Publications

2025

1. EMSE

   Developer reactions to protestware in open source software: the cases of color. js and es5. ext

   Youmei Fan, Dong Wang, Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai, and 4 more authors

   Empirical Software Engineering, 2025

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   This study examines developer reactions to protestware incidents in the JavaScript ecosystem, analyzing community responses to the color.js and es5.ext cases through mixed-methods empirical research.

   @article{fan2025developer,
     title = {Developer reactions to protestware in open source software: the cases of color. js and es5. ext},
     author = {Fan, Youmei and Wang, Dong and Wattanakriengkrai, Supatsara and Damrongsiri, Hathaichanok and Treude, Christoph and Hata, Hideaki and Kula, Raula Gaikovina},
     journal = {Empirical Software Engineering},
     volume = {30},
     number = {2},
     pages = {56},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {Springer},
     doi = {10.1007/s10664-024-10599-6},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-024-10599-6},
     dimensions = {true},
   }

2. MSR

   Do Developers Depend on Deprecated Library Versions? A Mining Study of Log4j

   Haruhiko Yoshioka, Sila Lertbanjongngam, Masayuki Inaba, and 5 more authors

   In 2025 IEEE/ACM 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2025

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3. MSR

   Mining for Lags in Updating Critical Security Threats: A Case Study of Log4j Library

   Hidetake Tanaka, Kazuma Yamasaki, Momoka Hirose, and 5 more authors

   In 2025 IEEE/ACM 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2025

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2024

1. ICSE

   "My GitHub Sponsors profile is live!" Investigating the Impact of Twitter/X Mentions on GitHub Sponsors

   Youmei Fan, Tao Xiao, Hideaki Hata, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2024

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   This paper investigates how Twitter/X mentions impact GitHub Sponsors funding through empirical analysis of social media promotion strategies.

   @inproceedings{fan2024my,
     title = {"My GitHub Sponsors profile is live!" Investigating the Impact of Twitter/X Mentions on GitHub Sponsors},
     author = {Fan, Youmei and Xiao, Tao and Hata, Hideaki and Treude, Christoph and Matsumoto, Kenichi},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering},
     pages = {1--12},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.1145/3597503.3639127},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639127},
     dimensions = {true},
   }

2. IEEE Software

   The Impact of Sanctions on GitHub Developers and Activities

   Youmei Fan, Ani Hovhannisyan, Hideaki Hata, and 2 more authors

   IEEE Software, 2024

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   An empirical study examining how international sanctions affect GitHub developer communities and their collaborative activities.

   @article{10767746,
     author = {Fan, Youmei and Hovhannisyan, Ani and Hata, Hideaki and Treude, Christoph and Kula, Raula Gaikovina},
     journal = {IEEE Software},
     title = {The Impact of Sanctions on GitHub Developers and Activities},
     year = {2024},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {1-5},
     keywords = {Software development management;Navigation;Government;Collaboration;Social networking (online);Regulation;Pandemics;Market research;Licenses;Color},
     doi = {10.1109/MS.2024.3505204},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2024.3505204},
     dimensions = {true},
   }

3. ISSREW

   Linking Code and Documentation Churn: Preliminary Analysis

   Ani Hovhannisyan, Youmei Fan, Gema Rodríguez-Pérez, and 1 more author

   In 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW), 2024

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4. ISSREW

   How Maintainable is Proficient Code? A Case Study of Three PyPI Libraries

   Indira Febriyanti, Youmei Fan, Kazumasa Shimari, and 2 more authors

   In 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW), 2024

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