Federica Sarro

215 papers A* 10A 30B 17C 1Misc 3Journal 107Unranked 43

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	Automated software engineering knowledge transfer: A case study on small and medium-sized software enterprises in Thailand. J. Syst. Softw. Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Jens Krinke, Morakot Choetkiertikul, Thanwadee Sunetnanta, Federica Sarro
2026	J	`jnl`	BayesInsights: Modelling Software Delivery and Developer Experience with Bayesian Networks at Bloomberg. CoRR Serkan Kirbas, Federica Sarro, David Williams
2026	J	`jnl`	Comparing AI Coding Agents: A Task-Stratified Analysis of Pull Request Acceptance. CoRR Giovanni Pinna, Jingzhi Gong, David Williams, Federica Sarro
2026	J	`jnl`	ContextBench: A Benchmark for Context Retrieval in Coding Agents. CoRR Han Li, Letian Zhu, Bohan Zhang, Rili Feng, Jiaming Wang, Yue Pan, Earl T. Barr, Federica Sarro, Zhaoyang Chu, He Ye
2026	J	`jnl`	Detecting Slow Loop smell by using deep learning: From direct-learning to transfer-learning in cross-language settings. Inf. Softw. Technol. Yuqi Li, Ruonan Ma, Yixin Bian, Weijie Chen, Lin Huang, Jiaying Li, Federica Sarro
2026	J	`jnl`	Echo: Graph-Enhanced Retrieval and Execution Feedback for Issue Reproduction Test Generation. CoRR Zhiwei Fei, Yue Pan, Federica Sarro, Jidong Ge, Marc Liu, Vincent Ng, He Ye
2026	J	`jnl`	Enhanced Fairness Testing via Generating Effective Initial Individual Discriminatory Instances. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. Zhao Tian, Minghua Ma, Max Hort, Federica Sarro, Hongyu Zhang, Junjie Chen
2026	J	`jnl`	Environment-in-the-Loop: Rethinking Code Migration with LLM-based Agents. CoRR Xiang Li, Zhiwei Fei, Ying Ma, Jerry Zhang, Federica Sarro, He Ye
2026	J	`jnl`	FairRF: Multi-Objective Search for Single and Intersectional Software Fairness. CoRR Giordano d'Aloisio, Max Hort, Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
2026	J	`jnl`	FairST: A novel approach for machine learning bias repair through latent sensitive attribute translation. Inf. Softw. Technol. Carmen Meinson, Max Hort, Federica Sarro
2026	J	`jnl`	HerAgent: Rethinking the Automated Environment Deployment via Hierarchical Test Pyramid. CoRR Xiang Li, Siyu Lu, Federica Sarro, Claire Le Goues, He Ye
2026	J	`jnl`	How do generative models draw a software engineer? An empirical study on implicit bias of open-source image generation models. Inf. Softw. Technol. Giordano d'Aloisio, Tosin Fadahunsi, Antinisca Di Marco, Federica Sarro
2026	J	`jnl`	LLM-Based Misconfiguration Detection for AWS Serverless Computing. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen, Zixi Zhu, Federica Sarro, Yi Liu, Haodi Ping, Shangguang Wang
2026	—	`conf`	The Ghidra Metrics Toolkit for obfuscated native code. ITASEC/SERICS Jonathan Gobbo, Federica Sarro, Paolo Falcarin
2026	J	`jnl`	Unveiling Practical Shortcomings of Patch Overfitting Detection Techniques. CoRR David Williams, Ioakim Avraam, Aldeida Aleti, Matias Martinez, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro
2025	J	`jnl`	A Comprehensive Study of Bugs in Modern Distributed Deep Learning Systems. CoRR Xiaoxue Ma, Wanwei Zhan, JiaLe Chen, Yishu Li, Jacky Keung, Federica Sarro
2025	J	`jnl`	Automated Repair of Ambiguous Natural Language Requirements. CoRR Haoxiang Jia, Robbie Morris, He Ye, Federica Sarro, Sergey Mechtaev
2025	A*	`conf`	Automated Repair of Ambiguous Problem Descriptions for LLM-Based Code Generation. ASE Haoxiang Jia, Robbie Morris, He Ye, Federica Sarro, Sergey Mechtaev
2025	—	`conf`	Automatically Assessing Software Architecture Compliance With Green Software Patterns. GREENS@ICSE Naman Ahuja, Yile Feng, Luming Li, Amisha Malik, Thuvaragan Sivayoganathan, Navveen Balani, Srinivasan Rakhunathan, Federica Sarro
2025	—	`conf`	Behind the Hot Fix: Demystifying Hot Fixing Industrial Practices at Zühlke and Beyond. SIGSOFT FSE Companion Carol Hanna, David Elliman, Wolfgang Emmerich, Federica Sarro, Justyna Petke
2025	J	`jnl`	Bias behind the Wheel: Fairness Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. Xinyue Li, Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Ying Zhang, Xuanzhe Liu
2025	—	`conf`	Detection of Reverse Engineering Activities Before the Attack. EuroS&P (Workshops) Paolo Falcarin, Mirco Venerba, Matteo De Giorgi, Federica Sarro
2025	A*	`conf`	Diversity Drives Fairness: Ensemble of Higher Order Mutants for Intersectional Fairness of Machine Learning Software. ICSE Zhenpeng Chen, Xinyue Li, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Yang Liu
2025	J	`jnl`	GA4GC: Greener Agent for Greener Code via Multi-Objective Configuration Optimization. CoRR Jingzhi Gong, Yixin Bian, Luis De La Cal, Giovanni Pinna, Anisha Uteem, David Williams, Mar Zamorano, Karine Even-Mendoza, William B. Langdon, Héctor Menéndez, Federica Sarro
2025	J	`jnl`	Generative AI for Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems: A Survey. CoRR Qunying Song, He Ye, Mark Harman, Federica Sarro
