Award

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.