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There will be no office hours of Prof. Grabowski on 05. January 2017. In urgent cases, please contact studiendekan [at] informatik.uni-goettingen.de or studienberatung [at] informatik.uni-goettingen.de.

Our group member Patrick Harms took part in the competition "Verständliche Wissenschaft" organized by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Centre for Materials and Costal Research. During this event, 8 researchers who finished their PhD in 2014 or 2015 presented their thesis topics in a way that is understandable for the broader public. Patrick became second best in the competition and we congratulate him for that. Further infos are available here.

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.