The 22nd Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL 2023) was held in Nijmegen, Netherlands, on November 27–28, 2023.
BENEVOL 2023 invited submissions of technical papers and presentation abstracts. Technical papers concern novel results in the early stages of research and are to be included in the proceedings if the authors want to. On the other hand, presentation abstracts are short texts that were only reviewed for relevance and can have already been published, so they are not included in the proceedings. BENEVOL 2023 received 26 submissions: 10 technical papers and 16 presentation abstracts. All submissions were reviewed by three program committee members. Nine technical papers were accepted (out of 10 submissions), and 17 submissions were accepted as presentation abstracts (including the one not accepted as a technical paper). The proceedings include 7 technical papers.
The accepted submissions represent a wide range of topics related to software evolution, including human aspects, software sustainability, software testing, software security, code analysis, repository mining, software ecosystems, and software architecture. In addition to the accepted presentations, we were happy to have three invited keynote speakers at the workshop. Nicole Novielli (University of Bari, Italy) gave the keynote on “Emotions and Perceived Productivity of Software Developers.” Fernando Castor (University of Twente, Netherlands) presented “Energy and Performance: A (sometimes) synergistic relationship,” and Tom Mens (University of Mons, Belgium) discussed “How to be(come) a successful PhD student – for dummies”.
On behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to thank all community members who have contributed to making BENEVOL 2023 a success. A special thanks to the authors for submitting and presenting their work, the keynote speakers for sharing their knowledge and experiences during the workshop, the program committee members for their time and care in reviewing the submissions, and the sponsors for providing resources for making the workshop possible.
Mairieli Wessel, Radboud University, Netherlands
Tom Mens, University of Mons, Belgium Ana-Maria Oprescu, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Andrea Capiluppi, University of Groningen, Netherlands Anne Etien, University of Lille, France Bin Lin, Radboud University, Netherlands Cezar Sas, University of Groningen, Netherlands Coen De Roover, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Emitzá Guzmán, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Fernando Castor, University of Twente, Netherlands Gemma Catolino, Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Netherlands June Sallou, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Katja Tuma, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Luís Cruz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Michel Chaudron, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Mike Papadakis, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Serge Demeyer, University of Antwerp, Belgium Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University, Netherlands Stefano Zacchiroli, Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris, France Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Thomas Durieux, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Tom Mens, University of Mons, Belgium