1. Software Engineering for Distributed Systems Group
Jens Grabowski
Annette Kadziora
Heike Jachinke
Gunnar Krull
Fabian Glaser
Patrick Harms
Steffen Herbold
Verena Honsel
Philip Makedonski
Daniel Honsel
Xiaowei Wang
Sripriya Srikant Adhatarao

2. Software Engineering for Distributed Systems Group
Ten researchers
Head: Prof. Dr. J. Grabowski
1 Postdoc: Dr. S. Herbold
6 PhD students (+2 starting in May)
3 Student research assistants
Students (BSc and MSc)
4-8 Students

3. Software Engineering for Distributed Systems Group
Prof. Dr. Jens Grabowski
Dean of Students
Vice Director of the Institute of Computer Science
Speaker of the PhD programme in Computer Science (PCS)
Organisation of the students’ library
Fabian Glaser
Hanna Holderied
Philip Makedonski

4. Current Research Topics
Social Network Analysis
Spreading of information in social communities
Quality Assurance (QA)
Managed software evolution
Usage-based testing
Usability engineering
Test Languages
TTCN-3, UML Testing Profile, TDL
Quality assurance for test specifications
Quality assurance for cloud systems
Reliability engineering for cloud systems
Testing in the Cloud
Interested in these topics? Contact us for students projects, B.Sc., M.Sc., or Ph.D. theses.

5. Current Teaching for SS 2015
Lecture: Software Evolution Grabowski, Honsel, Makedonski
Lecture: Requirements Engineering Herbold
Seminar: Advanced Topics in Software Engineering Grabowski, Harms, Herbold, Makedonski, Honsel, Glaser, Wang
Practical Course on Parallel Computing Yahyapour, Grabowski, Quadt, Berber, Chronz, End, Glaser, Klemer, Wang
Practical Course on Software Testing Grabowski, Herbold, Makedonski

6. Teaching planned WS 2015/2016
Lecture: Software Testing Grabowski, Harms, Herbold
Lecture: Data Science and Big Data Analytics Herbold, Glaser
Seminar: Advanced Topics in Software Engineering Grabowski, Harms, Herbold, Makedonski, Honsel, Glaser, Wang

7. Open Students Projects
Evolution of Standards in Open Source
Impact of Code Style Checkers
Automated Classification of Changes
Model-to-Model Transformations for OCCI
Further topics may be available upon request:
Usability analysis and defect prediction
Social networks in software development
Cloud deployment and reliability