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  • Project accepted by the Hasler Foundation!! Project entitled "Bridging the Reality Gap in Testing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles"
  • Leading a Shonnan meeting with the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, on the topic: "DevOps for Cyber-physical Systems" .
  • Paper accepted at ASE 2023: "TEASER: Simulation-based CAN Bus Regression Testing for Self-driving Cars Software". International Conference on Automated Software Engineering - 2023.
  • J1 presentation at ICSE on "Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments" - slides - 2023
  • The Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST) shared a blogpost highlighting the significance of the SBFT event I have led in 2023
  • Leading of the Intl. Workshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing (SBFT): here the slides and Video of the international event - 2023
  • Leading of the Intl. Workshop on NL-based Software Engineering workshops (NLBSE): here the slides and Video of the international event - 2023
  • 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 - 2023
  • COSMOS H2020 project presentation at WASOS workshop, hosted with HiPEAC (slides) - 2023
  • 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. - 2023
  • 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
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  • Leading of the Intl. Workshop on NL-based Software Engineering workshops (NLBSE): here the and slides and Video of the international event - 2022
  • Leading of the Intl. Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST): here the and slides and Video of the international event - 2022
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  • PC member of ICSE (2023, 2022, 2018, etc.), ESEC/FSE (2021), ASE (2021, 2021, 2017, etc.), ICST (2022, 2021, 2020, etc.), ICSME (2023, 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.
  • Innosuisse project accepted for funding!! project entitled "ARIES: Exploiting User Journeys and Testing Automation for Supporting Efficient Energy Service Platforms"
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