MCIS

2024

Journal

Conference

• OPDEBEECK, R., ADAMS, B. and DE ROOVER, C. (2025). Analysing Software Supply Chains of Infrastructure as Code: Extraction of Ansible Plugin Dependencies, in Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER (Montréal, Canada), to appear. (Acceptance ratio: 52/225=23.21%) BibTeX

2024

Journal

• FALLAHZADEH, E., RIGBY, P.C. and ADAMS, B. (2024). Contrasting Test Selection, Prioritization, and Batch Testing at Scale, Empirical Software Engineering, Springer, to appear. BibTeX
• ZHENG, S., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A.E. (2024). On Build Hermeticity in Bazel-based Build Systems, IEEE Software, IEEE, to appear. BibTeX
• KAMATH, D.M., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A.E. (2024). Lightweight Dynamic Build Batching Algorithms for Continuous Integration, Empirical Software Engineering, Springer, to appear. BibTeX
• PATEL, H., BOUCHER, D., FALLAHZADEH, E., HASSAN, A.E. and ADAMS, B. (2024). A State-of-the-practice Release-readiness Checklist for Generative AI-based Software Products, IEEE Software, IEEE, to appear. BibTeX
• YASMIN, J., WANG, J., TIAN, Y., and ADAMS, B. (2024). An Empirical Study of Developers' Challenges in Implementing Workflows as Code: A Case Study on Apache Airflow, Journal of Software and Systems (JSS), Elsevier, to appear. BibTeX
• OREAMUNO, E.L., KHAN, R.F., BANGASH, A.A., STINSON, C. and ADAMS, B. (2024). The State of Documentation Practices of Third-party Machine Learning Models and Datasets, IEEE Software, 41(5), p.52-59, IEEE. BibTeX
• KAMATH, D.M., FERNANDES, E., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A.E. (2024). On Combining Commit Grouping and Build Skip Prediction to Reduce Redundant Continuous Integration Activity, Empirical Software Engineering, 29(6), Springer. BibTeX
• ZHENG, S., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A.E. (2024). Does Using Bazel Help Speed Up Continuous Integration Builds?, Empirical Software Engineering, 29(5), Springer. BibTeX
• OUATITI, Y.E., SAYAGH, M., KERZAZI, N., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A.E. (2024). The impact of Concept drift and Data leakage on Log Level Prediction Models, Empirical Software Engineering, 29(5), Springer. BibTeX
• PATEL, H., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A.E. (2024). Post Deployment Recycling of Machine Learning Models - Don't Throw Away Your Old Models!, Empirical Software Engineering, 29(4), Springer. BibTeX
• EBRAHIMI, A., ADAMS, B., OLIVA, G.A. and HASSAN, A.E. (2024). A Large-Scale Exploratory Study on the Proxy Pattern in Ethereum, Empirical Software Engineering, 29(4), Springer. BibTeX
• ZHAO, Z., CHEN, Y., BANGASH, A.A., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A.E. (2024). An Empirical Study of Challenges in Machine Learning Asset Management, Empirical Software Engineering, 29(4), Springer. BibTeX
• MALIK, A., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A.E. (2024). Towards Graph-Anonymization of Software Analytics Data: Empirical Study on JIT Defect Prediction, Empirical Software Engineering, 29(4), Springer. BibTeX
• NAYEBI, M. and ADAMS, B. (2024). Image-based Communication on Social Coding Platforms, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP), 36(5), Wiley. BibTeX
• BAJAJ, R., FERNANDES, E., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A.E. (2024). Unreproducible builds: Time to fix, causes, and correlation with external ecosystem factors , Empirical Software Engineering, 29(1), Springer. BibTeX

Conference

• OLEWICKI, D., HABCHI, S. and ADAMS, B. (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), to appear. (Acceptance ratio: 121/483=25.1%) BibTeX
• OLEWICKI, D., HABCHI, S., NAYROLLES, M., FARAMARZI, M., CHANDAR, S. and ADAMS, B. (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%) BibTeX (Distinguished Paper Award)
• MACEDO, M., TIAN, Y., COGO, F. and ADAMS, B. (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), p. 57-68. (Acceptance ratio: 8/16=50%) BibTeX (Best Paper Award)

2023

Journal

• LIN, J., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A.E. (2023). On the Coordination of Vulnerability Fixes - An Empirical Study of Practices from 13 CVE Numbering Authorities , Empirical Software Engineering, 28(6), Springer. BibTeX
• FOUNDJEM, A., EGHAN, E.E. and ADAMS, B. (2023). A Grounded Theory of Cross-community SECOs: Feedback Diversity vs. Synchronization, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 49(10), p.4731-4750, IEEE. BibTeX
• CHEN, Y., FERNANDES, E., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A.E. (2023). On practitioners' concerns when adopting service mesh frameworks , Empirical Software Engineering, 28(5), Springer. BibTeX
• ALFADEL, M., COSTA, D.E., SHIHAB, E. and ADAMS, B. (2023). On the Discoverability of npm Vulnerabilities in Node. js Projects, Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 32(4), p. 1-27, ACM. BibTeX
• BHATIA, A., EGHAN, E.E., GRICHI, M., CAVANAGH, W.G., JIANG, Z.M. and ADAMS, B. (2023). Towards a change taxonomy for machine learning pipelines: Empirical study of ML pipelines and forks related to academic publications , Empirical Software Engineering, 28(3), Springer. BibTeX
• LIN, J., ZHANG, H., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A.E. (2023). Vulnerability management in Linux distributions: An empirical study on Debian and Fedora , Empirical Software Engineering, 28(2), Springer. BibTeX

Conference

• CHEN, J., DING, Z., TANG, Y., SAYAGH, M., LI, H., ADAMS, B. and SHANG, W. (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%) BibTeX
• HASAN, K., MACEDO, M., TIAN, Y., ADAMS, B. and DING, S. (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%) BibTeX

Other

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

2022

Journal

• LIN, J., ZHANG, H., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A.E. (2022). Upstream Bug Management in Linux Distributions - An Empirical Study of Debian and Fedora Practices , Empirical Software Engineering, 27(134), Springer. BibTeX
• FOUNDJEM, A., CONSTANTINOU, E., MENS, T. and ADAMS, B. (2022). A mixed-methods analysis of micro-collaborative coding practices in OpenStack , Empirical Software Engineering, 27(120), Springer. BibTeX
• ROMBAUT, B., COGO, F., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A.E. (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. BibTeX
• MOSLEHI, P., RILLING, J., and ADAMS, B. (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. BibTeX
• MUJAHID, S., COSTA, D.E., ABDALKAREEM, R., SHIHAB, E., SAIED, M.A., and ADAMS, B. (2022). Toward Using Package Centrality Trend to Identify Packages in Decline, Transactions on Engineering Management (TEM), 69(6), p. 3618-3632, IEEE. BibTeX
• CHOWDHURY, M.A.R., ABDALKAREEM, R., SHIHAB, E. and ADAMS, B. (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. BibTeX
• VYSALI, S., MCINTOSH, S. and ADAMS, B. (2022). Quantifying, Characterizing, and Mitigating Flakily Covered Program Elements, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 48(3), p. 1018-1029, IEEE. BibTeX

