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  1. BDiff: Block-Aware and Accurate Text-Based Code Differencing

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

    Yang Zhang

  2. Looks Good, but Does It Run? A Large-Scale Empirical Study of the Executability of Example Code in Model Cards

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

    Yang Zhang, Tun Li

  3. Deprecated but Not Abandoned: A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Growing-User-Demand Deprecated NPM Packages

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

    Yang Zhang

  4. Are External Contributions Important to Project Productivity in Open Source Software? A Deep Insight based on Issue Entropy

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Xunhui Zhang, Yang Zhang, Yue Yu

  5. How do Developers Talk about GitHub Actions? Evidence from Online Software Development Community

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

    Yang Zhang

  6. Understanding and Predicting Docker Build Duration: An Empirical Study of Containerized Workflow of OSS Projects

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

    Yang Zhang

  7. A Preliminary Study of Bots Usage in Open Source Community

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

    Yang Zhang

  8. Exploring the Dependency Network of Docker Containers: Structure, Diversity, and Relationship

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

    Yang Zhang

  9. An Empirical Study of Multi-discussing Pattern in Open-Source Software Development

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

    Yang Zhang, Yue Yu

  10. An Empirical Study of Build Failures in the Docker Context

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

    Yang Zhang

  11. GitHub's milestone tool: A mixed‐methods analysis on its use

    Article • Journal of Software Evolution and Process, November 2019, Wiley

    Yang Zhang