Alexandre Decan

According to our database, Alexandre Decan authored at least 47 papers between 2009 and 2023.

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2023

On the outdatedness of workflows in the GitHub Actions ecosystem.

Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Hassan Onsori Delicheh

J. Syst. Softw., December, 2023

On the usage, co-usage and migration of CI/CD tools: A qualitative analysis.

Pooya Rostami Mazrae, Tom Mens, Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan

Empir. Softw. Eng., March, 2023

The GitHub Development Workflow Automation Ecosystems.

Mairieli Wessel, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Pooya Rostami Mazrae

CoRR, 2023

A Preliminary Study of GitHub Actions Workflow Changes.

Pooya Rostami Mazrae, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Mairieli Wessel

Proceedings of the 15th Seminar on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution, University of Salerno, Computer Science Department, 2023

A Preliminary Study of GitHub Actions Dependencies.

Hassan Onsori Delicheh, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the 15th Seminar on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution, University of Salerno, Computer Science Department, 2023

Distinguishing Bots from Human Developers Based on Their GitHub Activity Types.

Natarajan Chidambaram, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the 15th Seminar on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution, University of Salerno, Computer Science Department, 2023

A Dataset of Bot and Human Activities in GitHub.

Natarajan Chidambaram, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2023

2022

Back to the Past - Analysing Backporting Practices in Package Dependency Networks.

Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Ahmed Zerouali, Coen De Roover

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2022

Recognizing Bot Activity in Collaborative Software Development.

Mehdi Golzadeh, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Eleni Constantinou, Natarajan Chidambaram

IEEE Softw., 2022

On the impact of security vulnerabilities in the npm and RubyGems dependency networks.

Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Coen De Roover

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2022

On the rise and fall of CI services in GitHub.

Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, 2022

Variant Forks - Motivations and Impediments.

John Businge, Ahmed Zerouali, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Serge Demeyer, Coen De Roover

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, 2022

PaReco: patched clones and missed patches among the divergent variants of a software family.

Poedjadevie Kadjel Ramkisoen, John Businge, Brent van Bladel, Alexandre Decan, Serge Demeyer, Coen De Roover, Foutse Khomh

Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2022

On the Use of GitHub Actions in Software Development Repositories.

Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Pooya Rostami Mazrae, Mehdi Golzadeh

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 2022

On the accuracy of bot detection techniques.

Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Natarajan Chidambaram

Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering, 2022

Leveraging predictions from multiple repositories to improve bot detection.

Natarajan Chidambaram, Alexandre Decan, Mehdi Golzadeh

Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering, 2022

2021

What Do Package Dependencies Tell Us About Semantic Versioning?

Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2021

Lost in zero space - An empirical comparison of 0.y.z releases in software package distributions.

Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Sci. Comput. Program., 2021

A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments.

Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Damien Legay, Tom Mens

J. Syst. Softw., 2021

A multi-dimensional analysis of technical lag in Debian-based Docker images.

Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Jesús M. González-Barahona, Gregorio Robles

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2021

A Quantitative Assessment of Package Freshness in Linux Distributions.

Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the 4th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software Health in Projects, 2021

Identifying bot activity in GitHub pull request and issue comments.

Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Eleni Constantinou, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering, 2021

2020

Sismic - A Python library for statechart execution and testing.

Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

SoftwareX, 2020

GAP: Forecasting commit activity in git projects.

Alexandre Decan, Eleni Constantinou, Tom Mens, Henrique Rocha

J. Syst. Softw., 2020

On Package Freshness in Linux Distributions.

Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 2020

Bot or not?: Detecting bots in GitHub pull request activity based on comment similarity.

Mehdi Golzadeh, Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the ICSE '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Workshops, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 27 June, 2020

How Magic Is Zero?: An Empirical Analysis of Initial Development Releases in Three Software Package Distributions.

Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the ICSE '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Workshops, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 27 June, 2020

Evaluating a Bot Detection Model on Git Commit Messages.

Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the 19th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop, 2020

An Empirical Investigation of Forks as Variants in the npm Package Distribution.

John Businge, Alexandre Decan, Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Serge Demeyer

Proceedings of the 19th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop, 2020

2019

A method for testing and validating executable statechart models.

Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Nikolaos I. Spanoudakis

Softw. Syst. Model., 2019

A formal framework for measuring technical lag in component repositories - and its application to npm.

Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Jesús M. González-Barahona, Alexandre Decan, Eleni Constantinou, Gregorio Robles

J. Softw. Evol. Process., 2019

An empirical comparison of dependency network evolution in seven software packaging ecosystems.

Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Philippe Grosjean

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2019

On the Usage of Badges in Open Source Packages on GitHub.

Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the 18th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop, 2019

On the Effect of Discussions on Pull Request Decisions.

Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the 18th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop, 2019

2018

On the impact of security vulnerabilities in the npm package dependency network.

Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Eleni Constantinou

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2018

On the Evolution of Technical Lag in the npm Package Dependency Network.

Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Eleni Constantinou

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 2018

On the Impact of Pull Request Decisions on Future Contributions.

Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the 17th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop, Delft, the Netherlands, December 10th - to, 2018

Breaking the Borders: An Investigation of Cross-Ecosystem Software Packages.

Eleni Constantinou, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the 17th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop, Delft, the Netherlands, December 10th - to, 2018

2017

An empirical comparison of dependency issues in OSS packaging ecosystems.

Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Maëlick Claes

Proceedings of the IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, 2017

2016

When GitHub Meets CRAN: An Analysis of Inter-Repository Package Dependency Problems.

Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Maëlick Claes, Philippe Grosjean

Proceedings of the IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, 2016

On the topology of package dependency networks: a comparison of three programming language ecosystems.

Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Maëlick Claes

Proceedings of the Proccedings of the 10th European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 28, 2016

2015

On the Interaction of Relational Database Access Technologies in Open Source Java Projects.

Alexandre Decan, Mathieu Goeminne, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the Post-proceedings of the 8th Seminar on Advanced Techniques and Tools for Software Evolution, 2015

On the Development and Distribution of R Packages: An Empirical Analysis of the R Ecosystem.

Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Maëlick Claes, Philippe Grosjean

Proceedings of the 2015 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops, 2015

2014

Co-evolving code-related and database-related changes in a data-intensive software system.

Mathieu Goeminne, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

Proceedings of the 2014 Software Evolution Week, 2014

2012

An aperiodicity problem for multiwords.

Véronique Bruyère, Olivier Carton, Alexandre Decan, Olivier Gauwin, Jef Wijsen

RAIRO Theor. Informatics Appl., 2012

Certain Conjunctive Query Answering in SQL.

Alexandre Decan, Fabian Pijcke, Jef Wijsen

Proceedings of the Scalable Uncertainty Management - 6th International Conference, 2012

2009

On First-Order Query Rewriting for Incomplete Database Histories.

Véronique Bruyère, Alexandre Decan, Jef Wijsen

Proceedings of the TIME 2009, 2009