Conference

• NJOMOU, A.T., FOKAEFS, M., KAMGA, D.F.S. and ADAMS, B. (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 2022 (Markham, ON, Canada), pages 42--51. BibTeX
• HADIAN, M., GHARI, S., FOKAEFS, M., BRISSON, S., NOEI, E., LYONS, K., ADAMS, B. and ZHOU, S. (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 2022 (Markham, ON, Canada), pages 120--129. BibTeX
• OLEWICKI, D., NAYROLLES, M., and ADAMS, B. (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%) BibTeX
• FERREIRA, I., ADAMS, B. and CHENG, J. (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%) BibTeX

Other

• YANG, N., FERREIRA, I., SEREBRENIK, A., and ADAMS, B. (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%) BibTeX

2021

Journal

• BARRAK, A., EGHAN, E.E., ADAMS, B., and KHOMH, F. (2021). Why do Builds Fail? - A Conceptual Replication Study, Journal of Software and Systems (JSS), Vol. 177, p. 110939, Elsevier. BibTeX
• LI, H., SHANG, W., ADAMS, B., SAYAGH, M. and HASSAN, A.E. (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. BibTeX
• QUACH, S., LAMOTHE, M., ADAMS, B., KAMEI, Y. and SHANG, W. (2021). Evaluating the impact of falsely detected performance bug-inducing changes in JIT models, Empirical Software Engineering, 26 (97), Springer. BibTeX
• KUUTILA, M., MÄNTYLÄ, M., CLAES, M., ELOVAINIO, M. and ADAMS, B. (2021). Individual Differences Limit Predicting Well-being and Productivity Using Software Repositories: A Longitudinal Industrial Study, Empirical Software Engineering, 26 (88), Springer. BibTeX
• FOUNDJEM, A. and ADAMS, B. (2021). Release Synchronization in Software Ecosystems, Empirical Software Engineering, 26 (34), Springer. BibTeX
• XIU, M., JIANG, Z.M. and ADAMS, B. (2021). An Exploratory Study on Machine Learning Model Stores, IEEE Software, 38 (1), p. 114-122. BibTeX

Conference

• FERREIRA, I., CHENG, J. and ADAMS, B. (2021). The “Shut the f**k up” Phenomenon: Characterizing Incivility in Open Source Code Review Discussions, in Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW (virtual), vol.5, article 353. BibTeX
• FOUNDJEM, A., EGHAN, E.E. and ADAMS, B. (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%) BibTeX
• SANEI, A., CHENG, J. and ADAMS, B. (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), pages 1-10. (Acceptance ratio: 10/38=26.32%) BibTeX
• BARRAK, A., EGHAN, E.E. and ADAMS, B. (2021). On the Co-evolution of ML Pipelines and Source Code - Empirical Study of DVC Projects, in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, SANER (Hawaii, USA), pages 422-433. (Acceptance ratio: 42/165=25%) BibTeX

Other

• TCHANJOU NJOMOU, A., BIFONA AFRICA, A.J., ADAMS, B. and FOKAEFS, M. (2021). MSR4ML: Reconstructing artifact traceability in Machine Learning repositories [short], in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, SANER (Hawaii, USA), pages 536-540. (Acceptance ratio: 12/26=46%) BibTeX

2020

Journal

• ADAMS, B. and KHOMH, F. (2020). The Diversity Crisis of Software Engineering for Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Software, 37 (5), p. 104-108. BibTeX
• MOSLEHI, P., ADAMS, B. and RILLING, J. (2020). A Feature Location Approach for Mapping Application Features Extracted from Crowd-based Screencasts to Source Code, Empirical Software Engineering, Springer, 25, p. 4873-4926. BibTeX
• VARADHARAJAN, V.S., ST-ONGE, D., ADAMS, B. and BELTRAME, G. (2020). Swarm Relays: Distributed Self-Healing Ground-and-Air Connectivity Chains, Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE, 5 (4), p. 5347-5354 BibTeX
• MAHÉ, N., ADAMS, B., MARSAN, J., TEMPLIER, M. and BISSONNETTE, S. (2020). Migrating a Software Factory to Design Thinking: Paying Attention to People and Mind-Sets, special issue on Design Thinking, IEEE Software, 37 (2), p. 32-40. BibTeX
• SAYAGH, M., KERZAZI, N., ADAMS, B. and PETRILLO, F. (2020). Software Configuration Engineering in Practice - Interviews, Survey, and Systematic Literature Review, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 46 (6), pages 646-673, IEEE. BibTeX

Conference

• GRICHI, M., EGHAN, E.E. and ADAMS, B. (2020). On the Impact of Multi-language Development in Machine Learning Frameworks, in Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME (Adelaide, Australia), pages 546-556. (Acceptance ratio: 58/201=28.9%) BibTeX
• OPENJA, M., ADAMS, B. and KHOMH, F. (2020). Analysis of Modern Release Engineering Topics - A Large-Scale Study using StackOverflow, in Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME (Adelaide, Australia), pages 104-114. (Acceptance ratio: 58/201=28.9%) BibTeX
• GRICHI, M., ABIDI, M., JAAFAR, F., EGHAN, E.E. and ADAMS, B. (2020). On the Impact of Inter-language Dependencies in Multi-language Systems, in Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security, QRS (Macau, China). (Acceptance ratio: 36/125=28.8%) BibTeX (Recommended to the IEEE Transactions on Reliability)

2019

Journal

• LANOVAZ, M. and ADAMS, B. (2019). A Comparison of Communication Tone and Responding Across Users and Developers in Two R Mailing Lists, special issue on Sentiment and Emotion in Software Engineering, IEEE Software, 36 (5), p. 46-50, IEEE. BibTeX
• VARADHARAJAN, V. S., ST-ONGE, D., ADAMS, B. and BELTRAME, G. (2019). SOUL: Data Sharing for Robot Swarms, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 44, pages 377-394, Springer. BibTeX
• ZOLFAGHARINIA, M., ADAMS, B. and GUÉHÉNEUC, Y.-G. (2019). A Study of Build Inflation in 30 Million CPAN Builds on 13 Perl Versions and 10 Operating Systems, Empirical Software Engineering, Vol. 24, pages 3933-3971, Springer. BibTeX
• GERMAN, D., ADAMS, B. and STEWART, K. (2019). cregit : Token-level Blame Information in git Version Control Repositories, Empirical Software Engineering, Vol. 24, pages 2725-2763, Springer. BibTeX
• MARSAN, J., TEMPLIER, M., MAROIS, P., ADAMS, B., CARILLO, K. and LEIDA MOPENZA, G. (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. BibTeX

Conference

• RIGGER, M., MARR, S., ADAMS, B. and MÖSSENBÖCK, H. (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), pages 74-85. (Acceptance ratio: 74/303=24.4%) BibTeX
• ALJEDAANI, W., NAGAPPAN, M., ADAMS, B. and GODFREY, M. (2019). A Comparison of Bugs across the iOS and Android Platforms of Two Open Source Cross Platform Browser Apps, in Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft (Montréal, Canada), pages 76-86. (Acceptance ratio: X/Y=Z%) BibTeX

Workshop

• FERREIRA, I., STEWART, K., GERMAN, D. and ADAMS, B. (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. BibTeX

