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Journal articles

• Andy Zaidman, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, Orla Greevy. Introduction to Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis.
  Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice 20(4): 223-225, Wiley, July/August 2008.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Bas Cornelissen, Andy Zaidman, Danny Holten, Leon Moonen, Arie van Deursen, Jarke J. Van Wijk. Execution Trace Analysis through Massive Sequence and Circular Bundle Views.
  Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) 81(12): 2252-2268, Elsevier, December, 2008.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI] - [Extension of ICPC 2007 paper]
• Andy Zaidman, Serge Demeyer. Automatic Identification of Key Classes in a Software System Using Webmining Techniques.
  Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice 20(6): 387-417, Wiley, November/December 2008.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI] - [Extension of CSMR 2005 and ICPC 2006 paper]
• Bram Adams, Kris De Schutter, Andy Zaidman, Serge Demeyer, Herman Tromp, Wolfgang De Meuter. Using Aspect Orientation in Legacy Environments for Reverse Engineering using Dynamic Analysis - An Industrial Experience Report.
  Journal of Systems and Software (JSS): 82(4): 668-684, Elsevier, April, 2009.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI] - [Extension of CSMR2006]
• Marco Glorie, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen, Lennart Hofland. Splitting a Large Software Repository for Easing Future Software Evolution - An Industrial Experience Report.
  Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Pratice (JSME): 21(2): 113-141, Wiley, March/April 2009.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI] - [Extension of CSMR2008]
• Bas Cornelissen, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen, Leon Moonen, Rainer Koschke. A Systematic Survey of Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE): 35(5): 684-702, 2009.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Ahmed E. Hassan, Andy Zaidman, Massimiliano Di Penta. Introduction to the Special Issue on Reverse Engineering
  Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice (JSME): 22(3): 141-142, 2010.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Bas Cornelissen, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen. A Controlled Experiment for Program Comprehension through Trace Visualization
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE): 37(3): 341-355, 2011
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI] - [Extension of ICPC 2009]
• Andy Zaidman, Bart Van Rompaey, Arie van Deursen, Serge Demeyer. Studying the co-evolution of production and test code in open source and industrial developer test processes through repository mining
  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE): 16(3):325-364, 2011.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI] - [Extension of ICST 2008]
• Andy Zaidman, Johan Brichau. Preface to the Special Issue on Software Evolution, Adaptability and Variability
  Science of Computer Programming (SCP): 76(12): 1075-1077, Elsevier, December, 2011.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Andy Zaidman, Giuliano Antoniol. Preface to the Special Issue on Reverse Engineering (featuring selected papers from WCRE 2009)
  Science of Computer Programming (SCP), 77(6): 741-742, Elsevier, June, 2012.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Andy Zaidman, Nick Matthijssen, Margaret-Anne Storey, Arie van Deursen. Understanding Ajax Applications by Connecting Client and Server-Side Execution Traces
  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 18(2): 181-218, Springer, April, 2013.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI] - [Extension of ICPC 2010]
• Cor-Paul Bezemer, Andy Zaidman. Performance Optimization of Deployed Software-as-a-Service Applications
  Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 87(1): 87-103, Elsevier, January, 2014.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Dimitrios Athanasiou, Ariadi Nugroho, Joost Visser, Andy Zaidman. Test Code Quality and Its Relation to Issue Handling Performance.
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 40(11), 1100-1125, November, 2014.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Cor-Paul Bezemer, Elric Milon, Andy Zaidman, Johan Pouwelse. Detecting and Analyzing I/O Performance Regressions
  Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP), 26(12): 1193-1212, Wiley, December 2014.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Petra Heck, Andy Zaidman. Horizontal Traceability for Just-In-Time Requirements: The Case for Open Source Feature Requests.
  Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP), 26(12), 1280-1296, Wiley, December 2014.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Tiago Espinha, Andy Zaidman, Hans-Gerhard Gross. Web API Growing Pains: Loosely Coupled Yet Strongly Tied.
  Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 100(2), 27-43, Elsevier, February 2015.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Jaap Kabbedijk, Cor-Paul Bezemer, Slinger Jansen, Andy Zaidman. Defining Multi-Tenancy: A Structured Mapping Study on the Academic and Industrial Perspective.
  Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 100(2), 139-148, Elsevier, February 2015.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Quinten David Soetens, Serge Demeyer, Andy Zaidman, Javier Pérez. Change-Based Test Selection: An Empirical Evaluation.
  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 21(5), 1990–2032, Springer, October 2016.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Cuiting Chen, Hans-Gerhard Gross, Andy Zaidman. Analysis of Service Diagnosis Improvement through Increased Monitoring Granularity.
  Software Quality Journal (SQJ), 25(2): 437-471, Springer, June 2017.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Moritz Beller, Andy Zaidman, Andrey Karpov, Rolf A. Zwaan. The Last Line Effect Explained.
  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 22(3): 1508–1536, Springer, June 2017.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Petra Heck, Andy Zaidman. A Framework for Quality Assessment of Just-In-Time Requirements. The Case of Open Source Feature Requests.
  Requirements Engineering, 22(4): 453-273, Springer, November 2017.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Petra Heck, Andy Zaidman. A Systematic Literature Review on Quality Criteria for Agile Requirements Specifications.
  Software Quality Journal (SQJ), 26(1): 127-160, Springer, March 2018.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Gemma Catolino, Fabio Palomba, Andrea De Lucia, Filomena Ferrucci, Andy Zaidman. Enhancing Change Prediction Models using Developer-Related Factors
  Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 143(9): 14-28, Elsevier, September 2018.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Qianqian Zhu, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman. A Systematic Literature Review of How Mutation Testing Supports Quality Assurance Processes
  Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR), 28(6): e1675, Springer, September 2018.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Fabio Palomba, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Rocco Oliveto, Andrea De Lucia. The Scent of a Smell: An Extensive Comparison between Textual and Structural Smells
