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FWOUW36: Stay abroad: Kingston (Canada)
Opdebeeck, R. (Administrative Promotor)
20/03/23 → 19/03/24
Project: Fundamental
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FWOSB103: Pattern Mining and Static Analysis for Detecting Defects in Infrastructure as Code
Opdebeeck, R. (Administrative Promotor) & De Roover, C. (Administrative Promotor)
1/11/20 → 31/10/24
Project: Fundamental
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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., 31 Jul 2026, MSR'26: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories. ACM, p. 249-261 13 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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On the Evolution of Python Test Cases into Property-based Tests
Wauters, C., Opdebeeck, R. & De Roover, C., May 2026, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation: ICST 2026. 19 ed. IEEE, p. 429-440 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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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, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER). IEEE, p. 181-192 12 p. (Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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E2EGit: A Dataset of End-to-End Web Tests in Open Source Projects
Di Meglio, S., Starace, L. L. L., Pontillo, V., Opdebeeck, R., De Roover, C. & Di Martino, S., 2025, 2025 IEEE/ACM 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR). IEEE, p. 836-840 5 p. (Proceedings IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories.).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
Open AccessFile12 Citations (Scopus)4 Downloads (Pure)
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
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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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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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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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Replication package for "Smelly Variables in Ansible Infrastructure Code: Detection, Prevalence, and Lifetime"
Opdebeeck, R. (Creator), Zerouali, A. (Creator) & De Roover, C. (Creator), figshare, 30 Mar 2022
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.18819074.v1
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Prizes
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FWO PhD Fellowship SB research
Opdebeeck, R. (Recipient), 1 Nov 2020
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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MSR 2025 Distinguished Dataset Award
Di Meglio, S. (Recipient), Pontillo, V. (Recipient), Opdebeeck, R. (Recipient), Starace, L. L. L. (Recipient), De Roover, C. (Recipient) & Di Martino, S. (Recipient), 2025
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Software Composition Analysis – Covering Infrastructure as Code
Opdebeeck, R. (Speaker)
14 Nov 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk at a festival/exhibition
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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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The Docker Hub Image Inheritance Network: Construction and Empirical Insights
Opdebeeck, R. (Speaker)
2 Oct 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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Control and Data Flow in Security Smell Detection for Infrastructure as Code: Is It Worth the Effort?
Opdebeeck, R. (Speaker)
16 May 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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Ansible Is Turing Complete
Opdebeeck, R. (Speaker)
24 Oct 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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Thesis
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Exploring Static Inter-Procedural API Misuse Detection Using Graph Inlining
Opdebeeck, R. D. ((PhD) Student), De Roover, C. (Promotor) & Velazquez Rodriguez, C. E. (Advisor), De Roover, C. (Promotor) & Velazquez Rodriguez, C. E. (Advisor), 9 Sept 2019Student thesis: Master's Thesis