ethereum, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 30(3), Springer.
• Divya M. Kamath (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2025). Lightweight Dynamic Build Batching Algorithms for Continuous Integration, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 30(2), Springer.
• Emad Fallahzadeh (*), Peter C. Rigby and Bram Adams (2025). Contrasting Test Selection, Prioritization, and Batch Testing at Scale, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 30(1), Springer.
• Harsh Patel (*), Dominique Boucher, Emad Fallahzadeh (*), Ahmed E. Hassan and Bram Adams (2025). A State-of-the-practice Release-readiness Checklist for Generative AI-based Software Products, IEEE Software, 42(1), p. 74-83, IEEE.
• Jerin Yasmin, Jiale Wang, Yuan Tian and Bram Adams (2025). An Empirical Study of Developers' Challenges in Implementing Workflows as Code: A Case Study on Apache Airflow, Journal of Software and Systems (JSS), 219, Elsevier.

Conference

• Marcos Macedo (*), Yuan Tian, Pengyu Nie, Filipe Roseiro Côgo and Bram Adams (2025). InterTrans: Leveraging Transitive Intermediate Translations to Enhance LLM-based Code Translation, in Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Ottawa, ON), to appear. (Acceptance ratio: N/A)
• Ruben Opdebeeck, Bram Adams and Coen De Roover (2025). Analysing Software Supply Chains of Infrastructure as Code: Extraction of Ansible Plugin Dependencies, in Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) (Montréal, Canada), p. 181-192, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 52/225=23.21%)

Workshop

• Marcos Macedo (*), Yuan Tian and Bram Adams (2025). CodeTransEngine: Ready-to-use Backend for LLM-based Code Translation, in Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Deep Learning for Code (DL4C) (Singapore).

2024

Journal

• Ernesto Lang Oreamuno (*), Rohan Faiyaz Khan, Abdul Ali Bangash (*), Catherine Stinson and Bram Adams (2024). The State of Documentation Practices of Third-party Machine Learning Models and Datasets, IEEE Software, 41(5), p. 52-59, IEEE.
• Divya M. Kamath (*), Eduardo Fernandes (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2024). On Combining Commit Grouping and Build Skip Prediction to Reduce Redundant Continuous Integration Activity, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 29(6), Springer.
• Shenyu Zheng (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2024). Does Using Bazel Help Speed Up Continuous Integration Builds?, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 29(5), Springer.
• Youssef Esseddiq Ouatiti, Mohammed Sayagh, Noureddine Kerzazi, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2024). The impact of Concept drift and Data leakage on Log Level Prediction Models, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 29(5), Springer.
• Harsh Patel (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2024). Post Deployment Recycling of Machine Learning Models - Don't Throw Away Your Old Models!, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 29(4), Springer.
• Amir M. Ebrahimi (*), Bram Adams, Gustavo A. Oliva and Ahmed E. Hassan (2024). A Large-Scale Exploratory Study on the Proxy Pattern in Ethereum, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 29(4), Springer.
• Zhimin Zhao (*), Yihao Chen (*), Abdul Ali Bangash (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2024). An Empirical Study of Challenges in Machine Learning Asset Management, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 29(4), Springer.
• Akshat Malik (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2024). Towards Graph-Anonymization of Software Analytics Data: Empirical Study on JIT Defect Prediction, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 29(4), Springer.
• Maleknaz Nayebi and Bram Adams (2024). Image-based Communication on Social Coding Platforms, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP), 36(5), Wiley.
• Rahul Bajaj (*), Eduardo Fernandes (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2024). Unreproducible builds: Time to fix, causes, and correlation with external ecosystem factors, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 29(1), Springer.

Conference

• Doriane Olewicki (*), Sarra Habchi and Bram Adams (2024). An empirical study on code review activity prediction and its impact in practice, in Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering (PACMSE), Issue FSE 2024 (Porto de Galinhas, Brazil), article nr. 99, p. 2238-2260, ACM. (Acceptance ratio: 121/483=25.1%)
• Doriane Olewicki (*), Sarra Habchi, Mathieu Nayrolles, Mojtaba Faramarzi, Sarath Chandar and Bram Adams (2024). On the Costs and Benefits of Adopting Lifelong Learning for Software Analytics: Empirical Study on Brown Build and Risk Prediction, in Proceedings of the Software Engineering In Practice (SEIP) track at the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Lisbon, Portugal), p. 275-286. (Acceptance ratio: 45/120=37.5%) (Distinguished Paper Award)
• Marcos Macedo (*), Yuan Tian, Filipe Roseiro Côgo and Bram Adams (2024). Exploring the Impact of the Output Format on the Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code Translation, in Proceedings of the 2024 Special Event of AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering (FORGE) (Lisbon), p. 57-68. (Acceptance ratio: 8/16=50%) (Best Paper Award)

2023

Journal

• Jiahuei Lin (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2023). On the Coordination of Vulnerability Fixes - An Empirical Study of Practices from 13 CVE Numbering Authorities, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 28(6), Springer.
• Armstrong Tita Foundjem (*), Ellis E. Eghan (*) and Bram Adams (2023). A Grounded Theory of Cross-community SECOs: Feedback Diversity vs. Synchronization, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 49(10), p. 4731-4750, IEEE.
• Yihao Chen (*), Eduardo Fernandes (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2023). On practitioners' concerns when adopting service mesh frameworks, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 28(5), Springer.
• Mahmoud Alfadel, Diego Elias Costa, Emad Shihab and Bram Adams (2023). On the Discoverability of npm Vulnerabilities in Node.js Projects, Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 32(4), p. 1-27, ACM.
• Aaditya Bhatia (*), Ellis E. Eghan (*), Manel Grichi (*), William Glazer Cavanagh (*), Zhen Ming Jiang and Bram Adams (2023). Towards a change taxonomy for machine learning pipelines: Empirical study of ML pipelines and forks related to academic publications, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 28(3), Springer.
• Jiahuei Lin (*), Haoxiang Zhang, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2023). Vulnerability management in Linux distributions: An empirical study on Debian and Fedora, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 28(2), Springer.

Conference

• Jinfu Chen, Zishuo Ding, Yiming Tang, Mohammed Sayagh, Heng Li, Bram Adams and Weiyi Shang (2023). IoPV: On Inconsistent Option Performance Variations, in Proceedings of the 31st Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) (San Francisco, USA), p. 845-857. (Acceptance ratio: 60/465=12.9%)
• Kazi Amit Hasan, Marcos Macedo (*), Yuan Tian, Bram Adams and Steven Ding (2023). Understanding the Time to First Response In GitHub Pull Requests, in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Melbourne, Australia), p. 1-11. (Acceptance ratio: 43/115=37.4%)

Other

• Bram Adams (2023). Foreword, in Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics, edited by Tom Mens, Coen De Roover and Anthony Cleve, 1st ed., p. vii-ix, Springer.

2022

Journal

• Jiahuei Lin (*), Haoxiang Zhang, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2022). Upstream Bug Management in Linux Distributions - An Empirical Study of Debian and Fedora Practices, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 27(134), Springer.
• Armstrong Tita Foundjem (*), Eleni Constantinou, Tom Mens and Bram Adams (2022). A mixed-methods analysis of micro-collaborative coding practices in OpenStack, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 27(120), Springer.
• Benjamin Rombaut, Filipe Roseiro Côgo, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2022). There's no Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Lessons Learned from Exploring the Overhead Introduced by the Greenkeeper Dependency Bot in Npm, Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 32(1), p. 1-40, ACM.
• Parisa Moslehi (*), Juergen Rilling and Bram Adams (2022). A user survey on the adoption of crowd-based software engineering instructional screencasts by the new generation of software developers, Journal of Software and Systems (JSS), 185(C), Elsevier.
• Suhaib Mujahid, Diego Elias Costa, Rabe Abdalkareem, Emad Shihab, Mohamed Aymen Saied and Bram Adams (2022). Toward Using Package Centrality Trend to Identify Packages in Decline, Transactions on Engineering Management (TEM), 69(6), p. 3618-3632, IEEE.
• Md Atique Reza Chowdhury, Rabe Abdalkareem, Emad Shihab and Bram Adams (2022). On the Untriviality of Trivial Packages: An Empirical Study of npm JavaScript Packages, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 48(8), p. 2695-2708, IEEE.
• Shivashree Vysali (*), Shane McIntosh and Bram Adams (2022). Quantifying, Characterizing, and Mitigating Flakily Covered Program Elements, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 48(3), p. 1018-1029, IEEE.

