About me

I am a research associate and PhD student in the Software Quality group at Ruhr University Bochum, advised by Yannic Noller. My research focuses on the security of software engineering agents, particularly on how to test and harden them against prompt injection attacks. I also work on automated program repair and automated test case generation for web applications.

Publications

1. Before Autonomy Takes Control: Software Testing in Robotics
   2026, submitted, arXiv.

2. A Large-Scale Study of Vulnerable Dependency Remediation in Java Projects
   41st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Software Verification and Testing Track (SAC-SVT 2026), link.

3. Automatic Systematic GUI Testing for Web Applications
   Software Quality Theses and Dissertations Competition (CTDQS) of the 24th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2025), link.

4. Iterative Deepening URL-Based Search: Enhancing GUI Testing for Web Applications
   38th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2024), link.

5. Addressing the Synchronization Challenge in Cypress End-to-End Tests
   38th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2024), link.

6. An Automatic Approach for Uniquely Discovering Actionable Elements for Systematic GUI Testing in Web Applications
   24th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2024), link.

7. Cytestion: Automated GUI Testing for Web Applications
   37th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2023), link.

Education

• Master in Computer Science, Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil, 2022–2024.
  • Dissertation: “Automatic Systematic GUI Testing for Web Applications”, link.
  • Awarded 1st place at the CTDQS 2025 master’s dissertation competition.
• Bachelor in Computer Science, Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil, 2016–2021.
• Computer Technician integrated to high school, Federal Institute of Paraíba (IFPB), Brazil, 2013–2016.