Software Evolution, Testing, Operations, Literature Reviews, Bibliometrics, Behavioral SE
Repository Overview: This repository serves as a comprehensive archive of code stemming from the research initiatives led or collaborated by Professor Mika Mäntylä. With affiliations spanning from the University of Helsinki to the University of Oulu, Aalto University, and Lund University.
Research Domains (2003-2025):
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Software Evolution and Maintenance: Specialization: Bad Code Smells and Self-Admitted Technical Debt.
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Software Testing: Test Automation, Exploratory Testing, Continuous Integration
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Software Operations and Monitoring: Software Log and Trace Analysis.
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Systematic Literature Reviews: Focus on Multi-vocal Literature Reviews and Automating Systematic Literature Reviews.
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Bibliometrics: Analysis and Application in Software Engineering Context.
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Trend Mining: Unearthing and Understanding Evolving Patterns in Software Engineering through databases such as Stackoverflow, Twitter and Reddit.
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Behavioral Aspects of Software Engineering: Investigating the Human Element in Software Development Processes.
Graduated Phd Students (main and co-supervisor):
- Jesse Nyyssölä 2022-2026, Lightweight approaches to software log anomaly detection
- Leevi Rantala, 2019-2025, Code-level technical debt and self-admitted technical debt
- Shayan Hashemi 2020-2024, Software Log Analysis with Deep Learning
- Junhao Li, 2020-2024, Social media credibility
- Wang Yuqing, 2017-2022, Software test automation maturity assessment and improvement based on best practices
- Kuutila Miikka, 2017- 2021, Time pressure and well-being in software engineering
- Raulamo-Jurvanen, Päivi 2015-2020, Evaluating and selecting software test automation tools
- Rebvar Hosseini 2015-2019, Defect Prediction
- Lehtinen, Timo, 2010-2014, Development and evaluation of a lightweight root cause analysis method
Current research team at the University of Helsinki:
- Mika Mäntylä, Professor
- Jesse Nyyssölä, Postdoctoral researcher
- Yuqing Wang, Postdoctoral researcher
- Aleksi Huotala, PhD student
- Nana Reinikainen, PhD student
- Hamza Bin Mazhar, PhD student
- Ying Song, PhD student
- Ke Ping, PhD student
- Alexander Naakka, PhD student
- Hui Tong, PhD student
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| Team, 6/2025 | Team bowling, 7/2026 | Jesse's Doctoral defence celebration 10/2026 |