Conference

• Aquilas Tchanjou Njomou, Marios Fokaefs, Dimitry Fumtim Silatchom Kamga and Bram Adams (2022). On the Challenges of Migrating to Machine Learning Life Cycle Management Platforms, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON x EVOKE) (Markham, ON, Canada), p. 42-51.
• Mahsa Hadian, Soude Ghari, Marios Fokaefs, Scott Brisson, Ehsan Noei, Kelly Lyons, Bram Adams and Shurui Zhou (2022). Exploring trends and practices of forks in open-source software repositories, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON x EVOKE) (Markham, ON, Canada), p. 120-129.
• Doriane Olewicki (*), Mathieu Nayrolles and Bram Adams (2022). Towards Language-independent Brown Build Detection, in Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), p. 2177-2188. (Acceptance ratio: 197/751=26.23%)
• Isabella Ferreira (*), Bram Adams and Jinghui Cheng (2022). How heated is it? Understanding GitHub locked issues, in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), p. 309-320. (Acceptance ratio: 47/137=34.3%)

Other

• Nan Yang, Isabella Ferreira (*), Alexander Serebrenik and Bram Adams (2022). Why Do Projects Join the Apache Software Foundation?, in Proceedings of the Software Engineering in Society track at the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), p. 161-171. (Acceptance ratio: 17/39=43.59%)

2021

Journal

• Amine Barrak (*), Ellis E. Eghan (*), Bram Adams and Foutse Khomh (2021). Why do Builds Fail? - A Conceptual Replication Study, Journal of Software and Systems (JSS), 177, 110939 pages, Elsevier.
• Heng Li, Weiyi Shang, Bram Adams, Mohammed Sayagh and Ahmed E. Hassan (2021). A Qualitative Study of the Benefits and Costs of Logging from Developers' Perspectives, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 47(12), p. 2858-2873, IEEE.
• Sophia Quach, Maxime Lamothe, Bram Adams, Yasutaka Kamei and Weiyi Shang (2021). Evaluating the impact of falsely detected performance bug-inducing changes in JIT models, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 26(97), Springer.
• Miikka Kuutila, Mika Mäntylä, Maëlick Claes, Marko Elovainio and Bram Adams (2021). Individual Differences Limit Predicting Well-being and Productivity Using Software Repositories: A Longitudinal Industrial Study, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 26(88), Springer.
• Armstrong Tita Foundjem (*) and Bram Adams (2021). Release Synchronization in Software Ecosystems, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 26(34), Springer.
• Minke Xiu, Zhen Ming Jiang and Bram Adams (2021). An Exploratory Study on Machine Learning Model Stores, IEEE Software, 38(1), p. 114-122, IEEE.

Conference

• Isabella Ferreira (*), Jinghui Cheng and Bram Adams (2021). The “Shut the f**k up” Phenomenon: Characterizing Incivility in Open Source Code Review Discussions, in Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) (virtual), 5, article nr. 353, 35 pages, ACM. (mentioned here)
• Armstrong Tita Foundjem (*), Ellis E. Eghan (*) and Bram Adams (2021). Onboarding vs. Diversity, Productivity and Quality - Empirical Study of the OpenStack Ecosystem, in Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Madrid, Spain), p. 1033-1045. (Acceptance ratio: 138/602=22.92%)
• Arghavan Sanei, Jinghui Cheng and Bram Adams (2021). The Impacts of Sentiments and Tones in Community-Generated Issue Discussions, in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) (Madrid, Spain), p. 1-10. (Acceptance ratio: 10/38=26.32%)
• Amine Barrak (*), Ellis E. Eghan (*) and Bram Adams (2021). On the Co-evolution of ML Pipelines and Source Code - Empirical Study of DVC Projects, in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) (Hawaii, USA), p. 422-433, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 42/165=25%)

Other

• Aquilas Tchanjou Njomou, Alexandra Johanne Bifona Africa, Bram Adams and Marios Fokaefs (2021). MSR4ML: Reconstructing artifact traceability in Machine Learning repositories [short], in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) (Hawaii, USA), p. 536-540, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 12/26=46%)

2020

Journal

• Bram Adams and Foutse Khomh (2020). The Diversity Crisis of Software Engineering for Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Software, 37(5), p. 104-108, IEEE.
• Parisa Moslehi (*), Bram Adams and Juergen Rilling (2020). A Feature Location Approach for Mapping Application Features Extracted from Crowd-based Screencasts to Source Code, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 25, p. 4873-4926, Springer.
• Vivek Shankar Varadharajan (*), David St-Onge, Bram Adams and Giovanni Beltrame (2020). Swarm Relays: Distributed Self-Healing Ground-and-Air Connectivity Chains, Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(4), p. 5347-5354, IEEE.
• Nowen Mahé, Bram Adams, Josianne Marsan, Mathieu Templier and Sylvie Bissonnette (2020). Migrating a Software Factory to Design Thinking: Paying Attention to People and Mind-Sets, IEEE Software (Special Issue on Design Thinking Software), 37(2), p. 32-40, IEEE.
• Mohammed Sayagh (*), Noureddine Kerzazi, Bram Adams and Fabio Petrillo (2020). Software Configuration Engineering in Practice - Interviews, Survey, and Systematic Literature Review, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 46(6), p. 646-673, IEEE.

Conference

• Manel Grichi (*), Ellis E. Eghan (*) and Bram Adams (2020). On the Impact of Multi-language Development in Machine Learning Frameworks, in Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) (Adelaide, Australia), p. 546-556, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 58/201=28.9%)
• Moses Openja, Bram Adams and Foutse Khomh (2020). Analysis of Modern Release Engineering Topics - A Large-Scale Study using StackOverflow, in Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) (Adelaide, Australia), p. 104-114, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 58/201=28.9%)
• Manel Grichi (*), Mouna Abidi, Fehmi Jaafar, Ellis E. Eghan (*) and Bram Adams (2020). On the Impact of Inter-language Dependencies in Multi-language Systems, in Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS) (Macau, China), IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 36/125=28.8%) (Recommended to the IEEE Transactions on Reliability)

2019

Journal

• Marc Lanovaz and Bram Adams (2019). A Comparison of Communication Tone and Responding Across Users and Developers in Two R Mailing Lists, IEEE Software (Special Issue on Sentiment and Emotion in Software Engineering), 36(5), p. 46-50, IEEE.
• Vivek Shankar Varadharajan (*), David St-Onge, Bram Adams and Giovanni Beltrame (2019). SOUL: Data Sharing for Robot Swarms, Autonomous Robots, 44, p. 377-394, Springer.
• Mahdis Zolfagharinia (*), Bram Adams and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc (2019). A Study of Build Inflation in 30 Million CPAN Builds on 13 Perl Versions and 10 Operating Systems, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 24, p. 3933-3971, Springer.
• Daniel M. Germán, Bram Adams and Kate Stewart (2019). cregit : Token-level Blame Information in git Version Control Repositories, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 24, p. 2725-2763, Springer.
• Josianne Marsan, Mathieu Templier, Patrick Marois, Bram Adams, Kevin Carillo and Georgia Leida Mopenza (2019). Towards solving social and technical problems in open source software ecosystems: Using cause-and-effect analysis to disentangle the causes of complex problems, IEEE Software, 36(1), p. 34-41, IEEE.

