Projects
Publications
2026
How Fair is Software Fairness Testing?
Ann Barcomb, Mariana Bento, Giuseppe Destefanis, Giuseppe Destefanis, Cleyton Magalhães, Ronnie de Souza Santos, Mairieli WesselICSE SEIS
An Investigation on How AI-Generated Responses Affect Software Engineering Surveys
Ronnie de Souza Santos, Italo Santos, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Cleyton Magalhães, Mairieli WesselWSESE workshop
Forecasting Developer Environments with GenAI: A Research Perspective
Raula Gaikovina Kula, Christoph Treude, Xing Hu, Sebastian Baltes, Earl T. Barr, Kelly Blincoe, Fabio Calefato, Junjie Chen, Marc Cheong, Youmei Fan, Daniel M. German, Marco Gerosa, Jin Guo, Shinpei Hayashi, Robert Hirschfeld, Reid Holmes, Yintong Huo, Takashi Kobayashi, Michele Lanza, Zhongxin Liu, Olivier Nourry, Nicole Novielli, Denys Poshyvanyk, Shinobu Saito, Kazumasa Shimari, Igor Steinmacher, Mairieli Wessel, Markus Wagner, Annie Vella, Laurie Williams, Xin XiaIDE workshop
2025
Analysis of the Role of GitHub Discussions as a Tool for Onboarding Newcomers in Open Source Software
Ana Maciel, Mairieli Wessel, Alexander Serebrenik, Igor Wiese, Igor SteinmacherJSERD
BRIDGE: Building Reliable Interfaces for Developer Guidance and Exploration through Static Analysis and LLM Translation
Krishna Narasimhan and Mairieli WesselBENEVOL
PeacemakerBot: A LLM-Powered Bot for Identifying and Reducing Signs of Incivility in GitHub Conversations
Antônio Gomes, Eric Mesquita, Emanuel Ávila, Carlos Jefté, Arthur Mesquita, Lucas Sousa, Matheus Rabelo, Mairieli Wessel, Anderson UchôaSBES
Investigating the Impact of GitHub Discussions on Maintainers’ Workload and Community Dynamics
Ana Maciel, Mairieli Wessel, Igor Wiese, Igor SteinmacherSBES
From Diverse Origins to a DEI Crisis: The Pushback Against Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering
Ronnie de Souza Santos, Cleyton Magalhaes, Ann Barcomb, Mairieli WesselEuromicro
Bridging HCI and AI Research for the Evaluation of Conversational SE Assistants
Jonan Richards and Mairieli WesselBotSE
2024
What You Need is What You Get: Theory of Mind for an LLM-Based Code Understanding Assistant
Jonan Richards and Mairieli WesselICSME
The Importance of Attributes in Predicting the Lifetime of Human and Automated Pull Requests
Leandro Ferrarezi Valiante, Mairieli Wessel, Manoel Limeira de Lima JúniorWBots
Running a Red Light: An Investigation into Why Software Engineers (Occasionally) Ignore Coverage Checks
Alexander Sterk, Mairieli Wessel, Eli Hooten, Andy ZaidmanAST
Shaken, Not Stirred: How Developers Like Their Amplified Tests
Carolin Brandt, Ali Khatami, Mairieli Wessel, Andy ZaidmanTSE
2023
GitHub Actions: The Impact on the Pull Request Process
Mairieli Wessel, Joseph Vargovich, Marco A Gerosa, Christoph TreudeEMSE
CIRef: A Tool for Visualizing the Historical Data of Software Refactorings in Java Projects
Marcos Silva, Maykon Nunes, Carla Bezerra, Anderson Uchôa, Mairieli WesselSBES
A Preliminary Study of GitHub Actions Workflow Changes
Pooya Rostami Mazrae, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Mairieli WesselSATToSE
2022
Guidelines for Developing Bots for GitHub
Mairieli Wessel, Andy Zaidman, Marco Aurelio Gerosa, Igor SteinmacherIEEE Software
Unveiling Practices of Customer Service Content Curators of Conversational Agents
Heloisa Candello, Claudio Pinhanez, Michael Muller, Mairieli WesselCSCW
Together or Apart? Investigating a Mediator Bot to Aggregate Bot’s Comments on Pull Requests
Eric Ribeiro, Ronan Nascimento, Igor Steinmacher, Laerte Xavier, Marco Gerosa, Hugo de Paula, and Mairieli WesselICSME