Bram Adams

9.5k citations

224 papers · 6.6k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 47

Impact in

Software top 0.05%
- Software Reliability and Analysis Research
- Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Information Systems top 0.02%
- Software Engineering Research
- Software Engineering Techniques and Practices

Papers in

Software 78
- Software Reliability and Analysis Research 56
- Software Testing and Debugging Techniques 35
Computer Science Applications 47
- Open Source Software Innovations 44

Co-authors: Ahmed E. Hassan Yasutaka Kamei Shane McIntosh Emad Shihab Foutse Khomh Zhen Ming Jiang Parastou Tourani Meiyappan Nagappan
Journals: Empirical Software Engineering (34 papers)IEEE Software (19 papers)IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (8 papers)Journal of Systems and Software (6 papers)ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (3 papers)
Partner nations: Canada United States Belgium

In The Last Decade

Bram Adams

209 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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An empirical study of the impact of modern code review practices on software quality 2015 · 219 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 Empirical Software Engineering
2014 PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal)
2012 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	On the Workflows and Smells of Leaderboard Operations (LBOps): An Exploratory Study of Foundation Model Leaderboards IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering ·J Fisher, Peiwang Zhu, 史晨, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan	2025	0
2	Towards semantic versioning of open pre-trained language model releases on hugging face Empirical Software Engineering ·Conesa Ferrer, Peiwang Zhu, 史晨, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan	2025	0
3	An empirical study of developers’ challenges in implementing Workflows as Code: A case study on Apache Airflow Journal of Systems and Software ·Shuvam Das, Niranjan Roy, Yuan Tian, Bram Adams	2024	2
4	A large-scale exploratory study on the proxy pattern in Ethereum Empirical Software Engineering ·Amaia Calvo Fernandez, Bram Adams, Gustavo A. Oliva, Ahmed E. Hassan	2024	4
5	Does using Bazel help speed up continuous integration builds? Empirical Software Engineering ·Yun-Geun Park, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan	2024	0
6	On the Costs and Benefits of Adopting Lifelong Learning for Software Analytics - Empirical Study on Brown Build and Risk Prediction PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal) ·Wessam M. Khalafallah, Tatiana Bascuñan C, I Zattera, 严婷婷, Sarath Chandar, Bram Adams	2024	2
7	On practitioners’ concerns when adopting service mesh frameworks Empirical Software Engineering ·Yihao Chen, Eduardo Fernandes, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan	2023	3
8	There’s no Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Lessons Learned from Exploring the Overhead Introduced by the Greenkeeper Dependency Bot in Npm ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology ·Heitor Éttori, 史晨, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan	2022	9
9	Individual differences limit predicting well-being and productivity using software repositories:a longitudinal industrial study arXiv (Cornell University) ·Miikka Kuutila, Mika Mäntylä, Maëlick Claes, Marko Elovainio, Bram Adams	2021	7
10	Toward Using Package Centrality Trend to Identify Packages in Decline IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management ·Suhaib Mujahid, Diego Elias Costa, Rabe Abdalkareem, Emad Shihab, Mohamed Aymen Saied, Bram Adams	2021	11
11	A study of build inflation in 30 million CPAN builds on 13 Perl versions and 10 operating systems Empirical Software Engineering ·Riezca Talita Trista, Bram Adams, Yann‐Gaël Guéhéneuc	2019	7
12	On Cross-Stack Configuration Errors PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal) ·Mohammed Sayagh, SUSAN M. HENRY‐EDWARDS, Bram Adams	2017	22
13	Make it simple: an empirical analysis of GNU make feature use in open source projects 恭雅河出, James R. Cordy, Bram Adams, Giulio Antoniol	2015	4
14	Co-evolution of infrastructure and source code: an empirical study Saher Ijaz, Bram Adams	2015	29
15	A dataset of the activity of the git super-repository of Linux in 2012 Daniel M. Germán, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan	2015	1
16	Monitoring sentiment in open source mailing lists: exploratory study on the apache ecosystem Parastou Tourani, Saher Ijaz, Bram Adams	2014	51
17	Revisiting prior empirical findings for mobile apps: an empirical case study on the 15 most popular open-source Android apps PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal) ·Mark D. Syer, Meiyappan Nagappan, Ahmed E. Hassan, Bram Adams	2013	46
18	An empirical study of build system migrations in practice: Case studies on KDE and the Linux kernel PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal) ·Roman Suvorov, Meiyappan Nagappan, Ahmed E. Hassan, Ying Zou, Bram Adams	2012	26
19	Using the GPGPU for scaling up mining software repositories International Conference on Software Engineering ·Serkan Yazarel, Hiroki Nakamura, Yasutaka Kamei, Bram Adams, Oliver Michels, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Kensuke Fukuda	2012	1
20	Applying Dynamic Analysis in a Legacy Context: An Industrial Experience Report Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·Andy Zaidman, Bram Adams, Judie N. Meulink	2005	4

About Bram Adams

Bram Adams is a scholar working on Software, Computer Science Applications, Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications and Information Systems and Management, having authored 224 papers that have together received 6.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Software Engineering Research (169 papers), Software System Performance and Reliability (80 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (56 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (49 papers), Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (44 papers), Open Source Software Innovations (44 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (35 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (23 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Software (2.8k citations), Information Systems (5.6k citations), Computer Science Applications (1.1k citations), Computer Networks and Communications (2.3k citations) and Signal Processing (755 citations). Bram Adams has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and Belgium. Frequent co-authors include Ahmed E. Hassan, Yasutaka Kamei, Shane McIntosh, Emad Shihab, Foutse Khomh, Zhen Ming Jiang, Parastou Tourani, Meiyappan Nagappan, Audris Mockus and Daniel M. Germán. Their work appears in journals such as Empirical Software Engineering, IEEE Software, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of Systems and Software and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

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