2025	J	`jnl`	Greening AI-enabled Systems with Software Engineering: A Research Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable AI Practices. CoRR Luis Cruz, João Paulo Fernandes, Maja H. Kirkeby, Silverio Martínez-Fernández, June Sallou, Hina Anwar, Enrique Barba Roque, Justus Bogner, Joel Castaño, Fernando Castor, Aadil Chasmawala, Simão Cunha, Daniel Feitosa, Alexandra González, Andreas Jedlitschka, Patricia Lago, Henry Muccini, Ana Oprescu, Pooja Rani, João Saraiva, Federica Sarro, Raghavendra Selvan, Karthik Vaidhyanathan, Roberto Verdecchia, Ivan P. Yamshchikov
2025	J	`jnl`	HotBugs.jar: A Benchmark of Hot Fixes for Time-Critical Bugs. CoRR Carol Hanna, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Justyna Petke
2025	—	`conf`	How Do Generative Models Draw a Software Engineer? A Case Study on Stable Diffusion Bias. SANER-C Tosin Fadahunsi, Giordano d'Aloisio, Antinisca Di Marco, Federica Sarro
2025	J	`jnl`	How Do Generative Models Draw a Software Engineer? A Case Study on Stable Diffusion Bias. CoRR Tosin Fadahunsi, Giordano d'Aloisio, Antinisca Di Marco, Federica Sarro
2025	A*	`conf`	LLM-Guided Genetic Improvement: Envisioning Semantic Aware Automated Software Evolution. ASE Karine Even-Mendoza, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Alina Geiger, Carol Hanna, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, Dominik Sobania
2025	J	`jnl`	LLM-Guided Genetic Improvement: Envisioning Semantic Aware Automated Software Evolution. CoRR Karine Even-Mendoza, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Alina Geiger, Carol Hanna, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, Dominik Sobania
2025	J	`jnl`	Large language model based mutations in genetic improvement. Autom. Softw. Eng. Alexander E. I. Brownlee, James Callan, Karine Even-Mendoza, Alina Geiger, Carol Hanna, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, Dominik Sobania
2025	A	`conf`	On the Compression of Language Models for Code: An Empirical Study on CodeBERT. SANER Giordano d'Aloisio, Luca Traini, Federica Sarro, Antinisca Di Marco
2025	J	`jnl`	On the Influence of Data Resampling for Deep Learning-Based Log Anomaly Detection: Insights and Recommendations. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Xiaoxue Ma, Huiqi Zou, Pinjia He, Jacky Keung, Yishu Li, Xiao Yu, Federica Sarro
2025	J	`jnl`	Practitioners' Expectations on Log Anomaly Detection. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Xiaoxue Ma, Yishu Li, Jacky Keung, Xiao Yu, Huiqi Zou, Zhen Yang, Federica Sarro, Earl T. Barr
2025	J	`jnl`	Reflecting on Empirical and Sustainability Aspects of Software Engineering Research in the Era of Large Language Models. CoRR David Williams, Max Hort, Maria Kechagia, Aldeida Aleti, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro
2025	J	`jnl`	Safe to Stay: Psychological Safety Sustains Participation in Pull-based Open Source Projects. CoRR Emeralda Sesari, Federica Sarro, Ayushi Rastogi
2025	C	`conf`	Search-Based Negative Prompt Optimisation for Text-to-Image Generation. EvoMUSART Guillermo Iglesias, Mar Zamorano, Federica Sarro
2025	J	`jnl`	SustainDiffusion: Optimising the Social and Environmental Sustainability of Stable Diffusion Models. CoRR Giordano d'Aloisio, Tosin Fadahunsi, Jay Choy, Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
2025	J	`jnl`	Understanding Code Agent Behaviour: An Empirical Study of Success and Failure Trajectories. CoRR Oorja Majgaonkar, Zhiwei Fei, Xiang Li, Federica Sarro, He Ye
2025	J	`jnl`	Unveiling overlooked performance variance in serverless computing. Empir. Softw. Eng. Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen, Federica Sarro, Shangguang Wang
2025	—	`conf`	Video Game Procedural Content Generation Through Software Transplantation. SEIP@ICSE Mar Zamorano, Daniel Blasco, Carlos Cetina, Federica Sarro
2025	J	`jnl`	When Prompts Go Wrong: Evaluating Code Model Robustness to Ambiguous, Contradictory, and Incomplete Task Descriptions. CoRR Maya Larbi, Amal Akli, Mike Papadakis, Rihab Bouyousfi, Maxime Cordy, Federica Sarro, Yves Le Traon
2024	J	`jnl`	A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code. J. Syst. Softw. Tushar Sharma, Maria Kechagia, Stefanos Georgiou, Rohit Tiwari, Indira Vats, Hadi Moazen, Federica Sarro
2024	J	`jnl`	Adoption of automated software engineering tools and techniques in Thailand. Empir. Softw. Eng. Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Jens Krinke, Morakot Choetkiertikul, Thanwadee Sunetnanta, Federica Sarro
2024	A	`conf`	Agile Effort Estimation: Have We Solved the Problem Yet? Insights From the Replication of the GPT2SP Study. SANER Vali Tawosi, Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
2024	A	`conf`	Broken Agreement: The Evolution of Solidity Error Handling. ESEM Charalambos Mitropoulos, Maria Kechagia, Chrysostomos Maschas, Sotirios Ioannidis, Federica Sarro, Dimitrios Mitropoulos
2024	J	`jnl`	Charting The Evolution of Solidity Error Handling. CoRR Charalambos Mitropoulos, Maria Kechagia, Chrysostomos Maschas, Sotiris Ioannidis, Federica Sarro, Dimitris Mitropoulos
2024	J	`jnl`	Diversity Drives Fairness: Ensemble of Higher Order Mutants for Intersectional Fairness of Machine Learning Software. CoRR Zhenpeng Chen, Xinyue Li, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Yang Liu
