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Alessandro Garcia

Former Visiting Scholar

Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Software Evolution

◆ Software Engineering ◆ Software Architecture ◆ Software Evolution

PUC-Rio · 2025–2025

Now: Associate Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

Email · Homepage · Google Scholar · DBLP

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7 papers from DBLP · see in the full list

2026

journalEmpir. Softw. Eng. 31: 140

Leveraging large language models for sentiment analysis in GitHub pull request discussions

Daniel Coutinho · Breno Braga · Theo Canuto · Juliana Alves Pereira · Wesley K. G. Assunção · Igor Steinmacher · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Alessandro Garcia · [open access]

2025

conferenceSBES

PRemo: A Dataset of Emotions Found on Pull Request Discussions

Daniel Coutinho · Juliana Alves Pereira · Breno Braga Neves · João Lucas Correia · Caio Barbosa · Wesley K. G. Assunção · Igor Steinmacher · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Augusto Baffa · Alessandro Garcia · [open access]

2024

conferenceEASE

"Looks Good To Me ;-)": Assessing Sentiment Analysis Tools for Pull Request Discussions

Daniel Coutinho · Luisa Cito · Maria Vitória Lima · Beatriz Arantes · Juliana Alves Pereira · Johny Arriel · João Godinho · Vinicius Martins · Paulo Vítor C. F. Libório · Leonardo Pedrosa Leite · Alessandro Garcia · Wesley K. G. Assunção · Igor Steinmacher · Augusto Baffa · Baldoino Fonseca

conferenceESEM

Can ChatGPT emulate humans in software engineering surveys?

Igor Steinmacher · Jacob McAuley Penney · Kátia Romero Felizardo · Alessandro F. Garcia · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · [open access]

conferenceSCAM

On the Investigation of Exception Pull Request Characteristics: Exploring the Apache Ecosystem

João Lucas Correia · Daniel Coutinho · Alessandro Garcia · Rafael Maiani de Mello · Caio Barbosa · Anderson Oliveira · Wesley K. G. Assunção · Juliana Alves Pereira · Igor Steinmacher · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Jairo Souza · Johny Arriel

conferenceAIware

Unveiling the Potential of a Conversational Agent in Developer Support: Insights from Mozilla's PDF.js Project

João Lucas Correia · Morgan C. Nicholson · Daniel Coutinho · Caio Barbosa · Marco Castelluccio · Marco Aurélio Gerosa · Alessandro F. Garcia · Igor Steinmacher

2020

journalEmpir. Softw. Eng. 25: 2519-2549

Code and commit metrics of developer productivity: a study on team leaders perceptions

Edson Oliveira · Eduardo Fernandes · Igor Steinmacher · Marco Cristo · Tayana Conte · Alessandro Garcia