Dr. Valerio Terragni
Lecturer at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. ✉️v.terragni AT auckland DOT ac DOT nz

I am a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. The Lecturer title is equivalent to Assistant Professor in Asian, European, and North American universities.
From 2017 to 2020, I was a Senior Research Fellow (post-doc) at the Faculty of Informatics at the USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, where I joined the STAR group led by Prof. Mauro Pezzè. In 2017, I obtained my PhD at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, advised by Prof. S.C. Cheung. I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from The University of Milano-BICOCCA, Italy.
I am a Software Engineering researcher, my main research topics are:
- Testing and analysis of concurrent programs [ICST 2019, ASE 2018, ESEC/FSE 2017, ICSE 2016, ICSE 2015]
- Test Oracle Generation/Improvement [ICSE 2021, ESEC/FSE 2020]
- Android app testing and analysis [FSE 2016, IEE MS 2015, MOBILESoft 2015]
- Non-determinism in testing (test flakiness) [ICSE 2020]
- Analysis of crowd-generated code [ISSTA 2016]
- Genetic Programming and its applications to SE [ESEC/FSE 2020, PPSN 2020, EuroGP 2020, GECCO 2020]
- Software Testability [ICPC 2020]
news
Mar 11, 2021 |
I am happy to announce that ESEC/FSE 2021 accepted our workshop proposal.
Gunel Jahangirova and I will organize the workshop TORACLE 2021: The 1st International Workshop on Test Oracles https://toracle2021.github.io/ co-located with ESEC/FSE 2021 ![]() |
Feb 27, 2021 |
Our paper “An Evolutionary Approach to Adapt Tests Across Mobile Apps” has been accepted at AST 2021 ![]() |
Feb 1, 2021 |
I am very excited to join The University of Auckland ![]() |
Jan 20, 2021 |
Our tool demo of GAssert has been accepted at ICSE 2021 (Demonstrations Track) ![]() |
May 20, 2020 |
Our recent work on how to improve assertion oracles has been accepted at ESEC/FSE 2020 ![]() |
May 19, 2020 |
My recent work on GP has been accepted at EuroGP ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Feb 1, 2020 |
How to measure the testability of Java Programs? Our latest work on Software Testability will appear at ICPC 2020 ![]() |
Jan 15, 2020 |
My new paper on test flakiness is accepted at ICSE NIER 2020 ![]() |
Nov 18, 2019 |
Going to FaceBook London ![]() |
Oct 14, 2019 |
My research proposal on addressing the test flakiness problem won the 2019 Facebook Testing and Verification Award ![]() |