Iftekhar Ahmed

94 papers A* 16A 11B 2C 3Journal 53Unranked 9

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	Evolving with AI: A Longitudinal Analysis of Developer Logs. CoRR Agnia Sergeyuk, Eric Huang, Dariia Karaeva, Anastasiia Serova, Yaroslav Golubev, Iftekhar Ahmed
2026	J	`jnl`	Fine-Tuning vs. RAG for Multi-Hop Question Answering with Novel Knowledge. CoRR Zhuoyi Yang, Yurun Song, Iftekhar Ahmed, Ian Harris
2025	A*	`conf`	'It's a spectrum': Exploring Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness in Software Development Processes and Tools. CHI Novia Wong, Nai-Yu Cheng, Bruna Oewel, Katherine E. Genuario, SarahElizabeth Stoeckl, Stephen M. Schueller, Iftekhar Ahmed, André van der Hoek, Madhu C. Reddy
2025	A*	`conf`	An Empirical Study on Automatically Detecting AI-Generated Source Code: How Far are We? ICSE Hyunjae Suh, Mahan Tafreshipour, Jiawei Li, Adithya Bhattiprolu, Iftekhar Ahmed
2025	J	`jnl`	Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering: The Journey So Far and the Road Ahead. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. Iftekhar Ahmed, Aldeida Aleti, Haipeng Cai, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Pinjia He, Xing Hu, Mauro Pezzè, Denys Poshyvanyk, Xin Xia
2025	J	`jnl`	Consider What Humans Consider: Optimizing Commit Message Leveraging Contexts Considered By Human. CoRR Jiawei Li, David Faragó, Christian Petrov, Iftekhar Ahmed
2025	A*	`conf`	Context Conquers Parameters: Outperforming Proprietary Llm in Commit Message Generation. ICSE Aaron Imani, Iftekhar Ahmed, Mohammad Moshirpour
2025	J	`jnl`	Evaluating LLMs Effectiveness in Detecting and Correcting Test Smells: An Empirical Study. CoRR E. G. Santana Jr, Jander Pereira Santos, Erlon Pereira Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed, Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Eduardo Santana de Almeida
2025	J	`jnl`	From Bias To Improved Prompts: A Case Study of Bias Mitigation of Clone Detection Models. CoRR Qihong Chen, Lianghao Jiang, Iftekhar Ahmed
2025	J	`jnl`	Human or LLM? A Comparative Study on Accessible Code Generation Capability. CoRR Hyunjae Suh, Mahan Tafreshipour, Sam Malek, Iftekhar Ahmed
2025	J	`jnl`	Inside Out: Uncovering How Comment Internalization Steers LLMs for Better or Worse. CoRR Aaron Imani, Mohammad Moshirpour, Iftekhar Ahmed
2025	J	`jnl`	Is Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) the Silver Bullet? An Empirical Analysis of MAD in Code Summarization and Translation. CoRR Jina Chun, Qihong Chen, Jiawei Li, Iftekhar Ahmed
2025	J	`jnl`	Optimization is Better than Generation: Optimizing Commit Message Leveraging Human-written Commit Message. CoRR Jiawei Li, David Faragó, Christian Petrov, Iftekhar Ahmed
2025	A	`conf`	Prompting in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Prompt Evolution in Software Repositories. MSR Mahan Tafreshipour, Aaron Imani, Eric Huang, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Thomas Zimmermann, Iftekhar Ahmed
2025	J	`jnl`	Test smell: A parasitic energy consumer in software testing. Inf. Softw. Technol. Md Rakib Hossain Misu, Jiawei Li, Adithya Bhattiprolu, Yang Liu, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed
2025	J	`jnl`	Using AI-based coding assistants in practice: State of affairs, perceptions, and ways forward. Inf. Softw. Technol. Agnia Sergeyuk, Yaroslav Golubev, Timofey Bryksin, Iftekhar Ahmed
2025	J	`jnl`	What Makes a Great Software Quality Assurance Engineer? IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Roselane Silva Farias, Iftekhar Ahmed, Eduardo Santana de Almeida
