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15 February 2025

We are happy to share that our paper  Teach Variability! A Modern University Course on Software Product Lines, by Elias Kuiter, Thomas Thüm and  Timo Kehrer, received the best paper award at  VaMoS 2025. We are glad to see that our efforts in designing a new course on software product lines have been recognized by the community.

23 May 2024

Our paper titled  Towards Semi-Automated Merge Conflict Resolution: Is It Easier Than We Expected? by  Alexander Boll,  Yael van Dok,  Manuel Ohrndorf,  Alexander Schultheiß and  Timo Kehrer, to be presented at the  International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2024), has received a Distinguished Paper Award.

08 August 2024

Our collaboration paper titled  Variability-Aware Differencing with DiffDetective by Paul Maximilian Bittner,  Alexander Schultheiß, Benjamin Moosherr,  Timo Kehrer and Thomas Thüm, presented at the  ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024), has received a Best Demonstration Award.

25 August 2022

IWST 2022 Best Paper Award (1^st prize) for  Can We Automatically Generate Class Comments in Pharo? by  Pooja Rani, Alexandre Bergel, Lino Hess,  Timo Kehrer and Oscar Nierstrasz at the  International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2022 (IWST 2022) in Novi Sad, Serbia.

25 March 2024

To promote STEM subjects, the  Werner Siemens Foundation (WSS) in cooperation with the  Swiss Study Foundation awards every year ten excellent students with a  Werner Siemens Fellowship. In addition to financial support, the fellowship provides opportunities to participate in networking events of the Werner Siemens Program.

Our new PhD student,  Roman Bögli, is one of the fellows 2023/24 and was recently featured in a  portrait article on the WSS homepage. Among others, he talks about his research conducted during his Master’s thesis at IBM Research in Rüschlikon.

17 September 2024

Our paper titled  Give an Inch and Take a Mile? Effects of Adding Reliable Knowledge to Heuristic Feature Tracing by  Sandra Greiner,  Alexander Schultheiß, Paul Maximilian Bittner, Thomas Thüm and  Timo Kehrer, presented at the  28^th ACM INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE CONFERENCE (SPLC 2024), has received a Best Research Paper award.

31 January 2023

At the  17^th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2023),  Sandra Greiner was honored with a Distinguished Reviewer Award.

28 February 2025

We are organizing the  Software Engineering (SE) conference 2026 here in Bern! It will take place from 23^rd - 27^th February 2026 in various locations around the city. The main conference will be held at the  Wankdorf Stadium.

The Software Engineering (SE) conference of the  Software Engineering Division (SWT) of the  German Informatics Society (GI) is the reference conference series on Software Engineering in the German-speaking regions of Europe with an established record of engaging with Academia and Industry. It is held annually, and it serves as a platform for both software engineers from industry and researchers from academia to share their experiences and knowledge and to foster community building.

You can find all information on the  SE2026 website.

31 January 2023

At the  17^th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2023),  Sandra Greiner was honored with a Distinguished Reviewer Award.

01 February 2023

We are very happy to announce that we are hosting the  18^th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2024). The  VaMoS conferences aim at bringing together “researchers and practitioners to share ideas, results and experiences about their quest for mastering variability”.  Prof. Dr. Timo Kehrer serves as general chair and will organize the conference together with his team and further renown researchers on variability modeling of software-intensive systems. The conference will take place in the buildings of the university from February 7^th to 9^th, 2024.

28 February 2025

We are organizing the  Software Engineering (SE) conference 2026 here in Bern! It will take place from 23^rd - 27^th February 2026 in various locations around the city. The main conference will be held at the  Wankdorf Stadium.

The Software Engineering (SE) conference of the  Software Engineering Division (SWT) of the  German Informatics Society (GI) is the reference conference series on Software Engineering in the German-speaking regions of Europe with an established record of engaging with Academia and Industry. It is held annually, and it serves as a platform for both software engineers from industry and researchers from academia to share their experiences and knowledge and to foster community building.

You can find all information on the  SE2026 website.

09 November 2023

We are pleased to announce several  open PhD positions in the field of software engineering, each of them being funded for at least 4 years. We are looking for highly motivated and dedicated individuals to join our research group and to advance software engineering knowledge and methods.

