Iftekhar Ahmed

According to our database, Iftekhar Ahmed authored at least 66 papers between 2014 and 2025.

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2025

Using AI-based coding assistants in practice: State of affairs, perceptions, and ways forward.

Agnia Sergeyuk, Yaroslav Golubev, Timofey Bryksin, Iftekhar Ahmed

Inf. Softw. Technol., 2025

2024

Bug Analysis in Jupyter Notebook Projects: An Empirical Study.

Taijara Loiola de Santana, Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Eduardo Santana De Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., May, 2024

Only diff Is Not Enough: Generating Commit Messages Leveraging Reasoning and Action of Large Language Model.

Jiawei Li, David Faragó, Christian Petrov, Iftekhar Ahmed

Proc. ACM Softw. Eng., 2024

Does the Order of Fine-tuning Matter and Why?

Qihong Chen, Jiawei Li, Hyunjae Suh, Lianghao Jiang, Zheng Zhou, Jingze Chen, Jiri Gesi, Iftekhar Ahmed

CoRR, 2024

Investigating the Impact of Code Comment Inconsistency on Bug Introducing.

Shiva Radmanesh, Aaron Imani, Iftekhar Ahmed, Mohammad Moshirpour

CoRR, 2024

Context Conquers Parameters: Outperforming Proprietary LLM in Commit Message Generation.

Aaron Imani, Iftekhar Ahmed, Mohammad Moshirpour

CoRR, 2024

Does Documentation Matter? An Empirical Study of Practitioners' Perspective on Open-Source Software Adoption.

Aaron Imani, Shiva Radmanesh, Iftekhar Ahmed, Mohammad Moshirpour

CoRR, 2024

Beyond Self-learned Attention: Mitigating Attention Bias in Transformer-based Models Using Attention Guidance.

Jiri Gesi, Iftekhar Ahmed

CoRR, 2024

What Makes a Great Software Quality Assurance Engineer?

Roselane Silva Farias, Iftekhar Ahmed, Eduardo Santana de Almeida

CoRR, 2024

Ma11y: A Mutation Framework for Web Accessibility Testing.

Mahan Tafreshipour, Anmol Deshpande, Forough Mehralian, Iftekhar Ahmed, Sam Malek

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2024

2023

Let's Go to the Whiteboard (Again): Perceptions From Software Architects on Whiteboard Architecture Meetings.

Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed, André van der Hoek

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., October, 2023

Finding the Needle in a Haystack: Detecting Bug Occurrences in Gameplay Videos.

Andrew Truelove, Shiyue Rong, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed

CoRR, 2023

Test Smell: A Parasitic Energy Consumer in Software Testing.

Md Rakib Hossain Misu, Jiawei Li, Adithya Bhattiprolu, Yang Liu, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed

CoRR, 2023

Automated Repair of Declarative Software Specifications in the Era of Large Language Models.

Md Rashedul Hasan, Jiawei Li, Iftekhar Ahmed, Hamid Bagheri

CoRR, 2023

A Snapshot of the Mental Health of Software Professionals.

Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Ingrid Oliveira de Nunes, Raphael Pereira de Oliveira, Michelle Larissa Luciano Carvalho, Andre Russowsky Brunoni, Shiyue Rong, Iftekhar Ahmed

CoRR, 2023

Test case quality: an empirical study on belief and evidence.

Daniel Lucrédio, Auri Marcelo Rizzo Vincenzi, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed

CoRR, 2023

Aligning Documentation and Q&A Forum through Constrained Decoding with Weak Supervision.

Rohith Pudari, Shiyuan Zhou, Iftekhar Ahmed, Zhuyun Dai, Shurui Zhou

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 2023

Commit Message Matters: Investigating Impact and Evolution of Commit Message Quality.

Jiawei Li, Iftekhar Ahmed

Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2023

Leveraging Feature Bias for Scalable Misprediction Explanation of Machine Learning Models.

Jiri Gesi, Xinyun Shen, Yunfan Geng, Qihong Chen, Iftekhar Ahmed

Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2023

The Smelly Eight: An Empirical Study on the Prevalence of Code Smells in Quantum Computing.

Qihong Chen, Rúben Câmara, José Campos, André Souto, Iftekhar Ahmed

Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2023

Mental Wellbeing at Work: Perspectives of Software Engineers.

Novia Wong, Victoria Jackson, André van der Hoek, Iftekhar Ahmed, Stephen M. Schueller, Madhu C. Reddy

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

2022

A Deep Dive into the Impact of COVID-19 on Software Development.

Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Umme Ayda Mannan, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Nachiappan Nagappan, David Lo, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Cuiyun Gao, Iftekhar Ahmed

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2022

Investigating replication challenges through multiple replications of an experiment.

Daniel Amador dos Santos, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed

Inf. Softw. Technol., 2022

An empirical study of emoji use in software development communication.

Shiyue Rong, Weisheng Wang, Umme Ayda Mannan, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Shurui Zhou, Iftekhar Ahmed

Inf. Softw. Technol., 2022

Different, Really! A comparison of Highly-Configurable Systems and Single Systems.

Raphael Pereira de Oliveira, Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Qihong Chen, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed

Inf. Softw. Technol., 2022

Code Smells in Machine Learning Systems.

Jiri Gesi, Siqi Liu, Jiawei Li, Iftekhar Ahmed, Nachiappan Nagappan, David Lo, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Lingfeng Bao

CoRR, 2022

Implicit Mentoring: The Unacknowledged Developer Efforts in Open Source.

Zixuan Feng, Amreeta Chatterjee, Anita Sarma, Iftekhar Ahmed

CoRR, 2022

A case study of implicit mentoring, its prevalence, and impact in Apache.

Zixuan Feng, Amreeta Chatterjee, Anita Sarma, Iftekhar Ahmed

Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2022

2021

Are UX Evaluation Methods Providing the Same Big Picture?

Walter Takashi Nakamura, Iftekhar Ahmed, David F. Redmiles, Edson Oliveira, David Fernandes, Elaine Harada Teixeira de Oliveira, Tayana Conte

Sensors, 2021

Changes from the Trenches: Should We Automate Them?

Yaroslav Golubev, Jiawei Li, Timofey Bryksin, Viacheslav Bushev, Iftekhar Ahmed

CoRR, 2021

Evaluating and Improving Static Analysis Tools Via Differential Mutation Analysis.

Alex Groce, Iftekhar Ahmed, Josselin Feist, Gustavo Grieco, Jiri Gesi, Mehran Meidani, Qihong Chen

Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, 2021

PyNose: A Test Smell Detector For Python.

Tongjie Wang, Yaroslav Golubev, Oleg Smirnov, Jiawei Li, Timofey Bryksin, Iftekhar Ahmed

Proceedings of the 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2021

We'll Fix it in Post: What Do Bug Fixes in Video Game Update Notes Tell Us?

Andrew Truelove, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed

Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, 2021

AID: An automated detector for gender-inclusivity bugs in OSS project pages.

Amreeta Chatterjee, Mariam Guizani, Catherine Stevens, Jillian Emard, Mary Evelyn May, Margaret Burnett, Iftekhar Ahmed, Anita Sarma

Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2021

An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Bias on Just-in-time Defect Prediction.

Jiri Gesi, Jiawei Li, Iftekhar Ahmed

Proceedings of the ESEM '21: ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2021

Latte: Use-Case and Assistive-Service Driven Automated Accessibility Testing Framework for Android.

Navid Salehnamadi, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Jun-Wei Lin, Iftekhar Ahmed, Stacy M. Branham, Sam Malek

Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

2020

Using Relative Lines of Code to Guide Automated Test Generation for Python.

Josie Holmes, Iftekhar Ahmed, Caius Brindescu, Rahul Gopinath, He Zhang, Alex Groce

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., 2020

An empirical investigation into merge conflicts and their effect on software quality.

Caius Brindescu, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Anita Sarma

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2020

A Deep Dive on the Impact of COVID-19 in Software Development.

Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Umme Ayda Mannan, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Nachiappan Nagappan, David Lo, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Cuiyun Gao, Iftekhar Ahmed

CoRR, 2020

Examining user reviews of conversational systems: a case study of Alexa skills.

Soodeh Atefi, Andrew Truelove, Matheus Rheinschmitt, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed, Amin Alipour

CoRR, 2020

On the relationship between design discussions and design quality: a case study of Apache projects.

Umme Ayda Mannan, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Anita Sarma

Proceedings of the ESEC/FSE '20: 28th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2020

A benchmark for event-race analysis in android apps.

Navid Salehnamadi, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Iftekhar Ahmed, Sam Malek

Proceedings of the MobiSys '20: The 18th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, 2020

ER Catcher: A Static Analysis Framework for Accurate and Scalable Event-Race Detection in Android.

