On the Untriviality of Trivial Packages: An Empirical Study of npm JavaScript Packages
A. Reza Chowdhury, R. Abdalkareem, E. Shihab, and B. Adams
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), pp. 1-16, 2021 - [ pdf ]
Publications
How Effective is Continuous Integration in Indicating Single-Statement Bugs?
J. Latendresse, R. Abdalkareem, D. Elias Costa, and E. Shihab
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR’21), Mining Challenge Track, pp. 1–5, 2021 - [ pdf ]
Breaking Type Safety in Go: An Empirical Study on the Usage of the unsafe Package
D. Costa, S. Mujahid, R. Abdalkareem, and E. Shihab
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), pp. 1–17, 2021 - [ pdf ]
Helping or not Helping? Why and How Trivial Packages Impact the npm Ecosystem
X. Chen, R. Abdalkareem, S. Mujahid, E. Shihab, and X. Xia
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), pp. 1–26, 2020 - [ pdf ]
On the Removal of Feature Toggles A Study of Python Projects and Practitioners Motivations
J. Hoyos, R. Abdalkareem, S. Mujahid, E. Shihab, and A. Espinosa
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), pp. 1–30, 2020 - [ pdf ]
Using Others’ Tests to Avoid Breaking Updates
S. Mujahid, R. Abdelkareem, E. Shihab, and S. McIntosh
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR’20), pp. 1–12, 2020 - [ pdf ]
Challenges in Chatbot Development: A Study of Stack Overflow Posts
A. Abdellatif, D. E. Costa, K. Badran, R. Abdelkareem, and E. Shihab
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR’20), pp. 1–12, 2020 - [ pdf ]
A Machine Learning Approach to Improve the Detection of CI Skip Commits
R. Abdalkareem, S. Mujahid, and E. Shihab
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), pp. 1–18, 2020 - [ pdf ]
On the impact of using trivial packages: an empirical case study on npm and PyPI
R. Abdalkareem, V. Oda, S. Mujahid, and E. Shihab
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), pp. 1–39, 2020 - [ pdf ]
Which Commits Can Be CI Skipped?
R. Abdalkareem, S. Mujahid, E. Shihab, and J. Rilling
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), pp. 1–18, 2019 - [ pdf ]
An Empirical Study of Android Wear User Complaints
S. Mujahid, G. Sierra, R. Abdalkareem, E. Shihab, and W. Shang
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), pp. 1–32, 2018 - [ pdf ]
Studying Permission Related Issues in Android Wearable Apps
S. Mujahid, R. Abdalkareem, and E. Shihab
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’18), pp. 1–12, 2018 - [ pdf ]
What Do Developers Use the Crowd For? A Study Using Stack Overflow
R. Abdalkareem, E. Shihab, and J. Rilling
IEEE Software - SI on Crowdsourcing for Software Engineering, pp. 1–32, 2017 - [ pdf ]
On code reuse from StackOverflow: An exploratory study on Android apps
R. Abdalkareem, E. Shihab, and J. Rilling
Information and Software Technology, pp. 1–14, 2017 - [ pdf ]
Why Do Developers Use Trivial Packages? An Empirical Case Study on npm
R. Abdalkareem, O. Nourry, S. Wehaibi, S. Mujahid, and E. Shihab
Proceedings of the 11th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE’17), pp. 1–12, 2017 - [ pdf ]
Reasons and Drawbacks of using Trivial npm Packages: The Developers’ Perspective
R. Abdalkareem
Proceedings of the 11th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE’17), pp. 1–12, 2017 - [ pdf ]
An Empirical Study On the Removal of Self-Admitted Technical Debt
E. Maldonado, R. Abdalkareem, E. Shihab, and A. Serebrenik
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’17), pp. 1–12, 2017 - [ pdf ]
Examining User Complaints of Wearable Apps: A Case Study on Android Wear
S. Mujahid, G. Sierra, R. Abdalkareem, E. Shihab, and W. Shang
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (2017), pp. 1–12, 2017 - [ pdf ]