Arie van Deursen

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Contact Information

Software Engineering Research Group (SERG)
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science EEMCS
Department of Software Technolgy (ST)
Delft University of Technology

Room HB08.060 (route)
Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft
The Netherlands

Tel.:	+31.15.278.2486
Secr.:	+31.15.278.7486
Fax:	+31.15.278.6632
Email:	Arie [.] vanDeursen [@] tudelft [.] nl

You can also follow me on Twitter, or read my blog.

Research and Publications

My research is concerned with the question how people build and evolve software systems, what the problems are with existing software systems, and whether there are better ways of doing software development and evolution. Usually, I try to find answer to these questions in close collaboration with practitioners and fellow researchers.

Example topics I have published about include software testing, software architecture, web 2.0 (and Ajax in particular), aspect-oriented programming, reverse engineering, repository mining, program comprehension, and model-driven engineering.

I try to keep my list of publications as up to date as possible. Have a look: most of them are downloadable, and I'd appreciate any feedback!

The fairly complete list that I maintain myself.
Our Delft bibliography server containing most of my publications from 2004 onwards
The subset of publications in key refereed journals and conference proceedings available from DBLP.
My profile at Google Scholar.

Professional Activities

I serve on the editorial board of:

The ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM, per January 2013).
Springer's Empirical Software Engineering.
Wiley's Journal of Software: Evolution and Process.
Springer's Computing.

Upcoming conferences and events I'm involved in:

36th International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2014, 2014; (program board member).
9th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. ESEC-FSE, 2013; (program committee member).
ICSE 2013 Track on New Ideas and Emerging Results; ICSE NIER 2013 (program co-chair).
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2012; (program committee member).
20th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering; FSE-20, 2012; (program committee member).

I'm also a member of:

The faculty's "Promotions Committee" / "Loopbaancommissie" (chair), advising the dean on all promotions from assistant to the level of associate professor.
The Dutch "Computer Science Chamber" (TU Delft representative), coordinating academic research and education in computer science.
The programme committee of NWO's Jacquard research programme devoted to software engineering.
The board of the Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics (IPA)
The management team of the Department of Software Technology of the EEMCS faculty.
The ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution.

Professional Highlights

2013: ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, with Felienne Hermans, Ben Sedee and Martin Pinzger, for our work on data clone detection in spreadsheets, at ICSE 2013.
2011: Co-founder, with Felienne Hermans and Martin Pinzger, of Infotron, a spin-off company specializing in spreadsheets.
2010: Elected as one of the four most entrepreneurial scientists of Delft University of Technology.
2010: Best paper award, with Michaela Greiler and Gerd Gross, for our work on understanding test suites for plugin architectures at WCRE 2010.
2010: Five-month sabbatical at the Computer Human Interaction and Software Engineering Lab (CHISEL), Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Canada.
2010: Recipient of a Google Research Award for the work with Ali Mesbah and Danny Roest on Crawljax.
2009: Winner, with Ali Mesbah, of the Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE'09 for our work on automated testing of Ajax applications.
2009: Best paper award at ICPC'09, with Bas Cornelissen, Andy Zaidman, and Bart van Rompaey, for our paper describing a controlled experiment in trace visualization.
2008: Elected as one of the 12 most entrepreneurial scientist of Delft University of Technology, and number 1 of the EEMCS faculty.
2008: Winner of the ICT Regie award, for my role in the foundation of the Software Improvement Group (SIG);
2007: Upon completion of the Ideals project, ASML decides to conduct a transfer project in order to adopt our exception handling analysis method (described in our ICSE'06 research paper) in their software development process.
2006: Appointed full time full professor in Software Engineering in Delft.
2005: Best reviewer award at ICSM'05.
2005: Start of our research line in the area of Ajax trough the Single Page Computer Interaction (SPCI) project in collaboration with Backbase.
2005: Inaugural lecture in Delft, covering the software evolution paradox and its implications on software development.
2004: Appointed part time (0.2 fte) full professor in Delft.
2004: Best paper awards at ICSM'04 and SCAM'04 for our papers on aspect mining using clone detection and class testability
2003: Appointed part time (0.2 fte) associate professor in Delft.
2003: Start of new research line in aspect mining via projects Ideals (with ASML) and AMR.
2002, 2003: Program co-chair of the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'02, WCRE'03).
2000: Co-founder of the Software Improvement Group (SIG), a spinoff from the research we conducted at CWI in the area of reverse engineering and software analysis.
1996: Start of the Resolver project with ABN Amro and PinkRoccade, comprising the start my work on reverse engineering and program comprehension. In this project we worked on methods such as cluster analysis and type inferencing for understanding (legacy) Cobol systems,
1996: Appointed at CWI as a researcher, permanent position since 1998.
1995: Postdoc at Eindhoven University of Technology.
1990-1994: PhD research at CWI, on the topic of Executable Language Definitions, under supervision of Paul Klint.

