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2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
68
Citations
14686
World Ranking
2119
National Ranking
49

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Paolo Tonella is affiliated with Universita della Svizzera Italiana in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the domain of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, and Automotive Engineering.

The main topics of Paolo Tonella's work emphasize software testing and debugging techniques, adversarial robustness in machine learning, software engineering research, software reliability and analysis research, autonomous vehicle technology and safety, anomaly detection techniques and applications, and software system performance and reliability.

They have published extensively, with frequent publication venues including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Empirical Software Engineering
  • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Paolo Tonella include:

  • Testing machine learning based systems: a systematic mapping, 2020, Empirical Software Engineering
  • Deep Reinforcement Learning for Black-box Testing of Android Apps, 2022, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  • Mind the Gap! A Study on the Transferability of Virtual Versus Physical-World Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Efficient and Effective Feature Space Exploration for Testing Deep Learning Systems, 2022, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  • DeepMetis: Augmenting a Deep Learning Test Set to Increase its Mutation Score, 2021, 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)

Paolo Tonella has collaborated frequently with a set of co-authors, including:

  • Gunel Jahangirova
  • Nargiz Humbatova
  • Vincenzo Riccio
  • Matteo Biagiola
  • Andrea Stocco

Best Publications

  • Analysis and testing of Web applications

    Filippo Ricca;Paolo Tonella

  • Evolutionary testing of classes

    Paolo Tonella

  • Automated Test Case Generation as a Many-Objective Optimisation Problem with Dynamic Selection of the Targets

    Annibale Panichella;Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew;Paolo Tonella

  • State-Based Testing of Ajax Web Applications

    A. Marchetto;P. Tonella;F. Ricca

  • Aspect mining through the formal concept analysis of execution traces

    P. Tonella;M. Ceccato

  • Taxonomy of real faults in deep learning systems

    Nargiz Humbatova;Gunel Jahangirova;Gabriele Bavota;Vincenzo Riccio

  • Clustering test cases to achieve effective and scalable prioritisation incorporating expert knowledge

    Shin Yoo;Mark Harman;Paolo Tonella;Angelo Susi

  • EEG data compression techniques

    G. Antoniol;P. Tonella

  • Using a concept lattice of decomposition slices for program understanding and impact analysis

    P. Tonella

  • Testing machine learning based systems: a systematic mapping

    Vincenzo Riccio;Gunel Jahangirova;Andrea Stocco;Nargiz Humbatova

  • Reverse engineering of object oriented code

    Paolo Tonella

  • Concept analysis for module restructuring

    P. Tonella

  • Reformulating Branch Coverage as a Many-Objective Optimization Problem

    Annibale Panichella;Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew;Paolo Tonella

  • Nomen est omen: analyzing the language of function identifiers

    C. Caprile;P. Tonella

  • Restructuring Program Identifier Names

    Bruno Caprile;Paolo Tonella

  • Empirical studies in reverse engineering: state of the art and future trends

    Paolo Tonella;Marco Torchiano;Bart Du Bois;Tarja Systä

  • Object oriented design pattern inference

    P. Tonella;G. Antoniol

  • Understanding and restructuring Web sites with ReWeb

    F. Ricca;P. Tonella

  • Interactive requirements prioritization using a genetic algorithm

    Paolo Tonella;Angelo Susi;Francis Palma

  • A survey of automated code-level aspect mining techniques

    Andy Kellens;Kim Mens;Paolo Tonella

  • Capture-replay vs. programmable web testing: An empirical assessment during test case evolution

    Maurizio Leotta;Diego Clerissi;Filippo Ricca;Paolo Tonella

Frequent Co-Authors

Filippo Ricca
Filippo Ricca University of Genoa
Giuliano Antoniol
Giuliano Antoniol Polytechnique Montréal
Mark Harman
Mark Harman University College London
Marco Torchiano
Marco Torchiano Polytechnic University of Turin
Ettore Merlo
Ettore Merlo Polytechnique Montréal
Anna Perini
Anna Perini Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Massimiliano Di Penta
Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio
Angelo Susi
Angelo Susi Fondazione Bruno Kessler
David Binkley
David Binkley Loyola University Maryland
Mauro Pezzè
Mauro Pezzè Universita della Svizzera Italiana

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