Software engineering post-doc researcher at @softlab_brussel

Joined December 2017
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Ahmed Zerouali retweeted
Warmly recommended "Infrastructure-as-Code Ecosystems" chapter by @ROpdebee @a_zerou @CoenDeRoover in our newly-published "Software Ecosystems: Analytics and Tooling" book link.springer.com/chapter/10…
Check out the new "Software Ecosystems: Analytics and Tooling" book (editors @tom_mens @CoenDeRoover @anthonycleve) w/ chapters by many renowned researchers in the field! I'm particularly fond of the introduction & Infrastructure-as-Code chapters myself ;) doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36…
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Action shots of @ROpdebee presenting "The Docker Hub Image Inheritance Network: Construction and Empirical Insights" at @ieeescam. Pre-print: soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/… Joint work w/ Jonas Lesy, @a_zerou @CoenDeRoover of @softlab_brussel @DINFVUB.
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The 2nd Summer School on Security Testing & Verification will take place on September 11-12-13 in Brussels. PhD student interested in security, formal verification, static analysis, dynamic analysis, and automated threat modelling? Check out our speakers cybersecurity-research.be/su…

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📢 Deadline approaching! ⏰ Only 10 days left to submit your abstracts for the Research Track! Don't miss your chance to be part of #IEEESCAM2023! #SCAM2023 #IEEESCAM ieee-scam.org/2023/#cfpresea…

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📢 #CFP #IEEESCAM2023 Research Track: Abstract Submission: June 29th, 2023 Paper Submission: July 06th, 2023 Author Notification: August 10th, 2023 Camera Ready: August 24th, 2023 #SCAM2023 #IEEESCAM ieee-scam.org/2023/#cfpresea…

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Action shots of @ROpdebee presenting "Helm Charts for Kubernetes Applications: Evolution, Outdatedness and Security Risks" at @msrconf 2023. Joint work w/ @a_zerou @CoenDeRoover. Pre-print soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/… #kubernetes #helm #security #iac
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More shots of @ROpdebee at @msrconf23. This time answering "Control and Data Flow in Security Smell Detection for Infrastructure as Code: Is It Worth the Effort?" For Ansible, yes! Joint work w/ @a_zerou @CoenDeRoover. Pre-print soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/… #ansible #security #iac
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Pre-print 4 @msrconf "Control and Data Flow in Security Smell Detection for Infrastructure as Code: Is It Worth the Effort?" by @ROpdebee @a_zerou @CoenDeRoover of @softlab_brussel. Short answer: for @ansible, yes! Graph-based, quantifying indirections soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/…
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Pre-print 4 @msrconf "Helm Charts for Kubernetes Applications: Evolution, Outdatedness, and Security Risks" by @a_zerou @ROpdebee @CoenDeRoover of @softlab_brussel. Quantifies image freshness & known vulnerabilities of packages therein; update your charts! soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/…
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Some action shots of @a_zerou presenting "On the Impact of Security Vulnerabilities in the npm and RubyGems Dependency Networks" at @IEEEICSME 2022 in Cyprus. Joint work with @tom_mens, @AlexandreDecan and @CoenDeRoover. Preprint: soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/…
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Action shots of @ypacheco1984 presenting "Mining for Framework Instantiation Pattern Interplays" at @ieeescam 2022 in Cyprus. Joint work w/ @a_zerou @CoenDeRoover @softlab_brussel @DINFVUB. Pre-print soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/…
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Packed first session on software ecosystems at #benevol22 @BenevolWorkshop 👏🌏🌎🌍 with talks from @cvelazquezr, Slinger Jansen, @wschuell1, Damien Jaime and Chris Pfaff
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The first presentation of day by @cvelazquezr on Improving Library Selection in Maven #benevol22
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Yet another SECOASSIST publication in @emsejournal, this time on security vulnerabilities in the software packaging ecosystems npm and RubyGems. With @a_zerou @AlexandreDecan @tom_mens and @CoenDeRoover
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Action shots of @ROpdebee presenting "Smelly Variables in Ansible Infrastructure Code: Detection, Prevalence, and Lifetime" at online @msrconf. Joint work w/ @a_zerou @CoenDeRoover. Pre-print soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/… In-person next week! @softlab_brussel @DINFVUB @secoassist #IaC
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In 2022, the 18th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS) and the 18th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym) are joining forces and will be held as co-located events in Madrid. Extended abstracts due by May 6 oss2022.github.io/

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You are cordially invited to the @VUBrussel Vloeberghs chair inaugural lecture of Prof. Dr. Ralf Lämmel (@reallynotabba) "Software knowledge analytics as a role model for making sense of the world” on May 17th at 16:00. Registration and more information at soft.vub.ac.be/Vloeberghs/

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Our paper on the impact of security vulnerabilities in npm and RubyGems dependency networks has been been accepted in @emsejournal. A @secoassist collaboration with @tom_mens, @AlexandreDecan and @CoenDeRoover. Preprint: soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/…

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Ahmed Zerouali retweeted
If you are attending #SANER2022 in Honolulu, Hawaii (virtually 😉), I invite you to my poster presentation from 19:00 - 20:30 (CET). I will be delighted to see all of you. The video of the presentation on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=2dxKWIMq…
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I am happy to announce that our paper titled "Variant Forks - Motivations and Impediments", has been accepted at @SANERconf 2022. Preprint following soon. @tom_mens @DemeyerSerge @oniroi @a_zerou @AlexandreDecan
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