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| Bachelor's / Master's Thesis | Lang. | Type | Contact |
|---|
| Title | Type | Advisor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generation and Analysis of Metamorphic Test Cases for Neural Networks | Bachelor's | S. Speth | |
| Anomaly Detection of Connectivity Events in the Automotive Domain | Master's | N.Kolb | |
| Enhancing Precision and Speed in Regression Test Selection by Identifying Safe Code Changes | Master's | R. Würsching | |
| Navigating the Neural Maze: A Strategic Guide for Evaluating and Improving the Robustness of Deep Neural Networks | GR | V. Vekariya | |
| Test Case Prioritization using Latent Space Properties of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) | Bachelor's | V. Vekariya | |
| Scenario Parameters for Testing Reactive and Predictive Swarm Controllers | Bachelor's | D. Marson | |
| Semantic Clustering and Visualization of University Modules Using NLP | Bachelor's | J. Düsing | |
| Creating an Automated Course Recommendation System for Students | Bachelor's | J. Düsing | |
| Mutation Testing for Microservice Systems | Master's | L. Gregor | |
| Coverage Criteria for Integration Testing of Microservice Systems | Bachelor's | L. Gregor | |
| Analyzing Faults in Microservice Systems | Bachelor's | L. Gregor | |
| Supporting Developers in Repairing Flaky Tests in CI | Master's | F. Leinen | |
| Improving Robustness of Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Driving | Master's | S. Speth | |
| Data Augmentation in the Latent Space for Boosting Performance on Radar-Based Presence Sensing Applications | Master's | S. Speth |
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Effectiveness of Search-Based Testing on a Deep Reinforcement-Learned Swarm Controller | Bachelor's | 2024 |
| Evaluating ChatGPT for Software Testing | Master's | 2024 |
| Benchmark for Autonomous Vehicle Testing | Guided R. | 2024 |
| Search Space Creation for Testing Autonomous Driving Systems | Master's | 2024 |
| Metamorphic Testing of Radar-Based Deep Learning Object Detectors | Master's | 2024 |
| Investigating Latent Space Testing Boundaries in Deep Learning Models | Bachelor's | 2024 |
| Prioritizing Regression Tests for Manual Testing of Mobile Applications | Master's | 2024 |
| Enhanced Debugging of Flaky Test Cases | Master's | 2024 |
| A Study on Flaky Tests | Bachelor's | 2024 |
| Comparing Approaches for Flaky Test Research | Bachelor's | 2024 |
| Fehlerhandling in Microservice Architekturen | Bachelor's | 2024 |
| A Fault Injection Method for Evaluating Test Generation Frameworks for Microservices | Master's | 2024 |
| Optimizing Relevant Quality Attributes of Collaborating Autonomous UAVs | Bachelor's | 2024 |
| Test Case Generation for Robust Behavior During Component Failures in Collaborating Autonomous Aerial Vehicles | Master's | 2024 |
| Fuzzing Algorand Smart Contracts | Master's | 2024 |
| Regression Test Selection for Rust | Guided R. | 2023 |
| Increasing Data Sharing Appeal Through Incentive Mechanisms | Master's | 2023 |
| Evaluation of a Metric for Measuring Program Code Change | Master's | 2023 |
| An Empirical Investigation of Chilling Effects Induced by Workplace Software | Master's | 2023 |
| Static Analysis of Algorand Smart Contracts | Bachelor's | 2023 |
| Applying Safety Testing to Collaborative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | Bachelor's | 2023 |
| Informing Consent Decisions to Usage of Health Data in an Inverse Transparent Workplace | Bachelor's | 2023 |
| Non-repudiable Data Exchange With Blockchain | Bachelor's | 2023 |
| Automated Smart Contract Quality Assurance | Bachelor's | 2023 |
| Automatically Detecting Flaky End-to-End Test Failures Using Code Coverage | Master's | 2023 |
