| 2026 | MSR | Characterizing Self-Admitted Technical Debt Generated by AI Coding Agents. | Zaki Brahmi, Ali Ouni, Mohammed Sayagh, Mohamed Aymen Saied |
| 2026 | MSR | Beyond Single Code Changes: An Empirical Study of Topic-Based Code Review Practices in Gerrit for OpenStack. | Moataz Chouchen, Mahi Begoug, Ali Ouni |
| 2026 | MSR | On the Reliability of Agentic AI in Continuous Integration Pipelines. | Moataz Chouchen, Jasem Khelifi, Mahi Begoug, Ali Ouni, Mohammed Sayagh, Mohamed Aymen Saied |
| 2026 | MSR | Behind Agentic Pull Requests: An Empirical Study on Developer Interventions in AI Agent-Authored Pull Requests. | Syrine Khelifi, Ali Ouni, Maha Khemaja |
| 2026 | MSR | When AI Code Doesn't Stick: An Empirical Study on Reverted Changes Introduced by AI Coding Agents. | Issam Oukhay, Mahi Begoug, Moataz Chouchen, Ali Ouni |
| 2026 | SSBSE | MLStractor: LLM-Powered Search-Based Monolith-to-Microservice Decomposition. | Ilyes Kasdallah, Mostafa Anouar Ghorab, Oussama Jebbar, Khaled Sellami, Mohammed Sayagh, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Aymen Saied |
| 2025 | GECCO | Learning to Predict Code Review Rounds in Modern Code Review Using Multi-Objective Genetic Programming. | Moataz Chouchen, Issam Oukhay, Ali Ouni |
| 2025 | MSR | How Do Infrastructure-as-Code Practitioners Update Their Dependencies? An Empirical Study on Terraform Module Updates. | Mahi Begoug, Ali Ouni, Moataz Chouchen |
| 2025 | SANER | An Empirical Study on Microservices Deployment Trends, Topics and Challenges in Stack Overflow. | Amina Bouaziz, Mohamed Aymen Saied, Mohammed Sayagh, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer |
| 2025 | SANER | GHAminer: An Open Source Tool to Extract GitHub Actions Build Metrics. | Jasem Khelifi, Yacine Benzina, Moataz Chouchen, Ali Ouni, Mohammed Sayagh, Salah Bouktif |
| 2025 | SANER | On the Performance of Large Language Models for Code Change Intent Classification. | Issam Oukhay, Moataz Chouchen, Ali Ouni, Fatemeh H. Fard |
| 2024 | EASE | How Much Logs Does My Source Code File Need? Learning to Predict the Density of Logs. | Mohamed Amine Batoun, Mohammed Sayagh, Ali Ouni |
| 2024 | ICSE | AntiCopyPaster 2.0: Whitebox just-in-time code duplicates extraction. | Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Benjamin Knobloch, Thomas Kain, Christopher Kalish, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni |
| 2024 | ICSOC | How Do Infrastructure-as-Code Practitioners Update their Provider Dependencies? An Empirical Study on the AWS Provider. | Mahi Begoug, Ali Ouni |
| 2024 | MSR | How to Refactor this Code? An Exploratory Study on Developer-ChatGPT Refactoring Conversations. | Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anushkrishna Venkatakrishnan, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni |
| 2024 | MSR | Fine-Grained Just-In-Time Defect Prediction at the Block Level in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). | Mahi Begoug, Moataz Chouchen, Ali Ouni, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer |
| 2024 | MSR | How Do So ware Developers Use ChatGPT? An Exploratory Study on GitHub Pull Requests. | Moataz Chouchen, Narjes Bessghaier, Mahi Begoug, Ali Ouni, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Automating Source Code Refactoring in the Classroom. | Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni |
| 2024 | SCAM | GitRev: An LLM-Based Gamification Framework for Modern Code Review Activities. | Jasem Khelifi, Moataz Chouchen, Ali Ouni, Dong Wang, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Salma Hamza, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer |
| 2024 | SERA | Drop it All or Pick it Up? How Developers Responded to the Log4JShell Vulnerability. | Vittunyuta Maeprasart, Ali Ouni, Raula Gaikovina Kula |
| 2024 | SERA | Characterising Contributions that Coincide with Vulnerability Mitigation in NPM Libraries. | Ruksit Rojpaisarnkit, Hathaichanok Damrongsiri, Christoph Treude, Ali Ouni, Raula Gaikovina Kula |
| 2023 | EASE | An Empirical Study on Continuous Integration Trends, Topics and Challenges in Stack Overflow. | Ali Ouni, Islem Saidani, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer |
| 2023 | ESEM | What Do Infrastructure-as-Code Practitioners Discuss: An Empirical Study on Stack Overflow. | Mahi Begoug, Narjes Bessghaier, Ali Ouni, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer |
| 2022 | EASE | On the Identification of Third-Party Library Usage Patterns for Android Applications. | Richardson Alexandre, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Aymen Saied, Salah Bouktif, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer |
| 2022 | EASE | On the Use of Refactoring in Security Vulnerability Fixes: An Exploratory Study on Maven Libraries. | Ayano Ikegami, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Bodin Chinthanet, Vittunyuta Maeprasart, Ali Ouni, Takashi Ishio, Kenichi Matsumoto |
| 2022 | EASE | A Hierarchical DBSCAN Method for Extracting Microservices from Monolithic Applications. | Khaled Sellami, Mohamed Aymen Saied, Ali Ouni |
| 2022 | ICSOC | Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis to Decompose Monolithic Application into Microservices. | Khaled Sellami, Mohamed Aymen Saied, Ali Ouni, Rabe Abdalkareem |
| 2022 | MSR | Code Review Practices for Refactoring Changes: An Empirical Study on OpenStack. | Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Moataz Chouchen, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni |
| 2022 | MSR | An Exploratory Study on Refactoring Documentation in Issues Handling. | Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni |
| 2022 | MSR | Refactoring Debt: Myth or Reality? An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Technical Debt and Refactoring. | Anthony Peruma, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni |
| 2021 | EASE | Test Smell Detection Tools: A Systematic Mapping Study. | Wajdi Aljedaani, Anthony Peruma, Ahmed Aljohani, Mazen Alotaibi, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman, Abdullatif Ghallab, Stephanie Ludi |
| 2021 | GECCO | Search based software engineering: challenges, opportunities and recent applications. | Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer |
| 2021 | ICSE | Refactoring Practices in the Context of Modern Code Review: An Industrial Case Study at Xerox. | Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Hussein Alrubaye, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Marouane Kessentini |
| 2020 | GECCO | Search based software engineering: challenges, opportunities and recent applications. | Ali Ouni |
| 2020 | GECCO | Recommending peer reviewers in modern code review: a multi-objective search-based approach. | Motaz Chouchen, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Katsuro Inoue |
| 2020 | GECCO | On the prediction of continuous integration build failures using search-based software engineering. | Islem Saidani, Ali Ouni, Moataz Chouchen, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer |
| 2020 | ICGSE | On the detection of community smells using genetic programming-based ensemble classifier chain. | Nuri Almarimi, Ali Ouni, Moataz Chouchen, Islem Saidani, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer |
| 2020 | ICSE | On the Relationship Between Developer Experience and Refactoring: An Exploratory Study and Preliminary Results. | Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anthony Peruma, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni |
| 2020 | ICSE | Increasing the Trust In Refactoring Through Visualization. | Alex Bogart, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni |
| 2020 | ICSE | An Exploratory Study on the Refactoring of Unit Test Files in Android Applications. | Anthony Peruma, Christian D. Newman, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Fabio Palomba |
| 2020 | ICSR | An Exploratory Study on How Software Reuse is Discussed in Stack Overflow. | Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Diego Barinas, Jiaqian Liu, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman |
| 2020 | ICSR | How Do Developers Refactor Code to Improve Code Reusability? | Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Philip T. Rodriguez, Jordan Bowman, Tianjia Wang, Benjamin Adepoju, Kevin Lopez, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer |
| 2020 | ICSR | How Does Library Migration Impact Software Quality and Comprehension? An Empirical Study. | Hussein Alrubaye, Deema Alshoaibi, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni |
| 2020 | ICSR | AndroLib: Third-Party Software Library Recommendation for Android Applications. | Moataz Chouchen, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer |
| 2019 | ESEM | On the Impact of Refactoring on the Relationship between Quality Attributes and Design Metrics. | Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Marouane Kessentini |
| 2019 | ICSE | Can refactoring be self-affirmed?: an exploratory study on how developers document their refactoring activities in commit messages. | Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni |
| 2019 | ICSOC | Towards Automated Microservices Extraction Using Muti-objective Evolutionary Search. | Islem Saidani, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Mohamed Aymen Saied |
| 2017 | CSIT | An Ontology-Based Approach for User Interface Adaptation. | Makram Soui, Soumaya Diab, Ali Ouni, Aroua Essayeh, Mourad Abed |
| 2017 | GECCO | A context-based refactoring recommendation approach using simulated annealing: two industrial case studies. | Marouane Kessentini, Troh Josselin Dea, Ali Ouni |
| 2017 | ICSE | Detecting Android Smells Using Multi-Objective Genetic Programming. | Marouane Kessentini, Ali Ouni |
| 2017 | ICWS | A Machine Learning-Based Approach to Detect Web Service Design Defects. | Ali Ouni, Marwa Daagi, Marouane Kessentini, Salah Bouktif, Mohamed Mohsen Gammoudi |
| 2017 | ICWS | Web Service Interface Decomposition Using Formal Concept Analysis. | Marwa Daagi, Ali Ouni, Marouane Kessentini, Mohamed Mohsen Gammoudi, Salah Bouktif |
| 2017 | ICWS | Improving Web Services Design Quality Using Heuristic Search and Machine Learning. | Marouane Kessentini, Hanzhang Wang, Josselin Troh Dea, Ali Ouni |
| 2017 | ICWS | On the Value of Quality of Service Attributes for Detecting Bad Design Practices. | Hanzhang Wang, Marouane Kessentini, Taghreed Hassouna, Ali Ouni |
| 2016 | ICSOC | Prediction of Web Services Evolution. | Hanzhang Wang, Marouane Kessentini, Ali Ouni |
| 2016 | ICSOC | Bi-level Identification of Web Service Defects. | Hanzhang Wang, Marouane Kessentini, Ali Ouni |
| 2016 | ICWS | SIM: An Automated Approach to Improve Web Service Interface Modularization. | Ali Ouni, Zouhour Salem, Katsuro Inoue, Makram Soui |
| 2016 | ICWS | Identification of Web Service Refactoring Opportunities as a Multi-objective Problem. | Hanzhang Wang, Ali Ouni, Marouane Kessentini, Bruce R. Maxim, William I. Grosky |
| 2015 | GECCO | Web Service Antipatterns Detection Using Genetic Programming. | Ali Ouni, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Marouane Kessentini, Katsuro Inoue |
| 2013 | GECCO | The use of development history in software refactoring using a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm. | Ali Ouni, Marouane Kessentini, Houari A. Sahraoui, Mohamed Salah Hamdi |
| 2007 | RCIS | Wiki usages in a corporate context - Results of an experimental study. | Ali Ouni, Jean-Claude Bocquet |