Software Engineering, Software Testing, Software Maintenance, Software Visualization, Software Evolution, Software Performance

PhD Supervision
2023 – Present. Leonardo Centellas Claros (UC Chile). Automatic Vulnerability-Focused Code Reviews.
2023 – Present. Kevin Claros Céspedes (UC Chile). Proximity Rewards for Effective RL-Based Test Generation.
2020 – 2023 [Completed]. Alison Fernández Blanco (U. Chile). Empirical Foundations for Memory Usage Analysis through Software Visualizations.

Master’s Students
2024 – Present. Benjamín Enrique Gonzales Briones. Empirically Driven Mobile Accessibility Testing.
2022 – 2024 [Completed]. Maximiliano Narea Carvajal. Categorizing and Detecting New Quality Issues in Automatically Generated Tests.
2022 – 2025 [Completed]. Francisca Alejandra Ibarra Morales. A Visual Tool for Assessing Automatically Generated Tests.
2023 – 2025 [Completed]. Nicolás Mauricio Jiménez Fuentes. Assessing the Impact of Class Observability on Automatically Generated Tests.

Participación en Conferencias Internacionales de alto Prestigio.

2025 – Increasing the Effectiveness of Automatically Generated Tests by Improving Class Observability. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Canadá – Core A*
2025 – Exploring the Adaptability and Usefulness of Git-Truck for Assessing Software Capstone Project Development. ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), EEUU – Core A
2024 – Exploring the Impact of Generative AI for StandUp Report Recommendations in Software Capstone Project Development. ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), EEUU – Core A
2023 – A Manual Categorization of New Quality Issues on Automatically-Generated Tests. IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), Colombia – Core A
2022 – Visualizing Memory Consumption with Vismep. IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), Chipre
2020 – TestEvoViz: Visual Introspection for Genetically-Based Test Coverage Evolution. IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), Australia
2019 – Performance Evolution Matrix: Visualizing Performance Variations Along Software Versions. IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), EEUU
2018 – Effective Visualization of Object Allocation Sites. IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), Portugal
2016 – Glyph-Based Software Component Identification. IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), EEUU – Core A
2016 – Learning from Source Code History to Identify Performance Failures. ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), Holanda
2013 – Performance Evolution Blueprint: Understanding the Impact of Software Evolution on Performance. IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), Holanda

Participación en Workshops y reuniones cientificas.

2023 – DGT-AR: Visualizing Code Dependencies in AR. IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), Colombia
2022 – Spike – A Code Editor Plugin Highlighting Fine-Grained Changes. IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), Chipre
2021 – How Do Developers Use the Java Stream API? International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA), Italia
2021 – Quality Histories of Past Extract Method Refactorings. International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA), Italia
2020 – Assessing Textual Source Code Comparison: Split or Unified? International Workshop on New Interfaces for Programming (NIP), Portugal
2019 – Enhancing Commit Graphs with Visual Runtime Clues. IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), EEUU
2018 – Deviation Testing: A Test Case Generation Technique for GraphQL APIs. International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST), Francia
2016 – Dynamically Composing Collection Operations through Collection Promises. International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST), Francia
2013 – Identifying Equivalent Objects to Reduce Memory Consumption. International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST), Francia

Libros:
2016 – Testing in Pharo. Books on Demand, Alemania