Filippo Ricca

209 papers A* 4A 22B 13C 5Misc 18Journal 66Unranked 76
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
AI in GUI-based testing: A survey of techniques, tools, and perceived advantages and limitations.
J. Syst. Softw.
Domenico Amalfitano, Riccardo Coppola, Damiano Distante, Filippo Ricca
2026 J jnl
BEWT: Extended Benchmarking for End-to-End Web Testing.
J. Syst. Softw.
Dario Olianas, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2026 J jnl
Test automation with selenium: A survey.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Boni García, Filippo Ricca, Maurizio Leotta, Mario Muñoz Organero
2026 J jnl
Towards Automated Page Object Generation for Web Testing using Large Language Models.
CoRR
Betül Karagöz, Filippo Ricca, Matteo Biagiola, Andrea Stocco
2025 J jnl
A family of experiments to quantify the benefits of adopting WebDriverManager and Selenium-Jupiter.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Maurizio Leotta, Boni García, Filippo Ricca
2025 J jnl
A multi-year grey literature review on AI-assisted test automation.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Marchetto, Andrea Stocco
2025 — conf
BEWT: A Benchmark for End-to-End Web Testing.
SEAA (3)
Dario Olianas, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2025 B conf
Enhancing Software Maintainability Through LLM-Assisted Code Refactoring.
PROFES
Tommaso Fulcini, Riccardo Coppola, Flavio Giobergia, Amirali Changizi, Meelad Dashti, Kimia Dorrani, Domenico Amalfitano, Damiano Distante, Filippo Ricca
2025 A conf
Leveraging Large Language Models for Explicit Wait Management in End-to-End Web Testing.
ICST
Dario Olianas, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2025 J jnl
Next-Generation Software Testing: AI-Powered Test Automation.
IEEE Softw.
Filippo Ricca, Boni García, Michel Nass, Mark Harman
2025 J jnl
STILE: A tool for optimizing E2E web test scripts parallelization.
J. Syst. Softw.
Dario Olianas, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Matteo Biagiola, Paolo Tonella
2025 — conf
SleepReplacer-GPT: AI-Based Thread Sleep Replacement in Selenium WebDriver Tests.
ICSTW
Dario Olianas, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2025 J jnl
TESTQUEST: A Web Gamification Tool to Improve Locators and Page Objects Quality.
CoRR
Dario Olianas, Diego Clerissi, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2024 — conf
A Gaming Quest to Improve Web Locators Robustness.
Gamify@ISSTA
Diego Clerissi, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2024 J jnl
A Multi-Year Grey Literature Review on AI-assisted Test Automation.
CoRR
Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Marchetto, Andrea Stocco
2024 Misc conf
AI in GUI-Based Software Testing: Insights from a Survey with Industrial Practitioners.
QUATIC
Domenico Amalfitano, Riccardo Coppola, Damiano Distante, Filippo Ricca
2024 A conf
AI-Generated Test Scripts for Web E2E Testing with ChatGPT and Copilot: A Preliminary Study.
EASE
Maurizio Leotta, Hafiz Zeeshan Yousaf, Filippo Ricca, Boni García
2024 J jnl
An empirical study to compare three web test automation approaches: NLP-based, programmable, and capture&replay.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Marchetto, Dario Olianas
2024 Misc conf
Exploring Browser Automation: A Comparative Study of Selenium, Cypress, Puppeteer, and Playwright.
QUATIC
Boni García, José M. del Álamo, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2024 J jnl
Mutta: a novel tool for E2E web mutation testing.
Softw. Qual. J.
Maurizio Leotta, Davide Paparella, Filippo Ricca
2024 — conf
Use of ChatGPT as an Assistant in the End-to-End Test Script Generation for Android Apps.
A-TEST@ISSTA
Boni García, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Jim Whitehead
2023 Misc conf
A Retrospective Analysis of Grey Literature for AI-Supported Test Automation.
QUATIC
Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Marchetto, Andrea Stocco
2023 A conf
Challenges of End-to-End Testing with Selenium WebDriver and How to Face Them: A Survey.
ICST
Maurizio Leotta, Boni García, Filippo Ricca, Jim Whitehead
2023 J jnl
Enhancing Web Applications Observability through Instrumented Automated Browsers.
