Software Engineering

The Software Engineering (SE) unit aims at supporting the improvement of the quality of the software, by providing developers with innovative techniques, tools and methodologies that increase their effectiveness and efficiency in two key areas of software development:

Requirements engineering
The unit provides methods and techniques for the specification and management of the requirements of complex software systems, following a goal-oriented requirements analysis approach; modelling and measuring the risk of open source adoption; gathering user feedback to support requirements elicitation and evolution.

Code analysis and testing
The unit provides advanced testing techniques and tools based on search-based algorithms for automated test case generation; model inference and model driven test case derivation; test oracle assessment and improvement. The unit has also a solid experience in the migration of legacy systems and has developed tools for automated software protection.

Head of Unit

Angelo Susi

Head of Unit

People

Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew

Software Engineering (SE) Postdoc
Artem Gabbasov

Software Engineering (SE) Technologist
Matteo Biagiola

Software Engineering (SE) PhD Student
Jacek Dabrowski

Software Engineering (SE) PhD Student
Anna Perini

Software Engineering (SE) Senior Researcher
Roberto Tiella

Software Engineering (SE) Researcher

Projects

Publications

Damian, Daniela; Perini, Anna; Lee, Seok-Won; Welcome Message from the RE’19 Chairs; in «27th {IEEE} International Requirements Engineering Conference, {RE} 2019, Jeju Island, Korea (South), September 23-27, 2019»; 2019; pp. 12-14
Ceccato, Mariano; Tonella, Paolo; Basile, Cataldo; Falcarin, Paolo; Torchiano, Marco; Coppens, Bart; De Sutter, Bjorn; Understanding the behaviour of hackers while performing attack tasks in a professional setting and in a public challenge; in «EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING»; Vol. 24>; 2019; pp. 240-286
Ceccato, Mariano; Gazzola, Luca; Kifetew, Fitsum Meshesha; Mariani, Leonardo; Orrù, Matteo; Tonella, Paolo; International Workshop on Governing Adaptive and Unplanned Systems of Systems; Towards in-vivo testing of mobile apps; in «IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (GAUSS 2019 Workshop)»; Los Alamitos, California; IEEE Computer Society; 2019; pp. 137-143
Rueda, Urko; Kifetew, Fitsum Meshesha; Devroey, Xavier; 12th International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing @ ICSE 2019; Towards automated test case generation maturity; in «Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Search-Based SoftwareTesting, [email protected] 2019»; IEEE; 2019; pp. 9-10
Kifetew, Fitsum Meshesha; Perini, Anna; Susi, Angelo; REFSQ-2019 Workshops, Doctoral Symposium, Live Studies Track, and Poster Track; Research on NLP for RE at the FBK-Software Engineering research line: a Report; in «Joint Proceedings of REFSQ-2019 Workshops, Doctoral Symposium, LiveStudies Track, and Poster Track co-located with the 24th InternationalConference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality(REFSQ 2019)»; Vol. 2376>; 2019; pp.
Kifetew, Fitsum Meshesha; Devroey, Xavier; Rueda, Urko; 12th International Workshop on Search-Based SoftwareTesting @ ICSE2019; Java unit testing tool competition: seventh round; in «Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Search-Based SoftwareTesting, [email protected] 2019»; IEEE / ACM; 2019; pp. 15-20
Dabrowski, Jacek; Letier, Emmanuel; Perini, Anna; Susi, Angelo; REFSQ 2019: Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality; Finding and Analyzing App Reviews Related to Specific Features: A Research Preview; in «Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality - 25th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2019, Essen, Germany, March 18-21, 2019,Proceedings»; Vol. 11412>; 2019; pp. 183-189
Piras, Luca; Dellagiacoma, Daniele; Perini, Anna; Susi, Angelo; Giorgini, Paolo; Mylopoulos, John; 13th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, {RCIS} 2019; Design Thinking and Acceptance Requirements for Designing Gamified Software; in «13th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, {RCIS} 2019, Brussels, Belgium, May 29-31, 2019»; 2019; pp. 1-12
Marchetto, Alessandro; Scanniello, Giuseppe; Susi, Angelo; Combining Code and Requirements Coverage with Execution Cost for Test Suite Reduction; in «IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING»; Vol. 45>; 2019; pp. 363-390
Damian, Daniela E.; Perini, Anna; Lee, Seok-Won; 27th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2019, Jeju Island, Korea (South), September 23-27, 2019; IEEE; 2019; pp.