Publications

Lucas Berg, Lukas Krodinger, Stephan Lukasczyk, Annibale Panichella, Gordon Fraser†, Wim Vanhoof, Xavier Devroey (2026). Real-World Fault Detection for C-Extended Python Projects with Automated Unit Test Generation. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2025).

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Miikka Kuutila, Paul Ralph, Huilian Sophie Qiu, Ronnie De Souza Santos, Morakot Choetkiertikul, Amin Milani Fard, Rana Alkadhi, Xavier Devroey, Gregorio Robles, Hideaki Hata, Sebastian Baltes, Hera Arif, Vladimir Kovalenko, Shalini Chakraborty, Eray Tuzun, Gianisa Adisaputri (2026). Staying or Leaving? How Job Satisfaction, Embeddedness and Antecedents Predict Turnover Intentions of Software Professionals. 2026 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).

Aline Boulanger, Yassine Bouncer, Louise Delpierre Stasser, Xavier Devroey, Antonin Lesceux, Jérôme Maquoi, Kévin Schweitzer, Benoît Vanderose, Lucas Vervloessem (2026). SNAIL Report : Baromètre des pratiques de développement logiciel en Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.

Hugo Raskin, Xavier Devroey, Benoît Vanderose (2026). PRECOG: Pull Request Prioritization and Visualization. 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER).

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Guillaume Nguyen, Antoine Sacré, Anthony Simonofski, Xavier Devroey (2026). Ponderarium, a place for Cyber Physical System conformity assessment. Proceedings of the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

Anthony Simonofski, Benoît Vanderose (2025). Cinématech : Vingt oeuvres pour comprendre le numérique. L’Académie en poche, vol. 181.

Anaé De Baets, Guillaume Nguyen, Xavier Devroey, Fabian Gilson (2025). FETT: Fault Injection as an Educational and Training Tool in Cybersecurity. Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE).

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Martin Balfroid (2025). Generating Code Tours Using Locally-Runnable LLMs. 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE Companion ‘25).

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Jérôme Maquoi, Maxime Cauz, Benoît Vanderose, Xavier Devroey (2025). Energy Codesumption, Leveraging Test Execution for Source Code Energy Consumption Analysis. Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE Companion ’25).

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Guillaume Nguyen (2025). Automating the conformity assessment of Cyber-Physical Systems software. 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE Companion ‘25).

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Guillaume Nguyen, Xavier Devroey (2025). A3S3 - Automated Android Audit of Safety and Security Signals. Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE).

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Alix Decrop, Sara Eraso, Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin (2025). A Public Benchmark of REST APIs. Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE/ACM 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR).

Tobias Jetzen, Xavier Devroey, Nicolas Matton, Benoît Vanderose (2025). Towards debiasing code review support. Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE).

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Manon Galloy, Martin Balfroid, Benoît Vanderose, Xavier Devroey (2025). SelfBehave, Generating a Synthetic Behaviour-Driven Development Dataset Using SELF-INSTRUCT. Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW).

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Gabriel Benoit, François Georis, Géry Debongnie, Benoît Vanderose, Xavier Devroey (2025). FuzzE, Development of a Fuzzing Approach for Odoo's Tours Integration Testing Plateform. Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST).

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Thibault Septon, Santiago Villarreal Narvaez, Xavier Devroey, Bruno Dumas (2024). Exploiting Semantic Search and Object-Oriented Programming to Ease Multimodal Interface Development. Companion of the 16th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS Companion ‘24).

Martin Balfroid, Benoît Vanderose, Xavier Devroey (2024). Towards LLM-Generated Code Tours for Onboarding. Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Workshop on NL-based Software Engineering (NLBSE ‘24).

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Nicolas Riquet, Xavier Devroey, Benoît Vanderose (2024). Debt Stories: Capturing Social and Technical Debt in the Industry. International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt ‘24).

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Sophie Fortz, Paul Temple, Xavier Devroey, Patrick Heymans, Gilles Perrouin (2024). VaryMinions: Leveraging RNNs to Identify Variants in Variability-intensive Systems' Logs. Empirical Software Engineering.

Sophie Fortz, Paul Temple, Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin (2024). Towards Feature-based ML-enabled Behaviour Location. Proceedings of the 18th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2024).

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Guillaume Nguyen (2023). A configurable approach to cyber-physical systems fuzzing. Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume B.

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Martin Balfroid, Pierre Luycx, Benoît Vanderose, Xavier Devroey (2023). An Empirical Evaluation of Regular and Extreme Mutation Testing for Teaching Software Testing. Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW ‘23).

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Xavier Devroey, Alessio Gambi, Juan Pablo Galeotti, René Just, Fitsum Kifetew, Annibale Panichella, Sebastiano Panichella (2022). JUGE: An infrastructure for benchmarking Java unit test generators. Software Testing, Verification and Reliability.

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Pierre Ortegat, Benoît Vanderose, Xavier Devroey (2022). Towards Automated Testing for Simple Programming Exercises. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Education through Advanced Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (EASEAI ‘22).

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Pouria Derakhshanfar, Xavier Devroey, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Arie Van Deursen (2022). Generating Class-Level Integration Tests Using Call Site Information. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Pouria Derakhshanfar, Xavier Devroey, Andy Zaidman (2022). Basic block coverage for search-based unit testing and crash reproduction. Empirical Software Engineering.

Nicolas Riquet, Xavier Devroey, Benoît Vanderose (2022). GitDelver Enterprise Dataset (GDED): An Industrial Closed-source Dataset for Socio-Technical Research. 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR ‘22).

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Pouria Derakhshanfar, Xavier Devroey (2022). Basic Block Coverage for Unit Test Generation at the SBST 2022 Tool Competition. 15th Search- Based Software Testing Workshop (SBST ‘22), May 9, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

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Sophie Fortz, Paul Temple, Xavier Devroey, Patrick Heymans, Gilles Perrouin (2021). Presentation abstract: VaryMinions , Identifying Variants in Event Logs with RNNs. 20th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop, BENEVOL ‘21.

Nicolas Riquet, Xavier Devroey, Benoît Vanderose (2021). Presentation abstract : A first case study about key socio-technical software indicators at Forem. 20th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop, BENEVOL ‘21.

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Xavier Devroey, Moussa Amrani, Benoît Vanderose (2021). Experience Report on Soft and Project Skills Building through Repetition. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Education through Advanced Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (EASEAI ‘21).

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Boris Cherry, Xavier Devroey, Pouria Derakhshanfar, Benoît Vanderose (2020). Crash reproduction difficulty, an initial assessment. Proceedings of the 19th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL ‘20).