I'm an Associate Professor in Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology, working on requirements engineering, software testing, and developer productivity. I previously worked at the University of Hamburg, working with Walid Maalej's group on natural language processing for requirements engineering and app store mining.
My work focuses on empirically studying software development practices, particularly test-driven development (TDD) and requirements engineering. I conduct controlled experiments and case studies to understand how developers work and what makes them more productive. I'm especially interested in using biometric sensors and machine learning to study developers' cognitive and emotional states during programming tasks.
I collaborate extensively with researchers across Europe through EU projects like OpenReq, investigating how to improve requirements engineering practices through automated techniques. My research combines rigorous empirical methods with practical industry relevance to help companies adopt better software development processes.
Publications
Affective reactions and test-driven development: Results from three experiments and a survey
M. T. Baldassarre, D. Caivano, D. Fucci, Simone Romano, G. Scanniello
Journal of Systems and Software 2022
Cognition in Software Engineering: A Taxonomy and Survey of a Half-Century of Research
Fabian Fagerholm, M. Felderer, D. Fucci, M. Unterkalmsteiner, Bogdan Marculescu, Markus Martini, Lars Göran Wallgren Tengberg, R. Feldt, Bettina Lehtela, Bal'azs Nagyv'aradi, Jehan Khattak
ACM Computing Surveys 2022
Fifth International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering (SEmotion2020)
D. Fucci, H. Uwano
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes 2021
A family of experiments on test-driven development
Adrián Santos, S. Vegas, Ó. Dieste, F. Uyaguari, A. Tosun, D. Fucci, Burak Turhan, G. Scanniello, Simone Romano, I. Karac, M. Kuhrmann, Vladimir Mandic, R. Ramač, Dietmar Pfahl, Christian Engblom, Jarno Kyykka, Kerli Rungi, C. Palomeque, J. Spisak, M. Oivo, N. Juristo
Empirical Software Engineering 2020
On the Effect of Noise on Software Engineers’ Performance: Results from Two Replicated Experiments
Simone Romano, G. Scanniello, M. T. Baldassarre, D. Fucci
EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications 2020
The Way it Makes you Feel Predicting Users’ Engagement during Interviews with Biofeedback and Supervised Learning
Daniela Girardi, Alessio Ferrari, Nicole Novielli, P. Spoletini, D. Fucci, Thaide Huichapa
IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference 2020
Peer Review #2 of "Making simulation results reproducible—Survey, guidelines, and examples based on Gradle and Docker (v0.2)"
D. Fucci
Peer Review #2 of "Making simulation results reproducible—Survey, guidelines, and examples based on Gradle and Docker (v0.1)"
D. Fucci
European Project Space Papers for the PROFES 2019 - Summary
A. Bagnato, D. Fucci
International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement 2019
The Second International Workshop on Affective Computing for Requirements Engineering (AffectRE2019)
D. Fucci, S. Kühn, W. Maalej
2019 IEEE 27th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW) 2019
Reconciling Practice and Rigour in Ontology-Based Heterogeneous Information Systems Construction
Carme Quer, Xavier Franch, Cristina Palomares, Andreas A. Falkner, A. Felfernig, D. Fucci, W. Maalej, Jennifer Nerlich, M. Raatikainen, Gottfried Schenner, Martin Stettinger, J. Tiihonen
The Practice of Enterprise Modeling 2018
Needs and challenges for a platform to support large-scale requirements engineering: a multiple-case study
D. Fucci, Cristina Palomares, Xavier Franch, Dolors Costal, M. Raatikainen, Martin Stettinger, Zijad Kurtanović, T. Kojo, L. Koenig, Andreas A. Falkner, Gottfried Schenner, Fabrizio Brasca, T. Männistö, A. Felfernig, W. Maalej
International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement 2018
