Scientific Program (SE)
Information about the Scientific Program (SE).
Tracks
The Software Engineering (SE) conference of the Software Engineering Division (SWT) of the German Informatics Society (GI) 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.
The tracks of the main conference take place from Wednesday, 25 – Friday, 27 February 2026 in the Wankdorf Stadium.
Program
Location: Wankdorf Stadium
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:05
Opening
Room: TBA
Speaker: Timo Kehrer (University of Bern (CH))
09:05 – 10:00
Scientific Keynote: Maria Christakis
Room: TBA
Details: Scientific Keynote: Maria Christakis
Speaker:
Maria Christakis (TU Vienna (AT))
Session Chair: Leen Lambers (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg (DE))
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00
Session: Architecture & Modeling
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Judith Michael (University of Regensburg (DE))
"Continuous Integration of Architectural Performance Models with Parametric Dependencies – The CIPM Approach"
Authors: Manar Mazkatli, Martin Armbruster, David Monschein, Robert Heinrich, Anne Koziolek
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Evolution Patterns of Software-Architecture Smells"
Authors: Philipp Gnoyke, Sandro Schulze, Jacob Krüger
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Model-based Proactive Self-Adaptation for Cloud Systems"
Authors: Raphael Straub, Sarah Stieß, Steffen Becker, Matthias Tichy
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Refactoring with Confidence: An Assistant for Repair- Integrated Refactoring in Block-based Industrial Models (Summary)"
Authors: Michael Oberlehner, Bianca Wiesmayr, Alois Zoitl
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
10:30 – 12:00
Session: SE 4 AI
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Regina Hebig (University of Rostock (DE))
"From Prompts to Templates: A Systematic Prompt Template Analysis for Real-world LLMapps"
Author: Yuetian Mao
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"How Toxic Can You Get? Search-based Toxicity Testing for Large Language Models"
Authors: Simone Corbo, Luca Bancale, Valeria De Gennaro, Livia Lestingi, Vincenzo Scotti, Matteo Camilli
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"MMDFast: Efficient Understanding of Machine Learning Model Mispredictions"
Authors: Martin Eberlein, Jürgen Cito, Lars Grunske
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"TAEFuzz: Automatic Fuzzing for Image-based Deep Learning Systems via Transferable Adversarial Examples"
Authors: Shunhui Ji, Changrong Huang, Bin Ren, Hai Dong, Lars Grunske, Yan Xiao, Pengcheng Zhang
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
10:30 – 12:00
Session: Verification
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Falk Howar (TU Dortmund (DE))
"Exploring Development Methods for Reactive Synthesis Specifications"
Authors: Dor Ma’Ayan, Shahar Maoz, Jan Oliver Ringert
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Off-the-Shelf Cooperative Software Verification by Splitting Programs Dynamically"
Authors: Cedric Richter, Marek Chalupa, Marie-Christine Jakobs, Heike Wehrheim
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"On the Expressive Power of Languages for Static Variability – Summary"
Authors: Paul Maximilian Bittner, Alexander Schultheiß, Benjamin Moosherr, Jeffrey Young, Leopoldo Teixeira, Eric Walkingshaw, Parisa Ataei, Thomas Thüm
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Safe Mixed-Consistency Local-First Software with Invariants"
Authors: Mirko Köhler, George Zakhour, Pascal Weisenburger, Guido Salvaneschi
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00
Session: Analysis & Repair
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Ben Hermann (TU Dortmund (DE))
"Decades of GNU Patch and Git Cherry-Pick: Can We Do Better? – Summary"
Authors: Alexander Schultheiß, Alexander Boll, Paul Maximilian Bittner, Sandra Greiner, Thomas Thüm, Timo Kehrer
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"How Configurable is the Linux Kernel? Analyzing Two Decades of Feature-Model History – Summary"
Authors: Elias Kuiter, Chico Sundermann, Thomas Thüm, Tobias Heß, Sebastian Krieter, Gunter Saake
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Statically Analyzing the Dataflow of R Programs"
Authors: Florian Sihler, Matthias Tichy
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Too Many Issues: Automatically Prioritizing Analyzer Findings by Tracing Security Importance (Summary)"
