Publications with Guiliano Antoniol 
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Articles in journal or book chapters
  1. Rubén Saborido, Rodrigo Morales, Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Getting the Most from Map Data Structures in Android. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 23(5):2829--2864, October 2018. Note: 35 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Program comprehension, Venue: EMSE.

  2. Zéphyrin Soh, Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Noise in Mylyn Interaction Traces and Its Impact on Developers and Recommendation Systems. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 23(2):645--692, April 2018. Note: 49 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Program comprehension, Venue: EMSE.

  3. Latifa Guerrouj, Zeinab Kermansaravi, Venera Arnaoudova, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Foutse Khomh, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Investigating the Relation between Lexical Smells and Change- and Fault-proneness: An Empirical Study. Software Quality Journal (SQJ), 25(3):641--670, September 2017. Note: 30 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Code and design smells, Venue: SQJ.

  4. Aminata Sabané, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Venera Arnaoudova, and Giuliano Antoniol. Fragile Base-class Problem, Problem?. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 22(5):2612--2657, October 2017. Note: 46 pages. Special issue on negative results. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Code and design smells, Venue: EMSE.

  5. Wenbin Li, Jane Huffman Hayes, Giulio Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Bram Adams. Error Leakage and Wasted Time: Sensitivity and Effort Analysis of a Requirements Consistency Checking Process. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP), 28(12):1061--1080, October 2016. Note: 20 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: JSEP.

  6. Wei Wu, Foutse Khomh, Bram Adams, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. An Exploratory Study of API Changes and Usages based on Apache and Eclipse Ecosystems. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 21(6):2366--2412, December 2016. Note: 47 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: EMSE.

  7. Nasir Ali, Zohreh Sharafi, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. An Empirical Study on the Importance of Source Code Entities for Requirements Traceability. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 20(2):442--478, April 2015. Note: 37 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Topic: Program comprehension, Venue: EMSE.

  8. Wei Wu, Adrien Serveaux, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. The Impact of Imperfect Change Rules on Framework API Evolution Identification: An Empirical Study. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 20(4):1126--1158, August 2015. Note: 32 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: EMSE.

  9. Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol, and Massimiliano Di Penta. Modèles de qualité et conception des programmes. In Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai, editor, Évolution et maintenance des systèmes logiciels (EMSL), chapter 3, pages 85--116. Éditions Lavoisier, avril 2014. Note: 32 pages. Hermes Science. Traité IC2, série Informatique et Systèmes d'Information. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Quality models, Topic: Design patterns, Venue: EMSL.

  10. Venera Arnaoudova, Laleh Mousavi Eshkevari, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. REPENT: Analyzing the Nature of Identifier Renamings. Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 40(5):502--532, May 2014. Note: 30 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Identifier analysis, Venue: TSE.

  11. Fehmi Jaafar, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Guiliano Antoniol, and Sylvie Hamel. Detecting Asynchrony and Dephase Change Patterns by Mining Software Repositories. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice (JSME), 26(1):77--106, January 2014. Note: 29 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: JSME, Venue: JSEP.

  12. Soumaya Medini, Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, Giulian Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Paolo Tonella. SCAN: An Approach to Label and Relate Execution Trace Segments. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP), 26(11):962--995, November 2014. Note: 33 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: JSEP.

  13. Nasir Ali, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Trustrace: Mining Software Repositories to Improve the Accuracy of Requirement Traceability Links. Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 39(5):725--741, May 2013. Note: 20 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: TSE.

  14. Latifa Guerrouj, Massimiliano Di Penta, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. An Experimental Investigation on the Effects of Context on Source Code Identifiers Splitting and Expansion. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 19(6):1--48, July 2013. Note: 45 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Identifier analysis, Venue: EMSE.

  15. Ségla Kpodjedo, Filippo Ricca, Philippe Galinier, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. MADMatch: Many-to-many Approximate Diagram Matching for Design Comparison. Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 39(8):1090--1111, February 2013. Note: 23 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: TSE.

  16. Ségla Kpodjedo, Filippo Ricca, Philippe Galinier, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Studying Software Evolution of Large Object-oriented Software Systems using an ETGM Algorithm. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice (JSME), 25(2):139--163, September 2013. Note: 28 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: JSME, Venue: JSEP.

