M.Sc. Jacob Krüger
Fakultät für Informatik
Institut für Technische und Betriebliche Informationssysteme
Institut für Technische und Betriebliche Informationssysteme
Gebäude 29,
39106 Magdeburg,
G29-001
CV
- Since 05/2018 Research associate at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
- Since 09/2019 EXPLANT (EXtracting Product Lines from vAriaNTs)t, funded by the German Research Council
- 01/2020-03/2020 Visiting researcher at University of Toronto, Canada (continued for 3 months from Germany, due to COVID pandemic)
- 10/2017-09/2018 Visiting researcher at Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- 03/2016-04/2018 Research associate at Harz University of Applied Sciences Wernigerode
- EXPLANT (EXtracting Product Lines from vAriaNTs), funded by the German Research Council
- 2014-2016 M.Sc. Business Informatics, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
- 2014-2016 Research assistant at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg and METOP GmbH
- 2010-2014 B.Sc. Business Informatics, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Links to some of my profiles:
Teaching
- Software-Product-Line Engineering, OvGU, 2018/19 (tutorials)
- Seminar on Modern Software Engineering and Databse Concepts, OvGU 2018/19; 2019
- Softwareprojekt: Variables Softwaremanagmenet, OvGU 2018
- Scientific Team Project: Modern Database Technologies, OvGU 2018
- Student Conference, OvGU 2018; 2019
- Software-Product-Line Engineering, Chalmers 2017/18 (tutorials)
- Object-Oriented Software Engineering, HS Harz 2016; 2017
- Application Systems, HS Harz 2016/17 (tutorials)
- Scientific Projectmanagement, HS Harz 2016/17
Services, Memberships, ...
- Organization
- SPLC'20 (Co-Chair Tools Track); VaMoS'20 (Web-Chair); VariVolution'20 (Co-Organizer), '19 (Co-Organizer); DBSE Workshop 2017 (Co-Organizer)
- PC Member/Reviewer
- SPLC'20 '19 '18 Artifacts Evaluation; SPLC'19 '18 Challenge Solutions
- Engineering Reports (2020), Empirical Software Engineering (2019)
- Sub Reviewer for PC Members/Reviewers
- ESEC/FSE'20, ICSE'20, VaMoS'20, SE'20, SPLC'19, ICSOFT'19, SOFSEM'19, ASE'18, MODELS'18, SPLC'17 Tool Track
- Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (2019), Transactions on Software Engineering (2018), Journal of Systems and Software (2018, 2017), IEEE Software (2018), Acta Informatica (2017), Scientific Programming (2017)
- Memberships
- ACM (SIGSOFT, SIGAPP)
- GI
- Participated in Dagstuhl Seminar 19191
Awards, Grants, and Scholarships
- European Union
- Erasmus Traineeship Grant: Sweden 2018
- German Academic Exchange Service
- IFI-Scholarship for research visits: Canada 2020
- Scholarship for research visits: Sweden 2018
- Scholarship for conference traveling: SPLC 2017
- ACM
- SIGSOFT - SIGBED Frank Anger Memorial Award 2019
- 3rd place SRC Graduate Category at ESEC/FSE 2019
- SIGSOFT CAPS Award: ESEC/FSE 2019
- SRC Travel Awards: ESEC/FSE 2019; ICSE 2018; SAC 2018
- SIGAPP STAP Grant: SAC 2018
- Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
- Best Presentation Award at the summer term Doctoral Days 2019
- Best Graduate of the Master Degree Course Business Informatics 2016
- Harz University of Applied Sciences
- Wernigeröder Reserach Award 2017
- Pure::Systems
- Go SPLC 2019 Challenge project grant
Aktuelle Projekte
- EXtracting Product Lines from vAriaNTs (EXPLANT II)
Laufzeit: 01.09.2019 - 31.08.2021 - Recommending Cloned Features for Adopting Systematic Software Reuse
Laufzeit: 01.05.2018 - 30.04.2021
Abgeschlossene Projekte
- EXtracting Product Lines from vAriaNTs (EXPLANT)
Laufzeit: 16.02.2016 - 15.02.2018
- Jacob Krüger and Thorsten Berger.
An Empirical Analysis of the Costs of Clone- and Platform-Oriented Software
Reuse.
In Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the
Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE. ACM, November 2020.
Accepted.
- Wesley K.G. Assuncão, Jacob
Krüger, and Willian D.F. Mendonca.
Variability Management meets Microservices: Six
Challenges of Re-Engineering Microservice-Based Webshops.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC. ACM, October 2020.
Accepted.