Authors: Sven Peldszus, Katharina Großer, Marco Konersmann, Wasja Brunotte, Maike Ahrens, Kurt Schneider, Jan Jürjens
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
13:30 – 15:00
Session: Architecture & Learning
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Wilhelm Hasselbring (Kiel University (DE))
"Do Large Language Models Contain Software Architectural Knowledge? An Exploratory Case Study with GPT"
Authors: Mohamed Soliman, Jan Keim
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"ExArch: Enabling Architecture Traceability by LLM-based Architecture Component Name Extraction"
Authors: Dominik Fuchß, Haoyu Liu, Tobias Hey, Jan Keim, Anne Koziolek
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Linking Software System Artifacts: Toward Generic Traceability Link Recovery through Retrieval-Augmented Generation"
Authors: Dominik Fuchß, Tobias Hey, Jan Keim, Haoyu Liu, Niklas Ewald, Tobias Thirolf, Anne Koziolek
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Machine Learning-Based Mitigation of Confidentiality Violations in Software Architectures"
Authors: Nils Niehues, Sebastian Hahner, Robert Heinrich
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
13:30 – 15:00
Session: Human Aspects & Education
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Lars Grunske (HU Berlin (DE))
"Enhancing Motivation in Software Engineering Education through Gamified Agile Project-based Learning"
Authors: Niklas Meißner, Paul Bredl, Sandro Speth, Steffen Becker
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"How Do Programming Students Use Generative AI?"
Authors: Christian Rahe, Walid Maalej
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Interruptibility of Software Developers and Its Prediction Using Psycho-Physiological Sensors: A Replication"
Authors: Florian Poreba, Stefan Sobernig
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Toward a Theory on Programmer’s Block inspired by Writer’s Block (Kurzfassung)"
Authors: Belinda Schantong, Norbert Siegmund, Janet Siegmund
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00
Session: Features & Traceability
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Matthias Tichy (Ulm University (DE))
"Coverage Metrics for T-Wise Feature Interactions – Summary"
Authors: Sabrina Böhm, Tim Jannik Schmidt, Sebastian Krieter, Tobias Pett, Thomas Thüm, Malte Lochau
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Give an Inch and Take a Mile? Effects of Adding Reliable Knowledge to Heuristic Feature Tracing – Summary"
Authors: Sandra Greiner, Alexander Schultheiß, Paul Maximilian Bittner, Thomas Thüm, Timo Kehrer
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"How Low Can We Go? Minimizing Interaction Samples for Configurable Systems – Summary"
Authors: Dominik Krupke, Ahmad Moradi, Michael Perk, Phillip Keldenich, Gabriel Gehrke, Sebastian Krieter, Thomas Thüm, Sándor P. Fekete
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Reusing d-DNNFs for Efficient Feature-Model Counting – Summary"
Authors: Chico Sundermann, Heiko Raab, Tobias Heß, Thomas Thüm, Ina Schaefer
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
15:30 – 17:00
Session: Reasoning about Software
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Guido Salvaneschi (University of St. Gallen (CH))
"Establishing Technical Debt Management – A Five-Step Workshop Approach and an Action Research Study"
Authors: Marion Wiese, Kamila Serwa, Anastasia M. Besier, Ariane S. Marion-Jetten, Eva Bittner
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Learning Program Behavioral Models from Synthesized Input-Output Pairs"
Authors: Tural Mammadov, Dietrich Klakow, Alexander Koller, Andreas Zeller
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Measuring the Fidelity of a Physical and a Digital Twin Using Trace Alignments"
Authors: Paula Muñoz, Manuel Wimmer, Javier Troya, Antonio Vallecillo
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Predicting Failures in Smart Human-Centric Ecosystems"
Authors: Niccolò Puccinelli, Davide Molinelli, Noura El Moussa, Matteo Ciniselli, Mauro Pezzè
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
18:30 – 21:00
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:15
Opening
Room: TBA
Speaker: Sebastiano Panichella (University of Bern (CH))
09:15 – 10:00
Session
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Matteo Biagiola (University of St. Gallen (CH))
"Simulation-based regression testing for Autonomous Vehicles & Overview of Sim2Cloud"
Speaker: Christian Birchler (University of Bern (CH))
Format: 17 minutes talk + 7-8 minutes questions