2018

Journal

• MURGIA, A., ORTU, M., TOURANI, P., ADAMS, B. and DEMEYER, S. (2018). An Exploratory Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Emotions in Issue Report Comments of Open Source Systems, Empirical Software Engineering, 23 (1), p. 521-564, Springer. BibTeX

Conference

• KUUTILA, M., MÄNTYLÄ, M., CLAES, M., ELOVAINIO, M. and ADAMS, B. (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), pages 1-10. (Acceptance ratio: 30/140=21.4%) BibTeX
• BEN BRAIEK, H., KHOMH, F. and ADAMS, B. (2018). The Open-Closed Principle of Modern Machine Learning Frameworks, in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR (Gothenburg, Sweden), pages 353-363. (Acceptance ratio: 37/113=32.7%) BibTeX
• MOSLEHI, P., ADAMS, B. and RILLING, J. (2018). Feature Location using Crowd-based Screencasts, in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR (Gothenburg, Sweden), pages 192-202. (Acceptance ratio: 37/113=32.7%) BibTeX
• CLAES, M., MÄNTYLÄ, M., KUUTILA, M. and ADAMS, B. (2018). Do programmers work at night or during weekend?, in Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE (Gothenburg, Sweden), pages 705-715. (Acceptance ratio: 105/502=20.9%) BibTeX

2017

Journal

• BEZEMER, C.-P., MCINTOSH, S., ADAMS, B., GERMAN, D. M. and HASSAN, A. E. (2017). An Empirical Study of Unspecified Dependencies in Make-Based Build Systems, Empirical Software Engineering, 22 (6), p. 3117–3148, Springer. BibTeX
• GÓMEZ, M., ADAMS, B., MAALEJ, W., MONPERRUS, M. and ROUVOY, R. (2017). App Store 2.0: From Crowd Information to Actionable Feedback in Mobile Ecosystems, IEEE Software, 34 (2), p. 81-89, IEEE. BibTeX
• HEMMATI, H., FANG, Z., MÄNTYLÄ, M. and ADAMS, B. (2017). Prioritizing Manual Test Cases in Rapid Release Environments, Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, 27 (6), p. 1-10, Wiley. BibTeX

Conference

• SAYAGH, M., DONG, Z., ANDRZEJAK, A. and ADAMS, B. (2017). Does the Choice of Configuration Framework Matter for Developers? Empirical Study on 11 Java Configuration Frameworks, in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM (Shanghai, China), pages 41-50. (Acceptance ratio: 14/31=45%) BibTeX
• SAYAGH, M., KERZAZI, N. and ADAMS, B. (2017). On Cross-stack Configuration Errors, in Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE (Buenos Aires, Argentina), pages 255-265. [replication package] (Acceptance ratio: 68/398=17%) BibTeX
• ZOLFAGHARINIA, M., ADAMS, B. and GUÉHÉNEUC, Y.-G. (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), pages 312-322. (Acceptance ratio: 37/121=30.6%) BibTeX
• FOUNDJEM, A. T., KHOMH, F. and ADAMS, B. (2017). Broadcast vs. Unicast Review Technology: Does it Matter?, in Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST (Tokyo, Japan), pages 219-229. (Acceptance ratio: 36/135=27%) BibTeX
• TOURANI, P., ADAMS, B. and SEREBRENIK, A. (2017). Code of Conduct in Open Source Projects, in Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, SANER (Klagenfurt, Austria), pages 24-33. (Acceptance ratio: 34/135=25%) BibTeX

Other

• BENBACHIR, A., DE MELO JR, I.F., DAGENAIS, M. and ADAMS, B. (2017). Automated Performance Deviation Detection Across Software Versions Releases [short], in Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security, QRS (Prague, Czech Republic), pages 450-457. BibTeX
• CLAES, M., MÄNTYLÄ, M., KUUTILA, M. and ADAMS, B. (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), pages 243-247. BibTeX

2016

Journal

• LI, W., HAYES, J. H., ANTONIOL, G., GUÉHÉNEUC, Y.-G. and ADAMS, B. (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. BibTeX
• WU, W., KHOMH, F., ADAMS, B., GUÉHÉNEUC and ANTONIOL, G. (2016). An Exploratory Study of API Changes and Usages based on Apache and Eclipse Ecosystems, Empirical Software Engineering, 21 (6), p. 2366-2412, Springer. BibTeX
• MCINTOSH, S., ADAMS, B., NAGAPPAN, M. and HASSAN, A. E. (2016). Identifying and Understanding Header File Hotspots in C/C++ Build Processes, Automated Software Engineering, 23(4), 619-647, Springer. BibTeX
• PANG, C., HINDLE, A., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2016). What do programmers know about software energy consumption?, IEEE Software, 33 (3), pages 83-89, IEEE. BibTeX
• MCINTOSH, S., KAMEI, Y., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2016). An Empirical Study of the Impact of Modern Code Review Practices on Software Quality, Empirical Software Engineering, 21 (5), p. 2146-2189, Springer. BibTeX
• MOJICA, I. J., NAGAPPAN, M., ADAMS, B., BERGER, T., DIENST, S. and HASSAN, A. E. (2016). Examining the Rating System Used in Mobile App Stores, IEEE Software, 33 (6), pages 86-92, IEEE. BibTeX
• ADAMS, B., KAVANAGH, R., HASSAN, A. E. and GERMAN, D. M. (2016). An Empirical Study of Integration Activities in Distributions of Open Source Software, Empirical Software Engineering, 21 (3), pages 960-1001, Springer. BibTeX [data replication package]
• MOJICA, I. J., NAGAPPAN, M., ADAMS, B., BERGER, T., DIENST, S. and HASSAN, A. E. (2016). Analyzing Ad Library Updates in Android Apps, IEEE Software, 33 (2), pages 74-80, IEEE. BibTeX
• GERMAN, D. M., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2016). Continuously Mining the Use of Distributed Version Control Systems: An empirical study of how Linux uses git, Empirical Software Engineering, 21 (1), pages 260-299, Springer. BibTeX

