Thomas Zimmermann

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2001-2024
Publications (10 Years): 100

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CoRR

IEEE Trans. Software Eng.

ICSE

ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE

Saarland University (PHD)

Education History

Saarland University

PHD

Publications

Jenny T. Liang, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Thomas Zimmermann
Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research? Proc. ACM Softw. Eng. 1 (FSE) (2024)
Ruotong Wang, Ruijia Cheng, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
Investigating and Designing for Trust in AI-powered Code Generation Tools. FAccT (2024)
Ruijia Cheng, Ruotong Wang, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
"It would work for me too": How Online Communities Shape Software Developers' Trust in AI-Powered Code Generation Tools. ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst. 14 (2) (2024)
Thomas Zimmermann
The Incredible Machine: Developer Productivity and the Impact of AI on Productivity (Keynote). SIGSOFT FSE Companion (2024)
Jenna L. Butler, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Objectives and Key Results in Software Teams: Challenges, Opportunities and Impact on Development. ICSE-SEIP (2024)
Toufique Ahmed, Supriyo Ghosh, Chetan Bansal, Thomas Zimmermann, Xuchao Zhang, Saravan Rajmohan
Recommending Root-Cause and Mitigation Steps for Cloud Incidents using Large Language Models. CoRR (2023)
Jenny T. Liang, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Thomas Zimmermann
Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research? CoRR (2023)
Zihan Fang, Madeline Endres, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford, Westley Weimer, Kevin Leach, Yu Huang
A Four-Year Study of Student Contributions to OSS vs. OSS4SG with a Lightweight Intervention. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE (2023)
Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Thomas Zimmermann
Make Your Tools Sparkle with Trust: The PICSE Framework for Trust in Software Tools. ICSE-SEIP (2023)
Jenna L. Butler, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Objectives and Key Results in Software Teams: Challenges, Opportunities and Impact on Development. CoRR (2023)
Ruotong Wang, Ruijia Cheng, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
Investigating and Designing for Trust in AI-powered Code Generation Tools. CoRR (2023)
Toufique Ahmed, Supriyo Ghosh, Chetan Bansal, Thomas Zimmermann, Xuchao Zhang, Saravan Rajmohan
Recommending Root-Cause and Mitigation Steps for Cloud Incidents using Large Language Models. ICSE (2023)
Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Travis Lowdermilk, Idan Gazit
Taking Flight with Copilot. Commun. ACM 66 (6) (2023)
Jenny T. Liang, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
Understanding skills for OSS communities on GitHub. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE (2022)
Xavier Franch, Daniel Méndez, Andreas Vogelsang, Rogardt Heldal, Eric Knauss, Marc Oriol, Guilherme H. Travassos, Jeffrey C. Carver, Thomas Zimmermann
How do Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research? IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 48 (6) (2022)
Ruijia Cheng, Ruotong Wang, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
"It would work for me too": How Online Communities Shape Software Developers' Trust in AI-Powered Code Generation Tools. CoRR (2022)
Xing Hu, Qiuyuan Chen, Haoye Wang, Xin Xia, David Lo, Thomas Zimmermann
Correlating Automated and Human Evaluation of Code Documentation Generation Quality. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 31 (4) (2022)
Chandra Shekhar Maddila, Suhas Shanbhogue, Apoorva Agrawal, Thomas Zimmermann, Chetan Bansal, Nicole Forsgren, Divyanshu Agrawal, Kim Herzig, Arie van Deursen
Nalanda: a socio-technical graph platform for building software analytics tools at enterprise scale. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE (2022)
Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Shekhar Maddila, Jenna L. Butler, Brian Houck, Nachiappan Nagappan
A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 31 (2) (2022)
Tingting Bi, Xin Xia, David Lo, John C. Grundy, Thomas Zimmermann
An Empirical Study of Release Note Production and Usage in Practice. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 48 (6) (2022)
Mariam Guizani, Thomas Zimmermann, Anita Sarma, Denae Ford
Attracting and Retaining OSS Contributors with a Maintainer Dashboard. ICSE-SEIS (2022)
Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Travis Lowdermilk, Idan Gazit
Taking Flight with Copilot: Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools. ACM Queue 20 (6) (2022)
Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Brian Houck, Thomas Zimmermann
How Developers and Managers Define and Trade Productivity for Quality. CHASE@ICSE (2022)
