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Conference Papers

Blame-Correct Support for Receiver Properties in Recursively-Structured Actor Contracts
Bram Vandenbogaerde, Quentin Stiévenart and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2024)

Property-based Testing within ML Projects: an Empirical Study
Cindy Wauters and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2024), New Ideas and Emerging Results Track

Threats to Instrument Validity within "in Silico" Research: Software Engineering to the Rescue
Serge Demeyer, Coen De Roover, Mutlu Beyazit and Johannes Härtel
Proceedings of the 2024 International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISOLA 2024)

Cross-Level Debugging for Static Analysers
Mats Van Molle, Bram Vandenbogaerde and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2023)

Dynamic Slicing of WebAssembly Binaries
Quentin Stiévenart, Dave Binkley and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2023)

The Docker Hub Image Inheritance Network: Construction and Empirical Insights
Ruben Opdebeeck, Jonas Lesy, Ahmed Zerouali, Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2023)

Symbolic Execution to Detect Semantic Merge Conflicts
Ward Muylaert, Johannes Härtel and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2023)

Change Pattern Detection for Optimising Incremental Static Analysis
Cindy Wauters, Jens Van der Plas, Quentin Stiévenart and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2023)

Formalizing, Verifying and Applying ISA Security Guarantees as Universal Contracts
Sander Huyghebaert, Steven Keuchel, Coen De Roover and Dominique Devriese
Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2023)

Control and Data Flow in Security Smell Detection for Infrastructure as Code: Is It Worth the Effort?
Ruben Opdebeeck, Ahmed Zerouali and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2023)

Helm Charts for Kubernetes Applications: Evolution, Outdatedness and Security Risks
Ahmed Zerouali, Ruben Opdebeeck and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2023)

Result Invalidation for Incremental Modular Analyses
Jens Van der Plas, Quentin Stiévenart and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2023)

MODINF: Exploiting Reified Computational Dependencies for Information Flow Analysis
Jens Van der Plas, Jens Nicolay, Wolfgang De Meuter and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2023)

Summary-Based Compositional Analysis for Soft Contract Verification
Bram Vandenbogaerde, Quentin Stiévenart and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2022)
SCAM 2022 Best Artifact Award

Mining for Framework Instantiation Pattern Interplays
Yunior Pacheco, Ahmed Zerouali and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2022)

LiFUSO: A Tool for Library Feature Unveiling based on Stack Overflow Posts
Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez, Eleni Constantinou and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2022), Tool Demo Track

PaReco: Patched Clones and Missed Patches among the Divergent Variants of a Software Family
Poedjadevie Ramkisoen, John Businge, Brent van Bradel, Alexandre Decan, Serge Demeyer, Coen De Roover, Foutse Khomh
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2022)

Smelly Variables in Ansible Infrastructure Code: Detection, Prevalence, and Lifetime
Ruben Opdebeeck, Ahmed Zerouali Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2022)

Prevalence and Evolution of License Violations in npm and RubyGems Dependency Networks
Ilyas Saïd Makari, Ahmed Zerouali and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2022)

Static Stack-Preserving Intra-Procedural Slicing of WebAssembly Binaries
Quentin Stiévenart, Dave Binkley and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022)
ICSE 2022 Best Artifact Award

RacketLogger: Logging and Visualising Changes in DrRacket
Turgut Reis Kursun, Jens Van der Plas, Quentin Stiévenart and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 15th European Lisp Symposium (ELS 2022)

Uncovering Library Features from API Usage on Stack Overflow
Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez, Eleni Constantinou and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2022)
IEEE Computer Society TCSE Distinguished Paper Award

Variant Forks - Motivations and Impediments
John Businge, Ahmed Zerouali, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Serge Demeyer and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2022)

Security Risks of Porting C Programs to WebAssembly
Quentin Stiévenart, Coen De Roover and Mohammad Ghafari
Proceedings of the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2022)

The Security Risk of Lacking Compiler Protection in WebAssembly
Quentin Stiévenart, Coen De Roover and Mohammad Ghafari
Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2021)

QSES: Quasi-Static Executable Slices
Quentin Stiévenart, Dave Binkley and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 21th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM NIER 2021), New Ideas and Emerging Results Track