| Automated Fault Localization in Matlab Simulink Models | Bachelor's | 2023 |
| Model-Based Diagnosis on Cyber-Physical Systems | Bachelor's | 2023 |
| Automatic Failure Categorization – An Ablation Study | Master's | 2023 |
| Reducing Effort for Flaky Test Detection Through Resource Limitation | Bachelor's | 2023 |
| Tool-Supported Reconstruction of Software Architectures | Master's | 2023 |
| Applicability of Blockchain Technologies When Handling Personally Identifiable Information | Bachelor's | 2023 |
| Privacy Boosts: Benevolent Educational Interventions for Data Subjects’ Privacy Behaviour | Bachelor's | 2023 |
| Analyzing the Effectiveness of Rerunning Tests for Detecting Flaky UI Tests | Bachelor's | 2022 |
| Scenarios in the Intersection Context - Data-Driven Derivation and Description | Master's | 2022 |
| Multi-Party End-to-End Encryption for the Inverse Transparency Toolchain | Master's | 2022 |
| Integrating Defect Class Predictions into the Review Workflow of Testers | Master's | 2022 |
| Practical Application of Flaky Test Identification and Classification for Root Cause Analysis in the Context of Continuous Integration | Master's | 2022 |
| Design of a Zero Trust Infrastructure for the Execution of GDPR Rights (Entrepeneurial Masterclass) | Master's | 2022 |
| Data Owner Benefit-Driven Design of People Analytics | Guided R. | 2022 |
| Reducing Effort for Flaky Test Detection through Dynamic Program Analysis | Bachelor's | 2022 |
| Incentive Mechanism Design for an Inverse Transparent Environment | Master's | 2022 |
| Metamorphic Testing of LiDAR/RADAR Obstacle Detection Systems | Master's | 2022 |
| Latent Space-Based Test Case Generation of Naturally Occurring Environmental Conditions for Traffic Sign Classifiers | Master's | 2022 |
| Search-Based Robustness Testing for Deep Learning Computer Vision Systems | Master's | 2022 |
| Empirical Analysis of Flaky Tests in Practice - An Automotive Case Study | Bachelor’s | 2022 |
| Model-based Fault Localization for System-level Testing of Cyber-Physical Systems | Bachelor’s | 2022 |
| Failure Cause Analysis in Regression Testing for Automotive Software | Bachelor’s | 2022 |
| Search-Based Robustness Testing for Deep Learning Computer Vision Systems | Master's | 2022 |
| Dependency-Injection-Aware Regression Test Selection | Bachelor's | 2022 |
| Regression Test Selection for End-to-end Testing in Distributed Multi-language Web Applications | Master's | 2022 |
| Determining Root Causes of Flaky Tests Using System Call Analysis | Master's | 2022 |
| Detecting Code Smells using Graph Neural Networks | Bachelor's | 2022 |
| Metamorphic Testing of LiDAR/RADAR Obstacle Detection Systems | Master's | 2022 |
| Blockchain-based Logging for the Inverse Transparency Toolchain | Bachelor's | 2022 |
| Inverse Transparency for Cloud Architectures | Bachelor's | 2022 |
| Scraping online documentation of Ardupilot UAV system to generate a knowledge-based causal graph | Bachelor’s | 2022 |
| Automatic derivation of traffic scenario instance descriptions for testing automated and autonomous driving systems in the highway context | Bachelor's | 2022 |
| Automatic derivation of traffic scenario instance descriptions for testing automated and autonomous driving systems in the intersection context | Bachelor's | 2022 |
| Building a UAV Flight Data Set | Bachelor’s | 2022 |
| Investigating Inter-Class Attributes for Capturing Software Maintainability | Master's | 2022 |
| Latent Space-Based Test Case Generation of Naturally Occurring Environmental Conditions for Traffic Sign Classifiers | Master's | 2022 |
| Evaluating the Impact of Knowledge Aggregation with Subjective Logic on the Overall System's Adaptivity in Multi-Agent Self-Adaptive Cyber-Physical Systems | Master’s | 2022 |
