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Professor for Secure Software Engineering at Universitรคt Stuttgart ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ’ป๐ŸŽ“ https://benhermann.eu https://sse.cs.tu-dortmund.de

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A illustrated picture of a group of happy people. Around the image is the text: On the spectrum & working in IT. Then participate in our research.

A illustrated picture of a group of happy people. Around the image is the text: On the spectrum & working in IT. Then participate in our research.

On the spectrum and working in IT?
We think that especially in IT, research is still too often done about you rather than with you.
@svenapel.bsky.social @janetsiegmund.bsky.social & Isabella GraรŸl
#Neurodiversity #Autism #ComputerScience

19.02.2026 15:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Three-floor building outside view. Snow, trees, a bench.

Three-floor building outside view. Snow, trees, a bench.

New office as of today. @unistuttgart.bsky.social

02.02.2026 15:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Wie wรคre: nein ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜…

25.12.2025 20:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Release 7.0.0 ยท opalj/opal we are now using Scala 3.7.3 we are now using sbt 1.11.7 various API changes due to new major Scala version fixed typos and minor code style issues introduced custom assertions, Scala 3 no longer s...

Functionality-wise it is the same as OPAL 6. It supports bytecode parsing, abstract interpretation, call-graph construction, and more for JVM (Java, Scala, ...) bytecode from version 1.0 to 25.

Check it out on GitHub (github.com/opalj/opal/r...) or Maven (central.sonatype.com/search?q=opa...)

19.12.2025 12:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Presents in front of a Christmas tree. One with the OPAL logo an a gift label.

Presents in front of a Christmas tree. One with the OPAL logo an a gift label.

Shortly before the holidays the OPAL team prepared a little gift themselves. OPAL 7 has just been released! And it finally provides support for Scala 3 (3.7.3 to be exact). We have been working on that for some time now.

19.12.2025 12:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access

15.12.2025 23:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 190 ๐Ÿ” 29 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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PLDI 2026 - PLDI Research Artifacts - PLDI 2026 Background A paper consists of a constellation of artifacts that extend beyond the document itself: software, proofs, models, test suites, benchmarks, and so on. In some cases, the quality of these ar...

Calling all motivated students and researchers to be part of the PLDI'26 Artifact Evaluation Committee! The first round of self-nominations ends on Dec. 22: pldi26.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2...

01.12.2025 23:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

In the running for Understatement of the Year

28.11.2025 17:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Banquet room with ASE XL on the screen

Banquet room with ASE XL on the screen

Banquet room full of people

Banquet room full of people

Indeed an XL version of an ASE banquet. @aseconf.bsky.social #ase2025

18.11.2025 10:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate this thing called ASE 2025 ;) @aseconf.bsky.social @mboehme.bsky.social @llingming.bsky.social

17.11.2025 03:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ASE โ€™25 has just kicked off! Come join us at Vista Hall!

17.11.2025 00:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
General Chair Shin Yoo opening ASE'25

General Chair Shin Yoo opening ASE'25

General Chair @drsyoo.bsky.social opening @aseconf.bsky.social in Seoul right now. โ˜บ๏ธ

17.11.2025 00:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I LOVE when they change your biography. Always makes my day. ๐Ÿซ 

16.11.2025 11:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Job Alert! Professur (Open Rank: W2 oder W1 mit Tenure Track auf W2) ,,Digitale Transformation in Arbeit und Gesellschaft". Gemeinsame Berufung von @tu-dortmund.de und @cais-research.bsky.social nach Jรผlicher Modell.
Ausschreibung unter:
service.tu-dortmund.de/documents/18...

13.11.2025 08:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You can help us! We invite you to take part in our user survey 2025:
sidonia.dagstuhl.de/survey/index...
which will help us understand how the community is using dblp and guide dblp's future development. 1/2

12.11.2025 16:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ณ๐˜๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€!

We're running a study at TU Delft on ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ณ๐˜๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—น๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ. We would love your insights! (takes 15 minutes)
๐Ÿ‘‰ lnkd.in/dPPF6-Vq

The more voices, the better!

Thank you ๐Ÿ’™

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareTesting

12.11.2025 16:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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DFG Funds Dortmund Project on Verification of Digital Quantum Simulations Interdisciplinary Team from Physics and Computer Science Lays Foundations for Reliable Quantum Simulations

Quantum computing is becoming accessible, but everyday use is still far off. A key challenge is scalable program analysis. Together with Falk Howar and Benedikt Fauseweh, Iโ€™ll work on improving verification for digital quantum simulations. Exciting times ahead!
cs.tu-dortmund.de/en/details/d...

11.11.2025 15:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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MPLR 2026 - ECOOP 2026 The 23rd International Conference on Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR 2026, formerly ManLang, originally PPPJ) is a premier forum for presenting and discussing novel results in all asp...

MPLR'26 will be in Brussels!

The deadline is sooner than usually, March 6th.
Please get your papers ready early!

MPLR is interested in all things VMs, Language Implementation, Compilers, Interpreters, and Tooling!

2026.ecoop.org/home/mplr-20...

They'll colocate again with ECOOP and ICOOOLPS!

07.11.2025 16:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Understanding and improving artifact sharing in software engineering research - Empirical Software Engineering In recent years, many software engineering researchers have begun to include artifacts alongside their research papers. Ideally, artifacts, including tools, benchmarks, and data, support the dissemina...