2024	J	`jnl`	Enhancing Energy-Awareness in Deep Learning through Fine-Grained Energy Measurement. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. Saurabhsingh Rajput, Tim Widmayer, Ziyuan Shang, Maria Kechagia, Federica Sarro, Tushar Sharma
2024	A	`conf`	Exploring LLM-Driven Explanations for Quantum Algorithms. ESEM Giordano d'Aloisio, Sophie Fortz, Carol Hanna, Daniel Fortunato, Avner Bensoussan, Eñaut Mendiluze Usandizaga, Federica Sarro
2024	J	`jnl`	Exploring LLM-Driven Explanations for Quantum Algorithms. CoRR Giordano d'Aloisio, Sophie Fortz, Carol Hanna, Daniel Fortunato, Avner Bensoussan, Eñaut Mendiluze Usandizaga, Federica Sarro
2024	A*	`conf`	Fairness Improvement with Multiple Protected Attributes: How Far Are We? ICSE Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2024	J	`jnl`	Fairness Testing: A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of Trends. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Max Hort, Mark Harman, Federica Sarro
2024	A	`conf`	Game Software Engineering: A Controlled Experiment Comparing Automated Content Generation Techniques. ESEM Mar Zamorano, África Domingo, Carlos Cetina, Federica Sarro
2024	B	`conf`	GreenStableYolo: Optimizing Inference Time and Image Quality of Text-to-Image Generation. SSBSE Jingzhi Gong, Sisi Li, Giordano d'Aloisio, Zishuo Ding, Yulong Ye, William B. Langdon, Federica Sarro
2024	J	`jnl`	GreenStableYolo: Optimizing Inference Time and Image Quality of Text-to-Image Generation. CoRR Jingzhi Gong, Sisi Li, Giordano d'Aloisio, Zishuo Ding, Yulong Ye, William B. Langdon, Federica Sarro
2024	A	`conf`	Greenlight: Highlighting TensorFlow APIs Energy Footprint. MSR Saurabhsingh Rajput, Maria Kechagia, Federica Sarro, Tushar Sharma
2024	J	`jnl`	Hot Fixing Software: A Comprehensive Review of Terminology, Techniques, and Applications. CoRR Carol Hanna, David Clark, Federica Sarro, Justyna Petke
2024	J	`jnl`	It is Giving Major Satisfaction: Why Fairness Matters for Developers. CoRR Emeralda Sesari, Federica Sarro, Ayushi Rastogi
2024	J	`jnl`	LLM-Based Misconfiguration Detection for AWS Serverless Computing. CoRR Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen, Federica Sarro, Zixi Zhu, Yi Liu, Haodi Ping, Shangguang Wang
2024	J	`jnl`	Mutation analysis for evaluating code translation. Empir. Softw. Eng. Giovani Guizzo, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Christoph Treude, Mark Harman
2024	A	`conf`	On The Effectiveness of One-Class Support Vector Machine in Different Defect Prediction Scenarios. SANER Rebecca Moussa, Danielle Azar, Federica Sarro
2024	J	`jnl`	On the Compression of Language Models for Code: An Empirical Study on CodeBERT. CoRR Giordano d'Aloisio, Luca Traini, Federica Sarro, Antinisca Di Marco
2024	J	`jnl`	On the Influence of Data Resampling for Deep Learning-Based Log Anomaly Detection: Insights and Recommendations. CoRR Xiaoxue Ma, Huiqi Zou, Jacky Keung, Pinjia He, Yishu Li, Xiao Yu, Federica Sarro
2024	J	`jnl`	Practitioners' Expectations on Log Anomaly Detection. CoRR Xiaoxue Ma, Yishu Li, Jacky Keung, Xiao Yu, Huiqi Zou, Zhen Yang, Federica Sarro, Earl T. Barr
2024	J	`jnl`	Search-based Automatic Repair for Fairness and Accuracy in Decision-making Software. Empir. Softw. Eng. Max Hort, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2024	J	`jnl`	Speeding Up Genetic Improvement via Regression Test Selection. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. Giovani Guizzo, David Williams, Mark Harman, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro
2024	J	`jnl`	Test-based patch clustering for automatically-generated patches assessment. Empir. Softw. Eng. Matias Martinez, Maria Kechagia, Anjana Perera, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, Aldeida Aleti
2024	—	`conf`	The Patch Overfitting Problem in Automated Program Repair: Practical Magnitude and a Baseline for Realistic Benchmarking. SIGSOFT FSE Companion Justyna Petke, Matias Martinez, Maria Kechagia, Aldeida Aleti, Federica Sarro
2024	A	`conf`	TrickyBugs: A Dataset of Corner-case Bugs in Plausible Programs. MSR Kaibo Liu, Yudong Han, Yiyang Liu, Jie M. Zhang, Zhenpeng Chen, Federica Sarro, Gang Huang, Yun Ma
2024	A	`conf`	Understanding Fairness in Software Engineering: Insights from Stack Exchange Sites. ESEM Emeralda Sesari, Federica Sarro, Ayushi Rastogi
2024	J	`jnl`	Understanding Fairness in Software Engineering: Insights from Stack Exchange. CoRR Emeralda Sesari, Federica Sarro, Ayushi Rastogi
2024	—	`conf`	User-Centric Deployment of Automated Program Repair at Bloomberg. ICSE-SEIP David Williams, James Callan, Serkan Kirbas, Sergey Mechtaev, Justyna Petke, Thomas Prideaux-Ghee, Federica Sarro
2023	J	`jnl`	A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Bias Mitigation Methods for Machine Learning Classifiers. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2023	J	`jnl`	Agile Effort Estimation: Have We Solved the Problem Yet? Insights From a Replication Study. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Vali Tawosi, Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