Nusrat Zahan, Thomas Zimmermann, Patrice Godefroid, Brendan Murphy, Chandra Shekhar Maddila, Laurie A. Williams
What are Weak Links in the npm Supply Chain? ICSE (SEIP) (2022)
Denae Ford, Nischal Shrestha, Thomas Zimmermann
ReBOC: Recommending Bespoke Open Source Software Projects to Contributors. VL/HCC (2022)
André N. Meyer, Chris Satterfield, Manuela Züger, Katja Kevic, Gail C. Murphy, Thomas Zimmermann, Thomas Fritz
Detecting Developers' Task Switches and Types. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 48 (2) (2022)
Tingting Bi, Xin Xia, David Lo, John C. Grundy, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
Accessibility in Software Practice: A Practitioner's Perspective. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 31 (4) (2022)
Jenny T. Liang, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
Understanding Skills for OSS Communities on GitHub. CoRR (2022)
Jenny T. Liang, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
Towards Mining OSS Skills from GitHub Activity. ICSE (NIER) (2022)
Xing Hu, Xin Xia, David Lo, Zhiyuan Wan, Qiuyuan Chen, Thomas Zimmermann
Practitioners' Expectations on Automated Code Comment Generation. ICSE (2022)
Souti Chattopadhyay, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
Reel Life vs. Real Life: How Software Developers Share Their Daily Life through Vlogs. CoRR (2021)
Yu Huang, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
Leaving My Fingerprints: Motivations and Challenges of Contributing to OSS for Social Good. ICSE (2021)
Nicole Forsgren, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Chandra Shekhar Maddila, Thomas Zimmermann, Brian Houck, Jenna L. Butler
The SPACE of developer productivity. Commun. ACM 64 (6) (2021)
Souti Chattopadhyay, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
Reel life vs. real life: how software developers share their daily life through vlogs. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE (2021)
Courtney Miller, Paige Rodeghero, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
Survey Instruments for "How Was Your Weekend?" Software Development Teams Working from Home During COVID-19. ICSE (Companion Volume) (2021)
Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Jacek Czerwonka, Brendan Murphy, Eirini Kalliamvakou
Towards a Theory of Software Developer Job Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 47 (10) (2021)
Tingting Bi, Xin Xia, David Lo, John C. Grundy, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
Accessibility in Software Practice: A Practitioner's Perspective. CoRR (2021)
Chandra Shekhar Maddila, Apoorva Agrawal, Thomas Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Kim Herzig, Arie van Deursen
Nalanda: A Socio-Technical Graph for Building Software Analytics Tools at Enterprise Scale. CoRR (2021)
Souti Chattopadhyay, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
Developers Who Vlog: Dismantling Stereotypes through Community and Identity. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 5 (CSCW2) (2021)
Danielle Gonzalez, Thomas Zimmermann, Patrice Godefroid, Max Schaefer
Anomalicious: Automated Detection of Anomalous and Potentially Malicious Commits on GitHub. ICSE (SEIP) (2021)
Paige Rodeghero, Thomas Zimmermann, Brian Houck, Denae Ford
Please Turn Your Cameras on: Remote Onboarding of Software Developers During a Pandemic. ICSE (SEIP) (2021)
Dusica Marijan, Thomas Zimmermann, MyungJoo Ham, Bran Selic
Bridging Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practice. ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes 46 (1) (2021)
Nicole Forsgren, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Chandra Shekhar Maddila, Thomas Zimmermann, Brian Houck, Jenna L. Butler
The SPACE of Developer Productivity: There's more to it than you think. ACM Queue 19 (1) (2021)
Maleknaz Nayebi, Guenther Ruhe, Thomas Zimmermann
Mining Treatment-Outcome Constructs from Sequential Software Engineering Data. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 47 (2) (2021)
Courtney Miller, Paige Rodeghero, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
"How Was Your Weekend?" Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19. ICSE (2021)
Zhipeng Gao, Xin Xia, David Lo, John C. Grundy, Thomas Zimmermann
Automating the removal of obsolete TODO comments. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE (2021)
André N. Meyer, Gail C. Murphy, Thomas Zimmermann, Thomas Fritz
Enabling Good Work Habits in Software Developers through Reflective Goal-Setting. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 47 (9) (2021)
Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Moving from Closed to Open Source: Observations from Six Transitioned Projects to GitHub. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 47 (9) (2021)
Jeffrey C. Carver, Henry Muccini, Birgit Penzenstadler, Rafael Prikladnicki, Alexander Serebrenik, Thomas Zimmermann
Behavioral Science and Diversity in Software Engineering. IEEE Softw. 38 (2) (2021)
Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Brian Houck, Thomas Zimmermann
How Developers and Managers Define and Trade Productivity for Quality. CoRR (2021)
André N. Meyer, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann
Today Was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 47 (5) (2021)
Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Sumit Kumar, Nikitha Rao, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann
Neural Knowledge Extraction From Cloud Service Incidents. ICSE (SEIP) (2021)
Yu Huang, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
Leaving My Fingerprints: Motivations and Challenges of Contributing to OSS for Social Good. CoRR (2021)
Souti Chattopadhyay, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
Developers Who Vlog: Dismantling Stereotypes through Community and Identity. CoRR (2021)
Courtney Miller, Paige Rodeghero, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
"How Was Your Weekend?" Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19. CoRR (2021)
Danielle Gonzalez, Thomas Zimmermann, Patrice Godefroid, Max Schaefer
Anomalicious: Automated Detection of Anomalous and Potentially Malicious Commits on GitHub. CoRR (2021)
Moritz Beller, Vince R. Orgovan, Spencer Buja, Thomas Zimmermann
Mind the Gap: On the Relationship Between Automatically Measured and Self-Reported Productivity. IEEE Softw. 38 (5) (2021)
Nusrat Zahan, Laurie A. Williams, Thomas Zimmermann, Patrice Godefroid, Brendan Murphy, Chandra Shekhar Maddila
What are Weak Links in the npm Supply Chain? CoRR (2021)
Zhipeng Gao, Xin Xia, David Lo, John C. Grundy, Thomas Zimmermann
Automating the Removal of Obsolete TODO Comments. CoRR (2021)
Brittany Johnson, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity and Satisfaction of Software Engineers. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 47 (4) (2021)
Marian Petre, Jim Buckley, Luke Church, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Thomas Zimmermann
Behavioral Science of Software Engineering. IEEE Softw. 37 (6) (2020)
Moritz Beller, Vince R. Orgovan, Spencer Buja, Thomas Zimmermann
Mind the Gap: On the Relationship Between Automatically Measured and Self-Reported Productivity. CoRR (2020)
Foyzul Hassan, Chetan Bansal, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah
An Empirical Study of Software Exceptions in the Field using Search Logs. ESEM (2020)
Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Sumit Kumar, Nikitha Rao, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann
Neural Knowledge Extraction From Cloud Service Incidents. CoRR (2020)
Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Shekhar Maddila, Jenna L. Butler, Brian Houck, Nachiappan Nagappan
A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic. CoRR (2020)
Foyzul Hassan, Chetan Bansal, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah
An Empirical Study of Software Exceptions in the Field using Search Logs. CoRR (2020)
Laura E. Barton, Gulipek Candan, Thomas Fritz, Thomas Zimmermann, Gail C. Murphy
The Sound of Software Development: Music Listening Among Software Engineers. IEEE Softw. 37 (2) (2020)
Kristian Kersting, Miryung Kim, Guy Van den Broeck, Thomas Zimmermann
SE4ML - Software Engineering for AI-ML-based Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 20091). Dagstuhl Reports 10 (2) (2020)
Paige Rodeghero, Thomas Zimmermann, Brian Houck, Denae Ford
Please Turn Your Cameras On: Remote Onboarding of Software Developers during a Pandemic. CoRR (2020)
Nikitha Rao, Chetan Bansal, Thomas Zimmermann, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Nachiappan Nagappan
Analyzing Web Search Behavior for Software Engineering Tasks. IEEE BigData (2020)
Danielle Gonzalez, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan
The State of the ML-universe: 10 Years of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Software Development on GitHub. MSR (2020)
Xavier Franch, Daniel Méndez, Andreas Vogelsang, Rogardt Heldal, Eric Knauss, Marc Oriol, Guilherme H. Travassos, Jeffrey C. Carver, Thomas Zimmermann
How do Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research? CoRR (2020)
Daniel Méndez Fernández, Martin Monperrus, Robert Feldt, Thomas Zimmermann
The open science initiative of the Empirical Software Engineering journal. Empir. Softw. Eng. 24 (3) (2019)
Chetan Bansal, Thomas Zimmermann, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Nachiappan Nagappan
The Usage of Web Search for Software Engineering. CoRR (2019)
Saleema Amershi, Andrew Begel, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Harald C. Gall, Ece Kamar, Nachiappan Nagappan, Besmira Nushi, Thomas Zimmermann
Software engineering for machine learning: a case study. ICSE (SEIP) (2019)
Maleknaz Nayebi, Guenther Ruhe, Thomas Zimmermann
Mining Treatment-Outcome Constructs from Sequential Software Engineering Data. CoRR (2019)
