Mission

The REVEAL (Reverse Engineering, Visualization, Evolution Analysis Lab) group carries out research in diverse aspects of how to ease the comprehension and evolution of large and complex software systems.

Latest Publications

2026	Forecasting Developer Environments with GenAI: A Research Perspective. Raula Gaikovina Kula, Christoph Treude, Xing Hu, Sebastian Baltes, Earl T. Barr, Kelly Blincoe, Fabio Calefato, Junjie Chen, Marc Cheong, Youmei Fan, Daniel M. Germán, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Jin L. C. Guo, Shinpei Hayashi, Robert Hirschfeld, Reid Holmes, Yintong Huo, Takashi Kobayashi, Michele Lanza, Zhongxin Liu 0002, Olivier Nourry, Nicole Novielli, Denys Poshyvanyk, Shinobu Saito, Kazumasa Shimari, Igor Steinmacher, Mairieli Wessel, Markus Wagner 0007, Annie Vella, Laurie Williams, Xin Xia	IDE@ICSE
2026	PoolinGH: Fast, Efficient, and Robust GitHub Repository Mining. Maxime André, Marco Raglianti, Souhaila Serbout, Anthony Cleve, Michele Lanza	MSR
2026	ZION: System Exploration With Class Contours. Mattia Giannaccari, Marco Raglianti, Michele Lanza	SIGSOFT
2026	Class Archetypes: Principles, Detection, Evolution. Mattia Giannaccari, Marco Raglianti, Michele Lanza	SIGSOFT
2025	UML is Back. Or is it? Investigating the Past, Present, and Future of UML in Open Source Software. Joseph Romeo, Marco Raglianti, Csaba Nagy, Michele Lanza	ICSE
2025	DENIM: Exploring Data Access in Microservices. Maxime André, Marco Raglianti, Anthony Cleve, Michele Lanza	ICSME
2025	Automatically Augmenting GitHub Issues with Informative User Reviews. Arthur Pilone, Marco Raglianti, Michele Lanza, Fabio Kon, Paulo Meirelles	ICSME
2025	Code Refactoring in Virtual Reality. Mattia Giannaccari, Marco Raglianti, Michele Lanza	IDE@ICSE
2025	Understanding Data Access in Microservices Applications Using Interactive Treemaps. Maxime André, Marco Raglianti, Anthony Cleve, Michele Lanza	ICPC
2025	Telling Software Evolution Stories with Sonification. Carmen Armenti, Michele Lanza	ICPC

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Current Members

Prof. Dr. Michele Lanza Head

Dr. Marco Raglianti Postdoc

Carmen Armenti Ph.D. Student

Mattia Giannaccari Ph.D. Student

Phillip Entin Ph.D. Student

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