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  1. A Mixed-Method Study of Hot Fixing in Industry: Practices, Bottlenecks, and Opportunities

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, May 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  2. It Is Giving Major Satisfaction: Why Fairness Matters for Software Practitioners

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, April 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  3. Generative ai for testing of autonomous driving systems: A survey

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, April 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro, Qunying Song

  4. Enhanced Fairness Testing via Generating Effective Initial Individual Discriminatory Instances

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, February 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  5. Hot Fixing Software: A Comprehensive Review of Terminology, Techniques, and Applications

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  6. Greening AI-enabled Systems with Software Engineering: A Research Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable AI Practices

    Article • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Simão Cunha, Patricia Lago, Pooja Rani, Federica Sarro, Karthik Vaidhyanathan

  7. Greening AI-enabled Systems with Software Engineering: A Research Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable AI Practices

    Article • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Simão Cunha, Patricia Lago, Pooja Rani, Federica Sarro, Karthik Vaidhyanathan

  8. LLM-Based Misconfiguration Detection for AWS Serverless Computing

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, June 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  9. Behind the Hot Fix: Demystifying Hot Fixing Industrial Practices at Zühlke and Beyond

    Article • June 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  10. Diversity Drives Fairness: Ensemble of Higher Order Mutants for Intersectional Fairness of Machine Learning Software

    Article • April 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Federica Sarro

  11. SCOPE : Performance Testing for Serverless Computing

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, February 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  12. Bias Behind the Wheel: Fairness Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  13. Game Software Engineering: A Controlled Experiment Comparing Automated Content Generation Techniques

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  14. Broken Agreement: The Evolution of Solidity Error Handling

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  15. Understanding Fairness in Software Engineering: Insights from Stack Exchange Sites

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  16. Exploring LLM-Driven Explanations for Quantum Algorithms

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giordano d'Aloisio, Federica Sarro

  17. Enhancing Energy-Awareness in Deep Learning through Fine-Grained Energy Measurement

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro, Saurabhsingh Rajput

  18. Speeding up Genetic Improvement via Regression Test Selection

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro, David Williams

  19. The Patch Overfitting Problem in Automated Program Repair: Practical Magnitude and a Baseline for Realistic Benchmarking

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Aldeida Aleti, Federica Sarro

  20. Bias Mitigation for Machine Learning Classifiers: A Comprehensive Survey

    Article • ACM Journal on Responsible Computing, June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  21. Fairness Testing: A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of Trends

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  22. TrickyBugs: A Dataset of Corner-case Bugs in Plausible Programs

    Article • April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  23. Greenlight: Highlighting TensorFlow APIs Energy Footprint

    Article • April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Saurabhsingh Rajput, Federica Sarro

  24. User-Centric Deployment of Automated Program Repair at Bloomberg

    Article • April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro, David Williams

  25. Fairness Improvement with Multiple Protected Attributes: How Far Are We?

    Article • April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  26. Assess and Summarize: Improve Outage Understanding with Large Language Models

    Article • November 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  27. MEG: Multi-objective Ensemble Generation for Software Defect Prediction (HOP GECCO'23)

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  28. Multi-objective Search for Gender-fair and Semantically Correct Word Embeddings (HOP GECCO'23)

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  29. Who Judges the Judge: An Empirical Study on Online Judge Tests

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  30. Automated Optimisation of Modern Software System Properties

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  31. A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Bias Mitigation Methods for Machine Learning Classifiers

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, February 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  32. MAAT: a novel ensemble approach to addressing fairness and performance bugs for machine learning software

    Article • November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  33. On the Relationship Between Story Points and Development Effort in Agile Open-Source Software

    Article • September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  34. MEG: Multi-objective Ensemble Generation for Software Defect Prediction

    Article • September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  35. On the use of evaluation measures for defect prediction studies

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  36. Py2Cy

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  37. A versatile dataset of agile open source software projects

    Article • May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  38. Green AI

    Article • May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  39. Privileged and unprivileged groups

    Article • May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  40. Did You Do Your Homework? Raising Awareness on Software Fairness and Discrimination

    Article • November 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Federica Sarro

  41. Diversifying Focused Testing for Unit Testing

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  42. Fairea: a model behaviour mutation approach to benchmarking bias mitigation methods

    Article • August 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  43. The effect of offspring population size on NSGA-II

    Article • July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  44. Enhancing Genetic Improvement of Software with Regression Test Selection

    Article • May 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Federica Sarro

  45. Artifact for Enhancing Genetic Improvement of Software with Regression Test Selection

    Article • May 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Federica Sarro

  46. FrUITeR: a framework for evaluating UI test reuse

    Article • November 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  47. A new approach to distribute MOEA pareto front computation

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  48. Optimising word embeddings with search-based approaches

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  49. The importance of accounting for real-world labelling when predicting software vulnerabilities

    Article • August 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Mike PAPADAKIS, Federica Sarro

  50. Some challenges for software testing research (invited talk paper)

    Article • July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  51. Comparing the effectiveness of three parallelisation approaches for genetic algorithms

    Article • Evolutionary Computation, December 2018, The MIT Press

    Pasquale Salza, Filomena Ferrucci, Federica Sarro

  52. Linear Programming as a Baseline for Software Effort Estimation

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, October 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  53. Multi-objective software effort estimation

    Article • May 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  54. A parallel genetic algorithms framework based on Hadoop MapReduce

    Article • April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Filomena Ferrucci, Federica Sarro

  55. Exploiting prior-phase effort data to estimate the effort for the subsequent phases

    Article • September 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Filomena Ferrucci, Federica Sarro

  56. The plastic surgery hypothesis

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro