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39
Citations
7412
World Ranking
9672
National Ranking
4094

Overview

Chris Parnin is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their research focuses on several subfields including Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Applications, Computer Networks and Communications, and Information Systems and Management.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics such as Software Engineering Research, Software Engineering Techniques and Practices, Open Source Software Innovations, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Software System Performance and Reliability, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, and Security and Verification in Computing.

Chris Parnin has authored multiple papers, with notable recent contributions including:

  • Security Smells in Ansible and Chef Scripts, 2021, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  • Debugging hiring: what went right and what went wrong in the technical interview process, 2020, International Conference on Software Engineering
  • Correlates of programmer efficacy and their link to experience: a combined EEG and eye-tracking study, 2022, Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
  • Detecting and Characterizing Propagation of Security Weaknesses in Puppet-based infrastructure Management, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Studying programming in the neuroage, 2020, Communications of the ACM

The distribution of their publications suggests a strong engagement with venues such as arXiv, Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Frequent collaborators of Chris Parnin include Sumit Gulwani, Vu Le, Akond Rahman, Titus Barik, and Gustavo Soares. The collaborations span multiple projects and publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships in related domains.

Best Publications

  • How We Refactor, and How We Know It

    E. Murphy-Hill;C. Parnin;A. P. Black

  • Are automated debugging techniques actually helping programmers

    Chris Parnin;Alessandro Orso

  • How we refactor, and how we know it

    Emerson Murphy-Hill;Chris Parnin;Andrew P. Black

  • Gender differences and bias in open source: pull request acceptance of women versus men

    Josh Terrell;Andrew Kofink;Justin Middleton;Clarissa Rainear

  • Understanding understanding source code with functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Janet Siegmund;Christian Kästner;Sven Apel;Chris Parnin

  • The seven sins: security smells in infrastructure as code scripts

    Akond Rahman;Chris Parnin;Laurie Williams

  • Evaluating the usefulness of IR-based fault localization techniques

    Qianqian Wang;Chris Parnin;Alessandro Orso

  • Resumption strategies for interrupted programming tasks

    Chris Parnin;Spencer Rugaber

  • Measuring API documentation on the Web

    C Parnin;C Treude

  • Measuring API documentation on the web

    Chris Parnin;Christoph Treude

  • Can automated pull requests encourage software developers to upgrade out-of-date dependencies?

    Samim Mirhosseini;Chris Parnin

  • Paradise unplugged: identifying barriers for female participation on stack overflow

    Denae Ford;Justin Smith;Philip J. Guo;Chris Parnin

  • Measuring neural efficiency of program comprehension

    Janet Siegmund;Norman Peitek;Chris Parnin;Sven Apel

  • Someone like me: How does peer parity influence participation of women on stack overflow?

    Denae Ford;Alisse Harkins;Chris Parnin

  • Building Usage Contexts During Program Comprehension

    C. Parnin;C. Gorg

  • Synthesizing Continuous Deployment Practices Used in Software Development

    Akond Ashfaque Ur Rahman;Eric Helms;Laurie Williams;Chris Parnin

  • Do developers read compiler error messages

    Titus Barik;Justin Smith;Kevin Lubick;Elisabeth Holmes

  • The Top 10 Adages in Continuous Deployment

    Chris Parnin;Eric Helms;Chris Atlee;Harley Boughton

  • A catalogue of lightweight visualizations to support code smell inspection

    Chris Parnin;Carsten Görg;Ogechi Nnadi

  • Evaluating cues for resuming interrupted programming tasks

    Chris Parnin;Robert DeLine

  • Java generics adoption: how new features are introduced, championed, or ignored

    Chris Parnin;Christian Bird;Emerson Murphy-Hill

  • Adoption and use of Java generics

    Chris Parnin;Christian Bird;Emerson Murphy-Hill

Frequent Co-Authors

Emerson Murphy-Hill
Emerson Murphy-Hill Google (United States)
Sven Apel
Sven Apel Saarland University
Laurie Williams
Laurie Williams North Carolina State University
Christian Kästner
Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew Begel
Andrew Begel Carnegie Mellon University
Gunter Saake
Gunter Saake Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Christian Bird
Christian Bird Microsoft (United States)
Alessandro Orso
Alessandro Orso Georgia Institute of Technology
Christoph Treude
Christoph Treude Singapore Management University
Michael Stumm
Michael Stumm University of Toronto

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