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As scientific work becomes more computational and data intensive, research processes and results become more difficult to interpret and reproduce. In this poster, we show how the Jupyter notebook, a tool originally designed as a free…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Bernadette M. Boscoe , Irene V. Pasquetto , Milena S. Golshan , Christine L. Borgman

Python is widely adopted across various domains, especially in Machine Learning (ML) and traditional software projects. Despite its versatility, Python is susceptible to performance smells, i.e., suboptimal coding practices that can reduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 François Belias , Leuson Da Silva , Foutse Khomh , Cyrine Zid

Data science pipelines to train and evaluate models with machine learning may contain bugs just like any other code. Leakage between training and test data can lead to overestimating the model's accuracy during offline evaluations, possibly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Chenyang Yang , Rachel A Brower-Sinning , Grace A. Lewis , Christian Kästner

Life sciences research depends heavily on open-source academic software, yet many tools remain underused due to practical barriers. These include installation requirements that hinder adoption and limited developer resources for software…

Automated unit test generation is a well-known methodology aiming to reduce the developers' effort of writing tests manually. Prior research focused mainly on statically typed programming languages like Java. In practice, however,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Stephan Lukasczyk , Gordon Fraser

Despite the widespread adoption of computational notebooks, little is known about best practices for their usage in collaborative contexts. In this paper, we fill this gap by eliciting a catalog of best practices for collaborative data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Luigi Quaranta , Fabio Calefato , Filippo Lanubile

Recent work identified clarity as one of the top quality attributes that notebook users value, but notebooks lack support for maintaining clarity throughout the exploratory phases of the notebook authoring workflow. We propose always-clear…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ruanqianqian Huang , Brian Hempel , Yining Cao , James D. Hollan , Haijun Xia , Sorin Lerner

This paper proposes the use of notebooks for the design documentation and tool interaction in the rigorous design of embedded systems. Conventionally, a notebook is a sequence of cells alternating between (textual) code and prose to form a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Spencer Park , Emil Sekerinski

Jupyter notebooks allow to bundle executable code with its documentation and output in one interactive environment, and they represent a popular mechanism to document and share computational workflows, including for research publications.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Sheeba Samuel , Daniel Mietchen

Python type inference is challenging in practice. Due to its dynamic properties and extensive dependencies on third-party libraries without type annotations, the performance of traditional static analysis techniques is limited. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Siwei Cui , Gang Zhao , Zeyu Dai , Luochao Wang , Ruihong Huang , Jeff Huang

The increasing adoption of Jupyter notebooks in data science and machine learning workflows has created a gap between exploratory code development and production-ready software systems. While notebooks excel at iterative development and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hanya Elhashemy , Youssef Lotfy , Yongjian Tang

Context: Jupyter Notebook has emerged as a versatile tool that transforms how researchers, developers, and data scientists conduct and communicate their work. As the adoption of Jupyter notebooks continues to rise, so does the interest from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Md Saeed Siddik , Hao Li , Cor-Paul Bezemer

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in automating data science workflows, but existing models still struggle with multi-step reasoning and tool use, which limits their effectiveness on complex data analysis tasks. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Shuocheng Li , Yihao Liu , Silin Du , Wenxuan Zeng , Zhe Xu , Mengyu Zhou , Yeye He , Haoyu Dong , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

In software development environments, code quality is crucial. This study aims to assist Machine Learning (ML) engineers in enhancing their code by identifying and correcting Data Leakage issues within their models. Data Leakage occurs when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Owen Truong , Terrence Zhang , Arnav Marchareddy , Ryan Lee , Jeffery Busold , Michael Socas , Eman Abdullah AlOmar

Jupyter notebooks facilitate the bundling of executable code with its documentation and output in one interactive environment, and they represent a popular mechanism to document and share computational workflows. The reproducibility of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Sheeba Samuel , Daniel Mietchen

The direct detection and characterization of planetary and substellar companions at small angular separations is a rapidly advancing field. Dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments deliver unprecedented sensitivity, enabling detailed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-25 Tomas Stolker , Markus J. Bonse , Sascha P. Quanz , Adam Amara , Gabriele Cugno , Alexander J. Bohn , Anna Boehle

The transition from AI/ML models to production-ready AI-based systems is a challenge for both data scientists and software engineers. In this paper, we report the results of a workshop conducted in a consulting company to understand how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Filippo Lanubile , Fabio Calefato , Luigi Quaranta , Maddalena Amoruso , Fabio Fumarola , Michele Filannino

Jupyter notebooks represent a unique format for programming - a combination of code and Markdown with rich formatting, separated into individual cells. We propose to perceive a Jupyter Notebook cell as a simplified and raw version of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Sergey Titov , Yaroslav Golubev , Timofey Bryksin

Project based learning (PBL) for software development (we call it software development PBL) has garnered attention as a practical educational method. A number of studies have reported on the introduction of social coding tools such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Yutsuki Miyashita , Yuki Yamada , Hiroaki Hashiura , Atsuo Hazeyama

Complexity analysis offers assurance of program's runtime behavior, but large classes of programs remain unanalyzable by existing automated techniques.The mwp-flow analysis sidesteps many difficulties shared by existing approaches, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Clément Aubert , Thomas Rubiano , Neea Rusch , Thomas Seiller