Identifying Versions of Libraries used in Stack Overflow Code Snippets
Ahmed Zerouali, Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2021), Short Paper in Research Track

Andromeda: A Dataset of Ansible Galaxy Roles and Their Evolution
Ruben Opdebeeck, Ahmed Zerouali and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2021), Data Showcase Track

Mining for Graph-Based Library Usage Patterns in COBOL Systems
Ruben Opdebeeck, Johan Fabry, Tim Molderez, Jonas De Bleser and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, Industry Track (SANER 2021)

Does Infrastructure as Code Adhere to Semantic Versioning? An Analysis of Ansible Role Evolution
Ruben Opdebeeck, Ahmed Zerouali, Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2020)

Compositional Information Flow Analysis for WebAssembly Programs
Quentin Stiévenart and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2020)

A Parallel Worklist Algorithm for Modular Analyses
Noah Van Es, Quentin Stiévenart, Jens Van der Plas and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2020)

Incremental Flow Analysis through Computational Dependency Reification
Jens Van der Plas, Quentin Stiévenart, Noah Van Es and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2020)

A Delta-Debugging Approach to Assessing the Resilience of Actor Programs through Run-time Test Perturbations
Jonas De Bleser, Dario Di Nucci and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Automated Software Testing (AST 2020), Seoul (South Korea)

MAF: A Framework for Modular Static Analysis of Higher-Order Languages
Noah Van Es, Jens Van der Plas, Quentin Stiévenart and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2020), Engineering Track

MUTAMA: An Automated Multi-label Tagging Approach for Software Libraries on Maven
Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2020), New Interesting and Emerging Research (NIER) Track

Mining Patterns in Source Code using Tree Mining Algorithms
Hoang Son Pham, Siegfried Nijssen, Kim Mens, Dario Di Nucci, Tim Molderez, Coen De Roover, Johan Fabry, and Vadim Zaytsev.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2019), Split (Croatia)

SoCRATES - Scala Radar for Test Smells (Tool Paper)
Jonas De Bleser, Dario Di Nucci and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Scala (Scala 2019), London (UK)

Garbage-free Abstract Interpretation through Abstract Reference Counting
Noah Van Es, Quentin Stiévenart, Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 33st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019), London (UK)

Assessing Diffusion and Perception of Test Smells in Scala Projects
Jonas De Bleser, Dario Di Nucci and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2019), Montreal (Canada)

Mining Scala Framework Extensions for Recommendation Patterns
Yunior Pacheco, Jonas De Bleser, Tim Molderez, Dario Di Nucci, Wolfgang De Meuter and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2019), Replication Studies and Negative Results Track (RENE), Hangzhou (China)

GuardiaML: Machine Learning-Assisted Dynamic Information Flow Control
Angel Luis Scull Pupo, Jens Nicolay, Kyriakos Efthymiadis, Ann Nowé, Coen De Roover and Elisa Gonzalez Boix
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2019), Tool Demo Track (Tools), Hangzhou (China)

Marlon - A Domain-Specific Language for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning on Networks
Tim Molderez, Bjarno Oeyen, Coen De Roover and Wolfgang De Meuter
Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2019), Limassol (Cyprus)

Effect-driven Flow Analysis
Jens Nicolay, Quentin Stiévenart, Wolfgang De Meuter and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2019), Cascais (Portugal)

Orchestrating Dynamic Analyses of Distributed Processes for Full-Stack JavaScript Programs
Laurent Christophe, Coen De Roover, Elisa Gonzalez Boix and Wolfgang De Meuter
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experience (GPCE 2018), Boston (USA)

Practical Information Flow Control for Web Applications
Angel Luis Scull Pupo, Laurent Christophe, Jens Nicolay, Coen De Roover and Elisa Gonzalez Boix
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV 2018), Limassol (Cyprus)

Untangling Composite Commits Using Program Slicing
Ward Muylaert and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 18th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2018), Madrid (Spain)

A Generalized Model for Visualizing Library Popularity, Adoption and Diffusion within a Software Ecosystem
Raula Gaikovina Kula, Coen De Roover, Daniel German, Takashi Ishio and Katsuro Inoue
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2018), Campobasso (Italy)

Mailbox Abstractions for Static Analysis of Actor Programs [extended version]
Quentin Stiévenart, Jens Nicolay, Wolfgang De Meuter and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2017), Barcelona (Spain)

