Alexander Serebrenik

Glad to have our article on the understanding of factors that affect talent retention in software teams in Brazil based on a field study accepted at the EMSE Journal by @springernature.com with Luiz Costa, Edson Dias, Danilo Monteiro, @awdren.bsky.social, Gustavo Pinto & @aserebrenik.bsky.social 🚀

Are you working on human aspects of software engineering?

Submit your work to the 19th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2026): abstracts by October 16, papers by October 23 conf.researchr.org/home/chase-2...

Self-monitoring of Developers' Emotions: the Case of Agile Retrospective Meetings

Accepted at ACM Transaction on Software Engineering and Methodology: "Self-monitoring of Developers’ Emotions: the Case of Agile Retrospective Meetings" by Daniela Grassi, Filippo Lanubile, Nicole Novielli, Luigi Quaranta and yt.

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Alexander Serebrenik (@aserebrenik.bsky.social) kicks off the last day of #SIESTA2025 by talking about the trade-offs in designing empirical studies in Software Engineering 🧐

GENERAL CHAIR Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Eindhoven University of Technology, NL Professor of Social Software Engineering Research: Social aspects of software evolution Combines technical & social perspectives, grounded in observation & experimentation

CHASE's GC @aserebrenik.bsky.social invites you to submit your paper!
Here are his words: "People need to submit to CHASE because software is made by people and for people, and understanding software requires understanding the humans involved."
Deadline is October 23.
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"Gender Diversity Interventions in Software Engineering: A Comprehensive Review of Existing Practices" by Claudia Maria Cutrupi, Letizia Jaccheri and yours truly accepted for publication in Computer Science Review. research.tue.nl/files/365173...

The #LGBTIQ+ lunch at IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) will be held on Sept 11 at Needo. If you would like to attend, please take a look at order.gomenuhq.com/menu?id=7843... and let me know about your mea preferences using docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Self-Nomination for the Program Committee of FSE 2026 SEET (Education) The FSE 2026 Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET, also known as Education) Track provides a venue for sharing of research and innovation in software engineering education. Submissions ar...

REMINDER: One more week to nominate yourself to the program committee of the Education track of FSE 2026! Michael Hilton an yt are looking forward to your nominations! Deadline: July 22. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

PhD-TA on Evaluation of Threat Assessment using AI

Interested in joining Eindhoven to work on cool topics with Dr Katja Tuma and me? PhD-TA on Evaluation of Threat Assessment using AI www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Sunday morning: "It is a pleasure for me to provide an assessment of suitability of *** for the vacancy of ***"

TCSE Support for Community D&I Initiatives - 2025 Call for Proposals The IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Software Engineering (TCSE) has funds to support Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) initiatives that benefit the Software Engineering community. We welcome...

The IEEE CS TCSE supports Diversity and Inclusion initiatives in the software engineering community. Applications are welcome from all regions, with priority for proposals outside North America and Europe. Anyone may apply, though IEEE CS TCSE members will be prioritized.

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At the Dutch National Software Engineering Symposium (SEN symposium) Anton Podkopaev (JetBrains and Constructor University Bremen) talks about generating lemmas for formal verification in Rocq (previously known as Coq) using generative AI.

The hidden work behind every publication Just when one of the largest conferences in the field of software engineering was going on, Professor Alexander Serebrenik was told that he had been named editor of the year for the Journal of Systems...

It was a pleasure to discuss with Leoni Andriessen (Cursor TU Eindhoven) the role of editors in the scientific publishing process - the interview as motivated by the decision of Journal of Systems and Software to select me as the editor of the year 😊

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Please stay :) I mention snowballing and keyword-based search as examples of sampling strategies but I don’t really teach SLR/SMS.

Feeling proud: dear students of Eindhoven U of Technology - Math & CS thank you for the great evaluation, @loekhere.bsky.social - the news and @lfpaganini.bsky.social Nathan Cassee - helping to shape the course.

Teaching materials for the course: www.emse.education/10-teaching-...

"Security Vulnerabilities in Docker Images: A Cross-Tag Study of Application Dependencies" by Hamid Mohayeji, Eleni Constantinou, yt has been accepted for presentation at IEEE ICSME #ICSME2025. The preprint is to come.

Major software engineering conference locations for the next few years #ICSE2025

Absent

#proundadvisor @lfpaganini.bsky.social steps up as the emergency social media chair of @icseconf.bsky.social ! #ICSE2025 #ICSE25

Congratulations!

“If you have a buggy program, you can fix it or call it AI”, David Parnas during his #ICSE2025 keynote Regulation of AI and Other Untrustworthy Software @icseconf.bsky.social

"Statistics is a way to handle ignorance. If we throw a dice, physics determines the outcome, but we do not have a knowledge to predict it. Instead of using statistics, we should gain this knowledge." -- David Lorge Parnas at @icseconf.bsky.social

“The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion”. Alan Turing quoted by David Lorge Parnas at his keynote talk at ICSE 2025.

#icse2025 #jss #editoroftheyear #academicexcellence #thankyoualexander | Journal of Systems and Software 🎉 Congratulations to Alexander Serebrenik — JSS Editor of the Year! 🎉 The Journal of Systems and Software proudly recognizes Alexander Serebrenik as our Editor of the Year. His outstanding commitment...

It is an honor to be recognized as the Editor of the Year of Journal of Systems and Software. Thank you! It is amazing to see how articles become better. However, editorial work would not be possible w/o the colleagues dedicating their time and energy to reviewing www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Today @aserebrenik.bsky.social delivered a very enlightening keynote talk at #CHASE25 about the impacts of AI on Software Development Diversity & Inclusion (SDDI). Provocative and insightful, it prompted a deep reflection on the importance of supporting SDDI research efforts now more than ever! 💪

Students believe in importance of emotional intelligence in team and academic success —Marcos Kalinowski at CHASE 2025

How can clustering help emotion recognition? — Daniela Grassi at CHASE 2025

At @techdebtconf.bsky.social Denys Poshyvanyk "I used to go to the library, I could even borrow books there..." #feelingOld

Both LLMs studied by Denys Poshyvanyk produce smelly code. #TechDebt2025 @techdebtconf.bsky.social

At @techdebtconf.bsky.social Denys Poshyvanyk talks about technical debt in LLM-generated code.