Publications

Islem Saidani, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2022). Improving the prediction of continuous integration build failures using deep learning. Automated Software Engineering.

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Tianjia Wang, Vaibhavi Raut, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni (2022). Refactoring for reuse: an empirical study. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering.

Islem Saidani, Ali Ouni, Md Ahasanuzzaman, Safwat Hassan, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ahmed E Hassan (2022). Tracking bad updates in mobile apps: a search-based approach. Empirical Software Engineering.

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Jiaqian Liu, Kenneth Addo, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni, Zhe Yu (2022). On the documentation of refactoring types. Automated Software Engineering.

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman (2022). An Exploratory Study on How Software Reuse is Discussed in Stack Overflow. Reuse in Emerging Software Engineering Practices.

MW Mkaouer, M Kessentini, S Bechikh, K Deb (2022). Ó Cinnéide M (2014) High dimensional search-based software engineering: finding tradeoffs among 15 objectives for automating software refactoring using NSGA-III. Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Ben Christians, Mihal Busho, Ahmed Hamad AlKhalid, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2022). SATDBailiff-mining and tracking self-admitted technical debt. Science of Computer Programming.

Anthony Peruma, Steven Simmons, Eman Abdullah Alomar, Christian D Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni (2022). How do i refactor this? An empirical study on refactoring trends and topics in Stack Overflow. Empirical Software Engineering.

Moataz Chouchen, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Katsuro Inoue (2021). WhoReview: A multi-objective search-based approach for code reviewers recommendation in modern code review. Applied Soft Computing.

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni (2021). Toward the automatic classification of self-affirmed refactoring. Journal of Systems and Software.

Wajdi Aljedaani, Anthony Peruma, Ahmed Aljohani, Mazen Alotaibi, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Christian D Newman, Abdullatif Ghallab, Stephanie Ludi (2021). Test Smell Detection Tools: A Systematic Mapping Study. Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering.

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Hussein Alrubaye, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Marouane Kessentini (2021). Refactoring Practices in the Context of Modern Code Review: An Industrial Case Study at Xerox. 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP).

Xin Ye, Yongjie Zheng, Wajdi Aljedaani, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2021). Recommending pull request reviewers based on code changes. Soft Computing.

Yaroslav Golubev, Zarina Kurbatova, Eman Abdullah Alomar, Timofey Bryksin, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2021). One thousand and one stories: a large-scale survey of software refactoring. Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering.

Licelot Marmolejos, Eman Abdullah Alomar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni (2021). On the use of textual feature extraction techniques to support the automated detection of refactoring documentation. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering.

Islem Saidani, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Fabio Palomba (2021). On the impact of Continuous Integration on refactoring practice: An exploratory study on TravisTorrent. Information and Software Technology.

Makram Soui, Mabrouka Chouchane, Narjes Bessghaier, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini (2021). On the Impact of Aesthetic Defects on the Maintainability of Mobile Graphical User Interfaces: An Empirical Study. Information Systems Frontiers.

Fan Fang, John Wu, Yanyan Li, Xin Ye, Wajdi Aljedaani, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2021). On the classification of bug reports to improve bug localization. Soft Computing.

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni (2021). On preserving the behavior in software refactoring: A systematic mapping study. Information and Software Technology.

Marwa Daaji, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Mohsen Gammoudi, Salah Bouktif, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2021). Multi-criteria Web Services Selection: Balancing the Quality of Design and Quality of Service. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT).

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni (2021). Mining and Managing Big Data Refactoring for Design Improvement: Are We There Yet?. Knowledge Management in the Development of Data-Intensive Systems.

Rafi Almhana, Marouane Kessentini, Wiem Mkaouer (2021). Method-level bug localization using hybrid multi-objective search. Information and Software Technology.

Zimeng Lyu, Joshua Karns, AbdElRahman ElSaid, Mohamed Mkaouer, Travis Desell (2021). Improving Distributed Neuroevolution Using Island Extinction and Repopulation. International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (Part of EvoStar).