| Designing a Usable Inverse Transparency Dashboard | Master's | 2022 |
| Evaluating the Impact of the Base Rate in Knowledge Aggregation with Subjective Logic in Multi-Agent Self-Adaptive Cyber-Physical Systems | Bachelor’s | 2021 |
| Defect Prediction in Open Source Software Using Workflow Metrics | Master's | 2021 |
| Quantifying Adequacy of Software-Programs | Master's | 2021 |
| IT security awareness: comparing inovulation methods | Master's | 2021 |
| Qualitative Metrics for the Assessment of Intrusion Detection on the Controller Area Network | Master's | 2021 |
| Scaling Self-Checksumming Combined with Virtualization Obfuscation to Real-World Software | Bachelor's | 2021 |
| Software Integrity Protection Versus Machine Learning Attacks | Master's | 2021 |
| A Framework for Engineering Self-Adaptive Cyber-Physical Systems | Master's | 2021 |
| Detecting Smells in Data Models | Master's | 2021 |
| Identifier Dictionary | Bachelor's | 2021 |
| Configuration of Static Analysis Tools for Effective Bug Detection | Master's | 2021 |
| Tamper-proof Inverse Transparency Logs with Intel SGX | Bachelor's | 2021 |
| Inverse Transparency in High Data Security Environments | Bachelor's | 2021 |
| Scaling Self-Checksumming Combined with Virtualization Obfuscation to Real-World Software | Bachelor's | 2021 |
| Model-based Fault Localization for Cyber-Physical Systems with Limited Observability | Bachelor’s | 2021 |
| Applying Inverse Transparency to Intercompany Contexts | Bachelor's | 2021 |
| Co-Simulation-based Experimental Platform for Cyber-Physical Systems | Bachelor's | 2021 |
| Algorithmic Accountability for Inverse Tranparency | Master's | 2021 |
| A Super-Metric for Measuring Adequacy in the Context of Software Architecture and Software Programming | Master's | 2021 |
| Enabling Sensible People Analytics with Inverse Transparency | Master's | 2021 |
| Using Text- and Image-Based Machine Learning to Predict Software Quality | Master's | 2021 |
| Assessing the Reliability of Optimization Algorithms for Detecting Worst-Case Situations for UAVs | Bachelor's | 2021 |
| A Systematic Assessment of Machine Learning-Based Intrusion Detection Systems for the Automotive Domain | Bachelor's | 2021 |
| Automatisiertes Test Management für Hardware-in-the-loop Prüfstände im Automobilumfeld | Bachelor's | 2021 |
| Systematic Evaluation and Refinement of Automotive Intrusion Detection Systems | Master's | 2021 |
| Evaluation Framework for a Self-Adaptive Cyber-Physical System on an Example of a Multi-Robot System | Master’s | 2021 |
| Incident Response Automation: Challenges and Opportunities for Automated Course of Action Deployment | Master’s | 2021 |
| Generation of OVAL Checks for Security-Configuration Assessments | Bachelor’s | 2021 |
| Automatic Selection of Security-relevant Configurations | Bachelor’s | 2021 |
| A study on failure situation exploration and the benefits for iterative diagnosis | Bachelor's | 2021 |
| Using machine learning to predict software vulnerabilities in low-level code | Master's | 2021 |
| Regression Test Optimization in Microservices by Linking Distributed Tracing with Code Instrumentation | Master's | 2021 |
| Run-time Reasoning and Solving Conflicting Observations with Subjective Logic in Multi-Agent Self-Adaptive Cyber-Physical Systems | Master’s | 2020 |
| Semantically-Enhanced Failure Diagnosis : Application of Ontology-based Reasoning to an Autonomous Crane System | Master’s | 2020 |
| Tracking Jira Data Accesses through the Database Layer | Bachelor’s | 2020 |
| An Analysis Plugin Toolbox for Jira Software | Bachelor’s | 2020 |
| Methodologically Achieving User Trust | Bachelor’s | 2020 |
| Fighting bushfires with Preparation: Prevention of Malware spread using Security-Configuration Guidelines | Bachelor’s | 2020 |
