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FAIL: Analyzing Software Failures from the News Using LLMs

This is a brief for the research paper “FAIL: Analyzing Software Failures from the News Using LLMs”, published at the IEEE/ACM 2024…

Nov 9, 2024

FAIL: Analyzing Software Failures from the News Using LLMs

Nov 9, 2024

Pruning One More Token is Enough

This is a brief for the research paper “Pruning One More Token is Enough: Leveraging Latency-Workload Non-Linearities for Vision…

Nov 8, 2024

Pruning One More Token is Enough

Nov 8, 2024

On the Contents and Utility of IoT Cybersecurity Guidelines

This is a brief for the research paper “On the Contents and Utility of IoT Cybersecurity Guidelines,” published at ACM FSE 2024.

Jul 8, 2024

On the Contents and Utility of IoT Cybersecurity Guidelines

Jul 8, 2024

Lifelong learning and professional development in software engineering

May 10, 2024

May 10, 2024

Signing in Four Public Software Package Registries: Quantity, Quality, and Influencing Factors

This is a brief for the research paper “Signing in Four Public Software Package Registries: Quantity, Quality, and Influencing Factors,”…

May 10, 2024

Signing in Four Public Software Package Registries: Quantity, Quality, and Influencing Factors

May 10, 2024

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Systematically Detecting Packet Validation Vulnerabilities in Embedded Network Stacks

This is a brief for the research paper “Systematically Detecting Packet Validation Vulnerabilities in Embedded Network Stacks”.

Sep 4, 2023

Systematically Detecting Packet Validation Vulnerabilities in Embedded Network Stacks

Sep 4, 2023

The Software Engineer as Tool-User

This essay explores the ways in which software engineers use tools, focused on themes of Efficiency and Responsibility.

Aug 14, 2023

The Software Engineer as Tool-User

Aug 14, 2023

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Stackademic

Reflecting on the use of the policy-process-product theory

What do empirical software engineering researchers write papers about? This is a brief of a research paper at ESEC/FSE-IVR’23.

Aug 2, 2023

Reflecting on the use of the policy-process-product theory

Aug 2, 2023

An Empirical Study of Pre-Trained Model Reuse in the Hugging Face Deep Learning Model Registry

Brief for ICSE’23 and MSR’23 papers.

May 26, 2023

An Empirical Study of Pre-Trained Model Reuse in the Hugging Face Deep Learning Model Registry

May 26, 2023

Incorporating Failure Knowledge into Design Decisions for IoT Systems: A Controlled Experiment

This is a brief for the research paper “Incorporating Failure Knowledge into Design Decisions for IoT Systems“.

May 24, 2023

Incorporating Failure Knowledge into Design Decisions for IoT Systems: A Controlled Experiment

May 24, 2023

Reflections on Software Failure Analysis

This is a brief for the research paper “Reflecting on Software Failure Analysis”, published at ACM’s ESEC/FSE-IVR’22.

Jan 10, 2023

Reflections on Software Failure Analysis

Jan 10, 2023

Reflecting on Recurring Failures in IoT Development

This is a brief for the research paper “Reflecting on Recurring Failures in IoT Development”, published at ASE 2022.

Dec 16, 2022

Reflecting on Recurring Failures in IoT Development

Dec 16, 2022

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Stackademic

SoK: Analysis of Software Supply Chain Security by Establishing Secure Design Properties

This is a brief for the research paper “SoK: Analysis of Software Supply Chain Security by Establishing Secure Design Properties”.

Dec 16, 2022

SoK: Analysis of Software Supply Chain Security by Establishing Secure Design Properties

Dec 16, 2022

An Empirical Study of Artifacts and Security Risks in the Pre-trained Model Supply Chain

This is a brief for the research paper “An Empirical Study of Artifacts and Security Risks in the Pre-trained Model Supply Chain”.

Nov 2, 2022

An Empirical Study of Artifacts and Security Risks in the Pre-trained Model Supply Chain

Nov 2, 2022

So you didn’t land a summer software engineering internship…Now what?

This is my advice for computing students who were hoping for — but did not get — a summer internship in software engineering.

Apr 21, 2022

Apr 21, 2022

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CodeX

Software Fatigue

This post proposes a metaphor for software engineering: software fatigue. First I’ll talk briefly about the role of metaphor in software…

Mar 30, 2022

Mar 30, 2022

Exploiting Input Sanitization for Regex Denial of Service

This is a brief for the research paper “Exploiting Input Sanitization for Regex Denial of Service”, published at ICSE 2022. This work was…

Mar 7, 2022

Exploiting Input Sanitization for Regex Denial of Service

Mar 7, 2022

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Level Up Coding

Low-Power Multi-Camera Object Re-Identification using Hierarchical Neural Networks

This is a brief for the research paper “Low-Power Multi-Camera Object Re-Identification using Hierarchical Neural Networks”, published in…

Jan 3, 2022

Low-Power Multi-Camera Object Re-Identification using Hierarchical Neural Networks

Jan 3, 2022

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CodeX

A Partial Replication of “DeepBugs: A Learning Approach to Name-based Bug Detection”

This is a brief for the research paper “A Partial Replication of “DeepBugs: A Learning Approach to Name-based Bug Detection”, published in…

Jul 19, 2021

A Partial Replication of “DeepBugs: A Learning Approach to Name-based Bug Detection”

Jul 19, 2021

Ethical conduct in cybersecurity research

The case of Linux vs. Wu & Lu 2021

Apr 22, 2021

Ethical conduct in cybersecurity research

Apr 22, 2021

James Davis

James Davis

I am a professor in ECE@Purdue. My research assistants and I blog here about research findings and engineering tips.

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