2025	J	`jnl`	Which Prompting Technique Should I Use? An Empirical Investigation of Prompting Techniques for Software Engineering Tasks. CoRR E. G. Santana Jr, Gabriel Benjamin, Melissa Araujo, Harrison Santos, David Freitas, Eduardo Almeida, Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Jiawei Li, Jina Chun, Iftekhar Ahmed
2024	J	`jnl`	A Deep Dive Into Large Language Model Code Generation Mistakes: What and Why? CoRR Qihong Chen, Jiawei Li, Jiecheng Deng, Jiachen Yu, Justin Tian Jin Chen, Iftekhar Ahmed
2024	J	`jnl`	An Empirical Study on Automatically Detecting AI-Generated Source Code: How Far Are We? CoRR Hyunjae Suh, Mahan Tafreshipour, Jiawei Li, Adithya Bhattiprolu, Iftekhar Ahmed
2024	J	`jnl`	Beyond Self-learned Attention: Mitigating Attention Bias in Transformer-based Models Using Attention Guidance. CoRR Jiri Gesi, Iftekhar Ahmed
2024	J	`jnl`	Bug Analysis in Jupyter Notebook Projects: An Empirical Study. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. Taijara Loiola de Santana, Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed
2024	J	`jnl`	Carving Out Control Code: Automated Identification of Control Software in Autopilot Systems. ACM Trans. Cyber Phys. Syst. Balaji Balasubramaniam, Iftekhar Ahmed, Hamid Bagheri, Justin M. Bradley
2024	J	`jnl`	Context Conquers Parameters: Outperforming Proprietary LLM in Commit Message Generation. CoRR Aaron Imani, Iftekhar Ahmed, Mohammad Moshirpour
2024	J	`jnl`	Does Documentation Matter? An Empirical Study of Practitioners' Perspective on Open-Source Software Adoption. CoRR Aaron Imani, Shiva Radmanesh, Iftekhar Ahmed, Mohammad Moshirpour
2024	J	`jnl`	Does the Order of Fine-tuning Matter and Why? CoRR Qihong Chen, Jiawei Li, Hyunjae Suh, Lianghao Jiang, Zheng Zhou, Jingze Chen, Jiri Gesi, Iftekhar Ahmed
2024	J	`jnl`	Investigating the Impact of Code Comment Inconsistency on Bug Introducing. CoRR Shiva Radmanesh, Aaron Imani, Iftekhar Ahmed, Mohammad Moshirpour
2024	A	`conf`	Ma11y: A Mutation Framework for Web Accessibility Testing. ISSTA Mahan Tafreshipour, Anmol Vilas Deshpande, Forough Mehralian, Iftekhar Ahmed, Sam Malek
2024	J	`jnl`	Only diff Is Not Enough: Generating Commit Messages Leveraging Reasoning and Action of Large Language Model. Proc. ACM Softw. Eng. Jiawei Li, David Faragó, Christian Petrov, Iftekhar Ahmed
2024	J	`jnl`	Prompting in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Prompt Evolution in Software Repositories. CoRR Mahan Tafreshipour, Aaron Imani, Eric Huang, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Thomas Zimmermann, Iftekhar Ahmed
2024	J	`jnl`	Using AI-Based Coding Assistants in Practice: State of Affairs, Perceptions, and Ways Forward. CoRR Agnia Sergeyuk, Yaroslav Golubev, Timofey Bryksin, Iftekhar Ahmed
2024	J	`jnl`	What Makes a Great Software Quality Assurance Engineer? CoRR Roselane Silva Farias, Iftekhar Ahmed, Eduardo Santana de Almeida
2023	J	`jnl`	A Snapshot of the Mental Health of Software Professionals. CoRR Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Ingrid Oliveira de Nunes, Raphael Pereira de Oliveira, Michelle Larissa Luciano Carvalho, Andre Russowsky Brunoni, Shiyue Rong, Iftekhar Ahmed
2023	A	`conf`	Aligning Documentation and Q&A Forum through Constrained Decoding with Weak Supervision. ICSME Rohith Pudari, Shiyuan Zhou, Iftekhar Ahmed, Zhuyun Dai, Shurui Zhou
2023	J	`jnl`	Automated Repair of Declarative Software Specifications in the Era of Large Language Models. CoRR Md Rashedul Hasan, Jiawei Li, Iftekhar Ahmed, Hamid Bagheri
2023	A*	`conf`	Commit Message Matters: Investigating Impact and Evolution of Commit Message Quality. ICSE Jiawei Li, Iftekhar Ahmed
