Dr. Thomas Bock
Chair of Software Engineering
Campus E1 1
Saarland Informatics Campus
Saarland University
Campus E1 1
Saarland Informatics Campus
Saarland University
| Room: | 2.17 |
| Phone: | +49(0)681 302 57216 |
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Research Interests
- Developer networks & developer roles
- Network growth models
- Software evolution and maintenance
- Empirical software engineering
- Coordination requirements in software development
- Perception of developers' communication behavior
- Feature-oriented software development
Courses
| SS 2022 |
| WS 2021/22 |
| SS 2021 |
| SS 2020 |
| WS 2019/20 |
| SS 2019 |
| Former Courses at the University of Passau (2016–2019) |
SS 2019
|
Service
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Research Papers track, 2025
- International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Technical Papers track, 2026
- Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), Springer
- Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), ACM
- Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), IEEE
- Software Quality Journal (SQJ), Springer
- Information Processing and Management (IPM), Elsevier
Publications (copyright notice)
2025
- Thomas
Bock, Niklas Schneider, Angelika Schmid, Sven Apel, and Janet Siegmund.
Understanding
the Low Inter-Rater Agreement on Aggressiveness on the Linux Kernel Mailing
List.
Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 222(4):112339, April
2025.
2024
- Thomas
Bock.
Emerging
Organizational Patterns in Evolving Open-Source Software Projects: An
Analysis of Developer Activity and Coordination.
PhD thesis, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Saarland University,
June 2024.
2023
- Thomas
Bock, Nils Alznauer, Mitchell Joblin, and Sven Apel.
Automatic
Core-Developer Identification on GitHub: A Validation Study.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM),
32(6):138, November 2023.
- Mitchell Joblin, Barbara Eckl-Ganser,
Thomas Bock, Angelika Schmid, Janet Siegmund, and Sven Apel.
Hierarchical
and Hybrid Organizational Structures in Open-Source Software Projects: A
Longitudinal Study.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM),
32(4):86, July 2023.
2022
- Thomas
Bock, Claus Hunsen, Mitchell Joblin, and Sven Apel.
Synchronous
Development in Open-Source Projects: A Higher-Level Perspective.
Automated Software Engineering, 29(1):3, May 2022.
Online version at SharedIt.
- Thomas
Bock, Angelika Schmid, and Sven Apel.
Measuring
and Modeling Group Dynamics in Open-Source Software Development: A Tensor
Decomposition Approach.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM),
31(2):19, April 2022.
2016
- Thomas Bock.
Synchronous
Development in Open-Source Systems: File-based, Feature-based, and
Function-based.
Master's thesis, Department of Informatics and Mathematics, University of
Passau, September 2016.
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