Xavier Devroey

Xavier Devroey

Professor

University of Namur

Professional Summary

Welcome

My name is Xavier Devroey. I am an assistant professor of software engineering at the University of Namur, where, together with Benoît Vanderose, we co-lead the SNAIL Team. My research goal is to ease software testing by exploring new paths to achieve a high level of automation for test case design, generation, selection, and prioritization. My main research interests include search-based and model-based software testing, test suite augmentation, DevOps, and variability-intensive systems.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

University of Namur

Master in Computer Science

University of Namur

Bachelor Analyst Programmer

Haute Ecole de Bruxelles, Belgium

Interests

Search-Based Testing and Fuzzing Model-Based Testing Mutation Testing Variability Modeling Software Product Line Testing
Recent Publications
Lucas Berg, Lukas Krodinger, Stephan Lukasczyk, Annibale Panichella, Gordon Fraser, Wim Vanhoof, Xavier Devroey (2026). Real-World Fault Detection for C-Extended Python Projects with Automated Unit Test Generation. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST).
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Miikka Kuutila, Paul Ralph, Huilian Sophie Qiu, Ronnie De Souza Santos, Morakot Choetkiertikul, Amin Milani Fard, Rana Alkadhi, Xavier Devroey, Gregorio Robles, Hideaki Hata, Sebastian Baltes, Hera Arif, Vladimir Kovalenko, Shalini Chakraborty, Eray Tuzun, Gianisa Adisaputri (2026). Staying or Leaving? How Job Satisfaction, Embeddedness and Antecedents Predict Turnover Intentions of Software Professionals. 2026 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).
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Miikka Kuutila, Paul Ralph, Huilian Sophie Qiu, Ronnie De Souza Santos, Morakot Choetkiertikul, Amin Milani Fard, Rana Alkadhi, Xavier Devroey, Gregorio Robles, Hideaki Hata, Sebastian Baltes, Vladimir Kovalenko, Shalini Chakraborty, Eray Tuzun, Hera Arif, Gianisa Adisaputri, Kelly Garcés, Anielle S. L. Andrade, Eyram Amedzor, Bimpe AyoolaKeisha Gaspard-Chickoree, Arazoo Hoseyni (2026). The Software Infrastructure Attitude Scale (SIAS): A Questionnaire Instrument for Measuring Professionals' Attitudes Toward Technical and Sociotechnical Infrastructure.. 2026 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).
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Hugo Raskin, Xavier Devroey, Benoît Vanderose (2026). PRECOG: Pull Request Prioritization and Visualization. 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER).
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Guillaume Nguyen, Antoine Sacre, Anthony Simonofski, Xavier Devroey (2026). Ponderarium, a place for Cyber Physical System conformity assessment. Proceedings of the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
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