Talks

Below, you’ll find a list of talks and poster presentations I gave over the past years, together with links to the corresponding publications.

2024

From Opinion to Evidence: An Empirical Approach to Software Engineering.
Sebastian Baltes.
Inaugural Lecture at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Slides • Recording

From Opinion to Evidence: Enabling Scientific and Practical Impact with Empirical Software Engineering.
Sebastian Baltes.
University of Stuttgart, Germany.

From Opinion to Evidence: Enabling Scientific and Practical Impact with Empirical Software Engineering.
Sebastian Baltes.
University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Impact of AI Assistants on Software Developers.
Sebastian Baltes.
CAIDAS Workshop 2024: AI for Software Engineering, Würzburg, Germany.
Slides

Taming Timeout Flakiness: An Empirical Study of SAP HANA.
Alexander Berndt and Sebastian Baltes.
SAP SE, Walldorf, Germany.
Publication

Evidence over Opinion: An Empirical Approach to Software Engineering.
Lecture Series Digital Sciences at UBT, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Slides

2023

All about the money: Cost modeling and optimization of cloud applications.
Sebastian Baltes.
Keynote GI@ICSE2023 Workshop, Melbourne, Australia.
Slides • Video

“STILL AROUND”: Experiences and Survival Strategies of Veteran Women Software Developers.
Sterre van Breukelen, Ann Barcomb, Sebastian Baltes, and Alexander Serebrenik.
45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023), Melbourne, Australia.
Slides
Publication

Software Engineering Research Beyond Disciplinary and Institutionalized Boundaries.
Sebastian Baltes.
University of Konstanz, Germany.

Software Engineering Research Beyond Disciplinary and Institutionalized Boundaries.
Sebastian Baltes.
Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Software Engineering Research Beyond Disciplinary and Institutionalized Boundaries.
Sebastian Baltes.
University of Bayreuth, Germany.

2022

Software Engineering Research Beyond Disciplinary and Institutionalized Boundaries.
Sebastian Baltes.
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

Expertise in Software Engineering: What can we learn from research in psychology?
Sebastian Baltes.
SAP SE, Germany.
Slides

Theories of Programming.
Dagstuhl Seminar 22231, June 6–10, 2022.
Seminar Homepage

Challenges and Opportunities for Software Engineering in Papua New Guinea.
Sebastian Baltes.
It Will Never Work in Theory: Live!, Online, April 27, 2022.
Slides

Empirical Software Engineering: Opinion vs. Evidence in Software Development.
Sebastian Baltes.
SAP SE, Germany.
Slides

2021

Empirical Software Engineering: Opinion vs. Evidence in Software Development (Guest Lecture).
Sebastian Baltes.
University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany.
Slides

Ohne Nutzerorientierung keine Produktorientierung: UX Debt als Form technischer Schulden.
Sebastian Baltes and Veronika Dashuber.
QAware Engineering Camp 2021, Online.

GitHub Discussions: An Exploratory Study of Early Adoption.
Nicole Novielli and Sebastian Baltes.
GitHub, Inc., USA.

Software Engineering Research Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries: Advancing Evidence-based Practice through Empirical Research and Interdisciplinarity.
Sebastian Baltes.
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Improving Software Documentation Quality.
Christoph Treude, Markus Wagner, and Sebastian Baltes.
Google Tech Talk, ML Sydney Meetup, Australia.

2020

Contextual Documentation Referencing on Stack Overflow (Journal First Presentation).
Sebastian Baltes, Christoph Treude, and Martin Robillard.
28th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2020).
Slides • Slides (Teaser) • Video (Teaser)
Publication

An Annotated Dataset of Stack Overflow Post Edits.
Sebastian Baltes and Markus Wagner.
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion Proceedings (GECCO 2020 Companion) - 9th Genetic Improvement Workshop.
Slides • Video
Publication

Code Duplication on Stack Overflow.
Sebastian Baltes and Christoph Treude.
42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-NIER 2020), Online.
Slides • Video
Publication

Software Developers’ Work Habits and Expertise.
Sebastian Baltes.
GI Dissertationspreis, Germany.
Slides

Software Developers’ Work Habits and Expertise.
Sebastian Baltes.
SMU, Singapore.
Slides

Making Software Documentation More Inclusive.
Sebastian Baltes.
DySDoc6, McGill Bellairs Research Institute, Barbados.
Slides

Software Developers’ Work Habits and Expertise.
Sebastian Baltes.
TU Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Slides

Expertise in Software Development: Towards an Interdisciplinary Theory.
Sebastian Baltes.
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Slides

Software Developers’ Work Habits and Expertise.
Sebastian Baltes.
GI-SE, Dagstuhl, Germany.
Slides

Software Developers’ Work Habits and Expertise.
Sebastian Baltes.
University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Slides

2019

Software Developers’ Work Habits and Expertise.
Sebastian Baltes.
Lund University, Sweden.
Slides

Expertise in Software Development: Towards an Interdisciplinary Theory.
Sebastian Baltes.
QAware GmbH, Munich, Germany.
Slides

Software Developers’ Work Habits and Expertise.
Sebastian Baltes.
Software Innovation NZ, New Zealand.
Slides

Expertise in Software Development: Towards an Interdisciplinary Theory.
Sebastian Baltes.
The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Slides

