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  1. Discovering Performance Archetypes: Critical-Path-Aware Pattern Analysis and Regression Detection

    Article • October 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  2. RefineAct: Automatic Runtime Verification of LLM Agent Actions

    Article • October 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  3. AgentInspect: Diagnosing Behavioral Failures in Artificial Intelligence Agents

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering, October 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  4. Real Faults in Model Context Protocol (MCP) Software: a Comprehensive Taxonomy

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, September 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  5. Continuously Learning Bug Locations

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, September 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  6. SDLog: A Deep Learning Framework for Detecting Sensitive Information in Software Logs

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, July 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  7. TaskEval: Assessing Difficulty of Code Generation Tasks for Large Language Models

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, July 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  8. When Code Authors Are Agents: A Large-Scale Study of Human–Agent Collaboration in Pull Requests

    Article • July 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  9. Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering

    Article • July 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  10. FairFLRep: Fairness-Aware Fault Localization and Repair of Deep Neural Networks

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, June 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Moses Openja

  11. Tracing Optimization for Performance Modeling and Regression Detection

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, April 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  12. Multi-Agent AI Framework for Threat Mitigation and Resilience in Machine Learning Systems

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, January 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  13. An Empirical Study of Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Machine Learning Software

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  14. Protecting Privacy in Software Logs: What Should Be Anonymized?

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering, June 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  15. Kernel-Level Event-Based Performance Anomaly Detection in Software Systems under Varying Load Conditions

    Article • May 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  16. Mock Deep Testing: Toward Separate Development of Data and Models for Deep Learning

    Article • April 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  17. An Empirical Study of Testing Machine Learning in the Wild

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh, Moses Openja, Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang

  18. Editorial: Special Issue on Software Engineering and AI for Data Quality

    Article • Journal of Data and Information Quality, December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh, Senior Research Scientist Phu Hong Nguyen, Sagar Sen

  19. Leveraging Data Characteristics for Bug Localization in Deep Learning Programs

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  20. determining the data points used to train large code models

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh, Vahid Majdinasab

  21. In-Simulation Testing of Deep Learning Vision Models in Autonomous Robotic Manipulators

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  22. Reputation Gaming in Crowd Technical Knowledge Sharing

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh, Ashkan Sami

  23. Reinforcement Learning Informed Evolutionary Search for Autonomous Systems Testing

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  24. Mining Action Rules for Defect Reduction Planning

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering, July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  25. Chain of Targeted Verification Questions to Improve the Reliability of Code Generated by LLMs

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  26. GIST : Generated Inputs Sets Transferability in Deep Learning

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  27. PathOCL: Path-Based Prompt Augmentation for OCL Generation with GPT-4

    Article • April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh, Seif Abukhalaf

  28. AmbieGen at the SBFT 2024 Tool Competition - CPS-UAV Track

    Article • April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  29. Harnessing Predictive Modeling and Software Analytics in the Age of LLM-Powered Software Development (Invited Talk)

    Article • December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  30. Summary of the Fourth International Workshop on Deep Learning for Testing and Testing for Deep Learning (DeepTest 2023)

    Article • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh, Matteo Biagiola

  31. An Intentional Forgetting-Driven Self-Healing Method for Deep Reinforcement Learning Systems

    Article • September 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  32. PaReco: patched clones and missed patches among the divergent variants of a software family

    Article • November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh, John Businge

  33. Data quality and model under-specification issues (keynote)

    Article • November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  34. SmOOD: Smoothness-based Out-of-Distribution Detection Approach for Surrogate Neural Networks in Aircraft Design

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  35. Video Game Bad Smells: What they are and how Developers Perceive Them

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  36. An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of an Ensemble of Stand-alone Sentiment Detection Tools for Software Engineering Datasets

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  37. Studying the Practices of Deploying Machine Learning Projects on Docker

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh, Moses Openja

  38. Challenges in machine learning application development

    Article • May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  39. Identification of out-of-distribution cases of CNN using class-based surprise adequacy

    Article • May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  40. Testing Feedforward Neural Networks Training Programs

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  41. AmbieGen tool at the SBST 2022 tool competition

    Article • May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  42. Automatic Fault Detection for Deep Learning Programs Using Graph Transformations

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, January 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  43. Shadow Program Committee Initiative

    Article • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  44. Assessing Developer Expertise from the Statistical Distribution of Programming Syntax Patterns

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  45. Automatic API Usage Scenario Documentation from Technical Q&A Sites

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  46. Are Multi-Language Design Smells Fault-Prone? An Empirical Study

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, February 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  47. On the use of C# Unsafe Code Context

    Article • October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  48. On the Prevalence, Impact, and Evolution of SQL Code Smells in Data-Intensive Systems

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  49. Multi-language Design Smells

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  50. The Scent of Deep Learning Code

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  51. Developer-Driven Code Smell Prioritization

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  52. Code smells for multi-language systems

    Article • July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  53. Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Program Comprehension

    Article • May 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  54. The open-closed principle of modern machine learning frameworks

    Article • May 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  55. Developer interaction traces backed by IDE screen recordings from think aloud sessions

    Article • May 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh, Fabio Petrillo

