Blog
2025
The Ripple Effects of Role Transitions and Reorganizations
New online survey focusing on role transitions and reorganizations of employees in software development roles
LLM Guidelines for SE
Guidelines for empirical studies in software engineering involving large language models
Empirical Software Engineering on Google Scholar
Updated Google Scholar metrics still list our papers as top two
Moving to Heidelberg University on 1st October
SE@UBT -> SE@UHD
Study showing that GenAI tools slow software developers down
My take is that the overhead that GenAI tools cause is often underestimated
Self-Admitted GenAI Usage in Open-Source Software
How are GenAI tools adopted in open-source software?
GenAI DDoS attacks?
Are GenAI vendors DDoSing websites?
Software Career Progression Study
Every career path looks different
AI Perception vs. Reality
How to do science communication in times of hype?
German Engineering
We won’t regulate ourselves out of the current crisis
“Trusting” AI assistants for software development?
Paper preprint on rethinking trust in AI assistants for software development
Effects of hype in software development
Position papers are nice, but we need more empirical research
Stay strong and believe in your research!
Recently accepted ICSE-SEIS paper on publishing interdisciplinary SE research
2024
Software Ate the World, Will AI Eat Software?
Interview as part of the Process Transformers podcast
Grady Booch and the Role of UML in Teaching
Why we should teach the full breadth of modern SE
The “Growth Mindset” and Secondary Research
A pseudo-scientific concept changing Microsoft’s company culture
Is Software Engineering “Real” Engineering?
And does it really matter?
Software Engineering Research Adoption Cycle
Are we always (too) late to the game?
Leaky Abstractions and GenAI
Impact of GenAI on learning
Applicability of Software Engineering Research
Context, constraints, and assumptions
Hallucinations and GenAI for Code
Sometimes it’s better to say “I don’t know”
White House Report on Memory- and Type-Safety
In parts too absolute, better foster evidence-based decision marking
2020
Pandemic, Parent, new Position
How my life completely changed within four months
2019
Sampling Papers Using DBLP
A simple web scraper for journals and conference proceedings
2018
Constructing Urban Tourism Space Digitally
A study of Airbnb listings in two Berlin neighborhoods
Software Development Expertise
A conceptual theory
Edit and Comment History of Stack Overflow Threads
Retrieval using the SOTorrent dataset
Reconstructing and Analyzing the Evolution of Stack Overflow Posts
Building the SOTorrent dataset
2017
Stack Overflow Code Snippets
Usage, attribution, and implications