2023	J	`jnl`	An Empirical Study on Fairness Improvement with Multiple Protected Attributes. CoRR Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2023	—	`conf`	Assess and Summarize: Improve Outage Understanding with Large Language Models. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE Pengxiang Jin, Shenglin Zhang, Minghua Ma, Haozhe Li, Yu Kang, Liqun Li, Yudong Liu, Bo Qiao, Chaoyun Zhang, Pu Zhao, Shilin He, Federica Sarro, Yingnong Dang, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang
2023	J	`jnl`	Assess and Summarize: Improve Outage Understanding with Large Language Models. CoRR Pengxiang Jin, Shenglin Zhang, Minghua Ma, Haozhe Li, Yu Kang, Liqun Li, Yudong Liu, Bo Qiao, Chaoyun Zhang, Pu Zhao, Shilin He, Federica Sarro, Yingnong Dang, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang
2023	B	`conf`	Automated Optimisation of Modern Software System Properties. ICPE Federica Sarro
2023	J	`jnl`	Dark-Skin Individuals Are at More Risk on the Street: Unmasking Fairness Issues of Autonomous Driving Systems. CoRR Xinyue Li, Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Ying Zhang, Xuanzhe Liu
2023	B	`conf`	Enhancing Genetic Improvement Mutations Using Large Language Models. SSBSE Alexander E. I. Brownlee, James Callan, Karine Even-Mendoza, Alina Geiger, Carol Hanna, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, Dominik Sobania
2023	J	`jnl`	Enhancing Genetic Improvement Mutations Using Large Language Models. CoRR Alexander E. I. Brownlee, James Callan, Karine Even-Mendoza, Alina Geiger, Carol Hanna, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, Dominik Sobania
2023	B	`conf`	Evaluating Explanations for Software Patches Generated by Large Language Models. SSBSE Dominik Sobania, Alina Geiger, James Callan, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Carol Hanna, Rebecca Moussa, Mar Zamorano López, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro
2023	J	`jnl`	FECoM: A Step towards Fine-Grained Energy Measurement for Deep Learning. CoRR Saurabhsingh Rajput, Tim Widmayer, Ziyuan Shang, Maria Kechagia, Federica Sarro, Tushar Sharma
2023	J	`jnl`	Inferring test models from user bug reports using multi-objective search. Empir. Softw. Eng. Giovani Guizzo, Francesco Califano, Federica Sarro, Filomena Ferrucci, Mark Harman
2023	J	`jnl`	Investigating developers' perception on software testability and its effects. Empir. Softw. Eng. Tushar Sharma, Stefanos Georgiou, Maria Kechagia, Taher Ahmed Ghaleb, Federica Sarro
2023	—	`conf`	MEG: Multi-objective Ensemble Generation for Software Defect Prediction (HOP GECCO'23). GECCO Companion Rebecca Moussa, Giovani Guizzo, Federica Sarro
2023	A*	`conf`	Message from the Chairs: ASE 2023. ASE Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Jacques Klein, Christian Bird, Federica Sarro
2023	—	`conf`	Multi-objective Search for Gender-fair and Semantically Correct Word Embeddings (HOP GECCO'23). GECCO Companion Max Hort, Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
2023	J	`jnl`	Multi-objective search for gender-fair and semantically correct word embeddings. Appl. Soft Comput. Max Hort, Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
2023	J	`jnl`	Revisiting the Performance of Serverless Computing: An Analysis of Variance. CoRR Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen, Federica Sarro, Xuanzhe Liu
2023	A	`conf`	Search-Based Software Engineering in the Era of Modern Software Systems. RE Federica Sarro
2023	B	`conf`	StableYolo: Optimizing Image Generation for Large Language Models. SSBSE Harel Berger, Aidan Dakhama, Zishuo Ding, Karine Even-Mendoza, David A. Kelly, Héctor D. Menéndez, Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
2023	J	`jnl`	SuperFlow: Performance Testing for Serverless Computing. CoRR Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen, Federica Sarro, Xuanzhe Liu
2023	J	`jnl`	The Quest for Content: A Survey of Search-Based Procedural Content Generation for Video Games. CoRR Mar Zamorano, Carlos Cetina, Federica Sarro
2023	J	`jnl`	User-Centric Deployment of Automated Program Repair at Bloomberg. CoRR David Williams, James Callan, Serkan Kirbas, Sergey Mechtaev, Justyna Petke, Thomas Prideaux-Ghee, Federica Sarro
2023	A	`conf`	Who Judges the Judge: An Empirical Study on Online Judge Tests. ISSTA Kaibo Liu, Yudong Han, Jie M. Zhang, Zhenpeng Chen, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Gang Huang, Yun Ma
2022	J	`jnl`	A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Bias Mitigation Methods for Software Fairness. CoRR Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2022	J	`jnl`	A Survey of Performance Optimization for Mobile Applications. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Max Hort, Maria Kechagia, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2022	A	`conf`	A Versatile Dataset of Agile Open Source Software Projects. MSR Vali Tawosi, Afnan A. Al-Subaihin, Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
2022	J	`jnl`	A Versatile Dataset of Agile Open Source Software Projects. CoRR Vali Tawosi, Afnan A. Al-Subaihin, Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
2022	J	`jnl`	Agile Effort Estimation: Have We Solved the Problem Yet? Insights From A Second Replication Study (GPT2SP Replication Report). CoRR Vali Tawosi, Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