  56. EARMO

    Article • May 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh, Rubén Saborido

  57. Code Authorship and Fault-proneness of Open-Source Android Applications

    Article • November 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  58. Software analytics

    Article • May 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh, Olga Baysal

  59. An Empirical Study of Crash-inducing Commits in Mozilla Firefox

    Article • October 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  60. Evaluating the impact of design pattern and anti-pattern dependencies on changes and faults

    Article • Empirical Software Engineering, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  61. Challenges and Issues of Mining Crash Reports

    Article • March 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  62. The Practice and Future of Release Engineering: A Roundtable with Three Release Engineers

    Article • IEEE Software, March 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  63. Do code review practices impact design quality? A case study of the Qt, VTK, and ITK projects

    Article • March 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  64. Message from the chairs

    Article • March 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  65. An Empirical Study of the Impact of Cloud Patterns on Quality of Service (QoS)

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  66. Investigating the Change-Proneness of Service Patterns and Antipatterns

    Article • November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  67. On rapid releases and software testing: a case study and a semi-systematic literature review

    Article • Empirical Software Engineering, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  68. Improving bug management using correlations in crash reports

    Article • Empirical Software Engineering, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  69. Anti-pattern Mutations and Fault-proneness

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  70. Supplementary Bug Fixes vs. Re-opened Bugs

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  71. Why Do Automated Builds Break? An Empirical Study

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  72. An empirical study of the effect of file editing patterns on software quality

    Article • Journal of Software Evolution and Process, August 2014, Wiley

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  73. Understanding the impact of rapid releases on software quality

    Article • Empirical Software Engineering, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  74. An empirical study on the fault-proneness of clone migration in clone genealogies

    Article • February 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  75. On improving the dependability of cloud applications with fault-tolerance

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  76. A qualitative analysis of software build system changes and build ownership styles

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  77. Factors impacting rapid releases

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  78. Tracing back the history of commits in low-tech reviewing environments

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  79. Towards understanding how developers spend their effort during maintenance activities

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  80. Mining the relationship between anti-patterns dependencies and fault-proneness

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  81. On the effect of program exploration on maintenance tasks

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  82. Message from the chairs

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  83. On Rapid Releases and Software Testing

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  84. Predicting Bugs Using Antipatterns

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  85. How Does Context Affect the Distribution of Software Maintainability Metrics?

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  86. An empirical study of faults in late propagation clone genealogies

    Article • Journal of Software Evolution and Process, May 2013, Wiley

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  87. Foreword

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  88. Improving bug localization using correlations in crash reports

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  89. 1st International Workshop on Release Engineering (RELENG 2013)

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  90. An empirical study of the fault-proneness of clone mutation and clone migration

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  91. Extracting RESTful services from Web applications

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  92. A concept analysis approach for guiding users in service discovery

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  93. An Empirical Study on Factors Impacting Bug Fixing Time

    Article • October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  94. Inferring Repository File Structure Modifications Using Nearest-Neighbor Clone Detection

    Article • October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  95. An Empirical Study of the Effect of File Editing Patterns on Software Quality

    Article • October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  96. Analyzing the Impact of Antipatterns on Change-Proneness Using Fine-Grained Source Code Changes

    Article • October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  97. Adapting Linux for mobile platforms: An empirical study of Android

    Article • September 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  98. Recovering commit dependencies for selective code integration in software product lines

    Article • September 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  99. Do faster releases improve software quality? An empirical case study of Mozilla Firefox

    Article • June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  100. An Entropy Evaluation Approach for Triaging Field Crashes: A Case Study of Mozilla Firefox

    Article • October 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  101. Late propagation in software clones

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  102. Predicting post-release defects using pre-release field testing results

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  103. Classifying field crash reports for fixing bugs: A case study of Mozilla Firefox

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  104. An exploratory study of the impact of antipatterns on class change- and fault-proneness

    Article • Empirical Software Engineering, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  105. Improving the Modifiability of the Architecture of Business Applications

    Article • July 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  106. An Automatic Approach for Extracting Process Knowledge from the Web

    Article • July 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  107. BDTEX: A GQM-based Bayesian approach for the detection of antipatterns

    Article • Journal of Systems and Software, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  108. An Empirical Study of the Impact of Two Antipatterns, Blob and Spaghetti Code, on Program Comprehension

    Article • March 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  109. SQUANER: A framework for monitoring the quality of software systems

    Article • September 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  110. IDS: An Immune-Inspired Approach for the Detection of Software Design Smells

    Article • September 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  111. Numerical Signatures of Antipatterns: An Approach Based on B-Splines

    Article • March 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  112. Playing roles in design patterns: An empirical descriptive and analytic study

    Article • September 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  113. A Bayesian Approach for the Detection of Code and Design Smells

    Article • August 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  114. SQUAD: Software Quality Understanding through the Analysis of Design

    Article • January 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  115. Tracking Design Smells: Lessons from a Study of God Classes

    Article • January 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  116. An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Code Smells on Software Change-proneness

    Article • January 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  117. Do Design Patterns Impact Software Quality Positively?

    Article • April 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  118. DEQUALITE

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh

  119. Is it a bug or an enhancement?

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Foutse Khomh