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 44(10): 977-1000, October, 2018.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Fabio Palomba, Dario Di Nucci, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Andrea De Lucia. On the Impact of Code Smells on the Energy Consumption of Mobile Applications
  Information and Software Technology (IST), 105: 43-55, 2019.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Moritz Beller, Georgios Gousios, Annibale Panichella, Sebastian Proksch, Sven Amann, Andy Zaidman. Developer Testing in The IDE: Patterns, Beliefs, And Behavior
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 45(3), 261-284, 2019.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Gemma Catolino, Fabio Palomba, Andy Zaidman, Filomena Ferruci. Not All Bugs Are the Same: Understanding, Characterizing, and Classifying Bug Types
  Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 152: 165-181, 2019.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Damian A. Tamburri, Fabio Palomba, Alexander Serebrenik, Andy Zaidman. Discovering Community Patterns in Open-Source: A Systematic Approach and Its Evaluation
  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 24(3): 1369-1417, 2019.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Benjamin Danglot, Oscar Vera-Perez, Zhongxing Yu, Andy Zaidman, Martin Monperrus, Benoit Baudry. A Snowballing Literature Survey on Test Amplification.
  Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 157, article 110398, 2019.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Gemma Catolino, Fabio Palomba, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Andrea De Lucia, Andy Zaidman, Filomena Ferrucci. Improving Change Prediction Models with Code Smell-Related Information
  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 25(1), 49-95, 2020.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Gema Rodríguez-Pérez, Gregorio Robles, Alexander Serebrenik, Andy Zaidman, Daniel M. Germán, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona. How Bugs Are Born: A Model to Identify How Bugs Are Introduced in Software Components
  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 25(2), 1294-1340, 2020.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Carmine Vassallo, Sebastiano Panichella, Fabio Palomba, Sebastian Proksch, Harald C. Gall, Andy Zaidman. How Developers Engage with Static Analysis Tools in Different Contexts
  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 25(2), 1419-1457, 2020.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Pouria Derakhshanfar, Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen. Search-based Crash Reproduction using Behavioral Model Seeding
  Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR), 30(3): e1733, Springer, May 2020.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Yasutaka Kamei, Andy Zaidman. Guest editorial: mining software repositories 2018
  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 25(3): 2055-2057, May 2020.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Dario Di Nucci, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Andrea De Lucia. A Test Case Prioritization Genetic Algorithm guided by the Hypervolume Indicator
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 46(6), 674-696, June 2020.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Qianqian Zhu, Andy Zaidman, Annibale Panichella. How to Kill Them All: An Exploratory Study on the Impact of Code Observability on Mutation Testing
  Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 173, article 110864, 2021.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Fabio Palomba, Damian A. Tamburri, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Rocco Oliveto, Andy Zaidman, Alexander Serebrenik. Beyond Technical Aspects: How Do Community Smells Influence the Intensity of Code Smells?
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 47(1), 108-129, January 2021.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Carolin Brandt, Andy Zaidman. Developer-Centric Test Amplification: The Interplay Between Automatic Generation and Human Exploration
  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 27: paper 96, April 2022.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Pouria Derakhshanfar, Xavier Devroey, Andy Zaidman. Basic Block Coverage for Search-based Unit Testing and Crash Reproduction
  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 27: paper 192, July 2022.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Shaiful Alam Chowdhury, Reid Holmes, Andy Zaidman, Rick Kazman. Revisiting the Debate: Are Code Metrics Useful for Measuring Maintenance Effort?
  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 27: paper 158, August 2022.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Maurício Aniche, Christoph Treude, Andy Zaidman. How Developers Engineer Test Cases: An Observational Study
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 48(12), 4925-4946, December 2022.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Pouria Derakhshanfar, Xavier Devroey, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen. Generating Class-Level Integration Tests Using Call Site Information
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 49(4), 2069-2087, April 2023.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Mairieli Wessel, Andy Zaidman, Marco A. Gerosa, Igor Steinmacher. Guidelines for Developing Bots for GitHub
  IEEE Software, 40(3), 72-79, May-June 2023.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Jasper Denkers, Marvin Brunner, Louis van Gool, Jurgen J. Vinju, Andy Zaidman, Eelco Visser. Taming Complexity of Industrial Printing Systems Using a Constraint-Based DSL — An Industrial Experience Report
  Software: Practice and Experience (SP&E), 53(10), 2026-2064, October 2023.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Mark Swillus, Andy Zaidman. Sentiment Overflow in the Testing Stack: Analysing Software Testing Posts on Stack Overflow.
  Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 205, article 111804, November 2023.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Imara van Dinten, Pouria Derakhshanfar, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman. The Slow and The Furious? Performance Antipattern Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems
  Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 210, article 111904, April 2024.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Carolin Brandt, Ali Khatami, Mairieli Wessel, Andy Zaidman. Shaken, Not Stirred. How Developers Like Their Amplified Tests
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 50(5): 1264-1280, May 2024.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Ali Khatami, Andy Zaidman. State-Of-The-Practice in Quality Assurance in Java-Based Open Source Software Development
  Software: Practice and Experience (SP&E), 54(8): 1408-1446, August 2024.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Olav Bunte, Jasper Denkers, Louis van Gool, Jurgen J. Vinju, Eelco Visser, Tim Willemse, Andy Zaidman. OIL: an Industrial Case Study in Language Engineering with Spoofax
  Journal of Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), To appear.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]