2023	J	`jnl`	Finding the Needle in a Haystack: Detecting Bug Occurrences in Gameplay Videos. CoRR Andrew Truelove, Shiyue Rong, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed
2023	J	`jnl`	Let's Go to the Whiteboard (Again): Perceptions From Software Architects on Whiteboard Architecture Meetings. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed, André van der Hoek
2023	A*	`conf`	Leveraging Feature Bias for Scalable Misprediction Explanation of Machine Learning Models. ICSE Jiri Gesi, Xinyun Shen, Yunfan Geng, Qihong Chen, Iftekhar Ahmed
2023	A*	`conf`	Mental Wellbeing at Work: Perspectives of Software Engineers. CHI Novia Wong, Victoria Jackson, André van der Hoek, Iftekhar Ahmed, Stephen M. Schueller, Madhu C. Reddy
2023	J	`jnl`	Test Smell: A Parasitic Energy Consumer in Software Testing. CoRR Md Rakib Hossain Misu, Jiawei Li, Adithya Bhattiprolu, Yang Liu, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed
2023	J	`jnl`	Test case quality: an empirical study on belief and evidence. CoRR Daniel Lucrédio, Auri Marcelo Rizzo Vincenzi, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed
2023	A*	`conf`	The Smelly Eight: An Empirical Study on the Prevalence of Code Smells in Quantum Computing. ICSE Qihong Chen, Rúben Câmara, José Campos, André Souto, Iftekhar Ahmed
2022	J	`jnl`	A Deep Dive into the Impact of COVID-19 on Software Development. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Umme Ayda Mannan, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Nachiappan Nagappan, David Lo, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Cuiyun Gao, Iftekhar Ahmed
2022	—	`conf`	A case study of implicit mentoring, its prevalence, and impact in Apache. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE Zixuan Feng, Amreeta Chatterjee, Anita Sarma, Iftekhar Ahmed
2022	J	`jnl`	An empirical study of emoji use in software development communication. Inf. Softw. Technol. Shiyue Rong, Weisheng Wang, Umme Ayda Mannan, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Shurui Zhou, Iftekhar Ahmed
2022	J	`jnl`	Bug Analysis in Jupyter Notebook Projects: An Empirical Study. CoRR Taijara Loiola de Santana, Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed
2022	J	`jnl`	Code Smells in Machine Learning Systems. CoRR Jiri Gesi, Siqi Liu, Jiawei Li, Iftekhar Ahmed, Nachiappan Nagappan, David Lo, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Lingfeng Bao
2022	J	`jnl`	Different, Really! A comparison of Highly-Configurable Systems and Single Systems. Inf. Softw. Technol. Raphael Pereira de Oliveira, Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Qihong Chen, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed
2022	J	`jnl`	Implicit Mentoring: The Unacknowledged Developer Efforts in Open Source. CoRR Zixuan Feng, Amreeta Chatterjee, Anita Sarma, Iftekhar Ahmed
2022	J	`jnl`	Investigating replication challenges through multiple replications of an experiment. Inf. Softw. Technol. Daniel Amador dos Santos, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed
2022	J	`jnl`	Let's Go to the Whiteboard (Again): Perceptions from Software Architects on Whiteboard Architecture Meetings. CoRR Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed, André van der Hoek
2021	A*	`conf`	AID: An automated detector for gender-inclusivity bugs in OSS project pages. ICSE Amreeta Chatterjee, Mariam Guizani, Catherine Stevens, Jillian Emard, Mary Evelyn May, Margaret Burnett, Iftekhar Ahmed, Anita Sarma
2021	A	`conf`	An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Bias on Just-in-time Defect Prediction. ESEM Jiri Gesi, Jiawei Li, Iftekhar Ahmed
