CV

A short CV is available in PDF.

Education

B.Math in Pure Mathematics and Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, 1979
M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Toronto, 1981
Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Toronto, 1984

Work experience

1987-1994 Assistant Professor, University of Geneva
1994-1996 Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Bern
1996-2021 Full Professor of Computer Science, University of Bern
2022-present Soul polisher, feenk GmbH

Teaching

Lectured numerous courses on Software Engineering, Programming Languages and related CS topics from 1994-2021
Supervised or co-supervised:
- 40 PhD theses
- 88 MSc theses
- 101 Bachelors and 52 undergraduate project theses

Selected Publications

Published over 400 articles from 1981 to the present. A recent selection follows below.

Making Systems Explainable

Oscar Nierstrasz and Tudor Gîrba, Making Systems Explainable, VISSOFT 22: Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization, IEEE, 2022.

A decade of code comment quality assessment: A systematic literature review

Pooja Rani and Arianna Blasi and Nataliia Stulova and Sebastiano Panichella and Alessandra Gorla and Oscar Nierstrasz, A decade of code comment quality assessment: A systematic literature review, Journal of Systems and Software, 195, January 2023.

EGAD: A moldable tool for GitHub Action analysis

Pablo Valenzuela-Toledo and Alexandre Bergel and Timo Kehrer and Oscar Nierstrasz, EGAD: A moldable tool for GitHub Action analysis, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 23), 2023.

Exploring GitHub Actions through EGAD: An Experience Report

Pablo Valenzuela-Toledo and Alexandre Bergel and Timo Kehrer and Oscar Nierstrasz, Exploring GitHub Actions through EGAD: An Experience Report, IWST 23: Proceedings of International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies, 2023.

Moldable Development Patterns

Oscar Nierstrasz and Tudor Gîrba, Moldable Development Patterns, Proceedings of EuroPLoP 2024.

The Hidden Costs of Automation: An Empirical Study on GitHub Actions Workflow Maintenance

Pablo Valenzuela-Toledo and Alexandre Bergel and Timo Kehrer and Oscar Nierstrasz, The Hidden Costs of Automation: An Empirical Study on GitHub Actions Workflow Maintenance, Proceedings of SCAM 2024 (IEEE 24th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation), 2024

Example-driven development: bridging tests and documentation

Oscar Nierstrasz and Andrei Chiş and Tudor Gîrba, Example-driven development: bridging tests and documentation, 2024, presented at Live 2024, co-located with SPLASH 2024.

Automated Generation of Code Contracts — Generative AI to the Rescue?

Sandra Greiner and Noah Bülmann and Manuel Ohrndorf and Christos Tsigkanos and Oscar Nierstrasz and Timo Kehrer, Automated Generation of Code Contracts — Generative AI to the Rescue?, GPCE 2024: Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Generative programming and component engineering, 2024