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Mairieli Wessel

PhD alumnus

Human Aspects of Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering, Mining Software Repositories

◆ Human Aspects of Software Engineering ◆ Empirical Software Engineering ◆ Mining Software Repositories

USP · 2017–2022

Now: Assistant Professor, Radboud University

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About

Mairieli Wessel is an assistant professor at Radboud University, The Netherlands. Upon receiving her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo (USP), she was awarded the Best Brazilian Ph.D. Thesis on Software Engineering in 2021. Her research interests include software engineering (SE) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). Recent projects include the development of tools and strategies to support open-source software communities and the design of bots and conversational tools.

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19 papers from DBLP · see in the full list

2026

conferenceIDE@ICSE

Forecasting Developer Environments with GenAI: A Research Perspective

Raula Gaikovina Kula · Christoph Treude · Xing Hu · Sebastian Baltes · Earl T. Barr · Kelly Blincoe · Fabio Calefato · Junjie Chen · Marc Cheong · Youmei Fan · Daniel M. Germán · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Jin L. C. Guo · Shinpei Hayashi · Robert Hirschfeld · Reid Holmes · Yintong Huo · Takashi Kobayashi · Michele Lanza · Zhongxin Liu · Olivier Nourry · Nicole Novielli · Denys Poshyvanyk · Shinobu Saito · Kazumasa Shimari · Igor Steinmacher · Mairieli Wessel · Markus Wagner · Annie Vella · Laurie Williams · Xin Xia · [open access]

2025

conferenceSBES

Investigating the Impact of GitHub Discussions on Maintainers' Workload and Community Dynamics

Ana Maciel · Mairieli Wessel · Igor Wiese · Igor Steinmacher · [open access]

2023

journalEmpir. Softw. Eng. 28: 131

GitHub Actions: The Impact on the Pull Request Process

Mairieli Wessel · Joseph Vargovich · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Christoph Treude · [open access]

journalIEEE Softw. 40: 72-79

Guidelines for Developing Bots for GitHub

Mairieli Wessel · Andy Zaidman · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Igor Steinmacher · [open access]

2022

conferenceMSR

BotHunter: An Approach to Detect Software Bots in GitHub

Ahmad Abdellatif · Mairieli Santos Wessel · Igor Steinmacher · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Emad Shihab · [open access]

conferenceICSE

Bots for Pull Requests: The Good, the Bad, and the Promising

Mairieli Santos Wessel · Ahmad Abdellatif · Igor Wiese · Tayana Conte · Emad Shihab · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Igor Steinmacher · [open access]

journalEmpir. Softw. Eng. 27: 108

Quality gatekeepers: investigating the effects of code review bots on pull request activities

Mairieli Santos Wessel · Alexander Serebrenik · Igor Wiese · Igor Steinmacher · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · [open access]

conferenceMSR

Software Bots in Software Engineering: Benefits and Challenges

Mairieli Santos Wessel · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Emad Shihab · [open access]

journalACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes 47: 25-27

Summary of the Third International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE 2021)

Stefan Wagner · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Mairieli Santos Wessel

journalIEEE Softw. 39: 28-31

The Present and Future of Bots in Software Engineering

Emad Shihab · Stefan Wagner · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Mairieli Santos Wessel · Jordi Cabot · [open access]

conferenceICSME

Together or Apart? Investigating a mediator bot to aggregate bot's comments on pull requests

Eric Ribeiro · Ronan Nascimento · Igor Steinmacher · Laerte Xavier · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Hugo de Paula · Mairieli Wessel · [preprint PDF]

2021

journalProc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 5: 301:1-301:21

Don't Disturb Me: Challenges of Interacting with Software Bots on Open Source Software Projects

Mairieli Santos Wessel · Igor Wiese · Igor Steinmacher · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · [open access]

conferenceMSR

How Do Software Developers Use GitHub Actions to Automate Their Workflows?

Timothy Kinsman · Mairieli Santos Wessel · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Christoph Treude · [open access]

2020

conferenceICSME★ IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper

Effects of Adopting Code Review Bots on Pull Requests to OSS Projects

Mairieli Santos Wessel · Alexander Serebrenik · Igor Wiese · Igor Steinmacher · Marco Aurélio Gerosa

conferenceICSE (Workshops)

The Inconvenient Side of Software Bots on Pull Requests

Mairieli Santos Wessel · Igor Steinmacher

conferenceSBES

What to Expect from Code Review Bots on GitHub?: A Survey with OSS Maintainers

Mairieli Santos Wessel · Alexander Serebrenik · Igor Wiese · Igor Steinmacher · Marco Aurélio Gerosa

2019

conferenceBotSE@ICSE

Should I stale or should I close?: an analysis of a bot that closes abandoned issues and pull requests

Mairieli Santos Wessel · Igor Steinmacher · Igor Wiese · Marco Aurélio Gerosa

2018

journalProc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 2: 182:1-182:19

The Power of Bots: Characterizing and Understanding Bots in OSS Projects

Mairieli Santos Wessel · Bruno Mendes de Souza · Igor Steinmacher · Igor Scaliante Wiese · Ivanilton Polato · Ana Paula Chaves · Marco Aurélio Gerosa

2017

conferenceSBES

Tweaking Association Rules to Optimize Software Change Recommendations

Mairieli Santos Wessel · Mauricio Finavaro Aniche · Gustavo Ansaldi Oliva · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Igor Scaliante Wiese · [open access]