My Research Interests
I enjoy thinking and solving research problems in software engineering.
My current research is focused on DevOps, Software Analytics, and Software Security.
Publications
2019
- Akond Rahman and Laurie Williams, "Filesystem, Infrastructure Provisioning, and User Accounts: Operations in Defective Infrastructure as Code Scripts", in the Journal of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability (STVR), under review. Pre-print
- Akond Rahman, Chirs Parnin, and Laurie Williams, "The Seven Sins: Security Smells in Infrastructure as Code Scripts", to appear in the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2019, to appear. Pre-print
2018
- Akond Rahman and Laurie Williams, "Source Code Properties of Defective Infrastructure as Code Scripts", in the Journal of Information and Software Technology (IST), under review. Pre-print
- Akond Rahman, Rezvan Mahdavi-Hezaveh, and Laurie Williams, "A Systematic Mapping Study of Infrastructure as Code Research", in the Journal of Information and Software Technology (IST) , Pre-print
- Akond Rahman, Amritanshu Agrawal, Rahul Krishna, and Alexander Sobran, "Characterizing The Influence of Continuous Integration: Empirical Results from 250+ Open Source and Proprietary Projects", in 4th International Workshop on Software Analytics (SWAN 2018), co-located with European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), Florida, USA, November 2018. Preprint
- Akond Rahman, Jonathan Stallings, and Laurie Williams. "Poster: Defect Prediction Metrics for Infrastructure as Code Scripts in DevOps" in Companion Proceedings of International Conference for Software Engineering 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2018. Preprint
- Akond Rahman, Asif Partho, Pat Morrisson, and Laurie Williams. "What Questions Do Programmers Ask About Configuration As Code?" in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering (RCoSE '18), co-located with International Conference for Software Engineering (ICSE) 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, May, 2018. Preprint
- Akond Rahman, "Comprehension Effort and Programming Activities: Related? Or Not Related?" in Proceedings of the International Conference of Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2018. Preprint
- Akond Rahman, "Anti-patterns in Infrastructure as Code" in Proceedings of the International Conference of Software Testing, Validation, and Veriification (ICST-PhD Symposium) 2018, Vasteras, Sweden, April 2018. Preprint
- Akond Rahman, "Characteristics of Defective Infrastructure as Code Scripts in DevOps" in Companion Proceedings of International Conference for Software Engineering (ICSE-Doctoral Symposium) 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2018 (ACM SIGSOFT Doctoral Symposium Award). Preprint
- Rahul Krishna, Amritanshu Agrawal, Akond Rahman, Alexander Sobran and Tim Menzies, "What is the Connection Between Issues, Bugs, and Enhancements? (Lessons Learned from 800+ Software Projects)", in Companion Proceedings of International Conference for Software Engineering (ICSE-SEIP) 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2018. Preprint
- Amritanshu Agrawal, Akond Rahman, Rahul Krishna, Alexander Sobran and Tim Menzies, "We Don't Need Another Hero? The Impact of "Heroes" on Software Development", in Companion Proceedings of International Conference for Software Engineering (ICSE-SEIP) 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2018. Preprint
- Akond Rahman, Laurie Williams, "Characterizing Defective Configuration Scripts Used For Continuous Deployment", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Testing, Validations, and Verification (ICST) 2018, Vasteras, Sweden, April 2018. (Invited for journal extension) Preprint
2017
- Akond Rahman, Priysha Pradhan, Asif Partho, and Laurie Williams. "Predicting Android application security and privacy risk with static code metrics" in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft '17), co-located with International Conference for Software Engineering (ICSE) 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May, 2017. Preprint
- Akond Rahman, Asif Partho, David Meder, and Laurie Williams. "Which Factors Influence Usage of Build Automation Tools?" in Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering (RCoSE), co-located with International Conference for Software Engineering (ICSE) 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May, 2017. Preprint
- Morgan Burcham, Mehran Al-Zyoud, Jeffrey Carver, Mohammed Alsaleh, Hongyi Du, F. Gilani, Jin Jiang, Akond Rahman, Ozgur Kafali, Ehab Al-Shaer, Laurie Williams, "Characterizing Scientific Reporting in Security Literature: An analysis of ACM CCS and IEEE S&P Paper", in Proceedings of the Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS) 2017, MD, USA, April 2017. Link
