Parnin, Chris

How We Refactor, and How We Know It

Murphy-Hill, E., Parnin, C., & Black, A. P. (2012) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 547

Gender differences and bias in open source: pull request acceptance of women versus men

Terrell, J., Kofink, A., Middleton, J., Rainear, C., Murphy-Hill, E., Parnin, C., & Stallings, J. (2017) · PeerJ Computer Science

Open Source Software InnovationsGender and Technology in Education

Cited by 287

Understanding understanding source code with functional magnetic resonance imaging

Siegmund, J., Kästner, C., Apel, S., Parnin, C., Bethmann, A., Leich, T., Saake, G., & Brechmann, A. (2014) · Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchTeaching and Learning Programming

Cited by 219

Resumption strategies for interrupted programming tasks

Parnin, C., & Rugaber, S. (2011) · Software Quality Journal

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 103

Do Developers Read Compiler Error Messages?

Barik, T., Smith, J., Lubick, K., Holmes, E., Feng, J., Murphy-Hill, E., & Parnin, C. (2017) · 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 86

Security Smells in Ansible and Chef Scripts: A Replication Study

Rahman, A., Rahman, M. R., Parnin, C., & Williams, L. (2021) · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Web Application Security VulnerabilitiesSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 80

Evaluating Cues for Resuming Interrupted Programming Tasks

Parnin, C., & DeLine, R. (2010) · Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Personal Information Management and User BehaviorSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 60

Correlates of programmer efficacy and their link to experience: a combined EEG and eye-tracking study

Peitek, N., Bergum, A., Rekrut, M., Mucke, J., Nadig, M., Parnin, C., Siegmund, J., & Apel, S. (2022) · Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Teaching and Learning ProgrammingSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 32

Resumption strategies for interrupted programming tasks

Parnin, C., & Rugaber, S. (2009) · 2009 IEEE 17th International Conference on Program Comprehension

Software Engineering ResearchPersonal Information Management and User Behavior

Cited by 24

Characterizing and Predicting Mental Fatigue during Programming Tasks

Sarkar, S., & Parnin, C. (2017) · 2017 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering (SEmotion)

Sleep and Work-Related FatigueSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 24

Conversational Challenges in AI-Powered Data Science: Obstacles, Needs, and Design Opportunities

Chopra, B., Singha, A., Fariha, A., Gulwani, S., Parnin, C., Tiwari, A., & Henley, A. Z. (2023) · arXiv

Software Engineering ResearchArtificial Intelligence Applications

Cited by 16

Building Your Own Product Copilot: Challenges, Opportunities, and Needs

Parnin, C., Soares, G., Pandita, R., Gulwani, S., Rich, J., & Henley, A. Z. (2023) · arXiv

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 13

Beyond the Comfort Zone: Emerging Solutions to Overcome Challenges in Integrating LLMs into Software Products

Nahar, N., Kästner, C., Butler, J., Parnin, C., Zimmermann., T., & Bird, C. (2025) · 2025 IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP)

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 13