2021	J	`jnl`	Are UX Evaluation Methods Providing the Same Big Picture? Sensors Walter Takashi Nakamura, Iftekhar Ahmed, David F. Redmiles, Edson Oliveira, David Fernandes, Elaine Harada Teixeira de Oliveira, Tayana Conte
2021	J	`jnl`	Changes from the Trenches: Should We Automate Them? CoRR Yaroslav Golubev, Jiawei Li, Timofey Bryksin, Viacheslav Bushev, Iftekhar Ahmed
2021	C	`conf`	Evaluating and Improving Static Analysis Tools Via Differential Mutation Analysis. QRS Alex Groce, Iftekhar Ahmed, Josselin Feist, Gustavo Grieco, Jiri Gesi, Mehran Meidani, Qihong Chen
2021	A*	`conf`	Latte: Use-Case and Assistive-Service Driven Automated Accessibility Testing Framework for Android. CHI Navid Salehnamadi, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Jun-Wei Lin, Iftekhar Ahmed, Stacy M. Branham, Sam Malek
2021	A*	`conf`	PyNose: A Test Smell Detector For Python. ASE Tongjie Wang, Yaroslav Golubev, Oleg Smirnov, Jiawei Li, Timofey Bryksin, Iftekhar Ahmed
2021	J	`jnl`	PyNose: A Test Smell Detector For Python. CoRR Tongjie Wang, Yaroslav Golubev, Oleg Smirnov, Jiawei Li, Timofey Bryksin, Iftekhar Ahmed
2021	J	`jnl`	Using Relative Lines of Code to Guide Automated Test Generation for Python. CoRR Josie Holmes, Iftekhar Ahmed, Caius Brindescu, Rahul Gopinath, He Zhang, Alex Groce
2021	A*	`conf`	We'll Fix It in Post: What Do Bug Fixes in Video Game Update Notes Tell Us? ICSE Andrew Truelove, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed
2021	J	`jnl`	We'll Fix It in Post: What Do Bug Fixes in Video Game Update Notes Tell Us? CoRR Andrew Truelove, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed
2021	—	`conf`	We'll Fix it in Post: What Do Bug Fixes in Video Game Update Notes Tell Us? ICSE (Companion Volume) Andrew Truelove, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed
2020	J	`jnl`	A Deep Dive on the Impact of COVID-19 in Software Development. CoRR Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Umme Ayda Mannan, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Nachiappan Nagappan, David Lo, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Cuiyun Gao, Iftekhar Ahmed
2020	A	`conf`	A Multiple Case Study of Artificial Intelligent System Development in Industry. EASE Anh Nguyen-Duc, Ingrid Sundbø, Elizamary Nascimento, Tayana Conte, Iftekhar Ahmed, Pekka Abrahamsson
2020	A	`conf`	A benchmark for event-race analysis in android apps. MobiSys Navid Salehnamadi, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Iftekhar Ahmed, Sam Malek
2020	A*	`conf`	Accessibility issues in Android apps: state of affairs, sentiments, and ways forward. ICSE Abdulaziz Alshayban, Iftekhar Ahmed, Sam Malek
2020	J	`jnl`	An empirical investigation into merge conflicts and their effect on software quality. Empir. Softw. Eng. Caius Brindescu, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Anita Sarma
2020	A*	`conf`	ER Catcher: A Static Analysis Framework for Accurate and Scalable Event-Race Detection in Android. ASE Navid Salehnamadi, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Iftekhar Ahmed, Sam Malek
2020	J	`jnl`	Examining user reviews of conversational systems: a case study of Alexa skills. CoRR Soodeh Atefi, Andrew Truelove, Matheus Rheinschmitt, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed, Amin Alipour
2020	—	`conf`	On the relationship between design discussions and design quality: a case study of Apache projects. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE Umme Ayda Mannan, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Anita Sarma
2020	A*	`conf`	Planning for untangling: predicting the difficulty of merge conflicts. ICSE Caius Brindescu, Iftekhar Ahmed, Rafael Leano, Anita Sarma
