Christian D. Newman

84 papers A* 1A 18B 4C 3Journal 42Unranked 16
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
On the performance of large language models on introductory programming assignments.
J. Intell. Inf. Syst.
Nishat Raihan, Dhiman Goswami, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Mohammed Latif Siddiq, Christian D. Newman, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Joanna C. S. Santos, Marcos Zampieri
2025 J jnl
ChatGPT for Code Refactoring: Analyzing Topics, Interaction, and Effective Prompts.
CoRR
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Luo Xu, Sofia Martinez, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni
2025 J jnl
On the Structure and Semantics of Identifier Names Containing Closed Syntactic Category Words.
CoRR
Christian D. Newman, Anthony Peruma, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mahie Crabbe, Syreen Banabilah, Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Michael John Decker, Farhad Akhbardeh, Marcos Zampieri, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Jonathan I. Maletic
2025 J jnl
On the structure and semantics of identifier names containing closed syntactic category words.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Christian D. Newman, Anthony Peruma, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mahie Crabbe, Syreen Banabilah, Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Michael John Decker, Farhad Akhbardeh, Marcos Zampieri, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Jonathan I. Maletic
2025 J jnl
SCALAR: A Part-of-speech Tagger for Identifiers.
CoRR
Christian D. Newman, Brandon Scholten, Sophia Testa, Joshua A. C. Behler, Syreen Banabilah, Michael L. Collard, Michael John Decker, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marcos Zampieri, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Anthony Peruma, Jonathan I. Maletic
2025 A conf
Scalar: A Part-of-Speech Tagger for Identifiers.
ICPC
Christian D. Newman, Brandon Scholten, Sophia Testa, Joshua A. C. Behler, Syreen Banabilah, Michael L. Collard, Michael John Decker, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marcos Zampieri, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Anthony Peruma, Jonathan I. Maletic
2024 J jnl
Behind the scenes: On the relationship between developer experience and refactoring.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni
2024 C conf
CSEPrompts: A Benchmark of Introductory Computer Science Prompts.
ISMIS
Md. Nishat Raihan, Dhiman Goswami, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Christian D. Newman, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri
2024 J jnl
CSEPrompts: A Benchmark of Introductory Computer Science Prompts.
CoRR
Md. Nishat Raihan, Dhiman Goswami, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Christian D. Newman, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri
2024 B conf
Code LLMs: A Taxonomy-based Survey.
IEEE Big Data
Nishat Raihan, Christian D. Newman, Marcos Zampieri
2024 J jnl
Code LLMs: A Taxonomy-based Survey.
CoRR
Nishat Raihan, Christian D. Newman, Marcos Zampieri
2024 A conf
How to Refactor this Code? An Exploratory Study on Developer-ChatGPT Refactoring Conversations.
MSR
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anushkrishna Venkatakrishnan, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni
2024 J jnl
How to Refactor this Code? An Exploratory Study on Developer-ChatGPT Refactoring Conversations.
CoRR
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anushkrishna Venkatakrishnan, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni
2024 — conf
Insights from the Field: Exploring Students' Perspectives on Bad Unit Testing Practices.
ITiCSE (1)
Anthony Peruma, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Wajdi Aljedaani, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
2024 J jnl
Insights from the Field: Exploring Students' Perspectives on Bad Unit Testing Practices.
CoRR
Anthony Peruma, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Wajdi Aljedaani, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
2024 A conf
On the Rationale and Use of Assertion Messages in Test Code: Insights from Software Practitioners.
ICSME
Anthony Peruma, Taryn Takebayashi, Rocky Huang, Joseph Carmelo Averion, Veronica Hodapp, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
2024 J jnl
On the Rationale and Use of Assertion Messages in Test Code: Insights from Software Practitioners.
