Research

Active Projects

VISDOM - Visual diagnosis for DevOps software development

The VISDOM project will develop new types of visualization that utilize and merge data from several data sources in modern DevOps development. The aim is to provide simple “health check” visualizations about the state of the development process, software and use.

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Funding

ITEA3/RVO

Status

In Progress

Sustainable Cloud

This project aims to develop a sustainability-aware architecting framework specifically for cloud-based software services which incorporates all dimensions of system sustainability. The framework is structured around the use of sustainability indicators, one per dimension, as the means of abstracting away from dimension-specific concerns.

Members

Funding

NWO

Status

In Progress

Understanding and Alerting Architecture Erosion during Software Development

This research project aims to increase understanding of architecture erosion and provide strategies for mitigating its effects. Our objective is to assist researchers and practitioners in detecting and mitigating architecture erosion, with the aim of (partially) resolving this issue.

Members

Status

In Progress

Detecting Similarities between Software Systems Based on NLP Techniques

This project aims to form clusters of similarly scoped software systems, based on an NLP-informed taxonomy. This is similar to a biological classification, where different species (i.e., software systems) might share very few similarities, but they might belong to the same family (i.e., application domain)

Members

Status

In Progress

The Impact of Natural Language Processing Approach on the Detection of Technical Debt

This project aims to increase the accuracy of automatic classification and, through it, eliminate a significant portion of the costs relating to technical debt detection.

Members

Funding

Kemendikbudristek

Status

In Progress

Publications

Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion

Li, R., Liang, P. & Avgeriou, P., 2023, In: Information and Software Technology. 164, 13 p., 107319.

Towards Accurate and Efficient Sleep Period Detection using Wearable Devices

Jokar Jandaghi, F., Azzopardi, G. & Palotti, J., 2023, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 20th international conferences on computer analysis of images and patterns (CAIP). Springer

A Development Example: From Conceptual Specification to OO Specification

Smedinga, R. & de Brock, B., 2023, Business Modeling and Software Design: 13th International Symposium, BMSD 2023 Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 3–5, 2023 Proceedings. Shishkov, B. (ed.). Springer, p. 340-351 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ; vol. 483).

GitRanking: A ranking of GitHub topics for software classification using active sampling

Sas, C., Capiluppi, A., Sipio, C. D., Rocco, J. D. & Di Ruscio, D., 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Software - Practice and Experience. 25 p.

Big Data Governance: The Case of Mobile Positioning Data for Official Tourism Statistics In Indonesia

Rahmadian, E., Virantina, Y., Feitosa, D., Zwitter, A. & Kanti Lestari, T., 2023, (Accepted/In press) The 64th World Statistics Congress.

Improving hardware/software interface management in systems of systems through documentation as code

Cadavid, H., Andrikopoulos, V. & Avgeriou, P., 2023, In: Empirical software engineering. 28, 35 p., 100.

From Conceptual Specification to OO Specification

de Brock, B. & Smedinga, R., 2023, Business Modeling and Software Design: 13th International Symposium, BMSD 2023 Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 3–5, 2023 Proceedings. Shishkov, B. (ed.). Cham: Springer, p. 180-199 20 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 483).

Artifact Traceability in DevOps: An Industrial Experience Report

Pauzi, Z., Thind, R. & Capiluppi, A., 2023, Proceedings of EASE 2023 - Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 180-183 4 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

Code Reviewer Recommendation for Architecture Violations: An Exploratory Study

Li, R., Liang, P. & Avgeriou, P., 2023, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering. ACM Press, p. 42-51 10 p.

Governing Digital Twin technology for smart and sustainable tourism: A case study in applying a documentation framework for architecture decisions

Rahmadian, E., Feitosa, D. & Zwitter, A., 2023, Handbook on the Politics and Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Zwitter, A. & G.Strein, O. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 105-137 33 p.

Automatic identification of self-admitted technical debt from four different sources

Li, Y., Soliman, M. & Avgeriou, P., 2023, In: Empirical software engineering. 28, 3, 38 p., 65.

On measuring coupling between microservices

Zhong, C., Zhang, H., Li, C., Huang, H. & Feitosa, D., 2023, In: Journal of Systems and Software. 200, 21 p., 111670.

Weak Labelling for File-level Source Code Classification

Sas, C. & Capiluppi, A., 2023, Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2023. Zhang, T., Xia, X. & Novielli, N. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 698-702 5 p. (Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2023).

Applications of natural language processing in software traceability: A systematic mapping study

Pauzi, Z. & Capiluppi, A., 2023, In: Journal of Systems and Software. 198, 19 p., 111616.

