Paolo Tonella

Paolo Tonella is Full Professor at USI, within the Faculty of Informatics and the Software Institute, and is Honorary Professor at University College London, UK.

Paolo Tonella holds an ERC Advanced grant as Principal Investigator of the project PRECRIME. He wrote over 150 peer reviewed conference papers and over 50 journal papers. His H-index (Google scholar; May 2023) is 64. He is/was in the editorial board of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, of Empirical Software Engineering, Springer, and of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Wiley. Paolo Tonella teaches Information Modeling and Analysis at the MSc in Software and Data Engineering. 

Paolo Tonella has given foundational contributions to Software Engineering, in the area of code analysis and testing. His ICSE Most Influential Paper (MIP) award winning paper, Analysis and Testing of Web Applications, initiated a new stream of research devoted to the development of testing techniques for web applications. His comprehensive book Reverse Engineering of Object-Oriented Code laid the foundations for the reverse engineering of object-oriented systems. His ISSTA 2004 paper Evolutionary Testing of Classes is recognized as a milestone for the automated generation of object oriented test cases. One of the most widely used Java test case generators, EvoSuite, can be traced back to this seminal ISSTA paper and to the associated tool, eToc. In 2018 he was awarded the ICST MIP award for the paper State-based Testing of Ajax Web Applications.