CoRR
Anthony Peruma, Taryn Takebayashi, Rocky Huang, Joseph Carmelo Averion, Veronica Hodapp, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
2023 C ed.
23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2023, Bogotá, Colombia, October 2-3, 2023
SCAM
Leon Moonen, Christian D. Newman, Alessandra Gorla
2023 — conf
An Exploratory Study on the Usage and Readability of Messages Within Assertion Methods of Test Cases.
NLBSE@ICSE
Taryn Takebayashi, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman
2023 J jnl
An Exploratory Study on the Usage and Readability of Messages Within Assertion Methods of Test Cases.
CoRR
Taryn Takebayashi, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman
2023 J jnl
How is Software Reuse Discussed in Stack Overflow?
CoRR
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni
2023 J jnl
Rename Chains: An Exploratory Study on the Occurrence and Characteristics of Identifiers Undergoing Multiple Renamings.
CoRR
Anthony Peruma, Christian D. Newman
2022 J jnl
An Ensemble Approach for Annotating Source Code Identifiers With Part-of-Speech Tags.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Christian D. Newman, Michael John Decker, Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Satyajit Mohapatra, Tejal Vishnoi, Marcos Zampieri, Timothy J. Sheldon, Emily Hill
2022 A conf
An Exploratory Study on Refactoring Documentation in Issues Handling.
MSR
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni
2022 J jnl
An Exploratory Study on Refactoring Documentation in Issues Handling.
CoRR
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni
2022 A conf
An approach to automatically assess method names.
ICPC
Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Christian D. Newman, Michael John Decker, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic
2022 J jnl
How do i refactor this? An empirical study on refactoring trends and topics in Stack Overflow.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Anthony Peruma, Steven Simmons, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni
2022 J jnl
On the documentation of refactoring types.
Autom. Softw. Eng.
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Jiaqian Liu, Kenneth Addo, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni, Zhe Yu
2022 J jnl
On the use of textual feature extraction techniques to support the automated detection of refactoring documentation.
Innov. Syst. Softw. Eng.
Licelot Marmolejos, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni
2022 A conf
Refactoring Debt: Myth or Reality? An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Technical Debt and Refactoring.
MSR
Anthony Peruma, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni
2022 J jnl
Refactoring Debt: Myth or Reality? An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Technical Debt and Refactoring.
CoRR
Anthony Peruma, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni
2022 J jnl
Refactoring for reuse: an empirical study.
Innov. Syst. Softw. Eng.
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Tianjia Wang, Vaibhavi Raut, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni
2022 J jnl
SATDBailiff-mining and tracking self-admitted technical debt.
Sci. Comput. Program.
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Ben Christians, Mihal Busho, Ahmed Hamad AlKhalid, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
2022 — conf
Understanding Digits in Identifier Names: An Exploratory Study.
NLBSE
Anthony Peruma, Christian D. Newman
2022 J jnl
Understanding Digits in Identifier Names: An Exploratory Study.
CoRR
Anthony Peruma, Christian D. Newman
2021 — conf
A Survey on Method Naming Standards: Questions and Responses Artifact.
ICSE (Companion Volume)
Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Christian D. Newman, Michael John Decker, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic
2021 J jnl
An Ensemble Approach for Annotating Source Code Identifiers with Part-of-speech Tags.
CoRR
Christian D. Newman, Michael John Decker, Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Anthony Peruma, Satyajit Mohapatra, Tejal Vishnoi, Marcos Zampieri, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Timothy J. Sheldon, Emily Hill
2021 J jnl
Behind the Scenes: On the Relationship Between Developer Experience and Refactoring.
CoRR
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni
2021 J jnl
Comparing Commit Messages and Source Code Metrics for the Prediction Refactoring Activities.
Algorithms
Priyadarshni Suresh Sagar, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman
2021 J jnl
How Do I Refactor This? An Empirical Study on Refactoring Trends and Topics in Stack Overflow.
CoRR
Anthony Peruma, Steven Simmons, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni
2021 J jnl
How we refactor and how we document it? On the use of supervised machine learning algorithms to classify refactoring documentation.