J. Syst. Softw.
Boni García, Filippo Ricca, José M. del Álamo, Maurizio Leotta
2023 J jnl
Fight silent horror unit test methods by consulting a TestWizard.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Maura Cerioli, Giovanni Lagorio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2023 J jnl
Introduction to the special issue on test automation: Trends, benefits, and costs.
J. Syst. Softw.
Antonia Bertolino, Guglielmo De Angelis, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2023 J jnl
Similarity-based Web Element Localization for Robust Test Automation.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.
Michel Nass, Emil Alégroth, Robert Feldt, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2022 J jnl
A large experimentation to analyze the effects of implementation bugs in machine learning algorithms.
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Maurizio Leotta, Dario Olianas, Filippo Ricca
2022 Misc conf
An Empirical Study to Quantify the SetUp and Maintenance Benefits of Adopting WebDriverManager.
QUATIC
Maurizio Leotta, Boni García, Filippo Ricca
2022 A conf
Assessor: a PO-Based WebDriver Test Suites Generator from Selenium IDE Recordings.
ICST
Maurizio Leotta, Antonio Molinari, Filippo Ricca
2022 Misc conf
Comparing the Effectiveness of Assertions with Differential Testing in the Context of Web Testing.
QUATIC
Maurizio Leotta, Davide Paparella, Filippo Ricca
2022 Misc conf
Is NLP-based Test Automation Cheaper Than Programmable and Capture &Replay?
QUATIC
Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Simone Stoppa, Alessandro Marchetto
2022 J jnl
MATTER: A tool for generating end-to-end IoT test scripts.
Softw. Qual. J.
Dario Olianas, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2022 J jnl
Similarity-based web element localization for robust test automation.
CoRR
Michel Nass, Emil Alégroth, Robert Feldt, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2022 J jnl
SleepReplacer: a novel tool-based approach for replacing thread sleeps in selenium WebDriver test code.
Softw. Qual. J.
Dario Olianas, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2021 J jnl
A service-oriented method for domain and business process modelling.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2021 — conf
AI-based Test Automation: A Grey Literature Analysis.
ICST Workshops
Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Marchetto, Andrea Stocco
2021 Misc conf
COVID-19 hits the job market: an 88 million job ads analysis.
SAC
Maura Cerioli, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2021 Misc conf
Reducing Flakiness in End-to-End Test Suites: An Experience Report.
QUATIC
Dario Olianas, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Luca Villa
2021 A conf
STILE: a Tool for Parallel Execution of E2E Web Test Scripts.
ICST
Dario Olianas, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Matteo Biagiola, Paolo Tonella
2021 J jnl
Sidereal: Statistical adaptive generation of robust locators for web testing.
Softw. Test. Verification Reliab.
Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2021 — conf
Test'n'Mo: a collaborative platform for human testers and intelligent monitoring agents.
VORTEX@ISSTA
Filippo Ricca, Viviana Mascardi, Alessandro Verri
2021 — conf
Towards automated generation of PO-based WebDriver test suites from Selenium IDE recordings.
A-TEST@ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Filippo Ricca, Maurizio Leotta
2021 B conf
Web Test Automation: Insights from the Grey Literature.
SOFSEM
Filippo Ricca, Andrea Stocco
2020 A conf
A Family of Experiments to Assess the Impact of Page Object Pattern in Web Test Suite Development.
ICST
Maurizio Leotta, Matteo Biagiola, Filippo Ricca, Mariano Ceccato, Paolo Tonella
2020 B conf
A Set of Empirically Validated Development Guidelines for Improving Node-RED Flows Comprehension.
ENASE
Diego Clerissi, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2020 Misc conf
An Approach and a Prototype Tool for Generating Executable IoT System Test Cases.
QUATIC
Dario Olianas, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2020 A conf
Dependency-Aware Web Test Generation.
ICST
Matteo Biagiola, Andrea Stocco, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2020 — conf
Improving Node-RED Flows Comprehension with a Set of Development Guidelines.
ENASE (Selected Papers)
Diego Clerissi, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2020 J jnl
Two experiments for evaluating the impact of Hamcrest and AssertJ on assertion development.
Softw. Qual. J.
Maurizio Leotta, Maura Cerioli, Dario Olianas, Filippo Ricca
2020 Misc conf
What 5 million job advertisements tell us about testing: a preliminary empirical investigation.