2020	J	`jnl`	Using Relative Lines of Code to Guide Automated Test Generation for Python. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. Josie Holmes, Iftekhar Ahmed, Caius Brindescu, Rahul Gopinath, He Zhang, Alex Groce
2019	C	`conf`	Collaboration in global software development: an investigation on research trends and evolution. ICGSE Yang Yue, Iftekhar Ahmed, Yi Wang, David F. Redmiles
2019	A	`conf`	Land of Lost Knowledge: An Initial Investigation into Projects Lost Knowledge. ESEM Márcia Lima, Iftekhar Ahmed, Tayana Conte, Elizamary Nascimento, Edson Oliveira, Bruno Gadelha
2019	A	`conf`	Understanding Development Process of Machine Learning Systems: Challenges and Solutions. ESEM Elizamary de Souza Nascimento, Iftekhar Ahmed, Edson Oliveira, Márcio Piedade Palheta, Igor Steinmacher, Tayana Conte
2018	J	`jnl`	How verified (or tested) is my code? Falsification-driven verification and testing. Autom. Softw. Eng. Alex Groce, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Paul E. McKenney, Josie Holmes
2018	—	`conf`	Towards understanding code readability and its impact on design quality. NL4SE@ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE Umme Ayda Mannan, Iftekhar Ahmed, Anita Sarma
2018	B	`conf`	What Makes a Good Developer? An Empirical Study of Developers' Technical and Social Competencies. VL/HCC Cheng Zhou, Sandeep Kaur Kuttal, Iftekhar Ahmed
2017	B	`conf`	A case study of motivations for corporate contribution to FOSS. VL/HCC Iftekhar Ahmed, Darren Forrest, Carlos Jensen
2017	A	`conf`	An Empirical Examination of the Relationship between Code Smells and Merge Conflicts. ESEM Iftekhar Ahmed, Caius Brindescu, Umme Ayda Mannan, Carlos Jensen, Anita Sarma
2017	—	`conf`	Applying Mutation Analysis on Kernel Test Suites: An Experience Report. ICST Workshops Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Alex Groce, Paul E. McKenney
2017	J	`jnl`	Does choice of mutation tool matter? Softw. Qual. J. Rahul Gopinath, Iftekhar Ahmed, Mohammad Amin Alipour, Carlos Jensen, Alex Groce
2017	J	`jnl`	Mutation Reduction Strategies Considered Harmful. IEEE Trans. Reliab. Rahul Gopinath, Iftekhar Ahmed, Mohammad Amin Alipour, Carlos Jensen, Alex Groce
2016	—	`conf`	Can testedness be effectively measured? SIGSOFT FSE Iftekhar Ahmed, Rahul Gopinath, Caius Brindescu, Alex Groce, Carlos Jensen
2016	—	`conf`	Measuring Effectiveness of Mutant Sets. ICST Workshops Rahul Gopinath, Amin Alipour, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Alex Groce
2016	A*	`conf`	On the limits of mutation reduction strategies. ICSE Rahul Gopinath, Mohammad Amin Alipour, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Alex Groce
2016	—	`conf`	Understanding code smells in Android applications. MOBILESoft Umme Ayda Mannan, Iftekhar Ahmed, Rana Abdullah M. Almurshed, Danny Dig, Carlos Jensen
2015	A	`conf`	An Empirical Study of Design Degradation: How Software Projects Get Worse over Time. ESEM Iftekhar Ahmed, Umme Ayda Mannan, Rahul Gopinath, Carlos Jensen
2015	A*	`conf`	How Verified is My Code? Falsification-Driven Verification (T). ASE Alex Groce, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Paul E. McKenney
2015	A	`conf`	How hard does mutation analysis have to be, anyway? ISSRE Rahul Gopinath, Amin Alipour, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Alex Groce
2014	—	`conf`	An Exploration of Code Quality in FOSS Projects. OSS Iftekhar Ahmed, Soroush Ghorashi, Carlos Jensen
2014	C	`conf`	The Impact of Automatic Crash Reports on Bug Triaging and Development in Mozilla. OpenSym Iftekhar Ahmed, Nitin Mohan, Carlos Jensen