How has our field’s understanding of validity in empirical SE research changed over the past decade? 🤔 Our paper on this topic, with @janetsiegmund.bsky.social, @svenapel.bsky.social, and @norbertsiegmund.bsky.social was accepted at ICSE 2026. Preprint: sws.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/wp-content/u...

Sebastian Simon presenting what topics practitioners are discussing when building LLM-based appilcations - CAIN 2025 #ICSE2025

What is the essence object-oriented programming? It depends on whom you ask. The long answer is available in the preprint of our recently accepted paper: www.computer.org/csdl/magazin... Marvin Wyrich, Johannes C. Hofmeister, @svenapel.bsky.social , and I dared to go down this rabbit hole.

Debugging performance bugs is a maze of complexity! We used VR to uncover how developers reason about performance bugs, revealing structured debugging episodes... To be presented at FSE'25, a preprint is available: www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/publications...

✨Exciting news! Dominik Gorgosch, @norbertsiegmund.bsky.social, Janet Siegmund and my paper '"Ok Pal, We Have to Code That Now": Interaction Patterns of Programming Beginners with a Conversational' Chatbot has been accepted in EMSE Journal! Ever wondered how beginners use AI to learn programming?⬇︎︎