Abstract Context: DevOps (Development and Operations) has become one of the fastest-
growing software development paradigms in the industry. However, this trend has presented …

The increasing complexity and connectivity of automotive systems have raised concerns
about their vulnerability to security breaches. As a result, the integration of formal methods …

Software development teams are responsible for making and implementing software design
decisions that directly impact end-user privacy, a challenging task to do well. Privacy …

While the literature on permissions from the end-user perspective is rich, there is a lack of
empirical research on why developers request permissions, their conceptualization of …

We analyse Stack Overflow (SO) to understand challenges and confusions developers face
while dealing with privacy-related topics. We apply topic modelling techniques to 1,733 …

Reliably recruiting participants with programming skills is an ongoing challenge for empirical
studies involving software development technologies, often leading to the use of …

Mobile advertising networks present personalized advertisements to developers as a way to
increase revenue. These types of ads use data about users to select potentially more …

Privacy tasks can be challenging for developers, resulting in privacy frameworks and
guidelines from the research community which are designed to assist developers in …

Humans are often considered to be the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain. However,
traditionally the Computer Science (CS) researchers have investigated the technical aspects …

The pressure on software developers to produce secure software has never been greater.
But what does security look like in environments that do not produce security-critical …