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The Structure of Cross-National Collaboration in Open-Source Software Development Open

Henry George Xu, Kaijun Yu, Hao He, Hongbo Fang, Bogdan Vasilescu , et al. · 2025

Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects Open

Hao He, Courtney Miller, Shyam Agarwal, Christian Kästner, Bogdan Vasilescu · 2025

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in their application to software development, with practitioners cla…

Drinking From a Firehose While Herding Cats: A Search for Accountability in the Rust Open Source Community Open

Nandini Sharma, Narayan Ramasubbu, James D. Herbsleb, Bogdan Vasilescu · 2025

Accountability promotes responsible behavior, particularly in fulfilling obligations, achieving planned outcomes, and serving the collective good. While systems of accountability are well-structured in corporate environments, their role in…

From Overload to Insight: Bridging Code Search and Code Review with LLMs Open

Nikitha Rao, Bogdan Vasilescu, Reid Holmes · 2025

Pinning Is Futile: You Need More Than Local Dependency Versioning to Defend against Supply Chain Attacks Open

Hao He, Bogdan Vasilescu, Christian Kästner · 2025

Recent high-profile incidents in open-source software have greatly raised practitioner attention on software supply chain attacks. To guard against potential malicious package updates, security practitioners advocate pinning dependency to …

Scientific Open-Source Software Is Less Likely to Become Abandoned Than One Might Think! Lessons from Curating a Catalog of Maintained Scientific Software Open

Addi Malviya Thakur, Reed Milewicz, Mahmoud Jahanshahi, Lavínia Paganini, Bogdan Vasilescu , et al. · 2025

Scientific software is essential to scientific innovation and in many ways it is distinct from other types of software. Abandoned (or unmaintained), buggy, and hard to use software, a perception often associated with scientific software ca…

The Impact of Generative AI on Creativity in Software Development: A Research Agenda Open

Victoria Jackson, Bogdan Vasilescu, Daniel Russo, Paul Ralph, Rafael Prikladnicki , et al. · 2024

As GenAI becomes embedded in developer toolchains and practices, and routine code is increasingly generated, human creativity will be increasingly important for generating competitive advantage. This article uses the McLuhan tetrad alongsi…

Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware Open

Hao He, Hong Seuk Yang, Philipp Burckhardt, Alexandros Kapravelos, Bogdan Vasilescu , et al. · 2024

GitHub, the de facto platform for open-source software development, provides a set of social-media-like features to signal high-quality repositories. Among them, the star count is the most widely used popularity signal, but it is also at r…

The Strength of Weak Ties Between Open-Source Developers Open

Hongbo Fang, Patrick Park, James Evans, James D. Herbsleb, Bogdan Vasilescu · 2024

In a real-world social network, weak ties (reflecting low-intensity, infrequent interactions) act as bridges and connect people to different social circles, giving them access to diverse information and opportunities that are not available…

STRIDE: Simple Type Recognition In Decompiled Executables Open

H. Gwynedd Green, Edward J. Schwartz, Claire Le Goues, Bogdan Vasilescu · 2024

Decompilers are widely used by security researchers and developers to reverse engineer executable code. While modern decompilers are adept at recovering instructions, control flow, and function boundaries, some useful information from the …

Creativity, Generative AI, and Software Development: A Research Agenda Open

Victoria Jackson, Bogdan Vasilescu, Daniel Russo, Paul Ralph, Maliheh Izadi , et al. · 2024

Creativity has always been considered a major differentiator to separate the good from the great, and we believe the importance of creativity for software development will only increase as GenAI becomes embedded in developer tool-chains an…

Generative AI in Software Engineering Must Be Human-Centered: The Copenhagen Manifesto Open

Daniel Russo, Sebastian Baltes, Niels van Berkel, Paris Avgeriou, Fabio Calefato , et al. · 2024

Understanding Documentation Use Through Log Analysis: A Case Study of Four Cloud Services Open

Daye Nam, Andrew Macvean, Brad A. Myers, Bogdan Vasilescu · 2024

Almost no modern software system is written from scratch, and developers are required to effectively learn to use third-party libraries and software services. Thus, many practitioners and researchers have looked for ways to create effectiv…

From the Inside Out: Organizational Impact on Open-Source Communities and Women's Representation Open

Hana Frluckaj, Huilian Sophie Qiu, Bogdan Vasilescu, Laura Dabbish · 2024

The involvement of companies and public institutions in open-source software (OSS) has become widespread. While studies have explored the business models of for-profit organizations and their impact on software quality, little is known abo…

Using an LLM to Help With Code Understanding Open

Daye Nam, Andrew Macvean, Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Bogdan Vasilescu, Brad A. Myers · 2024

Understanding code is challenging, especially when working in new and complex development environments. Code comments and documentation can help, but are typically scarce or hard to navigate. Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizin…

GenderMag Improves Discoverability in the Field, Especially for Women Open

Emerson Murphy-Hill, Alberto Elizondo, Ambar Murillo, Marian Harbach, Bogdan Vasilescu , et al. · 2024

Prior research shows that the GenderMag method can help identify and address usability barriers that are more likely to affect women software users than men. However, the evidence for the effectiveness of GenderMag is limited to small lab …

Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 8: Creativity in Software Engineering Open

Sarah Inman, Sarah D’Angelo, Bogdan Vasilescu · 2024

Creativity is an essential part of software engineering. In this column, we describe our approach and insights into how software developers define creativity in their work. Our findings suggest that creativity in software engineering cente…

Novelty Begets Popularity, But Curbs Participation - A Macroscopic View of the Python Open-Source Ecosystem Open

Hongbo Fang, James D. Herbsleb, Bogdan Vasilescu · 2024

Who creates the most innovative open-source software projects? And what fate do these projects tend to have? Building on a long history of research to understand innovation in business and other domains, as well as recent advances towards …

How Much Do Women Build Open Source Infrastructure? Open

Huilian Sophie Qiu, Zihe H Zhao, Tielin Katy Yu, Laura Dabbish, Bogdan Vasilescu · 2024

Huilian Sophie Qiu, Zihe H. Zhao, Tielin Katy Yu, Laura Dabbish, and Bogdan Vasilescu

“We Feel Like We’re Winging It:” A Study on Navigating Open-Source Dependency Abandonment Open

Courtney Miller, Christian Kästner, Bogdan Vasilescu · 2023

While lots of research has explored how to prevent maintainers from abandoning the open-source projects that serve as our digital infras- tructure, there are very few insights on addressing abandonment when it occurs. We argue open-source …

Matching Skills, Past Collaboration, and Limited Competition: Modeling When Open-Source Projects Attract Contributors Open

Hongbo Fang, James D. Herbsleb, Bogdan Vasilescu · 2023

Attracting and retaining new developers is often at the heart of open-source project sustainability and success. Previous research found many intrinsic (or endogenous) project characteristics associated with the attractiveness of projects …

A Taxonomy of C Decompiler Fidelity Issues Open

Luke Dramko, Jeremy Lacomis, Edward J. Schwartz, Bogdan Vasilescu, Claire Le Goues · 2023

This archive contains the supplementary material and dataset for the USENIX Security paper “A Taxonomy of C Decompiler Fidelity Issues.” The dataset archive contains all coded examples and a decompiler comparison summary table. The codeboo…

A Taxonomy of C Decompiler Fidelity Issues Open

Luke Dramko, Jeremy Lacomis, Edward J. Schwartz, Bogdan Vasilescu, Claire Le Goues · 2023

This archive contains the supplementary material and dataset for the USENIX Security paper “A Taxonomy of C Decompiler Fidelity Issues.” The dataset archive contains all coded examples and a decompiler comparison summary table. The codeboo…

Understanding Documentation Use Through Log Analysis: An Exploratory Case Study of Four Cloud Services Open

Daye Nam, Andrew Macvean, Brad A. Myers, Bogdan Vasilescu · 2023

Almost no modern software system is written from scratch, and developers are required to effectively learn to use third-party libraries or software services. Thus, many practitioners and researchers have looked for ways to create effective…

Using an LLM to Help With Code Understanding Open

Daye Nam, Andrew Macvean, Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Bogdan Vasilescu, Brad A. Myers · 2023

Understanding code is challenging, especially when working in new and complex development environments. Code comments and documentation can help, but are typically scarce or hard to navigate. Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizin…

Supplementary Material for "We Feel Like We're Winging It:" A Study on Navigating Open-Source Dependency Abandonment Open

Courtney Miller, Christian Kästner, Bogdan Vasilescu · 2023

This replication package contains the interview guide used for the paper "We Feel Like We're Winging It:" A Study on Navigating Open-Source Dependency Abandonment (ESEC/FSE 2023) along with a table with summary statistics …

Climate Coach: A Dashboard for Open-Source Maintainers to Overview Community Dynamics Open

Huilian Sophie Qiu, Anna Lieb, Jennifer Chou, Megan Carneal, Jasmine Mok , et al. · 2023

Open-source software projects have become an integral part of our daily life, supporting virtually every software we use today. Since open-source software forms the digital infrastructure, maintaining them is of utmost importance. We prese…

ClimateCoach: A Dashboard for Open-Source Maintainers to Overview Community Dynamics Open

Huilian Sophie Qiu, Anna Lieb, Jennifer Chou, Megan Carneal, Jasmine Mok , et al. · 2023

This package contains the interview protocols we used, summaries of our study participants, and tips we included in our dashboard design.

ClimateCoach: A Dashboard for Open-Source Maintainers to Overview Community Dynamics Open

Huilian Sophie Qiu, Anna Lieb, Jennifer Chou, Megan Carneal, Jasmine Mok , et al. · 2023

This package contains the interview protocols we used, summaries of our study participants, and tips we included in our dashboard design.

DIRE and its Data: Neural Decompiled Variable Renamings with Respect to Software Class Open

Luke Dramko, Jeremy Lacomis, Pengcheng Yin, Ed Schwartz, Miltiadis Allamanis , et al. · 2022

The decompiler is one of the most common tools for examining executable binaries without the corresponding source code. It transforms binaries into high-level code, reversing the compilation process. Unfortunately, decompiler output is far…

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