2016
- Akond Rahman. "Code Metrics For Predicting Risk Levels of Android Applications", in Proceedings of 2016 KSU Conference on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice (CCERP' 2016), GA, USA, October, 2016. Link
- Akond Rahman and Laurie Williams. "Software Security in DevOps: Synthesizing Practitioners’ Perceptions and Practices", in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Continuous Software Evolution and Delivery (CSED), Austin, TX, USA, May, 2016. Preprint
- Akond Rahman and Laurie Williams. "Security practices in DevOps", in Proceedings of the Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSos '16), April 2016. Preprint
2015
- Akond Rahman, Eric Helms, Laurie Williams, and Chris Parnin "Synthesizing Continuous Deployment Practices Used in Software Development" in Proceedings of 13th Agile Conference, pages 1-10, Washington D.C., USA, August, 2015. Preprint
2011
- Akond Rahman, Md. Atiqul Islam Mollah, and Mahmuda Naznin "Multiple Targets Tracking Using Kinematics in Wireless Sensor Networks" in Wireless Sensor Networks, pages 263-274, August, 2011. Link
2010
- Akond Rahman, Mahmuda Naznin, and Md. Atiqul Islam Mollah "Energy Efficient Multiple Targets Tracking Using Target Kinematics in Wireless Sensor Networks" in Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SensorComm), pages 275-280, Venice, Italy, July, 2010. Link
- Akond Rahman, Md. Atiqul Islam Mollah, and Mahmuda Naznin "Service Priority Based Target Tracking Framework in a Wireless Sensor Network" in Proceedings of 3rd IEEE International Conference on Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT), pages 389-392, Chengdu, China, July, 2010. Link
- M.M.Shahiduzzaman, Mahmuda Naznin, and Akond Rahman. "Portable and Secure Multimedia Data Transfer in Mobile Phones Using Record Management Store (RMS)" in Proceedings of 3rd IEEE International Conference on Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT), pages 364-367, Chengdu, China, July, 2010. Link
Presentations
- "What Questions Do Programmers Ask About Configuration As Code?" in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering (RCoSE '18), co-located with International Conference for Software Engineering (ICSE) 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, May, 2018. Link
- "Characteristics of Defective Infrastructure as Code Scripts in DevOps" in Companion Proceedings of International Conference for Software Engineering (ICSE-Doctoral Symposium) 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2018 Link
- "Comprehension Effort and Programming Activities: Related? Or Not Related?" in Proceedings of the International Conference of Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2018. Link
- "Characterizing Defective Configuration Scripts Used For Continuous Deployment", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Testing, Validations, and Verification (ICST) 2018, Vasteras, Sweden, April 2018. Link
- "Predicting Android application security and privacy risk with static code metrics" in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft '17), co-located with International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE) 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May, 2017 Link
- "Which factors influence practitioners' usage of build automation tools?" in 3rd International Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering (RCoSE '17), co-located with International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE) 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May, 2017 Link
- "Software Security in DevOps: Synthesizing Practitioners’ Perceptions and Practices", in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Continuous Software Evolution and Delivery (CSED), co-located with International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE) 2016, Austin, TX, USA, May, 2016 Link
- "Synthesizing Continuous Deployment Practices Used in Software Development" in 13th Agile Conference, Washington D.C., USA, August, 2015 Link
Volunteering
- Student volunteer at the International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE) 2017 and 2018.
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Sub-reviewer:
- International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2017
- International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) 2017
- Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2017
- International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2015 and 2018