Florian Gross
PhD Student

About Me

If you're reading this, I'm probably doing an internship with Google's Security Research department in Mountain View, California right now. I plan to be back at some point after mid of November 2014.

I am a researcher at the Software Engineering Chair (of Prof. Zeller) at Saarland University. The central theme of my research is improving software quality, and my recent research concerns the prevention, detection, and removal of defects in software. I develop techniques to automatically generate system tests, achieving high coverage and real failures. At the same time, I strive to develop techniques that are both scalable to large-scale applications from the real-world and practically usable, yet preserve their strong formal foundation.

Also see: My profiles on LinkedIn and Xing for more information about my lively professional vita.

Bachelor/Master Thesis

Are you interested in doing a Bachelor or Master thesis in the area of software testing at the Software Engineering chair?

I'm always looking for new students: Feel free to drop me a mail!

Teaching

• Programming for Engineers (Basic lecture, Summer 2014)
• Software Engineering (Core lecture, Summer 2012)
• Specification Mining Seminar (Seminar, WS 2011/12)

Publications

• Checking App Behavior Against App Descriptions – ICSE 2014
  by Alessandra Gorla, Ilaria Tevecchia, Florian Gross, Andreas Zeller. June 2014.
  More details – Download as PDF file.
• Muster der Softwaretechnik-Lehre – SEUH 2013
  by Valentin Dallmeier, Florian Gross, Clemens Hammacher, Matthias Höschele, Konrad Jamrozik, Kevin Streit, Andreas Zeller. March 2013.
  More details – Download as PDF file.
• Search-Based System Testing: High Coverage, no False Alarms – ISSTA 2012
  by Florian Gross, Gordon Fraser, Andreas Zeller. July 2012.
  More details – Download as PDF file.
• EXSYST: Search-based GUI Testing – ICSE 2012
  by Florian Gross, Gordon Fraser, Andreas Zeller. June 2012.
  More details – Download as PDF file.

Projects

Currently I am working on a joint project with Gordon Fraser and Andreas Zeller on evolutionary testing of desktop applications through system interfaces.

Contact

Feel free to drop me a mail! Or come visit me at my office at Saarland University Campus, E1.1 Room 1.15.

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