[12]
Annibale Panichella, Sebastiano Panichella, Gordon Fraser, Anand Ashok Sawant and Vincent Hellendoorn
Revisiting Test Smells in Automatically Generated Tests: Limitations, Pitfalls, and Opportunities.
International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2020).. Invited for journal extension 
[11]
Muhammad Ilyas Azeem, Sebastiano Panichella, Andrea Di Sorbo, Alexander Serebrenik, and Qing Wang.
Action-based Recommendation in Pull-request Development
International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP2020).. Invited for journal extension 
[10]
G. Grano, A. Ciurumelea, S. Panichella, F. Palomba, H. Gall.
Exploring the Integration of User Feedback in Automated Testing of Android Applications
Proceedings of the {IEEE} 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution
and Reengineering. Invited for journal extension ![]()

[9]
C. Vassallo, S. Panichella, F. Palomba, S. Proksch, A. Zaidman and H. Gall.:
Context is King: The Developer Perspective on the Usage of Static Analysis Tools
Proceedings of the {IEEE} 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution
and Reengineering. Invited for journal extension ![]()

[8] G. Grano, T. Titov, S. Panichella, H. Gall: How High Will It Be? Using Machine Learning Models to Predict Branch Coverage in Automated Testing. MaLTeSQuE (co-located with SANER 2018). Invited for journal extension ![]()

[7] Carol Alexandru,Sebastiano Panichella and Harald Gall: Reducing Redundancies in Multi-Revision Code Analysis. Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2017). Klagenfurt, Austria. Invited for journal extension ![]()


[6] Sebastiano Panichella, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Gerardo Canfora, Giulio Antoniol: How Developers' Collaborations Identified from Different Sources Tell us About Code Changes. The 30th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, Victoria, Canada, 28 September - 3 October 2014. Nominated for best paper award

[5] Sebastiano Panichella, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Gerardo Canfora: How the Evolution of Emerging Collaborations Relates to Code Changes: An Empirical Study. The 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension, Hyderabad, India, 2-3 June 2014. DOI:10.1145/2597008.2597145 Invited for journal extension ![]()

[4] Gabriele Bavota, Gerardo Canfora, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Sebastiano Panichella: The Evolution of Project Inter-Dependencies in a Software Ecosystem: the Case of Apache. The 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2013), Eindhoven, Netherlands, 22 - 28 September 2013. DOI:10.1109/ICSM.2013.39 Nominated for best paper award

[3] Gerardo Canfora, Andrea De Lucia, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Annibale Panichella e Sebastiano Panichella: Multi-Objective Cross-Project Defect Prediction. In Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2013), Luxembourg, Belgium, 18-22 March 2013. DOI:10.1109/ICST.2013.38 Invited for journal extension ![]()

[2] Andrea De Lucia, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Annibale Panichella, Sebastiano Panichella: Using IR methods for labeling source code artifacts: Is it worthwhile? In Proceedings of; IEEE 20th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2012), pages 193-202, Passau, Germany, June 11-13, 2012. 2012, ISBN 978-1-4673-1216-5. DOI:10.1109/ICPC.2012.6240488 Invited for journal extension
[1] Andrea De Lucia, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Annibale Panichella, Sebastiano Panichella: Improving IR-based Traceability Recovery Using Smoothing Filters. In Proceedings of 19th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2011), pages 21-30. Kingston, ON, Canada, June 22-24, 2011. IEEE Computer Society 2011, ISBN 978-1-61284-308-7. DOI:10.1109/ICPC.2011.34 Best paper award ![]()

[4] Christian Birchler, Nicolas Ganz, Sajad Khatiri, Alessio Gambi and Sebastiano Panichella: Cost-effective Simulation-based Test Selection in Self-driving Cars Software with SDC-Scissor. the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering. Invited to Journal Extension
[3] Rafael Kallis, Andrea Di Sorbo, Gerardo Canfora and Sebastiano Panichella: Ticket Tagger: Machine Learning Driven Issue Classification. 35th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2019).. RANK: A. Invited to Journal Extension![]()
[2] L. Pelloni, G. Grano, A. Ciurumelea, S. Panichella, F. Palomba, H. Gall.: BECLoMA: Augmenting Stack Traces with User Review Information. Proceedings of the IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2018). RANK: B. Best tool award![]()
[1] Carmine Vassallo, Sebastiano Panichella, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Gerardo Canfora:CODES: mining sourCe cOde Descriptions from developErs diScussions. The 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension, Hyderabad, India, 2-3 June 2014. DOI:10.1145/2597008.2597799 Best tool award
[1] One of Dr. Sebastiano Panichella’s research articles is cited on the Zen of Python Wikipedia page, a widely viewed and influential reference for the Python programming language. Specifically, the paper “On the usage of pythonic idioms” is referenced in the “In practice” section, highlighting the relevance and long-term impact of this work on Pythonic idioms and software development practices beyond academia.
Alexandru, C. V., Merchante, J. J., Panichella, S., Proksch, S., & Robles, G. (2018).
On the usage of pythonic idioms.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms,
and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! 2018).
ACM.