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  1. Characterizing the Landscape of Open-Source Satellite Software

    Article • October 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  2. SkillMOO: Multi-objective Optimization of Agent Skills for Software Engineering

    Article • October 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  3. Agent-Based Automated Remediation for Vulnerabilities in Maven Projects

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, October 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  4. BayesInsights: Modelling Software Delivery and Developer Experience with Bayesian Networks at Bloomberg

    Article • July 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro, David Williams

  5. Industrial Deployment of an AI Multi-Agent System for Requirements-Driven Code Verification

    Article • July 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Federica Sarro

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

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

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

    Federica Sarro

  15. 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

  16. SCOPE : Performance Testing for Serverless Computing

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

    Federica Sarro

  17. 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

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

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

    Federica Sarro

  19. Broken Agreement: The Evolution of Solidity Error Handling

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

    Federica Sarro

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

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

    Federica Sarro

  21. Exploring LLM-Driven Explanations for Quantum Algorithms

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

    Giordano d'Aloisio, Federica Sarro

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

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

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

    Federica Sarro

  26. 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

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

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

    Federica Sarro

  28. Greenlight: Highlighting TensorFlow APIs Energy Footprint

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

    Saurabhsingh Rajput, Federica Sarro

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

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

    Federica Sarro, David Williams

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

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

    Federica Sarro

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

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

    Federica Sarro

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

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

    Federica Sarro

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

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

    Federica Sarro

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

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

    Federica Sarro

  35. Automated Optimisation of Modern Software System Properties

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

    Federica Sarro

  36. 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

  37. 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

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

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

    Federica Sarro

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

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

    Federica Sarro

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

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

    Federica Sarro

  41. Py2Cy

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

    Federica Sarro

  42. A versatile dataset of agile open source software projects

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

    Federica Sarro

  43. Green AI

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

    Federica Sarro

  44. Privileged and unprivileged groups

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

    Federica Sarro

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

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

    Federica Sarro

  46. Diversifying Focused Testing for Unit Testing

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

    Federica Sarro

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

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

    Federica Sarro

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

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

    Federica Sarro

  49. Enhancing Genetic Improvement of Software with Regression Test Selection

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

    Federica Sarro

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

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

    Federica Sarro

  51. FrUITeR: a framework for evaluating UI test reuse

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

    Federica Sarro

  52. A new approach to distribute MOEA pareto front computation

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

    Federica Sarro

  53. Optimising word embeddings with search-based approaches

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

    Federica Sarro

  54. 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

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

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

    Federica Sarro

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

    Article • Evolutionary Computation, December 2018, The MIT Press

    Pasquale Salza, Filomena Ferrucci, Federica Sarro

  57. 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

  58. Multi-objective software effort estimation

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

    Federica Sarro

  59. A parallel genetic algorithms framework based on Hadoop MapReduce

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

    Filomena Ferrucci, Federica Sarro

  60. 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

  61. The plastic surgery hypothesis

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

    Federica Sarro