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Dr. Zadia Codabux is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Her research focuses on software quality, maintainability, and technical debt, leveraging empirical software engineering and software analytics to improve the sustainability and reliability of software systems. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Mississippi State University, USA and her MS in Computer Science at the University of Mauritius. She is a strong advocate for women in computing and is an attendee, speaker, and reviewer for the Computing Research Association's Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research, Grace Hopper Celebration, and National Center for Women & Information Technology.


Attention: I am on sabbatical from July 2025 to June 2026.

Service: I will consider service requests on a case by case basis.

Propective Students: I am NOT recruiting students for Fall 2025. However, I am recruiting primarily PhD students for Fall 2026. Official applications for Fall 2026 admissions is due in December 2025. In your application, you need to select me as your first choice for supervisor. I am looking for highly motivated students interested in pursuing a PhD with strong academic background in software engineering and experience in the software industry. Please send an email with subject "Propective Student Fall 2026" and attach your (1) resume including publications (2 pages max), (2) transcript (unofficial accepted), and (3) research statement (1 page). Any emails with materials generated using GenAI will be discarded.



Recent Publications

[ECSA'25] Hasini Sumalee Perera, Zadia Codabux, Fabio Palomba, ServLessSense: Serverless Smell Detection Tool, European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA), 2025 [DOI]

[EASE'25] Joshua Aldrich Edbert, Zadia Codabux, Roberto Verdecchia, Racing Against the Clock: Exploring the Impact of Scheduled Deadlines on Technical Debt, International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), 2025 [arXiv]

[Dagstuhl'25] Paris Avgeriou, Ipek Ozkaya, Heiko Koziolek, Zadia Codabux, Neil Ernst Manifesto from Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 24452--Reframing Technical Debt, Reframing Technical Debt (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 24452), 2025 [arXiv]

[Dagstuhl'25] Paris Avgeriou, Ipek Ozkaya, Heiko Koziolek, Zadia Codabux, Neil Ernst Reframing Technical Debt (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 24452), In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 14, Issue 11, pp. 16-39, Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik, 2025 [DOI]

[MSR'25] Shamimur Rahman, Zadia Codabux, Chanchal K. Roy, Investigating the Understandability of Review Comments on Code Change Requests, Mining Software Repositories Conference (MSR), 2025 [DOI]

[Book Chapter '24] Zadia Codabux, Fatemeh Fard, Roberto Verdecchia, Fabio Palomba, Dario Di Nucci, Gilberto Recupito, Teaching Mining Software Repositories, Handbook on Teaching Empirical Software Engineering, Springer, 2024 [arXiv] [DOI]

[IEEE Softw'24] Zadia Codabux, Fatemeh H. Fard, The Software Industry-Academia Collaboration: Novelty and Practice, IEEE Software, 2024 [DOI]

[APSEC'24] Omar Abdelaziz, Zadia Codabux, Kevin Schneider, Integrating Feedback From Application Reviews Into Software Development, Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), 2024 [DOI]

[JSS'24] Larissa Barbosa, Savio Freire, Rita S. P. Maciel, Manoel Mendonca, Marcos Kalinowski, Zadia Codabux, Rodrigo Spinola, Attributes of a Great Requirements Engineer, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2024 [DOI]

[ICSME'24] Omar Abdelaziz, Zadia Codabux, Kevin Schneider, Review-Pulse: A Dashboard for Managing User Feedback for Android Applications, International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2024 [DOI]

[ESEM'24] Sahrima Jannat Oishwee, Zadia Codabux, Natalia Stakhanova, Decoding Android Permissions: A Study of Developer Challenges and Solutions on Stack Overflow, International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2024 [DOI]

[ESEM'24] Md Mustakim Billah, Palash Roy, Zadia Codabux, Banani Roy, Are Large Language Models a Threat to Programming Platforms? An Exploratory Study, International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2024 [DOI]

[FSE'24] Shamimur Rahman, Zadia Codabux, Chanchal K. Roy, Do Words Have Power? Understanding and Fostering Civility in Code Review Discussion, International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2024 [DOI]

[MSR'24] Sahrima Jannat Oishwee, Natalia Stakhanova, Zadia Codabux, Large Language Model vs. Stack Overflow in Addressing Android Permission Related Challenges, Mining Software Repositories Conference (MSR), 2024 [DOI]