Luigi Libero Lucio Starace, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor @ Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy.

Joint works with Sergio Di Meglio

Journal articles

2026

▸ A Taxonomy of Bad Practices in Software Performance Testing: Insights from Gray Literature and Practitioner Validation Authors: S. Di Meglio, L. L. L. Starace, V. Pontillo, L. Martins, D. Di Nucci, and F. Palomba. To appear in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

2025

▸ Web App Performance Testing in Industrial Contexts: Supporting Workload Generation with E2E-Loader++ Authors: S. Di Meglio, L. L. L. Starace, and S. Di Martino. Journal of Systems and Software.

▸ Investigating the Adoption and Maintenance of Web GUI Testing: Insights from GitHub Repositories Authors: S. Di Meglio, L. L. L. Starace, V. Pontillo, R. Opdebeeck, C. De Roover, and S. Di Martino. To appear in Information and Software Technology.

2024

▸ Evaluating Performance and Resource Consumption of REST Frameworks and Execution Environments: Insights and Guidelines for Developers and Companies Authors: S. Di Meglio, and L. L. L. Starace. IEEE Access.

Conference articles

2026

▸ Exploring the Socio-Technical Motivations Behind the Adoption and Migration of Web GUI Testing Frameworks Authors: G. Di Martino, S. Di Meglio, V. Pontillo, and L. L. L. Starace. To be presented at SEAA 2026 - 52nd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications.

▸ Smelly Bad Practices in Performance System Tests: Detection, Prevalence, and Lifetime Authors: S. Di Meglio, V. Pontillo, L. L. L. Starace, L. Martins, D. Di Nucci, and F. Palomba. To be presented at ICSME 2026 - 42nd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution.

2025

▸ Performance Testing in Open-Source Web Projects: Adoption, Maintenance, and a Change Taxonomy Authors: S. Di Meglio, L. L. L. Starace, V. Pontillo, R. Opdebeek, C. De Roover, and S. Di Martino. Presented at ICSME 2025 - 41st International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution.

▸ Rookie Mistakes: Measuring Software Quality in Student Projects to Guide Educational Enhancement Authors: M. De Luca, S. Di Martino, S. Di Meglio, A. Fasolino, L. L. L. Starace, and P. Tramontana. Presented at SEAA 2025 - 51st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications.

▸ REST in Pieces: RESTful Design Rule Violations in Student-Built Web Apps Authors: S. Di Meglio, V. Pontillo, and L. L. L. Starace. Presented at SEAA 2025 - 51st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications.

▸ 🏆 Large Language Models in the Travel Domain: An Industrial Experience Authors: S. Di Meglio, A. Somma, L. L. L. Starace, F. Scippacercola, G. Sperlì, and S. Di Martino. Presented at SEKE 2025 - 37th International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering.

▸ 🏆 E2EGit: A Dataset of End-to-End Web Tests in Open Source Projects Authors: S. Di Meglio, L. L. L. Starace, V. Pontillo, R. Opdebeek, C. De Roover, and S. Di Martino. Presented at MSR 2025 - 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories.

▸ 🏆 E2E-Loader: A Tool to Generate Performance Tests from End-to-End GUI-Level Tests Authors: S. Di Meglio, L. L. L. Starace, and S. Di Martino. Presented at ICST 2025 - 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation.

2024

▸ Towards Predicting Fragility in End-to-End Web Tests Authors: S. Di Meglio, and L. L. L. Starace. To be presented at EASE 2024 - 28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering.

▸ Automatic Assessment of Architectural Anti-patterns and Code Smells in Student Software Projects Authors: M. De Luca, S. Di Meglio, A. Fasolino, L. L. L. Starace, and P. Tramontana. To be presented at EASE 2024 - 28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering.

2023

▸ Starting a new REST API project? A performance benchmark of frameworks and execution environments Authors: S. Di Meglio, L. L. L. Starace, and S. Di Martino. Presented at IWSM-MENSURA 2023 - Joint Conference of the 32nd International Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM) and the 17th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (MENSURA).

▸ E2E-Loader: A Framework to Support Performance Testing of Web Applications Authors: E. Battista, S. Di Martino, S. Di Meglio, F. Scippacercola, and L. L. L. Starace. Presented at ICST 2023 - 16th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation.