Sven Apel

Happy and honored: I have been selected to become an IEEE Fellow for "contributions to analyzing software and its development process". Thanks a lot to all of you who endorsed and supported me – especially @cispa.de + @saarland-informatics-campus.de, who always encouraged such long-term impact.

Professor Reinhard Wilhelm stands with his arms crossed in a bright hallway lined with framed artwork and potted plants. He is wearing a gray blazer and light shirt. Below the photo, a blue banner contains the text: “Honoring Decades of Excellence: ACM SIGBED Award for Reinhard Wilhelm.

🏆 Congrats to Professor Reinhard Wilhelm for being awarded the 2025 ACM SIGBED Technical Achievement Award!

His work in WCET analysis has shaped safe embedded, real-time, and cyber-physical systems used worldwide, from aircraft control to medical devices.

🔗 Read more: sic.link/profwilhelmacm

Prof. Dr. Sven Apel sits smiling in an office environment with computer monitors in the background. Beneath the photo, a blue banner displays the text: "Is AI your friend? Saarbrücken says: Not yet — especially while you’re coding." Logos for Saarland University and Saarland Informatics Campus appear at the top.

🤖 Using AI while coding? Think again.

🖥️ A study conducted by Prof. Dr @svenapel.bsky.social and his team shows that, compared to human partners, developers working with AI assistants approach code less critically and experience less knowledge transfer.

🔗 Read more: sic.link/software

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...

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The first deadline for the research track @variabilityconf.bsky.social 2026 conference is Dec. 4 ! It covers all variability areas including software reuse, product lines, and configuration. It merges the 3 previous conferences in the domain (ICSR,SPLC, VaMoS).
conf.researchr.org/home/variabi...

YouTube video by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) November 2025 CACM: The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience

📰 This week at #SIC: Prof. Dr. Sven Apel, Chair of Software Engineering, and Dr. Marvin Wyrich, software engineering researcher at Saarland University, highlight the importance of science communication in November’s CACM issue!

📰 Read: sic.link/silentscientist
📺 Watch: youtu.be/85Q3gTx_MUs

The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience Marvin Wyrich and Sven Apel discuss "The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience," an Opinion article in the November 2025 CACM.

ACM sent a professional filmmaker to Universität des Saarlandes to interview Sven Apel and me about the topic. It was an exciting experience, and the video is now online! 😁

👉 Article: cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-...
👉 Interview: vimeo.com/1125950450?f...

The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience Marvin Wyrich and Sven Apel discuss "The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience," an Opinion article in the November 2025 CACM.

Marvin Wyrich wrote:

Our article "The Silent Scientist," in which we explain the importance of science communication for software engineering, appears in the November issue of Communications of the ACM. But it gets even better...

Many organizations are changing their language and policies surrounding DEI. The ACM has not, we are sticking to our principles.

- Yannis Ioannidis, ACM president, today

I'm proud to be a member & volunteer for the @acm.org!

Poster for the "Zukunft durch Wandel" (Future through Change) event celebrating the Day of German Unity in Saarbrücken, October 2–4, 2025. Below, large white text reads: "Visit our booth – join our program! Mainzerstraße 3, Saarbrücken City." The background image shows three smiling people sitting outdoors, talking, and using a laptop.

German Unity Day celebrates the reunification of East and West Germany. This year, Saarland is hosting the festivities!

We will be in Saarbrücken, Mainzerstraße 3, joined by DFKI, MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, and LZI, to celebrate German Unity Day with you! 🥳

🔗 Find our full program here: sic.link/burgerfest

First author Vs. Second author

Christian Theobalt during the podcast recording.

Director Christian Theobalt joins the new season of the Max Planck podcast “Ach, Mensch!” and talks about his research in Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence.

↪️Link to the episode: sic.link/achmensch

📸MPI-INF

On the left, Dr. Mariya Toneva, on the right, Dr. Franziska Boenisch; on top of a banner that says "Saarbrücken computer scientists win 2 ERC Starting Grants!"

🏅 Saarbrücken receives 2 #ERC Starting Grants in computer science this year, more than any other institution in Germany!

Congrats to Dr. Mariya Toneva and Dr. Franziska Boenisch!

💶 Each project will receive €1.5M over 5 years.

🔗 Read more here:
➡️ sic.link/mariya
➡️ sic.link/franziska

#AI #SIC

Maintaining and cultivating the traditions of my Alma Mater. Congratulations Dr. Roman!

Congratulations @mtoneva.bsky.social! Great project! I'm looking forward to the results!

