Automating the Synchronization of Software Variants
M.Sc. Paul Maximilian Bittner
I apply programming language methods to software engineering research problems. In particular, I focus on static variability in software and systems and understanding changes to it (e.g., in version control). In my research, I apply formal reasoning to ensure that the models we use are correct, expressive, and useful. Devoted to denotational design, I thereby strive to find proper formal specifications of systems, which might be implemented in several, potentially optimized ways. Within the research project VariantSync, Alexander Schultheiß and me are making software product-line technology easier to adopt, in particular in clone-and-own development. A notable software project we developed is DiffDetective, a Java library for variability-aware differencing.
Anything of your interest? Don't hesitate to contact me. :)
Research Projects
Material for Students
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Teaching
Lecture Exercises and Projects
Compiler Construction: Exercise Instructor
Software Engineering Project: Integrating Differencing Algorithms in DiffDetective
Software Product Lines: Exercise Instructor
Software Engineering Project: VariantSync
Software Product Lines: Exercise Instructor
Software Product Lines: Exercise Instructor
Academic Service
I served as a (sub-)reviewer for
- Journals: TSE; SoSyM; TOCS
- Conferences: GPCE'21; SPLC '23, '22, '21, '20; VaMoS'22, '21
2024
Explaining Edits to Variability Annotations in Evolving Software Product Lines
Proc. Int'l Working Conf. on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS) (To Appear)
Publisher: ACM, New York, NY, USA
February 2024
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2024/2024-VaMoS-Guething.pdf |
Evaluating State-of-the-Art #SAT Solvers on Industrial Configuration Spaces - Summary
Proc. Software Engineering (SE) (To Appear)
Publisher: Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, Germany
February 2024
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2024/2024-SE-Sundermann.pdf |
2023
RaQuN: A Generic and Scalable N-Way Model Matching Algorithm
Software and System Modeling (SoSyM) :1495-1517
October 2023
Publisher: Springer
DOI: | 10.1007/s10270-022-01062-5 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2023/2023-SoSyM-Schultheiss.pdf |
Views on Edits to Variational Software
Proc. Int'l Systems and Software Product Line Conf. (SPLC), Page 141-152
Publisher: ACM, New York, NY, USA
August 2023
DOI: | 10.1145/3579027.3608985 |
ISBN: | 9798400700910 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2023/2023-SPLC-Bittner.pdf |
Classifying Edits to Variability in Source Code - Summary
Proc. Software Engineering (SE), Page 39-40
Publisher: Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, Germany
February 2023
ISBN: | 978-3-88579-726-5 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2023/2023-SE-Bittner.pdf |
Quantifying the Potential to Automate the Synchronization of Variants in Clone-and-Own - Summary
Proc. Software Engineering (SE), Page 109-110
Publisher: Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, Germany
February 2023
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2023/2023-SE-Schultheiss.pdf |
Variational Satisfiability Solving: Efficiently Solving Lots of Related SAT Problems - Summary
Proc. Software Engineering (SE), Page 129-130
Publisher: Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, Germany
February 2023
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2023/2023-SE-Young.pdf |
Benchmark Generation With VEVOS: A Coverage Analysis of Evolution Scenarios in Variant-Rich Systems
Proc. Int'l Working Conf. on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS), Page 13-22
Publisher: ACM, New York, NY, USA
January 2023
DOI: | 10.1145/3571788.3571793 |
ISBN: | 9798400700019 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2023/2023-VaMoS-Schultheiss.pdf |
Evaluating State-of-the-Art #SAT Solvers on Industrial Configuration Spaces
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)
January 2023
Publisher: Springer
DOI: | 10.1007/s10664-022-10265-9 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2023/2023-EMSE-Sundermann.pdf |