- Jacob Krüger, Sofia Ananieva, Lea
Gerling, and Eric Walkingshaw.
Third International Workshop on Variability and Evolution of Software-Intensive
Systems (VariVolution 2020).
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC. ACM, October 2020.
Accepted.
- Robert Heumüller, Sebastian
Nielebock, Jacob Krüger, and Frank Ortmeier.
Publish or Perish, but do not Forget your Software
Artifacts.
Empirical Software Engineering, June 2020.
Accepted.
- Sebastian Nielebock, Robert
Heumüller, Jacob Krüger, and Frank Ortmeier.
Cooperative API Misuse Detection Using Correction
Rules.
In International Conference on Software Engineering - New Ideas and
Emerging Results Track, ICSE-NIER. ACM, May 2020.
Accepted.
- Sebastian Nielebock, Robert
Heumüller, Jacob Krüger, and Frank Ortmeier.
Using API-Embedding for API-Misuse Repair.
In International Workshop on Automated Program Repair, APR. ACM,
May 2020.
Accepted.
- Jacob Krüger, Sebastian Nielebock,
and Robert Heumüller.
How Can I Contribute? A Qualitative Analysis of Community
Websites of 25 Unix-Like Distributions.
In International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software
Engineering, EASE, pages 324–329. ACM, April
2020.
- Jacob Krüger, Gül Calıklı,
Thorsten Berger, Thomas Leich, and Gunter Saake.
Effects of Explicit Feature Traceability on Program
Comprehension.
In Software Engineering, SE, pages 79–80. GI, February
2020.
- Damir Nešić, Jacob Krüger, Stefan
Stănciulescu, and Thorsten Berger.
Principles of Feature Modeling.
In Software Engineering, SE, pages 77–78. GI, February
2020.
- Andy Kenner, Stephan Dassow, Christian
Lausberger, Jacob Krüger, and Thomas Leich.
Using Variability Modeling to Support Security
Evaluations: Virtualizing the Right Attack Scenarios.
In International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of
Software-Intensive Systems, VaMoS, pages 10:1–9. ACM, February
2020.
- Kai Ludwig, Jacob Krüger, and
Thomas Leich.
FeatureCoPP: Unfolding Preprocessor Variability.
In International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of
Software-Intensive Systems, VaMoS, pages 24:1–9. ACM, February
2020.
- Jacob Krüger and Thorsten Berger.
Activities and Costs of Re-Engineering Cloned
Variants into an Integrated Platform.
In International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of
Software-Intensive Systems, VaMoS, pages 21:1–10. ACM, February
2020.
- Jacob Krüger, Sebastian Krieter,
Thomas Leich, and Gunter Saake.
EXtracting Product Lines from vAriaNTs
(EXPLANT).
In International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of
Software-Intensive Systems, VaMoS, pages 13:1–2. ACM, February
2020.
- Jacob Krüger, Christian Lausberger,
Ivonne von Nostitz-Wallwitz, Gunter Saake, and Thomas Leich.
Search. Review. Repeat? An
Empirical Study of Threats to Replicating SLR Searches.
Empirical Software Engineering, 25(1):627–677, January 2020.
(PDF)
- Yusra Shakeel, Jacob Krüger, Ivonne
von Nostitz-Wallwitz, Gunter Saake, and Thomas Leich.
Automated Selection and Quality
Assessment of Primary Studies: A Systematic Literature Review.
Journal of Information and Data Quality, 12(1):4:1–4:26, January
2020.
(PDF)
- Jacob Krüger, Jens Wiemann, Wolfram
Fenske, Gunter Saake, and Thomas Leich.
Program Comprehension and Developers’ Memory.
In INFORMATIK 2019: 50 Jahre Gesellschaft für Informatik,
INFORMATIK LNI, pages 99–100. GI, November 2019.
- Daniel Strüber, Mukelabai
Mukelabai, Jacob Krüger, Stefan Fischer, Lukas Linsbauer, Jabier
Martinez, and Thorsten Berger.
Facing the Truth: Benchmarking the Techniques
for the Evolution of Variant-Rich Systems.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 177–188. ACM, September 2019.
- Elias Kuiter, Sebastian Krieter, Jacob
Krüger, Thomas Leich, and Gunter Saake.
Foundations of Collaborative,
Real-Time Feature Modeling.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 257–264. ACM, September 2019.
- Kai Ludwig, Jacob Krüger, and
Thomas Leich.
Covert and Phantom Features in
Annotations: Do They Impact Variability Analysis?.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 218–230. ACM, September 2019.
- Jonas Åkesson, Sebastian Nilsson,
Jacob Krüger, and Thorsten Berger.