"Simulating the Real World: An Introduction to the BeamNG Platform & Generation of 3D Generative models"
Speakers: Eva Pigova ( BeamNG GmbH), Damian Boborzi (University of Augsburg (DE))
Format: 17 minutes talk + 7-8 minutes questions
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15
Session
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Sebastiano Panichella (University of Bern (CH))
"From code to corner: The software behind LOXO urban vehicles"
Speaker: Claudio Panizza ( LOXO)
Format: 17 minutes talk + 7-8 minutes questions
"A journey in AI-based code generation"
Speaker: Matteo Biagiola (University of St. Gallen (CH))
Format: 17 minutes talk + 7-8 minutes questions
11:15 – 12:00
Session: Sustainability and Reliability of AI-Driven Software
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Andreas Fischer (University of Fribourg (CH))
"From Perception to Action: Can UI Interventions Foster Sustainable LLM Chatbot"
Speaker: Nitish Patkar (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (CH))
Format: 17 minutes talk + 7-8 minutes questions
"Breaking DNNs: Mutation Testing for Deep Neural Networks"
Speakers: Nargiz Humbatova (Università della Svizzera italiana (CH)), Jinhan Kim (Università della Svizzera italiana (CH))
Format: 17 minutes talk + 7-8 minutes questions
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 14:15
Session
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Matteo Biagiola (University of St. Gallen (CH))
"Legacy Application Modernization with AI Agents"
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Hogg ( Adnovum)
Format: 17 minutes talk + 7-8 minutes questions
"Trustworthy Distributed Certification of Program Execution"
Speaker: Alex Wolf (University of Zurich (CH))
Format: 17 minutes talk + 7-8 minutes questions
14:15 – 15:00
Interdisciplinary session on Biology and Bioinformatics
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Sebastiano Panichella (University of Bern (CH))
"Integrating Physiology and Machine Learning to Predict Oxyhaemoglobin Dissociation Curve Shift in Preterm Infants"
Speaker: Sarah Rebecca Meyer (University of Bern (CH))
Format: 17 minutes talk + 7-8 minutes questions
"Bridging Research and Practice in Simulation-based Testing of Industrial Robot Navigation Systems"
Speaker: Sebastiano Panichella (University of Bern (CH))
Format: 17 minutes talk + 7-8 minutes questions
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:45
Panel on ‘AI, Software Engineering & Reproducibility and Science Challenges’
Room: TBA
Session Chairs: Andras Fischer (University of Fribourg (CH)), Matteo Biagiola (University of St. Gallen (CH)), Sebastiano Panichella (University of Bern (CH))
Description
The initial panelists are the main speakers of the event and selected participants.
16:45 – 16:50
Closing
Room: TBA
Speaker: Sebastiano Panichella (University of Bern (CH))
18:30 – 21:00
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break / Registration
15:30 – 16:15
Meeting Lenkungskreis Fachtagung Software Engineering
Room: TBA
Description
Attendance is by invitation only.
16:15 – 17:00
Meeting GI Fachbereich Softwaretechnik
Room: TBA
Description
Attendance is by invitation only.
17:00 – 18:00
Meeting GI Arbeitskreis ‘Artificial Intelligence for Software Architecture (AI4SA)’ of the Fachgruppe ‘Architekturen’
Room: TBA
Description
Attendance is by invitation only.
18:30 – 21:00
Location: Wankdorf Stadium
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:05
Opening
Room: TBA
Speaker: Matthias Stürmer (Professor at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (CH), Institute ‘Public Sector Transformation’)
09:05 – 10:00
Industry Keynote: “Achieving Digital Sovereignty in Europe: Key Considerations for Success”
Room: TBA
Details: Industry Keynote: Amandine Le Pape
Speaker:
Amandine Le Pape (Head of Section – Business & Impact at the Open Source Academy, COO and co-founder of Element)
Session Chair: TBA
Abstract
European Digital Sovereignty is on everyone’s lips. European governments are making their intentions clear, with EU Member States signing the Declaration for European Digital Sovereignty, setting out landmark commitments to reduce Europe’s dependence on a small number of global platforms and to invest in trusted European infrastructures. Industry events have been popping up everywhere and governments are working hard to share knowledge and try to crack the problem. Open Source and Digital Commons are cornerstones of the solution, and the launch of the Digital Commons EDIC in December 2025 is a good example of the work being done.
