Publications (71)
A Multifaceted View on Discrimination in Software Development Careers
Shalini Chakraborty, Sebastian Baltes
Conversations around diversity and inclusion in software engineering often focus on gender and racial disparities. However, the State of Devs 2025 survey with 8,717 participants re…
GitHub Discussions: An Exploratory Study of Early Adoption
Hideaki Hata, Nicole Novielli, Sebastian Baltes +2
Discussions is a new feature of GitHub for asking questions or discussing topics outside of specific Issues or Pull Requests. Before being available to all projects in December 202…
Round-Trip Sketches: Supporting the Lifecycle of Software Development Sketches from Analog to Digital and Back
Sebastian Baltes, Fabrice Hollerich, Stephan Diehl
Sketching is an important activity for understanding, designing, and communicating different aspects of software systems such as their requirements or architecture. Often, sketches…
Can We Classify Flaky Tests Using Only Test Code? An LLM-Based Empirical Study
Alexander Berndt, Vekil Bekmyradov, Rainer Gemulla +3
Flaky tests yield inconsistent results when they are repeatedly executed on the same code revision. They interfere with automated quality assurance of code changes and hinder effic…
How Does Cognitive Capability and Personality Influence Problem Solving in Coding Interview Puzzles?
Dulaji Hidellaarachchi, Sebastian Baltes, John Grundy
Software engineering involves cognitively demanding activities impacted by individual differences. We investigate how cognitive capability and personality traits are associated wit…
Ethics of Care for Software Engineering
Alexander Serebrenik, Sebastian Baltes
Software engineering researchers repeatedly argue that the impact of their research on industrial practice, while desired and intended, is rarely achieved. We believe that a possib…