Conference

• MUSAVI, P., ADAMS, B. and KHOMH, F. (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), pages 424-434. (Acceptance ratio: 45/130=34.6%) BibTeX
• NGUYEN, T. H. D., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (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), pages 412-423. (Acceptance ratio: 45/130=34.6%) BibTeX
• HASAN, S., KING, Z., HAFIZ, M., SAYAGH, M., ADAMS, B. and HINDLE, A. (2016). Energy Profiles of Java Collections Classes, in Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE (Austin, TX, US), pages 225-236. (Acceptance ratio: 101/530=19%) BibTeX (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award)
• MOSLEHI, P., ADAMS, B. and RILLING, J. (2016). On Mining Crowd-based Speech Documentation, in Proceedings of the 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR (Austin, TX), pages 259-268. (Acceptance ratio: 36/103=27%) BibTeX
• GÓMEZ, M., ROUVOY, R., ADAMS, B. and SEINTURIER, L. (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), pages 13-24. (Acceptance ratio: 36/103=27%) BibTeX
• MÄNTYLÄ, M., ADAMS, B., DESTEFANIS, G., GRAZIOTIN, D. and ORTU, M. (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), pages 247-258. (Acceptance ratio: 36/103=27%) BibTeX
• RAHMAN, M. T., QUEREL, L.-P., RIGBY, P. C. and ADAMS, B. (2016). Feature Toggles: A case study and survey, in Proceedings of the 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR (Austin, TX), pages 201-211. (Acceptance ratio: 36/103=27%) BibTeX
• GÓMEZ, M., ROUVOY, R., ADAMS, B. and SEINTURIER, L. (2016). Reproducing Context-sensitive Crashes of Mobile Apps using Crowdsourced Monitoring, in Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft (Austin, TX, US), pages 88-99. (Acceptance ratio: X/57=Y%) BibTeX
• ADAMS, B. and MCINTOSH, S. (2016). Modern Release Engineering in a Nutshell - Why Researchers should Care, in Leaders of Tomorrow: Future of Software Engineering, Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, SANER (Osaka, Japan), pages 78-90. (Invited Paper) BibTeX [video recording]
• NAYEBI, M., ADAMS, B. and RUHE, G. (2016). Release Practices in Mobile Apps – Users and Developers Perception, in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, SANER (Osaka, Japan), pages 552-562. (Acceptance ratio: 52/140=37%) BibTeX
• KERZAZI, N. and ADAMS, B. (2016). Botched Releases: Do we Need to Roll Back? Empirical Study on a Commercial Web App, in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, SANER (Osaka, Japan), pages 574-583. (Acceptance ratio: 52/140=37%) BibTeX
• TOURANI, P. and ADAMS, B. (2016). The Impact of Human Discussions on Just-In-Time Quality Assurance, in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, SANER (Osaka, Japan), pages 189-200. (Acceptance ratio: 52/140=37%) BibTeX [data replication package (graciously provided by Mike Schaekermann)]

Thesis

• TOURANI, P. (2016). On the Impact of Affect in Software Engineering, PhD thesis at GIGL, Polytechnique Montreal, December 19, 2016.
• JIANG, Y. (2016). Mining Software Repositories for Release Engineers -- Empirical Studies on Integration and Infrastructure-as-Code, PhD thesis at GIGL, Polytechnique Montreal, August 25, 2016.

Other

• ADAMS, B. (2016). How the Release Process Impacts your Software Analytics, chapter in Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering, edited by MENZIES, T., WILLIAMS, L. and ZIMMERMANN, T., Morgan Kaufmann, pages 249-254. BibTeX
• BASS, L., ADAMS, B., PARNIN, C. and HOCHSTEIN, L. (2016). Why You Should Be Teaching Deployment in Your Curriculum!, panel at the 29th IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET), April 5, 2016. Slides [video recording]
• ADAMS, B. (2016). Roll Your Own Release (RYOR), in Leaders of Tomorrow on the Future of Software Engineering - A Roundtable, edited by DI PENTA, M., HASSAN, A. E. and ZIMMERMANN, T., IEEE Software, 33 (2), pages 99-104, March/April 2016. BibTeX
• KERZAZI, N. and ADAMS, B. (2016). Who Needs Release and DevOps Engineers, and Why?, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Continuous Software Evolution and Delivery, CSED (Austin, Texas), pages 77-83. (Acceptance ratio: 14/18=77.8%) BibTeX

2015

Journal

• MÄNTYLÄ, M., ADAMS, B., KHOMH, F., ENGSTROM, E. and PETERSEN, K. (2015). On Rapid Releases and Software Testing: A Case Study and a Semi-Systematic Literature Review, Empirical Software Engineering, 20 (5), pages 1384-1425, Springer. BibTeX
• MCINTOSH, S., NAGAPPAN, M., ADAMS, B., MOCKUS, A. and HASSAN, A. E. (2015). A Large-Scale Empirical Study of the Relationship Between Build Technology and Build Maintenance, Empirical Software Engineering, 20 (6), pages 1587-1633, Springer. BibTeX
• KHOMH, F., ADAMS, B., DHALIWAL, T. and ZOU, Y. (2015). Understanding the Impact of Rapid Releases on Software Quality: The Case of Firefox, Empirical Software Engineering, 20 (2), pages 336-373, Springer. BibTeX
• SYER, M. D., NAGAPPAN, M., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2015). Studying the Relationship Between Source Code Quality and Mobile Platform Dependence, Software Quality Journal (SQJ), 23 (3), pages 485-508, Springer. BibTeX
• ADAMS, B., BELLOMO, S., BIRD, C., MARSHALL-KEIM, T., KHOMH, F. and MOIR, K. (2015). The Practice and Future of Release Engineering - A Roundtable with Three Release Engineers, IEEE Software Special Issue on Release Engineering, 32 (2), pages 42-49, IEEE. BibTeX [interview with Davide Falessi]
• SYER, M., NAGAPPAN, M., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2015). Replicating and Re-evaluating the Theory of Relative Defect-Proneness, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 41 (2), pages 176-197, IEEE. BibTeX
• BETTENBURG, N., HASSAN, A. E., ADAMS, B. and GERMAN, D. M. (2015). Management of community contributions: A case study on the Android and Linux software ecosystems, Empirical Software Engineering, 20 (1), pages 252-289, Springer. BibTeX

Conference

• BOISSELLE, V. and ADAMS, B. (2015). The Impact of Cross-Distribution Bug Duplicates, Empirical Study on Debian and Ubuntu, in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM (Bremen, Germany), pages 131-140. (Acceptance ratio: 24/68=35%) BibTeX
• SAYAGH, M. and ADAMS, B. (2015). Multi-layer Software Configuration - Empirical Study on Wordpress, in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM (Bremen, Germany), pages 31-40. (Acceptance ratio: 24/68=35%) BibTeX [additional figures]
• FOO, K. C., JIANG, Z. M., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E., ZOU, Y. and FLORA, P. (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), pages 159-168. (Acceptance ratio: 23/102=22.5%) BibTeX (IEEE Software Best Paper Award of the SEIP track)
• MARTIN, D. H., CORDY, J. R., ADAMS, B. and ANTONIOL, G. (2015). Make It Simple - An Empirical Analysis of GNU Make Feature Use in Open Source Projects, in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC (Florence, Italy), pages 207-217. (Acceptance ratio: 23/73=31.5%) BibTeX
• JIANG, Y. and ADAMS, B. (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), pages 45-55. (Acceptance ratio: 32/106=30%) BibTeX [extended data set]
• ORTU, M., ADAMS, B., DESTEFANIS, G., TOURANI, P., MARCHESI, M. and TONELLI, R. (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), pages 303-313. (Acceptance ratio: 32/106=30%) BibTeX

Thesis

• BOISSELLE, V. (2015). Automated Identification of Functional Problems in Flight Simulators, Master's thesis at GIGL, Polytechnique Montreal, December 16, 2015.