14 July 2025

 Roman Bögli and  Thomas Sutter are organizing the workshop  Cryptographic Agility in the realm of PQS Algorithms + Security and Privacy Concerns on Android Phones in collaboration with the  University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and the  Competence Centre Digital Trust. The workshop will take place on 29^th July 2025, 14:30 - 15:30, in person or online.

28 February 2025

We are organizing the  Software Engineering (SE) conference 2026 here in Bern! It will take place from 23^rd - 27^th February 2026 in various locations around the city. The main conference will be held at the  Wankdorf Stadium.

The Software Engineering (SE) conference of the  Software Engineering Division (SWT) of the  German Informatics Society (GI) is the reference conference series on Software Engineering in the German-speaking regions of Europe with an established record of engaging with Academia and Industry. It is held annually, and it serves as a platform for both software engineers from industry and researchers from academia to share their experiences and knowledge and to foster community building.

You can find all information on the  SE2026 website.

26 February 2024

At the  SE 2024 conference in Linz, Austria,  Sandra Greiner co-organized the sixth edition of the  SECPPS workshop. The Software Engineering (SE) conference is a gathering organized by the  Software Engineering Division (SWT) of the  German Informatics Society (GI).

01 February 2023

We are very happy to announce that we are hosting the  18^th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2024). The  VaMoS conferences aim at bringing together “researchers and practitioners to share ideas, results and experiences about their quest for mastering variability”.  Prof. Dr. Timo Kehrer serves as general chair and will organize the conference together with his team and further renown researchers on variability modeling of software-intensive systems. The conference will take place in the buildings of the university from February 7^th to 9^th, 2024.

11 September 2022

At this year’s hybrid  SPLC conference in Graz, Austria,  Sandra Greiner co-organized the fifth edition of the  VariVolution workshop. The workshop aims to bring together researchers studying software evolution and variability from different angles as well as practitioners encountering these phenomena in real-world applications and systems.

28 August 2023

At the  SPLC in Tokyo, Japan,  Sandra Greiner co-organized the sixth edition of the  VariVolution workshop. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers studying software evolution and variability from different angles as well as practitioners encountering these phenomena in real-world applications and systems.

01 October 2024

We are excited to announce that our group is participating in a new collaborative project called  Swiss-African Cybersecurity Community: A Focus on Education, Research and Knowledge Building!

15 February 2025

We are happy to share that our paper  Teach Variability! A Modern University Course on Software Product Lines, by Elias Kuiter, Thomas Thüm and  Timo Kehrer, received the best paper award at  VaMoS 2025. We are glad to see that our efforts in designing a new course on software product lines have been recognized by the community.

23 May 2024

Our paper titled  Towards Semi-Automated Merge Conflict Resolution: Is It Easier Than We Expected? by  Alexander Boll,  Yael van Dok,  Manuel Ohrndorf,  Alexander Schultheiß and  Timo Kehrer, to be presented at the  International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2024), has received a Distinguished Paper Award.

08 August 2024

Our collaboration paper titled  Variability-Aware Differencing with DiffDetective by Paul Maximilian Bittner,  Alexander Schultheiß, Benjamin Moosherr,  Timo Kehrer and Thomas Thüm, presented at the  ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024), has received a Best Demonstration Award.

11 July 2025

We are happy to announce that our paper titled Decades of GNU Patch and Git Cherry-Pick: Can We Do Better? by  Alexander Schultheiß,  Alexander Boll, Paul Maximilian Bittner,  Sandra Greiner, Thomas Thüm, and  Timo Kehrer has been accepted to the  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2026.

25 August 2022

IWST 2022 Best Paper Award (1^st prize) for  Can We Automatically Generate Class Comments in Pharo? by  Pooja Rani, Alexandre Bergel, Lino Hess,  Timo Kehrer and Oscar Nierstrasz at the  International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2022 (IWST 2022) in Novi Sad, Serbia.

01 February 2022

Paper by Luca Beurer-Kellner, Jens von Pilgrim,  Christos Tsigkanos, and  Timo Kehrer to appear in the [IEEE Transactions on Services Computing]/( https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4629386).

