A. Sarma

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What's Wrong with Computational Notebooks? Pain Points, Needs, and Design Opportunities
Souti Chattopadhyay, Ishita Prasad, Austin Z. Henley, A. Sarma +1 more
2020International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems201 citations
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Palantir: Early Detection of Development Conflicts Arising from Parallel Code Changes
A. Sarma, D. Redmiles, A. van der Hoek
2012IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering128 citations
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Open Source Barriers to Entry, Revisited: A Sociotechnical Perspective
C. Mendez, Hema Susmita Padala, Zoe Steine-Hanson, Claudia Hilderbrand +6 more
2018International Conference on Software Engineering122 citations Open access
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Gender-Inclusiveness Personas vs. Stereotyping: Can We Have it Both Ways?
Charles Hill, Maren Haag, A. Oleson, C. Mendez +3 more
2017International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems114 citations Open access
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Newcomers’ Barriers. . . Is That All? An Analysis of Mentors’ and Newcomers’ Barriers in OSS Projects
Sogol Balali, I. Steinmacher, Umayal Annamalai, A. Sarma +1 more
2018Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)110 citations
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The Shifting Sands of Motivation: Revisiting What Drives Contributors in Open Source
M. Gerosa, I. Wiese, Bianca Trinkenreich, Georg J. P. Link +4 more
2021International Conference on Software Engineering107 citations Open access
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Women’s Participation in Open Source Software: A Survey of the Literature
Bianca Trinkenreich, I. Wiese, A. Sarma, M. Gerosa +1 more
2021ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology104 citations Open access
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Cassandra: Proactive conflict minimization through optimized task scheduling
Bakhtiar Kasi, A. Sarma
2013International Conference on Software Engineering101 citations
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Hidden Figures: Roles and Pathways of Successful OSS Contributors
Bianca Trinkenreich, Mariam Guizani, I. Wiese, A. Sarma +1 more
2020Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.85 citations Open access
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The Signals that Potential Contributors Look for When Choosing Open-source Projects
Huilian Sophie Qiu, Y. Li, Susmita Hema Padala, A. Sarma +1 more
2019Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.79 citations Open access
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An Empirical Examination of the Relationship between Code Smells and Merge Conflicts
Iftekhar Ahmed, Caius Brindescu, Umme Ayda Mannan, Carlos Jensen +1 more
2017International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement65 citations
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How Gender-Biased Tools Shape Newcomer Experiences in OSS Projects
Hema Susmita Padala, C. Mendez, Felipe Fronchetti, I. Steinmacher +8 more
2020IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering61 citations Open access
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Software Practitioner Perspectives on Merge Conflicts and Resolutions
Shane Mckee, Nicholas Nelson, A. Sarma, Danny Dig
2017IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution57 citations
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The Long Road Ahead: Ongoing Challenges in Contributing to Large OSS Organizations and What to Do
Mariam Guizani, Amreeta Chatterjee, Bianca Trinkenreich, Mary Evelyn May +7 more
2021Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.45 citations Open access
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Foraging Among an Overabundance of Similar Variants
S. Srinivasaragavan, S. Kuttal, Charles Hill, A. Sarma +2 more
2016International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems44 citations Open access
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Recommending Tasks to Newcomers in OSS Projects: How Do Mentors Handle It?
Sogol Balali, Umayal Annamalai, Hema Susmita Padala, Bianca Trinkenreich +3 more
2020International Symposium on Open Collaboration43 citations
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Engineering Gender-Inclusivity into Software: Ten Teams' Tales from the Trenches
Claudia Hilderbrand, Christopher Perdriau, Lara Letaw, Jillian Emard +3 more
2020International Conference on Software Engineering42 citations
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The life-cycle of merge conflicts: processes, barriers, and strategies
Nicholas Nelson, Caius Brindescu, Shane Mckee, A. Sarma +1 more
2019Empirical Software Engineering42 citations
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A Tale from the Trenches: Cognitive Biases and Software Development
Souti Chattopadhyay, Nicholas Nelson, Audrey Au, N. Morales +3 more
2020International Conference on Software Engineering39 citations Open access
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An empirical investigation into merge conflicts and their effect on software quality
Caius Brindescu, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, A. Sarma
2019Empirical Software Engineering39 citations
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TIPMerge: recommending experts for integrating changes across branches
Catarina Costa, Jair Figueirêdo, Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta, A. Sarma
2016SIGSOFT FSE38 citations
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Hiring in the Global Stage: Profiles of Online Contributions
A. Sarma, Xiaofan Chen, S. Kuttal, L. Dabbish +1 more
2016International Conference on Global Software Engineering32 citations
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Attracting and Retaining OSS Contributors with a Maintainer Dashboard
Mariam Guizani, Thomas Zimmermann, A. Sarma, Denae Ford
20222022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)31 citations Open access
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From GenderMag to InclusiveMag: An Inclusive Design Meta-Method
C. Mendez, Lara Letaw, M. Burnett, S. Stumpf +2 more
2019IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages / Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments31 citations Open access
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On the benefits of providing versioning support for end users: An empirical study
S. Kuttal, A. Sarma, G. Rothermel
2014TCHI31 citations
