Andreas Zeller
Universität des Saarlandes, FR Informatik
Postfach 15 11 50
66041 Saarbrücken
E-mail: zeller
Telefon: +49 (0)
Andreas Zeller is a full professor at Universität des Saarlandes 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.
Current work
My group and I are currently working on three 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.)
- Mining Models — Can we generate abstractions that capture the common properties of multiple programs or runs? (Yes.)
News
- 2007-03-27: The O'Reilly book "Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think" is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com. (I contributed a chapter on "Beautiful Debugging".)
- 2006-06-12: The Saarbrücker Zeitung has an article about my work on predicting bugs (scanned article)
- 2006-03-21: Die Welt has an article about my work on automated debugging (scanned article · welt.de)
- 2006-03-17: My book "Why Programs Fail" has won a Software Development Jolt Productivity Award! This is a great honor, and I am deeply grateful to the judges and organizers for this result.
- 2006-03-14: The Frankfurter Allgemeine covered my work on mining Microsoft's bug databases (scanned article · FAZ.net)
Upcoming events
I am currently co-chairing these upcoming events. Please participate!- Fifth International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA 2007)
- International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2008)
More about me
- My resume has a full record of my projects and publications.
- Here is a picture of me in full resolution (2804x3197 pixels).
How to meet me
- See the top of this page for my address, e-mail, and phone. E-mail me for Skype or iChat (AIM) 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.
- On average, I get 4-5 e-mails each day 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.)
- Here are some general tips on giving research talks (in german).
Andreas Zeller <zeller