Book chapters

• Leon Moonen, Arie van Deursen, Andy Zaidman, Magiel Bruntink. On the interplay between software testing and evolution and its effect on program comprehension. Software evolution, edited by, Tom Mens and Serge Demeyer. Pages 173-202, Springer, 2008.
  [preprint PDF] - [DOI]
• Andy Zaidman, Martin Pinzger, Arie van Deursen. Software Evolution. Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, edited by, Philip A. Laplante. Pages 1127-1137. Taylor & Francis, 2010.
  [preprint PDF]

Conference papers

• Andy Zaidman and Serge Demeyer. Managing trace data volume through a heuristical clustering process based on event execution frequency
  Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR2004), pages 329-338
  IEEE Computer Society, Tampere, Finland, March 2004
  [PDF]
• Andy Zaidman, Toon Calders, Serge Demeyer and Jan Paredaens. Applying Webmining Techniques to Execution Traces to Support the Program Comprehension Process
  Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR2005), pages 134-142
  IEEE Computer Society, Manchester, UK, March 2005
  [PDF] - [Extension of this paper appeared in JSME]
• Orla Greevy, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj and Andy Zaidman.Workshop on Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA)
  Proceedings of the 12th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE2005), pages 232-232
  IEEE Computer Society, Pittsburgh (Carnegie Mellon), USA, November 2005
  [PDF]
• Andy Zaidman. Scalability Solutions for Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis
  Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR2006), pages 327-330
  IEEE Computer Society, Bari, Italy, March 2006
  [PDF]
• Andy Zaidman, Bram Adams, Kris De Schutter, Serge Demeyer, Ghislain Hoffman, Bernard De Ruyck. Regaining Lost Knowledge through Dynamic Analysis and Aspect Orientation - An Industrial Experience Report
  Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR2006), pages 91-102
  IEEE Computer Society, Bari, Italy, March 2006
  [PDF] - [Extension of this paper appeared in JSS]
• Andy Zaidman, Bart Du Bois, Serge Demeyer How Webmining and Coupling Metrics Improve Early Program Compehension
  Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC2006), pages 74-78
  IEEE Computer Society, Athens, Greece, June 2006.
  [PDF] - [Extension of this paper appeared in JSME]
• Andy Zaidman, Orla Greevy and Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj. Workshop on Program COmprehension through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA'06)
  Proceedings of the 13th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE2006), pages 315-315
  IEEE Computer Society, Benevento, Italy, October 2006
  [PDF]
• Bas Cornelissen, Arie van Deursen, Leon Moonen, Andy Zaidman. Visualizing Testsuites to Aid in Software Understanding
  Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR2007), pages 213-222
  IEEE Computer Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 2007.
  [PDF]
• Bas Cornelissen, Danny Holten, Andy Zaidman, Leon Moonen, Jarke J. van Wijk, Arie van Deursen. Understanding Execution Traces Using Massive Sequence and Circular Bundle Views
  Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC2007), pages 49-58
  IEEE Computer Society, Banff, Canada, June 2007.
  [PDF] - [Extension of this paper appeared in JSS]
• Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, Andy Zaidman and Orla Greevy. Workshop on Program COmprehension through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA'07)
  Proceedings of the 14th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE2007), pages 298-299
  IEEE Computer Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2007
  [PDF]
• Marco Glorie, Andy Zaidman, Lennart Hofland, Arie van Deursen. Splitting a Large Software Archive for Easing Future Software Evolution -- An Industrial Experience Report Using Formal Concept Analysis
  Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR2008), pages 153-162
  IEEE Computer Society, Athens, Greece, April, 2008.
  [PDF] - [Extension of this paper appeared in JSME]
• Andy Zaidman, Bart Van Rompaey, Serge Demeyer, Arie van Deursen. Mining Software Repositories to Study Co-Evolution of Production & Test Code.
  Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST2008), pages 220-229
  IEEE Computer Society, Lillehammer, Norway, April 2008.
  [PDF] - [Extension of this paper appeared in EMSE]
• Bas Cornelissen, Leon Moonen, Andy Zaidman. An Assessment Methodology for Trace Reduction Techniques.
  Proceedings of the 24st International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM2008), pages 107-116
  IEEE Computer Society, Beijing, China, September-October 2008.
  [PDF] - [Extension of this paper in EMSE]
• Andy Zaidman, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, Orla Greevy, David Rothlisberger. Workshop on Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA'08)
  Proceedings of the 15th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2008), pages 345-346
  IEEE Computer Society, Antwerp, Belgium, October 2008.
  [PDF]
• Bas Cornelissen, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen, Bart Van Rompaey. Trace Visualization for Program Comprehension: a Controlled Experiment
  Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC2009), pages 100-109
  IEEE Computer Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2009.
  [PDF] - [Tech. report containing questionnaire] - [ICPC'09 best paper award!] - [Extension of this paper paper in IEEE TSE]
• Zeeger Lubsen, Andy Zaidman, Martin Pinzger. Using Association Rules to Study the Co-evolution of Production & Test Code
  Proceedings of the 6th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2009), pages 151-154.
  IEEE Computer Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2009.
  [PDF]
• Michiel de Wit, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen. Managing Code Clones Using Dynamic Change Tracking and Resolution.
  Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2009), pages 169-178.
  IEEE Computer Society, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, September 2009.
  [PDF]
• Bart Luijten, Joost Visser, Andy Zaidman. Assessment of Issue Handling Efficiency
