Publications

PhD Thesis

  • A Measurement Framework for Analyzing Technical Lag in Open-Source Software Ecosystems
    Ahmed Zerouali
    University of Mons, Belgium - 2019
    [Slides][Video]
  • Journals

  • [J6] - On the Impact of Security Vulnerabilities in the npm and RubyGems Dependency Networks
    Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Coen De Roover
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) - 2022
  • [J5] - Back to the Past -- Analysing Backporting Practices in Package Dependency Networks
    Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Ahmed Zerouali, Coen De Roover
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - 2021
  • [J4] - On the Practice of Semantic Versioning for Ansible Galaxy Roles: An Empirical Study and a Change Classification Model
    Ruben Opdebeeck, Ahmed Zerouali, Camilo Vel´azquez-Rodr´ıguez, Coen De Roover
    Journal of Systems and Software - 2021
  • [J3] - On the Usage of JavaScript, Python and Ruby Packages in Docker Hub images
    Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens and Coen De Roover
    Science of Computer Programming - 2021
  • [J2] - A multi-dimensional analysis of technical lag in Debian-based Docker images
    Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona and Gregorio Robles
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) - 2021
  • [J1] - A Formal Framework for Measuring Technical Lag in Component Repositories - and its Application to npm
    Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Alexandre Decan, Eleni Constantinou, Gregorio Robles
    Wiley Journal on Software Evolution and Process (JSEP) - 2019
  • Conferences

  • [C19] - The Docker Hub Image Inheritance Network: Construction and Empirical Insights
    Ruben Opdebeeck, Jonas Lesy, Ahmed Zerouali and Coen De Roover
    23d IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) - 2023
  • [C18] - Helm Charts for Kubernetes Applications: Evolution, Outdatedness and Security Risks
    Ahmed Zerouali, Ruben Opdebeeck, Coen De Roover
    20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) - 2023
  • [C17] - Control and Data Flow in Security Smell Detection for Infrastructure as Code: Is It Worth the Effort?
    Ruben Opdebeeck, Ahmed Zerouali, Coen De Roover
    20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) - 2023
  • [C16] - Mining for Framework Instantiation Pattern Interplays
    Yunior Pacheco, Ahmed Zerouali, Coen De Roover
    22nd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) - 2022
  • [C15] - Smelly Variables in Ansible Infrastructure Code: Detection, Prevalence, and Lifetime
    Ruben Opdebeeck, Ahmed Zerouali, Coen De Roover
    19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) - 2022
  • [C14] - Prevalence and Evolution of License Violations in npm and RubyGems Dependency Networks
    Ilyas Said Makari, Ahmed Zerouali, Coen De Roover
    20th International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR) - 2022
    [Slides]
  • [C13] - Variant Forks – Motivations and Impediments
    John Businge, Ahmed Zerouali, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Serge Demeyer, Coen De Roover
    29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) - 2022
  • [C12] - Identifying Versions of Libraries used in Stack Overflow Code Snippets
    Ahmed Zerouali, Camilo Velazquez-Rodriguez and Coen De Roover
    18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) - 2021
    [Slides]
  • [C11] - Andromeda: A Dataset of Ansible Galaxy Roles and Their Evolution
    Ruben Opdebeeck, Ahmed Zerouali and Coen De Roover
    18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) - 2021
    [Slides]
  • [C10] - Does Infrastructure as Code Adhere to Semantic Versioning? An Analysis of Ansible Role Evolution
    Ruben Opdebeeck, Ahmed Zerouali, Camilo Velazquez-Rodriguez and Coen De Roover
    20th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) - 2020
  • [C9] - ConPan: A Tool to Analyze Packages in Software Containers
    Ahmed Zerouali, Valerio Cosentino, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Gregorio Robles, Tom Mens
    International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) - 2019
    [Slides]
  • [C8] - On the Relation between Outdated Docker Containers, Severity Vulnerabilities, and Bugs
    Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
    26th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) - 2019
    [Slides]
    Best Paper Award
  • [C7] - On the Impact of Outdated and Vulnerable Javascript Packages in Docker Images
    Ahmed Zerouali, Valerio Cosentino, Tom Mens, Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
    26th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) - 2019
    [Slides]
  • [C6] - On the Diversity of Software Package Popularity Metrics: An Empirical Study of npm
    Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
    26th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) - 2019
    [Slides]
  • [C5] - SortingHat: wizardry on software project members
    David Moreno, Santiago Dueñas, Valerio Cosentino, Miguel Angel Fernandez, Ahmed Zerouali, Gregorio Robles, Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona
    IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) - 2019
  • [C4] - An Empirical Analysis of Technical Lag in npm Package Dependencies
    Ahmed Zerouali, Eleni Constantinou, Tom Mens, Gregorio Robles, Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona
    17th International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR) - 2018
    [Slides]
  • [C3] - Graal: The Quest for Source Code Knowledge
    Valerio Cosentino, Santiago Duenas, Ahmed Zerouali, Gregorio Robles, Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona
    18th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) - 2018
  • [C2] - Analyzing the evolution of testing library usage in open source Java projects
    Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens
    24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) - 2017
    [Slides]
  • [C1] - An empirical comparison of the development history of cloudstack and eucalyptus
    Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens
    International Conference on Smart Digital Environment - 2017
    [Slides]
  • Book Chapters

  • [B1] - Analysing Infrastructure-as-Code Ecosystems
    Ruben Opdebeeck, Ahmed Zerouali and Coen De Roover
    Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics (Springer) - 2023