Publications

2025


[1]

An Exploratory Study of Security Vulnerabilities in Machine
Akond Rahman, Anthony Skjellum, and Yue Zhang.
3rd International Workshop on Software Vulnerability Management (SVM 2025) [Pre-Print]

[2]

Come for Syntax, Stay for Speed, Write Secure Code: An Empirical Study of Security Weaknesses in Julia Programs
Yue Zhang, Justin Murphy, and Akond Rahman
Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE, 2025) [Pre-Print]

[3]

Authorship of Minor Contributors in Kubernetes Configuration Scripts: An Exploratory Study
Akond Rahman, Gerry Dozier, and Yue Zhang
Causal Methods in Software Engineering (CauSE 2025) [Pre-Print]

2024


[4]

Student Perceptions of Authentic Learning to Learn White-box Testing
Akond Rahman, Yue Zhang, Fan Wu, and Hossain Shahriar. (2024).
SIGCSE TS 2024 [Pre-Print]

[5]

Does Generative AI Generate Smells Related to Container Orchestration?: An Exploratory Study with Kubernetes Manifests
Yue Zhang, Rachel Meredith, Wilson Reeves, Julia Coriolano, Ali Babar, and Akond Rahman. (2024).
21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2024) [Pre-Print]

[6]

An Empirical Study of Task Infections in Ansible Scripts
Akond Rahman, Dibyendu Brinto Bose, Yue Zhang, and Rahul Pandita. (2024).
Empirical Software Engineering Journal [Pre-Print]

[7]

Evaluating the Quality of Open Source Ansible Playbooks: An Executability Perspective
Pemsith Mendis, Wilson Reeves, Muhammad Ali Babar, Yue Zhang, and Akond Rahman. (2024).
SEA4DQ 2024 (co-located with FSE) [Pre-Print]

2023


[8]

Practitioner Perceptions of Ansible Test Smells
Yue Zhang, Fan Wu, and Akond Rahman. (2023).
2nd International Workshop on the Foundations of Infrastructure Specification and Testing (FIST 2023) [Pre-Print]

[9]

Quality Assurance for Infrastructure Orchestrators: Emerging Results from Ansible
Yue Zhang, Muktadir Rahman, Fan Wu, and Akond Rahman. (2023).
2nd International Workshop on the Foundations of Infrastructure Specification and Testing (FIST 2023) [Pre-Print]