SAC
Maura Cerioli, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2019 J jnl
Chapter Three - Three Open Problems in the Context of E2E Web Testing and a Vision: NEONATE.
Adv. Comput.
Filippo Ricca, Maurizio Leotta, Andrea Stocco
2019 B conf
Comparing Testing and Runtime Verification of IoT Systems: A Preliminary Evaluation based on a Case Study.
ENASE
Maurizio Leotta, Diego Clerissi, Luca Franceschini, Dario Olianas, Davide Ancona, Filippo Ricca, Marina Ribaudo
2019 — conf
Diversity-based web test generation.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Matteo Biagiola, Andrea Stocco, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2019 J jnl
E2E Web Test Dependency Detection using NLP.
CoRR
Matteo Biagiola, Andrea Stocco, Ali Mesbah, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2019 Misc conf
Hamcrest vs AssertJ: An Empirical Assessment of Tester Productivity.
QUATIC
Maurizio Leotta, Maura Cerioli, Dario Olianas, Filippo Ricca
2019 Misc conf
How do implementation bugs affect the results of machine learning algorithms?
SAC
Maurizio Leotta, Dario Olianas, Filippo Ricca, Nicoletta Noceti
2019 — conf
Web test dependency detection.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Matteo Biagiola, Andrea Stocco, Ali Mesbah, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2018 Misc conf
A method for developing model to text transformations.
SAC
Alessandro Tiso, Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2018 J jnl
An acceptance testing approach for Internet of Things systems.
IET Softw.
Maurizio Leotta, Diego Clerissi, Dario Olianas, Filippo Ricca, Davide Ancona, Giorgio Delzanno, Luca Franceschini, Marina Ribaudo
2018 J jnl
DUSM: A Method for Requirements Specification and Refinement Based on Disciplined Use Cases and Screen Mockups.
J. Comput. Sci. Technol.
Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Diego Clerissi
2018 Misc conf
Fluent vs Basic Assertions in Java: An Empirical Study.
QUATIC
Maurizio Leotta, Maura Cerioli, Dario Olianas, Filippo Ricca
2018 J jnl
On the impact of state-based model-driven development on maintainability: a family of experiments using UniMod.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Maurizio Leotta, Alessandro Tiso, Giovanna Guerrini, Gianna Reggio
2018 J jnl
Pesto: Automated migration of DOM-based Web tests towards the visual approach.
Softw. Test. Verification Reliab.
Maurizio Leotta, Andrea Stocco, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2018 — conf
Towards a Runtime Verification Approach for Internet of Things Systems.
ICWE Workshops
Maurizio Leotta, Davide Ancona, Luca Franceschini, Dario Olianas, Marina Ribaudo, Filippo Ricca
2018 — conf
Towards an approach for developing and testing Node-RED IoT systems.
EnSEmble@ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Diego Clerissi, Maurizio Leotta, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca
2017 J jnl
APOGEN: automatic page object generator for web testing.
Softw. Qual. J.
Andrea Stocco, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2017 — conf
An Abstract Machine for Asynchronous Programs with Closures and Priority Queues.
RP
Davide Ancona, Giorgio Delzanno, Luca Franceschini, Maurizio Leotta, Enrico Prampolini, Marina Ribaudo, Filippo Ricca
2017 J jnl
Do UML object diagrams affect design comprehensibility? Results from a family of four controlled experiments.
J. Vis. Lang. Comput.
Marco Torchiano, Giuseppe Scanniello, Filippo Ricca, Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta
2017 B conf
Search Based Path and Input Data Generation for Web Application Testing.
SSBSE
Matteo Biagiola, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2017 Misc conf
Service-oriented domain and business process modelling.
SAC
Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Diego Clerissi, Filippo Ricca
2017 — conf
Towards Runtime Monitoring of Node.js and Its Application to the Internet of Things.
ALP4IoT@iFM
Davide Ancona, Luca Franceschini, Giorgio Delzanno, Maurizio Leotta, Marina Ribaudo, Filippo Ricca
2017 — conf
Towards an Acceptance Testing Approach for Internet of Things Systems.
ICWE Workshops
Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Diego Clerissi, Davide Ancona, Giorgio Delzanno, Marina Ribaudo, Luca Franceschini
2017 — conf
Towards the Generation of End-to-End Web Test Scripts from Requirements Specifications.