Are We Speeding Up or Slowing Down? On Temporal Aspects of Code Velocity

Kudrjavets, G., Nagappan, N. & Rastogi, A., 2023, (Submitted) Proceedings of MSR ‘23: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2023). arXiv, 5 p.

What Warnings Do Engineers Really Fix? The Compiler That Cried Wolf

Kudrjavets, G., Kumar, A. & Rastogi, A., 2023, (Submitted) Proceedings of MSR ‘23: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2023). 2 p.

Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study

Tulili, T. R., Capiluppi, A. & Rastogi, A., 2023, In: Information and Software Technology. 155, 19 p., 107116.

Pull Request Decisions Explained: An Empirical Overview

Zhang, X., Yu, Y., Gousios, G. & Rastogi, A., 2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 49, 2, p. 849-871 23 p.

Service Classification through Machine Learning: Aiding in the Efficient Identification of Reusable Assets in Cloud Application Development

Alizadehsani, Z., Feitosa, D., Maikantis, T., Ampatzoglou, A., Chatzigeorgiou, A., Berrocal, D., González Briones, A., Corchado, J. M., Mateus, M. & Groenewold, J., 2023, 2022 48th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). IEEE, p. 247-254

Cost-Profiling Microservice Applications Using an APM Stack

de Vries, S., Blaauw, F. & Andrikopoulos, V., 2023, In: Future Internet. 15, 1, 21 p., 37.

The Need for Speed: Increasing the Code Review Velocity

Kudrjavets, G., 2023, [Groningen]: University of Groningen. 239 p.

Using improvisation theater techniques in project environments

Hoffmann, A., 2023, [Groningen]: University of Groningen. 252 p.

From Descriptive to Predictive: Forecasting Emerging Research Areas in Software Traceability Using NLP from Systematic Studies

Pauzi, Z. & Capiluppi, A., 2023, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2023. Kaindl, H., Kaindl, H., Kaindl, H., Mannion, M., Maciaszek, L. & Maciaszek, L. (eds.). Science and Technology Publications, Lda, p. 538-545 8 p. (International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE - Proceedings; vol. 2023-April).

Introduction to the Special Issue on Software-Intensive Autonomous Systems: Methods and applications

Khabou, N., Bouassida Rodriguez, I., Drira, K., Avgeriou, P., Shepherd, D. C., Chan, W. K. & Mirandola, R., 2023, In: Journal of Systems and Software. 195, 2 p., 111511.

Who Ate My Memory? Towards Attribution in Memory Management

Kudrjavets, G., Rastogi, A., Thomas, J. & Nagappan, N., 2022, (Submitted) Proceedings of 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023). arXiv, 3 p.

Guest Editorial: Collaboration and Innovation Dynamics in Software Ecosystems

Amrit, C., Besten, M. D., Capiluppi, A. & Robles, G., 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 69, 6, p. 3584-3588 5 p.

Pull request latency explained: an empirical overview

Zhang, X., Yu, Y., Wang, T., Rastogi, A. & Wang, H., 2022, In: Empirical software engineering. 27, 6, 38 p., 126.

Development effort estimation in free/open source software from activity in version control systems

Robles, G., Capiluppi, A., Gonzalez-Barahona, J. M., Lundell, B. & Gamalielsson, J., 2022, In: Empirical software engineering. 27, 6, 37 p., 135.

Identifying self-admitted technical debt in issue tracking systems using machine learning

Li, Y., Soliman, M. & Avgeriou, P., 2022, In: Empirical software engineering. 27, 6, 37 p., 131.

When malloc() Never Returns NULL -- Reliability as an Illusion

Kudrjavets, G., Thomas, J., Kumar, A., Nagappan, N. & Rastogi, A., 2022, (Submitted) Proceedings of 2022 IEEE 33nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE). IEEE, 6 p.

There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Custom Memory Allocator

Kudrjavets, G., Thomas, J., Kumar, A., Nagappan, N. & Rastogi, A., 2022, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME). IEEE, p. 578-581 4 p.

Documentation-as-Code for Interface Control Document Management in Systems of Systems: A Technical Action Research Study

Cadavid Rengifo, H., Andrikopoulos, V. & Avgeriou, P., 9-Sept-2022, Software Architecture: 16th European Conference, ECSA 2022 Prague, Czech Republic, September 19–23, 2022 Proceedings. Gerostathopoulos ·, I., Lewis, G., Batista, T. & Bureš, T. (eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, p. 19-37 18 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 13444).