  Proceedings of the 7th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010), pages 94-97.
  IEEE Computer Society, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010.
  [PDF]
• Arie van Deursen, Ali Mesbah, Bas Cornelissen, Andy Zaidman, Martin Pinzger, Anja Guzzi. Adinda: A Knowledgable, Browser-Based IDE
  Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2 (ICSE 2), pages 203-206.
  ACM, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010.
  [PDF]
• Nick Matthijssen, Andy Zaidman, Margaret-Anne Storey, Ian Bull, Arie van Deursen. Connecting Traces: Understanding Client-Server Interactions in Ajax Applications
  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 216-225.
  IEEE Computer Society, Braga, Portugal, June-July 2010.
  [PDF] - [Extension of this paper in EMSE]
• Cor-Paul Bezemer, Andy Zaidman, Bart Platzbeecker, Toine Hurkmans, Aad 't Hart. Enabling Multi-Tenancy: An Industrial Experience Report
  Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pages 1-8.
  IEEE Computer Society, Timisoara, Romania, September 2010.
  [PDF]
• Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, David Rothlisberger, Andy Zaidman. Workshop on Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA'10)
  Proceedings of the 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2010), pages 279-280.
  IEEE Computer Society, Boston, USA, October 2010.
  [PDF]
• Nick Matthijssen, Andy Zaidman. FireDetective: Understanding Ajax Client/Server Interactions.
  Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pages 998-1000.
  ACM, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 2011.
  [PDF]
• Cor-Paul Bezemer, Andy Zaidman. Server Overload Detection and Prediction Using Pattern Classification.
  Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), pages 163-164.
  ACM, Karlsruhe, Germany, 14-18 June 2011.
  [PDF]
• Victor Hurdugaci, Andy Zaidman. Aiding Developers to Maintain Developer Tests.
  Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), pages 11-20.
  IEEE Computer Society, Szeged, Hungary, March 2012.
  [PDF]
• Ralph Peters, Andy Zaidman. Evaluating the Lifespan of Code Smells using Software Repository Mining.
  Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), pages 411-416.
  IEEE Computer Society, Szeged, Hungary, March 2012.
  [PDF] - [SANER'22 most influential paper award!]
• Tiago Espinha, Cuiting Chen, Andy Zaidman, Hans-Gerhard Gross. Maintenance Research in SOA - Towards a Standard Case Study
  Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), pages 391-396.
  IEEE Computer Society, Szeged, Hungary, March 2012.
  [PDF]
• Michaela Greiler, Arie van Deursen, Andy Zaidman. Measuring Test Case Similarity to Support Test Suite Understanding
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Objects, Models, Components, Patterns (TOOLS), pages 91-107.
  Springer, Prague, Czech Republic, May-June 2012.
  [PDF]
• Cor-Paul Bezemer, Andy Zaidman, Ad van der Hoeven, Andre van de Graaf, Maarten Wiertz, Remko Weijers. Locating Performance Improvement Opportunities in an Industrial Software-as-a-Service Application
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pages 548-577.
  IEEE Computer Society, Riva del Garda, Italy, September 2012.
  [PDF]
• Tiago Espinha, Andy Zaidman, Hans-Gerhard Gross. Understanding the Runtime Topology of Service-Oriented Systems
  Proceeedings of the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 187-196.
  IEEE Computer Society, Kingston, Canada, October 2012.
  [PDF]
• Frens Vonken, Andy Zaidman. Refactoring with Unit Testing: A Match Made in Heaven?
  Proceeedings of the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 29-38.
  IEEE Computer Society, Kingston, Canada, October 2012.
  [PDF]
• Cuiting Chen, Hans-Gerhard Gross, Andy Zaidman. Automated Fault Diagnosis for Service-Oriented Software Systems
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), pages 1-8.
  IEEE Computer Society, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2012.
  [PDF]
• Quinten David Soetens, Serge Demeyer, Andy Zaidman. Change-Based Test Selection in the Presence of Developer Tests
  Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), pages 101-110.
  IEEE Computer Society, Genova, Italy, March 2013.
  [PDF]
• Michaela Greiler, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen, Margaret-Anne Storey. Strategies for Avoiding Test Fixture Smells During Software Evolution
  Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pages 387-396.
  IEEE Computer Society, San Francisco, USA, May 2013.
  [PDF]
• Cuiting Chen, Hans-Gerhard Gross, Andy Zaidman. Improving Service Diagnosis through Increased Monitoring Granularity
  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE), pages 129-138.
  IEEE, Washington, D.C., USA, June 2013.
  [PDF] - [SERE'13 most distinguished paper award!]
• Cuiting Chen, Hans-Gerhard Gross, Andy Zaidman. Improving Service Diagnosis through Invocation Monitoring
  Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC), pages 85-94.
  IEEE, Nanjing, July 2013.
  [PDF]
• Tiago Espinha, Andy Zaidman, Hans-Gerhard Gross. Web API Growing Pains: Stories from Client Developers and Their Code.
  Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering and the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (CSMR-WCRE), pages 84-93.
  IEEE, Antwerp, Belgium, February 2014.
  [PDF]
• Moritz Beller, Alberto Bacchelli, Andy Zaidman, Elmar Juergens. Modern Code Reviews in Open-Source Projects: Which Problems Do They Fix?
  Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pages 202-211.
  IEEE, Hyderabad, India, May-June 2014.
  [PDF]
• Georgios Gousios, Andy Zaidman. A Dataset for Pull-Based Development Research.
  Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pages 368-371.
  IEEE, Hyderabad, India, May-June 2014.
  [PDF] - [MSR'14 best data showcase award!]
• Georgios Gousios, Bogdan Vasilescu, Alexander Serebrenik, Andy Zaidman. Lean GHTorrent: GitHub Data on Demand.
  Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pages 384-387.
  IEEE, Hyderabad, India, May-June 2014.
  [PDF]
• Cosmin Marsavina, Daniele Romano, Andy Zaidman. Studying Fine-Grained Co-Evolution Patterns of Production and Test Code.