... and made slides that line up. They filled them out with the other students in three separate discussions. Sometimes old tech beats a collaboration platform when you're in the same room. ๐Ÿ˜„
doi.org/10.1007/s106...

03.11.2025 10:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In my seminar last week, the students discussed "Understanding and improving artifact sharing in
software engineering research" by Timperley, @laurenherckis.bsky.social,
@clegoues.bsky.social, and @michaelhilton.bsky.social. For their presentation they chose the overhead projector ...

03.11.2025 10:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Registration - 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...

The early bird registration for #ASE2025 is still open!

๐Ÿ“… Early deadline: Oct 15, 2025
๐Ÿงพ Regular deadline: Nov 2, 2025

All accepted papers must have at least one regular (non-student) registration for inclusion in the proceedings.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Details: conf.researchr.org/attending/ase-2025/registration

13.10.2025 07:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You are an Early Career Researcher in #cybersec? Here is an opportunity: The AEC chairs of @USENIXSecurity '26 are looking for (self)nominations for the Artifact Evaluation Committee. Deadline: October 17th, 2025, so sign up soon!
@chwress.bsky.social, @kumarde.bsky.social, @aurore-fass.bsky.social

10.10.2025 10:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Release 6.0.0 ยท opalj/opal we are now using sbt 1.9.7 we are now using scalafmt instead of Scalariform introduce auto formatting via sbt format add pre-commit hook to verify (sbt checkFormat) and apply formatting unify co...

The OPAL team just released version 6 of our program analysis framework. As a major release, it features more improvements than can be explained in a post. So just a few teasers: JVM bytecode up to version 25, new solver for IDE problems, def-use webs, string analysis, ...
github.com/opalj/opal/r...

09.10.2025 14:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SPLASH 2026 - OOPSLA - SPLASH 2026 Welcome to the website of the SPLASH 2026 conference. We are working hard to fill the website with all related information. Please check back soon! In the meantime, please consider this overview of th...

OOPSLA 2026 deadline is just a week away! Can you please help us get the word out by sharing? Thanks!
2026.splashcon.org/track/oopsla...

02.10.2025 13:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 18 ๐Ÿ” 23 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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a baby is sitting in a crowd with a woman holding him and screaming yes . ALT: a baby is sitting in a crowd with a woman holding him and screaming yes .

Time for #ACM #SIGSOFT awards nominations: www2.sigsoft.org/awards/sigso...
Intent to Nominate Deadline: Oct 6, 2025
Full Nomination Package Deadline: Oct 20, 2025 #DistinguishedService #OutstandingResearch #InfluentialEducator #OutstandingPhD #EarlyCareer #FrankAngerMemorial #InfluentialPaper

21.09.2025 15:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Meet the #ASE2025 OC: Shin Yoo ๐ŸŽต he/him ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ Prof. at KAIST ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท General Chair ๐Ÿšด music, cycling, camping โ›บ๏ธ seeking to find ways to support software engineers with computational intelligence, especially on testing and debugging, while having fun with my awesome students โค๏ธ

Meet the #ASE2025 OC: Shin Yoo ๐ŸŽต he/him ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ Prof. at KAIST ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท General Chair ๐Ÿšด music, cycling, camping โ›บ๏ธ seeking to find ways to support software engineers with computational intelligence, especially on testing and debugging, while having fun with my awesome students โค๏ธ

Meet Shin Yoo, the General Chair of ASE 2025! ๐Ÿ˜‰

02.09.2025 10:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Help ACM recognize the best in computing!

Weโ€™re calling on you to help us build the 2025 ACM Awards nomination pool. Consider diversity in all its forms and make sure deserving voices are heard.

Nominate or share the call today ๐Ÿ‘‰ www.acm.org/binaries/con...

28.08.2025 17:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Man standing in front of a castle

Man standing in front of a castle

Being an adult in Europe: Looking at new houses on a Saturday. This one was nice, but a bit drafty.

23.08.2025 17:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Excellent! And please do not forget research software. ๐Ÿ˜Š

31.07.2025 16:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fiir Informatik
stellt ein:

Informatiker:in / Expert:in fiir Forschungsdaten (m/w/d)
Voll- oder Teilzeit, TV-L E13

Die international renommierten Forschungsinfrastrukturen von Schloss Dagstuhl โ€” die Open-Access-Publikationsplattform DROPS und der offene Indexierungsdienst DBLP - spielen eine wichtige Rolle beim Aufbau der nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur NFDI fiir die Informatikgemeinschaft. Wir suchen eine hochmotivierte Person fiir unser Publishing-Team.
Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter: www.dagstuhl.de/job

Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fiir Informatik stellt ein: Informatiker:in / Expert:in fiir Forschungsdaten (m/w/d) Voll- oder Teilzeit, TV-L E13 Die international renommierten Forschungsinfrastrukturen von Schloss Dagstuhl โ€” die Open-Access-Publikationsplattform DROPS und der offene Indexierungsdienst DBLP - spielen eine wichtige Rolle beim Aufbau der nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur NFDI fiir die Informatikgemeinschaft. Wir suchen eine hochmotivierte Person fiir unser Publishing-Team. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter: www.dagstuhl.de/job

Interested in working with us? #Dagstuhl is looking for a Computer Scientist/Research Data Expert to join our team.

www.dagstuhl.de/en/institute...

31.07.2025 15:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0