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
Haute Ecole de Bruxelles, Belgium
Interests
Automated Testing and Fuzzing
Model-Based Testing
Variability-Intensive Systems
Recent Publications
(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).
(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).
(2026).
PRECOG: Pull Request Prioritization and Visualization.
2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER).
(2026).
Ponderarium, a place for Cyber Physical System conformity assessment.
Proceedings of the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).