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 artificial intelligence 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.

Recent Publications

[PROFES '26] Karthik Shivashankar, Zadia Codabux, Antonio Martini Tag-Aware High-Priority Issue Classification, International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES), 2026

[IEEE Software '26] Paris Avgeriou, Ipek Ozkaya, Ciera Jaspan, Collin Green, Neil Ernst, Zadia Codabux, Heiko Koziolek Technical Debt in the AI Era, IEEE Software, 2026 [DOI]

[IST '26] Larissa Barbosa, Savio Freire, Marcos Kalinowski, Zadia Codabux, Rodrigo Spinola, Manoel Mendonca, Rita S.P. Maciel Understanding undesirable attributes of requirements engineers: Insights from practitioners, Information and Software Technology (IST), 2026 [DOI]

[EQUISA '26] Nicolas E. Diaz Ferreyra, Monika Swetha Gurupathi, Zadia Codabux, Nalin Arachchilage, Riccardo Scandariato, Security Concerns in Generative AI Coding Assistants: Insights from Online Discussions on GitHub Copilot, International Workshop on Evaluation of Qualitative Aspects of Intelligent Software Assistants (EQUISA), 2026 [arXiv]

[ICSE '26] Zadia Codabux, Matthias Galster, Reframing Software Architecture and Design Skills in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2026

[ICSE '26] Shamimur Rahman, Zadia Codabux, Chanchal K. Roy, Breaking the Alphabet: Rethinking File Ordering in Code Review, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2026 [ResearchGate]

[TechDebt '26] Hasini Sumalee Perera, Zadia Codabux, Fabio Palomba, Investigating Technical Debt Types, Issues, and Solutions in Serverless Computing, International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt), 2026 [arXiv]

[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] [DOI]

[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]