But what is Digital Sovereignty, why is it important and why are Open Source and Digital Commons so central to it? And more importantly: What are the traps to avoid and best practices if we want to implement Digital Sovereignty successfully? Let’s pause and have a think.
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00
Session: Automated Test Generation
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Malte Lochau (University of Siegen (DE))
"Automated Generation of Issue-Reproducing Tests by Combining LLMs and Search-Based Testing"
Authors: Konstantinos Kitsios, Marco Marco Castelluccio, Alberto Bacchelli
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Does GenAI Make Usability Testing Obsolete?"
Authors: Ali Ebrahimi Pourasad, Walid Maalej
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Efficient Domain Augmentation for Autonomous Driving Testing Using Diffusion Models"
Authors: Luciano Baresi, Davide Yi Xian Hu, Andrea Stocco, Paolo Tonella
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"FANDANGO: Evolving Language-Based Testing"
Authors: José Antonio Zamudio Amaya, Marius Smytzek, Andreas Zeller
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
10:30 – 12:00
Session: Requirements & Mining
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Rick Rabiser (Johannes Kepler University Linz (AT))
"Automating Requirements Elicitation Interviews with LLMs"
Authors: Alexander Korn, Samuel Gorsch, Andreas Vogelsang
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"How do practitioners incorporate requirements and design decisions in LLM-assisted code generation?"
Authors: Jonathan Ullrich, Matthias Koch, Andreas Vogelsang
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny: Investigating Diversity Aspects of LLM-Generated Personas for Requirements Engineering – Summary"
Authors: Christopher Lazik, Charlotte Kauter, Inês Nunes, Aaron Ziglowski, Alina Pryma, Christopher Katins, Lars Grunske, Thomas Kosch
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Does the Tool Matter? Exploring Some Causes of Threats to Validity in Mining Software Repositories"
Authors: Nicole Hoess, Carlos Paradis, Rick Kazman, Wolfgang Mauerer
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00
Session: Software Comprehension
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Walid Maalej (University of Hamburg (DE))
"How ML Practitioners Perceive Explainability: An Interview Study of Practices and Challenges"
Authors: Umm E Habiba, Mohammad Kasra Habib, Justus Bogner, Jonas Fritzsch, Stefan Wagner
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Investigating the Readability of Test Code: Combining Scientific and Practical View"
Authors: Dietmar Winkler, Pirmin Urbanke, Rudolf Ramler
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Providing Information About Implemented Algorithms Improves Program Comprehension: A Controlled Experiment"
Authors: Denis Neumüller, Alexander Raschke, Matthias Tichy
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Semantic Zoom and Mini-Maps for Software Cities"
Authors: Malte Hansen, Jens Bamberg, Noe Baumann, Wilhelm Hasselbring
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
13:30 – 15:00
Session: Testing & Optimisation
Room: TBA
Session Chair: TBA
"Adaptive Test Generation with Q-grams"
Authors: Matteo Biagiola, Robert Feldt, Paolo Tonella
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"E-Test: Ever-Improving Test Suites"
Authors: Ketai Qiu, Luca Di Grazia, Leonardo Mariani, Mauro Pezzè
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Metamorphic Testing for Optimisation: A Case Study on PID Controller Tuning"
Authors: Alejandra Duque-Torres, Claus Klammer, Stefan Fischer, Rudolf Ramler, Dietmar Pfahl
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Optimization of Automated and Manual Software Tests in Industrial Practice: A Survey and Historical Analysis"
Authors: Roman Haas, Raphael Nömmer, Elmar Juergens, Sven Apel
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00
Session: Test Evaluation
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Yannic Noller (Ruhr University Bochum (DE))
"Do LLMs Generate Useful Test Oracles? An Empirical Study with an Unbiased Dataset"
Authors: Davide Molinelli, Luca Di Grazia, Alberto-Martin Lopez, Michael D. Ernst, Mauro Pezzè
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Gamifying Testing in IntelliJ: A Replicability Study"
Authors: Philipp Straubinger, Tommaso Fulcini, Giacomo Garaccione, Luca Ardito, Gordon Fraser
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Mutation-Based Integration Testing of Knowledge Graph Applications (Summary)"