Other

• ADAMS, B., BELLOMO, S. and KHOMH, F. (2015). Lessons Learned from the International Workshop on Release Engineering, ACM SIGSOFT webinar, December 18, 2015. [audio recording]
• ORTU, M., DESTEFANIS, G., MURGIA, A., MARCHESI, M., TONELLI, R. and ADAMS, B. (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). BibTeX
• HAYES, J. H., ANTONIOL, G., ADAMS, B. and GUÉHÉNEUC, Y.-G. (2015). Inherent Characteristics of Traceability Artifacts - Less is More [RE:Next! Track], in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE (Ottawa, Canada), pages 196-201. BibTeX
• GERMAN, D. M., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (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), pages 470-473. BibTeX
• ADAMS, B., BELLOMO, S., BIRD, C., KHOMH, F. and MOIR, K. (2015). IEEE Software Special Issue on Release Engineering, IEEE Software, 32 (2), IEEE.
• ADAMS, B. (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

• MOJICA, I. J., NAGAPPAN, M., ADAMS, B., BERGER, T., DIENST, S. and HASSAN, A. E. (2014). Impact of Ad Libraries on Ratings of Android Mobile Apps, IEEE Software, 31 (6), pages 86-92, IEEE. BibTeX
• MOJICA, I. J., ADAMS, B., NAGAPPAN, M., DIENST, S., BERGER, T. and HASSAN, A. E. (2014). A Large Scale Empirical Study on Software Reuse in Mobile Apps, IEEE Software, 31 (2), pages 78-86, IEEE. BibTeX
• THOMAS, S. W., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E., and BLOSTEIN, D. (2014). Studying Software Evolution Using Topic Models, Science of Computer Programming (SCP), 80 (part B), pages 457-479, Elsevier. BibTeX
• SHANG, W., JIANG, Z. M., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E., GODFREY, M., NASSER, M. and FLORA, P. (2014). An Exploratory Study of the Evolution of Communicated Information about the Execution of Large Software Systems, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 26 (1), pages 3-26, Wiley. BibTeX

Conference

• TOURANI, P., JIANG, Y. and ADAMS, B. (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), pages 34-44. (Acceptance ratio: 19/56=33.9%) BibTeX
• KERZAZI, N., KHOMH, F. and ADAMS, B. (2014). Why do Automated Builds Break? An Empirical Study, in Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM (Victoria, BC), pages 41-50. (Acceptance ratio: 40/210=19%) (presentation) BibTeX
• MCINTOSH, S., ADAMS, B., NAGAPPAN, M., and HASSAN, A. E. (2014). Mining Co-Change Information to Understand when Build Changes are Necessary, in Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM (Victoria, BC), pages 241-250. (Acceptance ratio: 40/210=19%) BibTeX
• AN, L., KHOMH, F., and ADAMS, B. (2014). Supplementary Bug Fixes vs. Re-opened Bugs, in Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM (Victoria, BC, Canada), pages 205-214. (Acceptance ratio: 26/82=31.7%) BibTeX
• SHRIDHAR, M., ADAMS, B. and KHOMH, F. (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 29. (Acceptance ratio: 23/123=19%) BibTeX
• JIANG, Y., ADAMS, B., KHOMH, F. and GERMAN, D. M. (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 51. (Acceptance ratio: 23/123=19%) BibTeX
• MCINTOSH, S., POEHLMANN, M., JUERGENS, E., MOCKUS, A., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E., HAUPT, B. and WAGNER, C. (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), pages 145-154. (Acceptance ratio: 25/117=21.4%) BibTeX [mentioned in this blog post]
• MURGIA, A., TOURANI, P., ADAMS, B., and ORTU, M. (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), pages 262-271. (Acceptance ratio: 29/85=34%) BibTeX
• MCINTOSH, S., KAMEI, Y., ADAMS, B., and HASSAN, A. E. (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), pages 192-201. (Acceptance ratio: 29/85=34%) BibTeX (Distinguished Paper Award)

Other

• JIANG, Y., ADAMS, B. and GERMAN, D. M. (2014). How much does this commit cost?, position paper at the 2nd International Workshop on Release Engineering, RELENG (Mountain View, CA, US).
• JIANG, Y. and ADAMS, B. (2014). Improving the Integration Process of Large Software Systems, poster at the 2nd International Workshop on Release Engineering, RELENG (Mountain View, CA, US).
• MCINTOSH, S., ADAMS, B., NAGAPPAN, M. and HASSAN, A. E. (2014). Identifying Header File Hotspots in C/C++ Build Processes, poster at the 2nd International Workshop on Release Engineering, RELENG (Mountain View, CA, US).

2013

Journal

• SHIHAB, E., KAMEI, Y., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2013). Is lines of code a good measure of effort in effort-aware models?, Information and Software Technology, 55 (11), pages 1981-1993, Elsevier. BibTeX
• SHIHAB, E., IHARA, A., KAMEI, Y., IBRAHIM, W. M., OHIRA, M., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E. and MATSUMOTO, K. (2013). Studying Re-opened Bugs in Open Source Software, Empirical Software Engineering, 18, pages 1005-1042, Springer. BibTeX
• KAMEI, Y., SHIHAB, E., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E., MOCKUS, A., SINHA, A. and UBAYASHI, N. (2013). A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Just-In-Time Quality Assurance, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 39 (6), pages 757-773, IEEE. BibTeX

Conference

• SYER, M. D., NAGAPPAN, M., HASSAN, A. E. and ADAMS, B. (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), pages 283-297. (Acceptance ratio: 25/70=35.7%) BibTeX
• SOH, Z., KHOMH, F., GUÉHÉNEUC, Y.-G., ANTONIOL, G. and ADAMS, B. (2013). On the Effect of Program Exploration on Maintenance Tasks, in Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE (Koblenz, Germany), pages 391-400. (Acceptance ratio: 38/97=39%) BibTeX
• MÄNTYLÄ, M., KHOMH, F., ADAMS, B., ENGSTROM, E. and PETERSEN, K. (2013). On Rapid Releases and Software Testing, in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), pages 20-29. (Acceptance ratio: 36/163=22%) [invited for special issue] BibTeX
• SHANG, W., JIANG, Z. M., HEMMATI, H., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E. and MARTIN, P. (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), pages 402-411. (Acceptance ratio: 85/461=18.5%) BibTeX (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award)
• JIANG, Y., ADAMS, B., and GERMAN, D. M. (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), pages 101-110. (Acceptance ratio: 31/81=38%) (presentation) BibTeX [data replication package]
• GERMAN, D. M., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2013). Programming Language Ecosystems: the Evolution of R, in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR (Genova, Italy), pages 243-252. (Acceptance ratio: 29/80=36.3%) (presentation) BibTeX
• JAAFAR, F., HASSAINE, S., GUÉHÉNEUC, Y.-G., HAMEL, S. and ADAMS, B. (2013). Program Evolution and Bug-proneness: An Empirical Study, in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR (Genova, Italy), pages 15-24. (Acceptance ratio: 29/80=36.3%) BibTeX
• DUCLOS, É., LE DIGABEL, S., GUÉHÉNEUC, Y.-G. and ADAMS, B. (2013). ACRE: An Automated Aspect Creator for Testing C++ Applications, in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR (Genova, Italy), pages 121-130. (Acceptance ratio: 29/80=36.3%) BibTeX

2012

Journal

• ALAM, O., ADAMS, B., and HASSAN, A. E. (2012). Preserving Knowledge in Software Projects, Journal of Software and Systems (JSS), 85 (10), pages 2318-2330, Elsevier. BibTeX
• IBRAHIM, W. M., BETTENBURG, N., ADAMS, B., and HASSAN, A. E. (2012). On the Relationship between Comment Update Practices and Software Bugs, Journal of Software and Systems (JSS), 85 (10), pages 2293-2304, Elsevier. BibTeX
• SHANG, W., ADAMS, B., and HASSAN, A. E. (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), pages 2195-2204, Elsevier. BibTeX
• BETTENBURG, N., SHANG, W., IBRAHIM, W. M., ADAMS, B., ZOU, Y. and HASSAN, A. E. (2012). An Empirical Study on Inconsistent Changes to Code Clones at the Release Level, Science of Computer Programming (SCP), 77 (6), pages 760-776, Elsevier. BibTeX
• MCINTOSH, S., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2012). The Evolution of Java Build Systems, Empirical Software Engineering, 17 (4-5), pages 578-608, Springer. BibTeX

