Sebastian Baltes
School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Sebastian Baltes is an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Trier, Germany. In his research, he empirically analyses software developers' work habits to to identify potential tool and process improvements. For him, thoroughly analysing and understanding the state-of-practice is an essential first step towards improving how software is being developed.
In my research, I empirically analyze software developers' work habits to identify potential tool and process improvements. For me, thoroughly analysing and understanding the state-of-practice is an essential first step towards improving how software is being developed. Too often, decisions in software projects are still rather opinion-based than data-informed. My long-term goal is to bridge the gap between empirical research and practice, both by studying relevant phenomena and by communicating the results back to practitioners.
More information about my research can be found on my personal website.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2021 - ongoing Principal Expert, Empirical Software Engineering SAP SE 2020 - 2021 Senior Software Engineer QAware GmbH 2020 - ongoing Adjunct Lecturer University of Adelaide 2019 - 2020 Lecturer University of Adelaide 2019 - 2019 Postdoctoral researcher University of Trier 2013 - 2019 Doctoral researcher University of Trier 2012 - 2012 Software Developer JAM Software GmbH -
Language Competencies
Language Competency English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review German Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2013 - 2019 University of Trier Germany PhD 2012 - 2013 Linnaeus University Sweden Exchange Semester 2010 - 2013 University of Trier Germany MSc 2007 - 2010 University of Trier Germany BSc -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2022 Baltes, S., Treude, C., & Robillard, M. P. (2022). Contextual documentation referencing on stack overflow. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 48(1), 135-149.
Scopus4 WoS42022 Ralph, P., & Baltes, S. (2022). Paving the way for mature secondary research: the seven types of literature review. Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 1632-1636.
2022 Hata, H., Novielli, N., Baltes, S., Kula, R. G., & Treude, C. (2022). GitHub Discussions: An exploratory study of early adoption. Empirical Software Engineering, 27(1), 1-32.
Scopus6 WoS12022 Kula, R. G., Treude, C., Hata, H., Baltes, S., Steinmacher, I., Gerosa, M. A., & Kula Amini, W. (2022). Challenges for Inclusion in Software Engineering: The Case of the Emerging Papua New Guinean Society. IEEE Software, 39(3), 67-76.
2022 Baltes, S., & Ralph, P. (2022). Sampling in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines. Empirical Software Engineering, 27(4), 31 pages.
Scopus22 WoS122021 Moseler, O., Lemmer, F., Baltes, S., & Diehl, S. (2021). On the diversity and frequency of code related to mathematical formulas in real-world Java projects. Journal of Systems and Software, 172, 16 pages.
2020 Baltes, S., Park, G., & Serebrenik, A. (2020). Is 40 the New 60? How Popular Media Portrays the Employability of Older Software Developers. IEEE Software, 37(6), 26-31.
Scopus5 WoS32020 Ralph, P., Baltes, S., Adisaputri, G., Torkar, R., Kovalenko, V., Kalinowski, M., . . . Alkadhi, R. (2020). Pandemic programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help.. Empir Softw Eng, 25(6), 4927-4961.
Scopus101 WoS82 Europe PMC222019 Baltes, S., Dumani, L., Treude, C., & Diehl, S. (2019). The Evolution of Stack Overflow Posts: Reconstruction and Analysis. arXiv. 2019 Baltes, S., & Diehl, S. (2019). Usage and Attribution of Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects. Empirical Software Engineering, 24(3), 1259-1295.
Scopus39 WoS27- Ralph, P., Ali, N. B., Baltes, S., Bianculli, D., Diaz, J., Dittrich, Y., . . . Vegas, S. (n.d.). Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research. - Baltes, S., & Dashuber, V. (n.d.). UX Debt: Developers Borrow While Users Pay. - Breukelen, S. V., Barcomb, A., Baltes, S., & Serebrenik, A. (n.d.). "STILL AROUND": Experiences and Survival Strategies of Veteran Women
Software Developers.- Torres, A., Baltes, S., Treude, C., & Wagner, M. (n.d.). Applying Information Theory to Software Evolution. -
Book Chapters
Year Citation 2020 Baltes, S. (2020). Software developers' work habits and expertise: Empirical studies on sketching, code plagiarism, and expertise development. In Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering 2019: Practice Meets Foundations (pp. 47-60). Springer International Publishing.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2021 Cao, K., Chen, C., Baltes, S., Treude, C., & Chen, X. (2021). Automated query reformulation for efficient search based on query logs from stack overflow. In Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2021) (pp. 1273-1285). Madrid, Spain: IEEE.
Scopus29 WoS172021 Liu, J., Baltes, S., Treude, C., Lo, D., Zhang, Y., & Xia, X. (2021). Characterizing search activities on stack overflow. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (pp. 919-931). New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery.
Scopus5 WoS22020 Baltes, S., & Treude, C. (2020). Code duplication on stack overflow. In Proceedings: 2020 ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results ICSE-NIER 2020 (pp. 13-16). online: ACM.
Scopus3 WoS32020 Baltes, S., & Wagner, M. (2020). An annotated dataset of stack overflow post edits. In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'20). GECCO 2020 Companion (pp. 1923-1925). online: Association for Computing Machinery.
Scopus22019 Baltes, S., & Diehl, S. (2019). Towards a theory of software development expertise. In Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI) Vol. P-292 (pp. 83-84).
