Area: Convergence of Software Engineering, Data Science, and Experimental Methods, with a focus on Generative Software Engineering (AI-driven software development, software recommendation and behavior-aware analysis and comparison)

Research Interests

• Program Analysis
  • Scalable, Synergetic Static and Dynamic Analysis (Observation)
  • Software Testing and Quality
• Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
  • Test-driven Software Experimentation
• Mining Software Repositories (“Big Code”)
  • Code Retrieval & Recommendation (Software Reuse)
  • Software Analytics
• AI-powered Software (“AIWare”)
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering Tasks

In recent years ...

• FSS25 (upcoming ...)
  • CS 630 – Generative Software Engineering (Master)
• HWS24
  • CS 500 – Advanced Software Engineering (Testing & Experimentation) (Master)
• FSS24
  • CS 306 – Praktikum Software Engineering (Bachelor)
  • Big Data Engineering and Analysis (Hochschule Mannheim)
• HWS23
  • CS 500 – Advanced Software Engineering (Master)
  • DHBW Mannheim (visiting lecturer): Advanced Software Engineering
• FSS23
  • CS 470 – Python for Data Scientists (Master)
  • CS 308 – Softwaretechnik I (Bachelor)
  • Hochschule Mannheim (visiting lecturer): Big Data Engineering and Analysis
• HWS22
  • CS 500 – Advanced Software Engineering (Master)
• FSS22
  • CS 470 – Python for Data Scientists (Master)
  • Hochschule Mannheim (visiting lecturer): Big Data Engineering and Analysis
• regular: Bachelor/Master Theses, Master Team Projects, Individual 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

• https://github.com/SoftwareObservatorium/lasso

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

Open Science Grants 2024, University of Mannheim

• Title: TDSE-Hub: A Repository for Reproducible Test-driven Software Experiments
• Description: A repository for reproducible experiments in test-driven software experimentation
• Area of Research: Test-driven software experimentation
• Duration: 1 year
• Start: September 2024

Karin Islinger Prize

• Description: Dissertation prize awarded by the Karin Islinger Stiftung

List of Publications

• Scholar
• ORCID
• madoc

Dissertation

• Title: LASSO – an observatorium for the dynamic selection, analysis and comparison of software
• available here

Social Media

• Linkedin
• Researchgate