Authors: Tobias John, Einar Broch Johnsen, Eduard Kamburjan
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"The Testing Gaps in Infrastructure as Code Programs"
Authors: Daniel Sokolowski, David Spielmann, Guido Salvaneschi
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
19:00 – 22:00
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:05
Opening
Room: TBA
Speaker: Matthias Stürmer (Professor at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (CH), Institute ‘Public Sector Transformation’)
09:05 – 10:00
Industry Keynote: “Achieving Digital Sovereignty in Europe: Key Considerations for Success”
Room: TBA
Details: Industry Keynote: Amandine Le Pape
Speaker:
Amandine Le Pape (Head of Section – Business & Impact at the Open Source Academy, COO and co-founder of Element)
Session Chair: TBA
Abstract
European Digital Sovereignty is on everyone’s lips. European governments are making their intentions clear, with EU Member States signing the Declaration for European Digital Sovereignty, setting out landmark commitments to reduce Europe’s dependence on a small number of global platforms and to invest in trusted European infrastructures. Industry events have been popping up everywhere and governments are working hard to share knowledge and try to crack the problem. Open Source and Digital Commons are cornerstones of the solution, and the launch of the Digital Commons EDIC in December 2025 is a good example of the work being done.
But what is Digital Sovereignty, why is it important and why are Open Source and Digital Commons so central to it? And more importantly: What are the traps to avoid and best practices if we want to implement Digital Sovereignty successfully? Let’s pause and have a think.
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00
Impulse Talks and Panel Discussion
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Matthias Stürmer (Professor at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (CH), Institute ‘Public Sector Transformation’)
"Cloud Sovereignty: Technical Reality and Practical Implementation"
Speakers:
Christoph Schnidrig (Head of Technology, AWS Switzerland)
Daniel Caduff (Security Assurance Principal of the D/A/CH region at AWS)
Abstract
Christoph Schnidrig will focus on the technical aspects of Cload Sovereignty and on Open Source. Daniel Caduff will go into detail about regulatory requirements and compliance.
"TBA"
Speaker:
Frank Karlitschek (CEO of Nextcloud)
"Panel Discussion on Digital Sovereignty"
Speakers:
Adrienne Fichter (Political Scientist and Tech Journalist)
Amandine Le Pape (Head of Section – Business & Impact at the Open Source Academy, COO and co-founder of Element)
Frank Karlitschek (CEO of Nextcloud)
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00
Expert Talks and Experience Reports
Room: TBA
Session Chair: TBA
"A sovereign AI platform for the new agentic software engineering"
Speaker:
Alexander Hofmann (CTO of MaibornWolff)
Abstract
AI is fundamentally changing our software engineering, and we are all part of this major transformation. This change affects more than just coding. It affects all phases — from digital design to software operation. The experience from our customer projects shows that this new agentic software engineering needs an AI development platform that meets compliance, security and reliability requirements.
The implementation of this sovereign AI platform at MaibornWolff was the key to getting the “Go” from more than 50 of our customers to use AI tools for software development in their projects. The presentation explains the structure of our AI development platform and shows how we use it, what is important and what it costs.
"TBA"
Speaker:
Carla Bünger (Vice President of the Board and Founder of Phoenix Technologies)
"TBA"
Speaker:
N.N. ( HuggingFace)
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00
Expert Talks and Experience Reports
Room: TBA
Session Chair: TBA
"Adaptive Internal Developer Platforms als Enabler digitaler Souveränität"
Speaker:
Dr. Axel Koldewey (CIO of adesso SE)
Abstract
Die digitale Souveränität softwareintensiver Organisationen wird zunehmend durch die steigende Komplexität cloud-nativer Architekturen, proprietäre Plattformökosysteme und implizite Abhängigkeiten von Infrastruktur- und Tool-Anbietern herausgefordert. Während Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) als Mittel zur Steigerung von Entwicklerproduktivität und Standardisierung etabliert sind, bleiben sie häufig statisch, toolzentriert und bieten nur eingeschränkte Kontroll- und Anpassungsmöglichkeiten im Hinblick auf souveräne Architektur- und Governanceentscheidungen.
