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Expertise
Coen De Roover is a professor at the Software Languages Lab (SOFT) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). His research focuses on the design of program analyses, and on their application to problems in software quality. Recent examples include incremental abstract interpretation, resilience testing through fuzzing, and security vulnerability detection for and software supply chain analysis of Ansible infrastructure code.
Keywords
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- software engineering
- software quality
- program analysis
- software testing
- application security
- mining software repositories
- empirical software engineering
- development tools
- static analysis
- dynamic analysis
- software ecosystems
- software supply chains
- software analytics
Flemish discipline codes in use since 2023
- Theoretical computer science not elsewhere classified
- Coding tools and techniques, testing and debugging
- Software engineering
- Data mining
- Programming languages and technologies
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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VLA12: COOCK project: BUGATTI Embedded Security Testing and Automation
De Roover, C. (Administrative Promotor) & Nicolay, J. (CoI (Co-Promotor))
1/04/25 → 31/03/28
Project: Applied
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CONI833: Summer School on Security Testing and Verification 2025 (inschrijvingen conferentie)
De Roover, C. (Administrative Promotor)
31/03/25 → 31/12/26
Project: Fundamental
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EUAR221: CRACY:CRA Compliancy (made easy)
De Roover, C. (Administrative Promotor), De Meuter, W. (CoI (Co-Promotor)) & Vandercammen, M. (CoI (Co-Promotor))
1/12/24 → 31/05/27
Project: Applied
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VLAAI2: Cybersecurity Research Program Flanders – second cycle
De Meuter, W. (Administrative Promotor), Braeken, A. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Devriese, D. (Co-Promotor), Gonzalez Boix, E. (Co-Promotor) & De Roover, C. (Co-Promotor)
1/01/24 → 31/12/28
Project: Applied
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FWOSB153: Property-based testing for ML-intensive software
Wauters, C. (Mandate) & De Roover, C. (Administrative Promotor)
1/11/23 → 31/10/27
Project: Fundamental
Research output
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An Empirical Study of Policy as Code: Adoption, Purpose, and Maintenance
Opdebeeck, R., Alfadel, M., Rahman, A., Kashiwa, Y., F. Ferreira , J., Kula, R. G. & De Roover, C., 2026, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2026) . ACM, 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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Investigating the Adoption and Maintenance of Web GUI Testing: Insights from GitHub Repositories
Di Meglio, S., Starace, L. L. L., Pontillo, V., Opdebeeck, R., De Roover, C. & Di Martino, S., Jan 2026, In: Information and Software Technology. 189, 41 p., 107928.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The sampling threat when mining generalizable inter-library usage patterns
Pacheco Correa, Y., De Roover, C. & Härtel, J., Mar 2026, In: Science of Computer Programming. 248, 18 p., 103393.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Abstracting Concolic Execution for Soft Contract Verification
Vandenbogaerde, B., Stiévenart, Q. & De Roover, C., 7 Oct 2025, Static Analysis - 32nd International Symposium, SAS 2025, Proceedings: 32nd International Symposium, SAS 2025, Singapore, Singapore, October 13–14, 2025, Proceedings. Oh, H. & Sui, Y. (eds.). p. 190-220 31 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 16100 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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A Comprehensive Study of the Lifecycle of Dormant npm Packages
Zerouali, A., Pontillo, V. & De Roover, C., 15 Nov 2025, In: Empirical Software Engineering. 31, 1, 43 p., 19.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Datasets
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Experiment data for Onweer, including source code of Onweer, source code of modified TeaStore, and experiment output JSON files
Coremans, G. (Creator) & De Roover, C. (Supervisor), Zenodo, 2025
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15024380, https://zenodo.org/records/16412586
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Replication Package for Ansible Sensitive Parameter Prediction Study
Opdebeeck, R. (Creator), Pontillo, V. (Creator), Velazquez Rodriguez, C. E. (Creator), De Meuter, W. (Supervisor) & De Roover, C. (Supervisor), figshare, 4 Aug 2025
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.29269091
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Replication package for the Docker Inheritance network analysis
Opdebeeck, R. (Creator), Lesy, J. S. (Creator), Zerouali, A. (Creator) & De Roover, C. (Creator), Zenodo, 6 Jul 2023
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Static Stack-Preserving Intra-Procedural Slicing of WebAssembly Binaries
Stiévenart, Q. (Creator), Binkley, D. (Creator) & De Roover, C. (Creator), Zenodo, 5 Jan 2022
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Replication package for the Helm charts empirical study
Zerouali, A. (Creator), Opdebeeck, R. (Creator) & De Roover, C. (Creator), Zenodo, 19 Jan 2023
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Prizes
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Best Artifact Award at SCAM 2022
Vandenbogaerde, B. (Recipient), De Roover, C. (Recipient) & Stiévenart, Q. (Recipient), 12 Oct 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Best Paper Award of Tool Demo Track
De Roover, C. (Recipient), 16 Mar 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Distinguished Paper Award to: Uncovering Library Features from API Usage on Stack Overflow
Velazquez Rodriguez, C. E. (Recipient), Constantinou, E. (Recipient) & De Roover, C. (Recipient), 15 Mar 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Activities
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Delivering security by design: testing, supply chain challenges …
De Roover, C. (Speaker) & Opdebeeck, R. (Speaker)
14 Nov 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk at a festival/exhibition
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25th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (Event)
De Roover, C. (Member)
2024Activity: Membership › Membership of peer-review panel or committee
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28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2024) (Event)
De Roover, C. (Chair) & Conte, T. (Chair)
2024Activity: Membership › Membership of peer-review panel or committee
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40th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2024) (Event)
De Roover, C. (Member)
2024Activity: Membership › Membership of peer-review panel or committee
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2024 International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (<Programming> 2024) (Event)
De Roover, C. (Member)
2024Activity: Membership › Membership of peer-review panel or committee
Press/Media
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Vlaamse AI spoort bugs in software sneller op
De Roover, C. & Demeyer, S.
21/02/25
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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Z-Cybersecurity - Samen voor betere cyberveiligheid in Vlaanderen 20/05/22
20/05/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Nieuw Vlaams project moet cybersecurity naar een hoger niveau tillen
1/02/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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FYI: Code compiled to WebAssembly may lack standard security defenses
Stiévenart, Q., De Roover, C. & Ghafari, M.
4/11/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Thesis
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Incorporating Dynamic Analysis and Approximate Reasoning in Declarative Meta-Programming to Support Software Re-engineering
De Roover, C. ((PhD) Student), D'Hondt, T. (Promotor), Jonckers, V. (Jury), Tourwe, T. (Jury) & Wuyts, R. (Jury), D'Hondt, T. (Promotor), Jonckers, V. (Jury), Tourwe, T. (Jury) & Wuyts, R. (Jury), 2004Student thesis: Master's Thesis