| Change-based Test Execution Optimization in the Development Environment | Bachelor’s | 2020 |
| Realization of Adaptive System Transitions for Smart Self-Adaptive Cyber-Physical Systems using a Modular Approach with Learned Parameters on an Example of Multi-Robot Collaboration | Master’s | 2020 |
| Experimental Derivation of Fitness Functions for Testing Automated and Autonomous Driving Systems in Road Intersection Scenarios | Master’s | 2020 |
| Multi-Agent Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes for Planning in Multi-Robot Self-Adaptive Cyber-Physical Systems | Guided R. | 2020 |
| Logical Architecture for Engineering Smart Self-Adaptive Cyber- Physical Systems | Guided R. | 2020 |
| Anomaly Detection in Multi-Agent Cyber-Physical Systems | Bachelor’s | 2020 |
| Automatic and Reproducible Attacks on insecurely configured Systems based on Security-Configuration Rules | Master’s | 2020 |
| Automating User Acceptance Tests | Bachelor’s | 2020 |
| Assessing the Quality of Data Models | Master’s | 2020 |
| Mining Repositories for Automatic Quality Estimations | Bachelor’s | 2020 |
| Preventing Repackaging of Android Apps Using Integrity Checking | Master’s | 2020 |
| Similarity-based System Trajectory Classification | Bachelor’s | 2020 |
| Cornering Cohesion: Investigating new ways to measure cohesion | Master’s | 2020 |
| Failure Pattern Recognition based on Test Results in Hardware-in-the-Loop Setups | Master’s | 2020 |
| Measuring cohesion and coupling: a comparison of different metrics and their usefulness for software quality analyses | Bachelor’s | 2020 |
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Model-driven Monitoring Orchestration For Microservices | Master’s | 2019 |
| A Canvas for Causal Modeling | Bachelor’s | 2019 |
| A labeling Platform for Source COde | Bachelor’s | 2019 |
| Multi-Source Knowledge Aggregation in Subjective Logic | Master’s | 2019 |
| Security-Configuration Automation for UNIX | Master’s | 2019 |
| Design of an Improved Scapolite Check Mechanism | Bachelor’s | 2019 |
| Automatic Security Configuration for Mobile Devices | Bachelor’s | 2019 |
| Conflict Scenarios for an Accountability-Enabled Multi-Robot Simulation | Bachelor’s | 2019 |
| Path Planning and Consensus Algorithms for an Accountability-Enabled Multi-Robot Simulation | Bachelor’s | 2019 |
| Modelling of Attack Trees for Security Assessment of Hardening Mechanisms | Bachelor’s | 2019 |
| Building a Framework for Objective Evaluation of Malware Detection Methods | Bachelor’s | 2019 |
| Detection of Android Repackaged Malware with Active Learning | Bachelor’s | 2019 |
| Resilience of SIP against ML-based attacks | Master’s | 2019 |
| Knowledge Discovery from Drone Logs | Master’s | 2019 |
| Vectorizing Software for Machine Learning | Master’s | 2019 |
| Identification of generated code parts | Bachelor’s | 2019 |
| Simplifying Configuration Management in the Automotive Industry | Master’s | 2019 |
| Securing Microservice Cluster Management Cockpit using Blockchain | Master’s | 2019 |
| Public key Tracing Framework using Blockchain | Master’s | 2019 |
| Software protection composition framework | Master’s | 2019 |
| Design and Implementation of ROS-Based Simulated Multi-Robot Systems for Data Collection | Master’s | 2019 |
| Runtime Verification of Dynamic Architectures | Master’s | 2018 |
| Constraint size thresholding in symbolic execution for broader path coverage | Bachelor’s | 2018 |
| Fast and parallel compositional fuzzing aided by symbolic execution | Bachelor’s | 2018 |
| Design and Evaluation of an Agile Software Development Process for Space Applications | Master’s | 2018 |
| Real-Time Remote Intrusion Detection | Master's | 2018 |
