Publications

Thesis

2019 - A Measurement Framework for Analyzing Technical Lag in Open-Source Software Ecosystems
Ahmed Zerouali
University of Mons, Belgium
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Journals

2021 - A multi-dimensional analysis of technical lag in Debian-based Docker images
Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona and Gregorio Robles
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)
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2019 - A Formal Framework for Measuring Technical Lag in Component Repositories - and its Application to npm
Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Alexandre Decan, Eleni Constantinou, Gregorio Robles
Wiley Journal on Software Evolution and Process (JSEP)
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Conferences

2020 - Does Infrastructure as Code Adhere to Semantic Versioning? An Analysis of Ansible Role Evolution
Ruben Opdebeeck, Ahmed Zerouali, Camilo Velazquez-Rodriguez and Coen De Roover
20th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) co-located with ICSME

2019 - ConPan: A Tool to Analyze Packages in Software Containers
Ahmed Zerouali, Valerio Cosentino, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Gregorio Robles, Tom Mens
International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
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2019 - On the Relation between Outdated Docker Containers, Severity Vulnerabilities, and Bugs
Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
26th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)
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Best Paper Award

2019 - On the Impact of Outdated and Vulnerable Javascript Packages in Docker Images
Ahmed Zerouali, Valerio Cosentino, Tom Mens, Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
26th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)
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2019 - On the Diversity of Software Package Popularity Metrics: An Empirical Study of npm
Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
26th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)
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2019 - SortingHat: wizardry on software project members
David Moreno, Santiago Dueñas, Valerio Cosentino, Miguel Angel Fernandez, Ahmed Zerouali, Gregorio Robles, Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona
IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
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2018 - An Empirical Analysis of Technical Lag in npm Package Dependencies
Ahmed Zerouali, Eleni Constantinou, Tom Mens, Gregorio Robles, Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona
17th International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR)
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2018 - Graal: The Quest for Source Code Knowledge
Valerio Cosentino, Santiago Duenas, Ahmed Zerouali, Gregorio Robles, Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona
18th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM)
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2017 - Analyzing the evolution of testing library usage in open source Java projects
Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens
24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)
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2017 - An empirical comparison of the development history of cloudstack and eucalyptus
Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens
International Conference on Smart Digital Environment
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