Migrating the Android Apo-Games
into an Annotation-Based Software Product Line.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 103–107. ACM, September 2019.
- Jamel Debbiche, Oskar Lignell, Jacob
Krüger, and Thorsten Berger.
Migrating Java-Based Apo-Games into a
Composition-Based Software Product Line.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 98–102. ACM, September 2019.
- Michael Nieke, Lukas Linsbauer, Jacob
Krüger, and Thomas Leich.
Second International Workshop on Variability and
Evolution of Software-Intensive Systems (VariVolution 2019).
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 320–320. ACM, September 2019.
- Jacob Krüger, Mustafa Al-Hajjaji,
Thomas Leich, and Gunter Saake.
Mutation Operators for Feature-Oriented
Software Product Lines.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 12–12. ACM, September 2019.
- Jacob Krüger, Gül
Calıklı, Thorsten Berger, Thomas Leich, and Gunter Saake.
Effects of Explicit Feature
Traceability on Program Comprehension.
In Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the
Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE, pages 338–349. ACM,
August 2019.
- Damir Nešić, Jacob Krüger, Stefan
Stănciulescu, and Thorsten Berger.
Principles of Feature Modeling.
In Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the
Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE, pages 62–73. ACM,
August 2019.
- Jacob Krüger.
Tackling Knowledge Needs during
Software Evolution.
In Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the
Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE, pages 1244–1246. ACM,
August 2019.
- Sebastian Nielebock, Dariusz
Krolikowski, Jacob Krüger, Thomas Leich, and Frank Ortmeier.
Commenting Source Code: Is It Worth It For Small Programming Tasks?.
Empirical Software Engineering, 24(3):1418–1457, June 2019.
(PDF)
- Jacob Krüger, Mukelabai Mukelabai,
Wanzi Gu, Hui Shen, Regina Hebig, and Thorsten Berger.
Where is my Feature and What is it About? A Case Study on Recovering
Feature Facets.
Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 152, pages 239–253, June
2019.
(PDF)
- Jacob Krüger, Mustafa Al-Hajjaji,
Thomas Leich, and Gunter Saake.
Mutation
Operators for Feature-Oriented Software Product Lines.
Software: Testing, Verification and Reliability, 29(1-2):1–21,
February 2019.
(PDF)
- Jacob Krüger, Jens Wiemann, Wolfram
Fenske, Gunter Saake, and Thomas Leich.
Understanding How Programmers Forget.
In Software Engineering and Software Management, SE/SWM LNI, pages
85–86. GI, February 2019.
- Jacob Krüger.
Are You Talking about Software Product Lines? An Analysis of
Developer Communities.
In International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive
Systems, VaMoS, pages 11:1–11:9. ACM, February
2019.
- Jacob Krüger, Thorsten Berger, and
Thomas Leich.
Software Engineering for Variability Intensive
Systems, chapter Features and How to Find Them: A Survey of Manual
Feature Location, pages 153–172.
CRC Press, January 2019.
(PDF)
- Jacob Krüger, Wolfram Fenske,
Thomas Thüm, Dirk Aporius, Gunter Saake, and Thomas Leich.
Apo-Games - A Case Study for Reverse Engineering Variability from
Cloned Java Variants.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 251–256. ACM, September 2018.
- Jacob Krüger, Mustafa Al-Hajjaji,
Sandro Schulze, Gunter Saake, and Thomas Leich.
Towards Automated Test Refactoring for
Software Product Lines.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 143–148. ACM, September 2018.
- Elias Kuiter, Jacob Krüger,
Sebastian Krieter, Thomas Leich, and Gunter Saake.
Getting Rid of Clone-And-Own: Moving To A Software Product
Line for Temperature Monitoring.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 179–189. ACM, September 2018.
- Elias Kuiter, Sebastian Krieter, Jacob
Krüger, Kai Ludwig, Thomas Leich, and Gunter Saake.
PCLocator: A Tool Suite to Automatically Identify
Configurations for Code Locations.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 284–288. ACM, September 2018.
- Yusra Shakeel, Jacob Krüger, Gunter
Saake, and Thomas Leich.
Indicating Studies’ Quality based on
Open Data in Digital Libraries.
In Business Information Systems Workshops, volume 339 of
LNPIB BIS, pages 579–590. Springer, July
2018.
- Jacob Krüger, Jens Wiemann, Wolfram
Fenske, Gunter Saake, and Thomas Leich.
Do You Remember This Source Code?.
In International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE, pages
764–775. ACM, May 2018.