Software Developers’ Work Habits and Expertise.
Sebastian Baltes.
First International Workshop on Bridging the Divides with Globally Engineered Software (BRIDGES 2019), Port Moreby, Papua New Guinea.
Slides

Connections of my Research to Dynamic Software Documentation.
Sebastian Baltes.
Fifth International Workshop on Dynamic Software Documentation (DySDoc5), Okinawa, Japan.
Slides

Usage and Attribution of Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects (Journal First Presentation).
Sebastian Baltes and Stephan Diehl.
41th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019), Montreal, Canada.
Slides
Publication

Software Developers’ Work Habits and Expertise: Empirical Studies on Sketching, Code Plagiarism, and Expertise Development.
Sebastian Baltes.
Doctoral Disputation, University of Trier, Germany.
Slides
Dissertation

Software Developers’ Work Habits and Expertise.
Sebastian Baltes.
Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA.
Slides

Towards a Theory of Software Development Expertise (Conference Talk).
Sebastian Baltes and Stephan Diehl.
Software Engineering and Management 2019 (SE 2019), Stuttgart, Germany.
Slides
Publication

Software Developers‘ Work Habits and Expertise: Sketching, Code Plagiarism, and Expertise Development (Guest Lecture)
Sebastian Baltes.
University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Slides 1 • Slides 2

2018

Software Developers‘ Work Habits and Expertise: Sketching, Code Plagiarism, and Expertise Development (Invited Talk).
Sebastian Baltes.
TU Delft, Netherlands.
Slides

Towards a Theory of Software Development Expertise (Invited Talk).
Sebastian Baltes and Stephan Diehl.
George Mason University, USA.
Slides
Publication

Towards a Theory of Software Development Expertise (Conference Talk).
Sebastian Baltes and Stephan Diehl.
26th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2018), Lake Buena Vista, USA.
Slides
Publication

(No) Influence of Continuous Integration on the Commit Activity in GitHub Projects (Workshop Talk).
Sebastian Baltes, Jascha Knack, Daniel Anastasiou, Ralf Tymann, and Stephan Diehl.
4th International Workshop on Software Analytics (SWAN 2018), Lake Buena Vista, USA.
Slides
Publication

SOTorrent: Reconstructing and Analyzing the Evolution of Stack Overflow Posts (Conference Talk).
Sebastian Baltes, Lorik Dumani, Christoph Treude, and Stephan Diehl.
15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2018), Gothenburg, Sweden.
Slides
Publication

2017

Software Developer Work Habits: Communication, Code Plagiarism, Expertise Development (Invited Talk).
Sebastian Baltes.
Abteilung Software Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Slides

Round-Trip Sketches: Supporting the Lifecycle of Software Development Sketches from Analog to Digital and Back (Conference Talk and Poster).
2017 IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2017), Shanghai, China.
Sebastian Baltes, Fabrice Hollerich, and Stephan Diehl.
Slides • Poster
Publication

Attribution Required: Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects (Conference Poster).
Sebastian Baltes, Richard Kiefer, and Stephan Diehl.
39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2017), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Poster
Publication

2016

Usage and Attribution of Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects (Winter School Poster).
Sebastian Baltes and Stephan Diehl.
Winter School on Big Software on the Run (BSR 2016), Ede, Netherlands.
Poster

In-situ Visualization of Profiling Data (Invited Talk).
Sebastian Baltes and Oliver Moseler.
Java User Group Saar (JUG Saar), Saarbrücken, Germany.
Slides
Publication

Worse Than Spam: Issues In Sampling Software Developers (Conference Talk).
Sebastian Baltes and Stephan Diehl.
10th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2016), Ciudad Real, Spain.
Slides
Publication

Sketches and Diagrams in Practice (Lightning Talk and Poster).
Sebastian Baltes and Stephan Diehl.
17th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP 2016), Edinburgh, UK.
Slides • Poster
Publication

2015

Sketches in Software Engineering (Invited Talk).
Sebastian Baltes and Stephan Diehl.
TRR 161, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Slides
Publication

Sketches in Software Engineering (Invited Talk).
Sebastian Baltes and Stephan Diehl.
TU Delft, Netherlands.
Slides
Publication

Navigate, Understand, Communicate: How Developers Locate Performance Bugs (Conference Talk).
Sebastian Baltes, Oliver Moseler, Fabian Beck, and Stephan Diehl.
9th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2015), Beijing, China.
Slides
Publication

VisualCues: Visually Explaining Source Code in Computer Science Education (Conference Talk).
Benjamin Biegel, Sebastian Baltes, Bob Prevos, and Stephan Diehl.
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2015), Atlanta, USA.
Slides
Publication

Sketches and Diagrams in Practice (Conference Talk).
Sebastian Baltes and Stephan Diehl.
GI Software Engineering & Management 2015 (SE 2015), Dresden, Germany.
Slides
Publication

2014

Sketches and Diagrams in Practice (Conference Talk).
Sebastian Baltes and Stephan Diehl.
22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2014), Hong Kong, China.
Slides
Publication

Linking Sketches and Diagrams to Source Code Artifacts (Lightning Talk and Poster).
Sebastian Baltes, Peter Schmitz, and Stephan Diehl.
22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2014 Research Demos), Hong Kong, China.
Poster • Video
Publication

Sketches and Diagrams in Practice (Workshop Poster).
Sebastian Baltes and Stephan Diehl.
6th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering (SSE 2014), Hong Kong, China.
Poster
Publication