Most Influential QUATIC Paper Awards
This award recognizes papers whose research has had a lasting impact on the scientific community. The selection is based on the average rank of the number of non-self-citations received during the decade following the publication of the corresponding QUATIC proceedings. Citation data are collected independently from three scientific indexes: Web of Science, SCOPUS, and Google Scholar. Self-citations are defined as citations in which the citing and cited papers have at least one author in common.
This award was granted during QUATIC’2026 to the most widely cited paper presented at the QUATIC’2016 conference. The winner was: João Caldeira and Fernando Brito e Abreu, "Software Development Process Mining: Discovery, Conformance Checking and Enhancement", in proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, Lisbon, September 6-9, 2016, pp. 254-259, IEEE Xplore, IEEE Computer Society.
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, Guimarães, September 23-26, 2014, pp. 66-74, IEEE Xplore, IEEE Computer Society.
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, Lisbon, September 3-6, 2012, pp. 255-260, IEEE Xplore, IEEE Computer Society.
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, Porto, September 29 - October 2, 2010, pp. 106-115, IEEE Xplore, IEEE Computer Society.
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, Lisbon, September 12-14, 2007, pp. 30-39, IEEE Xplore, IEEE Computer Society.
QUATIC Career Awards
This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the QUATIC conference series and its community. Award recipients are proposed and voted on by members of the QUATIC Scientific Steering Committee, in recognition of sustained and significant contributions to QUATIC, including having played diverse roles across its different editions.
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
This award recognizes outstanding research presented at each conference edition. The Program Chairs select the award from a subset of the highest-ranked papers, including at least one paper from each track, based on the assessments provided by the corresponding Program Committee members. When two papers receive very similar merit rankings and are considered equally deserving, the award may be presented jointly, ex aequo.
- Giacomo Fantino, Antonio Vetrò, Marco Torchiano and Federica Cappelluti, “Execution-Aware Comment Generation for Computational Notebooks: An Empirical Comparison with Lightweight LLMs”, in proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, Genoa, September 9-11, 2026, pp. xxx-xxx, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. xxxx, Springer.
- Khatereh Sabri, Déaglán Connolly Bree and Mel Ó Cinnéide, “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, Lisbon, September 3-5, 2025, pp. xxx-xxx, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 16315/6, Springer.
- Domenico Amalfitano, Riccardo Coppola, Damiano Distante, Filippo Ricca, “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, Pisa, September 11-13, 2024, pp. 328-343, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 2178, Springer. [Ex Aequo]
- Alessandro Marchetto, Rosmael Zidane Lekeufack Foulefack, “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, Pisa, September 11-13, 2024, pp. 373-390, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 2178, Springer. [Ex Aequo]
- Filippo Ricca, Alexandro Marchetto, Andrea Stocco, “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, Aveiro, September, 11-13, 2023, pp. 90-105, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1871, Springer.
- Maurizio Leotta, Boni García and Filippo Ricca, “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, Talavera de la Reina, September 12-14, 2022, pp. 31-45, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1621, Springer.
- Catillo, M., Del Vecchio, A., Pecchia, A., Villano, U., “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, online, September 8-11, 2020, pp. 383-398, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1266, Springer.
- Olianas D., Leotta M., Ricca F., “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, online, September 8-11, 2020, pp. 383-398, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1266, Springer.
- Ferreira J., Paiva A.C.R., “Android Testing Crawler”, in proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, Ciudad Real, September 11-13, 2019, pp. 313-326, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1266, Springer.
- Faiz UL Muram, Barbara Gallina, and Laura Gómez Rodríguez, “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, Coimbra, September 4-7, 2018, pp. 65-73, IEEE Xplore, IEEE Computer Society.
- Tom McBride; Marion Lepmets, “Quality Assurance in Agile Safety-Critical Systems Development”, in proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, Lisbon, September 6-9, 2016, pp. 44-51, IEEE Xplore, IEEE Computer Society.
- Gerpheide, C.M.; Schiffelers, R.R.H.; Serebrenik, A., “A Bottom-Up Quality Model for QVTo”, in proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, Guimarães, September 23-26, 2014, pp. 85-94, IEEE Xplore, IEEE Computer Society.
- Sfetsos, P.; Adamidis, P.; Angelis, L.; Stamelos, I.; Deligiannis, I., “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, Lisbon, September 3-6, 2012, pp. 57-65, IEEE Xplore, IEEE Computer Society.
- Chatzigeorgiou, A.; Manakos, A., “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, Porto, September 29 - October 2, 2010, pp. 106-115, IEEE Xplore, IEEE Computer Society.
- Heidrich, J.; Trendowicz, A.; Münch, J.; Ishigai, Y.; Yokoyama, K.; Kikuchi, N.; Kawaguchi, T., “Lessons Learned and Results from Applying Data-Driven Cost Estimation to Industrial Data Sets,”, in proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, Lisbon, September 12-14, 2007, pp.177-186, IEEE Xplore, IEEE Computer Society.