  17. Nasir Ali, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Factors Impacting the Inputs of Traceability Recovery Approaches. In Andrea Zisman and Jane Cleland-Huang, editors, Software and Systems Traceability (SST), chapter 7, pages 99--127. Springer, September 2012. Note: 28 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: SST.

  18. Foutse Khomh, Massimiliano Di Penta, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Antipatterns on Class Change- and Fault-Proneness. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 17(3):243--275, June 2012. Note: 27 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Code and design smells, Venue: EMSE.

  19. Benoît de Smet, Lorent Lempereur, Zohreh Sharafi, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol, and Naji Habra. Taupe: Visualising and Analysing Eye-tracking Data. Science of Computer Programming (SCP), 79:260--278, February 2012. Note: 20 pages. 2nd special issue on Experimental Software and Toolkits. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Program comprehension, Venue: SCP.

  20. Latifa Guerrouj, Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. TIDIER: An Identifier Splitting Approach using Speech Recognition Techniques. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice (JSME), 25(6):575--599, June 2011. Note: 24 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Identifier analysis, Venue: JSME, Venue: JSEP.

  21. Ségla Kpodjedo, Filippo Ricca, Philippe Galinier, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Design Evolution Metrics for Defect Prediction in Object Oriented Systems. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 16(1):141--175, February 2011. Note: 34 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: EMSE.

  22. Janice Ka-Yee Ng, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Identification of Behavioral and Creational Design Motifs through Dynamic Analysis. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice (JSME), 22(8):597--627, November 2009. Note: 30 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Design patterns, Venue: JSME, Venue: JSEP.

  23. Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and Giuliano Antoniol. DeMIMA: A Multi-layered Framework for Design Pattern Identification. Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 34(5):667--684, September 2008. Note: 18 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Design patterns, Venue: TSE.

  24. Denys Poshyvanyk, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Andrian Marcus, Giuliano Antoniol, and Václav Rajlich. Feature Location using Probabilistic Ranking of Methods based on Execution Scenarios and Information Retrieval. Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 33(6):420--432, June 2007. Note: 14 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: TSE.

  25. Giuliano Antoniol and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Feature Identification: An Epidemiological Metaphor. Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 32(9):627--641, September 2006. Note: 15 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: TSE.


Conference articles
  1. Rubén Saborido, Foutse Khomh, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Comprehension of Ads-supported and Paid Android Applications: Are They Different?. In David Lo and Alexander Serebrenik, editors, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 143--153, May 2017. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Program comprehension, Venue: ICPC.

  2. Jane Huffman Hayes, Giuliano Antoniol, Bram Adams, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Inherent Characteristics of Traceability Artifacts: Less Is More. In Didar Zowghi and Vincenzo Gervasi, editors, Proceedings of the 23rd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), pages 196--201, August 2015. IEEE CS Press. Note: 6 pages. RE Next!. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Program comprehension, Venue: RE.

  3. Jane Huffman Hayes, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol, Wenbin Li, and Mirek Truszczynski. Error Leakage and Wasted Time: Sensitivity Analysis of a Requirements Consistency Checking Process. In Marouane Kessentini, editor, Proceedings of the 1st North American Search Based Software Engineering Symposium (NasBASE), pages 1061--1080, February 2015. Elsevier. Note: 15 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: NasBASE.

  4. Gabriele Bavota, Rocco Oliveto, Andrea De Lucia, Andrian Marcus, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. In Medio Stat Virtus: Extract Class Refactoring through Nash Equilibria. In Dave Binkley and Filippo Ricca, editors, Proceedings of the 1st CSMR-WCRE Software Evolution Week (CSMR-WCRE), pages 214--223, February 2014. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Code and design smells, Venue: CSMR-WCRE, Venue: CSMR, Venue: WCRE.

  5. Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. A New Family of Software Anti-Patterns: Linguistic Anti-Patterns. In Anthony Cleve and Filippo Ricca, editors, Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), pages 187--196, March 2013. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Identifier analysis, Venue: CSMR.

  6. Aminata Sabané, Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. A Study on the Relation Between Antipatterns and the Cost of Class Unit Testing. In Anthony Cleve and Filippo Ricca, editors, Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), pages 167--176, March 2013. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Test case generation, Venue: CSMR.

