Professional Summary
My name is Xavier Devroey. I am an assistant professor of software engineering at the University of Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪, 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.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Namur
Master in Computer Science
University of Namur
Bachelor Analyst Programmer
HEB-ESI, Belgium
Interests
Automated Testing
Model-Based Testing
Variability-Intensive Systems
Recent Publications
(2026).
EnergyTrackr: A Modular Energy Regressions Detection Tool.
Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE ‘26).
(2026).
UltraInstinctVR: A Model-Based Tool for Automated System Testing of VR Applications.
Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE ‘26).
(2026).
RESTSpecIT: REST API Specification Generation with LLM-assisted Request Mutations.
Proceedings of the IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2026).
(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).
(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).