Conference

• SUVOROV, R., ADAMS, B., NAGAPPAN, M., HASSAN, A. E. and ZOU, Y. (2012). An Empirical Study of Build System Migrations in Practice: Case Studies on KDE and the Linux Kernel, in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM (Riva del Garda, Italy), pages 160-169. (Acceptance ratio: 46/181=25%) (presentation) BibTeX
• SHIHAB, E., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E. and JIANG, Z. M. (2012). An Industrial Study on the Risk of Software Changes, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE (Research Triangle Park, NC, US), pages 62:1-62:11. (Acceptance ratio: 32/201=17%) BibTeX
• MOJICA RUIZ, I. J., NAGAPPAN, M., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2012). Understanding Reuse in the Android Market, in Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC (Passau, Germany), pages 113-122. (Acceptance ratio: 21/51=41%) BibTeX
• KHOMH, F., DHALIWAL, T., ZOU, Y. and ADAMS, B. (2012). Do Faster Releases Improve Software Quality? - An Empirical Case Study of Mozilla Firefox, in Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR (Zurich, Switzerland), pages 179-188. (Acceptance ratio: 18/64=28%) [invited for special issue] BibTeX [mentioned in this blog post]
• ZAMAN, S., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2012). A Qualitative Study on Performance Bugs, in Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR (Zurich, Switzerland), pages 199-208. (Acceptance ratio: 18/64=28%) (presentation) BibTeX [mentioned in this blog post]
• NGUYEN, T. H. D., ADAMS, B., JIANG, Z. M. and HASSAN, A. E. (2012). Automated Detection of Performance Regressions Using Statistical Process Control Techniques, in Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE (Boston, MA, US), pages 299-310. BibTeX

Other

• ADAMS, B. (2012). Technical Briefing on Software Release Engineering, in Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE (Zurich, Switzerland). (Acceptance ratio: 18/50=36%)
• DI PENTA, M., ANTONIOL, G., GERMAN, D. M., GUÉHÉNEUC, Y.-G. and ADAMS, B. (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), pages 1255-1258. (Acceptance ratio: 11/49=22.4%)
• NAGANO, R., NAKAMURA, H., KAMEI, Y., ADAMS, B., HISAZUMI, K., UBAYASHI, N. and FUKUDA, A. (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), pages 1435-1436. (Acceptance ratio: 8/22=36.4%)
• ZAMAN, S., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (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), pages 410-419. BibTeX

2011

Journal

• SHIHAB, E., JIANG, Z. M., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E. and BOWERMAN, R. (2011). Prioritizing the Creation of Unit Tests in Legacy Software Systems, Software - Practice and Experience, 41 (10), pages 1027-1048, Wiley. BibTeX

Conference

• NGUYEN, T. H. D., ADAMS, B., JIANG, Z. M. and HASSAN, A. E. (2011). Automatic Load Test Verification Using Control Charts, in Proceedings of the 18th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC (Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam), pages 282-289. (Acceptance ratio: 54/180=30%) BibTeX
• SHANG, W., JIANG, Z. M., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E., GODFREY, M., NASSER, M. and FLORA, P. (2011). An Exploratory Study of the Evolution of Communicated Information about the Execution of Large Software Systems, in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE (Lero, Limerick, Ireland), pages 335-344. (Acceptance ratio: 27/104=26%) [invited for special issue] BibTeX (Best Paper Award)
• SYER, M. D., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2011). Identifying Performance Deviations in Thread Pools, in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM (Williamsburg, VA, US), pages 83-92. (Acceptance ratio: 36/127=28%) BibTeX
• SYER, M. D., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E., and ZOU, Y. (2011). Exploring the Development of Micro-Apps: A Case Study on the BlackBerry and Android Platforms, in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM (Williamsburg, VA, US), pages 55-64. (Acceptance ratio: 16/52=31%) BibTeX
• KELLY, M. B., ALEXANDER, J. S., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2011). Recovering a Balanced Overview of Topics in a Software Domain, in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM (Williamsburg, VA, US), pages 135-144. (Acceptance ratio: 16/52=31%) BibTeX
• MCINTOSH, S., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E. and ZOU, Y. (2011). Using Indexed Sequence Diagrams to Recover the Behaviour of AJAX Applications, in Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution, WSE (Williamsburg, VA, US), pages 1-10. (Acceptance ratio: 12/24=50%) BibTeX
• SHIHAB, E., KAMEI, Y., MOCKUS, A., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (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 ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE (Szeged, Hungary), pages 300-310. (Acceptance ratio: 34/203=17%) BibTeX
• THOMAS, S. W., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E. and BLOSTEIN, D. (2011). Modeling the Evolution of Topics in Historical Software Repositories, in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR (Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii), pages 173-182. (Acceptance ratio: 20/61=33%) BibTeX
• ZAMAN, S., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2011). Security vs Performance bugs: A Case Study on Firefox, in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR (Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii), pages 93-102. (Acceptance ratio: 20/61=33%) BibTeX
• MCINTOSH, S., ADAMS, B., KAMEI, Y., NGUYEN, T. and HASSAN, A. E. (2011). An Empirical Study of Build Maintenance Effort, in Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE (Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii), pages 141-150. (Acceptance ratio: 62/441=14%) (presentation) BibTeX [mentioned in this SE Podcast and these blog posts]

Other

• FOO, K. C., JIANG, Z. M., ADAMS, B., and HASSAN, A. E. (2011). Modeling the Performance of Ultra-Large-Scale Systems Using Layered Simulations, in Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Workshop on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems, MESOCA (Williamsburg, VA, US), 10 p., September 2011. BibTeX
• BETTENBURG, N., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E. and SMIDT, M. (2011). A Lightweight Approach to Uncover Technical Information in Unstructured Data [short], in Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC (Kingston, ON, Canada), pages 185-188. (Acceptance ratio: (8+18)/73=36%) BibTeX
• SYER, M. D., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2011). Industrial Case Study on Supporting the Comprehension of System Behaviour Under Load [poster], in Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC (Kingston, ON, Canada), pages 215-216. (Acceptance ratio: (4+8+18)/73=41%) BibTeX
• ADAMS, B., HAUPT, M., LORENZ, D. H. and WOHLSTADTER E. (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

• SHIHAB, E., BETTENBURG, N., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2010). On the Central Role of Mailing Lists in Open Source Projects: An Exploratory Study, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 6284, pages 91-103, Springer. BibTeX

