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I currently work as a Software Engineer at Facebook in the team "Whatsapp Test Automation Infra": We focus on building infrastructure, tools and frameworks for the core WhatsApp platforms to allow engineers at WhatsApp to reliably and safely test their apps. I obtained a Ph.D. degree Cum Laude in Software Engineering at Delft University of Technology. I hold a M.Sc. (2016) in Information Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Trento (IT) and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Verona (2013).

I focus my research activity in the software testing area. This includes (but not limited to) the following topics: software testing practices, test code quality, test code review, test code maintenance. I am a big fan of mining software repositories, though I always try to include qualitative analysis in my research, to better understand developers' perspective.

Author of PyDriller.

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All Publications

• MSR'20 Investigating Severity Thresholds for Test Smells [Slides]
  Davide Spadini, Martin Schvarcbacher, Ana-Maria Oprescu, Magiel Bruntink, Alberto Bacchelli
  17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '20)
  October 5--6, 2020, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
• ICSE'20 Primers or Reminders? The Effects of Existing Review Comments on Code Review [Slides]
  Davide Spadini, Gul Calikli, Alberto Bacchelli
  42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '20)
  October 5--11, 2020, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
• ICSE'19 Test-Driven Code Review: An Empirical Study [Slides]
  Davide Spadini, Fabio Palomba, Tobias Baum, Stefan Hanenberg, Magiel Bruntink, Alberto Bacchelli
  41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'19)
  May 25-31 2019 - Montreal, Canada.
• EMSE Mock objects for testing java systems: Why and how developers use them, and how they evolve
  Davide Spadini, Mauricio Aniche, Magiel Bruntink, Alberto Bacchelli
  Empirical Software Engineering Journal
  
• CSCW'18 Information Needs in Contemporary Code Review
  Luca Pascarella, Davide Spadini, Fabio Palomba, Magiel Bruntink, Alberto Bacchelli
  21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'18)
  November 3-7 2018 - Jersey City, USA. (Honorable Mention Award!)
• FSE'18 Practices and Tools for Better Software Testing [Slides]
  Davide Spadini
  26th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE'18)
  November 4–9, 2018 - Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA.
• FSE'18 PyDriller: Python Framework for Mining Software Repositories [Slides][Podcast]
  Davide Spadini, Mauricio Aniche, Alberto Bacchelli
  26th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE'18)
  November 4–9, 2018 - Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA.
• ESEM'18 Software Analytics in Continuous Delivery: A Case Study on Success Factors
  Hennie Huijgens, Davide Spadini, Dick Stevens, Niels Visser, Arie van Deursen
  12th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2018)
  October 11-12, 2018 - Oulu, Finland.
• ICSME'18 On The Relation of Test Smells to Software Code Quality [Slides]
  Davide Spadini, Fabio Palomba, Andy Zaidman, Magiel Bruntink, Alberto Bacchelli
  34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME'18)
  September 23-29, 2018 - Madrid, Spain.
• ICSE'18 When Testing Meets Code Review: Why and How Developers Review Tests [Slides]
  Davide Spadini, Mauricio Aniche, Margaret-Anne Storey, Magiel Bruntink, Alberto Bacchelli
  40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'18)
  May 27-3 June, 2018 - Gothenburg, Sweden.
• MSR'17 To Mock or Not To Mock ? An Empirical Study on Mocking Practices [Slides]
  Davide Spadini, Mauricio Aniche, Magiel Bruntink, Alberto Bacchelli
  14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'17)
  May 20-21, 2017 - Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Courses

• 2017-SA Software Analytics

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OpenSource Projects

• Owner PyDriller
• Owner MockExtractor
• Contrib. GitPython
• Contrib. Repodriller