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Most Influential QUATIC Paper Awards

This award was granted during QUATIC’2024 to the most widely cited paper presented at the QUATIC’2014 conference. The winner was: Pedro Costa, Miguel Nabuco and Ana C. R. Paiva, "Pattern Based GUI testing for Mobile Applications", in proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC), pp.66-74, 23-26 Sept. 2014, doi: 10.1109/QUATIC.2014.16.

This award was granted during QUATIC’2022 to the most widely cited paper presented at the QUATIC’2012 conference. The winner was: André Ribeiro, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, "Survey on cross-platforms and languages for mobile apps", in proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC), 2012, pp.255-260, 03-06 Sept. 2012, doi: 10.1109/QUATIC.2012.56.

This award was granted during QUATIC’2020 to the most widely cited paper presented at the QUATIC’2010 conference. The winner was: Alexander Chatzigeorgiou; Anastasios Manakos "Investigating the Evolution of Bad Smells in Object-Oriented Code", in proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC), 2010, pp.106-115, 29 Sept.-02 Oct. 2010, doi: 10.1109/QUATIC.2010.16.

This award was granted during QUATIC’2016 to the most widely cited paper presented at the QUATIC’2007 conference. The winner was: Ilja Heitlager; Tobias Kuipers; Joost Visser "A Practical Model for Measuring Maintainability", in proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communication Technology (QUATIC), 2007, pp.30-39, 12-14 Sept. 2007. doi: 10.1109/QUATIC.2007.08

QUATIC Career Awards

Antonio Vallecillo from Universidad de Málaga, Spain, has been recognized as an outstanding contributor to the QUATIC conference series, having played diverse roles throughout many of its editions, as Scientific Steering Committee Member, Program Chair, Keynote Speaker, Thematic Track Committee Member, and author.

Karol Frühauf from INFOGEM AG, Switzerland, has been recognized as an outstanding contributor to the QUATIC conference series, having played diverse roles throughout many of its editions, from 2001 through 2023, as Keynote Speaker, Thematic Track Chair, Thematic Track Committee Member, and author.

Ana Regina Cavalcanti da Rocha from COPPE/UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has been recognized as an outstanding contributor to the QUATIC conference series, and in particular to the QUATIC'2010 edition.

Best QUATIC Paper Awards

Khatereh Sabri, Déaglán Connolly Bree and Mel Ó Cinnéide (2025). “The Energy Consumption of the Object Pool Pattern in C#: A Case Study”, in proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2025)

Domenico Amalfitano, Riccardo Coppola, Damiano Distante, Filippo Ricca (2024). “AI in GUI-Based Software Testing: Insights from a Survey of Industry Practitioners”, in proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2024), pp. 328-343, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 2178, Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-70245-7_23

Alessandro Marchetto, Rosmael Zidane Lekeufack Foulefack (2024). “Towards the Use of Domain Knowledge to Enhance Transformer-based Vulnerability Detection”, in proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2024), pp. 373-390, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 2178, Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-70245-7_26

Filippo Ricca, Alexandro Marchetto, Andrea Stocco (2023). “A Retrospective Analysis of Grey Literature for AI-Supported Test Automation”, in proceedings of the 16th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2023), pp. 90-105, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1871. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-43703-8_7

Maurizio Leotta, Boni García and Filippo Ricca (2022), “An Empirical Study to Quantify the SetUp and Maintenance Benefits of Adopting WebDriverManager”, in proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2022), pp.31-45, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1621. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-14179-9_3

Catillo, M., Del Vecchio, A., Pecchia, A., Villano, U. (2021), “A Critique on the Use of Machine Learning on Public Datasets for Intrusion Detection”, in proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2021), pp. 253–266. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1439. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-85347-1_19

Olianas D., Leotta M., Ricca F. (2020), "An Approach and a Prototype Tool for Generating Executable IoT System Test Cases", in proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC’2020), pp.383-398, 8-11 sept. 2020. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58793-2_31

Ferreira J., Paiva A.C.R. (2019), "Android Testing Crawler", in proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC’2019), pp.313-326, 11-13 sept. 2019. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29238-6_23

Faiz UL Muram, Barbara Gallina, and Laura Gómez Rodríguez (MDH) (2018), "Preventing Omission of Key Evidence Fallacy in Process-based Argumentations" in proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC´2018), pp.65-73, 4-7 sept. 2018. doi: 10.1109/QUATIC.2018.00019

Tom McBride; Marion Lepmets (2016), "Quality Assurance in Agile Safety-Critical Systems Development," in proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC’2016), pp.44-51, 6-9 Sept. 2016. doi: 10.1109/QUATIC.2016.14

Gerpheide, C.M.; Schiffelers, R.R.H.; Serebrenik, A. (2014), "A Bottom-Up Quality Model for QVTo," in proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC’2014), pp.85-94, 23-26 Sept. 2014. doi: 10.1109/QUATIC.2014.18

Sfetsos, P.; Adamidis, P.; Angelis, L.; Stamelos, I.; Deligiannis, I. (2012), "Investigating the Impact of Personality and Temperament Traits on Pair Programming: A Controlled Experiment Replication," in proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC’2012), pp.57-65, 3-6 Sept. 2012. doi: 10.1109/QUATIC.2012.36

Chatzigeorgiou, A.; Manakos, A., "Investigating the Evolution of Bad Smells in Object-Oriented Code (2010)," in proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC’2010), pp.106-115, Sept. 29 2010-Oct. 2 2010. doi: 10.1109/QUATIC.2010.16