RE Workshops
Diego Clerissi, Maurizio Leotta, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca
2016 B conf
A Lightweight Semi-automated Acceptance Test-Driven Development Approach for Web Applications.
ICWE
Diego Clerissi, Maurizio Leotta, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca
2016 J jnl
Approaches and Tools for Automated End-to-End Web Testing.
Adv. Comput.
Maurizio Leotta, Diego Clerissi, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2016 B conf
Automatic Page Object Generation with APOGEN.
ICWE
Andrea Stocco, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2016 B conf
Clustering-Aided Page Object Generation for Web Testing.
ICWE
Andrea Stocco, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2016 J jnl
Robula+: an algorithm for generating robust XPath locators for web testing.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Maurizio Leotta, Andrea Stocco, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2016 Misc conf
Test Driven Development of Web Applications: A Lightweight Approach.
QUATIC
Diego Clerissi, Maurizio Leotta, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca
2016 — conf
Towards a Holistic Method for Business Process Analytics.
Monterey Workshop
Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Egidio Astesiano
2015 B conf
A Method for Requirements Capture and Specification Based on Disciplined Use Cases and Screen Mockups.
PROFES
Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2015 Misc conf
Automated generation of visual web tests from DOM-based web tests.
SAC
Maurizio Leotta, Andrea Stocco, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2015 J jnl
Editorial of special section from Software Evolution Week 2014.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
David W. Binkley, Filippo Ricca, Serge Demeyer
2015 — conf
Meta-heuristic Generation of Robust XPath Locators for Web Testing.
SBST@ICSE
Maurizio Leotta, Andrea Stocco, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2015 J jnl
On the comprehension of workflows modeled with a precise style: results from a family of controlled experiments.
Softw. Syst. Model.
Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Giuseppe Scanniello, Francesco Di Cerbo, Gabriella Dodero
2015 A conf
Using Multi-Locators to Increase the Robustness of Web Test Cases.
ICST
Maurizio Leotta, Andrea Stocco, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2015 — conf
Why Creating Web Page Objects Manually If It Can Be Done Automatically?
AST@ICSE
Andrea Stocco, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2014 — ed.
2014 Software Evolution Week - IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance, Reengineering, and Reverse Engineering, CSMR-WCRE 2014, Antwerp, Belgium, February 3-6, 2014
CSMR-WCRE
Serge Demeyer, Dave W. Binkley, Filippo Ricca
2014 J jnl
A family of experiments to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of source code obfuscation techniques.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Mariano Ceccato, Massimiliano Di Penta, Paolo Falcarin, Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Paolo Tonella
2014 J jnl
Assessing the Effect of Screen Mockups on the Comprehension of Functional Requirements.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.
Filippo Ricca, Giuseppe Scanniello, Marco Torchiano, Gianna Reggio, Egidio Astesiano
2014 — conf
Improving the Quality and the Comprehension of Requirements: Disciplined Use Cases and Mockups.
EUROMICRO-SEAA
Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Maurizio Leotta
2014 C conf
PESTO: A Tool for Migrating DOM-Based to Visual Web Tests.
SCAM
Andrea Stocco, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2014 J jnl
Recent Advances in Web Testing.
Adv. Comput.
Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Marchetto
2014 — conf
Reducing Web Test Cases Aging by Means of Robust XPath Locators.
ISSRE Workshops
Maurizio Leotta, Andrea Stocco, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2014 B conf
Visual vs. DOM-Based Web Locators: An Empirical Study.
ICWE
Maurizio Leotta, Diego Clerissi, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2014 — conf
What Are the Used UML Diagram Constructs? A Document and Tool Analysis Study Covering Activity and Use Case Diagrams.
MODELSWARD (Revised Selected Papers)
Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Diego Clerissi
2014 C conf
What are the used Activity Diagram Constructs? - A Survey.
MODELSWARD
Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Diego Clerissi
2014 A conf
Who Knows/Uses What of the UML: A Personal Opinion Survey.
MoDELS
Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2013 — ed.
17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR 2013, Genova, Italy, March 5-8, 2013
CSMR
Anthony Cleve, Filippo Ricca, Maura Cerioli
2013 — conf
A Pilot Experiment to Quantify the Effect of Documentation Accuracy on Maintenance Tasks.