| Comparing Stimulation Techniques for Detecting Android Piggybacked Malware | Master’s | 2018 |
| Software Protection Ontology Visualization | Bachelor’s | 2018 |
| Automatic Repackaging of Android Applications | Bachelor’s | 2018 |
| Self-adaptive cyber-physical systems utilizing different machine learning techniques | Guided Research | 2018 |
| Analysis and Detection of Repackaged Malware Behavior | Master’s | 2018 |
| Testing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems: Procedural Environment Generation for Simulated Test Scenarios | Master’s | 2017 |
| Impact factors for severity assessment of bugs discovered via compositional symbolic execution | Master’s | 2017 |
| Anomaly detection and prediction in distributed software systems using machine learning | Bachelor’s | 2017 |
| Repackaged Malware Detection in Android | Bachelor’s | 2017 |
| Dynamic Taint Analysis for Java-based applications | Bachelor’s | 2017 |
| Benchmarking Symbolic Execution Tools on Custom Block Ciphers | Bachelor’s | 2017 |
| Search-Based Procedural Environment Generation for Simulated Test Scenarios | Guided Research | 2017 |
| Visualization of Causality Algorithms | Master’s | 2017 |
| Qualifizierung von Template-basierendem C++-Code | Bachelor’s | 2017 |
| Evaluierung suchebasierter Verfahren zur automatischen Generierung von Testfällen für kontinuierliche Systeme | Master’s | 2017 |
| Runtime Service Adaption in the Context of Composed Usage Control Driven Services | Bacherlor’s | 2017 |
| Prediction of automated deobfuscation & tampering time using machine learning | Master’s | 2017 |
| iOS Application Hardening via Obfuscation | Master’s | 2017 |
| Detecting Process Memory Tampering | Bachelor’s | 2016 |
| Compositional analysis for exposing vulnerabilities - A symbolic execution approach | Master’s | 2016 |
| Building Accountability Mechanisms into the Roomba iRobot | Bachelor’s | 2016 |
| Automated Attack Planning using a Partially Observable Model for Penetration Testing of Industrial Control Systems | Master’s | 2016 |
| Automatic Generation of Secure and Usable Mnemonic Passphrases | Master’s | 2016 |
| State of the Art Survey of Security Incident Management compliant to ISO 27001 | Guided Research | 2016 |
| A Reliable Automated Vulnerability Check in Continuous Integration | Bachelor’s | 2016 |
| Botnet Battlefield | Master’s | 2016 |
| Tool Support for Social Engineering Threat Analysis | Master’s | 2016 |
| Software Protection by Self-Checking | Master’s | 2016 |
| A Study of Checking Equivalence of Software Programs | Bachelor’s | 2015 |
| Malware Detection with Temporal Quantitative Data Flow Graphs | Master’s | 2015 |
| Fault detection with symbolic execution for Java | Master’s | 2015 |
| A Comparative Study of Secret Sharing Schemes | Master’s | 2015 |
| Combining fault-based and model-based testing for web applications | Bachelor’s | 2015 |
| Software Protection by Virtualization Obfuscation | Master’s | 2015 |
| A Taxonomy of Browser Hijacking Malware | Guided Research | 2015 |
| Metadata Recovery of Transformations from Obfuscated Software via Machine Learning Techniques | Master’s | 2015 |
| Enhancing Accuracy for Usage Control Enforcement | Bachelor’s | 2015 |
| Composing data-usage-driven Services | Bachelor’s | 2015 |
| Securing Data Usage Control Infrastructures | Master’s | 2015 |
| Raising the Bar for Automated Attacks against Web Applications using Software Diversity | Master’s | 2015 |
| Model Based Development of a Safety AUTOSAR Basic Software Component - NVRAM Manager | Bachelor’s | 2015 |
| A Comparative Study of Secret Sharing Schemes | Master’s | 2015 |
| Checking Non-Equivalence of Software Programs using Symbolic Execution | Bachelor’s | 2015 |
| Regressionstests mit Fehlermodellen | Bachelor’s | 2015 |
