CV

Education

• B.S. in Computer science applied to Management, Higher Institute of Management of Gabes, Tunisia, 2015 (Thesis: Guardian Jet - Un jeu vidéo en 3D)
• M.S. in Enterprises Systems Engineering- TEMPUS Project, Higher Institute of Computer science and Multimedia of Sfax, Tunisia, 2017 (Thesis: An Optimization-based approach for Usability Assessment of Hybrid Mobile User Interfaces.)
• Ph.D in Software Engineering, ETS, QC, Canada, 2024 (Fall expected)

Work experience

• 2016-2019: 3D design intern
  • PALM 3D Studio
  • Duties included: Participating as a 3D designer in the realization of an animated series.
  • Supervisor: Ing. Raouf Bessghaier
• Summer 2019: Gypsum sculpture
  • PALM 3D Studio
  • Duties included: Design of gypsum sculpture: we model a fantasy 3D objects using 3D modeling software. Then, we sculpt the models using gypsum.
  • Supervisor: Ing. Raouf Bessghaier
• Winter-Summer 2023: Co-supervisor
  • Master student: Chemseddine MEBARKI
  • Degree: MAÎTRISE AVEC PROJET EN GÉNIE DES TECHNOLOGIES DE L’INFORMATION.
  • Project: Une étude empirique sur la diffusion et l’impact des anomalies de code d’infrastructure.
  • Affiliation: École de Technologie Superieure

Service

• Reviewer:
  • IJHC
  • MSR 2024
• Sub-reviewer:
  • EMSE 2024
  • SCICO 2024
  • ESEC FSE 2023
  • SCAM 2023
  • IJHC 2023
  • IEEE-ICWS 2022
  • EMSE 2022
  • JSS 2022
  • IEEE-ICWS 2021
  • TSE 2021
  • SCAM 2021
• Local chair: SEMLA (Software Engineering for Machine Learning Applications) Url: https://semla.polymtl.ca/
• Volunteer: JFFI (Journée Francophone des Femmes en Informatique) Url: https://jffi.ca/

Skills

• Languages: Arabic, English, French
• ML modelling, SBSE, R for statistics

Certification

• English British Council (Level b1) (2013)
• Microsoft technology associate for HTML5 applications development fundamentals (2015)

Publications

Towards Usability Evaluation of Hybrid Mobile User Interfaces

Bessghaier, N., & Souii, M. (2017, October). Towards usability evaluation of hybrid mobile user interfaces. In 2017 IEEE/ACS 14th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) (pp. 895-900). IEEE.

On the Detection of Structural Aesthetic Defects of Android Mobile User Interfaces with a Metrics-based Tool

Bessghaier, N., Soui, M., Kolski, C., & Chouchane, M. (2021). On the detection of structural aesthetic defects of android mobile user interfaces with a metrics-based tool. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 11(1), 1-27.

On the Diffusion and Impact of Code Smells in Web Applications

Bessghaier, N., Ouni, A., & Mkaouer, M. W. (2020). On the diffusion and impact of code smells in web applications. In Services Computing–SCC 2020: 17th International Conference, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA, September 18–20, 2020, Proceedings 17 (pp. 67-84). Springer International Publishing.

Towards the Automatic Restructuring of Structural Aesthetic Design of Android User Interfaces

Bessghaier, N., Soui, M., & Ghaibi, N. (2022). Towards the automatic restructuring of structural aesthetic design of Android user interfaces. Computer Standards & Interfaces, 81, 103598.

A longitudinal exploratory study on code smells in server side web applications

Bessghaier, N., Ouni, A., & Mkaouer, M. W. (2021). A longitudinal exploratory study on code smells in server side web applications. Software Quality Journal, 29, 901-941.

On the Impact of Aesthetic Defects on the Maintainability of Mobile Graphical User Interfaces: An Empirical Study

Soui, M., Chouchane, M., Bessghaier, N., Mkaouer, M. W., & Kessentini, M. (2021). On the impact of aesthetic defects on the maintainability of mobile graphical user interfaces: An empirical study. Information Systems Frontiers, 1-18.

What Do Infrastructure-as-Code Practitioners Discuss: An empirical Study on Stack Overflow

Begoug, M., Bessghaier, N., Ouni, A., AlOmar, E. A., & Mkaouer, M. W. (2023, October). What do infrastructure-as-code practitioners discuss: An empirical study on stack overflow. In 2023 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) (pp. 1-12). IEEE.

What Constitutes the Deployment and Run-time Configuration System? An Empirical Study on OpenStack Projects

Bessghaier, N., Sayagh, M., Ouni, A., & Mkaouer, M. W. (2023). What Constitutes the Deployment and Run-time Configuration System? An Empirical Study on OpenStack Projects. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

On the prevalence, co-occurrence, and impact of infrastructure-as-code smells

Bessghaier, N., Begoug, M., Mebarki, C., Ouni, A., Sayagh, M., & Mkaouer, M. W. (2024, March). On the prevalence, co-occurrence, and impact of infrastructure-as-code smells. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) (pp. 23-34). IEEE.

How Do Software Developers Use ChatGPT? An Exploratory Study on GitHub Pull Requests

Chouchen, M., Bessghaier, N., Begoug, M., Ouni, A., AlOmar, E. A., & Mkaouer, M. W. (2024, April). How Do So ware Developers Use ChatGPT? An Exploratory Study on GitHub Pull Requests. In 2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (pp. 212-216). IEEE.

Teaching

Teaching assistant (2017-2019)

Teaching assistant (2023-current)

Awards

• Highest overall average award in the 2nd year of research master class (2017)
• Highest overall average award in the 1rst year of research master class (2016)
• Scholarship from the Ministry of Higher Education for taking the first place in the master class (2016)
• Highest overall average award at the University of Gabes-Tunisia (2015)
• Highest overall average award at the Higher Institute of Management of Gabes-Tunisia (2015)
• Highest overall average award at the Higher Institute of Management of Gabes-Tunisia (2014)
• Highest overall average award at the Higher Institute of Management of Gabes-Tunisia (2013)

Referees

• Ali Ouni

Ecole de Technologie Superieure, University of Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada, E-mail : ali.ouni@etsmtl.ca

• Mohamed Wiem Makaouer

Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA, E-mail : mwmvse@rit.edu

• Mohammed Sayagh

Ecole de Technologie Superieure, University of Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada, E-mail : Mohammed.Sayagh@etsmtl.ca