Navid Salehnamadi, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Iftekhar Ahmed, Sam Malek

Proceedings of the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2020

Planning for untangling: predicting the difficulty of merge conflicts.

Caius Brindescu, Iftekhar Ahmed, Rafael Leano, Anita Sarma

Proceedings of the ICSE '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, 27 June, 2020

Accessibility issues in Android apps: state of affairs, sentiments, and ways forward.

Abdulaziz Alshayban, Iftekhar Ahmed, Sam Malek

Proceedings of the ICSE '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, 27 June, 2020

A Multiple Case Study of Artificial Intelligent System Development in Industry.

Anh Nguyen-Duc, Ingrid Sundbø, Elizamary Nascimento, Tayana Conte, Iftekhar Ahmed, Pekka Abrahamsson

Proceedings of the EASE '20: Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2020

2019

Collaboration in global software development: an investigation on research trends and evolution.

Yang Yue, Iftekhar Ahmed, Yi Wang, David F. Redmiles

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Global Software Engineering, 2019

Understanding Development Process of Machine Learning Systems: Challenges and Solutions.

Elizamary de Souza Nascimento, Iftekhar Ahmed, Edson Oliveira, Márcio Piedade Palheta, Igor Steinmacher, Tayana Conte

Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2019

Land of Lost Knowledge: An Initial Investigation into Projects Lost Knowledge.

Márcia Lima, Iftekhar Ahmed, Tayana Conte, Elizamary Nascimento, Edson Oliveira, Bruno Gadelha

Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2019

2018

How verified (or tested) is my code? Falsification-driven verification and testing.

Alex Groce, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Paul E. McKenney, Josie Holmes

Autom. Softw. Eng., 2018

What Makes a Good Developer? An Empirical Study of Developers' Technical and Social Competencies.

Cheng Zhou, Sandeep Kaur Kuttal, Iftekhar Ahmed

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2018

Towards understanding code readability and its impact on design quality.

Umme Ayda Mannan, Iftekhar Ahmed, Anita Sarma

Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on NLP for Software Engineering, 2018

2017

Mutation Reduction Strategies Considered Harmful.

Rahul Gopinath, Iftekhar Ahmed, Mohammad Amin Alipour, Carlos Jensen, Alex Groce

IEEE Trans. Reliab., 2017

Does choice of mutation tool matter?

Rahul Gopinath, Iftekhar Ahmed, Mohammad Amin Alipour, Carlos Jensen, Alex Groce

Softw. Qual. J., 2017

A case study of motivations for corporate contribution to FOSS.

Iftekhar Ahmed, Darren Forrest, Carlos Jensen

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2017

Applying Mutation Analysis on Kernel Test Suites: An Experience Report.

Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Alex Groce, Paul E. McKenney

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, 2017

An Empirical Examination of the Relationship between Code Smells and Merge Conflicts.

Iftekhar Ahmed, Caius Brindescu, Umme Ayda Mannan, Carlos Jensen, Anita Sarma

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2017

2016

Can testedness be effectively measured?

Iftekhar Ahmed, Rahul Gopinath, Caius Brindescu, Alex Groce, Carlos Jensen

Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2016

Measuring Effectiveness of Mutant Sets.

Rahul Gopinath, Amin Alipour, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Alex Groce

Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, 2016

Understanding code smells in Android applications.

Umme Ayda Mannan, Iftekhar Ahmed, Rana Abdullah M. Almurshed, Danny Dig, Carlos Jensen

Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, 2016

On the limits of mutation reduction strategies.

Rahul Gopinath, Mohammad Amin Alipour, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Alex Groce

Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2016

2015

How Verified is My Code? Falsification-Driven Verification (T).

Alex Groce, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Paul E. McKenney

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2015

How hard does mutation analysis have to be, anyway?

Rahul Gopinath, Amin Alipour, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Alex Groce

Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, 2015

An Empirical Study of Design Degradation: How Software Projects Get Worse over Time.

Iftekhar Ahmed, Umme Ayda Mannan, Rahul Gopinath, Carlos Jensen

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2015

2014

The Impact of Automatic Crash Reports on Bug Triaging and Development in Mozilla.

Iftekhar Ahmed, Nitin Mohan, Carlos Jensen

Proceedings of The International Symposium on Open Collaboration, 2014

An Exploration of Code Quality in FOSS Projects.

Iftekhar Ahmed, Soroush Ghorashi, Carlos Jensen

Proceedings of the Open Source Software: Mobile Open Source Technologies, 2014