Conference

• Manuel Rigger, Stefan Marr, Bram Adams and Hanspeter Mössenböck (2019). Understanding GCC Builtins to Develop Better Tools, in Proceedings of the 27th Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) (Tallinn, Estonia), p. 74-85. (Acceptance ratio: 74/303=24.4%)
• Wajdi Aljedaani, Meiyappan Nagappan, Bram Adams and Michael Godfrey (2019). A Comparison of Bugs across the iOS and Android Platforms of Two Open Source Cross Platform Browser Apps, in Proceedings of the 2019 /ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft) (Montréal, Canada), p. 76-86, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: X/Y=Z%)

Workshop

• Isabella Ferreira (*), Kate Stewart, Daniel M. Germán and Bram Adams (2019). A Longitudinal Study on the Maintainers’ Sentiment of a Large Scale Open Source Ecosystem, in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Emotional Awareness in Software Engineering (SEmotion) (Montréal, Canada), p. 17-22.

2018

Journal

• Alessandro Murgia, Marco Ortu, Parastou Tourani (*), Bram Adams and Serge Demeyer (2018). An Exploratory Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Emotions in Issue Report Comments of Open Source Systems, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 23(1), p. 521-564, Springer.

Conference

• Miikka Kuutila (*), Mika Mäntylä, Maëlick Claes, Marko Elovainio and Bram Adams (2018). Linking Software Repositories with Emotions and Work Well-Being using Experience Sampling, in Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) (Oulu, Finland), p. 1-10. (Acceptance ratio: 30/140=21.4%)
• Houssem Ben Braiek, Foutse Khomh and Bram Adams (2018). The Open-Closed Principle of Modern Machine Learning Frameworks, in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Gothenburg, Sweden), p. 353-363. (Acceptance ratio: 37/113=32.7%)
• Parisa Moslehi (*), Bram Adams and Juergen Rilling (2018). Feature Location using Crowd-based Screencasts, in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Gothenburg, Sweden), p. 192-202. (Acceptance ratio: 37/113=32.7%)
• Maëlick Claes, Mika Mäntylä, Miikka Kuutila and Bram Adams (2018). Do programmers work at night or during weekend?, in Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Gothenburg, Sweden), p. 705-715. (Acceptance ratio: 105/502=20.9%)

2017

Journal

• Cor-Paul Bezemer, Shane McIntosh (*), Bram Adams, Daniel M. Germán and Ahmed E. Hassan (2017). An Empirical Study of Unspecified Dependencies in Make-Based Build Systems, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 22(6), p. 3117-3148, Springer.
• María Gómez (*), Bram Adams, Walid Maalej, Martin Monperrus and Romain Rouvoy (2017). App Store 2.0: From Crowd Information to Actionable Feedback in Mobile Ecosystems, IEEE Software, 34(2), p. 81-89, IEEE.
• Hadi Hemmati, Zhihan Fang, Mika Mäntylä and Bram Adams (2017). Prioritizing Manual Test Cases in Rapid Release Environments, Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR), 27(6), p. 1-10, Wiley.

Conference

• Mohammed Sayagh (*), Zhen Dong, Artur Andrzejak and Bram Adams (2017). Does the Choice of Configuration Framework Matter for Developers? Empirical Study on 11 Java Configuration Frameworks, in Proceedings of the 17th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) (Shanghai, China), p. 41-50, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 14/31=45%)
• Mohammed Sayagh (*), Noureddine Kerzazi and Bram Adams (2017). On Cross-stack Configuration Errors, in Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Buenos Aires, Argentina), p. 255-265. (Acceptance ratio: 68/398=17%) [replication package]
• Mahdis Zolfagharinia (*), Bram Adams and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc (2017). Do Not Trust Build Results at Face Value - An Empirical Study of 30 Million CPAN Builds, in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Buenos Aires, Argentina), p. 312-322. (Acceptance ratio: 37/121=30.6%)
• Foundjem Tita Armstrong (*), Foutse Khomh and Bram Adams (2017). Broadcast vs. Unicast Review Technology: Does it Matter?, in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) (Tokyo, Japan), p. 219-229, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 36/135=27%)
• Parastou Tourani (*), Bram Adams and Alexander Serebrenik (2017). Code of Conduct in Open Source Projects, in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) (Klagenfurt, Austria), p. 24-33, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 34/135=25%) (mentioned here)

Other

• Abderrahmane Benbachir, Isnaldo Francisco De Melo Jr., Michel Dagenais and Bram Adams (2017). Automated Performance Deviation Detection Across Software Versions Releases [short], in Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS) (Prague, Czech Republic), p. 450-457, IEEE.
• Maëlick Claes, Mika Mäntylä, Miikka Kuutila and Bram Adams (2017). Abnormal working hours: effect of rapid releases and implications to work content [short], in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Buenos Aires, Argentina), p. 243-247.

2016

Journal

• Wenbin Li, Jane Huffman Hayes, Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and Bram Adams (2016). Error Leakage and Wasted Time: Sensitivity and Effort Analysis of a Requirements Consistency Checking Process, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP), 28(12), p. 1061-1080, Wiley.
• Wei Wu, Foutse Khomh, Bram Adams, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and Giuliano Antoniol (2016). An Exploratory Study of API Changes and Usages based on Apache and Eclipse Ecosystems, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 21(6), p. 2366-2412, Springer.
• Shane McIntosh (*), Bram Adams, Meiyappan Nagappan and Ahmed E. Hassan (2016). Identifying and Understanding Header File Hotspots in C/C++ Build Processes, Automated Software Engineering, 23(4), p. 619-647, Springer.
• Candy Pang, Abram Hindle, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2016). What do programmers know about software energy consumption?, IEEE Software, 33(3), p. 83-89, IEEE.
• Shane McIntosh (*), Yasutaka Kamei, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2016). An Empirical Study of the Impact of Modern Code Review Practices on Software Quality, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 21(5), p. 2146-2189, Springer.
• Israel J. Mojica Ruiz, Meiyappan Nagappan, Bram Adams, Thorsten Berger, Steffen Dienst and Ahmed E. Hassan (2016). Examining the Rating System Used in Mobile App Stores, IEEE Software, 33(6), p. 86-92, IEEE.
• Bram Adams, Ryan Kavanagh (*), Ahmed E. Hassan and Daniel M. Germán (2016). An Empirical Study of Integration Activities in Distributions of Open Source Software, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 21(3), p. 960-1001, Springer. [replication package]
• Israel J. Mojica Ruiz, Meiyappan Nagappan, Bram Adams, Thorsten Berger, Steffen Dienst and Ahmed E. Hassan (2016). Analyzing Ad Library Updates in Android Apps, IEEE Software, 33(2), p. 74-80, IEEE.
• Daniel M. Germán, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2016). Continuously Mining the Use of Distributed Version Control Systems: An empirical study of how Linux uses git, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 21(1), p. 260-299, Springer.

