Mahmoud Alfadel

Mahmoud Alfadel is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, actively contributing to software engineering research through program committee roles at ASE, ICSE, and ESEC/FSE conferences from 2021-2025.

His research centers on Software Ecosystems, Release Engineering, and Empirical Software Engineering, with specific focus on build systems, continuous integration pipelines, dependency management, and software quality metrics in open-source environments. Methodologically, he employs large-scale empirical studies of real-world development practices.

Analysis of his 2021-2025 publications reveals consistent investigation into build technology evolution (particularly Bazel), dependency-induced waste in NPM, and testing practices like fuzzing adoption. His work bridges theoretical software engineering concepts with practical industry challenges, often through case studies of major open-source projects like Kubernetes.