3 papers
cs.SE2026
The State of the SBOM Tool Ecosystems: A Comparative Analysis of SPDX and CycloneDX
Zhimin Zhao, Abdul Ali Bangash, Tongxu Ge +3
Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) improve software release transparency by documenting components and dependencies, but their practical value depends on the tools that generate,…
cs.SE2026
Towards Evaluation Engineering: An Empirical Study of ML Evaluation Harnesses in the Wild
Zhimin Zhao, Zehao Wang, Abdul Ali Bangash +2
Evaluation harnesses are software systems that orchestrate model evaluation by managing model invocation, data loading, metric computation, and result reporting. Despite their crit…
cs.SE2025
What Slows Down FMware Development? An Empirical Study of Developer Challenges and Resolution Times
Zitao Wang, Zhimin Zhao, Michael W. Godfrey
Foundation Models (FMs), such as OpenAI's GPT, are fundamentally transforming the practice of software engineering by enabling the development of \emph{FMware} -- applications and…