  7. Zohreh Sharafi, Alessandro Marchetto, Angelo Susi, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. An Empirical Study on the Efficiency of Graphical vs. Textual Representations in Requirements Comprehension. In Denys Poshyvanyk and Massimiliano Di Penta, editors, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), May 2013. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Program comprehension, Venue: ICPC.

  8. Zéphyrin Soh, Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Towards Understanding How Developers Spend Their Effort During Maintenance Activities. In Rocco Oliveto and Romain Robbes, editors, Proceedings of the 20th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 152--161, October 2013. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Program comprehension, Venue: WCRE.

  9. Zéphyrin Soh, Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol, and Bram Adams. On the Effect of Program Exploration on Maintenance Tasks. In Rocco Oliveto and Romain Robbes, editors, Proceedings of the 20th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 391--400, October 2013. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Program comprehension, Venue: WCRE.

  10. Surafel Lemma Abebe, Paolo Tonella, Venera Arnaoudova, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Can Lexicon Bad Smells Improve Fault Prediction?. In Rocco Oliveto and Denys Poshyvanyk, editors, Proceedings of the 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 235--244, October 2012. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Code and design smells, Venue: WCRE.

  11. Nasir Ali, Aminata Sabané, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Improving Bug Location Using Binary Class Relationships. In Mariano Ceccato and Zheng Li, editors, Proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), pages 174--183, September 2012. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Binary class relations, Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: SCAM.

  12. Nasir Ali, Zohreh Sharafi, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. An Empirical Study on Requirements Traceability Using Eye-Tracking. In Massimiliano Di Penta and Jonathan I. Maletic, editors, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Source Maintenance (ICSM), pages 191--200, September 2012. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Topic: Program comprehension, Venue: ICSM, Venue: ICSME.

  13. Neelesh Bhattacharya, Olfat El Mahi, Etienne Duclos, Giovanni Beltrame, Giuliano Antoniol, Sébastien Le Digabel, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Optimizing Threads Schedule Alignments to Expose the Interference Bug Pattern. In Gordon Fraser and Jerffeson Teixeira de Souza, editors, Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE), pages 90--104, September 2012. IEEE CS Press. Note: 15 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Test case generation, Venue: SSBSE.

  14. Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol, Daniel M. German, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Bram Adams. Five Days of Empirical Software Engineering: the PASED Experience. In Jochen Ludewig and Hausi A. Müller, editors, Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pages 1255--1258, June 2012. ACM Press. Note: 4 pages. Software Engineering Education Track. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Venue: ICSE.

  15. Latifa Guerrouj, Philippe Galinier, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol, and Massimiliano Di Penta. TRIS: a Fast and Accurate Identifiers Splitting and Expansion Algorithm. In Rocco Oliveto and Denys Poshyvanyk, editors, Proceedings of the 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 103--112, October 2012. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Identifier analysis, Venue: WCRE.

  16. Salima Hassaine, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Sylvie Hamel, and Giuliano Antoniol. ADvISE: Architectural Decay In Software Evolution. In Rudolf Ferenc Tom Mens, Anthony Cleve, editor, Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), pages 267--276, March 2012. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: CSMR.

  17. Abdou Maiga, Nasir Ali, Neelesh Bhattacharya, Aminata Sabané, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol, and Esma Aimeur. SMURF: A SVM-based Incremental Anti-pattern Detection Approach. In Rocco Oliveto and Denys Poshyvanyk, editors, Proceedings of the 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 466--475, October 2012. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Code and design smells, Venue: WCRE.

  18. Abddou Maiga, Nasir Ali, Neelesh Bhattacharya, Aminata Sabané, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol, and Esma Aimeur. Support Vector Machines for Anti-pattern Detection. In Tim Menzies and Motoshi Saeki, editors, Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), pages 278--281, September 2012. ACM Press. Note: 4 pages. Short paper. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Code and design smells, Venue: ASE.

  19. Soumaya Medini, Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Paolo Tonella. SCAN: an Approach to Label and Relate Execution Trace Segments. In Rocco Oliveto and Denys Poshyvanyk, editors, Proceedings of the 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 135--144, October 2012. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. \awardBest paper. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: WCRE.