- Sebastian Krieter, Jacob Krüger,
Nico Weichbrodt, Vasily A. Sartakov, Rüdiger Kapitza, and Thomas Leich.
Towards Secure Dynamic Product Lines in the Cloud.
In International Conference on Software Engineering - New Ideas and
Emerging Results Track, ICSE-NIER, pages 5–8. ACM, May
2018.
- Mukelabai Mukelabai, Benjamin
Behringer, Moritz Fey, Jochen Palz, Jacob Krüger, and Thorsten Berger.
Multi-View Editing of Software Product Lines with PEoPL.
In International Conference on Software Engineering Companion,
ICSE-C, pages 81–84. ACM, May 2018.
- Jacob Krüger.
When to Extract Features: Towards a Recommender System.
In International Conference on Software Engineering Companion,
ICSE-C, pages 518–520. ACM, May 2018.
- Ivonne von Nostitz-Wallwitz, Jacob
Krüger, Janet Siegmund, and Thomas Leich.
Knowledge Transfer from Research to Industry: A Survey on
Program Comprehension.
In International Conference on Software Engineering Companion,
ICSE-C, pages 300–301. ACM, May 2018.
- Yusra Shakeel, Jacob Krüger, Ivonne
von Nostitz-Wallwitz, Christian Lausberger, Gabriel Campero Durand, Gunter
Saake, and Thomas Leich.
(Automated) Literature Analysis - Threats and
Experiences.
In International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science,
SE4Science, pages 20–27. ACM, May 2018.
- Ivonne von Nostitz-Wallwitz, Jacob
Krüger, and Thomas Leich.
Towards Improving Industrial Adoption: The Choice
of Programming Languages and Development Environments.
In International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial
Practice, SER&IP, pages 10–17. ACM, May
2018.
- Jacob Krüger.
Separation of Concerns: Experiences of the Crowd.
In Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC, pages 2076–2077. ACM,
April 2018.
- Jacob Krüger, Kai Ludwig, Bernhard
Zimmermann, and Thomas Leich.
Physical Separation of Features: A Survey with CPP Developers.
In Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC, pages 2042–2049. ACM,
April 2018.
- Jacob Krüger, Marcus Pinnecke, Andy
Kenner, Christopher Kruczek, Fabian Benduhn, Thomas Leich, and Gunter Saake.
Composing Annotations Without Regret? Practical Experiences Using FeatureC.
Software: Practice and Experience, 48(3):402–427, March 2018.
(PDF)
- Gabriel Campero Durand, Anusha
Janardhana, Marcus Pinnecke, Yusra Shakeel, Jacob Krüger, Thomas Leich,
and Gunter Saake.
Exploring Large Scholarly Networks with Hermes.
In International Conference on Extending Database Technology,
EDBT, pages 650–653. OpenProceedings, March 2018.
- Jacob Krüger, Wanzi Gu, Hui Shen,
Mukelabai Mukelabai, Regina Hebig, and Thorsten Berger.
Towards a Better Understanding of Software Features and Their
Characteristics: A Case Study of Marlin.
In International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive
Systems, VaMoS, pages 105–112. ACM, February
2018.
- Sebastian Krieter, Jacob Krüger,
and Thomas Leich.
Don’t Worry About It: Managing Variability On-the-Fly.
In International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive
Systems, VaMoS, pages 19–26. ACM, February
2018.
- Jacob Krüger, Sebastian Nielebock,
Sebastian Krieter, Christian Diedrich, Thomas Leich, Gunter Saake, Sebastian
Zug, and Frank Ortmeier.
Beyond Software Product Lines: Variability Modeling in
Cyber-Physical Systems.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 237–241. ACM, September 2017.
- Sebastian Krieter, Marcus Pinnecke,
Jacob Krüger, Joshua Sprey, Christopher Sontag, Thomas Thüm, Thomas
Leich, and Gunter Saake.
FeatureIDE: Empowering Third-Party Developers.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 42–45. ACM, September 2017.
- Jacob Krüger, Louis Nell, Wolfram
Fenske, Gunter Saake, and Thomas Leich.
Finding Lost Features in Cloned Systems.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 65–72. ACM, September 2017.
- Jacob Krüger.
Lost in Source Code: Physically Separating Features in Legacy
Systems.
In International Conference on Software Engineering Companion,
ICSE-C, pages 461–462. IEEE, May 2017.
- Jacob Krüger, Stephan Dassow,
Karl-Albert Bebber, and Thomas Leich.
Daedalus or Icarus? Experiences on Follow-The-Sun.
In International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE,
pages 31–35. IEEE, May 2017.
- Jacob Krüger, Ivonne Schröter,
Andy Kenner, and Thomas Leich.
