Hassan, Ahmed E.

An Empirical Comparison of Model Validation Techniques for Defect Prediction Models

Tantithamthavorn, C., McIntosh, S., Hassan, A. E., & Matsumoto, K. (2017) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Reliability and Analysis Research

Cited by 574

Revisiting the Impact of Classification Techniques on the Performance of Defect Prediction Models

Ghotra, B., McIntosh, S., & Hassan, A. E. (2015) · 2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Reliability and Analysis Research

Cited by 364

Measuring Program Comprehension: A Large-Scale Field Study with Professionals

Xia, X., Bao, L., Lo, D., Xing, Z., Hassan, A. E., & Li, S. (2018) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 326

What do developers search for on the web?

Xia, X., Bao, L., Lo, D., Kochhar, P. S., Hassan, A. E., & Xing, Z. (2017) · Empirical Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchInformation Retrieval and Search Behavior

Cited by 174

An empirical study of build maintenance effort

McIntosh, S., Adams, B., Nguyen, T. H. D., Kamei, Y., & Hassan, A. E. (2011) · Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 143

Studying the dialogue between users and developers of free apps in the Google Play Store

Hassan, S., Tantithamthavorn, C., Bezemer, C.-P., & Hassan, A. E. (2018) · Empirical Software Engineering

Mobile and Web ApplicationsDigital Marketing and Social Media

Cited by 100

How Do Users Revise Answers on Technical Q&A Websites? A Case Study on Stack Overflow

Wang, S., Chen, T.-H., & Hassan, A. E. (2020) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Expert finding and Q&A systemsSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 50

An empirical study of unspecified dependencies in make-based build systems

Bezemer, C.-P., McIntosh, S., Adams, B., German, D. M., & Hassan, A. E. (2017) · Empirical Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 42

On the Use of Agentic Coding: An Empirical Study of Pull Requests on GitHub

Watanabe, M., Li, H., Kashiwa, Y., Reid, B., Iida, H., & Hassan, A. E. (2026) · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 34

Inference of development activities from interaction with uninstrumented applications

Bao, L., Xing, Z., Xia, X., Lo, D., & Hassan, A. E. (2018) · Empirical Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 25

Agentic Software Engineering: Foundational Pillars and a Research Roadmap

Hassan, A. E., Li, H., Lin, D., Adams, B., Chen, T.-H., Kashiwa, Y., & Qiu, D. (2025) · arXiv

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 7

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tool Descriptions Are Smelly! Towards Improving AI Agent Efficiency with Augmented MCP Tool Descriptions,

Hasan, M. M., Li, H., Rajbahadur, G. K., Adams, B., & Hassan, A. E. (2026) · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Software Engineering ResearchArtificial Intelligence Applications

Cited by 4