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni, Marouane Kessentini (2021). How we refactor and how we document it? On the use of supervised machine learning algorithms to classify refactoring documentation. Expert Systems with Applications.

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Wajdi Aljedaani, Murtaza Tamjeed, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Yasmine N El-Glaly (2021). Finding the Needle in a Haystack: On the Automatic Identification of Accessibility User Reviews. Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Nuri Almarimi, Ali Ouni, Moataz Chouchen, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2021). csDetector: an open source tool for community smells detection. Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering.

Islem Saidani, Ali Ouni, Moataz Chouchen, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2021). BF-detector: an automated tool for CI build failure detection. Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering.

Lobna Ghadhab, Ilyes Jenhani, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Montassar Ben Messaoud (2021). Augmenting commit classification by using fine-grained source code changes and a pre-trained deep neural language model. Information and Software Technology.

Moataz Chouchen, Ali Ouni, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Dong Wang, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Kenichi Matsumoto (2021). Anti-patterns in Modern Code Review: Symptoms and Prevalence. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER).

Zimeng Lyu, AbdElRahman ElSaid, Joshua Karns, Mohamed Mkaouer, Travis Desell (2021). An experimental study of weight initialization and Lamarckian inheritance on neuroevolution. International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (Part of EvoStar).

Christian D Newman, Michael J Decker, Reem Alsuhaibani, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Mkaouer, Satyajit Mohapatra, Tejal Vishoi, Marcos Zampieri, Timothy Sheldon, Emily Hill (2021). An Ensemble Approach for Annotating Source Code Identifiers with Part-of-speech Tags. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Oumayma Hamdi, Ali Ouni, Eman Abdullah Alomar, Mel Ó Cinnéide, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2021). An Empirical Study on the Impact of Refactoring on Quality Metrics in Android Applications. 2021 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobileSoft).

Oumayma Hamdi, Ali Ouni, Mel Ó Cinnéide, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2021). A longitudinal study of the impact of refactoring in android applications. Information and Software Technology.

Narjes Bessghaier, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2021). A longitudinal exploratory study on code smells in server side web applications. Software Quality Journal.

Islem Saidani, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2020). Web Service API Anti-patterns Detection as a Multi-label Learning Problem. International Conference on Web Services.

Anthony Peruma, Khalid Saeed Almalki, Christian D Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Fabio Palomba (2020). tsDetect: an open source test smells detection tool. Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering.

Motaz Chouchen, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Katsuro Inoue (2020). Recommending peer reviewers in modern code review: a multi-objective search-based approach. Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion.

Islem Saidani, Ali Ouni, Moataz Chouchen, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2020). Predicting continuous integration build failures using evolutionary search. Information and Software Technology.

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Anthony Peruma, Christian D Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni (2020). On the Relationship Between Developer Experience and Refactoring: An Exploratory Study and Preliminary Results. Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops.

Islem Saidani, Ali Ouni, Moataz Chouchen, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2020). On the prediction of continuous integration build failures using search-based software engineering. Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion.

Christian D Newman, Reem S AlSuhaibani, Michael J Decker, Anthony Peruma, Dishant Kaushik, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Emily Hill (2020). On the generation, structure, and semantics of grammar patterns in source code identifiers. Journal of Systems and Software.

Narjes Bessghaier, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2020). On the Diffusion and Impact of Code Smells in Web Applications. International Conference on Services Computing.

Nuri Almarimi, Ali Ouni, Moataz Chouchen, Islem Saidani, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2020). On the detection of community smells using genetic programming-based ensemble classifier chain. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Global Software Engineering.

Muhammad Usman Sarwar, Sarim Zafar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Gursimran Singh Walia, Muhammad Zubair Malik (2020). Multi-label Classification of Commit Messages using Transfer Learning. 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW).

Hussein Alrubaye, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Igor Khokhlov, Leon Reznik, Ali Ouni, Jason Mcgoff (2020). Learning to recommend third-party library migration opportunities at the API level. Applied Soft Computing.