Dieser Beitrag führt das Konzept der adaptiven Internal Developer Platform (aIDP) der adesso SE ein und positioniert es als technologischen Enabler digitaler Souveränität im Kontext des Platform Engineerings. Die aIDP wird als kontextsensitives, selbstadaptives Softwaresystem definiert, das durch eine strikte Trennung zwischen deklarativer Beschreibung von Entwicklerintentionen („What“) und regelbasierter, automatisierter Umsetzung („How“) die Kontrolle über Entwicklungs-, Architektur- und Betriebsprozesse systematisch stärkt. Zentrales Strukturprinzip sind Golden Paths, die als versionierte, parametrische und semantisch angereicherte Umsetzungspfade modelliert werden und projektspezifisch, nachvollziehbar und technologieagnostisch instanziiert werden können.
Eine integrierte KI-gestützte Intelligence-Ebene unterstützt die semantische Interpretation natürlicher Spracheingaben, die Analyse von Abweichungen zu definierten Standards sowie die adaptive Weiterentwicklung der Plattformlogik auf Basis von Nutzungs- und Laufzeitfeedback. Ergänzt wird dieser Ansatz durch ein semantisches Architektur-Metamodell, das Architekturentscheidungen, Domänenstrukturen und Designprinzipien formalisiert und mit Code- und Infrastrukturebene synchronisiert. Dadurch wird Architektur explizit kontrollierbar, auditierbar und evolvierbar – als zentrale Voraussetzung digital souveräner Softwareentwicklung.
Der vorgestellte Ansatz leistet einen Beitrag zur theoretischen Fundierung souveräner Plattformarchitekturen und zeigt, wie adaptive Internal Developer Platforms digitale Souveränität durch formalisierte Abstraktion, regelbasierte Steuerung und KI-gestützte Systemintelligenz nachhaltig unterstützen können.
"Mehr Souveränität in der Test-Automatisierung? Effektive Migration von Test-Suites weg von proprietären Tools"
Speaker:
Dr. Elmar Jürgens (Founder of CQSE)
Abstract
Viele Teams nutzen inzwischen glücklicherweise Testautomatisierung in großem Umfang. Allerdings entstehen dadurch oft Abhängigkeiten von einzelnen Test-Tool-Herstellern. Wenn diese die Preise erhöhen (oder das Tool abstellen sollten), wird es schmerzhaft. Denn nicht nur die teureren Lizenzen kosten Geld, sondern natürlich auch eine Migration zu einem anderen Test-Tool oder -Framework. Wenn man 10.000 Testfälle hat, und mehrere Stunden für die Migration jedes einzelnen Testfalls schätzt, wird das schnell sehr teuer. Wie können unsere Ansätze aus dem Software Engineering hier helfen?
Historisch gewachsene Test-Suites sind meistens hoch redundant. Eine Migration auf ein neues Testautomatisierungs-Tool ist daher auch eine Chance, diese Redundanz loszuwerden und dadurch einen großen Teil des Migrationsaufwands zu sparen. Konkret helfen Test-Minimierungsverfahren aus unserer Forschungscommunity hierbei, indem sie aus einer großen Suite die (hoffentlich möglichst kleine) Teilmenge ermitteln, die für sich genommen schon den Großteil der Fehler findet, die die gesamte Testsuite findet. Dann reicht es, wenn wir die migrieren.
Im Vortrag stelle ich vor, welche Erfahrungen wir mit welchen Minimierungsverfahren bei unseren Kunden gemacht haben, die ihre Test-Suites migrieren. Dabei gehe ich sowohl auf moderne, AI-basierte Testselektionsverfahren ein als auch “Old-School” Coverage-Messung, um zu verfolgen, wie viel die migrierte Test-Suite im Vergleich zur neuen bereits abdeckt, und zeige, welche Einsparungen dadurch erreicht wurden.