Selected presentations

Keynote speaker, International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), Victoria, Canada, September 2014. (title to be announced).
Are you Afraid of Change? Metrics ofr Software Evolvability. Presentation in the Distinguished Speaker Series at UC Irvine, March 15, 2013. (pdf, speakerdeck, blog).
Software: Good, Bad, or Just a Matter of Taste? XXVI Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES), Keynote. September, 2012, Natal, Brazil. (pdf, slideshare)
Testing Plug-in Architecures. 6th Brazilian Workshop on Systematic and Automated Software Testing. Invited talk, September, 2012, Natal, Brazil (pdf, slideshare)
Test Automation Day -- Kick off! Dutch Test Automation Day, June 21, 2012, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. (pdf, slideshare)
The Test Case as an Executable Example. CWI Lectures -- Understanding Software, in honor of Paul Klint. June 14, 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (pdf, slideshare)
Favorite Picks in Software Testing. Kickoff Stabiplan Test Week, Bodegraven, The Netherlands, November 2011 (slides).
The Future of Software Engineering. Sogeti Application Services Division Meeting, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, October 2011. (slides)
Test Confessions: What Eclipsers Think and do About Testing. Symposium to celebrate the 25th anniversary of West Consulting, Delft, The Netherlands, October 2011. (slides).
Test Automation: An Empirical Perspective. 4th Summer School on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering (GTTSE), Braga, Portugal, July 2011. Invited long tutorial. Slides: part 1 (empirical methods, testing), part 2 (web applications), part 3 (plug-ins).
Test Automation to the Limit. Test Automation Day, Zeist, The Netherlands, June 2011. Keynote. (slides)
A Pragmatic Perspective on Software Visualization. 5th International IEEE/ACM Symposium on Software Visualization, SoftVis 2010. Keynote speaker, Salt Lake City, USA, October 2010. (abstract, slides in pdf, slideshare)
Dependable Ajax. 36th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2010. Invited speaker, Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, January 2010. (paper, slides)
What your IDE could do once you understand your code. CHOOSE Forum 2009: Human-centric Software Development, CHOOSE'09 Bern, Switzerland, November 2009 (slides).
What your IDE could do once you understand your code. Joint keynote for the WSE'09 and VISSOFT 2009 conferences. Edmonton, Canada, September 2009 (slides, slideshare)
Invariant-Based Automatic Testing of Ajax User Interfaces, University of Antwerp, April 2009.
Automatic Testing of Ajax User Interfaces. Google Techtalk, London, March 2009.
Automatic Testing of Ajax User Interfaces. Google EMEA Faculty Summit, Zurich, February 2009.
Using cluster analysis to improve the design of component interfaces. IPA Herfstdagen, Nunspeet, November 2008.
Developer Testing. Avanade, Eindhoven, 17 January 2008.
Analyzing Idiom Variability in Software Systems. Ideals Close off Symposium, Embedded Systems Institute, 18 December 2007, Eindhoven.
Aspect Mining and Refactoring Using Crosscutting Concern Sorts. PROG, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 6 July, 2007.
Reconstructing Software Architectures. LAC 2006, Nieuwegein, 22 November, 2006.
The Software Evolution Paradox. Keynote at Arriba Close-off Event, Gent, Belgium, 28 September, 2006
Software Architecture and the Software Evolution Paradox. Seminar Architecture Driven Software Engineering, 2nd DYA Day, Sogeti, June 27, 2006.
The Software Evolution Paradox: An Aspect Mining Perspective. International ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution EVOL'06, Lille, France, April 7, 2006 (Invited talk);
The Software Evolution Paradox: Do Aspects Help? Development Presentation, Philips Medical Systems, Best, The Netherlands, February 1st, 2006.
Isolating Crosscutting Concerns in Embedded Systems. Workshop on Distributed Embedded Systems, Lorentz Center, Leiden, November 21st, 2005 (Invited presentation).
Link Reconstruction: A Forward Engineering Concern? Panelist at the ICSM 2005 Panel on Identification of concepts, features, and concerns in source code, Budapest, September 28th, 2005.
Improving Embedded Systems Quality with Aspects Symposium on Embedded Software Quality, Amsterdam, August 31, 2005;
Isolating Crosscutting Concerns in System Software. Philips Research Colloquium, Eindhoven, April 27, 2005.
Symphony: view-driven software architecture reconstruction. IPA Spring Days on Software Architecture, March 31st, 2005.
The Software Evolution Paradox. Inaugural Lecture, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 23 February 2005.

See also my selection of past presentations.

PhD Students

I've had / am having the privilege of (co)supervising the following PhD students:

