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Nicolas Anquetil @INRIA

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Scopus Author ID: 55975024000

Keywords

Software maintenance and evolution, Software reverse engineering, migration, and analysis, Software quality, Meta-modeling, Model Driven Engineering

Countries

France

Biography

I am associate professor at the university of Lille, France. Before that, I worked at Ecole des Mines de Nantes (France), Universidade Católica de Brasilia (Brazil), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and University of Ottawa (Canada).

My research interests cover about anything that has to do with software maintenance and evolution.
I am particularly interested in working with real problems encountered by organizations in the daily (software engineering) life.
Currently, in the INRIA/RMod team, I am working on reverse engineering which aims at providing technical solutions to help people understand better and modify legacy software. I work on and with the software analysis framework Moose (http://moosetechnology.org/ and https://github.com/moosetechnology).

I work on and with Moose. Moose is a software analysis platform relying on meta-models to offer a set of visualization and analysis tools independent of the programming language modeled.

In the past, I worked on the following sub-topics in relation with software maintenance: software quality, sociological aspects (Why is maintenance negatively perceived when it is the most practiced activity in organizations?); knowledge management (How to recover the knowledge embedded in legacy software?); maintenance management (process, risk management, ...)

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Employment (5)

Université de Lille: Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, FR

2009-09 to present | Assistant Professor (IUT)
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Ecole des Mines de Nantes: Nantes, Pays de la Loire, FR

2008-01 to 2009-08 | Research engineer
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Catholic University of Brasilia: Brasilia, DF, BR

2001-01 to 2007-12 | Professor (MGCTI)
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BR

1999-08 to 2000-12 | Invited professor (COPPE)
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University of Ottawa: Ottawa, ON, CA

1996-09 to 1999-06 | Assistant researcher (EECS)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Lille Nord de France: Lille, FR

2014-05-09 to 2014-05-09 | HDR (Habilitation to supervise research) (Computer Science)
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Universite de Montreal: Montreal, QC, CA

2001-06 to 2006-09 | PhD
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Université de Caen Basse-Normandie: Caen, Basse-Normandie, FR

1987-09 to 1988-07 | DEA (Master)
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A new architecture reconciling refactorings and transformations

Journal of Computer Languages
2024-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cola.2024.101273
Contributors: Balša Šarenac; Nicolas Anquetil; Stéphane Ducasse; Pablo Tesone
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Visualising Game Engine Subsystem Coupling Patterns

2023 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-8248-6_22
Contributors: Gabriel C. Ullmann; Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc; Fabio Petrillo; Nicolas Anquetil; Cristiano Politowski
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Migrating the Communication Protocol of Client–Server Applications

IEEE Software
2023-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2023.3263019
Contributors: Gabriel Darbord; Benoît Verhaeghe; Anne Etien; Nicolas Anquetil; Anas Shatnawi; Abderrahmane Seriai; Mustapha Derras
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Report From The Trenches A Case Study In Modernizing Software Development Practices

2021-09 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/ICSME52107.2021.00052
Contributors: Mahugnon Honore Houekpetodji; Nicolas Anquetil; Stephane Ducasse; Fatiha Djareddir; Jerome Sudich
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Analysing Microsoft Access Projects: Building a Model in a Partially Observable Domain

2020 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64694-3_10
Contributors: Santiago Bragagnolo; Nicolas Anquetil; Stephane Ducasse; Seriai Abderrahmane; Mustapha Derras
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Modular Moose: A New Generation of Software Reverse Engineering Platform

2020 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64694-3_8
Contributors: Nicolas Anquetil; Anne Etien; Mahugnon H. Houekpetodji; Benoit Verhaeghe; Stéphane Ducasse; Clotilde Toullec; Fatiha Djareddir; Jerôme Sudich; Moustapha Derras
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Analysing Microsoft Access Projects: Building a model in a Partially Observable Domain

2020-12-02 | Conference paper
URI: hal-02966146
Contributors: Santiago Bragagnolo; Nicolas Anquetil; Stéphane Ducasse; Abderrahmane Seriai; Mustapha Derras
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Modular Moose: A new generation software reverse engineering environment

2020-10-06 | Conference paper
URI: hal-02972159
Contributors: Nicolas Anquetil; Anne Etien; Mahugnon Houekpetodji; Benoit Verhaeghe; Stéphane Ducasse; Clotilde Toullec; Fatiha Djareddir; Jerôme Sudich; Moustapha Derras
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Recommendations for Evolving Relational Databases