ICSM
Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Giuliano Antoniol, Vahid Garousi, Junji Zhi, Günther Ruhe
2013 — conf
Capture-replay vs. programmable web testing: An empirical assessment during test case evolution.
WCRE
Maurizio Leotta, Diego Clerissi, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2013 J jnl
Comparing the comprehensibility of requirements models expressed in Use Case and Tropos: Results from a family of experiments.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Irit Hadar, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Tsvi Kuflik, Anna Perini, Filippo Ricca, Angelo Susi
2013 — conf
Comparing the maintainability of selenium WebDriver test suites employing different locators: a case study.
JAMAICA@ISSTA
Maurizio Leotta, Diego Clerissi, Filippo Ricca, Cristiano Spadaro
2013 B conf
Empirical evaluation of uml-based model-driven techniques: Poster paper.
RCIS
Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Gianna Reggio
2013 — conf
Estimating the Effort to Develop Screen Mockups.
EUROMICRO-SEAA
Giuseppe Scanniello, Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Carmine Gravino, Gianna Reggio
2013 J jnl
Guest Editorial: Special Section on International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2011.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Filippo Ricca, Thomas R. Dean, Susan Elliott Sim
2013 — conf
Improving Test Suites Maintainability with the Page Object Pattern: An Industrial Case Study.
ICST Workshops
Maurizio Leotta, Diego Clerissi, Filippo Ricca, Cristiano Spadaro
2013 J jnl
MADMatch: Many-to-Many Approximate Diagram Matching for Design Comparison.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Segla Kpodjedo, Filippo Ricca, Philippe Galinier, Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc
2013 J jnl
Relevance, benefits, and problems of software modelling and model driven techniques - A survey in the Italian industry.
J. Syst. Softw.
Marco Torchiano, Federico Tomassetti, Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Tiso, Gianna Reggio
2013 A conf
Repairing Selenium Test Cases: An Industrial Case Study about Web Page Element Localization.
ICST
Maurizio Leotta, Diego Clerissi, Filippo Ricca, Cristiano Spadaro
2013 — conf
Six reasons for rejecting an industrial survey paper.
CESI@ICSE
Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca
2013 J jnl
Studying software evolution of large object-oriented software systems using an ETGM algorithm.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Segla Kpodjedo, Filippo Ricca, Philippe Galinier, Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc
2013 — conf
Web testware evolution.
WSE
Filippo Ricca, Maurizio Leotta, Andrea Stocco, Diego Clerissi, Paolo Tonella
2013 — conf
What are the used UML diagrams? A Preliminary Survey.
EESSMod@MoDELS
Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Diego Clerissi
2012 — conf
An exploratory survey on SOA knowledge, adoption and trend in the Italian industry.
WSE
Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Marina Ribaudo, Gianna Reggio, Egidio Astesiano, Tullio Vernazza
2012 — conf
Benefits from modelling and MDD adoption: expectations and achievements.
EESSMod@MoDELS
Marco Torchiano, Federico Tomassetti, Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Tiso, Gianna Reggio
2012 — conf
Business process modelling: five styles and a method to choose the most suitable one.
EESSMod@MoDELS
Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Egidio Astesiano
2012 A conf
Maturity of software modelling and model driven engineering: A survey in the Italian industry.
EASE
Federico Tomassetti, Marco Torchiano, Alessandro Tiso, Filippo Ricca, Gianna Reggio
2012 J jnl
ReAjax: a reverse engineering tool for Ajax Web applications.
IET Softw.
Alessandro Marchetto, Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca
2012 A* conf
SOA adoption in the Italian industry.
ICSE
Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Marina Ribaudo, Gianna Reggio, Egidio Astesiano, Tullio Vernazza
2012 — conf
Towards a lightweight model driven method for developing SOA systems using existing assets.
WSE
Maurizio Leotta, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Egidio Astesiano
2012 C conf
Using UniMod for maintenance tasks: an experimental assessment in the context of model driven development.
MiSE
Filippo Ricca, Maurizio Leotta, Gianna Reggio, Alessandro Tiso, Giovanna Guerrini, Marco Torchiano
2011 — conf
"Precise is better than light" a document analysis study about quality of business process models.
EmpiRE
Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
2011 A conf
A Precise Style for Business Process Modelling: Results from Two Controlled Experiments.
