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                                                Proceedings of the




                            23rd Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop




                                          BENEVOL 2024



                                               November 21–22, 2024
                                                 Namur, Belgium




                         Edited by
                         Gilles Perrouin, Benoît Vanderose and Xavier Devroey




CEUR
                  ceur-ws.org
Workshop      ISSN 1613-0073
Proceedings
                           Message from the Chairs
The 23rd Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL 2024) was held
in Namur, Netherlands, on November 21–22, 2024.

BENEVOL 2024 offered various contribution formats: Technical papers (TECH), which
present novel and validated research results; New Ideas and Controversial Perspectives (NICE),
which are position papers presenting new and potentially controversial software maintenance
and evolution perspectives; Presentation Abstracts (ABS) are summaries of research published
elsewhere, and presented as posters during the workshop; Finally, Replicated or Invalidated
Papers (RIP), concerned the replication efforts of existing studies.

BENEVOL 2024 received 35 submissions, which is the second highest for the workshop, in
particular: 15 TECH papers, 6 NICE papers and 14 presentation abstracts/posters. We accepted
14 TECH papers, 3 NICE papers, and 17 presentations abstracts (including 3 NICE papers
accepted as ABS ones). Unfortunately, 3 ABS papers could not be presented during event,
resulting in 31 contributions discussed during the workshop. These proceedings include only
the 17 TECH and NICE papers.

The accepted submissions represent a wide range of topics related to software evolution,
including; software ecosystems, programming languages, static and dynamic analysis, software
repositories, the growing use of artificial intelligence for testing and code comprehension, and
insights from practice.

BENEVOL 2024 also featured two amazing keynotes. Sonia Haiduc (Florida State University,
USA) gave her keynote on “Studying and Supporting Developers' Online Information
Seeking,” exploring the sources of information that developers privilege. Andy Zaidman (Delft
University of Technology, The Netherlands) presented “Show Your True Testing Color,”
investigating the impact of continuous development and testing practices on sustainability.

With so many contributions and more than 80 participants, we believe BENEVOL 2024 was a
successful edition! 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 availability and care in reviewing a large number of
submissions, and the sponsors for providing resources that made the workshop possible and
enjoyable.


                                    Gilles Perrouin and Benoît Vanderose, Program Co-chairs

                                                                Xavier Devroey, General Chair



Copyright 2025 for this preface by its authors.

Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
                       Organizing Committee


General Chair
Xavier Devroey, University of Namur, Belgium


Program Chairs
Gilles Perrouin, University of Namur, Belgium
Benoît Vanderose, University of Namur, Belgium


Local Arrangement Chairs
Anthony Cleve, University of Namur, Belgium
Babette Di Guardia, University of Namur, Belgium
Amelie Notaro, University of Namur, Belgium
Sophie Panarotto, University of Namur, Belgium


Web Chair
Alix Decrop, University of Namur, Belgium


Co-organizer and Steering Committee Chair
Tom Mens, University of Mons, Belgium
                           Program Committee


Andrea Capiluppi, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Gemma Catolino, University of Salerno, Italy
Michel Chaudron, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Luis Cruz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Coen De Roover, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Serge Demeyer, Universiteit Antwerpen (ANSYMO), Belgium
Anne Etien, University of Lille (CRIStAL), France
Jean-Rémy Falleri, Bordeaux INP, France
Sophie Fortz, King's College London, United Kingdom
Fernanda Madeiral, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tom Mens, University of Mons, Belgium
June Sallou, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai, University of Montpellier (Lirmm), France
Paul Temple, University of Rennes, France
Mairieli Wessel, Radboud University, Netherlands
Stefano Zacchiroli, Polytechnic Institute of Paris (Télécom Paris), France
Gold Sponsors




Bronze Sponsors

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