  20. Zohreh Sharafi, Zéphyrin Soh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Women & Men -- Different but Equal: On the Impact of Identifier Style on Source Code Reading. In Arie van Deursen and Michael W. Godfrey, editors, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 27--36, June 2012. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Program comprehension, Venue: ICPC.

  21. Zéphyrin Soh, Zohreh Sharafi, Bertrand van den Plas, Gerardo Cepeda Porras, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Professional Status and Expertise for UML Class Diagram Comprehension: An Empirical Study. In Arie van Deursen and Michael W. Godfrey, editors, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 163--172, June 2012. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Program comprehension, Venue: ICPC.

  22. Marwen Abbes, Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. An Empirical Study of the Impact of Two Antipatterns, Blob and Spaghetti Code, On Program Comprehension. In Yiannis Kanellopoulos and Tom Mens, editors, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), pages 181--190, March 2011. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. \awardBest paper. \awardMost influential paper at SANER'21. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Code and design smells, Topic: Program comprehension, Venue: CSMR.

  23. Nasir Ali, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Requirements Traceability for Object Oriented Systems by Partitioning Source Code. In Martin Pinzger and Denys Poshyvanyk, editors, Proceedings of the 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 45--54, October 2011. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: WCRE.

  24. Nasir Ali, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Trust-Based Requirements Traceability. In Susan E. Sim and Filippo Ricca, editors, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 111--120, June 2011. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: ICPC.

  25. Nasir Ali, Wei Wu, Giuliano Antoniol, Massimiliano Di Penta, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Jane Huffman Hayes. MoMS: Multi-objective Miniaturization of Software. In James R. Cordy and Paolo Tonella, editors, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pages 153--162, September 2011. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: ICSM, Venue: ICSME.

  26. Ahmed Belderrar, Ségla Kpodjedo, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol, and Philippe Galinier. Sub-graph Mining: Identifying Micro-architectures in Evolving Object-oriented Software. In Yiannis Kanellopoulos and Tom Mens, editors, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), pages 171--180, March 2011. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: CSMR.

  27. Neelesh Bhattacharya, Abdelilah Sakti, Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Gilles Pesant. Divide-by-zero Exceptions Raising via Branch Coverage. In Myra Cohen and Mel Ó Cinnéide, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Search-based Software Engineering (SSBSE), pages 204--218, September 2011. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Test case generation, Venue: SSBSE.

  28. Neelesh Bhattacharya, Abdelilah Sakti, Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Gilles Pesant. Performance Analysis of Metaheuristic and Constraint Programming Approaches to Generate Structural Test Cases. In Fevzi Belli and Michael Linschulte, editors, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST), March 2011. IEEE CS Press. Note: 2 pages. Poster. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Test case generation, Venue: ICST.

  29. Laleh Mousavi Eshkevari, Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. An Exploratory Study of Identifier Renamings. In Tao Xie and Thomas Zimmermann, editors, Proceedings of the 8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pages 33--42, May 2011. ACM Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Quality models, Venue: MSR.

  30. Salima Hassaine, Ferdaous Boughanmi, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Sylvie Hamel, and Giuliano Antoniol. A Seismology-inspired Approach for Change Impact Analysis. In James R. Cordy and Paolo Tonella, editors, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pages 53--62, September 2011. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: ICSM, Venue: ICSME.

  31. Salima Hassaine, Ferdaous Boughanmi, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Sylvie Hamel, and Giuliano Antoniol. Change Impact Analysis: An Earthquake Metaphor. In Susan E. Sim and Filippo Ricca, editors, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 209--210, June 2011. IEEE CS Press. Note: 2 pages. Poster. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: ICPC.

  32. Fehmi Jaafar, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Sylvie Hamel, and Giuliano Antoniol. An Exploratory Study of Macro Co-changes. In Martin Pinzger and Denys Poshyvanyk, editors, Proceedings of the 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 325--334, October 2011. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: WCRE.

  33. Soumaya Medini, Philippe Galinier, Massimiliano Di Penta, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. A Fast Algorithm to Locate Concepts in Execution Traces. In Myra Cohen and Mel Ó Cinnéide, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Search-based Software Engineering (SSBSE), pages 252--266, September 2011. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: SSBSE.

