LUCA TRAINI

I am a Research Assistant Professor (RTDa) at the Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics of the University of L'Aquila (Univaq). I received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Univaq in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Vittorio Cortellessa.

My research interests lie in software performance engineering; in particular I'm interested in improving techniques and methodology in software performance assurance.

Contacts

luca.traini@univaq.it

Via Vetoio, 42, 67100 Coppito
L'Aquila, Italy
Alan Turing building, room 210

Publications

Journals

[JSS 2026]
Federico Di Menna, Luca Traini, Vittorio Cortellessa
Forecasting software runtime metrics: A comparative study of classical statistical, neural network, and foundation models [doi]
Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) 2026

[FGCS 2026]
Martin Beseda, Vittorio Cortellessa, Daniele Di Pompeo, Luca Traini, Michele Tucci
A kernel-based approach for accurate steady-state detection in performance time series [doi]
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) 2026

[SCICO 2026]
Antonio Trovato, Luca Traini, Federico Di Menna, Dario Di Nucci
AMBER: An AI-enabled Java Microbenchmark Harness Extension to Dynamically Terminate Warm-up Iterations [doi]
Science of Computer Programming (SCICO) 2026

[EMSE 2025]
Muhammad Imran, Vittorio Cortellessa, Davide Di Ruscio, Riccardo Rubei, Luca Traini
Is code coverage of performance tests related to source code features? An empirical study on open-source Java systems [doi]
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) 2025

[TSE 2023]
Luca Traini, Vittorio Cortellessa
DeLag: Using Multi-Objective Optimization to Enhance the Detection of Latency Degradation Patterns in Service-based Systems [doi]
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) 2023

[EMSE 2023]
Luca Traini, Vittorio Cortellessa, Daniele Di Pompeo, Michele Tucci
Towards effective assessment of steady state performance in Java software: Are we there yet? [doi]
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) 2023

[EMSE 2022]
Luca Traini
Exploring performance assurance practices and challenges in agile software development: An ethnographic study [doi] [pdf]
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) 2022

[TOSEM 2022]
Luca Traini, Daniele Di Pompeo, Michele Tucci, Bin Lin, Simone Scalabrino, Gabriele Bavota, Michele Lanza, Rocco Oliveto, Vittorio Cortellessa
How Software Refactoring Impacts Execution Time [doi][pdf]
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2022

Conferences

[SANER 2026]
Muhammad Imran, Vittorio Cortellessa, Davide Di Ruscio, Riccardo Rubei, Luca Traini
An Empirical Investigation on the use of Large Language Models for Performance Bug Detection [doi] [pdf]
IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) 2026, RENE track

[SANER 2025]
Giordano d'Aloisio, Luca Traini, Federica Sarro, Antinisca Di Marco
On the Compression of Language Models for Code: An Empirical Study on CodeBERT [doi] [arxiv]
IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) 2025

[ICPC 2025]
Federico Di Menna, Luca Traini, Gabriele Bavota, Vittorio Cortellessa
Investigating Execution-Aware Language Models for Code Optimization [doi] [arxiv] [pdf]
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) 2025, RENE track

[ASE 2024]
Luca Traini, Federico Di Menna, Vittorio Cortellessa
AI-driven Java Performance Testing: Balancing Result Quality with Testing Time [doi] [arxiv]
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2024

[EASE 2024]
Muhammad Imran, Vittorio Cortellessa, Davide Di Ruscio, Riccardo Rubei, Luca Traini
An Empirical Study on Code Coverage of Performance Testing [doi]
International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) 2024

[ICPE 2024]
Federico Di Menna, Luca Traini, Vittorio Cortellessa
Time Series Forecasting of Runtime Software Metrics: An Empirical Study [doi]
ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) 2024

[SANER 2024]
Federico Di Menna, Vittorio Cortellessa, Maurizio Lucianelli, Luca Sardo, Luca Traini
RADig-X: a Tool for Regressions Analysis of User Digital Experience [doi] [pdf]
IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) 2024, Industry track

