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A Search-Based Approach for Accurate Identification of Log Message Formats by Messaoudi, Salma, Panichella, Annibale, Bianculli, Domenico, Briand, Lionel, Sasnauskas, Raimondas

“…Many software engineering activities process the events contained in log files. However, before performing any processing activity, it is necessary to parse…”
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Testing Autonomous Cars for Feature Interaction Failures using Many-Objective Search by Ben Abdessalem, Raja, Panichella, Annibale, Nejati, Shiva, Briand, Lionel C., Stifter, Thomas

“…Complex systems such as autonomous cars are typically built as a composition of features that are independent units of functionality. Features tend to interact…”
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How to effectively use topic models for software engineering tasks? An approach based on Genetic Algorithms by Panichella, Annibale, Dit, Bogdan, Oliveto, Rocco, Di Penta, Massimilano, Poshynanyk, Denys, De Lucia, Andrea

“…Information Retrieval (IR) methods, and in particular topic models, have recently been used to support essential software engineering (SE) tasks, by enabling…”
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Defect prediction as a multiobjective optimization problem by Canfora, Gerardo, Lucia, Andrea De, Penta, Massimiliano Di, Oliveto, Rocco, Panichella, Annibale, Panichella, Sebastiano

“…SummaryIn this paper, we formalize the defect‐prediction problem as a multiobjective optimization problem. Specifically, we propose an approach, coined as…”
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A Systematic Comparison of search-Based approaches for LDA hyperparameter tuning by Panichella, Annibale

“…Context:Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) has been successfully used in the literature to extract topics from software documents and support developers in…”
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Serverless Testing: Tool Vendors' and Experts' Points of View by Lenarduzzi, Valentina, Panichella, Annibale

“…Testing serverless applications plays an important role in software quality assurance. The current status of testing and debugging in serverless-based…”
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Cross-project defect prediction models: L'Union fait la force by Panichella, Annibale, Oliveto, Rocco, De Lucia, Andrea

“…Existing defect prediction models use product or process metrics and machine learning methods to identify defect-prone source code entities. Different…”
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Automated Test Case Generation as a Many-Objective Optimisation Problem with Dynamic Selection of the Targets by Panichella, Annibale, Kifetew, Fitsum Meshesha, Tonella, Paolo

“…The test case generation is intrinsically a multi-objective problem, since the goal is covering multiple test targets (e.g., branches). Existing search-based…”
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Reformulating Branch Coverage as a Many-Objective Optimization Problem by Panichella, Annibale, Kifetew, Fitsum Meshesha, Tonella, Paolo

“…Test data generation has been extensively investigated as a search problem, where the search goal is to maximize the number of covered program elements (e.g.,…”
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Multi-objective Cross-Project Defect Prediction by Canfora, Gerardo, De Lucia, Andrea, Di Penta, Massimiliano, Oliveto, Rocco, Panichella, Annibale, Panichella, Sebastiano

“…Cross-project defect prediction is very appealing because (i) it allows predicting defects in projects for which the availability of data is limited, and (ii)…”
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A large scale empirical comparison of state-of-the-art search-based test case generators by Panichella, Annibale, Kifetew, Fitsum Meshesha, Tonella, Paolo

“…Replication studies and experiments form an important foundation in advancing scientific research. While their prevalence in Software Engineering is…”
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Search-Based Crash Reproduction and Its Impact on Debugging by Soltani, Mozhan, Panichella, Annibale, van Deursen, Arie

“…Software systems fail. These failures are often reported to issue tracking systems, where they are prioritized and assigned to responsible developers to be…”
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Testing with Fewer Resources: An Adaptive Approach to Performance-Aware Test Case Generation by Grano, Giovanni, Laaber, Christoph, Panichella, Annibale, Panichella, Sebastiano

“…Automated test case generation is an effective technique to yield high-coverage test suites. While the majority of research effort has been devoted to…”
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PETrA: A Software-Based Tool for Estimating the Energy Profile of Android Applications by Di Nucci, Dario, Palomba, Fabio, Prota, Antonio, Panichella, Annibale, Zaidman, Andy, De Lucia, Andrea

“…Energy efficiency is a vital characteristic of any mobile application, and indeed is becoming an important factor for user satisfaction. For this reason, in…”
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On the impact of code smells on the energy consumption of mobile applications by Palomba, Fabio, Di Nucci, Dario, Panichella, Annibale, Zaidman, Andy, De Lucia, Andrea

“…Context. The demand for green software design is steadily growing higher especially in the context of mobile devices, where the computation is often limited by…”
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A Test Case Prioritization Genetic Algorithm Guided by the Hypervolume Indicator by Di Nucci, Dario, Panichella, Annibale, Zaidman, Andy, De Lucia, Andrea

“…Regression testing is performed during maintenance activities to assess whether the unchanged parts of a software behave as intended. To reduce its cost, test…”
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Automatic Generation of Tests to Exploit XML Injection Vulnerabilities in Web Applications by Jan, Sadeeq, Panichella, Annibale, Arcuri, Andrea, Briand, Lionel

“…Modern enterprise systems can be composed of many web services (e.g., SOAP and RESTful). Users of such systems might not have direct access to those services,…”
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Developer Testing in the IDE: Patterns, Beliefs, and Behavior by Beller, Moritz, Gousios, Georgios, Panichella, Annibale, Proksch, Sebastian, Amann, Sven, Zaidman, Andy

“…Software testing is one of the key activities to achieve software quality in practice. Despite its importance, however, we have a remarkable lack of knowledge…”
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How to kill them all: An exploratory study on the impact of code observability on mutation testing by Zhu, Qianqian, Zaidman, Andy, Panichella, Annibale

“…Mutation testing is well-known for its efficacy in assessing test quality, and starting to be applied in the industry. However, what should a developer do when…”
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The slow and the furious? Performance antipattern detection in Cyber–Physical Systems by van Dinten, Imara, Derakhshanfar, Pouria, Panichella, Annibale, Zaidman, Andy

“…Cyber–Physical Systems (CPSs) have gained traction in recent years. A major non-functional quality of CPS is performance since it affects both usability and…”
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