Hi, my name is Fabio Petrillo.

I’m an associate professor in the Department of Software Engineering and IT at École de Technologie Supérieure - ÉTS (Canada) since 2022. My main goal is to create theories and techniques to improve software engineers’ life.

In my research career, I have worked on Empirical Software Engineering, Software Quality, Debugging, Service-Oriented Architecture, Cloud Computing, and Agile Methods. I have been recognized as a pioneer and an international reference on Software Engineering for Computer Games. I’m the creator of Swarm Debugging, a new collaborative approach to support debugging activities.

Interests
  • Empirical Software Engineering
  • Software Quality
  • Software Architecture
  • Debugging
  • Computer Games
Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018

    Concordia University

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2016

    Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

  • Master in Computer Science, 2009

    Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

  • Electrical Engineer, 2001

    Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Recent Publications

A Systematic Literature Review on Automated Log Abstraction Techniques
Our quality model and recommendations help researchers learn about the state-of-the-art automated log-abstraction techniques, identify research gaps to enhance existing techniques, and develop new ones. We also support software engineers in understanding the advantages and limitations of existing techniques and in choosing the suitable technique to their unique use cases.
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A Systematic Literature Review on Automated Log Abstraction Techniques
A large scale empirical study of the impact of Spaghetti Code and Blob anti-patterns on program comprehension
Although single occurrences of Blob or Spaghetti code anti-patterns have little effect on code comprehension, two occurrences of either Blob or Spaghetti Code significantly increases the developers’ time spent in their tasks, reduce their percentage of correct answers, and increase their effort. Hence, we recommend that developers act on both anti-patterns, which should be refactored out of the source code whenever possible.
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A large scale empirical study of the impact of Spaghetti Code and Blob anti-patterns on program comprehension
What should your run-time configuration framework do to help developers?
The “Config2Code” prototype, which implements the four requirements, is then empirically evaluated via a user study involving 55 participants that comprises 10 typical configuration engineering tasks, ranging from the creation, comprehension, refactoring, and reviewing of configuration options to the quality assurance of options and debugging of configuration failures.
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What should your run-time configuration framework do to help developers?
Dataset of Video Game Development Problems
We provide developers and researchers with grounded dataset describing software-engineering problems in video-game development extracted from postmortems.
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Dataset of Video Game Development Problems
Establishing a Search String to Detect Secondary Studies in Software Engineering
Search for secondary studies is essential to establish whether the review on the intended topic has already been done, avoiding waste time. The main goal of this work is to analyze search strings to establish directions to better detect secondary studies in Software Engineering (SE).
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Establishing a Search String to Detect Secondary Studies in Software Engineering
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