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
Exploring the Garden of Forking Paths in Empirical Software Engineering Research: A Multiverse Analysis
DownloadN. Cassee, R. Feldt
Under Review at ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Engagement in Code Review: Emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Dimensions in Peer vs. LLM Interactions
DownloadA. Alami, N. Cassee, T. Rocha Silva, E. Paja, N. Ernst
Under Review at ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Journal papers
Negativity in Self-Admitted Technical Debt: How Sentiment Influences Prioritization
DownloadN. Cassee, N. Ernst, N. Novielli, A. Serebrenik
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)
Transformers and Meta-Tokenization in Sentiment Analysis for Software Engineering
DownloadN. Cassee, A. Agaronian, E. Constantinou, N. Novielli, A. Serebrenik
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)
Opinion Mining for Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review
DownloadB. Lin, N. Cassee, A. Serebrenik, G. Bavota, N. Novielli, M. Lanza
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Self-Admitted Technical Debt and Comments' Polarity: An Empirical Study
DownloadN. Cassee, F. Zampetti, N. Novielli, A. Serebrenik, M. Di Penta
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)
Conference papers
What barriers do students experience when trying to contribute to Open Source Software projects?
DownloadN. Cassee, S. Ravi, I. Santos, I. Steinmacher, A. Serebrenik
2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET)
Sentiment of Technical Debt Security Questions on Stack Overflow: A Replication Study
DownloadJ. Jansen, N. Cassee, A. Serebrenik
IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track
Autonomy Is An Acquired Taste: Exploring Developer Preferences for GitHub Bots
DownloadA. Ghorbani, N. Cassee, D. Robinson, A. Alami, N. Ernst, A. Serebrenik, A. Wasowski
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Sentiment in Software Engineering: Detection and Application
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ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), Doctoral Symposium
Between JIRA and GitHub: ASFBot and its Influence on Human Comments in Issue Trackers
DownloadA. Moharil, D. Orlov, S. Jameel, T. Trouwen, N. Cassee, A. Serebrenik
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Mining Challenge
Human, Bot or Both? A study on the capabilities of classification models on mixed accounts
DownloadN. Cassee, C. Kitsanelis, E. Constantinou, A. Serebrenik
International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), NIER Track
Waiting around or job half-done? Sentiment in Self-Admitted Technical Debt
DownloadG. Fucci, N. Cassee, N. Novielli, F. Zampetti, A. Serebrenik, M. Di Penta
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
The Silent Helper: The Impact of Continuous Integration on Code Reviews
DownloadN. Cassee, B. Vasilescu, A. Serebrenik
IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)
How Swift developers handle errors
DownloadN. Cassee, G. Pinto, F. Castor, A. Serebrenik
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
Workshop papers
On the scalability of the gpuexplore explicit-state model checker
DownloadN. Cassee, T. Neele, A. Wijs
Graphs as Models (GAM)
Analysing the performance of GPU hash tables for state space exploration
DownloadN. Cassee, A. Wijs
Graphs as Models (GAM)
Book Chapters
Teaching Empirical Methods at Eindhoven University of Technology
DownloadA. Serebrenik, N. Cassee
Thesis
Sentiment in Software Engineering
DownloadN. Cassee