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[J31]  Christian Birchler, Sajad Khatiri, Bill Bosshard, Alessio Gambi, Sebastiano Panichella: “Machine Learning-based Test Selection for Simulation-based Testing of Self-driving Cars Software”.    Empirical Software Engineering.  

[J30]  Xavier Devroey, Alessio Gambi, Juan Pablo Galeotti, Rene Just, Fitsum Kifetew, Annibale Panichella, and Sebastiano Panichella: JUGE: An Infrastructure for Benchmarking Java Unit Test Generators.    Software Testing, Verification and Reliability.  

[J29]  Christian Birchler, Nicolas Ganz, Sajad Khatiri, Alessio Gambi, Sebastiano Panichella: Cost-effective Simulation-based Test Selection in Self-driving Cars Software.    Science of Computer Programming.  

[J28]  Andrea Di Sorbo, Fiorella Zampetti, Corrado A. Visaggio, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Sebastiano Panichella: Automated Identification and Qualitative Characterization of Safety Concerns Reported in UAV Software Platforms.    Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.  

[J27]  Zampetti, Fiorella; Tamburri, Damian ; Panichella, Sebastiano; Panichella, Annibale; Canfora, Gerardo; Di Penta, Massimiliano: Continuous Integration and Delivery practices for Cyber-Physical systems: An interview-based study.    Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.  

[J26]  Pooja Rani, Arianna Blasi, Nataliia Stulova, Sebastiano Panichella, Alessandra Gorla, Oscar Nierstrasz: A Decade of Code Comment Quality Assessment: A Systematic Literature Review.    Journal of Systems & Software (JSS).  

[J25]  Annibale Panichella, Sebastiano Panichella, Gordon Fraser, Anand Sawant, and Vincent Hellendoorn: Test Smells 20 Years Later: Detectability, Validity, and Reliability.    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) Journal.  

[J24]  Fiorella Zampetti, Ritu Kapur, Massimiliano Di Penta, Sebastiano Panichella: An Empirical Characterization of Software Bugs in Open-Source Cyber-Physical Systems.    Journal of Systems & Software (JSS).  

[J23]  Christian Birchler, Sajad Khatiri, Pouria Derakhshanfar; Sebastiano Panichella, and Annibale Panichella: Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments.    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM).  

[C55]  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.   Conf. talk Industrial talk

[J22]  Fiorella Zampetti, Saghan Mudbhari, Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, Sebastiano Panichella, Giuliano Antoniol: Using Code Reviews to Automatically Configure Static Analysis Tools.    Empirical Software Engineering.  

[J21]  Pooja Ruhal, Sebastiano Panichella, Manuel Leuenberger, Andrea Di Sorbo, and Oscar Nierstrasz: How to Identify Class Comment Types? A Multi-language Approach for Class Comment Classification.    Journal of Systems and Software.  

[J20]  Sebastiano Panichella, Gerardo Canfora, and Andrea Di Sorbo: Won't We Fix this Issue?” Qualitative Characterization and Automated Identification of Wontfix Issues on Github.    Information and Software Technology Journal.  

[J19]  Andrea Di Sorbo and Sebastiano Panichella: Exposed! A Case Study on the Vulnerability-Proneness of Google Play Apps.    Empirical Software Engineering.   Conf. talk

[J18]  Pooja Rani, Sebastiano Panichella, Manuel Leuenberger, Mohammad Ghafari, Oscar Nierstrasz: What do class comments tell us? An investigation of comment evolution and practices in Pharo Smalltalk.    Empirical Software Engineering.  

[J17]  Rafael Kallis, @Andrea Di Sorbo, Gerardo Canfora, Sebastiano Panichella: Predicting Issue Types on GitHub.    Journal of Science of Computer Programming.  

[C51]  Usman Ashraf, Christoph Mayr-Dorn, Atif Mashkoor, Alexander Egyed, and Sebastiano Panichella: Do Communities in Developer Interaction Networks align with Subsystem Developer Teams? An Empirical Study of Open Source Systems.    International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP 2021).   Conf. talk

[C50]  Sebastiano Panichella, Mohammad Imranur Rahman, and Davide Taibi: Structural Coupling for Microservices.    International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2021.  

[C49]  Mathias Birrer, Pooja Ruhal, Sebastiano Panichella, and Oscar Niestrasz: Makar: A Framework for Multi-source Studies based on Unstructured Data.   International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2021).  

[J16]  Valentina Lenarduzzi, Jeremy Daly, Antonio Martini, Sebastiano Panichella, Damian Andrew Tamburri: Towards a Technical Debt Conceptualization for Serverless Computing .   IEEE Software.  

[C48]  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).  

[C47]  Devjeet Roy, Ziyi Zhang, Maggie Ma, Venera Arnaoudova, Annibale Panichella, Sebastiano Panichella, Danielle Gonzalez, Mehdi Mirakhorli:   DeepTC-Enhancer: Improving the Readability of Automatically Generated Tests. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.  

[J15]  Andrea Di Sorbo, Giovanni Grano, Aaron Visaggio and Sebastiano Panichella :   Investigating the Criticality of User Reported Issues through their Relations with App Rating. .   Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP) Journal.  

[J14]  Sebastiano Panichella and Nik Zaugg:  An Empirical Investigation of Relevant Changes and Automation Needs in Modern Code Review.   Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) Journal.  

[C44]  Usman Ashraf, Christoph Mayr-Dorn, Alexander Egyed, and Sebastiano Panichella:  A Mixed Graph-Relational Dataset of Socio-technical interactions in Open Source Systems .   Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2020).  

[C43]  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).    