  34. Venera Arnaoudova, Laleh Mousavi Eshkevari, Rocco Oliveto, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Physical and Conceptual Identifier Dispersion: Measures and Relation to Fault Proneness. In Rudolf Ferenc and Denys Poshyvanyk, editors, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pages 1--5, September 2010. IEEE CS Press. Note: 5 pages. Early Research Achievements Track. \awardBest paper. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Identifier analysis, Venue: ICSM, Venue: ICSME.

  35. Fatemeh Asadi, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Concept Location with Genetic Algorithms: A Comparison of Four Distributed Architectures. In Lionel Briand, editor, Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE), pages 153--162, September 2010. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: SSBSE.

  36. Fatemeh Asadi, Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. A Heuristic-based Approach to Identify Concepts in Execution Traces. In Rudolf Ferenc and Juan Carlos Dueñas, editors, Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), pages 31--40, March 2010. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: CSMR.

  37. Gabriele Bavota, Rocco Oliveto, Andrea De Lucia, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Playing with Refactoring: Identifying Extract Class Opportunities through Game Theory. In Rudolf Ferenc and Denys Poshyvanyk, editors, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pages 1--5, September 2010. IEEE CS Press. Note: 5 pages. Early Research Achievements Track. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Code and design smells, Venue: ICSM, Venue: ICSME.

  38. Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. German, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. An Exploratory Study of the Evolution of Software Licensing. In Prem Devanbu and Sebastian Uchitel, editors, Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pages 145--154, May 2010. ACM Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: ICSE.

  39. Nioosha Madani, Latifa Guerrouj, Massimiliano Di Penta, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Recognizing Words from Source Code Identifiers using Speech Recognition Techniques. In Rudolf Ferenc and Juan Carlos Dueñas, editors, Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), pages 68--77, March 2010. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. \awardBest paper. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Identifier analysis, Venue: CSMR.

  40. Rocco Oliveto, Foutse Khomh, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Numerical Signatures of Antipatterns: An Approach based on B-Splines. In Rudolf Ferenc and Juan Carlos Dueñas, editors, Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), pages 248--251, March 2010. IEEE CS Press. Note: 5 pages. Short paper. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Code and design smells, Venue: CSMR.

  41. Wei Wu, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol, and Miryung Kim. AURA: A Hybrid Approach to Identify Framework Evolution. In Prem Devanbu and Sebastian Uchitel, editors, Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pages 325--334, May 2010. ACM Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: ICSE.

  42. Daniel M. German, Massimiliano Di Penta, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Code Siblings: Technical and Legal Implications of Copying Code between Systems. In Michael W. Godfrey and Jim Whitehead, editors, Proceedings of the 6th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pages 81--90, May 2009. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: MSR.

  43. Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Playing Roles in Design Patterns: An Empirical Descriptive and Analytic Study. In Kostas Kontogiannis and Tao Xie, editors, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pages 83--92, September 2009. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Design patterns, Venue: ICSM, Venue: ICSME.

  44. Giuliano Antoniol, Kamel Ayari, Massimiliano Di Penta, Foutse Khomh, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Is It a Bug or an Enhancement? A Text-based Approach to Classify Change Requests. In Mark Vigder and Marsha Chechik, editors, Proceedings of the 18th IBM Centers for Advanced Studies Conference (CASCON), pages 23--37, October 2008. ACM Press. Note: 15 pages. \awardMost influential paper at CASCON'18. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: CASCON.

  45. Giuliano Antoniol, Jane Huffman Hayes, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Massimiliano Di Penta. Reuse or Rewrite: Combining Textual, Static, and Dynamic Analyses to Assess the Cost of Keeping a System Up-to-date. In Hong Mei and Kenny Wong, editors, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pages 147--156, September--October 2008. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: ICSM, Venue: ICSME.

  46. Massimiliano Di Penta, Luigi Cerulo, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. An Empirical Study of the Relationships between Design Pattern Roles and Class Change Proneness. In Hong Mei and Kenny Wong, editors, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pages 217--226, September--October 2008. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Design patterns, Venue: ICSM, Venue: ICSME.

