Alexandre Decan

73 papers A 14C 2Journal 34Unranked 22
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
An Empirical Study of the Evolution of GitHub Actions Workflows.
CoRR
Pooya Rostami Mazrae, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Mairieli Wessel
2026 J jnl
An empirical study of the evolution of GitHub actions workflows.
J. Syst. Softw.
Pooya Rostami Mazrae, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Mairieli Wessel
2026 J jnl
Automation and Reuse Practices in GitHub Actions Workflows: A Practitioner's Perspective.
CoRR
Hassan Onsori Delicheh, Guillaume Cardoen, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2025 A conf
A Dataset of Contributor Activities in the NumFocus Open-Source Community.
MSR
Youness Hourri, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2025 J jnl
A bot identification model and tool based on GitHub activity sequences.
J. Syst. Softw.
Natarajan Chidambaram, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2024 A conf
A dataset of GitHub Actions workflow histories.
MSR
Guillaume Cardoen, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan
2024 — conf
An Overview and Catalogue of Dependency Challenges in Open Source Software Package Registries.
BENEVOL
Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan
2024 J jnl
An Overview and Catalogue of Dependency Challenges in Open Source Software Package Registries.
CoRR
Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan
2024 A conf
Quantifying Security Issues in Reusable JavaScript Actions in GitHub Workflows.
MSR
Hassan Onsori Delicheh, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2024 A conf
RABBIT: A tool for identifying bot accounts based on their recent GitHub event history.
MSR
Natarajan Chidambaram, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan
2024 A conf
gawd: A Differencing Tool for GitHub Actions Workflows.
MSR
Pooya Rostami Mazrae, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2023 A conf
A Dataset of Bot and Human Activities in GitHub.
MSR
Natarajan Chidambaram, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2023 — conf
A Preliminary Study of GitHub Actions Dependencies.
SATToSE
Hassan Onsori Delicheh, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2023 — conf
A Preliminary Study of GitHub Actions Workflow Changes.
SATToSE
Pooya Rostami Mazrae, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Mairieli Wessel
2023 — conf
Distinguishing Bots from Human Developers Based on Their GitHub Activity Types.
SATToSE
Natarajan Chidambaram, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2023 J jnl
On the outdatedness of workflows in the GitHub Actions ecosystem.
J. Syst. Softw.
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Hassan Onsori Delicheh
2023 J jnl
On the usage, co-usage and migration of CI/CD tools: A qualitative analysis.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Pooya Rostami Mazrae, Tom Mens, Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan
2023 — ch.
The GitHub Development Workflow Automation Ecosystems.
Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics
Mairieli Wessel, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Pooya Rostami Mazrae
2023 J jnl
The GitHub Development Workflow Automation Ecosystems.
CoRR
Mairieli Wessel, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Pooya Rostami Mazrae
2022 J jnl
Back to the Past - Analysing Backporting Practices in Package Dependency Networks.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Ahmed Zerouali, Coen De Roover
2022 J jnl
Leveraging Predictions from Multiple Repositories to Improve Bot Detection.
CoRR
Natarajan Chidambaram, Alexandre Decan, Mehdi Golzadeh
2022 — conf
Leveraging predictions from multiple repositories to improve bot detection.
BotSE@ICSE
Natarajan Chidambaram, Alexandre Decan, Mehdi Golzadeh
2022 A conf
On the Use of GitHub Actions in Software Development Repositories.
ICSME
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Pooya Rostami Mazrae, Mehdi Golzadeh
2022 — conf
On the accuracy of bot detection techniques.
BotSE@ICSE
Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Natarajan Chidambaram
2022 J jnl
On the impact of security vulnerabilities in the npm and RubyGems dependency networks.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Coen De Roover
2022 A conf
On the rise and fall of CI services in GitHub.
SANER
Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2022 C ed.
OpenSym 2022: The 18th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, Madrid, Spain, September 7 - 9, 2022
OpenSym
Gregorio Robles, Amel Charleux, Igor Steinmacher, Javier Arroyo, Antonio Balderas, Gemma Catolino, Alexandre Decan, Francisco Martín Rico, Amit Kumar Verma
2022 — conf
PaReco: patched clones and missed patches among the divergent variants of a software family.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Poedjadevie Kadjel Ramkisoen, John Businge, Brent van Bladel, Alexandre Decan, Serge Demeyer, Coen De Roover, Foutse Khomh
2022 J jnl
Recognizing Bot Activity in Collaborative Software Development.
IEEE Softw.
Mehdi Golzadeh, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Eleni Constantinou, Natarajan Chidambaram
2022 A conf
Variant Forks - Motivations and Impediments.
SANER
John Businge, Ahmed Zerouali, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Serge Demeyer, Coen De Roover
2021 — conf
A Quantitative Assessment of Package Freshness in Linux Distributions.
SoHeal@ICSE
Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2021 J jnl
A Quantitative Assessment of Package Freshness in Linux Distributions.
CoRR
Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2021 J jnl
A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments.
J. Syst. Softw.
Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Damien Legay, Tom Mens
2021 J jnl
A multi-dimensional analysis of technical lag in Debian-based Docker images.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Jesús M. González-Barahona, Gregorio Robles
2021 J jnl
Evaluating a bot detection model on git commit messages.
