Saarland University – Chair of Software Engineering

Dr. Marvin Wyrich

Chair of Software Engineering
Campus E1 1
Saarland Informatics Campus
Saarland University

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Courses

Seminar/Proseminar: How We Know What We Know: Research Methods in Computer Science (WS 25/26)
Seminar/Proseminar: AI Coding Assistants: Hype or Game Changer? (SS 2025)

Research Interests

My work sits at the exciting intersection of empirical software engineering and psychology, sometimes with a touch of neuroscience — yes, I am diving into the brains of developers! What else? I believe in making research accessible to everyone. That's why I'm passionate about science communication and empowering researchers to explore new ways of reaching out and having an impact. Get in touch if you are interested in any of these topics :)

Publications (copyright notice)

2026

Nils Alznauer, Norman Peitek, Youssef Abdelsalam, Annabelle Bergum, Marvin Wyrich, and Sven Apel. Eye-Tracking Insights into the Effects of Type Annotations and Identifier Naming. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC). ACM, April 2026. Acceptance rate: 28% (35 / 123); to appear.
Marvin Wyrich and Lloyd Montgomery. What's in a Software Engineering Job Posting? In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). ACM, April 2026. Acceptance rate: 21% (320 / 1469); to appear.
Allysson Allex Araújo, Gabriel Vasconcelos, Marvin Wyrich, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Paloma Guenes, and Marcos Kalinowski. Constructive Patterns for Human-Centered Tech Hiring. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE. ACM, April 2026. Acceptance rate: 24% (28 / 119); to appear.

2025

Marvin Wyrich, Johannes C. Hofmeister, Sven Apel, and Janet Siegmund. Object Disorientation. IEEE Software, 42(6):81–88, November 2025.
Alisa Welter, Niklas Schneider, Tobias Dick, Kallistos Weis, Christof Tinnes, Marvin Wyrich, and Sven Apel. An Empirical Study of Knowledge Transfer in AI Pair Programming. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE). IEEE, November 2025. Acceptance rate: 22% (245 / 1136); to appear.
Marvin Wyrich, Christof Tinnes, Sebastian Baltes, and Sven Apel. The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience. Communications of the ACM (CACM), 68(11):24–27, October 2025.

2024

Timon Dörzapf, Norman Peitek, Marvin Wyrich, and Sven Apel. Data Analysis Tools Affect Outcomes of Eye-Tracking Studies. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), pages 96–106. ACM, October 2024. Acceptance rate: 24% (34 / 139).
Marvin Wyrich and Justus Bogner. Beyond Self-Promotion: How Software Engineering Research Is Discussed on LinkedIn. In 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS), pages 1–11, April 2024.
Marvin Wyrich, Marvin Muñoz Barón, and Justus Bogner. Apples, Oranges, and Software Engineering: Study Selection Challenges for Secondary Research on Latent Variables. In 2024 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Methodological Issues with Empirical Studies in Software Engineering (WSESE '24), pages 1–6, April 2024.
Marvin Wyrich and Sven Apel. Evidence Tetris in the Pixelated World of Validity Threats. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Methodological Issues with Empirical Studies in Software Engineering (WSESE), pages 13–16. ACM, April 2024.

2023

Marvin Wyrich. Evidence for the design of code comprehension experiments. PhD thesis, University of Stuttgart, December 2023.
Marvin Wyrich, Justus Bogner, and Stefan Wagner. 40 years of designing code comprehension experiments: A systematic mapping study. ACM Computing Surveys, 56(4):1–42, November 2023.
Marvin Wyrich and Stefan Wagner. Teaching Computer Science Students to Communicate Scientific Findings More Effectively. In 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET), pages 107–114, May 2023.
Marvin Muñoz Barón, Marvin Wyrich, Daniel Graziotin, and Stefan Wagner. Evidence Profiles for Validity Threats in Program Comprehension Experiments. In 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pages 1907–1919, May 2023.
Jonas Fritzsch, Marvin Wyrich, Justus Bogner, and Stefan Wagner. Resist the Hype!: Practical Recommendations to Cope With Résumé-Driven Development. IEEE Software, 40(5):41–49, May 2023.

2022

Marvin Wyrich, Lasse Merz, and Daniel Graziotin. Anchoring Code Understandability Evaluations Through Task Descriptions. In ICPC '22: Proceedings of the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension, pages 133–140, 2022.

2021

Marvin Wyrich, Andreas Preikschat, Daniel Graziotin, and Stefan Wagner. The Mind Is a Powerful Place: How Showing Code Comprehensibility Metrics Influences Code Understanding. In 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pages 512–523. IEEE, 2021.
Jonas Fritzsch, Marvin Wyrich, Justus Bogner, and Stefan Wagner. Résumé-Driven Development: A Definition and Empirical Characterization. In 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS), pages 19–28. IEEE, 2021.
Stefan Wagner and Marvin Wyrich. Code Comprehension Confounders: A Study of Intelligence and Personality. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2021.
Marvin Wyrich, Raoul Ghit, Tobias Haller, and Christian Müller. Bots Don’t Mind Waiting, Do They? Comparing the Interaction With Automatically and Manually Created Pull Requests. In 2021 IEEE/ACM Third International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE), pages 6–10. IEEE, 2021.

2020

Marvin Wyrich, Regina Hebig, Stefan Wagner, and Riccardo Scandariato. Perception and Acceptance of an Autonomous Refactoring Bot. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, pages 303–310. SciTePress, 2020.
Marvin Muñoz Barón, Marvin Wyrich, and Stefan Wagner. An Empirical Validation of Cognitive Complexity as a Measure of Source Code Understandability. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), pages 1–12, 2020.

2019

Marvin Wyrich, Daniel Graziotin, and Stefan Wagner. A theory on individual characteristics of successful coding challenge solvers. PeerJ Computer Science, Volume 5, page e173, 2019.
Marvin Wyrich and Justus Bogner. Towards an autonomous bot for automatic source code refactoring. In 2019 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE), pages 24–28. IEEE, 2019.

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