  Proceedings of the 14th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), pages 195-204.
  IEEE, Victoria, BC, Canada, September 2014.
  [PDF]
• Erik Ammerlaan, Wim Veninga, Andy Zaidman. Old Habits Die Hard: Why Refactoring for Understandability Does Not Give Immediate Benefits.
  Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), pages 504-507.
  IEEE, Montreal, Canada, March 2015.
  [PDF]
• Tiago Espinha, Andy Zaidman, Hans-Gerhard Gross. Web API Fragility: How Robust Is Your Mobile Application?
  Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft), pages 12-21.
  IEEE, Florence, Italy, May 2015.
  [PDF]
• Erik van der Veen, Georgios Gousios, Andy Zaidman. Automatically Prioritizing Pull Requests.
  Proceedings of the 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pages 357-361.
  IEEE, Florence, Italy, May 2015.
  [PDF]
• Moritz Beller, Andy Zaidman, Andrey Karpov. The Last Line Effect.
  Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 240-243.
  IEEE, Florence, Italy, May 2015.
  [PDF] - [ICPC'15 best ERA paper award!]
• Annibale Panichella, Andrea de Lucia, Andy Zaidman. Adaptive User Feedback for IR-based Traceability Recovery.
  Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Software and Systems Traceability (SST), pages 15-21.
  IEEE, Florence, Italy, May 2015.
  [PDF]
• Georgios Gousios, Andy Zaidman, Margaret-Anne Storey, Arie van Deursen. Work Practices and Challenges in Pull-Based Development: The Integrator's Perspective.
  Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pages 358-368.
  IEEE, Florence, Italy, May 2015.
  [PDF]
• Moritz Beller, Georgios Gousios, Andy Zaidman. How (Much) Do Developers Test?
  Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE - volume 2), pages 559-562.
  IEEE, Florence, Italy, May 2015.
  [PDF]
• Dario Di Nucci, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Andrea De Lucia. Hypervolume-based Search for Test Case Prioritization
  Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE'15), pages 157-172.
  Springer, Bergamo, Italy, September 2015.
  [PDF]
• Moritz Beller, Georgios Gousios, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman. When, How and Why Developers (Do Not) Test in Their IDEs.
  Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), pages 179-190.
  ACM, Bergamo, Italy, August-September 2015.
  [PDF]
• Moritz Beller, Radjino Bholanath, Shane McIntosh, Andy Zaidman. Analyzing the State of Static Analysis: A Large-Scale Evaluation in Open Source Software.
  Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), pages 470-481.
  IEEE, Osaka, Japan, March 2016.
  [PDF]
• Fabio Palomba, Annibale Panichella, Andrea De Lucia, Rocco Oliveto, Andy Zaidman. A Textual-based Technique for Smell Detection.
  Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 1-10.
  IEEE, Austin, Texas, USA, May 2016.
  [PDF]
• Sebastiano Panichella, Annibale Panichella, Moritz Beller, Andy Zaidman, Harald Gall. The Impact of Test Case Summaries on Bug Fixing Performance: An Empirical Investigation.
  Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pages 547-558.
  IEEE, Austin, Texas, USA, May 2016.
  [PDF]
• Fabio Palomba, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Rocco Oliveto, Andrea De Lucia. Automatic Test Case Generation: What if Test Code Quality Matters?
  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), pages 130-141.
  ACM, Saarbrücken, Germany, July, 2016.
  [PDF]
• Maurício Aniche, Christoph Treude, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen, Marco Aurelio Gerosa. SATT: Tailoring Code Metric Thresholds for Different Software Architectures
  Proceedings of the 14th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), pages 41-50.
  IEEE, Raleigh, NC, USA, September, 2016.
  [PDF]
• Carmine Vassallo, Fiorella Zampetti, Daniele Romano, Moritz Beller, Annibale Panichella, Massimiliano Di Penta, Andy Zaidman. Continuous Delivery Practices in a Large Financial Organization
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), pages 519-528.
  IEEE, Raleigh, NC, USA, September, 2016.
  [PDF]
• Dario Di Nucci, Fabio Palomba, Antonio Prota, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Andrea De Lucia. Software-Based Energy Profiling of Android Apps: Simple, Efficient and Reliable?
  Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), pages 103-114.
  IEEE, Klagenfurt, Austria, 2017.
  [PDF]
• Tim Buckers, Clinton Cao, Michiel Doesburg, Boning Gong, Sunwei Wang, Moritz Beller, Andy Zaidman. UAV: Warnings From Multiple Automated Static Analysis Tools At A Glance
  Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), pages 472-476.
  IEEE, Klagenfurt, Austria, 2017.
  [PDF] - [SANER'17 best tool paper award!] - [IEEE Software Blog post]
• Fabio Palomba, Dario Di Nucci, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Andrea De Lucia. Lightweight Detection of Android-specific Code Smells: the aDoctor Project
  Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), pages 487-491.
  IEEE, Klagenfurt, Austria, 2017.
  [PDF]
• Moritz Beller, Georgios Gousios, Andy Zaidman. TravisTorrent: Synthesizing Travis CI and GitHub for Full-Stack Research on Continuous Integration
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pages 447-450.
  IEEE, Buenos Aires, Argentinia, 2017.
  [PDF]
• Moritz Beller, Georgios Gousios, Andy Zaidman. Oops, My Tests Broke the Build: An Explorative Analysis of Travis CI with GitHub
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pages 356-367.
  IEEE, Buenos Aires, Argentinia, 2017.
  [PDF]
• Gemma Catolino, Fabio Palomba, Andrea De Lucia, Filomena Ferrucci, Andy Zaidman. Developer-Related Factors in Change Prediction: An Empirical Assessment
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 186-195.
  IEEE, Buenos Aires, Argentinia, 2017.
  [PDF]
• Fabio Palomba, Andy Zaidman, Rocco Oliveto, Andrea De Lucia. An Exploratory Study on the Relationship between Changes and Refactoring
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 176-185.
  IEEE, Buenos Aires, Argentinia, 2017.
  [PDF]
• Dario Di Nucci, Fabio Palomba, Antonio Prota, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Andrea De Lucia. PETrA: a Software-Based Tool for Estimating the Energy Profile of Android Applications