Mining Change Histories for Unknown Systematic Edits
Tim Molderez, Reinout Stevens and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2017), Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Static Taint Analysis of Event-driven Scheme Programs
Jonas De Bleser, Quentin Stiévenart, Jens Nicolay and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 10th European Lisp Symposium (ELS 2017), Brussels (Belgium)

Prevalence of Botched Code Integrations
Ward Muylaert and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2017), Mining Challenge Track, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Extracting Executable Transformations from Distilled Code Changes
Reinout Stevens and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2017), Klagenfurt (Austria)

Dependence-Driven Delimited CPS Transformation for JavaScript
Laure Philips, Joeri De Koster, Wolfgang De Meuter and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2016), Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Building a Modular Static Analysis Framework in Scala (Tool Paper)
Quentin Stiévenart, Jens Nicolay, Wolfgang De Meuter and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Scala (Scala 2016), Amsterdam (Netherlands)

SCALA-AM: A Modular Static Analysis Framework
Quentin Stiévenart, Maarten Vandercammen, Wolfgang De Meuter and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 16th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2016), Engineering Track, Raleigh, North Carolina (USA)

Search-Based Generalization and Refinement of Code Templates
Tim Molderez and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2016), Raleigh, North Carolina (USA)

Automated Generalization and Refinement of Code Templates with Ekeko/X
Tim Molderez and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2016), Tool Demonstration Track, Osaka (Japan)
Winner of the best tool paper award.

Linvail: A General-Purpose Platform for Shadow Execution of JavaScript
Laurent Christophe, Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Wolfgang De Meuter and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2016), Osaka (Japan)

A Performant Scheme Interpreter in asm.js
Noah Van Es, Jens Nicolay, Quentin Stiévenart, Theo D'Hondt and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 31st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Programming Languages Track (SAC 2016), Pisa (Italy)

Detecting Function Purity in JavaScript
Jens Nicolay, Carlos Noguera, Coen De Roover and Wolfgang De Meuter
Proceedings of the 15th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2015), Bremen (Germany)
Winner of the best paper award.

Detecting Concurrency Bugs in Higher-Order Programs through Abstract Interpretation
Quentin Stiévenart, Jens Nicolay, Wolfgang De Meuter and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP 2015), Siena (Italy)

The Ekeko/X Program Transformation Tool
Coen De Roover and Katsuro Inoue
Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2014), Tool Demo Track, Victoria (Canada)

Identifying Source Code Reuse across Repositories using LCS-based Source Code Similarity
Naohiro Kawamitsu, Takashi Ishio, Tetsuya Kanda, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Coen De Roover and Katsuro Inoue
Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2014), Victoria (Canada)

Towards Tierless Web Development without Tierless Languages
Laure Philips, Coen De Roover, Tom Van Cutsem and Wolfgang De Meuter
Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (SPLASH/OnWard! 2014), Portland, Oregon (USA)

Prevalence and Maintenance of Automated Functional Tests for Web Applications
Laurent Christophe, Reinout Stevens, Coen De Roover and Wolfgang De Meuter
Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSMe 2014), Victoria (Canada)

Querying the History of Software Projects using QwalKeko
Reinout Stevens and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSMe 2014), Tool Demo Track, Victoria (Canada)

Visualizing the Evolution of Systems and their Library Dependencies
Raula Gaikovina Kula, Coen De Roover, Daniel German, Takashi Ishio, Katsuro Inoue
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2014), Victoria (Canada)

Building Development Tools Interactively using the Ekeko Meta-Programming Library
Coen De Roover, Reinout Stevens
Proceedings of the IEEE CSMR-WCRE 2014 Software Evolution Week (CSMR-WCRE 2014), Tool Demo Track, Antwerp (Belgium)

Aspectual Source Code Analysis with GASR
Johan Fabry, Coen De Roover, Viviane Jonckers
Proceedings of the 13th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2013), Eindhoven (The Netherlands)

Determining Coupling In JavaScript Using Object Type Inference
Jens Nicolay, Carlos Noguera, Coen De Roover, Wolfgang De Meuter
Proceedings of the 13th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2013), Eindhoven (The Netherlands)

