PhD (2009) under the supervision of Kai Koskimies (Tampere University of Technology) e Antónia Lopes (University of Lisbon) in the field of object-oriented frameworks and software product lines.

Currently the research focus is on two main topics:

• Software components and API usability: automated forms of composing and integrating software components (product lines); tool support for using and learning APIs.

• Programming education: pedagogical tools for support teaching and learning of programming; automatic grading systems.