2020-06-08 | Conference paper
URI: hal-02511466
Contributors: Julien Delplanque; Anne Etien; Nicolas Anquetil; Stéphane Ducasse
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Recommendations for Evolving Relational Databases: Technical Report

2020-03-11 | Report
URI: hal-02504949
Contributors: Julien Delplanque; Anne Etien; Nicolas Anquetil; Stéphane Ducasse
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Characterizing Pharo Code: A Technical Report

2020-01-14 | Report
URI: hal-02440055
Contributors: Oleksandr Zaitsev; Stéphane Ducasse; Nicolas Anquetil
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Empirical Study of Programming to an Interface

2019-11-11 | Conference paper
URI: hal-02353681
Contributors: Benoît Verhaeghe; Christopher Fuhrman; Latifa Guerrouj; Nicolas Anquetil; Stéphane Ducasse
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Decomposing God Classes at Siemens

2019-10 | Conference paper
URI: hal-02395836
Contributors: Nicolas Anquetil; Anne Etien; Gaelle Andreo; Stéphane Ducasse
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Improving practices in a medium french company: First step

2019-10-13 | Report
URI: hal-02978015
Contributors: Mahugnon Honore Houekpetodji; Nicolas Anquetil
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Migrating GWT to Angular 6 using MDE

2019-07-08 | Conference paper
URI: hal-02304301
Contributors: Benoît Verhaeghe; Nicolas Anquetil; Stéphane Ducasse; Abderrahmane Seriai; Laurent Deruelle; Mustapha Derras
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GUI Migration using MDE from GWT to Angular 6: An Industrial Case

2019-02-24 | Conference paper
URI: hal-02019015
Contributors: Benoît Verhaeghe; Anne Etien; Nicolas Anquetil; Abderrahmane Seriai; Laurent Deruelle; Stéphane Ducasse; Mustapha Derras
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Project-Team RMoD 2018 Activity Report

2019-02-01 | Report
URI: hal-02006630
Contributors: Marcus Denker; Nicolas Anquetil; Stéphane Ducasse; Anne Etien; Damien Pollet
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Evaluating the efficiency of continuous testing during test-driven development

2018 IEEE 2nd International Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests, VST 2018 - Proceedings
2018 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/VST.2018.8327152
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2-s2.0-85051030523
Contributors: Demeyer, S.; Verhaeghe, B.; Etien, A.; Anquetil, N.; Ducasse, S.
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Relational database schema evolution: An industrial case study

Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 2018
2018 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/ICSME.2018.00073
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2-s2.0-85058312386
Contributors: Delplanque, J.; Etien, A.; Anquetil, N.; Auverlot, O.
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Définition et identification des tables de nomenclatures

2018-05-28 | Conference paper
URI: hal-01944135
Contributors: Julien Delplanque; Olivier Auverlot; Anne Etien; Nicolas Anquetil
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Project-Team RMoD (Analyses and Language Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution) 2017 Activity Report

2018-01-15 | Report
URI: hal-01683649
Contributors: Marcus Denker; Nicolas Anquetil; Stéphane Ducasse; Anne Etien; Damien Pollet
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CodeCritics applied to database schema: Challenges and first results

SANER 2017 - 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering
2017 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/SANER.2017.7884648
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2-s2.0-85018421262
Contributors: Delplanque, J.; Etien, A.; Auverlot, O.; Mens, T.; Anquetil, N.; Ducasse, S.
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CodeCritics applied to database schema: Challenges and first results

Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on
2017 | Conference paper
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How can we help software rearchitecting efforts? Study of an industrial case

Proceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 2016
2017 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/ICSME.2016.43
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2-s2.0-85013092921
Contributors: Govin, B.; Anquetil, N.; Etien, A.; Ducasse, S.; Monegier, A.
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Identifying class name inconsistency in hierarchy: A first simple heuristic

IWST 2017 - Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies, in conjunction with the 25th International Smalltalk Joint Conference
2017 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3139903.3139920
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2-s2.0-85040193857
Contributors: Alidra, A.; Saker, M.; Anquetil, N.; Ducasse, S.
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Proceedings of the 16<sup>th</sup> edition of the BElgian-NEtherlands software eVOLution symposium

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2017 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85041683495
Contributors: Demeyer, S.; Parsai, A.; Laghari, G.; Van Bladel, B.; Serebrenik, A.; Decan, A.; Zaidman, A.; Etien, A.; Adams, B.; De Roover, C. et al.
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Recommending source code locations for system specific transformations