Conference

• Pooya Musavi, Bram Adams and Foutse Khomh (2016). Experience Report: An Empirical Study of API Failures in OpenStack Cloud Environments, in Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) (Ottawa, ON), p. 424-434. (Acceptance ratio: 45/130=34.6%)
• Thanh H. D. Nguyen, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2016). Does geographical distance effect distributed development teams: How aggregation bias in software artifacts causes contradicting findings, in Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) (Ottawa, ON), p. 412-423. (Acceptance ratio: 45/130=34.6%)
• Samir Hasan, Zachary King, Munawar Hafiz, Mohammed Sayagh (*), Bram Adams and Abram Hindle (2016). Energy Profiles of Java Collections Classes, in Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Austin, TX, US), p. 225-236. (Acceptance ratio: 101/530=19%) (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award)
• Parisa Moslehi (*), Bram Adams and Juergen Rilling (2016). On Mining Crowd-based Speech Documentation, in Proceedings of the 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Austin, TX), p. 259-268. (Acceptance ratio: 36/103=27%)
• María Gómez (*), Romain Rouvoy, Bram Adams and Lionel Seinturier (2016). Mining Test Repositories for Automatic Detection of UI Performance Regressions in Android Apps, in Proceedings of the 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Austin, TX), p. 13-24. (Acceptance ratio: 36/103=27%)
• Mika Mäntylä, Bram Adams, Giuseppe Destefanis (*), Daniel Graziotin and Marco Ortu (2016). Mining Valence, Arousal, and Dominance - Possibilities for Detecting Burnout and Productivity?, in Proceedings of the 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Austin, TX), p. 247-258. (Acceptance ratio: 36/103=27%)
• Md Tajmilur Rahman, Louis-Philippe Querel, Peter C. Rigby and Bram Adams (2016). Feature Toggles: A case study and survey, in Proceedings of the 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Austin, TX), p. 201-211. (Acceptance ratio: 36/103=27%)
• María Gómez (*), Romain Rouvoy, Bram Adams and Lionel Seinturier (2016). Reproducing Context-sensitive Crashes of Mobile Apps using Crowdsourced Monitoring, in Proceedings of the 2016 /ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft) (Austin, TX, US), p. 88-99, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: X/57=Y%)
• Bram Adams and Shane McIntosh (*) (2016). Modern Release Engineering in a Nutshell - Why Researchers should Care [invited paper], in Leaders of Tomorrow: Future of Software Engineering, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) (Osaka, Japan), p. 78-90, IEEE. [video recording]
• Maleknaz Nayebi, Bram Adams and Guenther Ruhe (2016). Release Practices in Mobile Apps – Users and Developers Perception, in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) (Osaka, Japan), p. 552-562, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 52/140=37%)
• Noureddine Kerzazi and Bram Adams (2016). Botched Releases: Do we Need to Roll Back? Empirical Study on a Commercial Web App, in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) (Osaka, Japan), p. 574-583, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 52/140=37%)
• Parastou Tourani (*) and Bram Adams (2016). The Impact of Human Discussions on Just-In-Time Quality Assurance, in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) (Osaka, Japan), p. 189-200, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 52/140=37%) [replication package]

Thesis

• Parastou Tourani (*) (2016). On the Impact of Affect in Software Engineering, PhD thesis at GIGL, Polytechnique Montreal.
• Yujuan Jiang (*) (2016). Mining Software Repositories for Release Engineers - Empirical Studies on Integration and Infrastructure-as-Code, PhD thesis at GIGL, Polytechnique Montreal.

Other

• Bram Adams (2016). How the Release Process Impacts your Software Analytics, chapter in Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering, edited by Tim Menzies, Laurie Williams and Tom Zimmermann, p. 249-254, Morgan Kaufmann.
• Len Bass, Bram Adams, Chris Parnin and Lorin Hochstein (2016). Why You Should Be Teaching Deployment in Your Curriculum!, panel at the 29th IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET).
• Felienne Hermans, Janet Siegmund, Thomas Fritz, Gabriele Bavota, Meiyappan Nagappan, Abram Hindle, Yasutaka Kamei, Ali Mesbah and Bram Adams (2016). Leaders of Tomorrow on the Future of Software Engineering: A Roundtable, IEEE Software, 33(2), p. 99-104.
• Noureddine Kerzazi and Bram Adams (2016). Who Needs Release and DevOps Engineers, and Why?, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Continuous Software Evolution and Delivery (CSED) (Austin, Texas), p. 77-83. (Acceptance ratio: 14/18=77.8%)

2015

Journal

• Mika Mäntylä, Bram Adams, Foutse Khomh, Emelie Engström and Kai Petersen (2015). On Rapid Releases and Software Testing: A Case Study and a Semi-Systematic Literature Review, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 20(5), p. 1384-1425, Springer.
• Shane McIntosh (*), Meiyappan Nagappan, Bram Adams, Audris Mockus and Ahmed E. Hassan (2015). A Large-Scale Empirical Study of the Relationship Between Build Technology and Build Maintenance, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 20(6), p. 1587-1633, Springer.
• Foutse Khomh, Bram Adams, Tejinder Dhaliwal and Ying Zou (2015). Understanding the Impact of Rapid Releases on Software Quality: The Case of Firefox, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 20(2), p. 336-373, Springer.
• Mark D. Syer, Meiyappan Nagappan, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2015). Studying the Relationship Between Source Code Quality and Mobile Platform Dependence, Software Quality Journal (SQJ), 23(3), p. 485-508, Springer.
• Bram Adams, Stephany Bellomo, Christian Bird, Tamara Marshall-Keim, Foutse Khomh and Kim Moir (2015). The Practice and Future of Release Engineering - A Roundtable with Three Release Engineers, IEEE Software (Special Issue on Release Engineering), 32(2), p. 42-49, IEEE. [video recording]
• Mark D. Syer, Meiyappan Nagappan, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2015). Replicating and Re-evaluating the Theory of Relative Defect-Proneness, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 41(2), p. 176-197, IEEE.
• Nicolas Bettenburg, Ahmed E. Hassan, Bram Adams and Daniel M. Germán (2015). Management of community contributions: A case study on the Android and Linux software ecosystems, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 20(1), p. 252-289, Springer.

Conference

• Vincent Boisselle (*) and Bram Adams (2015). The Impact of Cross-Distribution Bug Duplicates, Empirical Study on Debian and Ubuntu, in Proceedings of the 15th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) (Bremen, Germany), p. 131-140, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 24/68=35%)
• Mohammed Sayagh (*) and Bram Adams (2015). Multi-layer Software Configuration - Empirical Study on Wordpress, in Proceedings of the 15th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) (Bremen, Germany), p. 31-40, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 24/68=35%)
• King Chun Foo, Zhen Ming Jiang, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Ying Zou and Parminder Flora (2015). An Industrial Case Study on the Automated Detection of Performance Regressions in Heterogeneous Environments, in Proceedings of the Software Engineering In Practice (SEIP) track at the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Florence, Italy), p. 159-168. (Acceptance ratio: 23/102=22.5%) (IEEE Software Best Paper Award of the SEIP track)
• Douglas H. Martin, James R. Cordy, Bram Adams and Giuliano Antoniol (2015). Make It Simple - An Empirical Analysis of GNU Make Feature Use in Open Source Projects, in Proceedings of the 23rd Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) (Florence, Italy), p. 207-217, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 23/73=31.5%)
• Yujuan Jiang (*) and Bram Adams (2015). Co-evolution of infrastructure and Source Code - An Empirical Study, in Proceedings of the 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Florence, Italy), p. 45-55. (Acceptance ratio: 32/106=30%) [replication package]
• Marco Ortu, Bram Adams, Giuseppe Destefanis (*), Parastou Tourani (*), Michele Marchesi and Roberto Tonelli (2015). Are Bullies more Productive? Empirical Study of Affectiveness vs. Issue Fixing Time, in Proceedings of the 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Florence, Italy), p. 303-313. (Acceptance ratio: 32/106=30%)

Thesis

• Vincent Boisselle (*) (2015). Automated Identification of Functional Problems in Flight Simulators, Master's thesis at GIGL, Polytechnique Montreal.

