Porfirio Tramontana is born in Naples in 1976. He had a five-year degree in Computer Engineering in March 2001 and a PhD degree in November 2005 at the University of Naples Federico II with a dissertation on the Reverse Engineering of Web Applications. He is an Associate Professor since 2021 in the Computer Science scientific field.

Research Activities. His main research activities focuses on Software Engineering. The most relevant ones include Android Testing Automation, Random Testing Termination Criteria, Reverse Engineering and Quality Assessment of Spreadhseets, Reverse Engineering and Testing of Rich Internet Applications, Reverse Engineering, Testing, Quality Assessment, Documentation and Testing of Web Applications, Security Modeling and Assessment, Migration to Web Services, Semantic Interoperability.

Publications. He is author or co-author of more than 50 papers appeared in international journals or presented at international conferences.

Projects. He has participated in several projects funded by MIUR and European Commission on thematics related to the Software Engineering field.

Teaching Activities. He has taken more than 25 university courses regarding different disciplines related to the Computer Science field. In addition he has taken several courses in the context of academies, Masters and Industrial Training.

Reviewer Activities.  He served as program chair, program committee member or reviewer of several conferences, workshops and journals related to its research interests. He is currently Associate Editor of IEEE Access. He is also Member of the ACM.

Thesis. He has followed more than 200 Doctoral, Laurea and Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering for the University of Naples Federico II.

DMarco De Luca and Domenico Amalfitano and Porfirio Tramontana and Anna Rita Fasolino, Are LLMs Ready for Anti-Pattern Detection in Microservice Architectures?, ICSME 2026

Anna Rita Fasolino and Porfirio Tramontana. 2024. Test Smells Learning by a Gamification Approach. to appear In Proceedings of the Test Smells Learning by a Gamification Approach (Gamify 24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678869.3685687

Anna Rita Fasolino, Caterina Maria Accetto, and Porfirio Tramontana. 2024. Testing Robot Challenge: A Serious Game for Testing Learning. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Gamification in Software Development, Verification, and Validation (Gamify ’24), September 17, 2024, Vienna, Austria. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678869.3685686