Research Projects

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REALM
The Reliability of ML-enabled systems (REALM) project is scientific cooperation projects with France under the Hubert Curien Tournesol Program. The TOURNESOL program is implemented by Wallonie Bruxelles-International (WBI), in partnership with the F.R.S.-FNRS and for France, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in liaison with the Ministry of National Education, Research and Technology.
REALM
SQUAL.AI
The Software Quality through Artificial Intelligence (SQUAL.AI) project is a Brazilian National Council of State Funding Agencies (CONFAP) and Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) joint research and innovation project.
SQUAL.AI
Raising developers' awareness of source code energy consumption

In recent years, sustainability concerns have emerged in the software engineering community. However, little research focuses on the link between the evolution of a source code and energy consumption. Consequently, most developers don’t know the energy consumption of their software during its development. To address this problem, we want to build a theory that binds the evolution of a source code to its energy consumption profile. This relies on the measurement of the energy consumption evolution of multiple projects using repository mining approaches, the analysis of the reasons for this evolution, the design of proper data visualization to make this information available for the developers, and the evaluation of these objectives through the development of a framework for developers. This theory and the associated framework may help developers have better knowledge of the energy consumption evolution of their software and tools to reduce its consumption.

CyberExcellence
The CyberExcellence project started in January 2022 under the umbrella of the CyberWal initiative and is funded by the Walloon region. It aims to position Wallonia as a major player in cybersecurity on the national and international map by developing a core framework allowing the implementation of solutions based on practical and thoughtful cybersecurity with a competitive advantage.
CyberExcellence
Defining software debt, an expanded and multidimensional view of socio-technical debt in industry
This project aims at developing a holistic approach to socio-technical debt by designing a framework for helping developers and managers to address software debt and prioritize mitigating actions in an industrial context.
Defining software debt, an expanded and multidimensional view of socio-technical debt in industry
ARIAC
ARIAC by DigitalWallonia4.ai is a research project funded by the Wallonia region bringing together the five French-speaking universities and four Walloon research centres with the primary objective to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence technologies in Wallonia.
ARIAC
Cognitive biases, minorities, and influence on sotware development methods
The project’s general purpose is to be able to highlight certain cognitive biases in our self-perception, our performance and our decision-making. The project initially aims to identify the different cognitive biases that may exist in different contexts, depending on group membership, etc. These cognitive biases identified, an attempt to measure them will be carried out to then highlight them in the eyes of those who experience them. Finally, the creation of tools and techniques to limit the impact of cognitive biases could be evaluated.

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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).

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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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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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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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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).

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