4 papers
How Developers Use Relation Chains in Gerrit-Based Review Ecosystems: An Empirical Study Across Three Open-Source Ecosystems
Ahmed Belhouchette, Moataz Chouchen, Marouene Chaieb +1
Background. Developers increasingly coordinate dependent review workflows by submitting sequences of related changes rather than monolithic ones. In Gerrit, these dependencies form…
Humans Integrate, Agents Fix: How Agent-Authored Pull Requests Are Referenced in Practice
Islem Khemissi, Moataz Chouchen, Dong Wang +1
Although coding agents have introduced new coordination dynamics in collaborative software development, detailed interactions in practice remain underexplored, especially for the c…
SmartPatchLinker: An Open-Source Tool to Linked Changes Detection for Code Review
Islem Khemissi, Moataz Chouchen, Dong Wang +1
In large software ecosystems, semantically related code changes, such as alternative solutions or overlapping modifications are often discovered only days after submission, leading…
Mining the YARA Ecosystem: From Ad-Hoc Sharing to Data-Driven Threat Intelligence
Dectot--Le Monnier de Gouville Esteban, Mohammad Hamdaqa, Moataz Chouchen
YARA has established itself as the de facto standard for "Detection as Code," enabling analysts and DevSecOps practitioners to define signatures for malware identification across t…