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Overview

Marco Tulio Valente is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with a substantial number of publications dedicated to information systems and software engineering. Other notable areas of study include computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, and computer science applications.

Their key research topics cover several aspects of software engineering, especially software engineering research, techniques, and practices. This includes software reliability and analysis, open-source software innovations, software testing and debugging techniques, software system performance and reliability, and advanced malware detection techniques.

Marco Tulio Valente has authored or co-authored numerous papers published in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), arXiv (Cornell University), Information and Software Technology, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Empirical Software Engineering.

Frequent co-authors include João Eduardo Montandon, Laerte Xavier, Fábio Ferreira, Guilherme Avelino, and Lucas Francisco da Matta Vegi.

Recent papers include:

  • RefDiff 2.0: A Multi-Language Refactoring Detection Tool, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Is this GitHub project maintained? Measuring the level of maintenance activity of open-source projects, 2020, Information and Software Technology
  • What skills do IT companies look for in new developers? A study with Stack Overflow jobs, 2020, Information and Software Technology
  • Mining the Technical Roles of GitHub Users, 2020, Information and Software Technology
  • Detecting code smells in React-based Web apps, 2022, Information and Software Technology

Best Publications

  • Why we refactor? confessions of GitHub contributors

    Danilo Silva;Nikolaos Tsantalis;Marco Tulio Valente

  • What’s in a GitHub Star? Understanding Repository Starring Practices in a Social Coding Platform

    Hudson Borges;Marco Tulio Valente

  • Understanding the Factors That Impact the Popularity of GitHub Repositories

    Hudson Borges;Andre Hora;Marco Tulio Valente

  • Understanding the Factors that Impact the Popularity of GitHub Repositories

    Hudson Borges;Andre Hora;Marco Tulio Valente

  • Static Architecture-Conformance Checking: An Illustrative Overview

    L Passos;R Terra;M T Valente;R Diniz

  • Extracting Software Product Lines: A Case Study Using Conditional Compilation

    Marcus Vinicius Couto;Marco Tulio Valente;Eduardo Figueiredo

  • RefDiff: detecting refactorings in version histories

    Danilo Silva;Marco Tulio Valente

  • Historical and impact analysis of API breaking changes: A large-scale study

    Laerte Xavier;Aline Brito;Andre Hora;Marco Tulio Valente

  • A dependency constraint language to manage object-oriented software architectures

    Ricardo Terra;Marco Tulio Valente

  • Recommending Refactorings to Reverse Software Architecture Erosion

    Ricardo Terra;Marco Tulio Valente;Krzysztof Czarnecki;Roberto S. Bigonha

  • Extracting relative thresholds for source code metrics

    Paloma Oliveira;Marco Tulio Valente;Fernando Paim Lima

  • A novel approach for estimating Truck Factors

    Guilherme Avelino;Leonardo Passos;Andre Hora;Marco Tulio Valente

  • Why modern open source projects fail

    Jailton Coelho;Marco Tulio Valente

  • A dependency constraint language to manage object‐oriented software architectures

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  • Qualitas.class corpus: a compiled version of the qualitas corpus

    Ricardo Terra;Luis Fernando Miranda;Marco Tulio Valente;Roberto S. Bigonha

  • Towards a Technique for Extracting Microservices from Monolithic Enterprise Systems.

    Alessandra Levcovitz;Ricardo Terra;Marco Tulio Valente

  • A gentle introduction to OSGi

    Andre L.C. Tavares;Marco Tulio Valente

  • Recommending automated extract method refactorings

    Danilo Silva;Ricardo Terra;Marco Tulio Valente

  • On the abandonment and survival of open source projects: An empirical investigation

    Guilherme Avelino;Eleni Constantinou;Marco Tulio Valente;Alexander Serebrenik

  • Documenting APIs with examples: Lessons learned with the APIMiner platform

    Joao Eduardo Montandon;Hudson Borges;Daniel Felix;Marco Tulio Valente

  • How do developers react to API evolution? The Pharo ecosystem case

    Andre Hora;Romain Robbes;Nicolas Anquetil;Anne Etien

  • Predicting the Popularity of GitHub Repositories

    Hudson Borges;Andre Hora;Marco Tulio Valente

  • RefDiff 2.0: A Multi-language Refactoring Detection Tool

    Danilo Silva;Joao Silva;Gustavo Jansen De Souza Santos;Ricardo Terra

  • Recommending Move Method refactorings using dependency sets

    Vitor Sales;Ricardo Terra;Luis Fernando Miranda;Marco Tulio Valente

  • Is this GitHub project maintained? Measuring the level of maintenance activity of open-source projects

    Jailton Coelho;Marco Túlio O. Valente;Luciano O. Milen;Luciana Lourdes Silva

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphane Ducasse
Stéphane Ducasse University of Lille
Krzysztof Czarnecki
Krzysztof Czarnecki University of Waterloo
Romain Robbes
Romain Robbes University of Bordeaux
Alexander Serebrenik
Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc Concordia University
Sven Apel
Sven Apel Saarland University
Emad Shihab
Emad Shihab Concordia University
Gail C. Murphy
Gail C. Murphy University of British Columbia
Thorsten Berger
Thorsten Berger Ruhr University Bochum

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