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Better Safe Than Sorry! Automated Identification of Functionality-Breaking Security-Configuration Rules
Patrick Stöckle, Michael Sammereier, Bernd Grobauer +1
Insecure default values in software settings can be exploited by attackers to compromise the system that runs the software. As a countermeasure, there exist security-configuration…
Feature Sets in Just-in-Time Defect Prediction: An Empirical Evaluation
Peter Bludau, Alexander Pretschner
Just-in-time defect prediction assigns a defect risk to each new change to a software repository in order to prioritize review and testing efforts. Over the last decades different…
PR-SZZ: How pull requests can support the tracing of defects in software repositories
Peter Bludau, Alexander Pretschner
The SZZ algorithm represents a standard way to identify bug fixing commits as well as inducing counterparts. It forms the basis for data sets used in numerous empirical studies. Si…
Empowered and Embedded: Ethics and Agile Processes
Niina Zuber, Severin Kacianka, Jan Gogoll +2
In this article we focus on the structural aspects of the development of ethical software, and argue that ethical considerations need to be embedded into the (agile) software devel…
Trustworthy Transparency by Design
Valentin Zieglmeier, Alexander Pretschner
Individuals lack oversight over systems that process their data. This can lead to discrimination and hidden biases that are hard to uncover. Recent data protection legislation trie…
Designing Accountable Systems
Severin Kacianka, Alexander Pretschner
Accountability is an often called for property of technical systems. It is a requirement for algorithmic decision systems, autonomous cyber-physical systems, and for software syste…