17 September 2024

Our paper titled  Give an Inch and Take a Mile? Effects of Adding Reliable Knowledge to Heuristic Feature Tracing by  Sandra Greiner,  Alexander Schultheiß, Paul Maximilian Bittner, Thomas Thüm and  Timo Kehrer, presented at the  28^th ACM INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE CONFERENCE (SPLC 2024), has received a Best Research Paper award.

29 July 2025

At this year’s FSE 2025 conference in Trondheim, we presented our vision paper  “Beyond Software Families: Community-Driven Variability”. It’s about the beautiful chaos in open-source, decentralized software ecosystems – such as Bitcoin – that exhibit multi-dimensional variability, yet strive for interoperability. We discuss this phenomenon of Community-Driven Variability (CDV), highlight emerging problems, and outline research goals to tackle them.

29 October 2024

We are excited to announce the release of  FirmwareDroid, an open-source tool developed at our group that allows the user to analyze Android firmware.

02 February 2022

The University of Bern offers various courses in the area of computer science - from computer vision to software engineering. Explore various directions in the upcoming  Masterinformationstage (Master’s Open Days). We will talk about the software engineering research aspect and what makes it to pursue on 23^rd March and 24^th March at 17:00 - 18:00.

26 February 2024

At the  SE 2024 conference in Linz, Austria,  Sandra Greiner co-organized the sixth edition of the  SECPPS workshop. The Software Engineering (SE) conference is a gathering organized by the  Software Engineering Division (SWT) of the  German Informatics Society (GI).

02 February 2022

Am Donnerstag, 10. November 2022, findet der diesjährige  Nationale Zukunftstag für Kinder und Jugendliche der 5. bis 7. Klasse statt. Am Nationalen Zukunftstag sind die Kinder und Jugendlichen eingeladen, die Berufswelten ihrer Eltern oder Bekannten kennenzulernen.

Auch das  Institut für Informatik bietet mit einem eigens konzipierten Programm den Kindern und Jugendlichen die Möglichkeit, Einblicke in die spannende Welt der Informatik zu erhalten.

01 February 2023

We are very happy to announce that we are hosting the  18^th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2024). The  VaMoS conferences aim at bringing together “researchers and practitioners to share ideas, results and experiences about their quest for mastering variability”.  Prof. Dr. Timo Kehrer serves as general chair and will organize the conference together with his team and further renown researchers on variability modeling of software-intensive systems. The conference will take place in the buildings of the university from February 7^th to 9^th, 2024.

11 September 2022

At this year’s hybrid  SPLC conference in Graz, Austria,  Sandra Greiner co-organized the fifth edition of the  VariVolution workshop. The workshop aims to bring together researchers studying software evolution and variability from different angles as well as practitioners encountering these phenomena in real-world applications and systems.

09 November 2023

We are pleased to announce several  open PhD positions in the field of software engineering, each of them being funded for at least 4 years. We are looking for highly motivated and dedicated individuals to join our research group and to advance software engineering knowledge and methods.

29 October 2024

We are excited to announce the release of  FirmwareDroid, an open-source tool developed at our group that allows the user to analyze Android firmware.

26 February 2024

At the  SE 2024 conference in Linz, Austria,  Sandra Greiner co-organized the sixth edition of the  SECPPS workshop. The Software Engineering (SE) conference is a gathering organized by the  Software Engineering Division (SWT) of the  German Informatics Society (GI).

11 September 2022

At this year’s hybrid  SPLC conference in Graz, Austria,  Sandra Greiner co-organized the fifth edition of the  VariVolution workshop. The workshop aims to bring together researchers studying software evolution and variability from different angles as well as practitioners encountering these phenomena in real-world applications and systems.

28 August 2023

At the  SPLC in Tokyo, Japan,  Sandra Greiner co-organized the sixth edition of the  VariVolution workshop. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers studying software evolution and variability from different angles as well as practitioners encountering these phenomena in real-world applications and systems.

14 July 2025

 Roman Bögli and  Thomas Sutter are organizing the workshop  Cryptographic Agility in the realm of PQS Algorithms + Security and Privacy Concerns on Android Phones in collaboration with the  University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and the  Competence Centre Digital Trust. The workshop will take place on 29^th July 2025, 14:30 - 15:30, in person or online.