Other

• Bram Adams, Stephany Bellomo and Foutse Khomh (2015). Lessons Learned from the International Workshop on Release Engineering, ACM SIGSOFT webinar, December 18, 2015, ACM. [video recording]
• Marco Ortu, Giuseppe Destefanis (*), Alessandro Murgia, Michele Marchesi, Roberto Tonelli and Bram Adams (2015). The JIRA Repository Dataset: Understanding Social Aspects of Software Development [short], in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering (PROMISE) (Beijing, China).
• Jane Huffman Hayes, Giuliano Antoniol, Bram Adams and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc (2015). Inherent Characteristics of Traceability Artifacts - Less is More [RE:Next! Track], in the Proceedings of the 23rd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) (Ottawa, Canada), p. 196-201, IEEE.
• Daniel M. Germán, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2015). A dataset of the activity of the git super-repository of Linux in 2012 [data showcase], in Proceedings of the 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Florence, Italy), p. 470-473.
• Bram Adams, Stephany Bellomo, Christian Bird, Foutse Khomh and Kim Moir (2015). IEEE Software (Special Issue on Release Engineering), IEEE Software, 32(2), IEEE.
• Bram Adams (2015). The Bash Dashboard (Or: How to Use Bash for Data Analysis), tutorial at the 4th PLOW workshop, February 28, 2015 (Montréal, Canada).

2014

Journal

• Israel J. Mojica Ruiz, Meiyappan Nagappan, Bram Adams, Thorsten Berger, Steffen Dienst and Ahmed E. Hassan (2014). Impact of Ad Libraries on Ratings of Android Mobile Apps, IEEE Software, 31(6), p. 86-92, IEEE.
• Israel J. Mojica Ruiz, Bram Adams, Meiyappan Nagappan, Steffen Dienst, Thorsten Berger and Ahmed E. Hassan (2014). A Large Scale Empirical Study on Software Reuse in Mobile Apps, IEEE Software, 31(2), p. 78-86, IEEE.
• Stephen W. Thomas, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Dorothea Blostein (2014). Studying Software Evolution Using Topic Models, Science of Computer Programming (SCP), 80(part B), p. 457-479, Elsevier.
• Weiyi Shang, Zhen Ming Jiang, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Michael Godfrey, Mohamed Nasser and Parminder Flora (2014). An Exploratory Study of the Evolution of Communicated Information about the Execution of Large Software Systems, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSME), 26(1), p. 3-26, Wiley.

Conference

• Parastou Tourani (*), Yujuan Jiang (*) and Bram Adams (2014). Monitoring Sentiment in Open Source Mailing Lists - Exploratory Study on the Apache Ecosystem, in Proceedings of the 2014 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (CASCON) (Markham, ON, Canada), p. 34-44. (Acceptance ratio: 19/56=33.9%)
• Noureddine Kerzazi, Foutse Khomh and Bram Adams (2014). Why do Automated Builds Break? An Empirical Study, in Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) (Victoria, BC), p. 41-50, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 40/210=19%)
• Shane McIntosh (*), Bram Adams, Meiyappan Nagappan and Ahmed E. Hassan (2014). Mining Co-Change Information to Understand when Build Changes are Necessary, in Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) (Victoria, BC), p. 241-250, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 40/210=19%)
• Le An, Foutse Khomh and Bram Adams (2014). Supplementary Bug Fixes vs. Re-opened Bugs, in Proceedings of the 14th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) (Victoria, BC, Canada), p. 205-214, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 26/82=31.7%)
• Mini Shridhar (*), Bram Adams and Foutse Khomh (2014). A Qualitative Analysis of Software Build System Changes and Build Ownership Styles, in Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) (Torino, Italy), article nr. 29. (Acceptance ratio: 23/123=19%)
• Yujuan Jiang (*), Bram Adams, Foutse Khomh and Daniel M. Germán (2014). Tracing Back the History of Commits in Low-tech Reviewing Environments, in Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) (Torino, Italy), article nr. 51. (Acceptance ratio: 23/123=19%)
• Shane McIntosh (*), Martin Poehlmann, Elmar Juergens, Audris Mockus, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Brigitte Haupt and Christian Wagner (2014). Collecting and Leveraging a Benchmark of Build System Clones to Aid in Quality Assessments, in Proceedings of the Software Engineering In Practice (SEIP) track at the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Hyderabad, India), p. 145-154. (Acceptance ratio: 25/117=21.4%) (mentioned here)
• Alessandro Murgia, Parastou Tourani (*), Bram Adams and Marco Ortu (2014). Do Developers Feel Emotions? An Exploratory Analysis of Emotions in Software Artifacts, in Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Hyderabad, India), p. 262-271. (Acceptance ratio: 29/85=34%)
• Shane McIntosh (*), Yasutaka Kamei, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2014). The Impact of Code Review Coverage and Code Review Participation on Software Quality: A Case Study of the Qt, VTK, and ITK Projects, in Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Hyderabad, India), p. 192-201. (Acceptance ratio: 29/85=34%) (Distinguished Paper Award)

Other

• Yujuan Jiang (*), Bram Adams and Daniel M. Germán (2014). How much does this commit cost?, position paper at the 2nd International Workshop on Release Engineering (RELENG) (Mountain View, CA, US).
• Yujuan Jiang (*) and Bram Adams (2014). Improving the Integration Process of Large Software Systems [poster], 2nd International Workshop on Release Engineering (RELENG) (Mountain View, CA, US).
• Shane McIntosh (*), Bram Adams, Meiyappan Nagappan and Ahmed E. Hassan (2014). Identifying Header File Hotspots in C/C++ Build Processes [poster], 2nd International Workshop on Release Engineering (RELENG) (Mountain View, CA, US).

2013

Journal

• Emad Shihab, Yasutaka Kamei, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2013). Is lines of code a good measure of effort in effort-aware models?, Information and Software Technology (IST), 55(11), p. 1981-1993, Elsevier.
• Emad Shihab, Akinori Ihara, Yasutaka Kamei, Walid M. Ibrahim (*), Masao Ohira, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Ken-ichi Matsumoto (2013). Studying Re-opened Bugs in Open Source Software, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 18, p. 1005-1042, Springer.
• Yasutaka Kamei, Emad Shihab, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Audris Mockus, Anand Sinha and Naoyasu Ubayashi (2013). A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Just-In-Time Quality Assurance, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 39(6), p. 757-773, IEEE.

Conference

• Mark D. Syer, Meiyappan Nagappan, Ahmed E. Hassan and Bram Adams (2013). Revisiting Prior Empirical Findings For Mobile Apps: An Empirical Case Study on the 15 Most Popular Open-Source Android Apps, in Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (CASCON) (Markham, ON, Canada), p. 283-297. (Acceptance ratio: 25/70=35.7%)
• Zéphyrin Soh, Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol and Bram Adams (2013). On the Effect of Program Exploration on Maintenance Tasks, in Proceedings of the 20th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) (Koblenz, Germany), p. 391-400, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 38/97=39%)
• Mika Mäntylä, Foutse Khomh, Bram Adams, Emelie Engström and Kai Petersen (2013). On Rapid Releases and Software Testing, in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), p. 20-29, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 36/163=22%) (invited for special issue)
• Weiyi Shang, Zhen Ming Jiang, Hadi Hemmati, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Patrick Martin (2013). Assisting Big Data Analytics Developers When Cloud Deploying Hadoop Applications, in Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (San Francisco, CA, US), p. 402-411. (Acceptance ratio: 85/461=18.5%) (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award)
• Yujuan Jiang (*), Bram Adams and Daniel M. Germán (2013). Will My Patch Make It? And How Fast? - Case Study on the Linux Kernel, in Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (San Francisco, CA, US), p. 101-110. (Acceptance ratio: 31/81=38%) [replication package]
• Daniel M. Germán, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2013). Programming Language Ecosystems: the Evolution of R, in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR) (Genova, Italy), p. 243-252. (Acceptance ratio: 29/80=36.3%)
• Fehmi Jaafar, Salima Hassaine, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Sylvia Hamel and Bram Adams (2013). Program Evolution and Bug-proneness: An Empirical Study, in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR) (Genova), p. 15-24. (Acceptance ratio: 29/80=36.3%)
• Étienne Duclos, Sébastien Le Digabel, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and Bram Adams (2013). ACRE: An Automated Aspect Creator for Testing C++ Applications, in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR) (Genova), p. 121-130. (Acceptance ratio: 29/80=36.3%)