2022	J	`jnl`	Bias Mitigation for Machine Learning Classifiers: A Comprehensive Survey. CoRR Max Hort, Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2022	A	`conf`	Comparing Fuzzers on a Level Playing Field with FuzzBench. ICST Dario Asprone, Jonathan Metzman, Abhishek Arya, Giovani Guizzo, Federica Sarro
2022	J	`jnl`	Deep Learning for Agile Effort Estimation Have We Solved the Problem Yet? CoRR Vali Tawosi, Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
2022	J	`jnl`	Do Not Take It for Granted: Comparing Open-Source Libraries for Software Development Effort Estimation. CoRR Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
2022	J	`jnl`	Enhanced Fairness Testing via Generating Effective Initial Individual Discriminatory Instances. CoRR Minghua Ma, Zhao Tian, Max Hort, Federica Sarro, Hongyu Zhang, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang
2022	J	`jnl`	Evaluating Automatic Program Repair Capabilities to Repair API Misuses. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Maria Kechagia, Sergey Mechtaev, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2022	J	`jnl`	Fairness Testing: A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of Trends. CoRR Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Max Hort, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2022	A*	`conf`	Green AI: Do Deep Learning Frameworks Have Different Costs? ICSE Stefanos Georgiou, Maria Kechagia, Tushar Sharma, Federica Sarro, Ying Zou
2022	J	`jnl`	How do Android developers improve non-functional properties of software? Empir. Softw. Eng. James Callan, Oliver Krauss, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro
2022	A	`conf`	Identifying Software Engineering Challenges in Software SMEs: A Case Study in Thailand. SANER Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Jens Krinke, Morakot Choetkiertikul, Thanwadee Sunetnanta, Federica Sarro
2022	A	`conf`	Investigating the Effectiveness of Clustering for Story Point Estimation. SANER Vali Tawosi, Afnan A. Al-Subaihin, Federica Sarro
2022	J	`jnl`	Investigating the Use of One-Class Support Vector Machine for Software Defect Prediction. CoRR Rebecca Moussa, Danielle Azar, Federica Sarro
2022	J	`jnl`	Learning From Mistakes: Machine Learning Enhanced Human Expert Effort Estimates. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Federica Sarro, Rebecca Moussa, Alessio Petrozziello, Mark Harman
2022	—	`conf`	MAAT: a novel ensemble approach to addressing fairness and performance bugs for machine learning software. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2022	A	`conf`	MEG: Multi-objective Ensemble Generation for Software Defect Prediction. ESEM Rebecca Moussa, Giovani Guizzo, Federica Sarro
2022	J	`jnl`	Multi-Objective Software Effort Estimation: A Replication Study. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Vali Tawosi, Federica Sarro, Alessio Petrozziello, Mark Harman
2022	A	`conf`	On the Relationship Between Story Points and Development Effort in Agile Open-Source Software. ESEM Vali Tawosi, Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
2022	A	`conf`	On the use of evaluation measures for defect prediction studies. ISSTA Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
2022	—	`conf`	Privileged and Unprivileged Groups: An Empirical Study on the Impact of the Age Attribute on Fairness. FairWare@ICSE Max Hort, Federica Sarro
2022	—	`conf`	Py2Cy: a genetic improvement tool to speed up python. GECCO Companion James Zhong, Max Hort, Federica Sarro
2022	J	`jnl`	Sentinel: A Hyper-Heuristic for the Generation of Mutant Reduction Strategies. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Giovani Guizzo, Federica Sarro, Jens Krinke, Silvia R. Vergilio
2022	J	`jnl`	Test-based Patch Clustering for Automatically-Generated Patches Assessment. CoRR Matias Martinez, Maria Kechagia, Anjana Perera, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, Aldeida Aleti
2021	J	`jnl`	A Survey on Machine Learning Techniques for Source Code Analysis. CoRR Tushar Sharma, Maria Kechagia, Stefanos Georgiou, Rohit Tiwari, Federica Sarro
2021	J	`jnl`	App Store Effects on Software Engineering Practices. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Afnan A. Al-Subaihin, Federica Sarro, Sue Black, Licia Capra, Mark Harman
2021	A	`conf`	Artefact Relation Graphs for Unit Test Reuse Recommendation. ICST Robert White, Jens Krinke, Earl T. Barr, Federica Sarro, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul
2021	—	`conf`	Artifact for Enhancing Genetic Improvement of Software with Regression Test Selection. ICSE (Companion Volume) Giovani Guizzo, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2021	A*	`conf`	Did You Do Your Homework? Raising Awareness on Software Fairness and Discrimination. ASE Max Hort, Federica Sarro
2021	J	`jnl`	Diversifying Focused Testing for Unit Testing. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. Héctor D. Menéndez, Gunel Jahangirova, Federica Sarro, Paolo Tonella, David Clark
