Andreas Zeller

This article is about the computer scientist. For the theologian see Andreas Zeller (pastor) .

Andreas Zeller as keynote speaker at the deRSE19 in Potsdam

Andreas Zeller (born October 28, 1965 in Hanau ) is a German computer scientist . He is a professor and holder of the chair for software engineering at Saarland University . His focus is on the development of complex software systems and above all in the analysis of such systems.

Life

Zeller studied computer science at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1984 to 1991 and graduated with a diploma in July 1991. He then worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Braunschweig , where he became Doctor of Engineering in May 1997 received his doctorate . From 1997 to 2001 he worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Braunschweig and at the University of Passau , where he invented Delta Debugging , an automatic procedure for troubleshooting programs.

Zeller has been a professor for software technology at Saarland University since April 2001.

Awards

• 1997: Software engineering prize from the Ernst Denert Foundation for software engineering for the dissertation on software configuration management as the best work in German software technology
• 2003: Eclipse Innovation Award
• 2004: Eclipse Innovation Award
• 2005: Eclipse Innovation Award
• 2009: ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award for the work on Delta Debugging as the most influential software technology contribution of 1999
• 2010: Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• 2014: Most Influential Paper Award of the International Conference on Software Engineering
• 2018: ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award

Books

• Programming tools. D-Punkt Verlag, Heidelberg 2000.
• Why programs fail. Morgan Kaufmann publishers, San Francisco 2005.

Programs

• Data display debugger
• Internship (tools for programming internship)
• AskIgor (debugger)

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Zeller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Scientific literature by Andreas Zeller in the catalog of the Digital Bibliography & Library Project
• Web page of the chair of Prof. Zellers at the Saarland University
• Why Programs Fail
• AskIgor - Automated Debugging Service
• DDD - Data Display Debugger - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Denert Foundation for Software Engineering ( Memento from September 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Andreas Zeller honored by the world's largest computer scientist association ACM , press release, in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft dated December 8, 2010, accessed on December 9, 2010
3. ↑ Saarbrücken computer scientist honored for automatic programming recommendations. Press release from June 12, 2014 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
4. ↑ ACM SIGSOFT - Outstanding Research Award