2022
Variational Satisfiability Solving: Efficiently Solving Lots of Related SAT Problems
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) :53
November 2022
Publisher: Springer
DOI: | 10.1007/s10664-022-10217-3 |
Classifying Edits to Variability in Source Code
Proc. Europ. Software Engineering Conf./Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), Page 196-208
Publisher: ACM, New York, NY, USA
November 2022
DOI: | 10.1145/3540250.3549108 |
ISBN: | 9781450394130 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2022/2022-ESECFSE-Bittner.pdf |
Quantifying the Potential to Automate the Synchronization of Variants in Clone-and-Own
Proc. Int'l Conf. on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), Page 269-280
Publisher: IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
October 2022
DOI: | 10.1109/ICSME55016.2022.00032 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2022/2022-ICSME-Schultheiss.pdf |
Derivation of Subset Product Lines in FeatureIDE
Proc. Int'l Systems and Software Product Line Conf. (SPLC), Page 38-41
Publisher: ACM, New York, NY, USA
September 2022
DOI: | 10.1145/3503229.3547033 |
ISBN: | 9781450392068 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2022/2022-SPLC-Linsbauer.pdf |
Simulating the Evolution of Clone-and-Own Projects With VEVOS
Proc. Int'l Conf. on Evaluation Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), Page 231-236
Publisher: ACM, New York, NY, USA
June 2022
DOI: | 10.1145/3530019.3534084 |
ISBN: | 9781450396134 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2022/2022-EASE-Schultheiss.pdf |
Scalable N-Way Model Matching Using Multi-Dimensional Search Trees - Summary
Proc. Software Engineering (SE), Page 83-84
Publisher: Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, Germany
February 2022
DOI: | 10.18420/se2022-ws-028 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2022/2022-SE-Schultheiss.pdf |
Feature Trace Recording - Summary
Proc. Software Engineering (SE), Page 19-20
Publisher: Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, Germany
February 2022
DOI: | 10.18420/se2022-ws-002 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2022/2022-SE-Bittner.pdf |
2021
Scalable N-Way Model Matching Using Multi-Dimensional Search Trees
Proc. Int'l Conf. on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS), Page 1-12
Publisher: IEEE, Washington, DC, USA
October 2021
DOI: | 10.1109/MODELS50736.2021.00010 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2021/2021-MODELS-Schultheiss.pdf |
Feature Trace Recording
Proc. Europ. Software Engineering Conf./Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), Page 1007-1020
Publisher: ACM, New York, NY, USA
August 2021
DOI: | 10.1145/3468264.3468531 |
ISBN: | 9781450385626 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2021/2021-ESECFSE-Bittner.pdf |
Bridging the Gap Between Clone-and-Own and Software Product Lines
Proc. Int'l Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE), Page 21-25
Publisher: IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
May 2021
DOI: | 10.1109/ICSE-NIER52604.2021.00013 |
ISBN: | 978-1-6654-0140-1 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2021/2021-ICSE-Kehrer.pdf |
Applications of #SAT Solvers on Feature Models
Proc. Int'l Working Conf. on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS)
Publisher: ACM, New York, NY, USA
February 2021
DOI: | 10.1145/3442391.3442404 |
ISBN: | 9781450388245 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2021/2021-VaMoS-Sundermann.pdf |
2020
Temporal Consistent Motion Parallax for Omnidirectional Stereo Panorama Video
Proc. ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST)
Publisher: ACM, New York, NY, USA
November 2020
DOI: | 10.1145/3385956.3418965 |
File: | https://graphics.tu-bs.de/publications/muhlhausen2020temporal |
On the Use of Product-Line Variants as Experimental Subjects for Clone-and-Own Research: A Case Study
Proc. Int'l Systems and Software Product Line Conf. (SPLC)
Publisher: ACM, New York, NY, USA
October 2020
DOI: | 10.1145/3382025.3414972 |
ISBN: | 9781450375696 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2020/2020-SPLC-Schultheiss.pdf |