Multi-dimensional Exploration of API Usage
Coen De Roover, Ralf Lämmel, Ekaterina Pek
Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2013), San Francisco (USA)

A History Querying Tool and its Application to Detect Multi-version Refactorings
Reinout Stevens, Coen De Roover, Carlos Noguera, Viviane Jonckers
Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2013), Early Research Achievements Track, Genova (Italy)

Interruptible Context-dependent Executions - A Fresh Look at Programming Context-aware Applications
Engineer Bainomugisha, Jorge Vallejos, Coen De Roover, Andoni Lombide Carreton, Wolfgang De Meuter
Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (SPLASH/OnWard! 2012), Tucson Arizona (USA)

Refactoring in the Presence of Annotations
Carlos Noguera, Andy Kellens, Coen De Roover, Viviane Jonckers
Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012), Riva del Garda (Italy)

Code Querying by UML
Carlos Noguera, Coen De Roover, Andy Kellens, Viviane Jonckers
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2012), Passau (Germany)

Constructing Customized Interpreters from Reusable Evaluators using GAME
Stijn Timbermont, Coen De Roover, Theo D'Hondt
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Software Composition (SC 2012), Prague (Czech Republic)
Winner of the Best Student Paper Award

Reasoning over the Evolution of Source Code using Quantified Regular Path Expressions
Andy Kellens, Coen De Roover, Carlos Noguera, Reinout Stevens, Viviane Jonckers
Proceedings of the 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Short Paper Track (WCRE 2011), Limerick (Ireland)

CrimeSPOT: Language Support for Programming Interactions among Wireless Sensor Network Nodes
Coen De Roover, Christophe Scholliers, Wouter Amerijckx, Theo D'Hondt and Wolfgang De Meuter
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2011), Mexico

The SOUL Tool Suite for Querying Programs in Symbiosis with Eclipse
Coen De Roover, Carlos Noguera, Andy Kellens and Viviane Jonckers
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ 2011), Kongens Lyngby (Denmark)

Program Querying with a SOUL: the Barista Tool Suite
Carlos Noguera, Coen De Roover, Andy Kellens and Viviane Jonckers
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, Tool Track (ICSM 2011), Williamsburg (USA)

A Logic Meta-Programming Foundation for Example-Driven Pattern Detection in Object-Oriented Programs
Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, Post-doctoral Symposium Track (ICSM 2011), Williamsburg (USA)

Automatic Parallelization of Side-Effecting Higher-Order Scheme Programs
Jens Nicolay, Coen De Roover, Wolfgang De Meuter and Viviane Jonckers
Proceedings of the 11th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2011), Williamsburg (USA)

Co-evolving Annotations and Source Code through Smart Annotations
Andy Kellens, Carlos Noguera, Kris De Schutter, Coen De Roover, Theo D'Hondt
Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2010), Madrid (Spain)

Open Unification for Program Query Languages
Johan Brichau, Coen De Roover, Kim Mens
Proceedings of the XXVI International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC 2007), Iquique (Chile)

Behavioral Similarity Matching using Concrete Source Code Templates in Logic Queries
Coen De Roover, Johan Brichau, Carlos Noguera, Theo D'Hondt, Laurence Duchien
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation (PEPM07 - co-located with POPL07), Nice (France)

Combining Fuzzy Logic and Behavioral Similarity for Non-Strict Program Validation
Coen De Roover, Johan Brichau, Theo D'Hondt
Proceedings of the 8th ACM-SIGPLAN International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP 2006), Venice (Italy)

An Approach to High-Level Behavioral Program Documentation Allowing Lightweight Verification
Coen De Roover, Isabel Michiels, Kim Gybels, Kris Gybels, Theo D'Hondt
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2006), Athens (Greece)

Program Testing Using High-Level Property-Driven Models Isabel Michiels, Coen De Roover, Johan Brichau, Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Theo D'Hondt
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2006), San Francisco Bay (California)

Forward Chaining as an Implementation Strategy for the History-based Logic Pointcut Language HALO
Charlotte Herzeel, Kris Gybels, Pascal Costanza, Coen De Roover, Theo D'Hondt
Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Dynamic Languages: in conjunction with the 15th International Smalltalk Joint Conference 2007 (ICDL 2007), Lugano (Switzerland)

