Alessandra Gorla

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
51 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Alessandra Gorla is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandra Gorla has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Information Systems, 35 papers in Software and 22 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Alessandra Gorla's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (32 papers), Software Engineering Research (29 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (22 papers). Alessandra Gorla is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (32 papers), Software Engineering Research (29 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (22 papers). Alessandra Gorla collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Switzerland and Germany. Alessandra Gorla's co-authors include Alessandro Orso, Andreas Zeller, Shauvik Roy Choudhary, Mauro Pezzè, Florian Groß, Antonio Carzaniga, Konstantin Kuznetsov, Michael D. Ernst, Andrea Mattavelli and Steven Arzt and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Systems and Software and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

In The Last Decade

Alessandra Gorla

46 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Automated Test Input Generation for Android: Are We There... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2015 2014 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Automated Test Input Generation for Android: Are We There Yet? (E)
    2015 346 citations Alessandra Gorla et al. profile →
  2. Checking app behavior against app descriptions
    2014 282 citations Alessandra Gorla et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alessandra Gorla Spain 20 987 876 855 507 318 51 1.6k
Sven Bugiel Germany 20 1.1k 1.2× 492 0.6× 1.4k 1.6× 513 1.0× 736 2.3× 47 1.7k
Michael Grace United States 14 864 0.9× 659 0.8× 1.5k 1.8× 781 1.5× 646 2.0× 20 1.7k
Steve Hanna United States 8 1.2k 1.2× 749 0.9× 1.5k 1.8× 756 1.5× 640 2.0× 16 1.9k
Yanick Fratantonio United States 20 1.0k 1.1× 622 0.7× 1.7k 2.0× 785 1.5× 807 2.5× 37 2.0k
Machigar Ongtang United States 6 796 0.8× 457 0.5× 1.4k 1.7× 891 1.8× 594 1.9× 12 1.6k
Alexandre Bartel Luxembourg 13 1.5k 1.6× 1.3k 1.5× 2.5k 2.9× 1.1k 2.1× 839 2.6× 28 2.6k
Thanassis Avgerinos United States 11 621 0.6× 759 0.9× 955 1.1× 244 0.5× 649 2.0× 14 1.4k
Siegfried Rasthofer Germany 13 1.6k 1.7× 1.4k 1.6× 2.7k 3.1× 1.2k 2.3× 875 2.8× 20 2.8k
Steven Arzt Germany 15 1.6k 1.6× 1.4k 1.6× 2.6k 3.0× 1.1k 2.2× 909 2.9× 35 2.7k
Yinzhi Cao United States 17 584 0.6× 214 0.2× 598 0.7× 313 0.6× 680 2.1× 56 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alessandra Gorla

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandra Gorla

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gorla, Alessandra, Diego Garbervetsky, Mike Papadakis, et al.. (2024). Abstraction-Aware Inference of Metamorphic Relations. Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.. 1(FSE). 450–472. 2 indexed citations
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Gorla, Alessandra, et al.. (2023). LibKit: Detecting Third-Party Libraries in iOS Apps. 1407–1418. 1 indexed citations
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Aguirre, Nazareno, et al.. (2023). Precise Lazy Initialization for Programs with Complex Heap Inputs. 752–762.
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Gorla, Alessandra, et al.. (2022). Call Me Maybe: Using NLP to Automatically Generate Unit Test Cases Respecting Temporal Constraints. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 1–11. 14 indexed citations
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Aguirre, Nazareno, et al.. (2022). LISSA: Lazy Initialization with Specialized Solver Aid. 1–12. 2 indexed citations
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Gorla, Alessandra, et al.. (2021). MeMo: Automatically identifying metamorphic relations in Javadoc comments for test automation. Journal of Systems and Software. 181. 111041–111041. 31 indexed citations
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Pezzè, Mauro, et al.. (2019). Research on NLP for RE at Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI): A Report..
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Kuznetsov, Konstantin, et al.. (2018). What did really change with the new release of the app?. 142–152. 22 indexed citations
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Gorla, Alessandra, et al.. (2017). How Do Apps Evolve in Their Permission Requests? A Preliminary Study. 28 indexed citations
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Carzaniga, Antonio, et al.. (2015). Intrinsic software redundancy for self-healing software systems, automated oracle generation.. 129–130. 1 indexed citations
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Gorla, Alessandra, et al.. (2014). Search-based synthesis of equivalent method sequences. 366–376. 22 indexed citations
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Carzaniga, Antonio, et al.. (2014). Cross-checking oracles from intrinsic software redundancy. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 931–942. 35 indexed citations
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Carzaniga, Antonio, et al.. (2013). Automatic recovery from runtime failures. International Conference on Software Engineering. 782–791. 51 indexed citations
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Carzaniga, Antonio, et al.. (2013). Automatic recovery from runtime failures. 2013 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 782–791. 35 indexed citations
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Carzaniga, Antonio, et al.. (2012). A self-healing technique for Java applications. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1445–1446. 3 indexed citations
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Carzaniga, Antonio, et al.. (2012). A self-healing technique for Java applications. 5525. 1445–1446. 4 indexed citations
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Gorla, Alessandra, et al.. (2010). Achieving Cost-Effective Software Reliability Through Self-Healing. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 29(1). 93–115. 12 indexed citations
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Carzaniga, Antonio, et al.. (2010). RAW. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 321–322. 3 indexed citations
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Denaro, Giovanni, Alessandra Gorla, & Mauro Pezzè. (2007). An Empirical Evaluation of Data Flow Testing of Java Classes. reroDoc Digital Library.

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