Depth Augmented Omnidirectional Stereo for 6-DoF VR Photography
Proc. IEEE Virtual Reality Workshop (VR), Page 660-661
Publisher: IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
May 2020
DOI: | 10.1109/VRW50115.2020.00181 |
ISBN: | 978-1-7281-6532-5 |
File: | https://graphics.tu-bs.de/publications/bertel2020depth |
Semi-Automated Inference of Feature Traceability During Software Development
Master
TU Braunschweig, Germany
February 2020
DOI: | 10.24355/dbbs.084-202002271120-0 |
File: | https://publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbbs_derivate_00047261/Master_Thesis_Paul_Bittner.pdf |
2019
SAT Encodings of the At-Most-k Constraint - A Case Study on Configuring University Courses
Proc. Int'l Conf. on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM), Page 127-144
Publisher: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany
September 2019
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-30446-1_7 |
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2019/2019-SEFM-Bittner.pdf |
Evaluation of Optimised Centres of Rotation Skinning
April 2019
File: | https://graphics.tu-bs.de/publications/bittner2019evaluation |
Gaze and Motion-Aware Real-Time Dome Projection System
Proc. IEEE Virtual Reality Workshop (VR), Page 1780-1783
Publisher: IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
March 2019
DOI: | 10.1109/VR.2019.8797902 |
ISBN: | 978-1-7281-1377-7 |
File: | https://graphics.tu-bs.de/publications/grogorick2019gaze |
Immersive EEG: Evaluating Electroencephalography in Virtual Reality
Proc. IEEE Virtual Reality Workshop (VR), Page 1794-1800
Publisher: IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
March 2019
DOI: | 10.1109/VR.2019.8797858 |
File: | https://graphics.tu-bs.de/publications/tauscher2019immersive |
SAT Encodings of the At-Most-k Constraint - A Case Study on Configuring University Courses (Project Thesis)
Project
TU Braunschweig, Germany
March 2019
File: | https://github.com/SoftVarE-Group/Papers/raw/main/2019/2019-SEFM-Bittner.pdf |
2017
Evaluation of Skinning Techniques for Skeletal Animation in MonSteR
Bachelor
TU Braunschweig, Germany
September 2017
2023
Constructing Variation Diffs Using Tree Diffing Algorithms
Bachelor
University of Ulm, Germany
April 2023
DOI: | 10.18725/OPARU-50108 |
File: | https://oparu.uni-ulm.de/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/50184/BA_Moosherr.pdf |
Inspecting the Evolution of Feature Annotations in Configurable Software
Master
University of Ulm, Germany
January 2023
2022
Reverse Engineering Feature-Aware Commits From Software Product-Line Repositories
Bachelor
University of Ulm, Germany
October 2022
DOI: | 10.18725/OPARU-47892 |
File: | https://oparu.uni-ulm.de/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/47968/Thesis_Bormann.pdf |
Type-Checking Variability in Clone-and-Own Variants With Product-Line Tooling
Master
University of Ulm, Germany
September 2022
2021
Empirical Evaluation of Feature Trace Recording on the Edit History of Marlin
Bachelor
University of Ulm, Germany
April 2021
DOI: | 10.18725/OPARU-38603 |
File: | https://oparu.uni-ulm.de/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/38679/BA_Viegener.pdf |
Treasures I'd like to share
- Cargo Cult Science by Richard Feynman - Some remarks on science, pseudoscience, and learning how to not fool yourself.
- Propositions as Types by Philip Wadler - Awesome talk on how programs are proofs and vice versa, and the relevant historical background.
- Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig - Why is everyone in such a rush [when learning]?
- Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming by Brent Yorgey - What is a function and how do we explain it to a child?
- How to Write a Great Research Paper by Simon Peyton Jones - Writing is Science!
- On Paper Titles (Bad Ideas, Rejected Ideas, and Final Titles) by Christian Kästner - Some inspirational thoughts on how not to title your paper ;)
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The Mess We're In by Joe Armstrong
M.Sc. Paul Maximilian Bittner
Institute of Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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