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most citedCausal Reasoning in Software Quality Assurance: A Systematic Review

13 citations · 17 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.SE2026

Reasoning Beyond Prediction: From Data-Driven to Causal Software Engineering

Roberto Pietrantuono, Luca Giamattei, Stefano Russo

Software engineering is an intellectually demanding, creative discipline that juggles a web of interdependent tasks to design, build, and assure the quality of increasingly complex…

cs.SE2026

Causal Software Engineering: A Vision and Roadmap

Roberto Pietrantuono, Luca Giamattei, Stefano Russo +2

Software engineering increasingly involves making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty, using signals from code, field data, and socio-technical processes. Recent AI-driven supp…

cs.SE2026

Sustainability Is Not Linear: Quantifying Performance, Energy, and Privacy Trade-offs in On-Device Intelligence

Eziyo Ehsani, Luca Giamattei, Ivano Malavolta +1

The migration of Large Language Models (LLMs) from cloud clusters to edge devices promises enhanced privacy and offline accessibility, but this transition encounters a harsh realit…

cs.SE2024★ 13 cited

Causal Reasoning in Software Quality Assurance: A Systematic Review

Luca Giamattei, Antonio Guerriero, Roberto Pietrantuono +1

Context: Software Quality Assurance (SQA) is a fundamental part of software engineering to ensure stakeholders that software products work as expected after release in operation. M…

cs.SE2024

Reinforcement Learning for Online Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems: a Replication and Extension Study

Luca Giamattei, Matteo Biagiola, Roberto Pietrantuono +2

In a recent study, Reinforcement Learning (RL) used in combination with many-objective search, has been shown to outperform alternative techniques (random search and many-objective…

cs.SE2023★ 4 cited

Reasoning-Based Software Testing

Luca Giamattei, Roberto Pietrantuono, Stefano Russo

With software systems becoming increasingly pervasive and autonomous, our ability to test for their quality is severely challenged. Many systems are called to operate in uncertain…