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How to Debug Inclusivity Bugs? A Debugging Process with Information Architecture
Mariam Guizani, I. Steinmacher, Jillian Emard, Abrar Fallatah +2 more
20222022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)30 citations Open access
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Training the future workforce through task curation in an OSS ecosystem
A. Sarma, M. Gerosa, I. Steinmacher, Rafael Leano
2016SIGSOFT FSE28 citations Open access
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A case study of implicit mentoring, its prevalence, and impact in Apache
Zi-Xuan Feng, Amreeta Chatterjee, A. Sarma, Iftekhar Ahmed
2022ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE27 citations
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Being a Mentor in open source projects
I. Steinmacher, Sogol Balali, Bianca Trinkenreich, Mariam Guizani +4 more
2021Journal of Internet Services and Applications26 citations Open access
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ANNE: Improving Source Code Search using Entity Retrieval Approach
Venkatesh Vinayakarao, A. Sarma, Rahul Purandare, Shuktika Jain +1 more
2017Web Search and Data Mining26 citations Open access
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Perceptions of answer quality in an online technical question and answer forum
K. Hart, A. Sarma
2014IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies26 citations
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Understanding user perceptions of privacy, and configuration challenges in home automation
Kim J. Kaaz, Alex Hoffer, Mahsa Saeidi, A. Sarma +1 more
2017IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages / Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments25 citations
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Planning for Untangling: Predicting the Difficulty of Merge Conflicts
Caius Brindescu, Iftekhar Ahmed, Rafael Leano, A. Sarma
2020International Conference on Software Engineering24 citations Open access
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Niche vs. breadth: Calculating expertise over time through a fine-grained analysis
Jose Ricardo da Silva, E. Clua, Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta, A. Sarma
2015IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering24 citations
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A Model for Understanding and Reducing Developer Burnout
Bianca Trinkenreich, Klaas-Jan Stol, I. Steinmacher, M. Gerosa +5 more
20232023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP)23 citations Open access
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Latent Patterns in Activities: A Field Study of How Developers Manage Context
Souti Chattopadhyay, Nicholas Nelson, Yenifer Ramirez Gonzalez, Annel Amelia Leon +2 more
2019International Conference on Software Engineering23 citations
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A New Approach Towards Ensuring Gender Inclusive SE Job Advertisements
Tanjila Kanij, John C. Grundy, Jennifer McIntosh, A. Sarma +1 more
20222022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)22 citations Open access
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Predator behavior in the wild web world of bugs: An information foraging theory perspective
S. Kuttal, A. Sarma, G. Rothermel
20132013 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing22 citations
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How to Choose a Task? Mismatches in Perspectives of Newcomers and Existing Contributors
Fábio Santos, Bianca Trinkenreich, J. F. Pimentel, I. Wiese +3 more
2022International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement21 citations
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Can I Solve It? Identifying APIs Required to Complete OSS Tasks
Fábio Santos, I. Wiese, Bianca Trinkenreich, I. Steinmacher +2 more
2021IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories21 citations
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Recommending Participants for Collaborative Merge Sessions
Catarina Costa, Jair Figueirêdo, J. F. Pimentel, A. Sarma +1 more
2019IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering21 citations Open access
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Discovering how end-user programmers and their communities use public repositories: A study on Yahoo! Pipes
Kathryn T. Stolee, S. Elbaum, A. Sarma
2013Information and Software Technology21 citations
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AID: An Automated Detector for Gender-Inclusivity Bugs in OSS Project Pages
Amreeta Chatterjee, Mariam Guizani, Catherine Stevens, Jillian Emard +4 more
2021International Conference on Software Engineering20 citations
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Visual Resume: Exploring developers' online contributions for hiring
S. Kuttal, Xiaofan Chen, Zhendong Wang, Sogol Balali +1 more
2021Information and Software Technology20 citations Open access
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Supporting Code Comprehension via Annotations: Right Information at the Right Time and Place
M. Adeli, Nicholas Nelson, Souti Chattopadhyay, Hayden Coffey +2 more
2020IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages / Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments20 citations
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Designing for Cognitive Diversity: Improving the GitHub Experience for Newcomers
Ítalo Santos, J. F. Pimentel, I. Wiese, I. Steinmacher +2 more
20232023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)19 citations Open access
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Pots of Gold at the End of the Rainbow: What is Success for Open Source Contributors?
Bianca Trinkenreich, Mariam Guizani, I. Wiese, T. Conte +3 more
2021IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering19 citations Open access
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On the relationship between design discussions and design quality: a case study of Apache projects
Umme Ayda Mannan, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, A. Sarma
2020ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE19 citations
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Gender in Open Source Software: What the Tools Tell
C. Mendez, A. Sarma, M. Burnett
20182018 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Gender Equality in Software Engineering (GE)19 citations Open access
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Towards understanding code readability and its impact on design quality
Umme Ayda Mannan, Iftekhar Ahmed, A. Sarma
2018NL4SE@ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE18 citations
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