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Institute of Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Ulm University
James-Franck-Ring
D-89069 Ulm
Building O27, Level 4
Phone: +49 (0)731 / 50 - 24161
Email: in.sp-office@uni-ulm.de
Institute of Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Research
Our research covers many aspects of software engineering and programming languages. In particular, we focus on domain-specific languages, software configuration, and constraint programming. We employ formalized theories, develop open-source tools, and apply empirical research methods.
Teaching
The institute represents the areas software engineering and programming languages in the bachelor and master programs of computer science and related fields. We offer the following mandatory courses in the Bachelor's program:
- Interactive Systems Programming
- Software Engineering
- Software Project
Furthermore, we are responsible for the bachelor and master program Software Engineering.
Overview of the courses in the bachelor and master programs
News
flowR Receives Unrestricted Gift From Posit
flowR, a static analyzer for R, receives an unrestricted gift from Posit to support the flowR's security analysis
Rising Star Award at RSECon25
Florian Sihler received the Rising Star Award at RSECon25.
"Statically Analyzing the Dataflow of R Programs" accepted at OOPSLA '25
Our paper on "Statically Analyzing the Dataflow of R Programs" got accepted at SPLASH/OOPSLA '25
Waddle Receives iwimint Funding
Waddle, a serious game to teach programming concepts, got funded as an iwimint project!
Book on Algorithmic Game Theory
Florian Sihler co-authored a book on Algorithmic Game Theory together with Jacobo Torán and Julian Nickerl.
Newest publications
2026
751.
Niehues,
Nils;
Hahner,
Sebastian;
Heinrich,
Robert
Mitigation strategies for confidentiality violations in software architecture using ranked feature importance
Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 235
May 2026
Publisher: Elsevier
Mitigation strategies for confidentiality violations in software architecture using ranked feature importance
Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 235
May 2026
Publisher: Elsevier
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jss.2025.112761 |
| ISBN: | 0164-1212 |
750.
Schultheiß,
Alexander;
Boll,
Alexander;
Bittner,
Paul Maximilian;
Greiner,
Sandra;
Thüm,
Thomas;
Kehrer,
Timo
Decades of GNU Patch and Git Cherry-Pick: Can We Do Better?
Proc. Int'l Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE) (To Appear)
2026
Decades of GNU Patch and Git Cherry-Pick: Can We Do Better?
Proc. Int'l Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE) (To Appear)
2026
749.
Taghavi,
Bahareh;
Weber,
Sebastian;
Marin,
Adrian;
Rumpe,
Bernhard;
Stüber,
Sebastian;
Henß,
Jörg;
Weber,
Thomas;
Heinrich,
Robert
Modeling the Composition of Analysis Components and Automatic Constraint Checking for Semantic Soundness
Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 231
January 2026
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0164-1212
Modeling the Composition of Analysis Components and Automatic Constraint Checking for Semantic Soundness
Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 231
January 2026
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0164-1212
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jss.2025.112637 |
748.
Sihler,
Florian;
Pfrenger,
Lars;
Gerstl,
Oliver;
Tichy,
Matthias
Towards Automatically Inferring Constraints to Identify Implicit Assumptions in Data Analysis
2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-NIER ’26)
2026
Towards Automatically Inferring Constraints to Identify Implicit Assumptions in Data Analysis
2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-NIER ’26)
2026
| DOI: | 10.1145/3786582.3786806 |
2025
747.
Weber,
Sebastian;
Pace,
Vincenzo;
Weber,
Thomas;
Henß,
Jörg;
Heinrich,
Robert
Machine Learning Surrogate Models for Performance Prediction with Architectural Models
16th Symposium on Software Performance
November 2025
Machine Learning Surrogate Models for Performance Prediction with Architectural Models
16th Symposium on Software Performance
November 2025