Following the recent release of AI assistants, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and GitHub
Copilot, the software industry quickly utilized these tools for software development tasks, eg …

Previous research demonstrated that company developers excel compared to freelancers
and computer science students, with the corporate environment significantly influencing …

In human factor fields such as human-computer interaction (HCI) and psychology,
researchers have been concerned that participants mostly come from WEIRD (Western …

In top-tier companies and academia, fuzzing has established itself as a valuable tool for
finding bugs. It is a tool created by experts for experts, and a lot of research is being invested …

When studying how software developers perform security tasks, researchers often ask
participants to write code. These studies can be challenging because programming can be …

In human factor fields such as human-computer interaction (HCI) and psychology,
researchers have been concerned that participants mostly come from WEIRD (Western …

To ensure the validity of software engineering and IT security studies with professional
programmers, it is essential to identify participants without programming skills. Existing …

Given the difficulties of secure development, studying software developers remains pivotal.
However, conducting these studies remains a pain point for the security community as …

As our everyday life depends on software and its security, studies with software developers
become ever more important. Motivated by multiple security breaches caused by issues …

Even though the foundations for fuzzing were laid more than 30 years ago, it did not play a
role in industry or academia for a long time. Interestingly, the popularity of fuzzing has risen …