Theses
If you are interested in writing your bachelor or master thesis in our group, please carefully read our thesis guidelines. You can get the password to the list of topics by contacting our team assistant, Ms. Sokoll.
Here is a list of past thesis projects in our group:
- Trunk-Based Development in Open Source Software Projects: A Data Driven Approach
(Levi Böhme, Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2025) - Test Flakiness in Open-Source Database Systems: A Study of PostgreSQL
(Valerian Allingham, Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2025) - Einsatz von Spot-Instanzen in CI/CD-Pipelines: Eine multivokale Literaturanalyse und praxisnahe Umsetzung mit AWS und GitHub
(Joshua Friedrich, Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2025) - Exploring Returnship Programs: Combining Academic Insights with Real-World Experiences in the IT Sector
(Andreea Maican, Master’s Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, 2025) - Process Mining in Software Engineering
(Andrei Arkhipov, Master’s Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2025) - Integration und Evaluation von LLM-basierten Agentensystemen in den frühen Phasen des Software Development Life Cycles
(Philipp Göhl, Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2025) - Perceptions of Age and Career Longevity Among Younger Software Developers in Reddit Communities
(Kilian van Rooijen, Bachelor’s Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, 2025) - Tiefere Integration KI-basierter Assistenten in Entwicklungsumgebungen zur Unterstützung des Debuggings
(Alexander Steigerwald, Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2024) - Applying Information Theory to Software Evolution: What can we Learn from Surprising Changes?
(Adriano Torres, Master’s Thesis, University of Adelaide, Australia, 2024) - Enhancing Enterprise Software Documentation with Community Content
(Brian Pfitzmann, Master’s Thesis, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany, 2023) - Stack Overflow Code Snippet Selection: An Experiment on the Effects of Source Code Comments and Answer Scoring
(Maria Christina Kirchner, Master’s Thesis, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 2022) - The Survivorship of Older Women in Software Development: An Intersection between Age and Gender
(Sterre van Breukelen, Master’s Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, 2022) - How Solution Snippets are Presented in Stack Overflow and How those Solution Snippets Need to be Adapted for Reuse
(Nimmi Weeraddana, Master’s Thesis, University of Victoria, Canada, 2022) - Using Machine Learning to Classify Programming-related Online Snippets
(Tingsheng Lai, Master’s Thesis, University of Adelaide, Australia, 2020) - Age(ing) in Software Development
(George Park, Master’s Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, 2019)