Publications
2026
Do These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends? Measuring the Post-Merge Fate of Agentic Code
Chunqiu Steven Xia, Courtney Miller · Under review
"AI Slop is DDoSing Open Source": Understanding the Impact of AI-Generated Contributions on Open Source Sustainability
Sadia Afroz, Courtney Miller, Tyler Menezes, Edward Gilmour, Anita Sarma, Zixuan Feng · Under review
3100 Opinions on Code Review in an AI World: Building Causal Theory from Practitioner Discourse
Shyam Agarwal, Courtney Miller, Christian Kästner, Bogdan Vasilescu · Under review
"Maybe We Need Some More Examples": Individual and Team Drivers of Developer GenAI Tool Use
Courtney Miller, Rudrajit Choudhuri, Mara Ulloa, Sankeerti Haniyur, Robert DeLine, Margaret-Anne Storey, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Christian Bird, Jenna L. Butler · ICSE 2026
Designing Abandabot: When Does Open Source Dependency Abandonment Matter?
Courtney Miller*, Hao He*, Weigen Chen, Elizabeth Lin, Chenyang Yang, Bogdan Vasilescu, Christian Kästner · ICSE 2026 (*equal contribution)
Speed at the Cost of Quality: How Cursor AI Increases Short-Term Velocity and Long-Term Complexity in Open-Source Projects
Hao He, Courtney Miller, Shyam Agarwal, Christian Kästner, Bogdan Vasilescu · MSR 2026
Product Manager Practices for Delegating Work to Generative AI: "Accountability Must Not Be Delegated to Non-Human Actors"
Mara Ulloa, Jenna L. Butler, Sankeerti Haniyur, Courtney Miller, Barrett Amos, Advait Sarkar, Margaret-Anne Storey · ICSE-SEIP 2026
2025
Understanding the Response to Open-Source Dependency Abandonment in the npm Ecosystem
Courtney Miller, Mahmoud Jahanshahi, Audris Mockus, Bogdan Vasilescu, Christian Kästner · ICSE 2025
An Empirical Study on Reproducible Packaging in Open-Source Ecosystems
Giacomo Benedetti, Oreofe Solarin, Courtney Miller, Greg Tystahl, William Enck, Christian Kästner, Alexandros Kapravelos, Alessio Merlo, Luca Verderame · ICSE 2025
2024
Decomposing and Measuring Trust in Open-Source Software Supply Chains
Lina Boughton, Courtney Miller, Yasemin Acar, Dominik Wermke, Christian Kästner · ICSE-NIER 2024
S3C2 Summit 2024-08: Government Secure Supply Chain Summit
Courtney Miller, William Enck, Yasemin Acar, Michel Cukier, Alexandros Kapravelos, Christian Kästner, Dominik Wermke, Laurie Williams · Report
2023
"We Feel Like We're Winging It": A Study on Navigating Open-Source Dependency Abandonment
Courtney Miller, Christian Kästner, Bogdan Vasilescu · ESEC/FSE 2023
2022
"Did You Miss My Comment or What?" Understanding Toxicity in Open Source Discussions
Courtney Miller, Sophie Cohen, Daniel Klug, Bogdan Vasilescu, Christian Kästner · ICSE 2022
The Unsolvable Problem or the Unheard Answer? A Dataset of 24,669 Open-Source Software Conference Talks
Kimberly Truong, Courtney Miller, Bogdan Vasilescu, Christian Kästner · MSR 2022
2021
"How Was Your Weekend?" Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19
Courtney Miller, Paige Rodeghero, Margaret-Anne Storey, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann · ICSE 2021
2019
Why Do People Give Up FLOSSing? A Study of Contributor Disengagement in Open Source
Courtney Miller, David Gray Widder, Christian Kästner, Bogdan Vasilescu · OSS 2019
Student research competition papers
Do All Software Projects Die When Not Maintained? Analyzing Developer Maintenance to Predict OSS Usage
Emily Nguyen · ESEC/FSE SRC 2023
Clearing the Trail: Motivations for Maintenance Work in Open Source
Katrina Wilson · SPLASH SRC 2023
To Disengage or Not to Disengage: A Look at Contributor Disengagement in Open Source Software
Philip Gray · ICSE SRC 2022
Let's Talk Open-Source: An Analysis of Conference Talks and Community Dynamics
Kimberly Truong · ICSE SRC 2022, first place