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Opportunities and Security Risks of Technical Leverage: A Replication Study on the NPM Ecosystem
Haya Samaana, Diego Elias Costa, Ahmad Abdellatif +1
To comply with high productivity demands, software developers reuse free open-source software (FOSS) code to avoid reinventing the wheel when incorporating software features. The r…
A Machine Learning-Based Approach For Detecting Malicious PyPI Packages
Haya Samaana, Diego Elias Costa, Emad Shihab +1
Background. In modern software development, the use of external libraries and packages is increasingly prevalent, streamlining the software development process and enabling develop…
Predicting the First Response Latency of Maintainers and Contributors in Pull Requests
SayedHassan Khatoonabadi, Ahmad Abdellatif, Diego Elias Costa +1
The success of a Pull Request (PR) depends on the responsiveness of the maintainers and the contributor during the review process. Being aware of the expected waiting times can lea…
A Transformer-based Approach for Augmenting Software Engineering Chatbots Datasets
Ahmad Abdellatif, Khaled Badran, Diego Elias Costa +1
Background: The adoption of chatbots into software development tasks has become increasingly popular among practitioners, driven by the advantages of cost reduction and acceleratio…