[SAC 2024]
Luca Traini, Jessica Leone, Giovanni Stilo, Antinisca Di Marco
VAMP: Visual Analytics for Microservices Performance [doi]
ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2024

[ICPE 2020]
Vittorio Cortellessa, Luca Traini
Detecting latency degradation patterns in service-based systems [doi][arxiv]
ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) 2020

Minor Publications

[AIPerfLLM 2026]
Federico Di Menna, Luca Traini, Vittorio Cortellessa
Leveraging Time Series Foundation Models to Detect Performance Anomalies in Software Systems [doi]
ICPE Workshop on Performance Optimization in the LLM World (AIPerfLLM) 2026

[ICPE 2026]
Federico Di Menna, Luca Traini
Performance Regressions Prediction using Time Series Classification: A Case Study [doi]
ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) 2026, Data Challenge track

[ICST 2025]
Antonio Trovato, Luca Traini, Federico Di Menna, Dario Di Nucci
AMBER: AI-enabled Java Microbenchmark Harness [doi] [pdf]
IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2025, Testing Tools and Data Showcase

[HotCloudPerf 2023]
Jessica Leone, Luca Traini
Enhancing Trace Visualizations for Microservices Performance Analysis [doi]
ICPE Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf) 2023

[ASE 2018]
Luca Traini
A multi-objective framework for effective performance fault injection in distributed systems [doi]
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2018, Doctoral Symposium

[SST 2017]
Henry Muccini, Fabrizio Rossi, Luca Traini
A smart city run-time planner for multi-site congestion management [doi]
International Conference on Smart Systems and Technologies (SST) 2017

Service

Reviewer for International Journals

Review Committee member for ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)

Reviewer for Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)

Reviewer for Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)

Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS)

Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)

Reviewer for Performance Evaluation (PEVA)

Reviewer for Science of Computer Programming (SCICO)

Organizing Committee Member of International Conferences and Workshops

Co-Organizer of 2nd Workshop on DevOps for Sustainability (DevOpsSustain 2026)

Sponsors Co-Chair of 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2025)

Co-Organizer of 1st Workshop on DevOps for Sustainability (DevOpsSustain 2025)

Workshops Co-Chair of 16th International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2025)

Co-Organizer of 9th Workshop on Challenges in Performance Methods for Software Development (WOSP-C 2024)

Data Challenge Track co-chair of 15th International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2024)

Virtualization Co-Chair, 14th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2020)

Program Committee Member of International Conferences

PC member of 49th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2027) - Research track

PC member of 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026) - Research track

PC member of 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on AI-powered Software (AIware 2026) - Main track

PC member of 42nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2026) - RENE track

PC member of 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) - Industrial Track

PC member of 28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2024) - Short Papers, Vision, and Emerging Results Track

PC member of 31st IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2024) - Tools Demo Track

PC member of 14th International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2023) - Research track

PC Member of 14th International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2023) - Data Challenge track

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

2021

University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Thesis
Performance Engineering in Agile/DevOps Development Processes [pdf]

Advisor: Vittorio Cortellessa
Co-advisor: Henry Muccini

M.S. in Computer Science

2017

University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Advisors: Fabrizio Rossi, Henry Muccini

Experience

Postdoctoral researcher

2021-2023

University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Visiting scholar

Feb.-Mar. 2020

Software Institute, USI, Lugano, Switzerland

Mentor: Gabriele Bavota

Teaching

Object-oriented programming

2024-now

University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Master's Degree Course - Telecommunications Engineering: Advanced Technologies and Services

Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics

Multimedia and computer science for the social sciences B

2024-now

University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Bachelor's Degree Course - Social Work Science

Department of Human Sciences

Programming for Data Science

2021-2023

University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Master's Degree Course - Applied Data Science

Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics