Sven Apel

Most-cited papers

Measuring neural efficiency of program comprehension
J. Siegmund, Norman Peitek, Chris Parnin, Sven Apel +5 more
2017ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE165 citations
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Finding Faster Configurations Using FLASH
V. Nair, Zhe Yu, T. Menzies, Norbert Siegmund +1 more
2018IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering152 citations Open access
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Data-efficient performance learning for configurable systems
Jianmei Guo, Dingyu Yang, Norbert Siegmund, Sven Apel +5 more
2018Empirical Software Engineering140 citations Open access
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Distance-Based Sampling of Software Configuration Spaces
Christian Kaltenecker, A. Grebhahn, Norbert Siegmund, Jianmei Guo +1 more
2019International Conference on Software Engineering135 citations
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Program Comprehension and Code Complexity Metrics: An fMRI Study
Norman Peitek, Sven Apel, Chris Parnin, A. Brechmann +1 more
2021International Conference on Software Engineering98 citations
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Tradeoffs in modeling performance of highly configurable software systems
Sergiy S. Kolesnikov, Norbert Siegmund, Christian Kästner, A. Grebhahn +1 more
2018Journal of Software and Systems Modeling83 citations
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A Look into Programmers’ Heads
Norman Peitek, J. Siegmund, Sven Apel, Christian Kästner +5 more
2020IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering82 citations Open access
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Variability-Aware Static Analysis at Scale
Alexander von Rhein, Jörg Liebig, A. Janker, Christian Kästner +1 more
2018ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology71 citations Open access
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A Study of Feature Scattering in the Linux Kernel
L. Passos, Rodrigo Queiroz, M. Mukelabai, T. Berger +3 more
2021IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering64 citations
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Simultaneous measurement of program comprehension with fMRI and eye tracking: a case study
Norman Peitek, J. Siegmund, Chris Parnin, Sven Apel +2 more
2018International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement64 citations Open access
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White-Box Analysis over Machine Learning: Modeling Performance of Configurable Systems
Miguel Velez, Pooyan Jamshidi, Norbert Siegmund, Sven Apel +1 more
2021International Conference on Software Engineering62 citations Open access
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Discipline Matters: Refactoring of Preprocessor Directives in the #ifdef Hell
F. Medeiros, M. Ribeiro, Rohit Gheyi, Sven Apel +4 more
2018IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering62 citations
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The Interplay of Sampling and Machine Learning for Software Performance Prediction
Christian Kaltenecker, A. Grebhahn, Norbert Siegmund, Sven Apel
2020IEEE Software59 citations
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What Drives the Reading Order of Programmers? An Eye Tracking Study
Norman Peitek, J. Siegmund, Sven Apel
2020IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension52 citations
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Indicators for merge conflicts in the wild: survey and empirical study
Olaf Leßenich, J. Siegmund, Sven Apel, Christian Kästner +1 more
2018International Conference on Automated Software Engineering49 citations
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Analysing the Impact of Workloads on Modeling the Performance of Configurable Software Systems
Stefan Mühlbauer, Florian Sattler, Christian Kaltenecker, Johannes Dorn +2 more
2023International Conference on Software Engineering47 citations
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ConfigCrusher: towards white-box performance analysis for configurable systems
Miguel Velez, Pooyan Jamshidi, Florian Sattler, Norbert Siegmund +2 more
2019International Conference on Automated Software Engineering45 citations Open access
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The Impact of Structure on Software Merging: Semistructured Versus Structured Merge
Guilherme Cavalcanti, Paulo Borba, Georg Seibt, Sven Apel
2019International Conference on Automated Software Engineering42 citations
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Correlates of programmer efficacy and their link to experience: a combined EEG and eye-tracking study
Norman Peitek, Annabelle Bergum, Maurice Rekrut, Jonas Mucke +4 more
2022ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE41 citations Open access
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When life gives you oranges: detecting and diagnosing intermittent job failures at Mozilla
J. Lampel, Sascha Just, Sven Apel, A. Zeller
2021ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE40 citations Open access
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How can manual testing processes be optimized? developer survey, optimization guidelines, and case studies
Roman Haas, Daniel Elsner, E. Juergens, A. Pretschner +1 more
2021ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE40 citations Open access
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Causality in Configurable Software Systems
Clemens Dubslaff, Kallistos Weis, C. Baier, Sven Apel
2022International Conference on Software Engineering36 citations Open access
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An investigation of misunderstanding code patterns in C open-source software projects
F. Medeiros, G. Lima, Guilherme Amaral, Sven Apel +3 more
2018Empirical Software Engineering36 citations
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White-Box Performance-Influence Models: A Profiling and Learning Approach
Max Weber, Sven Apel, Norbert Siegmund
2021International Conference on Software Engineering34 citations Open access
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Mastering uncertainty in performance estimations of configurable software systems
Johannes Dorn, Sven Apel, Norbert Siegmund
2020International Conference on Automated Software Engineering34 citations Open access
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Indentation: Simply a Matter of Style or Support for Program Comprehension?
