Job advertisement: Two Predoc Scientists (f/m/d) – Software Engineering Research Group

The Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) of the Department of Informatics Systems is looking for two Predoc Scientists (f/m/d) with a focus on change and change impact analysis and/or automating software engineering tasks. The deadline for submission of the application ends on June 30, 2021. The position is for 4 years and the planned starting date is September 1st, 2021.

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SERG – Paper Publication – Univ.-Prof. Martin Pinzger

The paper ‘A Cryptography-Powered Infrastructure to Ensure the Integrity of Robot Workflows‘ written by Benjamin Breitling, Bernhard Dieber, Martin Pinzger und Stefan Rass has been published in the Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy.
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Martin Pinzger is the leader of the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) and the head of the Department of Informatics Systems (ISYS).
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SERG – Best Reviewers of 2020 for the Journal of Systems and Software

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Christian Macho was named among the best reviewers of 2020 for the Journal of Systems and Software.
In the context of a journal, unlike a traditional conference, reviewers contribute substantially to the ultimate quality of papers that are published.
Dr. Macho is a postdoc (tenure track) in the Software Engineering Group (SERG) led by Prof. Martin Pinzger.
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Analysing changes in microservice-based systems

When it comes to computer science, we can develop large, complex applications as a single monolithic system, or we can split them into small, scalable components that work together using standard protocols. In the Internet cloud, these small components are often implemented as microservices. A new research project, funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, sets out to understand more precisely how changes in a single microservice affect other microservices and the application as a whole. Read more