MoDELS
Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Giuseppe Scanniello, Francesco Di Cerbo, Gabriella Dodero
2011 J jnl
Are web applications more defect-prone than desktop applications?
Int. J. Softw. Tools Technol. Transf.
Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Marchetto
2011 — conf
Assessing the Effectiveness of "Precise" Activity Diagrams in the Context of Business Process Modeling.
SEBD
Francesco Di Cerbo, Gabriella Dodero, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Giuseppe Scanniello
2011 — conf
Building VECM-based Systems with a Model Driven Approach: an Experience Report.
EESSMod@MoDELS
Maurizio Leotta, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Egidio Astesiano
2011 — conf
Comparing the Maintainability of Two Alternative Architectures of a Postal System: SOA vs. Non-SOA.
CSMR
Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Gianna Reggio, Egidio Astesiano
2011 J jnl
Design evolution metrics for defect prediction in object oriented systems.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Segla Kpodjedo, Filippo Ricca, Philippe Galinier, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol
2011 — conf
Is my project's truck factor low?: theoretical and empirical considerations about the truck factor threshold.
WETSoM
Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Marchetto
2011 J jnl
Migration of information systems in the Italian industry: A state of the practice survey.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Marco Torchiano, Massimiliano Di Penta, Filippo Ricca, Andrea De Lucia, Filippo Lanubile
2011 B conf
On the Difficulty of Computing the Truck Factor.
PROFES
Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Marchetto, Marco Torchiano
2011 A conf
On the effectiveness of the UML object diagrams: A replicated experiment.
EASE
Giuseppe Scanniello, Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano
2011 B conf
Precise vs. Ultra-Light Activity Diagrams - An Experimental Assessment in the Context of Business Process Modelling.
PROFES
Francesco Di Cerbo, Gabriella Dodero, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Giuseppe Scanniello
2011 A conf
Preliminary Findings from a Survey on the MD State of the Practice.
ESEM
Marco Torchiano, Federico Tomassetti, Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Tiso, Gianna Reggio
2010 — conf
A Problem Frame-Based Approach to Evolvability: The Case of the Multi-translation.
Monterey Workshop
Gianna Reggio, Egidio Astesiano, Filippo Ricca, Maurizio Leotta
2010 Misc conf
An empirical study of requirements model understanding:
SAC
Irit Hadar, Tsvi Kuflik, Anna Perini, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Filippo Ricca, Angelo Susi
2010 A conf
Are Heroes common in FLOSS projects?
ESEM
Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Marchetto
2010 J jnl
Empirical comparison of graphical and annotation-based re-documentation approaches.
IET Softw.
Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2010 — conf
Heroes in FLOSS Projects: An Explorative Study.
WCRE
Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Marchetto
2010 J jnl
How Developers' Experience and Ability Influence Web Application Comprehension Tasks Supported by UML Stereotypes: A Series of Four Experiments.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marco Torchiano, Paolo Tonella, Mariano Ceccato
2010 A conf
Impact analysis by means of unstructured knowledge in the context of bug repositories.
ESEM
Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca
2010 A conf
On the effectiveness of screen mockups in requirements engineering: results from an internal replication.
ESEM
Filippo Ricca, Giuseppe Scanniello, Marco Torchiano, Gianna Reggio, Egidio Astesiano
2010 A conf
On the effort of augmenting use cases with screen mockups: results from a preliminary empirical study.
ESEM
Filippo Ricca, Giuseppe Scanniello, Marco Torchiano, Gianna Reggio, Egidio Astesiano
2010 — conf
SOAME 2010: International Workshop on SOA Migration and Evolution.
CSMR
Grace A. Lewis, Filippo Ricca, Ulrike Steffens, Matthias Postina, Andreas Winter
2010 — conf
Under and Over Approximation of State Models Recovered for Ajax Applications.
CSMR
Alessandro Marchetto, Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca
2009 — conf
A "quick and dirty" meet-in-the-middle approach for migrating to SOA.
EVOL/IWPSE
Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Marchetto
2009 J jnl
An Empirical Validation of a Web Fault Taxonomy and its Usage for Web Testing.
J. Web Eng.
Alessandro Marchetto, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2009 — conf
Defect location in traditional vs. Web applications - an empirical investigation.
WSE
Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Marchetto
2009 J jnl
From objects to services: toward a stepwise migration approach for Java applications.