Conference

• MALIK, H., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2010). Pinpointing the Subsystems Responsible for the Performance Deviations in a Load Test, in Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE (San Jose, CA, US), pages 201-210. (Acceptance ratio: 40/130=31%) BibTeX
• NGUYEN, T., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2010). A Case Study of Bias in Bug-Fix Datasets, in Proceedings of the 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE (Boston, MA, US), pages 259-268. (Acceptance ratio: 21/67=31%) BibTeX
• SHIHAB, E., IHARA, A., KAMEI, Y., IBRAHIM, W. M., OHIRA, M., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E. and MATSUMOTO, K. (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), pages 249-258. (Acceptance ratio: 21/67=31%) [invited for special issue] BibTeX
• SELIM, G. M. K., BARBOUR, L., SHANG, W., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E. and ZOU, Y. (2010). Studying the Impact of Clones on Software Defects, in Proceedings of the 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE (Boston, MA, US), pages 13-21. (Acceptance ratio: 21/67=31%) BibTeX
• SHANG, W., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2010). An Experience Report on Scaling Tools for Mining Software Repositories Using MapReduce, in Proceedings of the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE (Antwerp, Belgium), pages 275-284. (Acceptance ratio: 34/191=18%) BibTeX
• NGUYEN, T. H. D., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2010). Studying the impact of dependency network measures on software quality, in Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM (Timişoara, Romania), pages 1-10. (Acceptance ratio: 36/133=27%) BibTeX
• KAMEI, Y., MATSUMOTO, S., MONDEN, A., MATSUMOTO, K., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2010). Revisiting Common Bug Prediction Findings Using Effort Aware Models, in Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM (Timişoara, Romania), pages 1-10. (Acceptance ratio: 36/133=27%) BibTeX
• THOMAS, S. W., ADAMS, B. HASSAN, A. E. and BLOSTEIN, D. (2010). Validating the Use of Topic Models for Software Evolution, in Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM (Timişoara, Romania), pages 55-64. (Acceptance ratio: 17/44=39%) [invited for special issue] BibTeX (Most Influential Paper Award)
• SHIHAB, E., JIANG, Z. M., IBRAHIM, W. M., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2010). Understanding the Impact of Code and Process Metrics on Post-release Defects: A Case Study on the Eclipse Project, in Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM (Bolzano-Bozen, Italy), Article Nr. 4. (Acceptance ratio: 30/102=29%) BibTeX
• MALIK, H., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2010). Using Load Tests To Automatically Compare the Subsystems of a Large Enterprise System, in Proceedings of the 34th Annual IEEE COMPuter Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC (Seoul, South Korea), pages 117-126. (Acceptance ratio: 20%) BibTeX
• FOO, K. C., JIANG, Z. M., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E., ZOU, Y. and FLORA, P. (2010). Mining Performance Regression Testing Repositories for Automated Performance Analysis, in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Quality Software, QSIC (Zhangjiajie, China), pages 32-41. (Acceptance ratio: 20/121=16.5%) BibTeX
• SHIHAB, E., JIANG, Z. M., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E., BOWERMAN, R. (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), pages 132-141. (Acceptance ratio: 20/121=16.5%) [invited for special issue] BibTeX
• MCINTOSH, S., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2010). The Evolution of ANT Build Systems, in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR (Cape Town, South Africa), pages 42-51. (Acceptance ratio: 16/51=31.4%) [invited for special issue] BibTeX
• IBRAHIM, W. M., BETTENBURG, N., SHIHAB, E., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2010). Should I contribute to this discussion?, in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR (Cape Town, South Africa), pages 181-190. (Acceptance ratio: 16/51=31.4%) BibTeX
• ADAMS, B., JIANG, Z. M. and HASSAN, A. E. (2010). Identifying Crosscutting Concerns Using Historical Code Changes, in Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE (Cape Town, South Africa), pages 305-314. (Acceptance ratio: 52/380=13.7%) BibTeX
• MALIK, H., JIANG, Z. M., ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E., FLORA, P. and HAMANN, G. (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), pages 227-236, March 2010. (Acceptance ratio: 21/80=26.3%) BibTeX

Other

• BETTENBURG, N. and ADAMS, B. (2010). Workshop on Mining Unstructured Data (MUD), Proceedings of the 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), Beverly, MA, US, October 2010.
• ADAMS, B., HAUPT, M. and LOHMANN, D. (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

• HAUPT, M., ADAMS, B., TIMBERMONT, S., GIBBS, C., COADY, Y. and HIRSCHFELD, R. (2009). Disentangling Virtual Machine Architecture, in IET Software: Special Issue on Domain-specific Aspect Languages, 3 (3), pages 201-218, IET. BibTeX
• ADAMS, B., DE SCHUTTER, K., ZAIDMAN, A., DEMEYER, S., TROMP, H. and DE MEUTER, W. (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), pages 668-684, ISSN: 0164-1212, Elsevier. BibTeX

Conference

• BETTENBURG, N., SHANG, W., IBRAHIM, W., ADAMS, B., ZOU, Y. and HASSAN, A. E. (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), pages 85-94, October 2009. (Acceptance ratio: 20/79=25%) [invited for special issue] BibTeX
• ALAM, O., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2009). A Study of the Time Dependence of Code Changes, in Proceedings of the 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE (Lille, France), pages 21-30, October 2009. (Acceptance ratio: 20/79=25%) BibTeX
• ALAM, O., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2009). Measuring the Progress of Projects Using the Time Dependence of Code Changes, in Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM (Edmonton, Canada), pages 329-338, September 2009. (Acceptance ratio: 35/162=22%) BibTeX (Best Paper Award)
• SHANG, W., JIANG, Z. M., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2009). MapReduce as a General Framework to Support Research in Mining Software Repositories (MSR), in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR (Vancouver, Canada), pages 21-30, May 2009. (Acceptance ratio: 14/47=30%) BibTeX
• ADAMS, B., DE MEUTER, W., TROMP, H. and HASSAN, A. E. (2009). Can we Refactor Conditional Compilation into Aspects?, in Proceedings of the 8th ACM international conference on Aspect-oriented Software Development, AOSD (Charlottesville, VA, US), pages 243-254, ISBN-ISSN: 978-1-60558-442-3, ACM, March 2009. (Acceptance ratio: 19/86=22%) BibTeX (Most Influential Paper Award)

Workshop

• SHIHAB, E., BETTENBURG, N., ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (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 p., November 2009. BibTeX
• MARR, S., TIMBERMONT, S., ADAMS, B., D'HONDT, T., COSTANZA, P. and DE MEUTER, W. (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), pages 3-8, March 2009. BibTeX

Other

• ADAMS, B. and HASSAN, A. E. (2009). The Life of a Software Concern, in Benevol (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), December 2009. (presentation)
• ADAMS, B. (2009). Co-Evolution of Source Code and the Build System, PhD Symposium at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM (Edmonton, Canada), September 2009. (presentation) BibTeX
• GROHER, I., KELLENS, A., SCHWANNINGER, C., ADAMS, B., HOHENSTEIN, U., AGUIAR, A. and TRUYEN, E. (2009). Proceedings of the 1st Practices in Linking Aspect Technology and Evolution workshop (PLATE), ISBN-ISSN: 978-1-60558-453-9, Charlottesville, VA, US, March 2009.
• ADAMS, B., HASSAN, A. E., TROMP, H. and DE MEUTER, W. (2009). R3V3RS3: Querying for Syntactical Patterns of Conditional Compilation Usage (demo), in Proceedings of the 8th ACM international conference on Aspect-oriented Software Development, AOSD (Charlottesville, VA, US), March 2009. BibTeX