Expert Syst. Appl.
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni, Marouane Kessentini
2021 A conf
IDEAL: An Open-Source Identifier Name Appraisal Tool.
ICSME
Anthony Peruma, Venera Arnaoudova, Christian D. Newman
2021 J jnl
IDEAL: An Open-Source Identifier Name Appraisal Tool.
CoRR
Anthony Peruma, Venera Arnaoudova, Christian D. Newman
2021 J jnl
On Preserving the Behavior in Software Refactoring: A Systematic Mapping Study.
CoRR
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni
2021 A conf
On the Distribution of "Simple Stupid Bugs" in Unit Test Files: An Exploratory Study.
MSR
Anthony Peruma, Christian D. Newman
2021 J jnl
On the Distribution of "Simple Stupid Bugs" in Unit Test Files: An Exploratory Study.
CoRR
Anthony Peruma, Christian D. Newman
2021 J jnl
On the Documentation of Refactoring Types.
CoRR
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Jiaqian Liu, Kenneth Addo, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni, Zhe Yu
2021 A* conf
On the Naming of Methods: A Survey of Professional Developers.
ICSE
Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Christian D. Newman, Michael John Decker, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic
2021 J jnl
On the Naming of Methods: A Survey of Professional Developers.
CoRR
Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Christian D. Newman, Michael John Decker, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic
2021 J jnl
Refactoring for Reuse: An Empirical Study.
CoRR
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Tianjia Wang, Vaibhavi Raut, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni
2021 J jnl
SATDBailiff- Mining and Tracking Self-Admitted Technical Debt.
CoRR
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Ben Christians, Mihal Busho, Ahmed Hamad AlKhalid, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
2021 A conf
Test Smell Detection Tools: A Systematic Mapping Study.
EASE
Wajdi Aljedaani, Anthony Peruma, Ahmed Aljohani, Mazen Alotaibi, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman, Abdullatif Ghallab, Stephanie Ludi
2021 J jnl
Test Smell Detection Tools: A Systematic Mapping Study.
CoRR
Wajdi Aljedaani, Anthony Peruma, Ahmed Aljohani, Mazen Alotaibi, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman, Abdullatif Ghallab, Stephanie Ludi
2021 A conf
Using Grammar Patterns to Interpret Test Method Name Evolution.
ICPC
Anthony Peruma, Emily Hu, Jiajun Chen, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman
2021 J jnl
Using Grammar Patterns to Interpret Test Method Name Evolution.
CoRR
Anthony Peruma, Emily Hu, Jiajun Chen, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman
2020 B conf
An Exploratory Study on How Software Reuse is Discussed in Stack Overflow.
ICSR
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Diego Barinas, Jiaqian Liu, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman
2020 — conf
An Exploratory Study on the Refactoring of Unit Test Files in Android Applications.
ICSE (Workshops)
Anthony Peruma, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Fabio Palomba
2020 J jnl
Contextualizing rename decisions using refactorings, commit messages, and data types.
J. Syst. Softw.
Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Michael John Decker, Christian D. Newman
2020 B conf
How Do Developers Refactor Code to Improve Code Reusability?
ICSR
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Philip T. Rodriguez, Jordan Bowman, Tianjia Wang, Benjamin Adepoju, Kevin Lopez, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
2020 J jnl
How We Refactor and How We Document it? On the Use of Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms to Classify Refactoring Documentation.
CoRR
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni, Marouane Kessentini
2020 J jnl
On the Generation, Structure, and Semantics of Grammar Patterns in Source Code Identifiers.
CoRR
Christian D. Newman, Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Michael John Decker, Anthony Peruma, Dishant Kaushik, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Emily Hill
2020 — conf
On the Relationship Between Developer Experience and Refactoring: An Exploratory Study and Preliminary Results.
ICSE (Workshops)
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anthony Peruma, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni
2020 J jnl
On the generation, structure, and semantics of grammar patterns in source code identifiers.