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Journal Articles

A Text Classification Approach to API Type Resolution for Incomplete Code Snippets
Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez, Dari Di Nucci, Coen De Roover
In Elsevier Journal on Science of Computer Programming, 2023

An Empirical Evaluation of Quasi-Static Executable Slices
Quentin Stiévenart, Dave Binkley and Coen De Roover
In Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2023

On the Impact of Security Vulnerabilities in the npm and RubyGems Dependency Networks
Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens,Alexandre Decan, Coen De Roover
In Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2022

Back to the Past -- Analysing Backporting Practices in Package Dependency Networks
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Ahmed Zerouali, Coen De Roover
In Transactions on Software Engineering, 2021

On the Practice of Semantic Versioning for Ansible Galaxy Roles: An Empirical Study and a Change Classification Model
Ruben Opdebeeck, Ahmed Zerouali, Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez, Coen De Roover
In Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2021

A Parallel Worklist Algorithm and Its Exploration Heuristics for Static Modular Analyses
Quentin Stiévenart, Noah Van Es, Jens Van der Plas, and Coen De Roover
In Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2021

On the Usage of JavaScript, Python and Ruby Packages in Docker Hub Images
Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Coen De Roover
In Elsevier Journal on Science of Computer Programming, 2021

Prioritising Server-Side Reachability via Inter-process Concolic Testing
Maarten Vandercammen, Laurent Christophe, Dario Di Nucci, Wolfgang De Meuter, Coen De Roover
In The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming, Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2021

A Large Empirical Assessment of the Role of Data Balancing in Machine-Learning-based Code Smell Detection
Fabiano Pecorelli, Dario Di Nucci, Coen De Roover, Andrea De Lucia
In Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2020

A General Method for Rendering Static Analyses for Diverse Concurrency Models Modular
Quentin Stiévenart, Jens Nicolay, Wolfgang De Meuter, Coen De Roover
In Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2018

Querying distilled code changes to extract executable transformations
Reinout Stevens, Tim Molderez, and Coen De Roover
In Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018

Search-based Tier Assignment for Optimising Offline Availability in Multi-tier Web Applications
Laure Philips, Joeri De Koster, Wolfgang De Meuter, and Coen De Roover
In The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming, Vol. 2, Issue 2, Article 3, 2017

A Flexible Framework for Studying Trace-Based Just-In-Time Compilation
Maarten Vandercammen, Stefan Marr, Coen De Roover
In Elsevier Journal of Computer Languages, Systems & Structures, Volume 51, January 2018

Purity Analysis for JavaScript Through Abstract Interpretation
Jens Nicolay, Quentin Stiévenart, Wolfgang De Meuter, Coen De Roover
In Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, August, 2017

Implementing a Performant Scheme Interpreter for the Web in asm.js
Noah Van Es, Quentin Stiévenart, Jens Nicolay, Theo D'Hondt, Coen De Roover
In Elsevier Journal on Computer Languages, Systems and Structures, Volume 49, September 2017

AspectJ Code Analysis and Verification with GASR
Johan Fabry, Coen De Roover, Carlos Noguera, Steffen Zschaler, Awais Rashid, Viviane Jonckers
In Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Volume 117, July 2016

A Logic Foundation for a General-Purpose History Querying Tool
Reinout Stevens, Coen De Roover, Carlos Noguera, Andy Kellens, Viviane Jonckers
In Elsevier Journal on Science of Computer Programming, Volume 96, Part 1, 2014

[The Implementation of the Cha-Q Meta-Model: A Comprehensive, Change-Centric Software Representation
Coen De Roover, Christophe Scholliers, Viviane Jonckers, Javier Pérez, Alessandro Murgia, Serge Demeyer
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software Quality (SQM14), Antwerp (Belgium)
In Electronic Communication of the European Association of Software Science and Technology, Volume 65, 2014]

CrimeSPOT: a Language and Runtime for Developing Active Wireless Sensor Network Applications
Coen De Roover, Christophe Scholliers, Wouter Amerijckx, Theo D'Hondt, Wolfgang De Meuter
In Elsevier Journal on Science of Computer Programming, Special issue on Software Engineering Aspects of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, Volume 78, Issue 10, 2013