Jennifer Bauer, J. Siegmund, Norman Peitek, Johannes C. Hofmeister +1 more
2019IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension34 citations
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Twins or False Friends? A Study on Energy Consumption and Performance of Configurable Software
Max Weber, Christian Kaltenecker, Florian Sattler, Sven Apel +1 more
2023International Conference on Software Engineering31 citations
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ExaStencils – Advanced Multigrid Solver Generation
C. Lengauer, Sven Apel, M. Bolten, S. Chiba +14 more
201931 citations
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Identifying Software Performance Changes Across Variants and Versions
Stefan Mühlbauer, Sven Apel, Norbert Siegmund
2020International Conference on Automated Software Engineering30 citations
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In Search of Socio-Technical Congruence: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study
Wolfgang Mauerer, M. Joblin, D. Tamburri, Carlos V. Paradis +2 more
2021IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering28 citations Open access
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On the Relation of External and Internal Feature Interactions: A Case Study
Sergiy S. Kolesnikov, Norbert Siegmund, Christian Kästner, Sven Apel
2017arXiv.org28 citations
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How Do Successful and Failed Projects Differ? A Socio-Technical Analysis
M. Joblin, Sven Apel
2022ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology27 citations
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Renaming and shifted code in structured merging: Looking ahead for precision and performance
Olaf Leßenich, Sven Apel, Christian Kästner, Georg Seibt +1 more
2017International Conference on Automated Software Engineering27 citations
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On Debugging the Performance of Configurable Software Systems: Developer Needs and Tailored Tool Support
Miguel Velez, Pooyan Jamshidi, Norbert Siegmund, Sven Apel +1 more
2022International Conference on Software Engineering26 citations Open access
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Challenges of Resolving Merge Conflicts: A Mining and Survey Study
Gustavo Vale, Claus Hunsen, Eduardo Figueiredo, Sven Apel
2022IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering26 citations Open access
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Automatic Core-Developer Identification on GitHub: A Validation Study
Thomas Bock, Nils Alznauer, M. Joblin, Sven Apel
2023ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology25 citations Open access
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Is Static Analysis Able to Identify Unnecessary Source Code?
Roman Haas, Rainer Niedermayr, Tobias Roehm, Sven Apel
2020ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology24 citations
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Thinking aloud about confusing code: a qualitative investigation of program comprehension and atoms of confusion
Dan Gopstein, Anne-Laure Fayard, Sven Apel, Justin Cappos
2020ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE23 citations
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On the relation between Github communication activity and merge conflicts
Gustavo Vale, Angelika Schmid, A. Santos, E. D. de Almeida +1 more
2019Empirical Software Engineering22 citations
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Toward conjoint analysis of simultaneous eye-tracking and fMRI data for program-comprehension studies
Norman Peitek, J. Siegmund, Chris Parnin, Sven Apel +1 more
2018EMIP@ETRA22 citations
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Leveraging Structure in Software Merge: An Empirical Study
Georg Seibt, Florian Heck, Guilherme Cavalcanti, Paulo Borba +1 more
2022IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering21 citations
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Several lifted abstract domains for static analysis of numerical program families
Aleksandar S. Dimovski, Sven Apel, Axel Legay
2022Science of Computer Programming20 citations Open access
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Accurate Modeling of Performance Histories for Evolving Software Systems
Stefan Mühlbauer, Sven Apel, Norbert Siegmund
2019International Conference on Automated Software Engineering20 citations
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Feature-Family-Based Reliability Analysis of Software Product Lines
A. Lanna, Thiago M. Castro, V. Alves, G. Rodrigues +2 more
2018Information and Software Technology20 citations
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Program Sketching Using Lifted Analysis for Numerical Program Families
Aleksandar S. Dimovski, Sven Apel, Axel Legay
2021NASA Formal Methods19 citations Open access
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Lifted Static Analysis of Dynamic Program Families by Abstract Interpretation (Artifact)
Aleksandar S. Dimovski, Sven Apel
2021Dagstuhl Artifacts Ser.18 citations
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Studying programming in the neuroage
J. Siegmund, Norman Peitek, A. Brechmann, Chris Parnin +1 more
2020Communications of the ACM16 citations
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Predicting Performance of Software Configurations: There is no Silver Bullet
A. Grebhahn, Norbert Siegmund, Sven Apel
2019arXiv.org16 citations
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Hierarchical and Hybrid Organizational Structures in Open-source Software Projects: A Longitudinal Study
M. Joblin, Barbara Eckl, Thomas Bock, Angelika Schmid +2 more
2022ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology15 citations Open access
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Measuring and Modeling Group Dynamics in Open-Source Software Development: A Tensor Decomposition Approach
Thomas Bock, Angelika Schmid, Sven Apel
2021ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology15 citations
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