A metric for quantifying the ripple effects among requirements

Arvanitou, E. M., Ampatzoglou, A., Chatzigeorgiou, A., Avgeriou, P. & Tsiridis, N., Sept-2022, In: Software quality journal. 30, 3, p. 853-883 31 p.

On Quantifying the Benefits of Dead Code Removal

Kudrjavets, G., Rastogi, A., Thomas, J. & Nagappan, N., 2022, (Submitted) 2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME). IEEE, p. 563-563 1 p.

Is Kernel Code Different From Non-Kernel Code? A Case Study of BSD Family Operating Systems

Kudrjavets, G., Thomas, J., Nagappan, N. & Rastogi, A., 2022, (Submitted) 2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME). IEEE, p. 211-222 12 p.

The temporality of technical debt introduction on new code and confounding factors

Digkas, G., Ampatzoglou, A., Chatzigeorgiou, A. & Avgeriou, P., 2022, In: Software quality journal. 30, 2, p. 283-305 23 p.

Can Clean New Code Reduce Technical Debt Density?

Digkas, G., Chatzigeorgiou, A., Ampatzoglou, A. & Avgeriou, P., 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 48, 5, p. 1705-1721 17 p.

Symptoms of architecture erosion in code reviews: A study of two OpenStack projects

Li, R., Soliman, M., Liang, P. & Avgeriou, P., 2022, Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA). p. 24-35 12 p.

Understanding software architecture erosion: A systematic mapping study

Li, R., Liang, P., Soliman, M. & Avgeriou, P., 2022, In: Journal of software-Evolution and process. 34, 3, 45 p., e2423.

Managing technical debt: prioritising and quantifying architectural smells

Sas, D., 2022, [Groningen]: University of Groningen. 261 p.

Sustainability in Software Architecture: A Systematic Mapping Study

Andrikopoulos, V., Boza, R-D., Perales, C. & Lago, P., 2022, 48th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). IEEE, p. 426-433

Maintenance and Evolution: GrimoireLab Graal

Meijer, W., Visscher, D., De Haan, E., Schroder, M., Visscher, L., Capiluppi, A. & Botez, I., 2022, Proceedings - 2022 Mining Software Repositories Conference, MSR 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 732-734 3 p. (Proceedings - 2022 Mining Software Repositories Conference, MSR 2022).

Uncertainty in Self-adaptive Systems: A Research Community Perspective

Hezavehi, S. M., Weyns, D., Avgeriou, P., Calinescu, R., Mirandola, R. & Perez-Palacin, D., 2021, In: ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. 15, 4, 36 p., 10.

Understanding Architecture Erosion: The Practitioners’ Perceptive

Li, R., Liang, P., Soliman, M. & Avgeriou, P., 2021, Proceedings of the 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC). IEEE, p. 24-35 12 p.

Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study

Spinellis, D. & Avgeriou, P., 2021, In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 47, 6, p. 1134-1163 30 p.

The Risk of Generating Technical Debt Interest: A Case Study

Digkas, G., Ampatzoglou, A., Chatzigeorgiou, A., Avgeriou, P., Matei, O. & Heb, R., 2021, In: SN Computer Science. 2, 1, 12 p., 12.

Architectural decision-making as a financial investment: An industrial case study

Ampatzoglou, A., Arvanitou, E. M., Ampatzoglou, A., Avgeriou, P., Tsintzira, A. A. & Chatzigeorgiou, A., 2021, In: Information and Software Technology. 129, 18 p., 106412.

Exploring the Relation between Technical Debt Principal and Interest: An Empirical Approach

Ampatzoglou, A., Mittas, N., Tsintzira, A. A., Ampatzoglou, A., Arvanitou, E. M., Chatzigeorgiou, A., Avgeriou, P. & Angelis, L., 2020, In: Information and Software Technology. 128, 16 p., 106391.

Automatic Identification of Assumptions from the Hibernate Developer Mailing List

Li, R., Liang, P., Yang, C., Digkas, G., Chatzigeorgiou, A. & Xiong, Z., 2019, Proceedings - 2019 26th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 2019. IEEE Computer Society, p. 394-401 8 p. 8945732. (Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC; vol. 2019-December).

Research

Active Projects

VISDOM - Visual diagnosis for DevOps software development

Sustainable Cloud

Understanding and Alerting Architecture Erosion during Software Development

Detecting Similarities between Software Systems Based on NLP Techniques

The Impact of Natural Language Processing Approach on the Detection of Technical Debt

Publications

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