Diagnosing and Correcting Design Inconsistencies in Source Code with Logical Abduction
Sergio Castro, Coen De Roover, Andy Kellens, Angela Lozano, Kim Mens, Theo D'Hondt
In Elsevier Journal on Science of Computer Programming, Volume 76, Issue 2, pages 1113 - 1129, 2011

Forward chaining in HALO: An implementation strategy for history-based logic pointcuts
Charlotte Herzeel, Kris Gybels, Pascal Costanza, Coen De Roover, Theo D'Hondt
In Elsevier Journal on Computer Languages, Systems and Structures, Volume 35, Issue 1, Pages 31 - 47, 2009

[Towards Abstract Interpretation for Recovering Design Information
Coen De Roover, Kris Gybels, Theo D'Hondt
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Abstract Interpretation of Object-Oriented Languages (AiOOL 2005), Paris (France)
In Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 131, 24 May 2005, Pages 15-25]

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Workshop Papers in Formal Proceedings

On the Role of Data Balancing for Machine Learning-Based Code Smell Detection
Fabiano Pecorelli, Dario Di Nucci, Coen De Roover, Andrea De Lucia
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Machine Learning Techniques for Software Quality Evaluation (MaLTeSQuE 2019), Talinn (Estonia)

STRAF: A Scala Framework for Experiments in Trace-Based JIT Compilation
Maarten Vandercammen, Quentin Stiévenart, Wolfgang De Meuter, Coen De Roover
Lecture notes of the 2015 International Summer School on Grand Timely Topics in Software Engineering (GTTSE 2015), Braga (Portugal)

Improving Trace-based JIT Optimisation using Whole-Program Information
Maarten Vandercammen, Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 2016 Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages (VMIL 2016), Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Static Detection of User-specified Security Vulnerabilities in Client-side JavaScript
Jens Nicolay, Valentijn Spruyt, Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 2016 Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2016), Vienna (Austria)

A Formal Foundation for Trace-Based JIT Compilers
Maarten Vandercammen, Jens Nicolay, Stefan Marr, Joeri De Koster, Theo D'Hondt and Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA15), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)

Run-time Validation of Behavioral Adaptations
Nicolás Cardozo, Laurent Christophe, Coen De Roover, Wolfgang De Meuter
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming (COP14), Upssala (Sweden)

Language and Middleware Support for Dynamism in Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network Applications
Nelson Matthys, Wouter Amerijckx, Coen De Roover, Christophe Scholliers, Sam Michiels, Theo D'Hondt, Wouter Joosen
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-time Support for Networked Embedded Systems (MidSens11), Lisboa (Portugal)

Language-Shifting Objects in Inter-language Interoperability: an exploration using JavaConnect
Johan Brichau, Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST 2009), Brest (France)

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Formally Published Posters

Poster: Static Analysis of Concurrent Higher-order Programs
Quentin Stiévenart, Jens Nicolay, Wolfgang De Meuter, Coen De Roover
Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE15), Posters Track, Florence (Italy)

Poster: Dynamic Analysis using JavaScript Proxies
Laurent Christophe, Coen De Roover, Wolfgang De Meuter
Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE15), Posters Track, Florence (Italy)

Poster: Tierless Programming in JavaScript
Laure Philips, Coen De Roover, Wolfgang De Meuter
Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE15), Posters Track, Florence (Italy)

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Dissertations

A Logic Meta Programming Foundation for Example-Driven Pattern Detection in Object-Oriented Programs [bib]
August 2009, Uitgeverij VUBPRESS Brussels University Press, ISBN 978 90 5487 621 2

Incorporating Dynamic Analysis and Approximate Reasoning in Declarative Meta-Programming to Support Software Re-engineering
Coen De Roover
Licentiate's Thesis, 2004

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Books and book chapters

Book Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics
Editors: Tom Mens, Coen De Roover, Anthony Cleve
Published October 2023 by Springer Cham, 314 pages, ISBN 978-3-031-36059-6

Chapter An Introduction to Software Ecosystems
Tom Mens, Coen De Roover
In: "Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics" Published October 2023 by Springer Cham, pages 1-29, ISBN 978-3-031-36059-6

Chapter Infrastructure-as-Code Ecosystems
Ruben Opdebeeck, Ahmed Zerouali, Coen De Roover
In: "Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics" Published October 2023 by Springer Cham, pages 215-245, ISBN 978-3-031-36059-6