2021	J	`jnl`	Do users care about ad's performance costs? Exploring the effects of the performance costs of in-app ads on user experience. Inf. Softw. Technol. Cuiyun Gao, Jichuan Zeng, Federica Sarro, David Lo, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2021	A*	`conf`	Enhancing Genetic Improvement of Software with Regression Test Selection. ICSE Giovani Guizzo, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2021	—	`conf`	Fairea: a model behaviour mutation approach to benchmarking bias mitigation methods. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE Max Hort, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2021	B	`conf`	Refining Fitness Functions for Search-Based Automated Program Repair - A Case Study with ARJA and ARJA-e. SSBSE Giovani Guizzo, Aymeric Blot, James Callan, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro
2021	J	`jnl`	Sentinel: A Hyper-Heuristic for the Generation of Mutant Reduction Strategies. CoRR Giovani Guizzo, Federica Sarro, Jens Krinke, Silvia Regina Vergilio
2021	J	`jnl`	The Assessor's Dilemma: Improving Bug Repair via Empirical Game Theory. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Carlos Gavidia-Calderon, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Earl T. Barr
2021	—	`conf`	The effect of offspring population size on NSGA-II: a preliminary study. GECCO Companion Max Hort, Federica Sarro
2020	—	`conf`	A new approach to distribute MOEA pareto front computation. GECCO Companion Federica Sarro, Alessio Petrozziello, Dan-Qi He, Shin Yoo
2020	J	`jnl`	Assessing the effectiveness of approximate functional sizing approaches for effort estimation. Inf. Softw. Technol. Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro
2020	—	`conf`	Cost measures matter for mutation testing study validity. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE Giovani Guizzo, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2020	J	`jnl`	Do Users Care about Ad's Performance Costs? Exploring the Effects of the Performance Costs of In-App Ads on User Experience. CoRR Cuiyun Gao, Jichuan Zeng, Federica Sarro, David Lo, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2020	A	`ed.`	ESEM '20: ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, Bari, Italy, October 5-7, 2020 ESEM Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Filippo Lanubile, Marcos Kalinowski, Federica Sarro
2020	B	`conf`	Exploring the Use of Genetic Algorithm Clustering for Mobile App Categorisation. SSBSE Afnan A. Al-Subaihin, Federica Sarro
2020	J	`jnl`	FrUITeR - A Framework for Evaluating UI Test Reuse. CoRR Yixue Zhao, Justin Chen, Adriana Sejfia, Marcelo Schmitt Laser, Jie Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Nenad Medvidovic
2020	—	`conf`	FrUITeR: a framework for evaluating UI test reuse. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE Yixue Zhao, Justin Chen, Adriana Sejfia, Marcelo Schmitt Laser, Jie Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Nenad Medvidovic
2020	J	`jnl`	Game-theoretic analysis of development practices: Challenges and opportunities. J. Syst. Softw. Carlos Gavidia-Calderon, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Earl T. Barr
2020	J	`jnl`	Guest editorial: Special section on Search-based Software Engineering track at GECCO 2018. Inf. Softw. Technol. Giuliano Antoniol, Federica Sarro
2020	—	`conf`	Optimising word embeddings with search-based approaches. GECCO Companion Max Hort, Federica Sarro
2019	J	`jnl`	Empirical comparison of text-based mobile apps similarity measurement techniques. Empir. Softw. Eng. Afnan A. Al-Subaihin, Federica Sarro, Sue Black, Licia Capra
2019	A	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC 2019, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 25-31, 2019 ICPC Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Foutse Khomh, Federica Sarro
2019	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on App Market Analytics, WAMA@ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2019, Tallinn, Estonia, August 27, 2019 WAMA@ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE Federica Sarro, Maleknaz Nayebi
2019	B	`conf`	Search-Based Predictive Modelling for Software Engineering: How Far Have We Gone? SSBSE Federica Sarro
2019	A	`conf`	Some challenges for software testing research (invited talk paper). ISSTA Nadia Alshahwan, Andrea Ciancone, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, Ke Mao, Alexandru Marginean, Alexander Mols, Hila Peleg, Federica Sarro, Ilya Zorin
2019	—	`conf`	The importance of accounting for real-world labelling when predicting software vulnerabilities. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE Matthieu Jimenez, Renaud Rwemalika, Mike Papadakis, Federica Sarro, Yves Le Traon, Mark Harman
2018	A	`conf`	Customer Rating Reactions Can Be Predicted Purely using App Features. RE Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, Yuanyuan Zhang
2018	J	`jnl`	Definition and evaluation of a COSMIC measurement procedure for sizing Web applications in a model-driven development environment. Inf. Softw. Technol. Silvia Abrahão, Lucia De Marco, Filomena Ferrucci, Jaime Gómez, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro
2018	—	`conf`	Exploring the effects of ad schemes on the performance cost of mobile phones. A-Mobile@ASE Cuiyun Gao, Jichuan Zeng, Federica Sarro, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King