[J13]  Yu Zhou, Yanqi Su, Taolue Chen, Zhiqiu Huang, Harald Gall, Sebastiano Panichella:  User Review-Based Change File Localization for Mobile Applications .  Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) Journal.  

[J12]  Giovanni Grano, Christoph Laaber, Annibale Panichella, and Sebastiano Panichella:  Testing with Fewer Resources: An Adaptive Approach to Performance-Aware Test Case Generation .  Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) Journal.    

[J11]  Fiorella Zampetti, Carmine Vassallo, Sebastiano Panichella, Gerardo Canfora, Harald Gall, Massimiliano Di Penta::  An Empirical Characterization of Bad Practices in Continuous Integration .  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE).    

[J10] Di Sorbo Andrea, Sebastiano Panichella, Aaron Visaggio, Di Massimiliano Di Penta, Canfora Gerardo, and Harald Gall:  Exploiting Natural Language Structures in Software Informal Documentation .  Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) Journal.    

[C42] 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).   

[J9] C. Vassallo, S. Panichella, F. Palomba, S. Proksch, A. Zaidman and H. Gall:  How Developers Engage with Static Analysis Tools in Different Contexts .  Empirical Software Engineering Journal.  

[GE2] Sebastiano Panichella, Emitza Guzman, Liliana Pasquale, Norbert Seyff, Andrea Di Sorbo: Guest Editors Introduction: Special Issue on User Feedback and Software Quality in the Mobile Domain.   Information & Software Technology. 

[GE1]  Sebastiano Panichella, Fabio Palomba, David Lo, Meiyappan Nagappan::  Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Software Engineering for Mobile Applications. .    Empirical Software Engineering 24(6): 3249-3254 (2019) 

[J8] Carol Alexandru,Sebastiano Panichella, Sebastian Proksch and Harald Gall: Redundancy-free Analysis of Multi-revision Software Artifacts.  Empirical Software Engineering Journal. 

[C41] D. Martin and S. Panichella:  The Cloudification Perspectives of Search-based Software Testing. International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST 2019), To Appear .     

[J7] G. Grano, T. Titov, S. Panichella, H. Gall:  Branch Coverage Prediction in Automated Testing. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP). .      

[C40] Y. Zhou, C. Wang, Y. Xin, T. Chen, S. Panichella, and H. Gall.: DRONE: A Tool to Detect and Repair Directive Defects in Java APIs Documentation.   ICSE 2019 - To Appear.  

[J6] Y. Zhou, C. Wang, Y. Xin, T. Chen, S. Panichella, and H. Gall.: Automatic Detection and Repair Recommendation of Directive Defects in Java API Documentation.   Transaction on Software Engineering 2018  

[C39] Carol V. Alexandru; José J. Merchante; Sebastiano Panichella; Sebastian Proksch; Harald C. Gall; Gregorio Robles.: On the Usage of Pythonic Idioms. .  Onward 2018 (RANK: C) 

[C38]  S. Panichella: Summarization Techniques for Code, Change, Testing and User Feedback . In Proceedings of the IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2018).  RANK: B.    

[C37]  A. Ciurumelea, S. Panichella, H. Gall.: Automated User Reviews Analyser. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018).  RANK: A*.   

[C36]  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.   

[C35] 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). RANK: B.    

[C34]  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 (SANER 2018).  RANK: B. Invited for journal extension   

[C33] 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 (SANER 2018). RANK: B.Invited for journal extension    

[C25] 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. RANK: B. Invited for journal extension  

[C21] Sebastiano Panichella, Annibale Panichella, Mauritz Bella, Andy Zaidman, and Harald Gall: The impact of test case summaries on bug fixing performance: An empirical investigation. In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016), Austin, TX, May 14 - 22, 2016. RANK: A*   

[C20] Andrea Di Sorbo, Sebastiano Panichella, Corrado A. Visaggio, Massimiliano Di Penta, Gerardo Canfora and Harald C. Gall: DECA: Development Emails Content Analyzer. In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016), Austin, TX, May 14 - 22, 2016. RANK: A*  

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2015

[J5] Gerardo Canfora, Andrea De Lucia, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Annibale Panichella e Sebastiano Panichella: Defect Prediction as a Multi-Objective Optimization Problem. Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR 2015).

[C19] Sebastiano Panichella: Supporting Newcomers in Software Development Projects In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2015), Bremen, Germany, Sep 29 - Oct 1, 2015. RANK: A   

[C18] Andrea Di Sorbo, Sebastiano Panichella, Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Massimiliano Di Penta, Gerardo Canfora and Harald Gall: Development Emails Content Analyzer: Intention Mining in Developer Discussions In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2015), Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, November 9–13, 2015. RANK: A   

[C16] Gerald Schermann, Martin Brandtner, Sebastiano Panichella, Philipp Leitner, and Harald Gall: Discovering Loners and Phantoms in Commit and Issue Data.  In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2015), Firenze, Italy, May 18th - 19th, 2015. RANK: C 

[C15] Sebastiano Panichella, Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol:Would Static Analysis Tools Help Developers with Code Reviews? In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2015), Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 2nd - 6th, 2015. RANK: B  

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2014

[J4] Gabriele Bavota, Gerardo Canfora, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Sebastiano Panichella: How the Apache Community Upgrades Dependencies: An Evolutionary Study. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE 2014). 

[C11] 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 RANK: C. Invited for journal extension   

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2013

[C8] Gerardo Canfora, Massimiliano Di Penta, Stefano Giannantonio, Rocco Oliveto, Sebastiano Panichella: YODA: Young and newcOmer Developer Assistant. In Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013), San Francisco, CA, May 18th - 26th, 2013. RANK: A*   

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