Int. J. Softw. Tools Technol. Transf.
Alessandro Marchetto, Filippo Ricca
2009 — conf
Recovering the Evolution Stable Part Using an ECGM Algorithm: Is There a Tunnel in Mozilla?
CSMR
Segla Kpodjedo, Filippo Ricca, Philippe Galinier, Giuliano Antoniol
2009 A conf
The effectiveness of source code obfuscation: An experimental assessment.
ICPC
Mariano Ceccato, Massimiliano Di Penta, Jasvir Nagra, Paolo Falcarin, Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Paolo Tonella
2009 J jnl
Tool-supported requirements prioritization: Comparing the AHP and CBRank methods.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Anna Perini, Filippo Ricca, Angelo Susi
2009 J jnl
Using acceptance tests as a support for clarifying requirements: A series of experiments.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Massimiliano Di Penta, Mariano Ceccato, Paolo Tonella
2008 J jnl
A case study-based comparison of web testing techniques applied to AJAX web applications.
Int. J. Softw. Tools Technol. Transf.
Alessandro Marchetto, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2008 A* conf
Are fit tables really talking?: a series of experiments to understand whether fit tables are useful during evolution tasks.
ICSE
Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marco Torchiano, Paolo Tonella, Mariano Ceccato, Corrado Aaron Visaggio
2008 — conf
Comparing "Traditional" and Web Specific Fit Tables in Maintenance Tasks: A Preliminary Empirical Study.
CSMR
Alessandro Marchetto, Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano
2008 — conf
Dynamic model extraction and statistical analysis of Web applications: Follow-up after 6 years.
WSE
Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca
2008 — conf
Error Correcting Graph Matching Application to Software Evolution.
WCRE
Segla Kpodjedo, Filippo Ricca, Philippe Galinier, Giuliano Antoniol
2008 — conf
Guidelines on the use of Fit tables in software maintenance tasks: Lessons learned from 8 experiments.
ICSM
Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marco Torchiano
2008 J jnl
Improving Web site understanding with keyword-based clustering.
J. Softw. Maintenance Res. Pract.
Filippo Ricca, Emanuele Pianta, Paolo Tonella, Christian Girardi
2008 — conf
Modeling Business within a UML-Based Rigorous Software Development Approach.
Concurrency, Graphs and Models
Egidio Astesiano, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca
2008 — conf
Not all classes are created equal: toward a recommendation system for focusing testing.
RSSE@SIGSOFT FSE
Segla Kpodjedo, Filippo Ricca, Philippe Galinier, Giuliano Antoniol
2008 — ed.
Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution, WSE 2010, 3-4 October 2008, Beijing, China
WSE
Chao Liu, Filippo Ricca
2008 — conf
Software migration projects in Italian industry: Preliminary results from a state of the practice survey.
ASE Workshops
Marco Torchiano, Massimiliano Di Penta, Filippo Ricca, Andrea De Lucia, Filippo Lanubile
2008 A conf
State-Based Testing of Ajax Web Applications.
ICST
Alessandro Marchetto, Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca
2008 J jnl
The Use of Executable FIT Tables to support Maintenance and Evolution Tasks.
Electron. Commun. Eur. Assoc. Softw. Sci. Technol.
Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Massimiliano Di Penta, Mariano Ceccato, Paolo Tonella
2008 — conf
Towards experimental evaluation of code obfuscation techniques.
QoP
Mariano Ceccato, Massimiliano Di Penta, Jasvir Nagra, Paolo Falcarin, Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Paolo Tonella
2008 — conf
Transforming a Java application in an equivalent Web-services based application: Toward a tool supported stepwise approach.
WSE
Alessandro Marchetto, Filippo Ricca
2007 A conf
"Talking tests": a Preliminary Experimental Study on Fit User Acceptance Tests.
ESEM
Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Penta
2007 — conf
Empirical Studies in Software Maintenance and Evolution.
ICSM
Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca, Andrea De Lucia
2007 — conf
Empirical Validation of a Web Fault Taxonomy and its usage for Fault Seeding.
WSE
Alessandro Marchetto, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2007 J jnl
How design notations affect the comprehension of Web applications.
J. Softw. Maintenance Res. Pract.
Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marco Torchiano, Paolo Tonella, Mariano Ceccato
2007 — conf
Talking tests: an empirical assessment of the role of fit acceptance tests in clarifying requirements.