2012

Journal

• Omar Alam (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2012). Preserving Knowledge in Software Projects, Journal of Software and Systems (JSS), 85(10), p. 2318-2330, Elsevier.
• Walid M. Ibrahim (*), Nicolas Bettenburg, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2012). On the Relationship between Comment Update Practices and Software Bugs, Journal of Software and Systems (JSS), 85(10), p. 2293-2304, Elsevier.
• Weiyi Shang, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2012). Using Pig as a Data Preparation Language for Large-Scale Mining Software Repositories Studies: An Experience Report, Journal of Software and Systems (JSS), 85(10), p. 2195-2204, Elsevier.
• Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid M. Ibrahim (*), Bram Adams, Ying Zou and Ahmed E. Hassan (2012). An Empirical Study on Inconsistent Changes to Code Clones at the Release Level, Science of Computer Programming (SCP), 77(6), p. 760-776, Elsevier.
• Shane McIntosh (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2012). The Evolution of Java Build Systems, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 17(4-5), p. 578-608, Springer.

Conference

• Roman Suvorov (*), Bram Adams, Meiyappan Nagappan, Ahmed E. Hassan and Ying Zou (2012). An Empirical Study of Build System Migrations in Practice: Case Studies on KDE and the Linux Kernel, in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) (Riva del Garda, Italy), p. 160-169, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 46/181=25%)
• Emad Shihab, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Zhen Ming Jiang (2012). An Industrial Study on the Risk of Software Changes, in Proceedings of the SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) (Research Triangle Park, NC, US), p. 62:1-62:11, ACM. (Acceptance ratio: 32/201=17%)
• Israel J. Mojica Ruiz, Meiyappan Nagappan, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2012). Understanding Reuse in the Android Market, in Proceedings of the 20th Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) (Passau, Germany), p. 113-122, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 21/51=41%)
• Foutse Khomh, Tejinder Dhaliwal, Ying Zou and Bram Adams (2012). Do Faster Releases Improve Software Quality? - An Empirical Case Study of Mozilla Firefox, in Proceedings of the 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Zurich, Switzerland), p. 179-188, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 18/64=28%) (invited for special issue, mentioned here)
• Shahed Zaman, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2012). A Qualitative Study on Performance Bugs, in Proceedings of the 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Zurich, Switzerland), p. 199-208, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 18/64=28%) (mentioned here)
• Thanh H. D. Nguyen, Bram Adams, Zhen Ming Jiang and Ahmed E. Hassan (2012). Automated Detection of Performance Regressions Using Statistical Process Control Techniques, in Proceedings of the 3rd /SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) (Boston, MA, US), p. 299-310, ACM.

Other

• Bram Adams (2012). On Software Release Engineering, Technical Briefing in the Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Zurich, Switzerland). (Acceptance ratio: 18/50=36%)
• Max Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol, Daniel M. Germán, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and Bram Adams (2012). Five Days of Empirical Software Engineering: The PASED Experience, in Proceedings of the Software Engineering Education Track at the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Zurich, Switzerland), p. 1255-1258. (Acceptance ratio: 11/49=22.4%)
• Rina Nagano, Hiroki Nakamura, Yasutaka Kamei, Bram Adams, Kenji Hisazumi, Naoyasu Ubayashi and Akira Fukuda (2012). Using the GPGPU for Large-Scale Mining Software Repositories Studies [poster], in Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Zurich, Switzerland), p. 1435-1436. (Acceptance ratio: 8/22=36.4%)
• Shahed Zaman, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2012). A Large Scale Empirical Study on User-Centric Performance Analysis, in Proceedings of the industry track of the 5th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) (Montréal, Canada), p. 410-419.

2011

Journal

• Emad Shihab, Zhen Ming Jiang, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Robert Bowerman (2011). Prioritizing the Creation of Unit Tests in Legacy Software Systems, Software - Practice and Experience, 41(10), p. 1027-1048, Wiley.

Conference

• Thanh H. D. Nguyen, Bram Adams, Zhen Ming Jiang and Ahmed E. Hassan (2011). Automatic Load Test Verification Using Control Charts, in Proceedings of the 18th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) (Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam), p. 282-289. (Acceptance ratio: 54/180=30%)
• Weiyi Shang, Zhen Ming Jiang, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Michael Godfrey, Mohamed Nasser and Parminder Flora (2011). An Exploratory Study of the Evolution of Communicated Information about the Execution of Large Software Systems, in Proceedings of the 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) (Lero, Limerick, Ireland), p. 335-344, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 27/104=26%) (Best Paper Award, invited for special issue)
• Mark D. Syer, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2011). Identifying Performance Deviations in Thread Pools, in Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) (Williamsburg, VA, US), p. 83-92, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 36/127=28%)
• Mark D. Syer, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Ying Zou (2011). Exploring the Development of Micro-Apps: A Case Study on the BlackBerry and Android Platforms, in Proceedings of the 11th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) (Williamsburg, VA, US), p. 55-64, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 16/52=31%)
• Matthew B. Kelly, Jason S. Alexander, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2011). Recovering a Balanced Overview of Topics in a Software Domain, in Proceedings of the 11th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) (Williamsburg, VA, US), p. 135-144, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 16/52=31%)
• Shane McIntosh (*), Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Ying Zou (2011). Using Indexed Sequence Diagrams to Recover the Behaviour of AJAX Applications, in Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE) (Williamsburg, VA, US), p. 1-10, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 12/24=50%)
• Emad Shihab, Yasutaka Kamei, Audris Mockus, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2011). High-Impact Defects: A Study of Breakage and Surprise Defects, in Proceedings of the 8th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) (Szeged, Hungary), p. 300-310, ACM. (Acceptance ratio: 34/203=17%)
• Stephen W. Thomas, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Dorothea Blostein (2011). Modeling the Evolution of Topics in Historical Software Repositories, in Proceedings of the 8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii), p. 173-182, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 20/61=33%)
• Shahed Zaman, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2011). Security vs Performance bugs: A Case Study on Firefox, in Proceedings of the 8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii), p. 93-102, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 20/61=33%)
• Shane McIntosh (*), Bram Adams, Yasutaka Kamei, Thanh H. D. Nguyen and Ahmed E. Hassan (2011). An Empirical Study of Build Maintenance Effort, in Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii), p. 141-150. (Acceptance ratio: 62/441=14%) (mentioned here, here, here and here)

Other

• King Chun Foo, Zhen Ming Jiang, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Ying Zou, Kim Martin and Parminder Flora (2011). Modeling the Performance of Ultra-Large-Scale Systems Using Layered Simulations, in Proceedings of the 2011 International Workshop on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems (MESOCA) (Williamsburg, VA, US), 10 pages, IEEE.
• Nicolas Bettenburg, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Michel Smidt (2011). A Lightweight Approach to Uncover Technical Information in Unstructured Data [short], in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) (Kingston, ON, Canada), p. 185-188, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: (8+18)/73=36%)
• Mark D. Syer, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2011). Industrial Case Study on Supporting the Comprehension of System Behaviour Under Load [poster], in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) (Kingston, ON, Canada), p. 215-216, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: (4+8+18)/73=41%)
• Bram Adams, Michael Haupt, David H. Lorenz and Eric Wohlstadter (2011). Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Modularity in systems software (MISS), ISBN-ISSN: 978-1-4503-0647-8, Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, March 2011.

