These are selected publications arranged by topic. Many of these works are in collaboration with Microsoft, Meta, Google, ING, SIG, Belsimpel, AFAS software, and several SMEs in the North Netherlands like Greener and Researchable.

Code Review Velocity

  • Gunnar Kudrjavets, and Ayushi Rastogi. “Does Code Review Speed Matter for Practitioners?”. Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE), 2023.
  • Gunnar Kudrjavets, Jeff Thomas, Nachiappan Nagappan, and Ayushi Rastogi. “Is Kernel Code Different From Non‑Kernel Code? A Case Study of BSD Family Operating Systems”. International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2022.
  • Gunnar Kudrjavets, Aditya Kumar, Nachiappan Nagappan, and Ayushi Rastogi. “Mining Code Review Data to Understand Waiting Times between Acceptance and Merging: An Empirical Analysis” International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2022.
  • Gunnar Kudrjavets, Nachiappan Nagappan, and Ayushi Rastogi. “Do Small Code Changes Merge Faster? A multi‑language Empirical Investigation”. International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2022.

Human and Social Issues in Software Engineering

  • Emeralda Sesari, Federica Sarro, Ayushi Rastogi. Understanding Fairness in Software Engineering: Insights from Stack Exchange Sites. The International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2024
  • Ayushi Rastogi. “Roads Ahead to Diversity and Inclusion by Software Engineering”. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering: Best Practices and Insights. APress, 2023.
  • Tien Rahayu Tulili, Andrea Capiluppi, and Ayushi Rastogi. “Burnout in Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study”. Information and Software Technology (IST), 2022.
  • Gede Artha Azriadi Prana, Denae Ford, Ayushi Rastogi, David Lo, Rahul Purandare, and Nachiappan Nagappan. “Including Everyone, Everywhere: Understanding Opportunities and Challenges of Geographic Gender‑Inclusion in OSS”. Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2021.
  • Ayushi Rastogi, Nachiappan Nagappan, Georgios Gousios, and André van der Hoek. “Relationship between Geographical Location and Evaluation of Developer Contributions in Github”. International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2018.

Modern Software Development Explained

  • Xunhui Zhang, Yue Yu, Gousios Georgios, and Ayushi Rastogi. “Pull Request Decisions Explained: An Empirical Overview”. Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2022.
  • Xunhui Zhang, Yue Yu, Tao Wang, Ayushi Rastogi, and Huaimin Wang. “Pull Request Latency Explained: An Empirical Overview”. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2022.
  • Ayushi Rastogi, Georgios Gousios. How does Software Change? Arxiv. 2021

Prominent Issues in Software Industry

  • Hennie Huijgens, Ayushi Rastogi, Ernst Mulders, Georgios Gousios, and Arie van Deursen. “Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering: A Replication”. European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), 2020
  • Elvan Kula, Ayushi Rastogi, Hennie Huijgens, Arie van Deursen, and Georgios Gousios. “Releasing Fast and Slow: An Exploratory Case Study at ING”. European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Soft‑ ware Engineering (ESEC/FSE), 2019.
  • Marco di Biase, Ayushi Rastogi, Magiel Bruntink, and Arie van Deursen. “The Delta Maintainability Model: Measuring Maintainability of Fine‑Grained Code Changes”. International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt), 2019.
  • Ayushi Rastogi, Suresh Thummalapenta, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, and Jacek Czerwonka. “Ramp‑Up Journey of New Hires: Tug of War of Aids and Impediments”. International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2015.

What makes a great software team?

  • Frenk CJ van Mil, Ayushi Rastogi, Andy Zaidman. “Promises and Perils of Inferring Personality on GitHub”. International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2021.
  • Ayushi Rastogi and Nachiappan Nagappan. “On the Personality Traits of GitHub Contributors”. International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2016.