IWPSE
Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Mariano Ceccato, Paolo Tonella
2007 A* conf
The Role of Experience and Ability in Comprehension Tasks Supported by UML Stereotypes.
ICSE
Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marco Torchiano, Paolo Tonella, Mariano Ceccato
2006 — conf
An empirical study on the usefulness of Conallen's stereotypes inWeb application comprehension.
WSE
Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marco Torchiano, Paolo Tonella, Mariano Ceccato
2006 J jnl
Automatic support for the alignment of multilingual Web sites.
J. Softw. Maintenance Res. Pract.
Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca, Emanuele Pianta, Christian Girardi
2006 J jnl
Detecting Anomaly and Failure in Web Applications.
IEEE Multim.
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2006 J jnl
Tool-Supported Refactoring of Existing Object-Oriented Code into Aspects.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
David W. Binkley, Mariano Ceccato, Mark Harman, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2006 J jnl
Web crawlers compared.
Int. J. Web Inf. Syst.
Christian Girardi, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2005 — ch.
A Toolkit to Restructure Static Web Sites into Dynamic Web Applications.
Tools for Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca
2005 — conf
A comparative study on the re-documentation of existing software: code annotations vs. drawing editors.
ISESE
Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2005 — conf
Anomaly Detection in Web Applications: A Review of Already Conducted Case Studies.
CSMR
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2005 — conf
Automated Refactoring of Object Oriented Code into Aspects.
ICSM
David W. Binkley, Mariano Ceccato, Mark Harman, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2005 — conf
Hyperlinks Analysis in Multilingual Web Applications.
WSE
Filippo Ricca
2005 J jnl
Web Application Slicing in Presence of Dynamic Code Generation.
Autom. Softw. Eng.
Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca
2005 — conf
Web Testing: a Roadmap for the Empirical Research.
WSE
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2004 — conf
A 2-Layer Model for the White-Box Testing of Web Applications.
WSE
Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca
2004 — conf
An Empirical Study on Keyword-based Web Site Clustering.
IWPC
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella, Christian Girardi, Emanuele Pianta
2004 — conf
Analysis, Testing and Re-Structuring of Web Applications.
ICSM
Filippo Ricca
2004 — conf
Experimental Results on the Alignment of Multilingual Web Sites.
CSMR
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella, Emanuele Pianta, Christian Girardi
2004 J jnl
Statistical testing of Web applications.
J. Softw. Maintenance Res. Pract.
Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca
2003 — —
Analysis, testing and re-structuring of web applications.
Filippo Ricca
2003 — conf
Evaluation Methods for Web Application Clustering.
WSE
Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca, Emanuele Pianta, Christian Girardi, Giuseppe A. Di Lucca, Anna Rita Fasolino, Porfirio Tramontana
2003 — conf
Using Clustering to Support the Migration from Static to Dynamic Web Pages.
IWPC
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2003 — conf
Using Keyword Extraction for Web Site Clustering.
WSE
Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca, Emanuele Pianta, Christian Girardi
2002 C conf
Construction of the System Dependence Graph for Web Application Slicing.
SCAM
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2002 — conf
Dynamic Model Extraction and Statistical Analysis of Web Applications.
WSE
Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca
2002 — conf
Restructuring Multilingual Web Sites.
ICSM
Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca, Emanuele Pianta, Christian Girardi
2002 J jnl
Testing Processes of Web Applications.
Ann. Softw. Eng.
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2002 J jnl
Web application transformations based on rewrite rules.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella, Ira D. Baxter
2001 A* conf
Analysis and Testing of Web Applications.
ICSE
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2001 A conf
Building a Tool for the Analysis and Testing of Web Applications: Problems and Solutions.
TACAS
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2001 — conf
Recovering Traceability Links in Multilingual Web Sites.
WSE
Paolo Tonella, Filippo Ricca, Emanuele Pianta, Christian Girardi
2001 C conf
Restructuring Web Applications via Transformation Rules.
SCAM
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella, Ira D. Baxter
2001 J jnl
Understanding and Restructuring Web Sites with ReWeb.
IEEE Multim.
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2001 — conf
Web Application Slicing.
ICSM
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
2000 — conf
Web Site Analysis: Structure and Evolution.
ICSM
Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella