2025 Highlights

Other 2025 Publications

• [SSRN] How Does Financial Incentive Empower the Development of Web 3.0 Projects? PDF
  Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou, Zhenpeng Chen and Li Zhang.

2024

• [ASE 2024] DRMiner: Extracting Latent Design Rationale from Jira Issue Logs. CCF A ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award PDF
  Jiuang Zhao, Zitian Yang, Li Zhang, Xiaoli Lian, Donghao Yang, Xin Tan.
• [FSE 2024] How to Gain Commit Rights in Modern Top Open Source Communities? CCF A PDF
  Xin Tan, Yan Gong, Geyu Huang, Haohua Wu, Li Zhang.
• [MSR 2024] Open Source Software Digital Sociology: Quantifying and Managing Complex Open Source Software Ecosystem CCF C PDF
  Minghui Zhou, Yuxia Zhang and Xin Tan.
• [ICSE 2024 Poster] Imperfect Code Generation: Uncovering Weaknesses in Automatic Code Generation by Large Language Models. CCF A PDF
  Xiaoli Lian, Shuaisong Wang, Jieping Ma, Xin Tan, Fang Liu, Lin Shi, Li Zhang, Cuiyun Gao.
• [TOSEM 2024] Understanding Real-time Collaborative Programming: a Study of Visual Studio Live Share. CCF A PDF
  Xin Tan, Xinyue Lv, Jing Jiang, Li Zhang.
• [arxiv] How far are AI-powered programming assistants from meeting developers' needs? PDF
  Xin Tan, Xiao Long, Xianjun Ni, Yinghao Zhu, Jing Jiang, Li Zhang
• [SANER 2024] Challenges of Using Pre-trained Models: the Practitioners' Perspective. CCF B PDF
  Xin Tan, Taichuan Li, Ruohe Chen, Fang Liu, Li Zhang.

2023

• [TSE 2023] Understanding Mentors' Engagement in OSS Communities via Google Summer of Code. CCF A PDF
  Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou, Li Zhang.
• [ICSE 2023] Is It Enough to Recommend Tasks to Newcomers? Understanding Mentoring on Good First Issues. CCF A PDF
  Xin Tan, Yiran Chen, Haohua Wu, Minghui Zhou, Li Zhang.
• [软件导刊 2023] 软件工程课程实践与考核标准一致性研究. PDF
  谭鑫，史泽宇，吴际.

2022

• [ICSE 2022] An Exploratory Study of Deep Learning Supply Chain. CCF A PDF
  Xin Tan, Kai Gao, Minghui Zhou, Li Zhang.
• [ICSE 2022] Recommending Good First Issues in GitHub OSS Projects. CCF A PDF
  Wenxin Xiao, Hao He, Weiwei Xu, Xin Tan, Jinhao Dong, Minghui Zhou.
• [TOSEM 2022] Turnover of Companies in OpenStack: Prevalence and Rationale. CCF A PDF
  Yuxia Zhang, Hui Liu, Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou, Zhi Jin, Jiaxin Zhu.
• [CHINA SCIENCE: Information Science 2022] What Can We Learn from Quality Assurance Badges in Open-Source Software? CCF A PDF
  Feng Li, Yiling Lou, Xin Tan, Zhenpeng Chen, Jinhao Dong, Yang Li, Xuanzhi Wang, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang.

2020 & Earlier

• [ESEC/FSE 2020] A First Look at Good First Issues on GitHub. CCF A PDF
  Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou, Zeyu Sun.
• [ICSE 2020] Scaling Open Source Communities: An Empirical Study of the Linux Kernel. CCF A PDF
  Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou, Brian Fitzgerald.
• [IEEE Software 2020] Scaling Open Source Software Communities: Challenges and Practices of Decentralization. SCI PDF
  Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou.
• [EMSE 2020] Pandemic Programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help. CCF B PDF
  Paul Ralph, Sebastian Baltes... Xin Tan... Minghui Zhou, et al.
• [科技纵览 2020] 数据驱动的软件工程. PDF
  周明辉、王青、周毓明、王俊杰、谭鑫.
• [CSCW 2019] How to Communicate when Submitting Patches: an Empirical Study of the Linux Kernel. CCF A PDF
  Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou.
• [ESEC/FSE 2019 Poster] Reducing the Workload of the Linux Kernel Maintainers: Multiple-Committer Model. CCF A PDF
  Xin Tan.
• [中国科学:信息科学 2019] 软件数字社会学. CCF A (中文) PDF
  周明辉, 张宇霞, 谭鑫.
• [ICSE 2018 Poster] Companies' domination in FLOSS development: an empirical study of OpenStack. CCF A PDF
  Yuxia Zhang, Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou, Zhi Jin.
• [软件学报 2018] 代码文件贡献组成模式的分析. CCF A (中文) PDF
  谭鑫, 林泽燕, 张宇霞, et al.
• [Internetware 2017] Understanding the Variation of Software Development Tasks: a Qualitative Study. PDF
  Xin Tan, Hanmin Qin, Minghui Zhou.