Sensing Developers’ Emotions: The Design of a Replicated Experiment
Daniela Girardi, F. Lanubile, Nicole Novielli, D. Fucci
International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering 2018
A First Implementation of a Design Thinking Workshop during a Mobile App Development Course Project
Y. D. Pham, D. Fucci, W. Maalej
2018 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software Engineering Education for Millennials (SEEM) 2018
Personal Recommendations in Requirements Engineering: The OpenReq Approach
Cristina Palomares, Xavier Franch, D. Fucci
Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality 2018
Empirical evaluation of the effects of experience on code quality and programmer productivity: an exploratory study
Óscar Dieste Tubío, Alejandrina M. Aranda, F. Uyaguari, Burak Turhan, Ayse Tosun Misirli, D. Fucci, M. Oivo, Natalia Juristo Juzgado
Empirical Software Engineering 2017
An industry experiment on the effects of test-driven development on external quality and productivity
Ayse Tosun Misirli, Óscar Dieste Tubío, D. Fucci, S. Vegas, Burak Turhan, H. Erdogmus, Adrián Santos, M. Oivo, Kimmo Toro, J. Järvinen, Natalia Juristo Juzgado
Empirical Software Engineering 2016
An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Development Using a Multi-site Blind Analysis Approach
D. Fucci, G. Scanniello, Simone Romano, M. Shepperd, Boyce Sigweni, F. Uyaguari, Burak Turhan, Natalia Juristo Juzgado, M. Oivo
International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement 2016
Students' and professionals' perceptions of test-driven development: a focus group study
G. Scanniello, Simone Romano, D. Fucci, Burak Turhan, Natalia Juristo Juzgado
PeerJ Preprints 2016
Towards an operationalization of test-driven development skills: An industrial empirical study
D. Fucci, Burak Turhan, Natalia Juristo Juzgado, Óscar Dieste Tubío, Ayse Tosun Misirli, M. Oivo
Information and Software Technology 2015
On the effects of programming and testing skills on external quality and productivity in a test-driven development context
D. Fucci, Burak Turhan, M. Oivo
International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering 2015
Impact of process conformance on the effects of test-driven development
D. Fucci, Burak Turhan, M. Oivo
International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement 2014
Conformance factor in test-driven development: initial results from an enhanced replication
D. Fucci, Burak Turhan, M. Oivo
International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering 2014
A Replicated Experiment on the Effectiveness of Test-First Development
D. Fucci, Burak Turhan
2013 ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement 2013
On the role of tests in test-driven development: a differentiated and partial replication
D. Fucci, Burak Turhan
Empirical Software Engineering 2013
On the role of tests in test-driven development: a differentiated and partial replication
D. Fucci, Burak Turhan
Empirical Software Engineering 2013
On the Retainment of Test-driven Development: Results from a Longitudinal Cohort Study with Novice Developers
M. T. Baldassarre, D. Caivano, D. Fucci, N. Juristo, Simone Romano, G. Scanniello, Burak Turhan
Towards Group Development Stages in Software Engineering Courses Project Work
D. Fucci, Ehsan Zabardast
Preface: 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE 2020)
Sallam Abualhaija, D. Fucci, F. Dalpiaz, Xavier Franch
REFSQ Workshops 2020
On the Perceived Harmfulness of Requirement Smells: An Empirical Study
Valentina Lenarduzzi, D. Fucci, D. Méndez
REFSQ Workshops 2020
A Partial Replication of Decoding the Representation of Code in the Brain: An fMRI Study of Code Review and Expertise
D. Fucci, Daniela Girardi, Nicole Novielli, L. Quaranta, F. Lanubile
International Conference on Software Engineering 2019
Research on NLP for RE at the University of Hamburg: A Report
D. Fucci, Christoph Stanik, Lloyd Montgomery, Zijad Kurtanović, Timo Johann, W. Maalej
REFSQ Workshops 2018
Appreciation to Empirical Software Engineering Reviewers of 2017