CoRR
Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2021 — conf
Identifying bot activity in GitHub pull request and issue comments.
BotSE@ICSE
Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Eleni Constantinou, Tom Mens
2021 J jnl
Identifying bot activity in GitHub pull request and issue comments.
CoRR
Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Eleni Constantinou, Tom Mens
2021 J jnl
Lost in Zero Space - An Empirical Comparison of 0.y.z Releases in Software Package Distributions.
CoRR
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2021 J jnl
Lost in zero space - An empirical comparison of 0.y.z releases in software package distributions.
Sci. Comput. Program.
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2021 J jnl
On the Impact of Security Vulnerabilities in the npm and RubyGems Dependency Networks.
CoRR
Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Coen De Roover
2021 J jnl
What Do Package Dependencies Tell Us About Semantic Versioning?
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2020 J jnl
A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments.
CoRR
Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Damien Legay, Tom Mens
2020 — conf
An Empirical Investigation of Forks as Variants in the npm Package Distribution.
BENEVOL
John Businge, Alexandre Decan, Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Serge Demeyer
2020 — conf
Bot or not?: Detecting bots in GitHub pull request activity based on comment similarity.
ICSE (Workshops)
Mehdi Golzadeh, Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2020 — conf
Evaluating a Bot Detection Model on Git Commit Messages.
BENEVOL
Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2020 J jnl
GAP: Forecasting commit activity in git projects.
J. Syst. Softw.
Alexandre Decan, Eleni Constantinou, Tom Mens, Henrique Rocha
2020 — conf
How Magic Is Zero?: An Empirical Analysis of Initial Development Releases in Three Software Package Distributions.
ICSE (Workshops)
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2020 A conf
On Package Freshness in Linux Distributions.
ICSME
Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2020 J jnl
On Package Freshness in Linux Distributions.
CoRR
Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2020 J jnl
Sismic - A Python library for statechart execution and testing.
SoftwareX
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2019 J jnl
A formal framework for measuring technical lag in component repositories - and its application to npm.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Jesús M. González-Barahona, Alexandre Decan, Eleni Constantinou, Gregorio Robles
2019 J jnl
A method for testing and validating executable statechart models.
Softw. Syst. Model.
Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Nikolaos I. Spanoudakis
2019 J jnl
An empirical comparison of dependency network evolution in seven software packaging ecosystems.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Philippe Grosjean
2019 — conf
On the Effect of Discussions on Pull Request Decisions.
BENEVOL
Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2019 — conf
On the Usage of Badges in Open Source Packages on GitHub.
BENEVOL
Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2018 — conf
Breaking the Borders: An Investigation of Cross-Ecosystem Software Packages.
BENEVOL
Eleni Constantinou, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2018 J jnl
Breaking the borders: an investigation of cross-ecosystem software packages.
CoRR
Eleni Constantinou, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2018 A conf
On the Evolution of Technical Lag in the npm Package Dependency Network.
ICSME
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Eleni Constantinou
2018 — conf
On the Impact of Pull Request Decisions on Future Contributions.
BENEVOL
Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2018 J jnl
On the evolution of technical lag in the npm package dependency network.
CoRR
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Eleni Constantinou
2018 J jnl
On the impact of pull request decisions on future contributions.
CoRR
Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2018 A conf
On the impact of security vulnerabilities in the npm package dependency network.
MSR
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Eleni Constantinou
2017 J jnl
An Empirical Comparison of Dependency Network Evolution in Seven Software Packaging Ecosystems.
CoRR
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Philippe Grosjean
2017 A conf
An empirical comparison of dependency issues in OSS packaging ecosystems.
SANER
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Maëlick Claes
2017 J jnl
On the Interaction of Relational Database Access Technologies in Open Source Java Projects.
CoRR
Alexandre Decan, Mathieu Goeminne, Tom Mens
2016 — conf
On the topology of package dependency networks: a comparison of three programming language ecosystems.
ECSA Workshops
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Maëlick Claes
2016 A conf
When GitHub Meets CRAN: An Analysis of Inter-Repository Package Dependency Problems.
SANER
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Maëlick Claes, Philippe Grosjean
2015 — conf
On the Development and Distribution of R Packages: An Empirical Analysis of the R Ecosystem.
ECSA Workshops
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Maëlick Claes, Philippe Grosjean
2015 — conf
On the Interaction of Relational Database Access Technologies in Open Source Java Projects.
SATToSE
Alexandre Decan, Mathieu Goeminne, Tom Mens
2014 — conf
Co-evolving code-related and database-related changes in a data-intensive software system.
CSMR-WCRE
Mathieu Goeminne, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
2012 J jnl
An aperiodicity problem for multiwords.
RAIRO Theor. Informatics Appl.
Véronique Bruyère, Olivier Carton, Alexandre Decan, Olivier Gauwin, Jef Wijsen
2012 — conf
Certain Conjunctive Query Answering in SQL.
SUM
Alexandre Decan, Fabian Pijcke, Jef Wijsen
2009 C conf
On First-Order Query Rewriting for Incomplete Database Histories.
TIME
Véronique Bruyère, Alexandre Decan, Jef Wijsen