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Owura Asare
dblp:318/1376
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2024
0000-0002-6755-605XORCID · corroborated
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Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | A User-centered Security Evaluation of CopilotabstractCode generation tools driven by artificial intelligence have recently become more popular due to advancements in deep learning and natural language processing that have increased their capabilities. The proliferation of these tools may be a double-edged sword because while they can increase developer productivity by making it easier to write code, research has shown that they can also generate insecure code. In this paper, we perform a user-centered evaluation GitHub's Copilot to better understand its strengths and weaknesses with respect to code security. We conduct a user study where participants solve programming problems (with and without Copilot assistance) that have potentially vulnerable solutions. The main goal of the user study is to determine how the use of Copilot affects participants' security performance. In our set of participants (n=25), we find that access to Copilot accompanies a more secure solution when tackling harder problems. For the easier problem, we observe no effect of Copilot access on the security of solutions. We also observe no disproportionate impact of Copilot use on particular kinds of vulnerabilities. Our results indicate that there are potential security benefits to using Copilot, but more research is warranted on the effects of the use of code generation tools on technically complex problems with security requirements. Owura Asare, Meiyappan Nagappan, N. Asokan |
ICSE | 1 |
| 2023 | Is GitHub's Copilot as bad as humans at introducing vulnerabilities in code?
Owura Asare, Meiyappan Nagappan, N. Asokan |
Empir. Softw. Eng. | 1 |