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Papers accepted @ ENASE 2026
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Paper accepted @ IDE 2026
27 November 2025
Doctoral Defense of Nils Wild
4 November 2025
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Recent publications
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Ada Slupczynski,
Leila Mangonaux,
Ilija Kovacevic,
Michal Slupczynski,
Stefan Decker,
Horst Lichter (2026)
Collaborative Code Modernization with Local LLM Deployment and Evidence-Based Prompt Guidelines. In 21th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2026) (to be published), Benidorm, Spain, May 22-24, SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda.
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Nils Wild (2026)
Interaction-based Integration Testing of Component-based Software Systems. PhD thesis, Shaker Verlag, Düren, Aachener Informatik-Berichte, Software Engineering, No. 64, ISBN 978-3-8191-0533-3, RWTH Aachen University.
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Selin Coban,
Miguel Perez,
Horst Lichter (2026)
Proto-ML: An IDE for ML Solution Prototyping (to be published). In 2025 IEEE/ACM Third IDE Workshop (IDE), May, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA. PDF
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Selin Coban,
Miguel Perez,
Çağatay Akpınar,
Baran Tanriverdi,
Horst Lichter (2026)
An LLM-based Approach for Automatic ML Prototype Review (to be published). In 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering - Companion (SANER-C), Limassol, Cyprus, March.
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Alex Mattukat,
Florian Braun,
Horst Lichter (2026)
Can ChatGPT Generate Realistic Synthetic System Requirement Specifications? Results of a Case Study. In 21th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2026) (to be published), Benidorm, Spain, May 22-24, SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda.