Software Engineering & Programming Languages

Some Publications

Year 2014
1. Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Diego Clerissi.
  What Are the Used Activity Diagram Constructs? A Survey.
  In: Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD 2014), 7-9 January 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, pp.87-98, SciTePress Digital Library, 2014.
  DOI: 10.5220/0004712000870098, ISBN: 978-989-758-007-9.
Year 2013
1. Segla Kpodjedo, Filippo Ricca, Philippe Galinier, Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc.
  MADMatch: Many-to-Many Approximate Diagram Matching for Design Comparison.
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
  DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2013.9, ISSN: 0098-5589.
2. Segla Kpodjedo, Filippo Ricca, Philippe Galinier, Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc.
  Studying Software Evolution of Large Object-oriented Software Systems Using an ETGM Algorithm.
  Journal of Software: Evolution and Process.
  DOI: 10.1002/smr.519, ISSN: 2047-7481.
3. Irit Hadar, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Tsvi Kuflik, Anna Perini, Filippo Ricca, Angelo Susi.
  Comparing the Comprehensibility of Requirements Models Expressed in Use Case and Tropos: Results from a Family of Experiments.
  Information and Software Technology Journal.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2013.05.003, ISSN: 0950-5849.
4. Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Giuseppe Scanniello, Francesco Di Cerbo, Gabriella Dodero.
  On the Comprehension of Workflows Modeled with a Precise Style: Results from a Family of Controlled Experiments.
  Journal of Software & Systems Modeling.
  DOI: 10.1007/s10270-013-0386-9, ISSN: 1619-1366.
5. Marco Torchiano, Federico Tomassetti, Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Tiso, Gianna Reggio.
  Relevance, Benefits, and Problems of Software Modelling and Model Driven Techniques - A Survey in the Italian Industry.
  Journal of Systems and Software.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2013.03.084, ISSN: 0164-1212.
6. Maurizio Leotta, Diego Clerissi, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella.
  Capture-Replay vs. Programmable Web Testing: An Empirical Assessment during Test Case Evolution.
  In: Proceedings of 20th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2013), 14-17 October 2013, Koblenz, Germany, pp.272-281, IEEE, 2013.
  DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2013.6671302, ISBN: 978-1-4799-2931-3.
7. Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Diego Clerissi.
  What are the used UML diagrams? A Preliminary Survey.
  In: Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies in Software Modelling (EESSMod 2013 co-located with MoDELS 2013), 01 October 2013, Miami, Florida, USA, pp.3-12, Volume 1078, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2013.
  ISSN: 1613-0073.
8. Alessandro Tiso, Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta.
  A Method for Testing Model to Text Transformations.
  In: Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on the Analysis of Model Transformations (AMT 2013 co-located with MoDELS 2013), 29 September 2013, Miami, Florida, USA, Volume 1077, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2013.
  ISSN: 1613-0073.
9. Filippo Ricca, Maurizio Leotta, Andrea Stocco, Diego Clerissi, Paolo Tonella.
  Web Testware Evolution.
  In: Proceedings of 15th International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE 2013), 27 September 2013, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, pp.39-44, IEEE, 2013.
  DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2013.6642415, ISBN: 978-1-4799-1608-5.
10. Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Giuliano Antoniol, Vahid Garousi, Junji Zhi, Guenther Ruhe.
  A Pilot Experiment to Quantify the Effect of Documentation Accuracy on Maintenance Tasks.
  In: Proceedings of 29th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2013), 22-28 September 2013, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, pp.428-431, IEEE, 2013.
  DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2013.64, ISBN: 978-0-7685-4981-1.
11. Étienne André, Christine Choppy, Gianna Reggio.
  Activity Diagrams Patterns for Modeling Business Processes.
  In: Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2013), 7-9 August 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, Volume 496 of Studies in Computational Intelligence, pp.197–213, Springer, 2013.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00948-3_13, ISBN: 978-3-319-00947-6.
12. Maurizio Leotta, Diego Clerissi, Filippo Ricca, Cristiano Spadaro.
  Comparing the Maintainability of Selenium WebDriver Test Suites Employing Different Locators: A Case Study.
  In: Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Joining AcadeMiA and Industry Contributions to testing Automation (JAMAICA 2013 co-located with ISSTA 2013), 15 July 2013 , Lugano, Switzerland, pp.53-58, ACM, 2013.
  DOI: 10.1145/2489280.2489284, ISBN: 978-1-4503-2161-7.
13. Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Gianna Reggio.
  Empirical Evaluation of UML-based Model-Driven Techniques.
  In: Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2013), 29-31 May 2013, Paris, France, pp.1-2, IEEE, 2013.
  DOI: 10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577735, ISBN: 978-1-4673-2912-5.
14. Maurizio Leotta, Diego Clerissi, Filippo Ricca, Cristiano Spadaro.
  Repairing Selenium Test Cases: An Industrial Case Study about Web Page Element Localization.
  In: Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2013), 18-22 March 2013 , Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, pp.487-488, IEEE, 2013.
  DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2013.73, ISBN: 978-1-4673-5961-0.
15. Maurizio Leotta, Diego Clerissi, Filippo Ricca, Cristiano Spadaro.
  Improving Test Suites Maintainability with the Page Object Pattern: An Industrial Case Study.
  In: Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW 2013), 18-22 March 2013 , Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, pp.108-113, IEEE, 2013.
  DOI: 10.1109/ICSTW.2013.19, ISBN: 978-1-4799-1324-4.
Year 2012
1. Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Egidio Astesiano.
  Business Process Modelling: Five Styles and a Method to Choose the Most Suitable One.
  In: Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies in Software Modelling (EESSMod 2012 co-located with MoDELS 2012), 2 October 2012, Innsbruck, Austria, Article 8, pp.6, ACM, 2012.
  DOI: 10.1145/2424563.2424574, ISBN: 978-1-4503-1811-2.
2. Federico Tomassetti, Marco Torchiano, Alessandro Tiso, Filippo Ricca, Gianna Reggio.
  Maturity of Software Modelling and Model Driven Engineering: a Survey in the Italian Industry. In: Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2012), 14-15 May 2012, Ciudad Real, Spain, pp.91-100, IEE, 2012.
  DOI: 10.1049/ic.2012.0012, ISBN: 978-1-84919-541-6.
3. Marco Torchiano, Federico Tomassetti, Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Tiso, Gianna Reggio.
  Benefits from Modeling and MDD Adoption: Expectations and Achievements.
  In: Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies in Software Modelling (EESSMod 2012 co-located with MoDELS 2012), 2 October 2012, Innsbruck, Austria, Article 1, pp.6, ACM, 2012.
  DOI: 10.1145/2424563.2424565, ISBN: 978-1-4503-1811-2.
4. Alessandro Tiso, Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta.
  Early Experiences on Model Transformation Testing.
  In: Proceedings of 1st Workshop on the Analysis of Model Transformations (AMT 2012 co-located with MoDELS 2012), 2 October 2012, Innsbruck, Austria, pp.15-20, ACM, 2012.
  DOI: 10.1145/2432497.2432501, ISBN: 978-1-4503-1803-7.
5. Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Marina Ribaudo, Gianna Reggio, Egidio Astesiano, Tullio Vernazza.
  An Exploratory Survey on SOA Knowledge, Adoption and Trend in the Italian Industry.
  In: Proceedings of 14th International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE 2012), 28 September 2012, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy, pp.21-30, IEEE, 2012.
  DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2012.6320528, ISBN: 978-1-4673-3057-2.
6. Maurizio Leotta, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Egidio Astesiano.
  Towards a Lightweight Model Driven Method for Developing SOA Systems Using Existing Assets.
  In: Proceedings of 14th International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE 2012), 28 September 2012, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy, pp.51-60, IEEE, 2012.
  DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2012.6320532, ISBN: 978-1-4673-3057-2.
7. Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Marina Ribaudo, Gianna Reggio, Egidio Astesiano, Tullio Vernazza.
  SOA Adoption in the Italian Industry.
  In: Proceedings of 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012), 6-8 June 2012, Zurich, Switzerland, pp.1441-1442, IEEE, 2012.
  DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227074, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1066-6.
8. Filippo Ricca, Maurizio Leotta, Gianna Reggio, Alessandro Tiso, Giovanna Guerrini, Marco Torchiano.
  Using UniMod for Maintenance Tasks: An Experimental Assessment in the Context of Model Driven Development.
  In: Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Modelling in Software Engineering (MiSE 2012 co-located with ICSE 2012), 2-3 June 2012, Zurich, Switzerland, pp.77-83, IEEE, 2012.
  DOI: 10.1109/MISE.2012.6226018, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1756-6.
Year 2011
1. Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Francesco Di Cerbo, Gabriella Dodero, Giuseppe Scanniello.
  A Precise Style for Business Process Modelling: Results from Two Controlled Experiments.
  In: Proceedings of ACM/IEEE 14th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS 2011), 16–21 October 2011, Wellington, New Zealand, pp.138-152, Volume 6981, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 2011.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24485-8_11, ISBN: 978-3-642-24484-1.
2. Maurizio Leotta, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Egidio Astesiano.
  Building VECM-based Systems with a Model Driven Approach: an Experience Report.
  In: Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies in Software Modelling (EESSMod 2011 co-located with MoDELS 2011), 17 October 2011, Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 38–47, Volume 785, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011.
  ISSN: 1613-0073.
3. Marco Torchiano, Federico Tommasetti, Filippo Ricca, Alessandro Tiso, Gianna Reggio.
  Preliminary Findings from a Survey on the MD* State of the Practice.
  In: Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2011), 22-23 September 2011, Banff, Alberta, Canada, pp.372-375, IEEE, 2011.
  DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2011.51, ISBN: 978-1-4577-2203-5.
4. Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca.
  "Precise is better than Light" A Document Analysis Study about Quality of Business Process Models.
  In: Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE 2011 co-located with RE 2011), 30 August 2011, Trento, Italy, pp.61-68, IEEE, 2011.
  DOI: 10.1109/EmpiRE.2011.6046257, ISBN: 978-1-4577-1075-9.
5. Francesco Di Cerbo, Gabriella Dodero, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Giuseppe Scanniello.
  Assessing the Effectiveness of "Precise" Activity Diagrams in the Context of Business Process Modeling.
  In: Proceedings of 19th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2011), 26-29 June 2011, Maratea, Italy, pp.371-378.
6. Francesco Di Cerbo, Gabriella Dodero, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Giuseppe Scanniello.
  Precise vs. Ultra-light Activity Diagrams - An Experimental Assessment in the Context of Business Process Modelling.
  In: Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES 2011), 20-22 June 2011, Torre Canne (BR), Italy, pp.291-305, Volume 6759, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Editors: Danilo Caivano, Markku Oivo, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Giuseppe Visaggio, Springer-Verlag, 2011.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21843-9_23, ISBN: 978-3-642-21842-2.
7. Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Gianna Reggio, Egidio Astesiano.
  Comparing the Maintainability of two Alternative Architectures of a Postal System: SOA vs. non-SOA.
  In: Proceedings of 15th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2011), 1-4 March 2011, Oldenburg, Germany, pp.317-320, IEEE, 2011.
  DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2011.41, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4343-7.
Year 2010
1. Christine Choppy, Gianna Reggio.
  CASL-MDL, Modelling Dynamic Systems with a Formal Foundation and a UML-like Notation.
  In: Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques. (Revised Selected Papers of 20th International Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques (WADT 2010), 1-4 July 2010, Schloss Etelsen, Germany), pp.76–97, Volume 7137, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Editors: Till Mossakowski and Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Springer-Verlag, 2012.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28412-0_7, ISBN: 978-3-642-28411-3.
  An extended version is available at DISI-TR-11-09.
2. Gianna Reggio, Egidio Astesiano, Filippo Ricca, Maurizio Leotta.
  A Problem Frame-Based Approach to Evolvability: The Case of the Multi-translation.
  In: Foundations of Computer Software. Modeling, Development, and Verification of Adaptive Systems. (Revised Selected Papers of 16th Monterey Workshop 2010, 31 March - 2 April 2010, Microsoft Research Center, Redmond, WA, USA), pp.157–175, Volume 6662, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Editors: Radu Calinescu and Ethan Jackson, Springer-Verlag, 2011.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21292-5_9, ISBN: 978-3-642-21291-8.

Technical Reports

Maurizio Leotta, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Egidio Astesiano.
A 'Light' Model Driven Method for Developing SOA Systems.
Technical Report: DISI-TR-11-11, Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell’Informazione (DISI), University of Genova, Italy, December 2011.
Christine Choppy, Gianna Reggio.
CASL-MDL, Modelling Dynamic Systems with a Formal Foundation and a UML-like Notation.
Technical Report: DISI-TR-11-09, Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell’Informazione (DISI), University of Genova, Italy, August 2011.
Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca, Egidio Astesiano, Maurizio Leotta.
On Business Process Modelling with the UML: a Discipline and Four Styles.
Technical Report: DISI-TR-11-03, Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell’Informazione (DISI), University of Genova, Italy, April 2011.

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