I am happy to announce that our paper titled "Variant Forks - Motivations and Impediments", has been accepted at IEEE SANER 2022. Preprint following soon. @tom_mens Serge Demeyer Oniro Ahmed Zerouali Alexandre Decan

If you are attending #SANER2022 in Honolulu, Hawaii (virtually 😉), I invite you to my poster presentation from 19:00 - 20:30 (CET). I will be delighted to see all of you. The video of the presentation on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=2dxKWI…

Our paper on the impact of security vulnerabilities in npm and RubyGems dependency networks has been been accepted in emsejournal. A secoassist collaboration with @tom_mens, Alexandre Decan and Coen De Roover. Preprint: soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2…

You are cordially invited to the VUB Vloeberghs chair inaugural lecture of Prof. Dr. Ralf Lämmel (@reallynotabba) "Software knowledge analytics as a role model for making sense of the world” on May 17th at 16:00. Registration and more information at soft.vub.ac.be/Vloeberghs/

In 2022, the 18th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS) and the 18th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym) are joining forces and will be held as co-located events in Madrid. Extended abstracts due by May 6 oss2022.github.io

Action shots of Ruben Opdebeeck presenting "Smelly Variables in Ansible Infrastructure Code: Detection, Prevalence, and Lifetime" at online MSR 2025. Joint work w/ Ahmed Zerouali Coen De Roover. Pre-print soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2… In-person next week! SoftwareLanguagesLab DINF@VUB secoassist #IaC

Yet another SECOASSIST publication in emsejournal, this time on security vulnerabilities in the software packaging ecosystems npm and RubyGems. With Ahmed Zerouali Alexandre Decan @tom_mens and Coen De Roover

The first presentation of day by Camilo Velázquez Rodríguez on Improving Library Selection in Maven #benevol22

Packed first session on software ecosystems at #benevol22 BENEVOL 👏🌏🌎🌍 with talks from Camilo Velázquez Rodríguez, Slinger Jansen, William Schueller, Damien Jaime and Chris Pfaff

Action shots of Yunior Pacheco presenting "Mining for Framework Instantiation Pattern Interplays" at IEEE SCAM Conference 2022 in Cyprus. Joint work w/ Ahmed Zerouali Coen De Roover SoftwareLanguagesLab DINF@VUB. Pre-print soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2…

Some action shots of Ahmed Zerouali presenting "On the Impact of Security Vulnerabilities in the npm and RubyGems Dependency Networks" at IEEE ICSME 2025 2022 in Cyprus. Joint work with @tom_mens, Alexandre Decan and Coen De Roover. Preprint: soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2…

Pre-print 4 MSR 2025 "Helm Charts for Kubernetes Applications: Evolution, Outdatedness, and Security Risks" by Ahmed Zerouali Ruben Opdebeeck Coen De Roover of SoftwareLanguagesLab. Quantifies image freshness & known vulnerabilities of packages therein; update your charts! soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2…

Pre-print 4 MSR 2025 "Control and Data Flow in Security Smell Detection for Infrastructure as Code: Is It Worth the Effort?" by Ruben Opdebeeck Ahmed Zerouali Coen De Roover of SoftwareLanguagesLab. Short answer: for Red Hat Ansible, yes! Graph-based, quantifying indirections soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2…

Action shots of Ruben Opdebeeck presenting "Helm Charts for Kubernetes Applications: Evolution, Outdatedness and Security Risks" at MSR 2025 2023. Joint work w/ Ahmed Zerouali Coen De Roover. Pre-print soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2… #kubernetes #helm #security #iac

More shots of Ruben Opdebeeck at @msrconf23. This time answering "Control and Data Flow in Security Smell Detection for Infrastructure as Code: Is It Worth the Effort?" For Ansible, yes! Joint work w/ Ahmed Zerouali Coen De Roover. Pre-print soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2… #ansible #security #iac

📢 #CFP #IEEESCAM2023 Research Track: Abstract Submission: June 29th, 2023 Paper Submission: July 06th, 2023 Author Notification: August 10th, 2023 Camera Ready: August 24th, 2023 #SCAM2023 #IEEESCAM ieee-scam.org/2023/#cfpresea…

📢 Deadline approaching! ⏰ Only 10 days left to submit your abstracts for the Research Track! Don't miss your chance to be part of #IEEESCAM2023! #SCAM2023 #IEEESCAM ieee-scam.org/2023/#cfpresea…

The 2nd Summer School on Security Testing & Verification will take place on September 11-12-13 in Brussels. PhD student interested in security, formal verification, static analysis, dynamic analysis, and automated threat modelling? Check out our speakers cybersecurity-research.be/summer-school-…

Action shots of Ruben Opdebeeck presenting "The Docker Hub Image Inheritance Network: Construction and Empirical Insights" at IEEE SCAM Conference. Pre-print: soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2… Joint work w/ Jonas Lesy, Ahmed Zerouali Coen De Roover of SoftwareLanguagesLab DINF@VUB.

Warmly recommended "Infrastructure-as-Code Ecosystems" chapter by Ruben Opdebeeck Ahmed Zerouali Coen De Roover in our newly-published "Software Ecosystems: Analytics and Tooling" book link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…