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Motivations and Barriers to Communicating Software Engineering Research: Insights from Early Career Researchers
Shalini Chakraborty, Marvin Wyrich, Sven Apel +1
Science communication is increasingly becoming a part of modern research careers, involving researchers to disseminate knowledge, engage broader communities, and increase the socie…
Predicting Program Comprehension with Foundation Models of Human Cognition
Yannick Lehmen, Marvin Wyrich, Anna-Maria Maurer +2
Software engineering depends on the ability of developers to understand code, yet predicting how they do so remains an open challenge despite decades of research. Existing approach…
A Mechanistic Lens on Semantic Conflicts: Using Activation Patching to Understand LLM Behavior
Youssef Abdelsalam, Norman Peitek, Anna-Maria Maurer +2
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in software-engineering tasks processing executable code and non-executable semantic cues such as comments or identifiers. These…
Software Engineering Podcasts: An Empirical Study of Their Potential as a Research Resource
Marvin Wyrich, Marcos Kalinowski, Adolfo Neto +1
Podcasts have become an increasingly popular medium for knowledge sharing within the software engineering (SE) community, offering insights into industry developments and the persp…
Harnessing Hype to Teach Empirical Thinking: An Experience With AI Coding Assistants
Marvin Wyrich, Norman Peitek, Kallistos Weis +1
Software engineering students often struggle to appreciate empirical methods and hypothesis-driven inquiry, especially when taught in theoretical terms. This experience report expl…
From Developer Pairs to AI Copilots: A Comparative Study on Knowledge Transfer
Alisa Welter, Niklas Schneider, Tobias Dick +4
Knowledge transfer is fundamental to human collaboration and is therefore common in software engineering. Pair programming is a prominent instance. With the rise of AI coding assis…
The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience
Marvin Wyrich, Christof Tinnes, Sebastian Baltes +1
If software research were a performance, it would be a thoughtful theater play -- full of rich content but confined to the traditional stage of academic publishing. Meanwhile, its…
Evidence Tetris in the Pixelated World of Validity Threats
Marvin Wyrich, Sven Apel
Valid empirical studies build confidence in scientific findings. Fortunately, it is now common for software engineering researchers to consider threats to validity when designing t…