Chris Brown
FSE 2026 Preview
Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) is one of the leading venues for software engineering research. We are excited to share several contributions that will be presented at the conference and co-located events this year: Beyond Code Snippets: Be ... read more →
POSSE Project Evaluator
A few days ago, I reflected on my experience at the Professors' Open Source Software Experience (POSSE) workshop, a three-day event focused on integrating HFOSS into classroom settings. One of the most practical takeaways was focusing on project heal ... read more →
Reflections on POSSE 2026
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Professors' Open Source Software Experience (POSSE) workshop. The workshop was held at Red Hat in Raleigh, NC — a place I know well from my graduate school years at NC State and two summer internships at ... read more →
ICSE 2026 Preview
The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) is one of the top venues for software engineering research. This post provides an overview of papers from our group that will be presented at co-located events and specific tracks o ... read more →
Project Presentation-Based Assessments in Software Engineering Courses
Software engineering education is rapidly evolving, and finding ways to effectively evaluate students' understanding and application of practical skills is critical. Traditional exams often fail assessing students' abilities to apply theoretical know ... read more →
How Progress Ends: A Software Engineering Perspective
I was recently invited to give a guest lecture for the course ASPT 6004: AI in History and Its Social and Environmental Implications through the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) program at Virginia Tech. This int ... read more →
Bridging the Gap Between Research and OSS Communities
Reflections from the 2025 OSS Community Leadership Summit I recently had the chance to attend the Community Leadership Summit at All Things Open 2025, one of the largest tech conferences focused on open-source software (OSS). The summit brings togeth ... read more →
ESEM 2025 Overview
Our paper "Exploring the Evidence-Based SE Beliefs of Generative AI Tools" was accepted and recently presented at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2025) Emerging Results and Vision ... read more →
VL/HCC 2025 Overview
We had numerous contributions accepted and presented at the AIEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2025) conference. This post summarizes the workshop and main conference contributions from our research group this yea ... read more →
FSE 2025 Preview 2: Workshops
Foundations of Software Engineering was a great opportunity to connect with and learn from software engineering researchers. In addition to the education and tool demo tracks of the conference, we have several contributions to co-located workshops at ... read more →