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We are happy to announce that our paper Are there any Unit Tests? An Empirical Study on Unit Testing in Open Source Python Projects  was accepted at the 10th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2017). The paper presents an empirical study on open source python projects to determine to what extent developers use unit tests in their development, and in what ways. The conclusions from the study are that while developers think they are developing a lot of unit tests, they are not actually doing so, and in fact, most projects have very few unit tests. Furthermore it shows, that mocking does not have much of an influence on the number of unit tests.

At the User Conference on Advanced Automated Testing (UCAAT) 2016 in Budapest, our group members Patrick Harms and Jens Grabowski won the Best Presentation Award. Their presentation was about Experiences with Automated Field Usability Testing Using Generated Task Models and included in addition to a brief overview of Patrick's PhD thesis on Automated Field Usability Evaluation Using Generated Task Trees a proposal on how this approach could be integrated into a Software or Platform as a Service.

We are happy to announce that our paper Global vs. local models for cross-project defect prediction is accepted for publication in the Empirical Software Engineering journal. The paper presents a large study on the applicability of local models to the problem of cross-project defect prediction. You can access the full text of the paper online.

Our group leader Prof. Dr. Jens Grabowski has been elected as the treasurer of the SDL Forum Society. Being one of the long term members, Prof. Grabowski contributed to the societies goals of promoting the ITU Specification and Description Language (SDL) over the last years. He, furthermore, coorganized the 9th System Analysis and Modelling (SAM) conference 2016, which was held in Saint Malo, France, at the beginning of October this year and which is one of the two biannual events organized by the society. With his new tasks, he takes over one of the most important positions in the society.