  47. Marc Eaddy, Alfred V. Aho, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Cerberus: Tracing Requirements to Source Code Using Information Retrieval, Dynamic Analysis, and Program Analysis. In René Krikhaar and Ralf Lämmel, editors, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 53--62, June 2008. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: ICPC.

  48. Jane Huffman Hayes, Giuliano Antoniol, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Prereqir: Recovering Pre-Requirements via Cluster Analysis. In Andy Zaidman, Massimilano Di Penta, and Ahmed Hassan, editors, Proceedings of the 15th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 165--174, October 2008. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: WCRE.

  49. Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Ettore Merlo, and Paolo Tonella. Mining the Lexicon Used by Programmers during Software Evolution. In Ladan Tahvildari and Gerardo Canfora, editors, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pages 14--23, October 2007. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Identifier analysis, Venue: ICSM, Venue: ICSME.

  50. Salah Bouktif, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. Extracting Change-patterns from CVS Repositories. In Susan Elliott Sim and Massimiliano Di Penta, editors, Proceedings of the 13th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 221--230, October 2006. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: WCRE.

  51. Denys Poshyvanyk, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Andrian Marcus, Giuliano Antoniol, and Václav Rajlich. Combining Probabilistic Ranking and Latent Semantic Indexing for Feature Identification. In Jurgen Ebert and Panos Linos, editors, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 137--148, June 2006. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. \awardBest paper. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: ICPC.

  52. Giuliano Antoniol and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Feature Identification: A Novel Approach and a Case Study. In Tibor Gyimóthy and Vaclav Rajlich, editors, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pages 357--366, September 2005. IEEE CS Press. Note: 10 pages. \awardBest paper. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: ICSM, Venue: ICSME.

  53. Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Ettore Merlo, and Houari Sahraoui. Software Evolution: The Need for Empirical Evidence. In Paolo Tonella, editor, Proceedings of the 1st ICSM workshop on Empirical Studies in Reverse Engineering (WESRE), September 2005. IEEE CS Press. Note: 2 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: WESRE.

  54. Giuliano Antoniol, Ettore Merlo, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Houari Sahraoui. Feature Traceability in Object Oriented Software. In Jonathan I. Maletic, Giuliano Antonio, Jane Cleland-Huang, and Jane Huffman Hayes, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd ASE Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE), pages 73--78, November 2005. ACM Press. Note: 6 pages. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Requirements and features, Venue: TEFSE.

  55. Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Stefan Monnier, and Giuliano Antoniol. Evaluating the Use of Design Patterns during Program Comprehension -- Experimental Setting. In Giuliano Antoniol and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, editors, Proceedings of the 1st ICSM workshop in Design Pattern Theory and Practice (IWDPTP), September 2005. IEEE CS Press. Note: 6 pages. In the pre-proceedings. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Program comprehension, Venue: IWDPTP.


Internal reports
  1. Wei Wu, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol, and Miryung Kim. Halo: A Multi-feature Two-pass Analysis to Identify Framework API Evolution. Technical report EPM-RT-2013-05, École Polytechnique de Montréal, June 2013. Note: 24 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns.

  2. Foutse Khomh, Massimiliano Di Penta, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Guiliano Antoniol. An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Antipatterns on Software Changeability. Technical report EPM-RT-2009-02, École Polytechnique de Montréal, April 2009. Note: 15 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Code and design smells, Topic: Evolution patterns.

  3. Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Guiliano Antoniol. An Empirical Descriptive and Analytic Study of Playing Roles in Design Patterns. Technical report EPM-RT-2009-03, École Polytechnique de Montréal, April 2009. Note: 15 pages. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Design patterns, Topic: Evolution patterns.


Miscellaneous
  1. Wei Wu, Bram Adams, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. ACUA: API Change and Usage Auditor, September 2014. Note: 6 pages. Tool demo at the 14th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation. [Text ] Keyword(s): Topic: Code and design smells, Venue: SCAM.

  2. Wei Wu, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol. MOFAE: Multi-objective Optimization Approach to Framework API Evolution, June 2013. Note: 24 pages. Poster at the 2013 Spring Meeting of the Consortium for Software Engineering Research. [Text ] [Slides ] Keyword(s): Topic: Evolution patterns, Venue: CSER.