2018	J	`jnl`	Guest Editorial Special Issue on Search-Based Software Engineering. IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. Federica Sarro, Marouane Kessentini, Kalyanmoy Deb
2018	J	`jnl`	Guest Editorial for the 8 Inf. Softw. Technol. Federica Sarro, Kalyanmoy Deb, Marouane Kessentini
2018	J	`jnl`	Linear Programming as a Baseline for Software Effort Estimation. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. Federica Sarro, Alessio Petrozziello
2018	—	`conf`	Predictive analytics for software testing: keynote paper. SBST@ICSE Federica Sarro
2018	J	`jnl`	Using Hadoop MapReduce for Parallel Genetic Algorithms: A Comparison of the Global, Grid and Island Models. Evol. Comput. Filomena Ferrucci, Pasquale Salza, Federica Sarro
2017	J	`jnl`	A Survey of App Store Analysis for Software Engineering. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. William J. Martin, Federica Sarro, Yue Jia, Yuanyuan Zhang, Mark Harman
2017	J	`jnl`	Adaptive Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Overtime Planning in Software Projects. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. Federica Sarro, Filomena Ferrucci, Mark Harman, Alessandra Manna, Jian Ren
2017	J	`jnl`	Cross-validation based K nearest neighbor imputation for software quality datasets: An empirical study. J. Syst. Softw. Jianglin Huang, Jacky Wai Keung, Federica Sarro, Yan-Fu Li, Yuen-Tak Yu, W. K. Chan, Hongyi Sun
2017	J	`jnl`	Investigating the relationship between price, rating, and popularity in the Blackberry World App Store. Inf. Softw. Technol. Anthony Finkelstein, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, William J. Martin, Federica Sarro, Yuanyuan Zhang
2017	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on App Market Analytics, WAMA@ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2017, Paderborn, Germany, September 5, 2017 WAMA@ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE Federica Sarro, Emad Shihab, Meiyappan Nagappan, Marie Christin Platenius, Daniel Kaimann
2017	B	`ed.`	Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - 18th International Conference, PROFES 2017, Innsbruck, Austria, November 29 - December 1, 2017, Proceedings PROFES Michael Felderer, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Burak Turhan, Marcos Kalinowski, Federica Sarro, Dietmar Winkler
2016	—	`conf`	Causal impact analysis for app releases in google play. SIGSOFT FSE William J. Martin, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2016	A	`conf`	Clustering Mobile Apps Based on Mined Textual Features. ESEM Afnan A. Al-Subaihin, Federica Sarro, Sue Black, Licia Capra, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, Yuanyuan Zhang
2016	—	`conf`	Develop, Deploy and Execute Parallel Genetic Algorithms in the Cloud. GECCO (Companion) Pasquale Salza, Filomena Ferrucci, Federica Sarro
2016	J	`jnl`	Evaluation of estimation models using the Minimum Interval of Equivalence. Appl. Soft Comput. José Javier Dolado, Daniel Rodríguez, Mark Harman, William B. Langdon, Federica Sarro
2016	J	`jnl`	Exact Mean Absolute Error of Baseline Predictor, MARP0. Inf. Softw. Technol. William B. Langdon, José Javier Dolado, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
2016	—	`conf`	Mobile app and app store analysis, testing and optimisation. MOBILESoft Mark Harman, Afnan A. Al-Subaihin, Yue Jia, William J. Martin, Federica Sarro, Yuanyuan Zhang
2016	A*	`conf`	Multi-objective software effort estimation. ICSE Federica Sarro, Alessio Petrozziello, Mark Harman
2016	A	`conf`	Mutation-aware fault prediction. ISSTA David Bowes, Tracy Hall, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, Federica Sarro, Fan Wu
2016	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the International Workshop on App Market Analytics, WAMA@SIGSOFT FSE, Seattle, WA, USA, November 14, 2016 WAMA@SIGSOFT FSE Meiyappan Nagappan, Federica Sarro, Emad Shihab
2016	B	`ed.`	Search Based Software Engineering - 8th International Symposium, SSBSE 2016, Raleigh, NC, USA, October 8-10, 2016, Proceedings SSBSE Federica Sarro, Kalyanmoy Deb
2016	J	`jnl`	Web Effort Estimation: Function Point Analysis vs. COSMIC. Inf. Softw. Technol. Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro
2016	—	`conf`	elephant56: Design and Implementation of a Parallel Genetic Algorithms Framework on Hadoop MapReduce. GECCO (Companion) Pasquale Salza, Filomena Ferrucci, Federica Sarro
2015	Misc	`conf`	A parallel genetic algorithms framework based on Hadoop MapReduce. SAC Filomena Ferrucci, Pasquale Salza, M. Tahar Kechadi, Federica Sarro
2015	—	`conf`	App store mining and analysis. DeMobile@SIGSOFT FSE Afnan A. Al-Subaihin, Anthony Finkelstein, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, William J. Martin, Federica Sarro, Yuanyuan Zhang
2015	A	`conf`	Feature lifecycles as they spread, migrate, remain, and die in App Stores. RE Federica Sarro, Afnan A. Al-Subaihin, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, William J. Martin, Yuanyuan Zhang
2015	B	`conf`	From Function Points to COSMIC - A Transfer Learning Approach for Effort Estimation. PROFES Anna Corazza, Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro
2015	A	`conf`	How to Make Best Use of Cross-Company Data for Web Effort Estimation? ESEM Leandro L. Minku, Federica Sarro, Emilia Mendes, Filomena Ferrucci