"TBA"
Speaker:
Till Gartner (Executive Board member of mgm technology partners)
"Architecting Digital Sovereignty: Business Value over Complexity"
Speaker:
Dr. Vitor Bernardo (Head of Architecture, Market Unit Public Sector adnovum)
Abstract
Custom software development in the public sector is no longer about writing every line of code yourself. It is about delivering business value while keeping total cost of ownership sustainable. If a system is too complex or too expensive to maintain, you are not truly sovereign over it, but hostage to the effort required just to keep the lights on.
Digital sovereignty is ultimately an architectural property: it depends on the trade-offs you make, the dependencies you accept, and whether you can still change direction five or ten years later.
Hence, achieving digital sovereignty requires viewing software architecture through the lens of collaborative governance. We need to prioritise low-maintenance (“Low Ops”) approaches and think in shared functional building blocks. With the EMBAG legislation, open source becomes more than a legal requirement — it is a key strategic asset to reduce complexity. By adopting Swiss-centric, community-proven standards, we can stop building custom silos and start managing a federated ecosystem.
This session explores how architecture and governance must work together to ensure the software we own today doesn’t end up owning us tomorrow.
19:00 – 22:00
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break / Registration
10:30 – 12:00
Presentations of the nominees
Room: TBA
Details: Student Research Competition / Softwaretechnikpreis
Session Chairs: Manuel Ohrndorf (University of Bern (CH)), Pooja Rani (University of Zurich (CH))
"Extracting Knowledge Graphs from User Stories Using LangChain (Master’s Thesis)"
Author: Thayna Camargo da Silva
Format: 7 minutes talk + 2 minutes questions
"Requirely: A Tool for Detecting and Correcting Requirements Smells (Master’s Thesis)"
Author: Max Unterbusch
Format: 7 minutes talk + 2 minutes questions
"Engineering and Selecting Machine Learning Features for Feature Models (Master’s Thesis)"
Author: Raphael Dunkel
Format: 7 minutes talk + 2 minutes questions
"Creation and Evaluation of a Tool for Visualizing Reachability Analyses in Software Libraries (Master’s Thesis)"
Author: Ramon Jasari
Format: 7 minutes talk + 2 minutes questions
"Designing and Validating Code Comprehension Tests: An Empirical Study on Task Design (Master’s Thesis)"
Author: Luisa Bartl
Format: 7 minutes talk + 2 minutes questions
"Mining Bugs in Linux to Assess the Effectiveness of Automated Variability Testing (Master’s Thesis)"
Author: Christopher Rau
Format: 7 minutes talk + 2 minutes questions
"Trunk-Based Development in Open Source Software Projects: A Data Driven Approach (Bachelor’s Thesis)"
Author: Levi Samuel Böhme
Format: 7 minutes talk + 2 minutes questions
"T-Wise Sampling Operations on Binary Decision Diagrams (Bachelor’s Thesis)"
Author: Aaron Molt
Format: 7 minutes talk + 2 minutes questions
"Analyzing the Impact of Typosquatting Attacks in Maven (Bachelor’s Thesis)"
Author: Finn Wilken
Format: 7 minutes talk + 2 minutes questions
"Towards Large-Scale Variability Investigations in Nostr (Seminar Work)"
Author: Michael Kaiser
Format: 7 minutes talk + 2 minutes questions
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 13:30
Poster Session (At the End of the Lunch Break)
15:00 – 15:30
Poster Session (During the Coffee Break)
19:00 – 22:00
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break / Registration
15:30 – 17:30
Presentations of the nominees for the Dissertationspreis
Room: TBA
Details: Dissertationspreis
Session Chair: Malte Lochau (University of Siegen (DE))
"Towards Managed Clone-and-Own: Automating Matching and Patching"
Author: Alexander Schultheiß
Format: 10 minutes talk + 10 minutes questions
"Neural Bug Detection"
Author: Cedric Richter
Format: 10 minutes talk + 10 minutes questions
"Unleashing the Potential of Configuration Counting for Product-Line Analyses"
Author: Chico Sundermann
Format: 10 minutes talk + 10 minutes questions
"Functional Modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems"
Author: Imke Nachmann
