Publication

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.