Dr. Marcus Kessel

Dr. Marcus Kessel

Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Mannheim
Fakultät für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Wirtschaftsmathematik
B6, 28–29 – Room C 2.09
68159 Mannheim
Phone: +49 621 181-3913
Fax: +49 621 181-3909
E-mail: marcus.kesselmail-uni-mannheim.de
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3088-2166

Research Interests

Scalable Software Code Analysis and Observation (Big Code)

  • large-scale code analysis (program analysis)
    • dynamic, static and hybrid code analyses
  • mining software repositories and software analytics
  • empirical software engineering, measurement & experimentation
  • code search engines (retrieval) including test-driven code retrieval
  • generative artificial intelligence for software engineering tasks (code and test generation)
  • software testing, test generation and quality

Software Projects

LASSO – A Large-Scale Software Observatorium for the Dynamic Selection, Analysis and Comparison of Software

The LASSO platform (Software Observatorium) is hosted on GitHub

Projects (Grants)

Research Seed Capital (RiSC), Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden Württemberg

  • Title: Automated Test Oracle Recommendation – AUTOR
  • Description: Harvesting test oracle information using the LASSO platform and generative artificial intelligence to recommend test oracles
  • Area of Research: Software Testing (Oracle Problem)
  • Duration: 2 years
  • Start: September 2023