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Mika V. Mäntylä

Mika V. Mäntylä

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Computer Science

D-Index
42
Citations
8357
World Ranking
8318
National Ranking
70

Overview

Mika V. Mäntylä is affiliated with the University of Oulu in Finland. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a notable focus on subfields such as Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, Software, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Science Applications.

The scientist's research topics cover multiple dimensions of software development and analysis, including:

  • Software Engineering Research
  • Software System Performance and Reliability
  • Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
  • Software Reliability and Analysis Research
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Open Source Software Innovations

Mäntylä has a portfolio of recent papers addressing various software engineering challenges and phenomena. Key publications include:

  • "Time pressure in software engineering: A systematic review" (2020), published in Information and Software Technology
  • "Test automation maturity improves product quality-Quantitative study of open source projects using continuous integration" (2022), published in Journal of Systems and Software
  • "Revealing complexities when adult readers engage in the credibility evaluation of social media posts" (2023), published in Computers in Human Behavior
  • "Predicting technical debt from commit contents: reproduction and extension with automated feature selection" (2020), published in Software Quality Journal
  • "Individual differences limit predicting well-being and productivity using software repositories: a longitudinal industrial study" (2021), published in arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors who have contributed to their research projects multiple times. These frequent collaborators include:

  • Shayan Hashemi
  • Miikka Kuutila
  • Leevi Rantala
  • Murali Sridharan
  • Jouni Markkula

Mäntylä's work is disseminated in a variety of academic venues, with repeated contributions to the following publication platforms:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Information and Software Technology
  • Software Quality Journal
  • Automated Software Engineering

The accumulation of publications reflects sustained engagement with software engineering challenges, particularly in understanding software performance, quality, and automated testing practices. The research contributes empirical and theoretical insights into software system reliability as well as human factors in software engineering contexts.

Best Publications

  • The evolution of sentiment analysis—A review of research topics, venues, and top cited papers

    Mika Viking Mäntylä;Daniel Graziotin;Miikka Kuutila

  • Guidelines for including grey literature and conducting multivocal literature reviews in software engineering

    Vahid Garousi;Michael Felderer;Michael Felderer;Mika V. Mäntylä

  • Comparing and experimenting machine learning techniques for code smell detection

    Francesca Arcelli Fontana;Mika V. Mäntylä;Marco Zanoni;Alessandro Marino

  • Benefits and limitations of automated software testing: systematic literature review and practitioner survey

    Dudekula Mohammad Rafi;Katam Reddy Kiran Moses;Kai Petersen;Mika V. Mantyla

  • Using metrics in Agile and Lean Software Development - A systematic literature review of industrial studies

    Eetu Kupiainen;Mika V. Mäntylä;Juha Itkonen

  • A taxonomy and an initial empirical study of bad smells in code

    M. Mantyla;J. Vanhanen;C. Lassenius

  • What Types of Defects Are Really Discovered in Code Reviews

    M.V. Mantyla;C. Lassenius

  • The need for multivocal literature reviews in software engineering: complementing systematic literature reviews with grey literature

    Vahid Garousi;Michael Felderer;Mika V. Mäntylä

  • Perceived causes of software project failures - An analysis of their relationships

    Timo O. A. Lehtinen;Mika V. Mäntylä;Jari Vanhanen;Juha Itkonen

  • The Highways and Country Roads to Continuous Deployment

    Marko Leppanen;Simo Makinen;Max Pagels;Veli-Pekka Eloranta

  • When and what to automate in software testing? A multi-vocal literature review

    Vahid Garousi;Mika V. Mäntylä

  • Subjective evaluation of software evolvability using code smells: An empirical study

    Mika V. Mäntylä;Casper Lassenius

  • Code Smell Detection: Towards a Machine Learning-Based Approach

    Francesca Arcelli Fontana;Marco Zanoni;Alessandro Marino;Mika V. Mantyla

  • A systematic literature review of literature reviews in software testing

    Vahid Garousi;Mika V. Mäntylä

  • Bad smells - humans as code critics

    M.V. Mantyla;J. Vanhanen;C. Lassenius

  • On rapid releases and software testing: a case study and a semi-systematic literature review

    Mika V. Mäntylä;Bram Adams;Foutse Khomh;Emelie Engström

  • Mining valence, arousal, and dominance: possibilities for detecting burnout and productivity?

    Mika Mantyla;Bram Adams;Giuseppe Destefanis;Daniel Graziotin

  • The Role of the Tester's Knowledge in Exploratory Software Testing

    Juha Itkonen;Mika V. M #x E;ntyl #x E;Casper Lassenius

  • Citations, research topics and active countries in software engineering

    Vahid Garousi;Mika V. Mäntylä

  • Guidelines for including the grey literature and conducting multivocal literature reviews in software engineering

    Vahid Garousi;Michael Felderer;Mika V. Mäntylä

  • How do testers do it? An exploratory study on manual testing practices

    Juha Itkonen;Mika V. Mantyla;Casper Lassenius

Frequent Co-Authors

Casper Lassenius
Casper Lassenius Aalto University
Michael Felderer
Michael Felderer University of Cologne
Bram Adams
Bram Adams Queen's University
Kai Petersen
Kai Petersen Blekinge Institute of Technology
Dietmar Pfahl
Dietmar Pfahl University of Tartu
Marko Elovainio
Marko Elovainio University of Helsinki
Markku Oivo
Markku Oivo University of Oulu
Foutse Khomh
Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal
Per Runeson
Per Runeson Lund University
Vassilis Kostakos
Vassilis Kostakos University of Melbourne

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