| Zum Verhältnis von Agilität und Architektur | Master’s | 2015 |
| Design and Implementation of “Sealed Search” on Encrypted Data while Maintaining Privacy | Master’s | 2015 |
| A Generic Description Language for Fault Models | Bachelor’s | 2015 |
| Towards Testing Malware Detection Systems using Behavior Obfuscation | Bachelor’s | 2015 |
| Usage Control for Apple iOS | Master’s | 2015 |
| Code Transformations and Software Diversity for Improving Software Attack and Analysis Resilience | Master’s | 2014 |
| Monitoring Compliance of Third-Party Applications in Online Social Networks | Bachelor’s | 2014 |
| Graph-based system profiling and anomaly detection | Master’s | 2014 |
| Erstellen einer Fehlerdatenbank mit zugehörigem Pflegeprozess | Master’s | 2014 |
| Towards improving data driven usage control precision with intra-process data-flow tracking | Master’s | 2014 |
| A Qualitative Study of Indistinguishability Obfuscation | Bachelor’s | 2014 |
| Fault-model driven test derivation for controller-based systems | Master’s | 2014 |
| Quantitative Data Flow Pattern Mining for Malware Detection | Master’s | 2014 |
| Data Usage Control for Office Applications | Master’s | 2014 |
| Asset Protection via White Box Cryptography | Master’s | 2014 |
| Towards data flow graph based misuse detection at the Windows kernel level | Bachelor’s | 2014 |
| A Test Automation Framework for AJAX-based Web Applications | Bachelor’s | 2013 |
| A dynamically configurable Policy Information Point | Bachelor’s | 2013 |
| Testing Concurrency in Android Apps | Master’s | 2013 |
| Dynamic Information Flow Tracking for V8 | Master’s | 2013 |
| Distributed Usage Control for the mySQL Server | Master’s | 2012 |
| Data Usage Control for Google Chrome | Diplomarbeit | 2012 |
| Assessment of HTML5 security properties and emerging web security threats | Master’s | 2012 |
| Data Usage Control for the Thunderbird Mail Client | Master’s | 2012 |
| A Policy Management Infrastructure for Distributed Usage Control | Master’s | 2011 |
| Implementation of Usage Control for the Windows API | Master’s | 2011 |
| Extending Android with Usage Control Policies | Master’s | 2011 |
| A hypervisor-based bus system for inter-level data flow tracking | Master’s | 2011 |
| Data Usage Control for a Web Application: The Server | Bachelor’s | 2010 |
| Data Usage Control for a Web Application: The Client | Bachelor’s | 2010 |
| Bringing Trust to the Cloud | Bachelor’s | 2010 |
| Usage Control for Dynamically Loaded Windows Binaries | Bachelor’s | 2010 |
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering Bytecode to Detect Implicit Information Flow | Bachelor’s | 2009 |
| Usage Control Enforcement with an Application to the X11 Protocol | Master’s | 2009 |
| Usage Control Enforcement at the CPU level | Master’s | 2009 |
| Usage Control Enforcement at the Java bytecode level | Master’s | 2009 |
| Analysis of Usage Control Policies | Master’s | 2008 |
| Delegation in Usage Control | Master’s | 2008 |
| AXIS-Based Configuration of Services for Usage Control | Studienarbeit | 2008 |
| Sicherheitsanalyse einer Webapplikation | Studienarbeit | 2007 |
| Policy Evaluation and Negotiation in Distributed Usage Control | Master’s | 2007 |
| Translating Usage Control Policies | Studienarbeit | 2007 |
| Implementing DRM on a Mobile Phone | Studienarbeit | 2007 |
| Monitoring Usage Control Requirements | Master’s | 2006 |
| A Taxonomy of Usage Control Mechanisms | Studienarbeit | 2006 |
| Definition struktureller Überdeckungsmaße für den Test von Continuous Function Charts | Bachelor’s | 2004 |
| Onboard-Testsystem für teilautomatisierte Benutzerfunktionstests im Fahrzeug | Diplomarbeit | 2003 |
| Konzeption und prototypische Implementierung einer Software-Diagnose-Infrastruktur im Fahrzeug | Diplomarbeit | 2003 |