May the 4th [paper] be with you: Recapitulation of the discussions around the new ICSE 2017 submission policy

4th May
2016
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For a couple of weeks now, we can witness heated discussions around the new ICSE 2017 submission policy allowing each author a...

Sneak Peek: ZD.B Junior Research Groups

16th Feb
2016
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It is a true pleasure to announce that the Bavarian ministry of Education, Science, and the Arts has accepted our funding programme to...

Case Studies in Industry – Fundamentals and Lessons Learnt

23rd Dec
2015
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Last year, I gave a tutorial on fundamentals and lessons learnt in conducting case study research in industry. The tutorial...

What is wrong with empirical Software Engineering?

29th Oct
2015
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At this year’s meeting of the International Software Engineering Research Network in Beijing, we were running again lots of interesting workshops...

Non-functional Requirements in Model-driven Development

7th Sep
2015
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I’d like to give a small shout-out to an ongoing international collaboration with around 20 researchers from 8 countries, initiated and coordinated...

Grounded Theory: A small introduction

19th Jul
2014
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Most of the data we analyse in our research projects is of textual nature, ranging from interview transcripts and survey...

Scientific methods and their validity

11th Jul
2014
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Here are the slides of a talk I gave together with colleagues at our PhD seminar on philosophy of science.

In Quest for Requirements Engineering Oracles: Dependent variables and measurements for a (good) RE

11th Jul
2014
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For many years, researchers and practitioners have been proposing various methods and approaches to Requirements Engineering (RE). Those contributions remain,...

Manifesto for impact in applied science – the second side of the medal

24th Jul
2013

For years, we are discussing the role of academia and industry regarding research and education and often, we are discussing...

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