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Andreas Zeller

Andreas Zeller

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Computer Science
Germany
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
68
Citations
24602
World Ranking
2045
National Ranking
79

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2010 - ACM Fellow For contributions to automated debugging, and to mining software archives.

Overview

Andreas Zeller is affiliated with Saarland University in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines within computer science, including software, information systems, and artificial intelligence. They have contributed extensively to topics such as software testing and debugging techniques, software engineering research, software reliability and analysis, advanced malware detection techniques, natural language processing techniques, topic modeling, and speech and dialogue systems.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • Input invariants, 2022, Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
  • Automatic Test-Case Reduction in Proof Assistants: A Case Study in Coq, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Inputs From Hell:, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2020), 2022, Software Testing Verification and Reliability
  • FormatFuzzer: Effective Fuzzing of Binary File Formats, 2023, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Their frequent co-authors include Rahul Gopinath, Ezekiel Soremekun, Bachir Bendrissou, Björn Mathis, and Marius Smytzek.

They have published often in these venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Artifact Digital Object Group
  • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Andreas Zeller's work covers key areas within computer science, focusing heavily on the development and analysis of software systems, including methodologies for improved software reliability and automated debugging processes.

They were awarded the ACM Fellow distinction in 2010 for contributions to automated debugging and to mining software archives.

Best Publications

  • Mining version histories to guide software changes

    T. Zimmermann;A. Zeller;P. Weissgerber;S. Diehl

  • Simplifying and isolating failure-inducing input

    A. Zeller;R. Hildebrandt

  • When do changes induce fixes

    Jacek Śliwerski;Thomas Zimmermann;Andreas Zeller

  • Mining metrics to predict component failures

    Nachiappan Nagappan;Thomas Ball;Andreas Zeller

  • Predicting Defects for Eclipse

    Thomas Zimmermann;Rahul Premraj;Andreas Zeller

  • Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging

    Andreas Zeller

  • Locating causes of program failures

    Holger Cleve;Andreas Zeller

  • Isolating cause-effect chains from computer programs

    Andreas Zeller

  • Mining version histories to guide software changes

    T. Zimmermann;P. Weibgerber;S. Diehl;A. Zeller

  • Mutation-Driven Generation of Unit Tests and Oracles

    G. Fraser;A. Zeller

  • Predicting Faults from Cached History

    Sunghun Kim;T. Zimmermann;E.J. Whitehead;A. Zeller

  • Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why?

    Andreas Zeller

  • It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: How Misclassification Impacts Bug Prediction.

    Kim Herzig;Sascha Just;Andreas Zeller

  • Predicting vulnerable software components

    Stephan Neuhaus;Thomas Zimmermann;Christian Holler;Andreas Zeller

  • Checking app behavior against app descriptions

    Alessandra Gorla;Ilaria Tavecchia;Florian Gross;Andreas Zeller

  • How Long Will It Take to Fix This Bug

    Cathrin Weiss;Rahul Premraj;Thomas Zimmermann;Andreas Zeller

  • The impact of tangled code changes

    Kim Herzig;Andreas Zeller

  • Detecting object usage anomalies

    Andrzej Wasylkowski;Andreas Zeller;Christian Lindig

  • Fuzzing with code fragments

    Christian Holler;Kim Herzig;Andreas Zeller

  • Automated fixing of programs with contracts

    Yi Wei;Yu Pei;Carlo A. Furia;Lucas S. Silva

  • When do changes induce fixes? On Fridays

    Jacek Sliwerski;Thomas Zimmermann;Andreas Zeller

  • Predicting faults from cached history

    Sunghun Kim;Thomas Zimmermann;E. James Whitehead;Andreas Zeller

  • Locating CausesofProgram Failures

    Holger Cleve;Andreas Zeller

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Zimmermann
Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft (United States)
Gordon Fraser
Gordon Fraser University of Passau
Stephan Diehl
Stephan Diehl University of Trier
Nachiappan Nagappan
Nachiappan Nagappan Facebook (United States)
Sunghun Kim
Sunghun Kim Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Thomas Ball
Thomas Ball Microsoft (United States)
Harald C. Gall
Harald C. Gall University of Zurich
Abraham Bernstein
Abraham Bernstein University of Zurich
Eric Bodden
Eric Bodden University of Paderborn
Alessandro Orso
Alessandro Orso Georgia Institute of Technology

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