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE Companion), pages 3-6.
  IEEE, Buenos Aires, Argentinia, 2017.
  [PDF]
• Carmine Vassallo, Gerald Schermann, Fiorella Zampetti, Daniele Romano, Philipp Leitner, Andy Zaidman, Massimiliano Di Penta and Sebastiano Panichella. A Tale of CI Build Failures: an Open Source and a Financial Organization Perspective
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), pages 183-193.
  IEEE, Shanghai, China, 2017.
  [PDF]
• Carmine Vassallo, Sebastiano Panichella, Fabio Palomba, Sebastian Proksch, Andy Zaidman and Harald Gall. Context Is King: The Developer Perspective on the Usage of Static Analysis Tools
  Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), pages 38-49
  IEEE, Campobasso, Italy, 2018.
  [PDF]
• Qianqian Zhu, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman. An Investigation of Compression Techniques to Speed up Mutation Testing
  Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST), pages 274-284
  IEEE, Västerås, Sweden, 2018.
  [PDF]
• Fabio Palomba, Damian A. Tamburri, Alexander Serebrenik, Andy Zaidman, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Rocco Oliveto. How Do Community Smells Influence Code Smells?
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering -- Companion Volume (ICSE Companion), pages 240-241.
  ACM, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018.
  [PDF]
• Fabio Palomba, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Rocco Oliveto, Andrea De Lucia. The Scent of a Smell: An Extensive Comparison between Textual and Structural Smells
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pages 740-740.
  ACM, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018.
  [PDF]
• Moritz Beller, Niels Spruit, Diomidis Spinellis, Andy Zaidman. On The Dichotomy of Debugging Behavior Among Programmers
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pages 572-583.
  ACM, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018.
  [PDF]
• Mozhan Soltani, Pouria Derakhshanfar, Annibale Panichella, Xavier Devroey, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen. Single-objective versus Multi-Objectivized Optimization for Evolutionary Crash Reproduction
  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE), pages 325-340.
  Springer, Montpellier, France, 2018.
  [PDF]
• Qianqian Zhu, Andy Zaidman. Mutation Testing for Physical Computing
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS), pages 289-300.
  IEEE, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018.
  [PDF]
• Fabio Palomba, Andy Zaidman, Andrea De Lucia. Automatic Test Smell Detection using Information Retrieval Techniques
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), pages 340-351.
  IEEE, Madrid, Spain, 2018.
  [PDF]
• Davide Spadini, Fabio Palomba, Andy Zaidman, Magiel Bruntink, Alberto Bacchelli. On The Relation of Test Smells to Software Code Quality
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), pages 12-23.
  IEEE, Madrid, Spain, 2018.
  [PDF]
• Gema Rodríguez-Pérez, Andy Zaidman, Alexander Serebrenik, Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona. What if a bug has a Different Origin? Making Sense of Bugs Without an Explicit Bug Introducing Change
  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), pages 52:1-52:4.
  ACM, Oulu, Finland, 2018.
  [PDF] - [Best emerging results paper award of ESEM 2018]
• Gemma Catolino, Fabio Palomba, Andy Zaidman, Filomena Ferrucci. How the Experience of Development Teams Relates to Assertion Density of Test Classes
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), pages 223-234.
  IEEE, Cleveland, OH, USA, 2019.
  [PDF]
• Omar Elazhary, Margaret-Anne Storey, Neil Ernst and Andy Zaidman. Do as I Do, Not as I Say: Do Contribution Guidelines Match the GitHub Contribution Process?
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), pages 286-290.
  IEEE, Cleveland, OH, USA, 2019.
  [PDF]
• Qianqian Zhu, Andy Zaidman. Massively Parallel, Highly Efficient, but What About the Test Suite Quality? Applying Mutation Testing to GPU Programs
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST), pages 209-219
  IEEE, Porto, Portugal, 2020.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Carolin Brandt, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Moritz Beller. LogChunks: A Data Set for Build Log Analysis
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pages 583-587
  IEEE, Seoul, South-Korea, 2020.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Pouria Derakhshanfar, Xavier Devroey, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen, Annibale Panichella. Crash Reproduction Using Helper Objectives
  GECCO '20 Companion: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, pages 309-310
  ACM, Cancun, Mexico, 2020.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Pouria Derakhshanfar, Xavier Devroey, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen. Botsing, a Search-based Crash Reproduction Framework for Java
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), pages 1278-1282
  ACM, Melbourne, Australia, 2020.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Pouria Derakhshanfar, Xavier Devroey, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen, Annibale Panichella. Good Things Come In Threes: Improving Search-based Crash Reproduction With Helper Objectives
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), pages 211-223
  ACM, Melbourne, Australia, 2020.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Pouria Derakhshanfar, Xavier Devroey and Andy Zaidman. It is not Only About Control Dependent Nodes: Basic Block Coverage for Search-Based Crash Reproduction
  Proceedings of the Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE), pages 42-57
  Springer, Bari, Italy, 2020.
  [PDF] - [SSBSE'20 best paper award!] - [DOI]
• Björn Evers, Pouria Derakhshanfar, Xavier Devroey and Andy Zaidman. Commonality-Driven Unit Test Generation
  Proceedings of the Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE), pages 121-136
  Springer, Bari, Italy, 2020.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Pouria Derakhshanfar, Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen. Summary of Search-based Crash Reproduction using Behavioral Model Seeding
