Publications

See below for list of publications sorted on the type of venue where the work has been published. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me.

Preprints

2026 Preprint

Exploring the Garden of Forking Paths in Empirical Software Engineering Research: A Multiverse Analysis

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N. Cassee, R. Feldt

Under Review at ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

2026 Preprint

Engagement in Code Review: Emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Dimensions in Peer vs. LLM Interactions

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A. Alami, N. Cassee, T. Rocha Silva, E. Paja, N. Ernst

Under Review at ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

Journal papers

2024 Journal

Negativity in Self-Admitted Technical Debt: How Sentiment Influences Prioritization

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N. Cassee, N. Ernst, N. Novielli, A. Serebrenik

Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)

2024 Journal

Transformers and Meta-Tokenization in Sentiment Analysis for Software Engineering

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N. Cassee, A. Agaronian, E. Constantinou, N. Novielli, A. Serebrenik

Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)

2022 Journal

Opinion Mining for Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review

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B. Lin, N. Cassee, A. Serebrenik, G. Bavota, N. Novielli, M. Lanza

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

2022 Journal

Self-Admitted Technical Debt and Comments' Polarity: An Empirical Study

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N. Cassee, F. Zampetti, N. Novielli, A. Serebrenik, M. Di Penta

Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)

Conference papers

2026 Conference

What barriers do students experience when trying to contribute to Open Source Software projects?

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N. Cassee, S. Ravi, I. Santos, I. Steinmacher, A. Serebrenik

2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET)

2024 Conference

Sentiment of Technical Debt Security Questions on Stack Overflow: A Replication Study

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J. Jansen, N. Cassee, A. Serebrenik

IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track

2023 Conference

Autonomy Is An Acquired Taste: Exploring Developer Preferences for GitHub Bots

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A. Ghorbani, N. Cassee, D. Robinson, A. Alami, N. Ernst, A. Serebrenik, A. Wasowski

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

2022 Conference

Sentiment in Software Engineering: Detection and Application

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N. Cassee

ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), Doctoral Symposium

2022 Conference

Between JIRA and GitHub: ASFBot and its Influence on Human Comments in Issue Trackers

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A. Moharil, D. Orlov, S. Jameel, T. Trouwen, N. Cassee, A. Serebrenik

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Mining Challenge

2021 Conference

Human, Bot or Both? A study on the capabilities of classification models on mixed accounts

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N. Cassee, C. Kitsanelis, E. Constantinou, A. Serebrenik

International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), NIER Track

2021 Conference

Waiting around or job half-done? Sentiment in Self-Admitted Technical Debt

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G. Fucci, N. Cassee, N. Novielli, F. Zampetti, A. Serebrenik, M. Di Penta

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)

2020 Conference

The Silent Helper: The Impact of Continuous Integration on Code Reviews

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N. Cassee, B. Vasilescu, A. Serebrenik

IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)

2018 Conference

How Swift developers handle errors

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N. Cassee, G. Pinto, F. Castor, A. Serebrenik

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)

Workshop papers

2017 Workshop

On the scalability of the gpuexplore explicit-state model checker

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N. Cassee, T. Neele, A. Wijs

Graphs as Models (GAM)

2017 Workshop

Analysing the performance of GPU hash tables for state space exploration

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N. Cassee, A. Wijs

Graphs as Models (GAM)

Book Chapters

2024 Chapter

Teaching Empirical Methods at Eindhoven University of Technology

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A. Serebrenik, N. Cassee

Thesis

2024 Thesis

Sentiment in Software Engineering

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N. Cassee