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Coen De Roover is a professor at the Software Languages Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The central theme of his research is the design and application of source code analysis and transformation techniques. These form the foundation of tool support for quality assurance problems as pressing as program comprehension, program validation, and program modernization.
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
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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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CONI805: Summer School on Security Testing and Verification 2024 (inschrijvingen conferentie)
De Roover, C. (Administrative Promotor)
7/05/24 → 31/12/25
Project: Fundamental
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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
Research output
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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
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Analysing Software Supply Chains of Infrastructure as Code: Extraction of Ansible Plugin Dependencies
Opdebeeck, R., Adams, B. & De Roover, C., Mar 2025, Proceedings - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2025. IEEE, p. 181-192 12 p. (Proceedings - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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An Empirical Evaluation of Static, Dynamic, and Hybrid Slicing of WebAssembly Binaries
Stiévenart, Q., Binkley, D. & De Roover, C., Oct 2025, In: Journal of Systems and Software. 228, p. 1-20 20 p., 112453.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Datasets
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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
Dataset
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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
Dataset
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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
Dataset
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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
Dataset
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Replication package for "Control and Data Flow in Security Smell Detection for Infrastructure as Code: Is It Worth the Effort?"
Opdebeeck, R. (Creator), Zerouali, A. (Creator) & De Roover, C. (Supervisor), figshare, 15 Mar 2023
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.21929856
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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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31st International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2024) (Event)
De Roover, C. (Member)
2024Activity: Membership › Membership of peer-review panel or committee
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21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2024) (Event)
De Roover, C. (Member)
2024Activity: Membership › Membership of peer-review panel or committee
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7th International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt 2024) (Event)
De Roover, C. (Member)
2024Activity: Membership › Membership of peer-review panel or committee
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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
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