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST), pages 281-281
  IEEE, 2021.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Jan Willem David Alderliesten, Andy Zaidman. An Initial Exploration of the “Good First Issue” Label for Newcomer Developers
  Proceedings of the Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) conferences, pages 117-118
  IEEE, 2021.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Nienke Nijkamp, Carolin Brandt, Andy Zaidman. Naming Amplified Tests based on Improved Coverage.
  Proceedings of the 21st International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), pages 237-241.
  IEEE, 2021.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Wessel Oosterbroek, Carolin Brandt, Andy Zaidman. Removing Redundant Statements in Amplified Test Cases.
  Proceedings of the 21st International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), pages 242-246.
  IEEE, 2021.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Frenk van Mil, Ayushi Rastogi, Andy Zaidman. Promises and Perils of Inferring Personality on GitHub
  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), pages 17:1-17:11
  ACM, Bari, Italy, 2021.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Stefan Hugtenburg, Andy Zaidman. First Impressions of Using Stack Overflow for Education in a Computer Science Bachelor Programme
  Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE), page 1146
  ACM, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 2022.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Cristian-Alexandru Botocan, Piyush Deshmukh, Pavlos Makridis, Jorge Romeu Huidobro, Mathanrajan Sundarrajan, Maurício Aniche, Andy Zaidman. TestKnight: An Interactive Assistant to Stimulate Test Engineering
  Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE Companion), pages 222-226.
  ACM, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2022.
  [PDF] - [DOI] - [YouTube video]
• Casper Boone, Carolin Brandt, Andy Zaidman. Fixing Continuous Integration Tests From Within the IDE With Contextual Information
  Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 287-297.
  IEEE, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2022.
  [PDF] - [DOI] - [YouTube video]
• Carolin Brandt, Andy Zaidman. How Does This New Developer Test Fit In? A Visualization to Understand Amplified Test Cases
  Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), pages 17-28.
  IEEE, Limassol, Cyprus, 2022.
  [PDF] - [DOI] - [YouTube video] - [Artifact] - [VISSOFT'22 best artifact award!]
• Amirhossein Deljouyi, Andy Zaidman. Generating Understandable Unit Tests through End-to-End Test Scenario Carving
  Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), pages 107-118.
  IEEE, Bogotá, Colombia, 2023.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Ali Khatami, Andy Zaidman. Quality Assurance Awareness in Open Source Software Projects on GitHub
  Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), pages 174-185.
  IEEE, Bogotá, Colombia, 2023.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Carolin Brandt, Danyao Wang, Andy Zaidman. When to Let the Developer Guide: Trade-offs Between Open and Guided Test Amplification
  Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), pages 231-241.
  IEEE, Bogotá, Colombia, 2023.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Imara van Dinten, Andy Zaidman, Annibale Panichella. Multi-Objective Black-box Test Case Prioritization based on WordNet Distances
  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering - New Ideas and Emerging Results track (SSBSE-NIER), pages 101-107.
  Springer, San Francisco, USA, 2023.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Carolin Brandt, Marco Castelluccio, Christian Holler, Jason Kratzer, Andy Zaidman, Alberto Bacchelli. Mind the Gap: What Working With Developers on Fuzz Tests Taught Us About Coverage Gaps
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering - Software Engineering In Practice (ICSE-SEIP), pages 157-167.
  ACM, Lisbon, Portugal, 2024.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Khalid El Haji, Carolin Brandt, Andy Zaidman. Using GitHub Copilot for Test Generation in Python: An Empirical Study
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST), pages 45-55.
  ACM, Lisbon, Portugal, 2024.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Alexander Sterk, Mairieli Wessel, Eli Hooten, Andy Zaidman. Running a Red Light: An Investigation into Why Software Engineers (Occasionally) Ignore Coverage Checks
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST), pages 12-22.
  ACM, Lisbon, Portugal, 2024.
  [PDF] - [DOI] - [AST'24 best paper runner-up award]
• Neda Džiugaitė, Baris Ardic, Andy Zaidman. What Are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Teaching About Software Testing?
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST), pages 205-209.
  ACM, Lisbon, Portugal, 2024.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Andy Zaidman. An Inconvenient Truth in Software Engineering? The Environmental Impact of Testing Open Source Java Projects
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST), pages 215-219.
  ACM, Lisbon, Portugal, 2024.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Ali Khatami, Carolin Brandt, Andy Zaidman. Software Quality Assurance Analytics: Enabling Software Engineers to Reflect on QA Practices
  Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), pages xxx-xxx.
  IEEE, Flagstaff, AZ, USA, 2024.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Ali Khatami, Cédric Willekens, Andy Zaidman. Catching Smells in the Act: A GitHub Actions Workflow Investigation
  Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), pages xxx-xxx.
  IEEE, Flagstaff, AZ, USA, 2024.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Amirhossein Deljouyi, Roham Koohestani, Maliheh Izadi, Andy Zaidman. Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhancing the Understandability of Generated Unit Tests
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pages xxx-xxx.
  IEEE, Ottowa, ON, Canada, 2025.
  [PDF] - [DOI]

