Andreas Zeller

Software Engineering Chair (Prof. Zeller)
Saarland University – Computer Science
Campus E1 3
66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
E-mail: zeller @ cs.uni-saarland.de
Phone: +49 (0) 681 302-64011

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Andreas Zeller is a full professor at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. His broad research area is software engineering, which concerns the construction and evolution of large, complex software systems at reasonable cost and high reliability. His research in this area concerns the analysis of these systems, especially the analysis of why these systems fail to work as they should. In 2009, Zeller got the ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award for his work on delta debugging as the most influential software engineering paper of 1999. His book "Why programs fail" got the 2005 Software Productivity Award as one of the three most productivity-boosting books of the year. Zeller is the appointed program chair of the 2011 European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC/FSE).

Current work

My group and I are currently working on four topics:
  • Mining Software Archives — What can we predict from the history of changes and errors? (A lot.)
  • Automated Debugging — When a program fails, can we automatically determine the cause for the failure? (We can.)
  • Mutation Testing — How can we tell whether a test suite is adequate even for large programs? (We can.)
  • Mining Models — Can we generate abstractions that capture the common properties of multiple programs or runs? (Yes.)
In my book "Why Programs Fail", I have summarized the state of the art in these topics.

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    How to meet me

    • See the top of this page for my address, e-mail, and phone. E-mail me for iChat (AIM) or Skype contacts.
    • If you are at the university, please meet me in my office in Building E1 3, Room 303. Official appointment hour (»Sprechstunde«) is Monday 2-3pm, but my office is normally open for visitors all day long.
    • To meet me elsewhere, check out my travel plans.
    • Here are the directions to my home.

    For students

    • The chair page holds recent resources for projects and courses.
    • Here are some tips on how to give a good research talk.
    • On average, I get 7-10 e-mails per week in which people apply for internships or open positions. We do not offer internships, nor do we have open positions right now; and I do not answer mails that are obviously mass mailings.
    • I used to have a personal LaTeX style for my presentations (short intro). Today, though, I use and recommend Apple's Keynote.
    • Zeller's Clock is a 25-minute countdown inspired by Michael Ernst's Countdown. This can be run by session chairs during a talk on a laptop facing the speaker, so the speaker always knows how much time is remaining. (The name "Zeller's Clock" was not coined by me, but by the participants of a Dagstuhl seminar where it was first used.)
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    ACM profile

    Andreas Zeller <zeller@st.cs.uni-saarland.de> · http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/zeller/ · Updated: 2009-10-28 19:00