2008

PhD

• ADAMS, B. (2008). Co-evolution of Source Code and the Build System: Impact on the Introduction of AOSD in Legacy Systems, PhD dissertation, 353 p., ISBN 978-90-8578-203-2, Ghent University, Belgium, May 2008. BibTeX

Journal

• ADAMS, B., DE SCHUTTER, K., TROMP, H. and DE MEUTER, W. (2008). The Evolution of the Linux Build System, in Proceedings of the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution 2007 (Paris, France), Electronic Communications of the ECEASST, Vol. 8., 16 p., ECEASST. BibTeX

Workshop

• ADAMS, B., VAN ROMPAEY, B., GIBBS, C., COADY, Y. and TROMP, H. (2008). Aspect mining in the Presence of the C Preprocessor, in Proceedings of the 4th Linking Aspect Technology and Evolution Workshop, LATE (Brussels, Belgium), pages 1-6, ISBN: 978-1-60558-147-7, ACM, April 2008. BibTeX
• TIMBERMONT, S., ADAMS, B. and HAUPT, M. (2008). Towards a DSAL for Object Layout in Virtual Machines, in Proceedings of the 3rd Domain-Specific Aspect Languages Workshop, DSAL (Brussels, Belgium), pages 1-4, ISBN: 978-1-60558-146-0, ACM, April 2008. BibTeX
• ADAMS, B., HERZEEL, C. and GYBELS, K. (2008). cHALO, Stateful Aspects in C, in Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Aspects, Components, and Patterns for Infrastructure Software, ACP4IS (Brussels, Belgium), pages 1-6, ISBN: 978-1-60558-142-2, ACM, March 2008. BibTeX

Other

• JIANG, Z. M., THAKKAR, D., MALIK, H., SHIHAB, E., HASSAN, A. E., DIETZ, D., FLORA, P., HAMANN, G., NEWTON, A., SUTHERLAND, J. and ADAMS, B. (2008). Quality Engineering for Large Scale Enterprise Systems, in Center of Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit, CASCON (Toronto, Canada), October 2008.
• ADAMS, B. (2008). Lessons learnt from Studying Build Systems with MAKAO, presentation at the 2nd Workshop on Advanced Software Development Tools and Techniques, WASDeTT (Beijing, China), October 2008.
• ADAMS, B. (2008). Mining the Build System, presentation at Lightning workshop on mining software repositories (Antwerp, Belgium), January 2008.

2007

Journal

• DE SCHUTTER, K. and ADAMS, B. (2007). Aspect-orientation For Revitalising Legacy Business Software, in Proceedings of the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution (06-07 April 2006, Lille, France), Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS), 166 (1), pages 63-80, Elsevier. BibTeX

Conference

• ADAMS, B., DE SCHUTTER, K., TROMP, H. and DE MEUTER, W. (2007). Design Recovery and Maintenance of Build Systems, in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM, pages 114-123, IEEE Computer Society, Paris, France, October 2007. (Acceptance ratio: 46/214=21%) [invited for special issue] BibTeX

Workshop

• ADAMS, B. and DE SCHUTTER, K. (2007). On the Relationship between Weavers and the Build System (presentation), in Benevol (Namur, Belgium), December 2007.
• ADAMS, B. and DE SCHUTTER, K. and TROMP, H. and DE MEUTER, W. (2007). The Evolution of the Linux Build System, in Informal proceedings of the International ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution 2007 (Paris, France), pages 93--102, October 2007. BibTeX
• ADAMS, B. and DE SCHUTTER, K. (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), pages 1-8, ISBN: 1-59593-656-1, ACM, March 2007.(presentation)(poster) BibTeX
• DE SCHUTTER, K. and ADAMS, B. (2007). Face-off: AOP+LMP vs. Legacy Software, in Aspects For Legacy Applications (Proceedings of Dagstuhl Seminar 06302), 6 p., Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum für Informatik (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, February 2007. BibTeX

Other

• ADAMS, B. (2007). Co-evolution of Source Code and Build Systems, in 8th FIrW PhD Symposium 2007 (Ghent University, Belgium), Deember 2007.(poster)
• ADAMS, B., DE SCHUTTER, K., TROMP, H. and DE MEUTER, W. (2007). MAKAO (demo), in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM (Paris, France), pages 517-518, IEEE Computer Society, October 2007. BibTeX
• ADAMS, B. (2007). Made in MAKAO, Demo at the 6th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, AOSD (Vancouver, Canada), March 2007. BibTeX

2006

Conference

• ZAIDMAN, A., ADAMS, B., DE SCHUTTER, K., DEMEYER, S., HOFFMAN, G. and DE RUYCK, B. (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), pages 91-102, IEEE Computer Society, March 2006. (Acceptance ratio: 27/65=42%) BibTeX

Workshop

• ADAMS, B. and DE SCHUTTER, K. (2006). Software Architecture Recovery from Build Processes (presentation), in Benevol 2006 (Delft, The Netherlands), December 2006.
• ADAMS, B. (2006). Made in MAKAO (extended abstract), in Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Aspects in Software, EWAS (Enschede, The Netherlands), August 2006.(poster) BibTeX
• DE SCHUTTER, K. and ADAMS, B. (2006). Aspect-orientation for Revitalising Legacy Business Software, in Informal Proceedings of the International ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution 2006 (Lille, France), 13 p., April 2006. BibTeX
• ADAMS, B. (2006). AOP on the C-side, in Proceedings of the 2nd Linking Aspect Technology and Evolution Workshop, LATEr (Bonn, Germany), 5 p., March 2006.(poster) BibTeX

Other

• ADAMS, B. (2006). MAKAO: Dealing with Legacy Build Systems (extended abstract), 1st European Summer School on Aspect-oriented Software Development (Brussels, Belgium), July 2006.(presentation)

2005

Workshop

• ADAMS, B., DE SCHUTTER, K. and ZAIDMAN, A. (2005). Applying aspects in a legacy environment, Benevol[04] (Brussels, Belgium), December 2005.
• ZAIDMAN, A., ADAMS, B. and DE SCHUTTER, K. (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), pages 6-10, Technical report No. 2005-12, Universiteit Antwerpen, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, November 2005. BibTeX
• ADAMS, B., DE SCHUTTER, K. and ZAIDMAN, A. (2005). AOP for Legacy Environments, a Case Study, in European Interactive Workshop on Aspects in Software, EIWAS (Brussels, Belgium), 8 p., September 2005. BibTeX
• ADAMS, B. (2005). Metadata and aspect evolution, Benevol 2005 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), May 2005.
• ADAMS, B. and TOURWÉ, T. (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 p., March 2005.(presentation) BibTeX

Other

• ADAMS, B. (2005). Aspect Orientation in the Procedural Context of C, in 6th FIrW PhD Symposium 2005 (Ghent University, Belgium), December 2005.(poster)
• ADAMS, B. (2005). Language-independent Aspect Weaving (extended abstract), GTTSE 2005 Summer School (Braga, Portugal), July 2005.(mentioned in this Dr. Dobb's article)

2004

Other

• ADAMS, B. (2004). Aspectgenerator voor Declaratieve Definitie van Persistentie (Aspect Generator for Declarative Definition of Persistency), Master's thesis (Dutch), 86 p.,Ghent University, Belgium, June 2004.(source code)