Bader Alkhazi, Andrew DiStasi, Wajdi Aljedaani, Hussein Alrubaye, Xin Ye, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2020). Learning to rank developers for bug report assignment. Applied Soft Computing.

Nuri Almarimi, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2020). Learning to detect community smells in open source software projects. Knowledge-Based Systems.

Alex Bogart, Eman Abdullah Alomar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni (2020). Increasing the Trust In Refactoring Through Visualization. Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops.

Hussein Alrubaye, Deema ALShoaibi, Eman Alomar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni (2020). How Does Library Migration Impact Software Quality and Comprehension? An Empirical Study. International Conference on Software and Software Reuse.

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Philip T Rodriguez, Jordan Bowman, Tianjia Wang, Benjamin Adepoju, Kevin Lopez, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2020). How Do Developers Refactor Code to Improve Code Reusability?. International Conference on Software and Software Reuse.

Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Michael J Decker, Christian D Newman (2020). Contextualizing rename decisions using refactorings, commit messages, and data types. Journal of Systems and Software.

Makram Soui, Mabrouka Chouchane, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Khaled Ghedira (2020). Assessing the quality of mobile graphical user interfaces using multi-objective optimization. Soft Computing.

Moataz Chouchen, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2020). AndroLib: Third-Party Software Library Recommendation for Android Applications. International Conference on Software and Software Reuse.

Anthony Peruma, Christian D Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Fabio Palomba (2020). An exploratory study on the refactoring of unit test files in android applications. Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops.

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Diego Barinas, Jiaqian Liu, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman (2020). An Exploratory Study on How Software Reuse is Discussed in Stack Overflow. International Conference on Software and Software Reuse.

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni (2019). Can refactoring be self-affirmed? an exploratory study on how developers document their refactoring activities in commit messages. 2019 IEEE/ACM 3rd International Workshop on Refactoring (IWoR).

Nuri Almarimi, Ali Ouni, Salah Bouktif, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Mohamed Aymen Saied (2019). Web service API recommendation for automated mashup creation using multi-objective evolutionary search. Applied Soft Computing.

Hussein Alrubaye, Mohamed Wiem, Anthony Peruma (2019). Variability in Library Evolution. Software Engineering for Variability Intensive Systems: Foundations and Applications.

Islem Saidani, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Aymen Saied (2019). Towards Automated Microservices Extraction Using Muti-objective Evolutionary Search. International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing.

Deema ALShoaibi, Kevin Hannigan, Hiten Gupta, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2019). PRICE: Detection of Performance Regression Introducing Code Changes Using Static and Dynamic Metrics. International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering.

Hussein Alrubaye, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni (2019). On the use of information retrieval to automate the detection of third-party java library migration at the method level. 2019 IEEE/ACM 27th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC).

Eman Abdullah Alomar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Marouane Kessentini (2019). On the impact of refactoring on the relationship between quality attributes and design metrics. 2019 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM).

Anthony Peruma, Khalid Saeed Almalki, Christian D Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Fabio Palomba (2019). On the distribution of test smells in open source android applications: An exploratory study. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering.

Sirine Gharbi, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ilyes Jenhani, Montassar Ben Messaoud (2019). On the classification of software change messages using multi-label active learning. Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing.

Hussein Alrubaye, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni (2019). MigrationMiner: An Automated Detection Tool of Third-Party Java Library Migration at the Method Level. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME).

Nasir Safdari, Hussein Alrubaye, Wajdi Aljedaani, Bladimir Baez Baez, Andrew DiStasi, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2019). Learning to rank faulty source files for dependent bug reports. Big Data: Learning, Analytics, and Applications.

Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Michael John Decker, Christian Donald Newman (2019). Contextualizing rename decisions using refactorings and commit messages. 2019 19th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM).

Hussein Alrubaye, Stephanie Ludi, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2019). Comparison of block-based and hybrid-based environments in transferring programming skills to text-based environments. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering.

