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  • Keynote presentation at ICST (AIST workshop) entitled "Testing and Development Challenges for Complex Cyber-Physical Systems: Insights from the COSMOS H2020 Project" - slides
  • J1 presentation at ICST on "An Empirical Characterization of Software Bugs in Open-Source Cyber-Physical Systems" - slides
  • COSMOS H2020 project presentation at WASOS workshop, hosted with HiPEAC (slides)
  • Paper accepted at ICST 2023: "Simulation-based Test Case Generation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the Neighborhood of Real Flights". International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation.
  • Best PhD Thesis Award: Congratulations to Pooja Rani on receiving an award at the University of Bern for her Ph.D. thesis entitled "Assessing Comment Quality in Object-Oriented Languages" (image)
  • Paper accepted at EMSE Journal 2023: "Machine Learning-based Test Selection for Simulation-based Testing of Self-driving Cars Software". Empirical Software Engineering.
  • Paper accepted at STVR Journal 2023: "JUGE: An Infrastructure for Benchmarking Java Unit Test Generators". Software Testing, Verification and Reliability journal.
  • Paper accepted at JSS Journal 2023: "A Decade of Code Comment Quality Assessment: A Systematic Literature Review". Journal of Systems & Software
  • Individual ranking: According to (the September 2022 data-update from) the article "A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field" (in the report), a raking (or selection) of researchers is made (by the Stanford University) and Dr. Panichella appears in the percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field.
  • Paper accepted at SCP journal 2022: "Cost-effective Simulation-based Test Selection in Self-driving Cars Software". Science of Computer Programming journal.
  • Paper accepted at TOSEM journal 2022: "Automated Identification and Qualitative Characterization of Safety Concerns Reported in UAV Software Platforms". Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  • Paper accepted at TOSEM journal 2022: "Continuous Integration and Delivery practices for Cyber-Physical systems: An interview-based study". Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  • Paper accepted at JSS Journal 2022: "An Empirical Characterization of Software Bugs in Open-Source Cyber-Physical Systems". Journal of Systems & Software
  • Supporting grant accepted Doctoral funding at the SoE ZHAW (2022-2025): The funding will support and complement the studies of a Ph.D. student working in the context of the COSMOS H2020 project (contract no. 957254). - link
  • Paper accepted at EMSE Journal 2022: "Test Smells 20 Years Later: Detectability, Validity, and Reliability". Empirical Software Engineering.
  • Award at MSR: "MSR 2022 Distinguished Reviewer Award" - link
  • Paper accepted at TOSEM journal 2022: "Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments" - Preprint
  • Ph.D.: Pooja Ruhal (University of Bern) successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled "Assessing Comment Quality in Object-Oriented Languages" in February 2022. - link
  • Reviewer/opponent of a Ph.D. Dissertation of Nitish Shriniwas at University of Bern, Institute of Computer Science (March 2022).
  • Impact: The paper "Investigating the criticality of user‐reported issues through their relations with app rating" published in the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process is among the top cited papers during 2021" - link
  • Lecturer at the Summer School on "Search- and Machine Learning Software Engineering" - link - slides
  • Editor of Special issue at Science of Computer Programming 2022: "SBST’22: Search-Based Software Engineering – Tools" - link
  • Editor of Special issue at Science of Computer Programming 2022: "NLP-based software engineering. 2022" - link
  • Paper accepted at SANER 2022: "Cost-effective Simulation-based Test Selection in Self-driving Cars Software with SDC-Scissor" - Nominated as best tool - Invited to journal extension
  • Chair of Workshop on Natural Language-Based Software Engineering Workshop (NLBSE) - Collocated with ICSE 2022
  • Chair of Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) - Collocated with ICSE 2022
  • Paper accepted at EMSE journal 2021: "Using Code Reviews to Automatically Configure Static Analysis Tools"
  • Dr. Panichella was selected In 2021 as one of the top-20 Most impactful SE researchers Worldwide (results reported by the JSS journal)
  • Paper accepted at SCAM 2021: "What do Developers Discuss about Code Comments?" - https://zenodo.org/record/5044270
  • Paper accepted at ICSME 2021: "An NLP-based Tool for Software Artifacts Analysis" - TOOL link: https://github.com/adisorbo/NEON_tool
  • Paper accepted at JSS Journal 2021: "How to Identify Class Comment Types? A Multi-language Approach for Class Comment Classification"
  • PC member of ICSE (2023, 2022, 2018), ESEC/FSE (2021), ASE (2021, 2021, 2017), ICST 2022 (Workshop Chair), ICST (2021 and 2020), ICSME (2022, 2018, 2017), MSR (2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016), SSBSE 2021, ICSOFT 2021, SANER (2023, 2021, 2022, etc.), WAISE 2020, ICPC (2022, ICPC 2020, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014)., SBST 2020, SSBSE 2020, etc.
  • Paper accepted at IST Journal 2021: "Won't We Fix this Issue?" Qualitative Characterization and Automated Identification of Wontfix Issues on Github"
  • Paper accepted at EMSE Journal 2021: "What do class comments tell us? An investigation of comment evolution and practices in Pharo Smalltalk"
  • Paper accepted at EMSE Journal 2021: "Exposed! A Case Study on the Vulnerability-Proneness of Google Play Apps"
  • Paper accepted at CLOSER 2021: "Structural Coupling for Microservices"
  • Innosuisse project accepted for funding!! project entitled "ARIES: Exploiting User Journeys and Testing Automation for Supporting Efficient Energy Service Platforms"
  • Chair of SBST tool competition - co-located with ICSE 2020, 2021
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