Awards

  • Best paper award at  the International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2023) for the paper:
On Deprecated API Usages: An Exploratory Study of Top-Starred Projects on GitHub
  • Nomination for best paper award at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2021) for the paper:
An Exploratory Study on Dead Methods in Open-source Java Desktop Applications
  • ACM TOSEM (Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology) Distinguished reviewer for 2020 (14-Apr-2021)
  • Best paper award at the Euromicro Conference Series on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications Conference (SEAA 2020) for the paper:
On Researcher Bias in Software Engineering Experiments: Results from a Qualitative Investigation
  • Nomination for Best Paper award at the 20th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement:
An Empirical Assessment on Affective Reactions of Novice Developers When Applying Test-Driven Development
  • Best paper award at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2016) for the paper:
An External Replication on the Effects of Test-Driven Development Using a Multi-site Blind Analysis Approach
  • Best paper award at International Workshop on Distance Education Technologies for the paper: 
Supporting Mobile Development Project-Based Learning by Software Project and Product Measures
  • Highly Commended paper award for the International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering for the paper:
Results from an Ethnographically-informed Study in the Context of Test-Driven Development
  • Best paper award at International Workshop on Distance Education Technologies for the paper:  
On the Experience of Using Git-Hub in the Context of an Academic Course for the Development of Apps for Smart Devices
  • Nomination for best paper award at the 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications for the papers:
On the Coherence Between Comments and Implementations in Source CodeOn the Use of Requirements Measures to Predict Software Project and Product Measures in the Context of Android Mobile Apps: A Preliminary Study
  • Nomination for best paper award at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement for the paper:
A Longitudinal Cohort Study on the Retainment of Test-Driven Development (it also got the Open Data Recognition award)
  • Nomination for best paper award at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems for the paper:
A Precise Style for Business Process Modeling: Results from Two Controlled Experiments
  • Awarded as Outstanding Reviewer Status for the Information and Software Technology Journal (2014-2015), Elsevier. 
  • Distinguished reviewer for Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (2019), ACM.
  • Distinguished Reviewer for the International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering, 2013.