2026

1. Controlled Natural Language for Requirements Specification: A Systematic Literature Review

   Ikram Darif, Ghizlane El-Boussaidi, Segla Kpodjedo, Cristiano Politowski

   ACM Comput. Surv., 2026

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2. Report on ReAnimate’25

   Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Fábio Petrillo, Jessie Galasso-Carbonnel, Henrique De Freitas Serra, Cristiano Politowski, Nicolas Rousse, Gabriel C. Ullmann, Laurent Voisard, Diego Elias Costa

   ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2026

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3. Characterizing Open-Source Video Games from a Software Engineering Perspective

   Henrique Mandelli Canella, Yohan Duarte, Cristiano Politowski, Vinicius H. S. Durelli, André Takeshi Endo

   Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 10th International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering, GAS 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 12-18, 2026, 2026

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4. CG-WFC: A Hybrid Cyclic-Graph & WFC Method for Designer-Guided and Replayable Procedural Content Generation

   Laurent Voisard, Cristiano Politowski, Fabio Petrillo, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

   Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 10th International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering, GAS 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 12-18, 2026, 2026

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5. Creativity Beyond Functionality: An Observational Study of Easter Eggs in Video Games

   Cristiano Politowski, Claudio Di Sipio, Benoit Baudry, Michalis Famelis, Houari A. Sahraoui

   Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 10th International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering, GAS 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 12-18, 2026, 2026

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6. Multilingual Game Dialogue Translation using Large Language Models: A Performance Survey

   Quang Phuoc Nguyen, Cristiano Politowski, Labib Rahman, En-Shiun Annie Lee

   Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 10th International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering, GAS 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 12-18, 2026, 2026

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2025

1. SyDRA: An approach to understand game engine architecture

   Gabriel C. Ullmann, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Fábio Petrillo, Nicolas Anquetil, Cristiano Politowski

   Entertain. Comput., 2025

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2. Unboxing Default Argument Breaking Changes in 1 + 2 data science libraries

   João Eduardo Montandon, Luciana Lourdes Silva, Cristiano Politowski, Daniel Prates, Arthur Brito Bonifácio, Ghizlane El-Boussaidi

   J. Syst. Softw., 2025

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3. On the Need for Reproducibility Guidelines for Open-Source Games: A itch.io Case Study

   Claudio Di Sipio, Andrea D’Angelo, Riccardo Rubei, Cristiano Politowski

   IEEE Conference on Games, CoG 2025, Lisbon, Portugal, August 26-29, 2025, 2025

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4. Towards a framework for exploratory testing in video games

   Yohan Duarte, Cristiano Politowski, André Takeshi Endo

   9th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering, GAS@ICSE 2025, Ottawa, ON, Canada, April 29, 2025, 2025

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5. A Mapping Study of the Entity Component System Pattern

   Laurent Voisard, Henrique De Freitas Serra, Cristiano Politowski, Fábio Petrillo, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

   9th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering, GAS@ICSE 2025, Ottawa, ON, Canada, April 29, 2025, 2025

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6. Report on ReAnimate’24: 2024 Summer School on Retro Gaming History, Critic, and Development

   Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Gabriel C. Ullmann, Cristiano Politowski, Fábio Petrillo, Carl Therrien

   ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2025

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2024

1. PlayMyData: a curated dataset of multi-platform video games

   Andrea D’Angelo, Claudio Di Sipio, Cristiano Politowski, Riccardo Rubei

   21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2024, Lisbon, Portugal, April 15-16, 2024, 2024

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2023

1. On the Impact of Development Frameworks on Mobile Apps

   Parsa Karami, Ikram Darif, Cristiano Politowski, Ghizlane El-Boussaidi, Sègla Kpodjedo, Imen Benzarti

   30th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 2023, Seoul, Republic of Korea, December 4-7, 2023, 2023

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2. An Exploratory Approach for Game Engine Architecture Recovery

   Gabriel C. Ullmann, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Fábio Petrillo, Nicolas Anquetil, Cristiano Politowski

   7th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering, GAS@ICSE 2023, Melbourne, Australia, May 15, 2023, 2023

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3. Assessing Video Game Balance using Autonomous Agents

   Cristiano Politowski, Fábio Petrillo, Ghizlane El-Boussaidi, Gabriel C. Ullmann, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

   7th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering, GAS@ICSE 2023, Melbourne, Australia, May 15, 2023, 2023

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4. Visualising Game Engine Subsystem Coupling Patterns

   Gabriel C. Ullmann, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Fábio Petrillo, Nicolas Anquetil, Cristiano Politowski

   Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2023 - 22nd IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2023, Bologna, Italy, November 15-17, 2023, Proceedings, 2023

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5. A Model-driven and Template-based Approach for Requirements Specification

   Ikram Darif, Cristiano Politowski, Ghizlane El-Boussaidi, Imen Benzarti, Sègla Kpodjedo

   26th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, MODELS 2023, Västerås, Sweden, October 1-6, 2023, 2023

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6. Unboxing Default Argument Breaking Changes in Scikit Learn

   João Eduardo Montandon, Luciana Lourdes Silva, Cristiano Politowski, Ghizlane El-Boussaidi, Marco Túlio Valente

   23rd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2023, Bogotá, Colombia, October 2-3, 2023, 2023

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7. Event Driven Architecture: An Exploratory Study on The Gap between Academia and Industry

   Nader Trabelsi, Cristiano Politowski, Ghizlane El-Boussaidi

   5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Practices for the IoT, SERP4IoT)@ICSE 2023, Melbourne, Australia, May 20, 2023, 2023

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2022

1. ASE4Games 2021 Workshop Summary

   Kendra M. L. Cooper, Fábio Petrillo, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Cristiano Politowski

   ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2022

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2. Video Game Project Management Anti-patterns

   Gabriel C. Ullmann, Cristiano Politowski, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Fábio Petrillo, João Eduardo Montandon

   6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering, GAS@ICSE, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 20, 2022, 2022

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3. What Makes a Game High-rated? Towards Factors of Video Game Success

   Gabriel C. Ullmann, Cristiano Politowski, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Fábio Petrillo

   6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering, GAS@ICSE, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 20, 2022, 2022

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4. Towards Automated Video Game Testing: Still a Long Way to Go

   Cristiano Politowski, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Fábio Petrillo

   6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering, GAS@ICSE, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 20, 2022, 2022

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5. A Domain Specific Language for the ARINC 653 Specification

   Ikram Darif, Cristiano Politowski, Ghizlane El-Boussaidi, Sègla Kpodjedo

   IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops, ISSRE 2022 - Workshops, Charlotte, NC, USA, October 31 - Nov. 3, 2022, 2022

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6. Game Engine Comparative Anatomy

   Gabriel C. Ullmann, Cristiano Politowski, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Fábio Petrillo

   Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2022 - 21st IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2022, Bremen, Germany, November 1-3, 2022, Proceedings, 2022

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2021

1. What skills do IT companies look for in new developers? A study with Stack Overflow jobs

   João Eduardo Montandon, Cristiano Politowski, Luciana Lourdes Silva, Marco Túlio Valente, Fábio Petrillo, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

   Inf. Softw. Technol., 2021

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2. Game industry problems: An extensive analysis of the gray literatureSelected

   Cristiano Politowski, Fábio Petrillo, Gabriel C. Ullmann, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

   Inf. Softw. Technol., 2021

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3. Are game engines software frameworks? A three-perspective study

   Cristiano Politowski, Fábio Petrillo, João Eduardo Montandon, Marco Túlio Valente, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

   J. Syst. Softw., 2021

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4. A Survey of Video Game TestingSelected

   Cristiano Politowski, Fábio Petrillo, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

   2nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automation of Software Test, AST@ICSE 2021, Madrid, Spain, May 20-21, 2021, 2021

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2020

1. A large scale empirical study of the impact of Spaghetti Code and Blob anti-patterns on program comprehension

   Cristiano Politowski, Foutse Khomh, Simone Romano, Giuseppe Scanniello, Fábio Petrillo, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Abdou Maiga

   Inf. Softw. Technol., 2020

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2. Improving Engagement Assessment in Gameplay Testing Sessions using IoT Sensors

   Cristiano Politowski, Fábio Petrillo, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

   ICSE ’20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Workshops, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 27 June - 19 July, 2020, 2020

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3. Dataset of Video Game Development Problems

   Cristiano Politowski, Fábio Petrillo, Gabriel Cavalheiro Ullmann, Josias Andrade Werly, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

   MSR ’20: 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 29-30 June, 2020, 2020

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2018

1. Learning from the past: A process recommendation system for video game projects using postmortems experiences

   Cristiano Politowski, Lisandra M. Fontoura, Fábio Petrillo, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

   Inf. Softw. Technol., 2018

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2016

1. Are the old days gone?: a survey on actual software engineering processes in video game industry

   Cristiano Politowski, Lisandra M. Fontoura, Fábio Petrillo, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

   Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering, GAS@ICSE 2016, Austin, Texas, USA, May 16, 2016, 2016

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