Alessandro Garcia

About Alessandro Garcia

Alessandro Garcia, With an exceptional h-index of 52 and a recent h-index of 28 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, specializes in the field of Software Engineering.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

On the Usefulness of Automatically Generated Microservice Architectures

Understanding Developers’ Discussions and Perceptions on Non-functional Requirements: The Case of the Spring Ecosystem

The untold story of code refactoring customizations in practice

On the Support for Designing a Conversational Software API: An Action Research Study: An Action Research Study

Beyond the Code: Investigating the Effects of Pull Request Conversations on Design Decay

Analyzing a Semantics-Aware Bug Seeding Tool's Efficacy: A qualitative study with the SemSeed tool

Re-engineering Legacy Systems as Microservices: An Industrial Survey of Criteria to Deal with Modularity and Variability of Features

Don’t Forget the Exception!: Considering Robustness Changes to Identify Design Problems

Alessandro Garcia Information

University

Position

Associate Professor Computer Science

Citations(all)

10631

Citations(since 2020)

3032

Cited By

9157

hIndex(all)

52

hIndex(since 2020)

28

i10Index(all)

226

i10Index(since 2020)

95

Email

University Profile Page

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

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Alessandro Garcia Skills & Research Interests

Software Engineering

Top articles of Alessandro Garcia

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

On the Usefulness of Automatically Generated Microservice Architectures

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Luiz Carvalho

Thelma Elita Colanzi

Wesley KG Assunção

Alessandro Garcia

Juliana Alves Pereira

...

2024/2/1

Understanding Developers’ Discussions and Perceptions on Non-functional Requirements: The Case of the Spring Ecosystem

ANDERSON OLIVEIRA

JOÃO CORREIA

WESLEY KG ASSUNÇÃO

JULIANA ALVES PEREIRA

RAFAEL DE MELLO

...

2024

The untold story of code refactoring customizations in practice

Daniel Oliveira

Wesley KG Assunção

Alessandro Garcia

Ana Carla Bibiano

Márcie Ribeiro

...

2023/5/14

On the Support for Designing a Conversational Software API: An Action Research Study: An Action Research Study

Joao Bastos

Rafael Mello

Alessandro Garcia

2023/9/25

Beyond the Code: Investigating the Effects of Pull Request Conversations on Design Decay

Caio Barbosa

Anderson Uchôa

Daniel Coutinho

Wesley KG Assunçao

Anderson Oliveira

...

2023

Analyzing a Semantics-Aware Bug Seeding Tool's Efficacy: A qualitative study with the SemSeed tool

ViníCius Martins

Camila T. Ramalho

Lucas Cordeiro Marques

Juliana Alves Pereira

Alessandro Garcia

...

2023/9/25

Re-engineering Legacy Systems as Microservices: An Industrial Survey of Criteria to Deal with Modularity and Variability of Features

Luiz Carvalho

Alessandro Garcia

Wesley KG Assunção

Thelma Elita Colanzi

Rodrigo Bonifácio

...

2022/7/5

Don’t Forget the Exception!: Considering Robustness Changes to Identify Design Problems

Anderson Oliveira

João Correia

Leonardo Sousa

Wesley KG Assunção

Daniel Coutinho

...

2023/5/15

Do code refactorings influence the merge effort?

André Oliveira

Vânia Neves

Alexandre Plastino

Ana Carla Bibiano

Alessandro Garcia

...

2023/5/14

Investigating the Social Representations of Harmful Code

Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development

Rodrigo Lima

Jairo Souza

Baldoino Fonseca

Leopoldo Teixeira

Rafael Mello

...

2024/4/10

Developers’ viewpoints to avoid bug-introducing changes

Information and Software Technology

Jairo Souza

Rodrigo Lima

Baldoino Fonseca

Bruno Cartaxo

Márcio Ribeiro

...

2022/3/1

A Technique to Test Refactoring Detection Tools

Osmar Leandro

Rohit Gheyi

Leopoldo Teixeira

Márcio Ribeiro

Alessandro Garcia

2022/10/5

Cataloging dependency injection anti-patterns in software systems

Journal of Systems and Software

Rodrigo Laigner

Diogo Mendonça

Alessandro Garcia

Marcos Kalinowski

2022/2/1

Smell Patterns as Indicators of Design Degradation: Do Developers Agree?

Anderson Oliveira

Willian Oizumi

Leonardo Sousa

Wesley KG Assunção

Alessandro Garcia

...

2022/10/5

Recommendations for Developers Identifying Code Smells

IEEE Software

Rafael de Mello

Roberto Oliveira

Anderson Uchôa

Willian Oizumi

Alessandro Garcia

...

2022/9/27

On the influential interactive factors on degrees of design decay: A multi-project study

Daniel Coutinho

Anderson Uchôa

Caio Barbosa

Vinícius Soares

Alessandro Garcia

...

2022

Composite refactoring: Representations, characteristics and effects on software projects

Information and Software Technology

Ana Carla Bibiano

Anderson Uchôa

Wesley KG Assunção

Daniel Tenório

Thelma E Colanzi

...

2022/12/21

Analysis of a many-objective optimization approach for identifying microservices from legacy systems

Empirical Software Engineering

Wesley KG Assunção

Thelma Elita Colanzi

Luiz Carvalho

Alessandro Garcia

Juliana Alves Pereira

...

2022/3

Developers’ perception matters: machine learning to detect developer-sensitive smells

Empirical Software Engineering

Daniel Oliveira

Wesley KG Assunção

Alessandro Garcia

Baldoino Fonseca

Márcio Ribeiro

2022/12

Predicting design impactful changes in modern code review: A large-scale empirical study

Anderson Uchôa

Caio Barbosa

Daniel Coutinho

Willian Oizumi

Wesley KG Assunçao

...

2021/5/17

See List of Professors in Alessandro Garcia University(Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)

Co-Authors

H-index: 57
Carlos José Pereira de Lucena

Carlos José Pereira de Lucena

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

H-index: 52
Awais Rashid

Awais Rashid

University of Bristol

H-index: 36
Eduardo Figueiredo

Eduardo Figueiredo

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

H-index: 35
Uirá Kulesza

Uirá Kulesza

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

H-index: 35
Alexander Romanovsky

Alexander Romanovsky

Newcastle University

H-index: 35
Thais Batista

Thais Batista

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

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