Format: 10 minutes talk + 10 minutes questions
"T-Reqs: A Conceptual Model & Framework for Template-Based Requirements Quality Improvement in Space Engineering"
Author: Katharina Grosser
Format: 10 minutes talk + 10 minutes questions
"Automatic Performance Modeling and Analysis of Configurable Scientific Software and Workflows"
Author: Larissa Schmid
Format: 10 minutes talk + 10 minutes questions
17:30 – 18:00
Jury Session (Closed)
Room: TBA
Details: Dissertationspreis
Session Chair: Malte Lochau (University of Siegen (DE))
19:00 – 22:00
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch / Registration
13:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00
19:00 – 22:00
Location: Wankdorf Stadium
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 10:00
Scientific Keynote: Chunyang Chen
Room: TBA
Details: Scientific Keynote: Chunyang Chen
Speaker:
Chunyang Chen (TU Munich (DE))
Session Chair: Michael Pradel (University of Stuttgart (DE))
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00
Session: GUI-level Analysis & Requirements
Room: TBA
Session Chair: TBA
"Automated Soap Opera Testing Directed by LLMs and Scenario Knowledge"
Author: Yanqi Su
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"GUing: A Mobile GUI Search Engine using a Vision-Language Model"
Authors: Jialiang Wei, Anne-Lise Courbis, Thomas Lambolais, Binbin Xu, Pierre Louis Bernard, Gerard Dray, Walid Maalej
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Seeing is Fixing: Cross-Modal Reasoning with Multimodal LLMs for Visual Software Issue Repair"
Author: Kai Huang
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Parametric Falsification of Many Probabilistic Requirements under Flakiness"
Authors: Matteo Camilli, Raffaela Mirandola
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
10:30 – 12:00
Session: LLMs & AI
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Andrea Stocco (TU Munich (DE))
"Can Developers Prompt? A Controlled Experiment for Code Documentation Generation"
Authors: Hans-Alexander Kruse, Tim Puhlfürß, Walid Maalej
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Don’t Settle for the First! How Many GitHub Copilot Solutions Should You Check?"
Authors: Julian Oertel, Jil Klünder, Regina Hebig
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Explaining GitHub Actions Failures with Large Language Models: Challenges, Insights, and Limitations – Summary"
Authors: Pablo Valenzuela-Toledo, Chuyue Wu, Sandro Hernández, Alexander Boll, Roman Machacek, Sebastiano Panichella, Timo Kehrer
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Model Cards Revisited: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice for Ethical AI Requirements"
Authors: Tim Puhlfürß, Julia Butzke, Walid Maalej
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
10:30 – 12:00
Session: Security & Privacy
Room: TBA
Session Chair: TBA
"Contextual Privacy Policies for Mobile Applications and An Approach Toward Automated Generation"
Authors: Zhen Tao, Shidong Pan
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"SecCityVR: Visualization and Collaborative Exploration of Software Vulnerabilities in Virtual Reality"
Authors: Dennis Wüppelmann, Enes Yigitbas
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Summary of Large Language Models for In-File Vulnerability Localization Can Be “Lost in the End” (FSE2025)"
Authors: Francesco Sovrano, Alberto Bacchelli
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
"Using Analysis Coupling to Detect Information Flow Security Vulnerabilities"
Authors: Frederik Reiche, Ralf Reussner, Robert Heinrich
Format: 17 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
12:00 – 12:15
Closing
Room: TBA
Speaker: Timo Kehrer (University of Bern (CH))
12:15 – 13:30
Lunch
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break / Registration
10:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch
Industry Day
Information about the Industry Day.
Dissertationspreis
Information about the Dissertationspreis of the Software Engineering Division (SWT) of the German Informatics Society (GI).
Student Research Competition / Softwaretechnikpreis
Information about the Student Research Competition and the Softwaretechnikpreis for Bachelor and Master.