Seminars
2nd Semester of 2026
Presentation of ongoing research on software engineering and discussion of software engineering papers. Each presentation is supposed to last between 15 and 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Where? UFMG, DCC, Room 4325.
13-08: Software Engineering Research Presentations
19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.
19:30 - 20:00: A Large Language Model as a Support Tool for User Story Creation with Use Cases: An Empirical Study by Pedro Garcia
20:00 - 20:30: How Reliable Are LLM Evaluations of Microservice Architecture Diagrams? by Mateus Dutra
27-08: 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 and Diagram Generation by Diego Pereira
20:00 - 20:30: Coding Agents for Detecting and Refactoring Design and Architecture Smells by Henrique Nunes
03-09: Software Engineering Paper Discussion
19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.
19:30 - 20:30: Discussion led by Mateus Dutra
Reference: Yuling Shi, Songsong Wang, Chengcheng Wan, Wang Min, Xiaodong Gu. From Code to Correctness: Closing the Last Mile of Code Generation with Hierarchical Debugging. (ICSE 2026)
24-09: Software Engineering Research Presentations
19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.
19:30 - 20:00: Main Findings about my Research on Mutation Testing by João Paulo Diniz
08-10: Software Engineering Paper Discussion
19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.
19:30 - 20:30: Discussion led by Ivandeclei Costa
Reference: Dangfeng Pan, Zhensu Sun, Cenyuan Zhang, David Lo, Xiaoning Du. The Hidden Cost of Readability: How Code Formatting Silently Consumes Your LLM Budget.
22-10: Software Engineering Research Presentations
19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.
19:30 - 20:00: Combining Small Language Models through LLM-as-a-Judge for Code Smell Detection by Saymon Souza
20:00 - 20:30: From User Stories to Source Code: Investigating the impact of requirement quality on LLM generated code by Ivandeclei Costa
05-11: Software Engineering Paper Discussion
19:00 - 19:30: Stand-up Meeting.
19:30 - 20:30: Discussion led by Diego Pereira
Reference: Alejandro Velasco et al.. A Causal Perspective on Measuring, Explaining and Mitigating Smells in LLM-Generated Code. (ICSE 2026)