Seminars

1st Semester of 2026

Presentation of ongoing research on software engineering and discussion of software engineering papers.

Where? UFMG, ICEX, Room 2016

05-03: Software Engineering Research

19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.

19:30 - 20:30: Seminar Overview by Eduardo Figueiredo

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12-03: Software Engineering Invited Speaker

19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.

19:30 - 20:30: Testing of Resource-Intensive Software Systems by Fischer Ferreira

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19-03: Software Engineering Invited Speaker

19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.

19:30 - 20:30: Characterizing High-Activity Contributors in Data-Science Repositories by Gustavo Vale

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02-04: Software Engineering Research Presentations

19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.

19:30 - 20:00: An In-Depth Analysis of Fully Remote Education: A Software Engineering Perspective by Pedro Garcia

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20:00 - 20:30: An Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models for Microservice Bad Smell Detection by Mateus Dutra

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09-04: Software Engineering Paper Discussion

19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.

19:30 - 20:30: Discussion led by Saymon Souza

Reference: Qunhong Zeng, Yuxia Zhang, Zexiong Ma, Bo Jiang, Ningyuan Sun, Klaas-Jan Stol, Xingyu Mou and Hui Liu Evaluating Generated Commit Messages with Large Language Models. (ICSE 2026)

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16-04: Software Engineering Research Presentations

19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.

19:30 - 20:00: Testing Features Interaction Faults in IoT Systems by João Guilherme Alves

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23-04: Software Engineering Research Presentations

19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.

19:30 - 20:00: Beyond Strict Rules: Code Smell Detection with LLMs by Saymon Souza

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20:00 - 20:30: Large Language Models for Architecture Smells by Henrique Nunes

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30-04: Software Engineering Research Presentations

19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.

19:30 - 20:00: Summary of Memorial Acadêmico by Eduardo Figueiredo

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07-05: Software Engineering Paper Discussion

19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.

19:30 - 20:30: Discussion led by Pedro Garcia

Reference: Sahar Badihi, Michael Tegegn, Evelien Riddell, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Julia Rubin. Hey, ChatGPT, Look at My Work: Using Conversational AI in Requirements Engineering Education. (ICSE 2026)

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14-05: Software Engineering Research Presentations

19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.

19:30 - 20:00: Decoding the Issue Resolution Process in Pratice via Issue Report Analysis: A Case Study of Firefox by Lucas Lima

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21-05: Software Engineering Research Presentations

19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.

19:30 - 20:00: An Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models for Microservice Bad Smell Detection: Results and Future Work by Diego Pereira

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20:00 - 20:30: Programming Education in the Era of AI: Perspectives from Brazilian Higher Education by Lucas Figueira

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28-05: Software Engineering Research Presentations

19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.

19:30 - 20:00: On Valuable Second-Order Mutants for Software Testing by João Paulo Diniz

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20:00 - 20:30: From User Stories to Source Code: Investigating the Impact of Requirement Quality on LLM Generated Code by Ivandeclei Costa

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11-06: Software Engineering Paper Discussion

19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.

19:30 - 20:30: Discussion led by Henrique Nunes

Reference: Xinyi Zhou, Zeinadsadat Saghi, Sadra Sabouri, Rahul Pandita, Mollie McGuire, Souti Chattopadhyay. Cognitive Biases in LLM-Assisted Software Development. (ICSE 2026)

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18-06: Software Engineering Research Presentations

19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.

19:30 - 20:00: An in-depth analysis of code smell agglomeration stability by Amanda Santana

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20:00 - 20:30: GraphTest Uma Ferramenta para gerar grafos de teste estrutural e funcional by Cleiton Tavares

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