CV

Education

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• Ph.D in Software Engineering, Ecole de Technologie Supériere, QC, Canada, 2025 (Thesis: Towards Assisting Software Practitioners in Navigating the Complexity of Infrastructure-as-Code.)
• 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.)
• B.S. in Computer science applied to Management, Higher Institute of Management of Gabes, Tunisia, 2015 (Thesis: Guardian Jet - Un jeu vidéo en 3D)

Skills

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

Certification

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• CELPIP : Canada’s leading general English test (CLB level : 9) (2025)
• Microsoft technology associate for HTML5 applications development fundamentals (2015)
• English British Council (Level b1) (2013)

Publications

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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.

Towards understanding code review practices for infrastructure-as-code: An empirical study on OpenStack projects

Bessghaier, N., Ouni, A., Sayagh, M., Chouchen, M., & Mkaouer, M. W. (2025). Towards understanding code review practices for infrastructure-as-code: An empirical study on OpenStack projects. Empirical Software Engineering, 30(3), 106.

Teaching

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Teaching assistant (2017-2019)

Teaching assistant (2023-2025)

Awards

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• Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedia of Sfax (Tunisia) First rank award in the 2nd year of master’s degree (2017)
• Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (Tunisia) Excellence Grant awarded for ranking among the top 3 students of my 1st year of Master’s program (2016)
• Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedia of Sfax (Tunisia) First rank award in the 1st year of master’s degree (2016)
• University of Gabès (Tunisia) Excellence Grant awarded for ranking first at the province level (2015)
• Higher Institute of Management of Gabès (Tunisia) First rank award in the 3rd year of Bachelor’s degree (2015)
• Higher Institute of Management of Gabès (Tunisia) First rank award in the 2nd year of Bachelor’s degree (2014)
• Higher Institute of Management of Gabès (Tunisia) First rank award in the 1st year of Bachelor’s degree (2013)

Referees

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• Ali Ouni

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

• Mohamed Wiem Makaouer

Associate Professor at University of Michigan-Flint College of Innovation & Technology, NY, USA : mmkaouer@umich.edu

• Mohammed Sayagh

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