Diego Elias Costa
Biographie
Diego Elias Costa is an Assistant Professor in Software Engineering in the CSSE department of Concordia University. Before that, he was an assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at UQAM, Canada. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Concordia University and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Heidelberg University, Germany. His research interests cover a wide range of software engineering and performance engineering related topics, including dependency management, performance testing, adaptive data structures, and software engineering bots. His work has been published in major journals such as IEEE TSE, EMSE, JSS, and at premier venues such as MSR, ICSME, and CGO.
Sujets d'intérêts
- Software Engineering
- Performance Engineering
- Software Ecosystems
- Mining Software Repositories
- Software Development Bots
"Early Detection of Performance Regressions by Bridging Local Performance Data and Architectural Models."2025 IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)317-3292025
"The role of library versions in Developer-ChatGPT conversations"2401.163402024
"Predicting the Impact of Crashes Across Release Channels"2401.136672024
"Understanding the Helpfulness of Stale Bot for Pull-Based Development: An Empirical Study of 20 Large Open-Source Projects"ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology3321-432023
"SE4AI: A Training Program Considering Technical, Social, and Professional Aspects of AI-Based Software Systems"IEEE Software41244-512024
"Where to Go Now? Finding Alternatives for Declining Packages in the npm Ecosystem"38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2023IEEE1628-16392023
Sharon Chee Yin Ho, Vahid Majdinasab, Mohayeminul IslamDiego Elias Costa et
Emad Shihab, Foutse Khomh, Sarah Nadi, Muhammad Raza "An Empirical Study on Bugs Inside PyTorch: A Replication Study"IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 20234IEEE220-2312023
"Dependency Update Strategies and Package Characteristics"ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodolog3261-292023
"On the Discoverability of npm Vulnerabilities in Node.js Projects"ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology3241-272023
"On Wasted Contributions: Understanding the Dynamics of Contributor-Abandoned Pull Requests-A Mixed-Methods Study of 10 Large Open-Source Projects"ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology3211-392023
Mahmoud Elfadel, Nicholas Alexandre NagyDiego Elias Costa et
Rabe Abdalkareem, Emad Shihab "Empirical analysis of security-related code reviews in npm packages"Journal of Systems and Software2031117522023
"Not All Dependencies are Equal: An Empirical Study on Production Dependencies in NPM"International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)122022
"Achievement Unlocked: A Case Study on Gamifying DevOps Practices in Industry."Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)122022
"On the Discoverability of npm Vulnerabilities in Node.js Projects"Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)26202210.1145/3571848
"Empirical Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in Python Packages"Empirical Software Engineering journal (EMSE)283592023
Khaled BadranPierre CoteAmanda KolopanisRached BouchouchaAntonio CollanteDiego Elias CostaEmad Shihab et
Foutse Khomh "Can Ensembling Pre-processing Algorithms Lead to Better Machine Learning Fairness?"IEEE Computer56471-792023
"Diversity Awareness in Software Engineering Participant Research"45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society, SEIS@ICSE 2023International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)IEEE120-1312023
"Dependency Smells in JavaScript Projects."IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)48103790-38702022
Suhaib MujahidDiego Elias Costa et
Rabe Abdalkareem, Emad Shihab, Bram Adams, Aymen Saied "Towards Using Package Centrality Trend to Identify Packages in Decline"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (TEM)6962022
"Breaking Type-Safety in Go: An Empirical Study on the Usage of the unsafe Package"IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering482277-22942022
"Open Source Software: An Approach to Controlling Usage and Risk in Application Ecosystems"2203.103582022
"Challenges in Chatbot Development: A Study of Stack Overflow Posts"MSR’20: International Conference on Mining Software Repositories174-1852020
"What’s Wrong With My Benchmark Results? Studying Bad Practices in JMH Benchmarks"IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)1452-14672019