Brittany Reid
@brittanyareid.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Software Engineering, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. From Adelaide, Australia. 🦘
https://brittany-reid.github.io/
https://brittany-reid.github.io/
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"Software is no longer seen as an asset, as something to care for, to maybe even take pride in. It’s a throw-away product. Like a napkin. Just get one quick, wipe your mouth and throw it away. Like a novelty t-shirt."
tante.cc/2026/01/15/s...
tante.cc/2026/01/15/s...
Software as Fast Fashion
Clothes have never been cheaper. These days a t-shirt is often cheaper that a decent cup of tea in a cafe. The wonders of capitalism. At least that is how it is often described. And when you point at ...
tante.cc
January 18, 2026 at 10:50 AM
"Software is no longer seen as an asset, as something to care for, to maybe even take pride in. It’s a throw-away product. Like a napkin. Just get one quick, wipe your mouth and throw it away. Like a novelty t-shirt."
tante.cc/2026/01/15/s...
tante.cc/2026/01/15/s...
Some semi recent photos from my visit to Salerno, Napoli and Pompeii for PROFES 2025
January 19, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Some semi recent photos from my visit to Salerno, Napoli and Pompeii for PROFES 2025
Attention software engineering researchers. Submissions for the FSE-AIWare Joint Competition 2026 are open!
'This competition aims to address challenges arising from software ecosystem dependencies by introducing a novel approach: On-Demand Library Generation (ODAI-LIB).'
odai-lib.github.io
'This competition aims to address challenges arising from software ecosystem dependencies by introducing a novel approach: On-Demand Library Generation (ODAI-LIB).'
odai-lib.github.io
ODAI-LIB Challenge 2026
The ODAI-LIB Challenge 2026 (On-Demand Libraries: Prompting to Generate an Ecosystem Library) is a competition held as part of the FSE-AIWare 2026 Competition Track. The challenge explores how generat...
odai-lib.github.io
January 19, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Attention software engineering researchers. Submissions for the FSE-AIWare Joint Competition 2026 are open!
'This competition aims to address challenges arising from software ecosystem dependencies by introducing a novel approach: On-Demand Library Generation (ODAI-LIB).'
odai-lib.github.io
'This competition aims to address challenges arising from software ecosystem dependencies by introducing a novel approach: On-Demand Library Generation (ODAI-LIB).'
odai-lib.github.io
Congratulations to intern student Bayu Fedra Abdullah for Student Best Paper award at the 2025 International Conference on Smart Computing, IoT, and Machine Learning (SIML) for our paper "Using LLMs for Security Advisory Investigations: How Far Are We?" ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/110...
July 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Congratulations to intern student Bayu Fedra Abdullah for Student Best Paper award at the 2025 International Conference on Smart Computing, IoT, and Machine Learning (SIML) for our paper "Using LLMs for Security Advisory Investigations: How Far Are We?" ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/110...
Reposted by Brittany Reid
You can't secure what you don't know about. 👀
GitHub's dependency graph can help. ✅ Use it to get a project's entire software supply chain, including both direct and indirect dependencies.
Enable this feature and improve your project's security.👇
github.blog/security/sup...
GitHub's dependency graph can help. ✅ Use it to get a project's entire software supply chain, including both direct and indirect dependencies.
Enable this feature and improve your project's security.👇
github.blog/security/sup...
July 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
You can't secure what you don't know about. 👀
GitHub's dependency graph can help. ✅ Use it to get a project's entire software supply chain, including both direct and indirect dependencies.
Enable this feature and improve your project's security.👇
github.blog/security/sup...
GitHub's dependency graph can help. ✅ Use it to get a project's entire software supply chain, including both direct and indirect dependencies.
Enable this feature and improve your project's security.👇
github.blog/security/sup...
This month I will attend FSE 2025 in Norway to present our vision paper "Rethinking Reuse in Dependency Supply Chains: Initial Analysis of NPM packages at the End of the Chain" at the 2030 SE Workshop. arxiv.org/abs/2503.02804
Rethinking Reuse in Dependency Supply Chains: Initial Analysis of NPM packages at the End of the Chain
The success of modern software development can be largely attributed to the concept of code reuse, such as the ability to reuse existing functionality via third-party package dependencies, evident wit...
arxiv.org
June 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This month I will attend FSE 2025 in Norway to present our vision paper "Rethinking Reuse in Dependency Supply Chains: Initial Analysis of NPM packages at the End of the Chain" at the 2030 SE Workshop. arxiv.org/abs/2503.02804
Reposted by Brittany Reid
All @acm.org publications will be 100% Open Access as of January 2026. When we announced this at POPL and CHI this year, conference participants spontaneously erupted in applause. The CS community is excited about ACM's move to OA!
May 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
All @acm.org publications will be 100% Open Access as of January 2026. When we announced this at POPL and CHI this year, conference participants spontaneously erupted in applause. The CS community is excited about ACM's move to OA!
Reposted by Brittany Reid
@plago.bsky.social defines software sustainability as follows: “the preservation of the long term and beneficial use of software, and its appropriate evolution, in a context that continuously changes.”
#ICSE2025
@icseconf.bsky.social
#ICSE2025
@icseconf.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
@plago.bsky.social defines software sustainability as follows: “the preservation of the long term and beneficial use of software, and its appropriate evolution, in a context that continuously changes.”
#ICSE2025
@icseconf.bsky.social
#ICSE2025
@icseconf.bsky.social
PhD student Pongchai Jaisri's paper 'A Preliminary Study on Self-contained Libraries in the NPM Ecosystem', presented at SERA 2024, has now been published as a chapter in Springer's Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI). doi.org/10.1007/978-...
A Preliminary Study on Self-contained Libraries in the NPM Ecosystem
The widespread of libraries within modern software ecosystems creates complex networks of dependencies. These dependencies are fragile to breakage, outdated, or redundancy, potentially leading to casc...
doi.org
May 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
PhD student Pongchai Jaisri's paper 'A Preliminary Study on Self-contained Libraries in the NPM Ecosystem', presented at SERA 2024, has now been published as a chapter in Springer's Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI). doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Reposted by Brittany Reid
Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?
US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday.…
dlvr.it
April 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
Today I start my new position as Assistant Professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology Software Design Lab. 🥳
April 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Today I start my new position as Assistant Professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology Software Design Lab. 🥳
Presented undergrad intern @ NAIST Sushawapak's ERA paper 'On Categorizing Open Source Software Security Vulnerability Reporting Mechanisms on GitHub' at SANER 2025, Montreal, Canada this month. Paper Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.07395 Slides: brittany-reid.github.io/talks/saner-...
March 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Presented undergrad intern @ NAIST Sushawapak's ERA paper 'On Categorizing Open Source Software Security Vulnerability Reporting Mechanisms on GitHub' at SANER 2025, Montreal, Canada this month. Paper Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.07395 Slides: brittany-reid.github.io/talks/saner-...