2010

Journal

• Emad Shihab, Nicolas Bettenburg, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2010). On the Central Role of Mailing Lists in Open Source Projects: An Exploratory Study, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 6284, p. 91-103, Springer.

Conference

• Haroon Malik (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2010). Pinpointing the Subsystems Responsible for the Performance Deviations in a Load Test, in Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) (San Jose, CA, US), p. 201-210, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 40/130=31%)
• Thanh H. D. Nguyen, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2010). A Case Study of Bias in Bug-Fix Datasets, in Proceedings of the 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) (Boston, MA, US), p. 259-268. (Acceptance ratio: 21/67=31%)
• Emad Shihab, Akinori Ihara, Yasutaka Kamei, Walid M. Ibrahim (*), Masao Ohira, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Ken-ichi Matsumoto (2010). Why are Bugs Re-opened: A Case Study on the Eclipse Project, in Proceedings of the 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) (Boston, MA, US), p. 249-258. (Acceptance ratio: 21/67=31%) (invited for special issue)
• Gehan M. K. Selim, Liliane Barbour, Weiyi Shang, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Ying Zou (2010). Studying the Impact of Clones on Software Defects, in Proceedings of the 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) (Boston, MA, US), p. 13-21. (Acceptance ratio: 21/67=31%)
• Weiyi Shang, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2010). An Experience Report on Scaling Tools for Mining Software Repositories Using MapReduce, in Proceedings of the 25th /ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) (Antwerp, Belgium), p. 275-284, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 34/191=18%)
• Thanh H. D. Nguyen, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2010). Studying the impact of dependency network measures on software quality, in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) (Timişoara, Romania), p. 1-10, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 36/133=27%)
• Yasutaka Kamei, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Akito Monden, Ken-ichi Matsumoto, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2010). Revisiting Common Bug Prediction Findings Using Effort Aware Models, in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) (Timişoara, Romania), p. 1-10, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 36/133=27%)
• Stephen W. Thomas, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Dorothea Blostein (2010). Validating the Use of Topic Models for Software Evolution, in Proceedings of the 10th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) (Timişoara, Romania), p. 55-64, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 17/44=39%) (Most Influential Paper Award, invited for special issue)
• Emad Shihab, Zhen Ming Jiang, Walid M. Ibrahim (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2010). Understanding the Impact of Code and Process Metrics on Post-release Defects: A Case Study on the Eclipse Project, in Proceedings of the th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) (Bolzano-Bozen, Italy), article nr. 4. (Acceptance ratio: 30/102=29%)
• Haroon Malik (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2010). Using Load Tests To Automatically Compare the Subsystems of a Large Enterprise System, in Proceedings of the 34th Annual COMPuter Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) (Seoul, South Korea), p. 117-126, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 20%)
• King Chun Foo, Zhen Ming Jiang, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Ying Zou and Parminder Flora (2010). Mining Performance Regression Testing Repositories for Automated Performance Analysis, in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC) (Zhangjiajie, China), p. 32-41. (Acceptance ratio: 20/121=16.5%)
• Emad Shihab, Zhen Ming Jiang, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Robert Bowerman (2010). Prioritizing Unit Test Creation for Test-Driven Maintenance of Legacy Systems, in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC) (Zhangjiajie, China), p. 132-141. (Acceptance ratio: 20/121=16.5%) (invited for special issue)
• Shane McIntosh (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2010). The Evolution of ANT Build Systems, in Proceedings of the 7th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Cape Town, South Africa), p. 42-51, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 16/51=31.4%) (invited for special issue)
• Walid M. Ibrahim (*), Nicolas Bettenburg, Emad Shihab, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2010). Should I contribute to this discussion?, in Proceedings of the 7th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Cape Town, South Africa), p. 181-190, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 16/51=31.4%)
• Bram Adams, Zhen Ming Jiang and Ahmed E. Hassan (2010). Identifying Crosscutting Concerns Using Historical Code Changes, in Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Cape Town, South Africa), p. 305-314. (Acceptance ratio: 52/380=13.7%)
• Haroon Malik (*), Zhen Ming Jiang, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Parminder Flora and Gilbert Hamann (2010). Automatic Comparison of Load Tests to Support the Performance Analysis of Large Enterprise Systems, in Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR) (Madrid, Spain), p. 227-236. (Acceptance ratio: 21/80=26.3%)

Other

• Nicolas Bettenburg and Bram Adams (2010). Workshop on Mining Unstructured Data (MUD), Proceedings of the 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) (Beverly, MA, US).
• Bram Adams, Michael Haupt and Daniel Lohmann (2010). Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Aspects, Components, and Patterns for Infrastructure Software (ACP4IS), Technical Report 33, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik GMBH, February 2010.

2009

Journal

• Michael Haupt, Bram Adams, Stijn Timbermont, Celina Gibbs, Yvonne Coady and Robert Hirschfeld (2009). Disentangling Virtual Machine Architecture, IET Software (Special Issue on Domain-specific Aspect Languages), 3(3), p. 201-218.
• Bram Adams, De Kris Schutter, Andy Zaidman, Serge Demeyer, Herman Tromp and De Wolfgang Meuter (2009). Using Aspect Orientation in Legacy Environments for Reverse Engineering using Dynamic Analysis - An Industrial Experience Report, Journal of Software and Systems (JSS), 82(4), p. 668-684, Elsevier.

Conference

• Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid M. Ibrahim (*), Bram Adams, Ying Zou and Ahmed E. Hassan (2009). An Empirical Study on Inconsistent Changes to Code Clones at Release Level, in Proceedings of the 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) (Lille, France), p. 85-94. (Acceptance ratio: 20/79=25%) (invited for special issue)
• Omar Alam (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2009). A Study of the Time Dependence of Code Changes, in Proceedings of the 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) (Lille, France), p. 21-30. (Acceptance ratio: 20/79=25%)
• Omar Alam (*), Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2009). Measuring the Progress of Projects Using the Time Dependence of Code Changes, in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) (Edmonton, Canada), p. 329-338, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 35/162=22%) (Best Paper Award)
• Weiyi Shang, Zhen Ming Jiang, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2009). MapReduce as a General Framework to Support Research in Mining Software Repositories (MSR), in Proceedings of the 6th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Vancouver, Canada), p. 21-30, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 14/47=30%)
• Bram Adams, Wolfgang De Meuter, Herman Tromp and Ahmed E. Hassan (2009). Can we Refactor Conditional Compilation into Aspects?, in Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Aspect-oriented Software Development (AOSD) (Charlottesville, VA, US), p. 243-254, ACM. (Acceptance ratio: 19/86=22%) (Most Influential Paper Award)

Workshop

• Emad Shihab, Nicolas Bettenburg, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2009). On the Central Role of Mailing Lists in Open Source Projects: An Exploratory Study, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Knowledge Collaboration in Software Development (KCSD) (Tokyo, Japan), 14 pages.
• Stefan Marr, Stijn Timbermont, Bram Adams, Theo D'Hondt, Pascal Costanza and Wolfgang De Meuter (2009). Virtual Machine Support for Many-Core Architectures: Decoupling Abstract From Concrete Concurrency Models, in Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and communication-cEntric Software (PLACES) (York, UK).