2015	B	`conf`	Inferring Test Models from Kate's Bug Reports Using Multi-objective Search. SSBSE Yuanyuan Zhang, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, Federica Sarro
2015	—	`conf`	Investigating Functional and Code Size Measures for Mobile Applications. EUROMICRO-SEAA Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Pasquale Salza, Federica Sarro
2015	B	`conf`	Investigating Functional and Code Size Measures for Mobile Applications: A Replicated Study. PROFES Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Pasquale Salza, Federica Sarro
2015	A	`conf`	The App Sampling Problem for App Store Mining. MSR William J. Martin, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, Federica Sarro, Yuanyuan Zhang
2014	—	`conf`	Conversion from IFPUG FPA to COSMIC: Within-vs Without-Company Equations. EUROMICRO-SEAA Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro
2014	A	`conf`	Cross- vs. within-company cost estimation studies revisited: an extended systematic review. EASE Emilia Mendes, Marcos Kalinowski, Daves Martins, Filomena Ferrucci, Federica Sarro
2014	—	`conf`	Exploiting prior-phase effort data to estimate the effort for the subsequent phases: a further assessment. PROMISE Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro
2014	B	`conf`	Less is More: Temporal Fault Predictive Performance over Multiple Hadoop Releases. SSBSE Mark Harman, Syed S. Islam, Yue Jia, Leandro L. Minku, Federica Sarro, Komsan Srivisut
2014	—	`ch.`	Search-Based Software Project Management. Software Project Management in a Changing World Filomena Ferrucci, Mark Harman, Federica Sarro
2014	—	`conf`	The plastic surgery hypothesis. SIGSOFT FSE Earl T. Barr, Yuriy Brun, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Mark Harman, Federica Sarro
2013	J	`jnl`	A Framework for Genetic Algorithms Based on Hadoop. CoRR Filomena Ferrucci, M. Tahar Kechadi, Pasquale Salza, Federica Sarro
2013	A*	`conf`	Not going to take this anymore: multi-objective overtime planning for software engineering projects. ICSE Filomena Ferrucci, Mark Harman, Jian Ren, Federica Sarro
2013	J	`jnl`	Using tabu search to configure support vector regression for effort estimation. Empir. Softw. Eng. Anna Corazza, Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro, Emilia Mendes
2012	A	`conf`	A Parallel Genetic Algorithm Based on Hadoop MapReduce for the Automatic Generation of JUnit Test Suites. ICST Linda Di Geronimo, Filomena Ferrucci, Alfonso Murolo, Federica Sarro
2012	Misc	`conf`	A further analysis on the use of Genetic Algorithm to configure Support Vector Machines for inter-release fault prediction. SAC Federica Sarro, Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino
2012	—	`conf`	Functional versus design measures for model-driven web applications: a case study in the context of web effort estimation. WETSoM Lucia De Marco, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro, Silvia Abrahão, Jaime Gómez
2012	Misc	`conf`	Single and Multi Objective Genetic Programming for software development effort estimation. SAC Federica Sarro, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino
2012	—	`conf`	Web effort estimation: the value of cross-company data set compared to single-company data set. PROMISE Filomena Ferrucci, Emilia Mendes, Federica Sarro
2011	—	`conf`	A Case Study on the Conversion of Function Points into COSMIC. EUROMICRO-SEAA Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro
2011	B	`conf`	A Genetic Algorithm to Configure Support Vector Machines for Predicting Fault-Prone Components. PROFES Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro
2011	—	`conf`	A Matching-Algorithm based on the Cloud and Positioning Systems to Improve Carpooling. DMS Sergio Di Martino, Raffaele Galiero, Clemente Giorio, Filomena Ferrucci, Federica Sarro
2011	B	`conf`	How Multi-Objective Genetic Programming Is Effective for Software Development Effort Estimation? SSBSE Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro
2011	—	`conf`	Search-based approaches for software development effort estimation. PROFES Workshops Federica Sarro
2011	B	`conf`	Using Web Objects for Development Effort Estimation of Web Applications: A Replicated Study. PROFES Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro
2010	—	`conf`	An Approach for the Development of DOOH-oriented Information Systems. ICEIS (3) Pietro D'Ambrosio, Filomena Ferrucci, Federica Sarro, Maurizio Tucci
2010	—	`conf`	Estimating Software Development Effort using Tabu Search. ICEIS (1) Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Rocco Oliveto, Federica Sarro
2010	—	`conf`	How effective is Tabu search to configure support vector regression for effort estimation? PROMISE Anna Corazza, Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro, Emilia Mendes
2010	—	`conf`	Investigating Tabu Search for Web Effort Estimation. EUROMICRO-SEAA Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Rocco Oliveto, Federica Sarro, Emilia Mendes
2009	—	`conf`	Using Tabu Search to Estimate Software Development Effort. IWSM/Mensura Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Rocco Oliveto, Federica Sarro