SANER 2017 - 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering
2017 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/SANER.2017.7884618
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2-s2.0-85018376376
Contributors: Santos, G.; Paixao, K.V.R.; Anquetil, N.; Etien, A.; De Almeida Maia, M.; Ducasse, S.
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The case for non-cohesive packages

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2017 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85030758265
Contributors: Anquetil, N.; Bhatti, M.U.; Ducasse, S.; Hora, A.; Laval, J.
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The Case for Non-Cohesive Packages

2017 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/0000000.0000000
URI: hal-01585703
Contributors: Nicolas Anquetil; Muhammad Bhatti; Stéphane Ducasse; André Hora; Jannik Laval
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Usage of tests in an open-source community: A case study with pharo developers

IWST 2017 - Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies, in conjunction with the 25th International Smalltalk Joint Conference
2017 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3139903.3139909
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2-s2.0-85040189104
Contributors: Verhaeghe, B.; Anquetil, N.; Ducasse, S.; Blondeau, V.
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What are the testing habits of developers? A case study in a large IT company

Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 2017
2017 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/ICSME.2017.68
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2-s2.0-85040186398
Contributors: Blondeau, V.; Etien, A.; Anquetil, N.; Cresson, S.; Croisy, P.; Ducasse, S.
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Managing an Industrial Software Rearchitecting Project With Source Code Labelling

2017-12-12 | Conference paper
URI: hal-02095200
Contributors: Brice Govin; Nicolas Anquetil; Anne Etien; Stéphane Ducasse; Arnaud Monegier Du Sorbier
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What are the Testing Habits of Developers?

2017-09-20 | Conference paper
URI: hal-01571655
Contributors: Vincent Blondeau; Anne Etien; Nicolas Anquetil; Sylvain Cresson; Pascal Croisy; Stéphane Ducasse
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Identifying Classes in Legacy JavaScript Code

Journal of Software: Evolution and Process
2017-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/smr.1864
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Recommending Source Code Locations for System Specific Transformations

24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering
2017-02 | Conference paper
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Recommending Source Code Locations for System Specific Transformations

2017-02-21 | Conference paper
URI: hal-01441790
Contributors: Gustavo Santos; Klérisson Paixão; Nicolas Anquetil; Anne Etien; Marcelo de Almeida; Stéphane Ducasse
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Project-Team RMoD 2016 Activity Report

2017-01 | Report
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How Can We Help Software Rearchitecting Efforts? Study of an Industrial Case

2017-01-31 | Working paper
URI: hal-01451242
Contributors: Brice Govin; Nicolas Anquetil; Anne Etien; Stéphane Ducasse; Arnaud Monegier
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Project-Team RMoD 2016 Activity Report

2017-01-09 | Report
URI: hal-01444225
Contributors: Nicolas Anquetil; Marcus Denker; Stéphane Ducasse; Anne Etien; Damien Pollet
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A lightweight remodularization process based on structural similarity

Proceedings - 2016 10th Brazilian Symposium on Components, Architectures and Reuse Software, SBCARS 2016
2016 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/SBCARS.2016.24
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2-s2.0-85011256436
Contributors: Terra, R.; Valente, M.T.; Anquetil, N.
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A Lightweight Remodularization Process based on Structural Similarity

Software Components, Architectures and Reuse (SBCARS), 2016 X Brazilian Symposium on
2016 | Conference paper
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How Can We Help Software Rearchitecting Efforts? Study of an Industrial Case

Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2016 IEEE International Conference on
2016 | Conference paper
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Identifying the Exact Bug Fixing Actions

Proceedings - 7th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice, IWESEP 2016
2016 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/IWESEP.2016.13
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2-s2.0-84971472391
Contributors: Oumarou, H.; Anquetil, N.; Etien, A.; Ducasse, S.; Taiwe, K.D.
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Identifying the Exact Bug Fixing Actions

Empirical Software Engineering in Practice (IWESEP), 2016 7th International Workshop on
2016 | Conference paper
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JSClassFinder: a tool to detect class-like structures in JavaScript

arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.05891
2016 | Journal article
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Test Case Selection in Industry: an Analysis of Issues Related to Static Approaches

Software Quality Journal
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-016-9328-4
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When should internal interfaces be promoted to public?

FSE 2016 Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering
2016-11 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/2950290.2950306
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How do Developers React to API Evolution? a Large-Scale Empirical Study

Software Quality Journal
2016-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-016-9344-4
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Predicting Software Defects with Causality Tests

2016-10 | Other
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2014.01.033
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Clustering technique for conceptual clusters

IWST'16 International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies
2016-08 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/2991041.2991052
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