Accepted at MSR 2025: Sampling Projects in GitHub for MSR Studies. 🔗Tool: seart-ghs.si.usi.ch ℹ️GitHub: github.com/seart-group/ghs 📄Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2103.04682… Developed by @ozren_dabic and Emad Aghajani in the seart.si.usi.ch group. Software Institute

11 days to the abstract submission of Replications and Negative Results (RENE) papers for SSBSE'21! We're waiting for your submissions! Dr. Venera Arnaoudova More info at: conf.researchr.org/track/ssbse-20…

GitHub Co-Pilot is certainly impressive. What an eclectic world this is. I'll just leave this here. Presented a couple of months ago at ICSE , done a year ago. Full paper here: inf.usi.ch/lanza/Download… REVEAL Software Institute

Do you want to participate in a team-based challenge to build, train, and race a self-driving scale car? Then you should participate to #FormulaUSI! ⏰ Hurry up! The deadline for the pre-registration is September 12! forms.gle/MJFBc8BDhtz9PL…

"FeaRS: Recommending Complete Android Method Implementations" by Fengcai Wen, Valentina Ferrari, Emad Aghajani, Csaba Nagy, Michele Lanza, Gabriele Bavota accepted at IEEE ICSME 2025 inf.usi.ch/lanza/Download…

📣 Due to unforeseen -yet expected- consequences, my VISSOFT keynote will be streamed over the Software Institute YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=bhUnmp… Monday Sep 27 @ 3:15 PM CET. Be there or be ⏹️ REVEAL rocks, Software Institute rolls.

"An Empirical Study on the Usage of Transformer Models for Code Completion" accepted at IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Matteo Ciniselli Nathan Cooper Luca Pascarella Antonio Mastropaolo Emad Aghajani Denys Max Di Penta A result of the DEVINTA European Research Council (ERC) project.

"Using Reinforcement Learning for Load Testing of Video Games" accepted at ICSE Rosalia Tufano Simone Scalabrino Luca Pascarella Emad Aghajani Rocco Oliveto 📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2201.06865 📈 Code/data: tinyurl.com/uvbzxfyf A result of the DEVINTA European Research Council (ERC) project.

🎉 The registrations for the #SISummit 2022 are open! We offer two types of tickets: Full Experience (CHF 10) and Streaming Only (free!). Visit our website to discover more! ℹ️ summit.si.usi.ch

That's how fast it is to search for GitHub projects matching specific criteria (e.g., >500 commits). New release: Faster, >1M repos. 🔗Tool: seart-ghs.si.usi.ch ℹ️GitHub: github.com/seart-group/ghs Developed by @ozren_dabic and Emad Aghajani in the seart.si.usi.ch group.

Super interesting talk on the development of Visual Studio Visual Studio Code by ErichGamma youtu.be/PMCvTL_kscI at the Software Institute #SISummit

You don't want to miss it

📣 The #SISeminarSeries presentation entitled "5 Years of Research: Lessons Learned" by Emad Aghajani (Emad Aghajani) is now available on YouTube! youtube.com/watch?v=0HNERV…

An email exchange with the nice IEEE ICSME 2025 crowd led to the following blurb. May be useful to some. I tried to keep it short and to the point. Could be/should be extended, but then it's not short anymore :-)

How to work with your advisor(s)? Working effectively with your advisor is the no doubt the key to success of your research! However, junior grad students often don't have a clear idea on how to do so. Sharing some tips that I found useful. 👇

Today @ 11:00 Rosalia Tufano Rosalia Tufano is going to present our proposal for the automated replacement of custom implementations with APIs (refactoring session). Don't miss her talk! #icsme2022 IEEE ICSME 2025

At #ICSME2022 Rosalia Tufano discusses about automatic replacement of custom software implementations with APIs! 🧩 Emad Aghajani Gabriele Bavota IEEE ICSME 2025

🧵 Announcing #DL4SE: Easily and quickly build large-scale code datasets to run MSR studies or train DL models. 🔗 Tool: seart-dl4se.si.usi.ch ℹ️ GitHub: github.com/seart-group/DL… How does it work and what you can do with it 👇

Yaay! #MyTwitterAnniversary

This tweet made my day. My small "Labeling Machine" project which backed several of my PhD research studies at REVEAL, has grown into full-fledged software by the TUe_SoftEng group at TU Eindhoven. I am glad and proud to have contributed to this success.