Nicolas Dintzner. Software Architecture Evolvability. Started 2012. In progress, co-supervised by Martin Pinzger.
Cuiting Chen Run Time Monitoring of Service-Oriented Software Systems. Started 2011 (in progress, dblp). Co-supervised by Andy Zaidman and Gerd Gross.
Tiago Epinha Evolution of Service-Oriented Systems. Started 2011 (in progress, dblp). Co-supervised by Andy Zaidman and Gerd Gross.
Daniele Romano. Re-engineering Service Oriented Architectures. Started 2010. (in progress, dblp). Co-supervised by Martin Pinzger.
Steven Raemaekers. Software Risk Assessment in 3d Party Library Usage. Started 2011 (in progress, dblp). Co-supervised with Joost Visser.
Ben van Gameren. Awareness in Distributed Agile Development. Started 2009 (in progress, dblp). Co-supervised by Rini van Solingen.
Kevin Dullemond. Collaborative Software Engineering in Open Conversation Spaces. Started 2009 (in progress, dblp). Co-supervised by Rini van Solingen.
Anja Guzzi. Documenting and Sharing Knowledge about Code. Started 2009 (in progress, dblp). Co-supervised by Martin Pinzger.
Cor-Paul Bezemer. Performance Prediction in Multi-Tenant Software Systems. Started 2009 (in progress, dblp). Co-supervised by Andy Zaidman.
Danny Groenewegen, Model-Driven Design of Security Policies. Started 2008 (in progress, dblp). Co-supervised by Eelco Visser.
Maartje de Jonge. Error Recovery in Parser Generation Started 2009 (in progress, dblp). Co-supervised by Eelco Visser.
Eric Bouwers, Software Architecture Risk Assessments. Started 2008 (in progress, dblp, Google). Co-supervised by Joost Visser (SIG).
Sander van der Burg, A Reference Architecture for Distributed Software Deployment. Delft University of Technology, June 2013. (pdf, dblp, scholar). Co-supervised by Eelco Visser and Eelco Dolstra.
Michaela Greiler, Test Suite Comprehension for Modular and Dynamic Systems. Delft University of Technology, April 2013 (pdf, dblp), Scholar)
Felienne Hermans, Analyzing and Visualizing Spreadsheets. Delft University of Technology, January 2013. (pdf, dblp, Scholar). Co-supervised by Martin Pinzger.
Sander Vermolen, Software Language Evolution Delft University of Technology, 2012. (pdf, dblp). Co-supervised by Eelco Visser.
Zef Hemel, Methods and Techniques for the Design and Implementation of Domain-Specific Languages Delft University of Technology, January 2012. (pdf, dblp). Co-supervised by Eelco Visser. Presently at LogicBlox.
Lennart Kats, Building Blocks for Language Workbenches. Delft University of Technology, December 2011. (pdf, dblp, Google). Co-supervised by Eelco Visser. Presently at Cloud9IDE.
Cathal Boogerd, Focusing Automatic Code Inspections, Delft University of Technology, January 2010 (pdf, dblp). Presently at SIG.
Danny Holten, Software Visualization: Visualizing Structure, Relations, and Visual Software Comparison, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), 24 June, 2009 (pdf, dblp). 2nd promotor; co-supervised with 1st promotor Jack van Wijk. Best Doctoral Award 2010. Presently postdoc at TU/e.
Bas Cornelissen, Evaluating Dynamic Analysis Techniques for Program Comprehension, Delft University of Technology, 23 June 2009 (pdf, dblp). Promotor, co-supersived by co-promotor Andy Zaidman. Presently at SIG.
Ali Mesbah, Analysis and Testing of Ajax-Based Single Page Web Applications, Delft University of Technology, 19 June 2009. Degree granted cum laude (with honors). (pdf, dblp, Google). Presently assistant professor at UBC.
Marco Lormans, Managing Requirements Evolution using Reconstructed Traceability and Requirements Views, Delft University of Technology, January 2009 (pdf, dblp). Presently at Logica.
Magiel Bruntink, Renovation of Idiomatic Crosscutting Concerns in Embedded Systems, Delft University of Technology, March 2008 (pdf, dblp). 1st Promotor: Co-supervised by 2nd promotor Paul Klint. Degree granted cum laude (with honors). Presently at Software Improvement Group, Amsterdam.
Marius Marin, An Integrated System to Manage Crosscutting Concerns in Source Code, Delft University of Technology, January 2008. (pdf, dblp). Presently at Microsoft, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bas Graaf, Model-Driven Evolution of Software Architectures. Delft University of Technology, November 2007 (pdf, dblp). Presently at Microsoft, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Merijn de Jonge, To Reuse or To Be Reused. University of Amsterdam, March 2003. (pdf, dblp). Presently senior scientist, Philips Research Laboratories. Co-promotor: Co-supervised with promotor Paul Klint.
Leon Moonen, Exploring Software Systems. University of Amsterdam, December 2002. (pdf, dblp). Presently at Simula Research Laboratory, Norway. Co-promotor: Co-supervised with promotor Paul Klint.
Tobias Kuipers, Techniques for Understanding Legacy Software Systems. University of Amterdam, February 2002. (pdf, dblp). Presently CTO (and co-founder), Software Improvement Group, Amsterdam. Co-promotor: Co-supervised with promotor Paul Klint.

Teaching

I teach a course on Software Testing and Quality Engineering (IN3205) for 2nd and 3d year Computer Science bachelor students. The course makes use of the book Software Testing and Analysis by Pezze and Young, Wiley, 2007. It includes labwork making use of Java, the JUnit 4 test framework, the coverage tool Emma, and the build tool ant.
With Erik Meijer I have set up an MSc elective course on Reactive Programming.
Each year, approximately 15 Delft computer science students complete their MSc thesis in our Software Engineering Research Group SERG. If you're interested, have a look at our Master Projects pages.