S. Abebe, Bram Adams, Emil Alégroth, N. Ali, M. Alshayeb, C. Alves, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, L. Angelis, M. Aniche, G. Antoniol, J. Anvik, Andrea Arcuri, Venera Arnaoudova, P. Avgeriou, Claudia P. Ayala, Alberto Bacchelli, Deepika Badampudi, E. Bagheri, H. Bal, Sean Banerjee, W. Banzhaf, Titus Barik, Alexandre Bartel, Julia H. Bass, G. Bavota, Andrew Begel, Jonathan Bell, M. Beller, S. Bellomo, A. Bener, B. Bernárdez, Daniel Berry, Árpád Beszédes, C. Bezemer, D. Binkley, C. Bird, Tégawendé F. Bissyandé, R. Bittencourt, A. Blackwell, Kelly Blincoe, Ivo Blohm, R. Boer, C. Bogart, Markus Borg, J. Börstler, Amiangshu Bosu, Goetz Botterweck, Bobby R. Bruce, Yuriy Brun, D. Budgen, M. Burnett, Steven Burrows, Raymond P. L. Buse, Haipeng Cai, Fabio Calefato, Hazel Victoria Campbell, Javier Canovas Izquierdo, Rafael Capilla, A. Capiluppi, F. Casati, M. Cataldo, M. Ceccato, L. Cerulo, H. Cervantes, M. Chaudron, Federico Ciccozzi, M. Cinque, J. Clause, J. Cleland-Huang, Michael J. Coblenz, Michael L. Collard, Nelly Condori-Fernández, S. Counsell, Kevin Crowston, D. Cruzes, Charlie Curtsinger, M. Daneva, J. Davidson, A. Marco, Dario Di Nucci, M. D. Penta, Ó. Dieste, Bogdan Dit, B. V. Dongen, Jonathan Dorn, Robert Dyer, Sebastian Erdweg, Neil A. Ernst, S. Fabbri, J. Favaro, M. Felderer, R. Feldt, N. Fenton, Alessio Ferrari, Eduardo Figueiredo, A. Filippova, V. Filkov, Diego Fontdevila, Patrick Francis, G. Fraser, Samuel Fricker, Zak Fry, D. Fucci, Carlo A. Furia, Alessio Gambi, Debin Gao, A. García-Domínguez, R. Garg, V. Garousi, Isabela Gasparini, M. Genero, D. Germán, V. Gervasi, S. Ghanavati, Mohammad Gharehyazie, Rohit Gheyi, M. Gligorić, M. Glinz, Michael W. Godfrey, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Sebastian Götz, Georgios Gousios, C. Gravino, M. Grechanik, Alex Groce, L. Grunske, Xiaodong Gu, Latifa Guerrouj, Emitzá Guzmán, S. Haiduc, William G. J. Halfond, T. Hall, Stefan Hanenberg, M. Harman, R. Harrison, Safwat Hassan, Ahmed E. Hassan, Edgar E. Hassler, Shinpei Hayashi, Steffen Herbold, F. Hermans, A. Herrmann, Abram Hindle, Reid Holmes, H. H. Olsson, Andreas Holzinger, Shin Hong, André C. Hora, Jennifer Horkoff, Daqing Hou, Liguo Huang, M. Huchard, A. Idri, Akinori Ihara, J. Iversen, C. Izurieta, L. Jaccheri, D. Jannach, S. Jansen, Yue Jia, Lingxiao Jiang, Z. Jiang, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Yasutaka Kamei, Baris Kasikci, Christian Kästner, R. Kazman, M. Kechagia, J. Keung, H. Dam, Foutse Khomh, J. Kienzle, Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew, Dongsun Kim, Jindae Kim, Miryung Kim, Mijung Kim, B. Kitchenham, Jacques Klein, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Sahar Kokaly, Fabio Kon, R. Koschke, Samuel Kounev, V. Kovalenko, Heiko Koziolek, Nicholas Kraft, Max E. Kramer, S. Krieter, J. Krinke, R. Krishna, Y. Labiche, J. Lawall, L. Layman, A. Lazar, Xu Le, Claire Le Goues, Xavier Le Pallec, Seonah Lee, J. Lei, P. Leitner, Maurizio Leotta, Olaf Leßenich, Emmanuel Letier, Li Li, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Yepang Liu
Empirical Software Engineering 2018
Liquid Democracy in Group-based Configuration
Muesluem Atas, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Ralph Samer, A. Felfernig, Martin Stettinger, D. Fucci
ConfWS 2018
of Test-driven Development: A Focus
G. Scanniello, Simone Romano, D. Fucci, Burak Turhan, N. Juristo
The role of process conformance and developers' skills in the context of test-driven development
D. Fucci
A Framework to Enable Two-Layer Inference for Ambient Intelligence
Xiang Su, D. Fucci, J. Riekki
International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence 2010
Needs and Challenges for a Platform to Support Large-scale Requirements Engineering
D. Fucci, Cristina Palomares, Xavier Franch, Dolors Costal, M. Raatikainen, Martin Stettinger, Zijad Kurtanović, T. Kojo, L. Koenig, Andreas A. Falkner, Gottfried Schenner, Fabrizio Brasca, T. Männistö, A. Felfernig, W. Maalej