Research

Peer-reviewed papers, registered reports, and empirical studies of how software is really built.

This is where the peer-reviewed work lives. Most of it sits at the intersection of empirical software engineering and continuous integration: how teams decide to adopt CI, why a quarter of those adoptions are later abandoned, and what a recommendation system would have to understand about a project before it could give useful advice. Each post summarises a paper in plain language, states the central argument, and links to the full text. If you are looking for the formal versions, the venue and paper link are attached to every entry.

August 2, 20264 min read

Prompting and Fine-Tuning Approaches for Detection and Generation of Spanish Humor

We entered all three HAHA@IberLEF 2026 subtasks on Spanish humor. Fine-tuned Spanish encoders placed 2nd at detecting LLM-generated jokes.

July 27, 20264 min read

Exploring Developer Perceptions on the Potential of CI Recommendation Systems

Prior research has catalogued the barriers to Continuous Integration adoption, but we still know very little about how developers actually choose a CI service — or whether they adopt CI because their project needs it. Our accepted ESEM 2026 registered report sets out to find out by surveying both CI users and non-users.

July 9, 20262 min read

A Vision for Context-Aware CI Adoption Decisions

Continuous Integration has become so easy to enable that many teams never pause to ask whether it actually fits their project. Our FSE Companion 2026 paper argues CI adoption should be a deliberate, evidence-based decision, not a default.

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