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Sarah Elder

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3ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0002-5881-4619ORCID · corroborated

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Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 3 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Comparing effectiveness and efficiency of Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) and Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) tools in a large java-based system
Aishwarya Seth, Saikath Bhattacharya, Sarah Elder, Nusrat Zahan, Laurie A. Williams
 Empir. Softw. Eng.3
2022 Do I really need all this work to find vulnerabilities?
Sarah Elder, Nusrat Zahan, Monica Metro, Val Kozarev, Tim Menzies, Laurie A. Williams
 Empir. Softw. Eng.1
2016 A cross-tool communication study on program analysis tool notifications
abstract
Program analysis tools use notifications to communicate with developers, but previous research suggests that developers encounter challenges that impede this communication. This paper describes a qualitative study that identifies 10 kinds of challenges that cause notifications to miscommunicate with developers. Our resulting notification communication theory reveals that many challenges span multiple tools and multiple levels of developer experience. Our results suggest that, for example, future tools that model developer experience could improve communication and help developers build more accurate mental models.
Brittany Johnson, Rahul Pandita, Justin Smith 0001, Denae Ford, Sarah Elder, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Sarah Smith Heckman, Caitlin Sadowski
 SIGSOFT FSE5