Empirical Studies in Question-Answering Systems: A Discussion.
In International Workshop on Conducting Empirical Studies in
Industry, CESI, pages 23–26. IEEE, May 2017.
- Mustafa Al-Hajjaji, Jacob Krüger,
Fabian Benduhn, Thomas Leich, and Gunter Saake.
Efficient Mutation Testing in Configurable Systems.
In International Workshop on Variability and Complexity in Software
Design, VACE, pages 2–8. IEEE, May 2017.
- Mustafa Al-Hajjaji, Jacob Krüger,
Sandro Schulze, Thomas Leich, and Gunter Saake.
Efficient Product-Line Testing using Clustering-Based Product
Prioritization.
In International Workshop on Automation of Software Test, AST,
pages 16–22. IEEE, May 2017.
- Jacob Krüger, Niklas Corr, Ivonne
Schröter, and Thomas Leich.
Digging into the Eclipse Marketplace.
In Federico Balaguer, Roberto Di Cosmo, Alejandra Garrido, Fabio Kon, Gregorio
Robles, and Stefano Zacchiroli, editors, International Conference on
Open Source Systems: Towards Robust Practices, pages 60–65. Springer,
May 2017.
- Ivonne Schröter, Jacob Krüger,
Janet Siegmund, and Thomas Leich.
Comprehending Studies on Program Comprehension.
In International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC, pages
308–311. IEEE, May 2017.
- Ivonne Schröter, Jacob Krüger,
Philipp Ludwig, Marcus Thiel, Andreas Nürnberger, and Thomas Leich.
Identifying Innovative Documents: Quo vadis?.
In Slimane Hammoudi, Michal Smialek, Olivier Camp, and Joaquim Filipe, editors,
International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems,
ICEIS, pages 653–658. ScitePress, April 2017.
- Jacob Krüger, Ivonne Schröter,
Andy Kenner, Christopher Kruczek, and Thomas Leich.
FeatureCoPP: Compositional Annotations.
In International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software
Development, FOSD, pages 74–84. ACM, October
2016.
- Jacob Krüger, Wolfram Fenske, Jens
Meinicke, Thomas Leich, and Gunter Saake.
Extracting Software Product Lines: A Cost Estimation
Perspective.
In International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
SPLC, pages 354–361. ACM, September 2016.
- Jacob Krüger.
A Cost Estimation Model for the Extractive Software-Product-Line
Approach.
Master thesis, University of Magdeburg, Germany, February
2016.
Betreute Arbeiten
- Fabian Rodriguez.
Deep Reinforcement Learning from Demonstrations for Automatic Database Index
Selection.
Master's thesis, University of Magdeburg, April 2020.
- Alex Mikulinski.
Erzeugen von On-Demand Dokumentation zur Unterstützung des Mergens von
Softwareforks.
Master's thesis, University of Magdeburg, September
2019.
- Kandhasamy Arun Kumar.
Efficient Mutation Testing of Software Product Lines.
Master's thesis, University of Magdeburg, March 2019.
- Elias Kuiter.
Consistency Maintenance for Collaborative Real-Time
Feature Modeling.
Bachelor thesis, University of Magdeburg, 2019.
- Louis Nell.
Finding Lost Features in Cloned Systems.
Bachelor's thesis, Harz Unviersity of Applied Sciences, February
2018.
- Kai
Ludwig.
Physische Separation annotierter Features: Ein Ausweg aus der #ifdef-Hölle?
Master's thesis, Harz University of Applied Sciences, January
2018.
- Shravya
Rama.
Suggesting Suitable Learning Approaches To Improve Programming Skills.
Master's thesis, University of Magdeburg, October 2017.
- Yusra
Shakeel.
Supporting Quality Assessment in Systematic Literature Reviews.
Master's thesis, University of Magdeburg, October 2017.
- Daniel Püsche.
Featurebaum-basierte Produktkonfiguration.
Bachelor's thesis, University of Magdeburg, May 2017.
- Jens Wiemann.
Measuring Code Familiarity in Forked Product Variants.
Master's thesis, University of Magdeburg, April 2017.
- Niklas Corr.
Eclipse IDE à la carte - eine empirische Analyse des Eclipse Marketplace.
Bachelor's thesis, Harz Unviersity of Applied Sciences, March
2017.
- Christian Lausberger.
Konzeption von Suchprozessen und Suchstrategien für
systematische Literatur Reviews.
Master's thesis, University of Magdeburg, January 2017.
- Feature-oriented software evolution
- Empirical software engineering
- Costs and human factors
- Literature analysis