Other

• Bram Adams. and Ahmed E. Hassan (2009). The Life of a Software Concern, in Benevol, December 2009 (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).
• Bram Adams (2009). Co-Evolution of Source Code and the Build System, PhD Symposium at the 25th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) (Edmonton, Canada), IEEE.
• Iris Groher, Andy Kellens, Christa Schwanninger, Bram Adams, Uwe Hohenstein, Ademar Aguiar and Eddy Truyen (2009). Proceedings of the 1st Practices in Linking Aspect Technology and Evolution workshop (PLATE), co-located with the 8th international conference on Aspect-oriented Software Development (AOSD) (Charlottesville, VA, US).
• Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Herman Tromp and Wolfgang De Meuter (2009). R3V3RS3: Querying for Syntactical Patterns of Conditional Compilation Usage [demo], in Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Aspect-oriented Software Development (AOSD) (Charlottesville, VA, US), ACM.

2008

Journal

• Bram Adams, Kris De Schutter, Herman Tromp and Wolfgang De Meuter (2008). The Evolution of the Linux Build System, in Proceedings of the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution 2007 , Electronic Communications of the ECEASST (Paris, France), 8, 16 pages.

Workshop

• Bram Adams, Van Bart Rompaey, Celina Gibbs and Yvonne Coady (2008). Aspect mining in the Presence of the C Preprocessor, in Proceedings of the 4th Linking Aspect Technology and Evolution Workshop (LATE) (Brussels, Belgium), p. 1-6, ACM.
• Stijn Timbermont, Bram Adams and Michael Haupt (2008). Towards a DSAL for Object Layout in Virtual Machines, in Proceedings of the 3rd Domain-Specific Aspect Languages Workshop (DSAL) (Brussels, Belgium), p. 1-4, ACM.
• Bram Adams, Charlotte Herzeel and Kris Gybels (2008). cHALO, Stateful Aspects in C, in Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Aspects, Components, and Patterns for Infrastructure Software (ACP4IS) (Brussels, Belgium), p. 1-6, ACM.

Thesis

• Bram Adams (2008). Co-evolution of Source Code and the Build System: Impact on the Introduction of AOSD in Legacy Systems, PhD dissertation (Ghent University, Belgium), 353 pages.

Other

• Zhen Ming Jiang, Dharmesh Thakkar, Haroon Malik (*), Emad Shihab, Ahmed E. Hassan, Dave Dietz, Parminder Flora, Gilbert Hamann, Adele Newton, James Sutherland and Bram Adams (2008). Quality Engineering for Large Scale Enterprise Systems, in Center of Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit (CASCON) (Toronto, Canada).
• Bram Adams (2008). Lessons learnt from Studying Build Systems with MAKAO [presentation], 2nd Workshop on Advanced Software Development Tools and Techniques (WASDeTT) (Beijing, China).
• Bram Adams (2008). Mining the Build System [presentation], Lightning workshop on Mining Software Repositories (Antwerp, Belgium).

2007

Journal

• Kris De Schutter and Bram Adams (2007). Aspect-orientation For Revitalising Legacy Business Software, in Proceedings of the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS) (06-07 April 2006, Lille, France), 166(1), p. 63-80, Elsevier.

Conference

• Bram Adams, Kris De Schutter, Herman Tromp and Wolfgang De Meuter (2007). Design Recovery and Maintenance of Build Systems, in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) (Paris, France), p. 114-123, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 46/214=21%) (invited for special issue)

Workshop

• Bram Adams and Kris De Schutter (2007). On the Relationship between Weavers and the Build System, Benevol, December 2007 (Namur, Belgium).
• Bram Adams, Kris De Schutter, Herman Tromp and Wolfgang De Meuter (2007). The Evolution of the Linux Build System, in Informal proceedings of the International ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution 2007 (Paris, France), p. 93-102.
• Bram Adams and De Kris Schutter (2007). An Aspect for Idiom-based Exception Handling (using local continuation join points, join point properties, annotations and type parameters), in Proceedings of the 5th Software-Engineering Properties of Languages and Aspect Technologies Workshop (SPLAT) (Vancouver, Canada), p. 1-8, ACM.
• Kris De Schutter and Bram Adams (2007). Face-off: AOP+LMP vs. Legacy Software, in Aspects For Legacy Applications (Proceedings of of Dagstuhl Seminar 06302) (Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany), 6 pages, Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum fuer Informatik (IBFI).

Other

• Bram Adams (2007). Co-evolution of Source Code and Build Systems [poster], in 8th FIrW PhD Symposium 2007 (Ghent University, Belgium).
• Bram Adams, Kris De Schutter, Herman Tromp and Wolfgang De Meuter (2007). MAKAO [demo], in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) (Paris, France), p. 517-518, IEEE.
• Bram Adams (2007). Made in MAKAO [extended abstract], in Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Aspects in Software (EWAS) (Vancouver, Canada).

2006

Conference

• Andy Zaidman, Bram Adams, Kris De Schutter, Serge Demeyer, Ghislain Hoffman and Bernard De Ruyck (2006). Regaining Lost Knowledge through Dynamic Analysis and Aspect Orientation - An Industrial Experience Report, in Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR) (Bari, Italy), p. 91-102, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 27/65=42%)

Workshop

• Bram Adams and Kris De Schutter (2006). Software Architecture Recovery from Build Processes [presentation], in Benevol, December 2006 (Delft, The Netherlands).
• Bram Adams (2006). Made in MAKAO [extended abstract], in Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Aspects in Software (EWAS) (Enschede, The Netherlands), p. 41-42, University of Bonn.
• Kris De Schutter and Bram Adams (2006). Aspect-orientation for Revitalising Legacy Business Software, in Informal Proceedings of the International ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution 2006 (Lille, France), p. 43-56.
• Bram Adams (2006). AOP on the C-side, in Proceedings of the 2nd Linking Aspect Technology and Evolution Workshop (LATEr) (Bonn, Germany), 5 pages.

Other

• Bram Adams (2006). MAKAO: Dealing with Legacy Build Systems [extended abstract], in 1st European Summer School on Aspect-oriented Software Development (Brussels, Belgium).

2005

Workshop

• Bram Adams, Kris De Schutter and Andy Zaidman (2005). Applying aspects in a legacy environment [presentation], in Benevol, December 2005 (Brussels, Belgium).
• Andy Zaidman, Bram Adams and Kris De Schutter (2005). Applying Dynamic Analysis in a Legacy Context: An Industrial Experience Report, in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Program Comprehension Through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA) (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US), p. 6-10.
• Bram Adams, Kris De Schutter and Andy Zaidman (2005). AOP for Legacy Environments, a Case Study, in European Interactive Workshop on Aspects in Software (EIWAS) (Brussels, Belgium), 8 pages.
• Bram Adams (2005). Metadata and aspect evolution [presentation], in Benevol, May 2005 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands).
• Bram Adams and Tom Tourwé (2005). Aspect Orientation for C: Express yourself, in Proceedings of the 3rd Software-Engineering Properties of Languages and Aspect Technologies Workshop (SPLAT) (Chicago, Illinois, US), 6 pages.

Other

• Bram Adams (2005). Aspect Orientation in the Procedural Context of C [poster], in 6th FIrW PhD Symposium 2005 (Ghent University, Belgium).
• Bram Adams (2005). Language-independent Aspect Weaving [extended abstract], GTTSE 2005 Summer School, July 2005 (Braga, Portugal). (mentioned here)

2004

Thesis

• Bram Adams (2004). Aspectgenerator voor Declaratieve Definitie van Persistentie [English: Aspect Generator for Declarative Definition of Persistency], Master's thesis (Dutch) (Ghent University, Belgium), 86 pages. [source code]