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

Applications for ERC Advanced Grants 2025: Facts and figures The ERC Advanced Grants 2025 call closed for applications on 28 August 2025. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals:

In 2025, the ERC received 3,329 proposals for Advanced Grant funding — 31% more than last year!

The selected projects will likely be announced in the spring of 2026.

More facts and figures on #ERCAdG applications 👇 europa.eu/!bm9gPT

#FrontierResearch

ASE 2025 - Journal-First Track - ASE 2025 Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...

Have you recently published in ASEJ, IEEE TSE, ACM TOSEM, EMSE, or JSS? Present your work at ASE’25!

✅ Accepted after Jan 1, 2024
✅ In ASE scope
✅ ≥70% new content
✅ Not presented elsewhere

👉 Full details: conf.researchr.org/track/ase-20...
🗓️ Submission Due: 1st Sep

#ASE2025 #SoftwareEngineering

Experiments in SE research often require a contrast condition or baseline (e.g., contrasting reading code with problem solving or reading prose). What is the influence of the choice of baseline on the actual results? See our TOSEM paper for answers:
www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/publications...

A happy sheet of paper with ICSE 2026 written on it

Congrats to all authors of accepted papers in Cycle 1 of #ICSE2026! Out of 660 submissions, 60 papers were accepted and 107 invited for major revisions. We now invite you to share this post with more details about your paper! We'll see you in Rio! 🇧🇷🌴

📣 Good news: 281 top researchers have just won ERC Advanced Grants!

The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme.

Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD

#ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu

Am Wochenende durfte ich unsere Forschung auf dem #Kosmos vorstellen. Ich bin begeistert, dass so viele sich für #Programmieren und #Neurodiversität interessieren. Danke an alle vor Ort und die #TUC!

@janetsiegmund.bsky.social @svenapel.bsky.social @schanlin.bsky.social @yifan00.bsky.social

The leadership team of the new Center for Quantum Technologies, representing the fields of physics, mathematics, and computer science (from left to right): Peter P. Orth, Markus Bläser, Giovanna Morigi, Frank Wilhelm-Mauch, Moritz Weber, Jürgen Eschner, and Christoph Becher. Not pictured: Jonas Haferkamp, who is also part of the leadership team.

⚛️ Quantum software meets Saarbrücken science: new €53M+ research center launched at @uni-saarland.de.

With #informatics, #physics, #math & #engineering on board – and @dfki.bsky.social , @mpi-inf.mpg.de & ‪@fz-juelich.de in the mix.

🔗 Read more about the #QuTe initiative here: sic.link/qute

ASE 2025 Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...

🎉 HUGE NEWS! 🎉

#ASE2025 has received a record-breaking 1,190 submissions – the most EVER for a single-cycle top SE conference! 🤯

Massive thanks to all authors who submitted. Looking forward to what promises to be an unforgettable conference with an incredible program 🔥!

Massive 1.2k submissions to #ASE25 in Korea! 🎉 📈

Table with three columns: one "other approaches", all with 0%; one "our approach", with bold, non-zero percentages; and one "improvement", showing infinite improvement in all cases.

Occasionally, I get a reviewer complaining, “You don’t compare against any other approach. So how can we know you’re better?” So I found a simple way to still add the "bold number column" that apparently everybody wants these days.

ASE 2025 Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...

📢 ASE 2025 – Upcoming Deadlines!
🔍 Research Papers: 30 May
✨ NIER: 12 Jul
⚒️ Tool Demonstration: 23 Jul
🧑‍🏫 Doctoral Symposium: 31 Jul
🏢 Industry Showcase: 1 Aug
👩🏻‍💻 Student Research Competition: 12 Aug
📄 Journal First: 1 Sep
More info: conf.researchr.org/home/ase-2025

✨️ Now that #ICSE25 is over, it's time to get your papers ready for #ASE25 (30th May)!

📢 Here is what's new:
* Major Revision v2.0
* Review criteria for tech. & experience papers
* Policy on LLM-assisted Reviews
* Auto-bidding (TPMS)
* Rapid Response Reliable Reviewers

👇 For more details, read on.

Mira Mezini

Amir Shaikhha

Meet the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners at ECOOP'25:

Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt (Senior Prize)
Amir Shaikhha, University of Edinburgh (Junior Prize)

Check out their awards-citation:
https://2025.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2025-awards

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Web site of The Fuzzing Book in new, three-column layout

A new look! We have created a new version of The Fuzzing Book, based on #JupyterBook, bringing

* easier navigation
* dark mode
* search
* mobile layout

and lots of other features. Check it out at www.fuzzingbook.org/beta/html/in...

Should we continue with this new look? Comments are welcome!