Workshop papers

• Andy Zaidman and Serge Demeyer. Using a Variant of Sliding Window to Reduce Event Trace Data
  Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on OO Reengineering, pages 4-9.
  Editor(s) Serge Demeyer, Stephane Ducasse and Kim Mens
  Universiteit Antwerpen, July, 2003.
• Andy Zaidman, Serge Demeyer. Reducing Event Trace Data
  Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Advancing the State-of-the-Art in Run-Time Inspection (ASARTI 2003), Online proceedings, July, 2003
• Isabel Michiels, Dirk Deridder, Herman Tromp and Andy Zaidman. Identifying problems with legacy software: preliminary finding of the ARRIBA project
  Proceedings of the International Workshop on Evolution of Large-scale Industrial Software Applications (ELISA), co-located with ICSM2003, pages 160-167
  Editor(s) Tom Mens, Juan F. Ramil, Michael W. Godfrey and Brian Down
  Vrije Universiteit Brussel, September, 2003
  [PDF]
• Andy Zaidman and Serge Demeyer. Analyzing large event traces with the help of coupling metrics
  Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on OO Reengineering,
  Universiteit Antwerpen, June, 2004.
  [PDF]
• Andy Zaidman, Toon Calders, Serge Demeyer, Jan Paredaens. Selective Introduction of Aspects for Program Comprehension
  Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Aspect Reverse Engineering, Editors: Tom Tourwe, Magiel Bruntink, Marius Marin and David Shepherd, Technical Report CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica) No. SEN-E0502, pages 41-45, February 2005
  Workshop co-located with the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2004)
  [PDF]
• Andy Zaidman and Serge Demeyer. Mining ArgoUML with Dynamic Analysis to Establish a Set of Key Classes for Program Comprehension
  Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on OO Reengineering, To be published
  Universiteit Antwerpen, July, 2005
  [PDF]
• Bram Adams, Kris De Schutter, Andy Zaidman. AOP for Legacy Environments, a Case Study
  Proceedings of the 2nd European Interactive Workshop on Aspects in Software (EIWAS), Online proceedings, September, 2005
  [PDF]
• Andy Zaidman, Bram Adams, Kris De Schutter. Applying Dynamic Analysis in a Legacy Context: An Industrial Experience Report
  Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Program Comprehension Through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA 2005), pages 6-10
  Editor(s) Andy Zaidman, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj and Orla Greevy
  Technical report No. 2005-12, Universiteit Antwerpen, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, November 2005, Workshop website
  [PDF]
• Joris Van Geet, Andy Zaidman. A Lightweight Approach to Determining the Adequacy of Tests as Documentation
  Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Program Comprehension Through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA 2006), pages 21-26
  Editor(s) Andy Zaidman, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj and Orla Greevy
  Technical report No. 2006-11, University of Antwerp, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, October 2006, Workshop website
  [PDF]
• Cor-Paul Bezemer, Andy Zaidman.Multi-Tenant SaaS Applications: Maintenance Dream or Nightmare?
  Proceedings of the 4th International Joint ERCIM/IWPSE Symposium on Software Evolution (IWPSE-EVOL 2010), pages 88-92
  ACM, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2010.
  [PDF]
• Frank Mulder, Andy Zaidman. Identifying Cross-Cutting Concerns Using Software Repository Mining
  Proceedings of the 4th International Joint ERCIM/IWPSE Symposium on Software Evolution (IWPSE-EVOL 2010), pages 23-32
  ACM, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2010.
  [PDF]
• Tiago Espinha, Andy Zaidman, Hans-Gerhard Gross. Understanding Service-Oriented Systems Using Dynamic Analysis
  Proceedings of the International Workshop on Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems (MESOCA 2011), pages 1-5
  IEEE Computer Society, Williamsburg, VA, USA, September 2011.
  [PDF]
• Cuiting Chen, Andy Zaidman, Hans-Gerhard Gross. A Framework-based Runtime Monitoring Approach for Service-Oriented Software Systems
  Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Quality Assurance for Service-Based Applications (QASBA 2011), pages 17-20
  Lugano, Switzerland, September 2011.
  [PDF]
• Tiago Espinha, Cuiting Chen, Andy Zaidman, Hans-Gerhard Gross. Spicy Stonehenge: Proposing a SOA Case Study
  Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles of Engineering Service-Oriented Systems (PESOS 2012), pages 57-58
  Zurich, Switzerland, June 2012.
  [PDF]
• Tiago Espinha, Andy Zaidman, Hans-Gerhard Gross. Understanding the interactions between users and versions in multi-tenant systems.
  Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE 2013), pages 53-62
  ACM, Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2013.
  [PDF]
• Petra Heck, Andy Zaidman. An Analysis of Requirements Evolution in Open Source Projects: Recommendations for Issue Trackers
  Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE 2013), pages 43-52
  ACM, Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2013.
  [PDF]
• Cuiting Chen, Brian Omoro, Hans-Gerhard Gross, Andy Zaidman. Comparing Diagnostic Performance of Ochiai and Relief in Service-oriented Systems
  Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX 2013), pages 39-44
  Jerusalem, Israel, October 2013.
  [PDF]
• Cuiting Chen, Hans-Gerhard Gross, Andy Zaidman. Using Genetic Algorithms to Study the Effects of Topology on Spectrum Based Diagnosis
  Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX 2013), pages 166-173
  Jerusalem, Israel, October 2013.
  [PDF]
• Hsiao Hui Mui, Andy Zaidman, Martin Pinzger. Studying Late Propagations in Code Clone Evolution Using Software Repository Mining
  Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC 2014), published in the Electronic Communications of the European Association of Software Science and Technology (ECEASsT), volume 63, 2014.
  Antwerp, Belgium, February 2014.
  [PDF] - [IWSC'14 best presentation award!]
• Petra Heck, Andy Zaidman. Quality Criteria for Just-in-Time Requirements. Just Enough, Just-in-Time?
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Just-In-Time Requirements Engineering (JIT RE 2015), pages 1-4.
  IEEE, Ottawa, Canada, August 2015.
  [PDF]
• Quinten David Soetens, Javier Perez, Serge Demeyer, Andy Zaidman. Circumventing Refactoring Masking Using Fine-Grained Change Recording
  Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE 2015), pages 9-18
  ACM, Bergamo, Italy, August 2015.
  [PDF]
• Moritz Beller, Igor Levaja, Annibale Panichella, Georgios Gousios, Andy Zaidman. How to Catch ’Em All: WatchDog, a Family of IDE Plug-Ins to Assess Testing
  Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practice (SER&IP), pages 53-56
  ACM, Austin, Texas, USA, May 2016.
  [PDF]
• Qianqian Zhu, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman. Speeding-up mutation testing via data compression and state infection
  Proceedings of the The 12th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis (Mutation 2017), 2017 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW), pages 103–-109
  IEEE, Tokyo, Japan, March, 2017.
  [PDF]
• Carolin Brandt, Andy Zaidman. Strategies and Challenges in Recruiting Interview Participants for a Qualitative Evaluation
  Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Recruiting Participants for Empirical Software Engineering (RoPES’22), pages xxx-xxx
  ACM, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2022.
  [PDF] - [DOI]
• Baris Ardic, Andy Zaidman. Hey Teachers, Teach Those Kids Some Software Testing
  Proceedings of the Fifth ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering Education for the Next Generation (ICSE SEENG), pages 9-16.
  IEEE, Melbourne, Australia, 2023.
  [PDF] - [DOI]

Registered reports

• Mark Swillus, Andy Zaidman. Deconstructing Sentimental Stack Overflow Posts Through Interviews: Exploring the Case of Software Testing
  Accepted at the registered reports track of the 16th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2023)
  [Arxiv link]

Technical reports

• Andy Zaidman, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, Orla Greevy. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Program Comprehension Through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA 2005)
  Technical Report No. 2005-12, University of Antwerp, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, November 2005
  Workshop co-located with the 12th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2005), Pittsburgh (Carnegie Mellon), USA, November 2005
  [PDF]
• Andy Zaidman, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, Orla Greevy. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Program Comprehension Through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA 2006)
  Technical Report No. 2006-11, University of Antwerp, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, October 2006
  Workshop co-located with the 13th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2006), Benevento, Italy, October 2006
  [PDF]
• Andy Zaidman, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, Orla Greevy. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Program Comprehension Through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA 2007)
  Technical Report TUD-SERG-2007-022, Software Engineering Research Group, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  Workshop co-located with the 14th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2007), Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2007
  [PDF]
• Andy Zaidman, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, Orla Greevy, David Roethlisberger. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Program Comprehension Through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA 2008)
  Technical Report TUD-SERG-2008-036, Software Engineering Research Group, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  Workshop co-located with the 15th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2008), Antwerp, Belgium, October 2008
  [PDF]

PhD thesis

• Scalability Solutions for Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis
  On 6th September 2006 I successfully defended my PhD. thesis.
  My PhD. jury consisted of prof. Chris Blondia, prof. Theo D'Hondt, prof. Serge Demeyer, prof. Stephane Ducasse, prof. Dirk Janssens, prof.Jan Paredaens, prof. Tarja Systa.
  [PDF, A4 format] -- [PDF, booklet format]

Master thesis

• Internetbeveiliging zonder privacycompromissen. (Dutch)
  Universiteit Antwerpen, July 2002.