Sabato Nocera

About

Sabato Nocera started his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Salerno, Italy, in November 2022. He previously earned his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science from the same university in September 2022 and 2020, respectively. Since September 2024, he has also been a Research Fellow, contributing to the project Mining Software Repositories for enhanced Software Bills of Materials (MSR4SBOM). His research interests include empirical software engineering and mining software repositories.

News

• July 2025, one paper accepted for publication in IST, another in JSS, and another one at ESEM.
• June 2025, student volunteer for FSE and ISSTA.
• June 2025, one paper presented at FSE and another at EASE.
• May 2025, workshop organizer for A-SPPI.
• January 2025, web chair for PROFES.
• January 2025, one paper accepted at MSR.

Services

Conference Services

• Workshop Organizer: A-SPPI’25.
• Web Chair: PROFES’25, WSESE’25.
• Student Volunteer: FSE’25, ISSTA’25, ICSE’24.
• Program Committee: EMPATH-IA’25.

Journal Services

• Reviewer for ACM TOSEM (since 2023) and Springer EMSE (since 2025).

Research

Publications

International Journals:

• [IST’25] Daniele Bifolco, Simone Romano, Sabato Nocera, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello, Massimiliano Di Penta: An empirical study on the accuracy of GitHub’s dependency graph and the nature of its inaccuracy. Inf. Softw. Technol. 187: 107854 (2025).
• [JSS’25b] Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello: On the adoption of software bill of materials in open-source software projects. J. Syst. Softw. 230: 112540 (2025).
• [JSS’25a] Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello: Software engineering education: Results from a training intervention based on SonarCloud when developing web apps. J. Syst. Softw. 222: 112308 (2025).

Conference Proceedings:

• [ESEM’25] Sabato Nocera, Davide Fucci, Giuseppe Scanniello: Dealing with SonarQube Cloud: Initial Results from a Mining Software Repository Study. ESEM 2025: to appear (pre-print).
• [EASE’25 Riccardo D’Avino, Sabato Nocera, Daniele Bifolco, Federica Pepe, Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuseppe Scanniello: ALOHA: A(IBoM) tooL generatOr for Hugging fAce. EASE 2025: to appear (pre-print).
• [FSE’25b] Sabato Nocera, Sira Vegas, Giuseppe Scanniello, Natalia Juristo: Causal Inference Needs More Than Analysis: The Role of Study Design. SIGSOFT FSE Companion 2025: 1428-1431.
• [FSE’25a] Sabato Nocera, Giuseppe Scanniello: Missing Threats: Dealing with the Treatment-sensitive Factorial Structure Bias in Empirical Software Engineering. SIGSOFT FSE Companion 2025: 701-705.
• [MSR’25] Sabato Nocera, Sira Vegas, Giuseppe Scanniello, Natalia Juristo: Software Composition Analysis and Supply Chain Security in Apache Projects: an Empirical Study. MSR 2025: 103-115.
• [ESEM’24] Giuseppe Scanniello, Massimiliano Di Penta, Simone Romano, Rita Francese, Sabato Nocera, Pietro Cassieri, Daniele Bifolco, Fiorella Zampetti: MSR4SBOM: Mining Software Repositories for enhanced Software Bills of Materials. ESEM 2024: 589-593.
• [ICSME’24] Sabato Nocera, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rita Francese, Simone Romano, Giuseppe Scanniello: If it's not SBOM, then what? How Italian Practitioners Manage the Software Supply Chain. ICSME 2024: 730-740.
• [QUATIC’24] Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Dario Di Nucci, Rita Francese, Fabio Palomba, Giuseppe Scanniello: Do Static Analysis Tools Improve Awareness and Attitude Toward Secure Software Development? QUATIC 2024: 399-407.
• [EASE’24] Daniele Bifolco, Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello: On the Accuracy of GitHub's Dependency Graph. EASE 2024: 242-251.
• [ICSE’24] Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello: Training for Security: Results from Using a Static Analysis Tool in the Development Pipeline of Web Apps. SEET@ICSE 2024: 253-263.
• [ICSME’23] Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello: Software Bill of Materials Adoption: A Mining Study from GitHub. ICSME 2023: 39-49.
• [SEAA’23b] Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Rita Francese, Riccardo Burlon, Giuseppe Scanniello: Managing Vulnerabilities in Software Projects: the Case of NTT Data. SEAA 2023: 247-253 (pre-print).
• [SEAA’23a] Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello: A Large-scale Fine-grained Empirical Study on Security Concerns in Open-source Software. SEAA 2023: 418-425.
• [EASE’23] Sabato Nocera, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello: Training Bachelor Students to Design Better Quality Web Apps: Preliminary Results from a Prospective Empirical Investigation. EASE 2023: 465-469.
• [ICSE’23] Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello: Training for Security: Planning the Use of a SAT in the Development Pipeline of Web Apps. SEET@ICSE 2023: 40-45 (pre-print).

Conference Attendance

• FSE&ISSTA’25 – Trondheim, Norway 🇳🇴
• EASE’25 – Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷
• ESEM’24 – Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸
• ICSE’24 – Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹
• SEAA’23 – Durres, Albania 🇦🇱
• EASE’23 – Oulu, Finland 🇫🇮
• ICSE’23 – Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺

Teaching

Teaching Assistance

• 2021 - 2025, Web Software Technologies course at the University of Salerno.