J. Syst. Softw.
Christian D. Newman, Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Michael John Decker, Anthony Peruma, Dishant Kaushik, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Emily Hill
2020 — conf
tsDetect: an open source test smells detection tool.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Anthony Peruma, Khalid Almalki, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Fabio Palomba
2019 A conf
An Open Dataset of Abbreviations and Expansions.
ICSME
Christian D. Newman, Michael John Decker, Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Anthony Peruma, Dishant Kaushik, Emily Hill
2019 A conf
Modeling the Relationship Between Identifier Name and Behavior.
ICSME
Christian D. Newman, Anthony Peruma, Reem S. Alsuhaibani
2019 — conf
On the distribution of test smells in open source Android applications: an exploratory study.
CASCON
Anthony Peruma, Khalid Almalki, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Fabio Palomba
2019 A conf
srcPtr: a framework for implementing static pointer analysis approaches.
ICPC
Vlas Zyrianov, Christian D. Newman, Drew T. Guarnera, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic
2018 — conf
A Timeline Summarization of Code Changes.
DySDoc@ICSME
Michael John Decker, Christian D. Newman, Michael L. Collard, Drew T. Guarnera, Jonathan I. Maletic
2018 — conf
A study on developer perception of transformation languages for refactoring.
IWoR@ASE
Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic
2018 — conf
A taxonomy of how method stereotypes change.
ICSE (Companion Volume)
Michael John Decker, Christian D. Newman, Natalia Dragan, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic, Nicholas A. Kraft
2018 — conf
An empirical investigation of how and why developers rename identifiers.
IWoR@ASE
Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Michael John Decker, Christian D. Newman
2018 — conf
Automatically Generating Natural Language Documentation for Methods.
DySDoc@ICSME
Christian D. Newman, Natalia Dragan, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic, Michael John Decker, Drew T. Guarnera, Nahla J. Abid
2018 — conf
Automatically Redocumenting Source Code with Method and Class Stereotypes.
DySDoc@ICSME
Drew T. Guarnera, Michael L. Collard, Natalia Dragan, Jonathan I. Maletic, Christian D. Newman, Michael John Decker
2018 A conf
Leveraging the agile development process for selecting invoking/excluding tests to support feature location.
ICPC
Gregory S. DeLozier, Michael John Decker, Christian D. Newman, Jonathan I. Maletic
2018 C conf
[Research Paper] Which Method-Stereotype Changes are Indicators of Code Smells?
SCAM
Michael John Decker, Christian D. Newman, Natalia Dragan, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic, Nicholas A. Kraft
2017 A conf
Lexical categories for source code identifiers.
SANER
Christian D. Newman, Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic
2017 J jnl
Simplifying the construction of source code transformations via automatic syntactic restructurings.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Christian D. Newman, Brian Bartman, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic
2017 A conf
srcQL: A syntax-aware query language for source code.
SANER
Brian Bartman, Christian D. Newman, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic
2016 — conf
srcSlice: a tool for efficient static forward slicing.
ICSE (Companion Volume)
Christian D. Newman, Tessandra Sage, Michael L. Collard, Hakam W. Alomari, Jonathan I. Maletic
2016 A conf
srcType: A Tool for Efficient Static Type Resolution.
ICSME
Christian D. Newman, Jonathan I. Maletic, Michael L. Collard
2015 — conf
Heuristic-based part-of-speech tagging of source code identifiers and comments.
MUD@ICSME
Reem S. Alsuhaibani, Christian D. Newman, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic
2013 A conf
A preliminary investigation of using age and distance measures in the detection of evolutionary couplings.
MSR
Abdulkareem Alali, Brian Bartman, Christian D. Newman, Jonathan I. Maletic
2011 B conf
MosaiCode: Visualizing large scale software: A tool demonstration.
VISSOFT
Jonathan I. Maletic, Daniel J. Mosora, Christian D. Newman, Michael L. Collard, Andrew M. Sutton, Brian P. Robinson