Eirini Kalliamvakou, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Andrew Begel, Robert DeLine, Daniel M. Germán
What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers? IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 45 (1) (2019)
Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Alexander Serebrenik, Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Thomas Zimmermann, James D. Herbsleb
BOTse: Bots in Software Engineering (Dagstuhl Seminar 19471). Dagstuhl Reports 9 (11) (2019)
Robert Feldt, Thomas Zimmermann, Gunnar R. Bergersen, Davide Falessi, Andreas Jedlitschka, Natalia Juristo, Jürgen Münch, Markku Oivo, Per Runeson, Martin J. Shepperd, Dag I. K. Sjøberg, Burak Turhan
Four commentaries on the use of students and professionals in empirical software engineering experiments. Empir. Softw. Eng. 23 (6) (2018)
Eirini Kalliamvakou, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Andrew Begel, Robert DeLine, Daniel M. Germán
What makes a great manager of software engineers? ICSE (2018)
Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Robert DeLine, Andrew Begel
Data scientists in software teams: state of the art and challenges. ICSE (2018)
Tim Menzies, Thomas Zimmermann
Software Analytics: What's Next? IEEE Softw. 35 (5) (2018)
Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Robert DeLine, Andrew Begel
Data Scientists in Software Teams: State of the Art and Challenges. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 44 (11) (2018)
Premkumar T. Devanbu, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Belief and Evidence: How Software Engineers Form Their Opinions. IEEE Softw. 35 (6) (2018)
Jeff Huang, Eddie Q. Yan, Gifford Cheung, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann
Master Maker: Understanding Gaming Skill Through Practice and Habit From Gameplay Behavior. Top. Cogn. Sci. 9 (2) (2017)
André N. Meyer, Gail C. Murphy, Thomas Zimmermann, Thomas Fritz
Retrospecting on Work and Productivity: A Study on Self-Monitoring Software Developers' Work. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 1 (CSCW) (2017)
Xavier Franch, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Marc Oriol, Andreas Vogelsang, Rogardt Heldal, Eric Knauss, Guilherme Horta Travassos, Jeffrey C. Carver, Óscar Dieste Tubío, Thomas Zimmermann
How do Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research? An Ongoing Study. CoRR (2017)
André N. Meyer, Thomas Zimmermann, Thomas Fritz
Characterizing Software Developers by Perceptions of Productivity. ESEM (2017)
André N. Meyer, Laura E. Barton, Gail C. Murphy, Thomas Zimmermann, Thomas Fritz
The Work Life of Developers: Activities, Switches and Perceived Productivity. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 43 (12) (2017)
Thomas Fritz, Gloria Mark, Gail C. Murphy, Thomas Zimmermann
Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering (Dagstuhl Seminar 17102). Dagstuhl Reports 7 (3) (2017)
Xavier Franch, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Marc Oriol, Andreas Vogelsang, Rogardt Heldal, Eric Knauss, Guilherme Horta Travassos, Jeffrey C. Carver, Oscar Dieste, Thomas Zimmermann
How do Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research? An Ongoing Study. RE (2017)
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Software productivity decoded: how data science helps to achieve more (keynote). ICSSP (2017)
Ayushi Rastogi, Suresh Thummalapenta, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Jacek Czerwonka
Ramp-up Journey of New Hires: Do strategic practices of software companies influence productivity? ISEC (2017)
Premkumar T. Devanbu, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Belief & evidence in empirical software engineering. ICSE (2016)
Titus Barik, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Thomas Zimmermann
A perspective on blending programming environments and games: Beyond points, badges, and leaderboards. VL/HCC (2016)
Michael Washburn Jr., Pavithra Sathiyanarayanan, Meiyappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
What went right and what went wrong: an analysis of 155 postmortems from game development. ICSE (Companion Volume) (2016)
Muhammad Rezaul Karim, Günther Ruhe, Md. Mainur Rahman, Vahid Garousi, Thomas Zimmermann
An empirical investigation of single-objective and multiobjective evolutionary algorithms for developer's assignment to bugs. J. Softw. Evol. Process. 28 (12) (2016)
Jeffrey C. Carver, Oscar Dieste, Nicholas A. Kraft, David Lo, Thomas Zimmermann
How Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of ESEM Research. ESEM (2016)
Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Robert DeLine, Andrew Begel
The emerging role of data scientists on software development teams. ICSE (2016)
Edward K. Smith, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann
Beliefs, practices, and personalities of software engineers: a survey in a large software company. CHASE@ICSE (2016)

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