2019 Baltes, S., Treude, C., & Diehl, S. (2019). SOTorrent: Studying the origin, evolution, and usage of stack overflow code snippets. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2019) Vol. 2019-May (pp. 191-194). Montreal, QC, Canada: IEEE/ACM.
Scopus402018 Baltes, S., Knack, J., Anastasiou, D., Tymann, R., & Diehl, S. (2018). (No) influence of continuous integration on the commit activity in GitHub projects. In O. Baysal, & T. Menzies (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Software Analytics (SWAN 2018) (pp. 1-7). online: Association for Computing Machinery.
Scopus3 WoS32018 Baltes, S., Dumani, L., Treude, C., & Diehl, S. (2018). SOTorrent: Reconstructing and analyzing the evolution of stack overflow posts. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2018) (pp. 319-330). Gothenburg, SWEDEN: ACM.
Scopus75 WoS602018 Baltes, S., & Diehl, S. (2018). Towards a Theory of Software Development Expertise. In G. Leavens, A. Garcia, & C. Pasareanu (Eds.), 26th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2018) (pp. 187-200). online: ACM.
Scopus58 WoS412018 Stors, N., & Baltes, S. (2018). Constructing Urban Tourism Space Digitally: A Study of Airbnb Listings in Two Berlin Neighborhoods. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Vol. 2 (pp. 1-29). online: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Scopus62017 Baltes, S., Hollerich, F., & Diehl, S. (2017). Round-Trip Sketches: Supporting the Lifecycle of Software Development Sketches from Analog to Digital and Back. In K. Zhang, I. Beschastnikh, & A. Mocci (Eds.), 2017 IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2017) Vol. 2017-October (pp. 94-98). Online: IEEE.
Scopus22017 Baltes, S., Kiefer, R., & Diehl, S. (2017). Attribution required: Stack overflow code snippets in GitHub projects. In S. Uchitel, A. Orso, & M. P. Robillard (Eds.), 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2017), Companion Volume (pp. 161-163). Online: IEEE Computer Society.
Scopus20 WoS122016 Baltes, S., & Diehl, S. (2016). Worse Than Spam: Issues In Sampling Software Developers. In M. Genero, A. Jedlitschka, & M. Jorgensen (Eds.), 10th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2016) Vol. 08-09-September-2016 (pp. 52:1-52:6). Online: ACM.
Scopus23 WoS162016 Blascheck, T., Beck, F., Baltes, S., Ertl, T., & Weiskopf, D. (2016). Visual analysis and coding of data-rich user behavior. In G. L. Andrienko, S. Liu, & J. T. Stasko (Eds.), 2016 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST 2016) (pp. 141-150). online: IEEE.
Scopus12 WoS112015 Biegel, B., Baltes, S., Scarpellini, I., & Diehl, S. (2015). Code Basket: Making Developers’ Mental Model Visible and Explorable. In K. Blincoe, D. E. Damian, G. Valetto, & J. D. Herbsleb (Eds.), 2nd IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Context for Software Development (CSD 2015) (pp. 20-24). Online: IEEE Computer Society.
Scopus7 WoS72015 Biegel, B., Baltes, S., Prevos, B., & Diehl, S. (2015). VisualCues: Visually explaining source code in computer science education. In Z. Li, C. Ermel, & S. D. Fleming (Eds.), 2015 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2015) Vol. 2015-December (pp. 89-93). online: IEEE Computer Society.
Scopus12015 Baltes, S., Moseler, O., Beck, F., & Diehl, S. (2015). Navigate, Understand, Communicate: How Developers Locate Performance Bugs. In Q. Wang, G. Ruhe, J. Carver, & O. Dieste (Eds.), 9th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2015) Vol. 2015-November (pp. 225-234). Beijing, China: IEEE.
Scopus15 WoS42015 Baltes, S., & Diehl, S. (2015). Sketches and Diagrams in Practice. In Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI) Vol. P-239 (pp. 69-70). 2014 Baltes, S., Schmitz, P., & Diehl, S. (2014). Linking sketches and diagrams to source code artifacts. In S. -C. Cheung, A. Orso, & M. -A. D. Storey (Eds.), 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2014) Vol. 16-21-November-2014 (pp. 743-746). Hong Kong, China: ACM.
Scopus15 WoS92014 Beck, F., Gulan, S., Biegel, B., Baltes, S., & Weiskopf, D. (2014). RegViz: Visual debugging of regular expressions. In P. Jalote, L. C. Briand, & A. van der Hoek (Eds.), 36th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion (ICSE 2014) (pp. 504-507). Online: ACM.
Scopus21 WoS172014 Baltes, S., & Diehl, S. (2014). Sketches and diagrams in practice. In S. -C. Cheung, A. Orso, & M. -A. D. Storey (Eds.), 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2014) Vol. 16-21-November-2014 (pp. 530-541). Hong Kong, China: ACM.
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Conference Items
Year Citation 2016 Baltes, S., & Wagner, S. (2016). Effects of Sketching on Program Comprehension (Research Plan). Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP 2016). Edinburgh, UK: Springer.
Awards and grants are listed in my CV.
A full list of my teaching activities can be found on my personal website.
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2022 Co-Supervisor Applying information theory to software evolution: What can we learn from surprising changes? Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Adriano Rodrigues Figueiredo Torres
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