Montassar Ben Messaoud, Ilyes Jenhani, Nermine Ben Jemaa, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2019). A Multi-label Active Learning Approach for Mobile App User Review Classification. International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management.

Hussein Alrubaye, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2018). Automating the detection of third-party Java library migration at the function level.. CASCON.

Vahid Alizadeh, Marouane Kessentini, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Mel Ocinneide, Ali Ouni, Yuanfang Cai (2018). An interactive and dynamic search-based approach to software refactoring recommendations. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Michael J Decker, Christian D Newman (2018). An empirical investigation of how and why developers rename identifiers. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Refactoring.

Christian D Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Michael L Collard, Jonathan I Maletic (2018). A study on developer perception of transformation languages for refactoring. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Refactoring.

Daniel E Krutz, Nuthan Munaiah, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2017). Who added that permission to my app? an analysis of developer permission changes in open source android apps. 2017 IEEE/ACM 4th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft).

Paul W McBurney, Siyuan Jiang, Marouane Kessentini, Nicholas A Kraft, Ameer Armaly, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Collin McMillan (2017). Towards Prioritizing Documentation Effort. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Makram Soui, Mabrouka Chouchane, Ines Gasmi, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2017). PLAIN: PLugin for predicting the usAbility of Mobile User INterface.. VISIGRAPP (1: GRAPP).

Colton Dennis, Daniel E Krutz, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2017). P-lint: a permission smell detector for android applications. 2017 IEEE/ACM 4th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft).

Ian Shoenberger, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini (2017). On the Use of Smelly Examples to Detect Code Smells in JavaScript. European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation.

Piper Chester, Chris Jones, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Daniel E Krutz (2017). M-perm: A lightweight detector for android permission gaps. 2017 IEEE/ACM 4th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft).

Patrick McAfee, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Daniel E Krutz (2017). CATE: concolic Android testing using Java pathfinder for Android applications. 2017 IEEE/ACM 4th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft).

Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Mel Ó Cinnéide, Shinpei Hayashi, Kalyanmoy Deb (2017). A robust multi-objective approach to balance severity and importance of refactoring opportunities. Empirical Software Engineering.

Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini (2016). Slim Bechikh, Mel Ó Cinnéide, and Kalyanmoy Deb. On the use of many quality attributes for software refactoring: a many-objective search-based software engineering approach. Empirical Software Engineering.

Rafi Almhana, Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Ali Ouni (2016). Recommending relevant classes for bug reports using multi-objective search. 2016 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE).

Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Slim Bechikh, Mel Ó Cinnéide, Kalyanmoy Deb (2016). On the use of many quality attributes for software refactoring: a many-objective search-based software engineering approach. Empirical Software Engineering.

Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer (2016). Interactive code smells detection: An initial investigation. International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering.

Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Adnan Shaout, Patrice Koligheu, Slim Bechikh, Kalyanmoy Deb, Ali Ouni (2015). Many-objective software remodularization using NSGA-III. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM).

Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Slim Bechikh, Mel Ocinneide, Kalyanmoy Deb (2014). Software refactoring under uncertainty: a robust multi-objective approach. Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.

Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Slim Bechikh, Kalyanmoy Deb, Mel Ó Cinnéide (2014). Recommendation system for software refactoring using innovization and interactive dynamic optimization. Proceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering.

Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini (2014). Model transformation using multiobjective optimization. Advances in Computers.

Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Slim Bechikh, Kalyanmoy Deb, Mel Ó Cinnéide (2014). High dimensional search-based software engineering: finding tradeoffs among 15 objectives for automating software refactoring using NSGA-III. Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.

Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Slim Bechikh, Mel Ó Cinnéide (2014). A robust multi-objective approach for software refactoring under uncertainty. International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering.

Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini, Slim Bechikh, Daniel R Tauritz (2013). Preference-based multi-objective software modelling. 2013 1st International Workshop on Combining Modelling and Search-Based Software Engineering (CMSBSE).