Research Interests
- Software evolution and maintenance in long-lived systems.
- Variant forks, divergence patterns, and cross-fork reuse.
- Empirical software engineering and repository mining.
- Patch recommendation and integration workflows.
Principal Investigator
Dr. John Businge
Dr. Businge leads EVOL Lab research on software evolution, variant forks, and evidence-based tooling. His work emphasizes practical methods for understanding divergence across repositories and improving patch integration in real development ecosystems.
Current Research Projects
- Large-scale analyses of AI-assisted pull requests and patch outcomes.
- Refactoring-aware patch integration for structurally divergent variants.
- Ecosystem-scale studies of dependency network risk and resilience.
- Datasets and benchmarks for reproducible software evolution research.