• Program Comprehension
• Empirical Software Engineering
• Human Aspects

2025

• Marvin Wyrich, Johannes C. Hofmeister, Sven Apel, and Janet Siegmund. Object Disorientation. IEEE Software, 2025. 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, 2025. To appear.
   

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.