Research Profile of Dr.-Ing. Jochen Quante

Short Curriculum Vitae

1992-1998: studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe
1998-2004: Software Engineer for init GmbH, Karlsruhe
2004-2008: Research and Teaching Assistant at the University of Bremen in the Software Engineering Group (Prof. Dr. Rainer Koschke)
2008-2016: Research Engineer for Robert Bosch GmbH, Corporate Research, Stuttgart
since 2017: Senior Expert for Software Analysis and Design at Robert Bosch GmbH, Corporate Research, Stuttgart

Publications

Books

Jochen Quante: Dynamic Object Process Graphs, Verlag Monsenstein und Vannerdat, Münster, 2009. PDF
Rainer Gimnich, Uwe Kaiser, Jochen Quante, Andreas Winter (Eds.): 10th Workshop Software Reengineering. Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Vol. P-126, GI, Bonn, 2008.

Book Chapters

Jochen Quante: Schätzen des Aufwands. In Helmut Balzert: Lehrbuch der Softwaretechnik: Basiskonzepte und Requirements Engineering. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2009.
Wasim Said, Jochen Quante, Rainer Koschke: Interactive Measures for Mining Understandable State Machines from Embedded Software: Experiments and Case Studies. Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, ser. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 991, Springer International, 2019.

International Journals

Wasim Said, Jochen Quante, Rainer Koschke: Mining Understandable State Machine Models from Embedded Code. Journal on Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 4759-4808, 2020. Link
Jochen Quante, Rainer Koschke: Dynamic Object Process Graphs. Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 481-501, 2008. Link

International Conferences

Jesko Hecking-Harbusch, Jochen Quante, Maximilian Schlund: Formal Runtime Error Detection During Development in the Automotive Industry. Proc. of 25th Int'l Conf. on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2024), London, United Kindom, January 2024. Link
Wasim Said, Jochen Quante, Rainer Koschke: Do Extracted State Machine Models Help to Understand Embedded Software?. Proc. of 27th Int'l Conf. on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2019), Montreal, QC, Canada, May 2019. Link
Wasim Said, Jochen Quante, Rainer Koschke: Towards Understandable Guards of Extracted State Machines from Embedded Software. Proc. of 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2019), Hangzhou, China, Feburary 2019. Link
Wasim Said, Jochen Quante, Rainer Koschke: Reflexion Models for State Machine Extraction and Verification. Proc. of 34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2018), Madrid, Spain, September 2018. Link
Wasim Said, Jochen Quante, Rainer Koschke: On State Machine Mining from Embedded Control Software. Proc. of 34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2018), Madrid, Spain, September 2018. Link
Wasim Said, Jochen Quante, Rainer Koschke: Towards Interactive Mining of Understandable State Machine Models from Embedded Software. Proc. of 6th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD 2018), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 2018. Received the Best Student Paper Award. Link
Jochen Quante: Use Cases of a Generic Model Interpreter in an Automotive Software Setting. Proc. of 32nd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2016), Raleigh, NC, USA, October 2016. Link
Jochen Quante: A Program Interpreter Framework for Arbitrary Abstractions. Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2016), Raleigh, NC, USA, October 2016. Link
Jochen Quante, Mohammed Tarabain, Janet Siegmund: Towards recovering and exploiting domain knowledge from C code: A case study on automotive software. Proc. of CSMR-WCRE Software Evolution Week (CSMR-WCRE 2014), Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 383-386, February 2014. Link
Andreas Thums, Jochen Quante: Reengineering Embedded Automotive Software. Proc. of the 28th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012), Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy, September 2012. Link
Andrew Begel, Jochen Quante: Industrial Program Comprehension Challenge 2011: Archeology and Anthropology of Embedded Control Systems. Proc. of the 19th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2011), Kingston, Ontario, Canada, pp. 227-229, June 2011. Link
Vincent Schulte-Coerne, Andreas Thums, Jochen Quante: Challenges in Reengineering Automotive Software. Proc. of the 13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2009), Kaiserslautern, Germany, pp. 315-316, March 2009. Link
Jochen Quante: Do Dynamic Object Process Graphs Support Program Understanding? - A Controlled Experiment. Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2008), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, pp. 73-82, June 2009. Link
Jochen Quante, Rainer Koschke: Dynamic Protocol Recovery. Proc. of the 14th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2007), pp. 219-228, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2007. Link
Jochen Quante: Online Construction of Dynamic Object Process Graphs. Proc. of the 11th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2007), pp. 113-122, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 2007. Link
Jochen Quante: Dynamic Object Process Graph Extraction for Program Understanding and Protocol Recovery. Proc. of the 11th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2007), pp. 345-348, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 2007 (Doctoral Symposium). Link
Jochen Quante, Rainer Koschke: Dynamic Object Process Graphs. Proc. of the 10th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2006), pp. 79-88, Bari, Italy, March 2006. Received the Best Paper Award among 65 submissions. Link
Rainer Koschke, Jochen Quante: On Dynamic Feature Location. Proc. of the 20th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2005), pp. 86-95, Long Beach, CA, USA, November 2005. Acceptance rate: 10% Link

Workshops

Jochen Quante, Matthias Woehrle: Chances and Challenges of LLM-based Software Reengineering. WSRE 2024 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 44, No. 2, May 2024. PDF
Jochen Quante, Sushmita Suresh Naragund: Towards Statically Checking Adherence to API Protocols. WSRE 2023 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 43, No. 2, May 2023. PDF
Jochen Quante Clang Preprocessor Tricks for Setting up Source Code Analysis Tools. WSRE 2022 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 42, No. 2, May 2022. PDF
Jochen Quante, Thomas Grundler: Managing Software Complexity in Automotive SW Development. WSRE 2022 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 42, No. 2, May 2022. PDF
Jochen Quante: Approximating the Number of Execution Paths in Simulink Models. WSRE 2020 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 39, No. 2, May 2020. PDF
Jochen Quante, Wasim Said: Reflexion Models for State Diagrams. WSRE 2019 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 38, No. 2, May 2019. PDF
Wasim Said, Jochen Quante: Mining of Comprehensible State Machine Models for Embedded Software Comprehension. WSRE 2019 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 38, No. 2, May 2019. PDF
Thomas Grundler, Hendrik Post, Jochen Quante, Sadi Yigit: 42 Jahre Komplexitätsmetriken - Was stoppt uns?. Embedded Software Engineering Kongress, ESE 2018. Web
Manar Mazkatli, Erik Burger, Anne Koziolek, Jochen Quante: Integrating semantically-related Legacy Models in Vitruvius. 10th Workshop on Modelling in Software Engineering (MiSE'2018) at ICSE 2018, Gothenberg, Sweden, May 2018. PDF
Jochen Quante: 15 Years of Reengineering Embedded Control Software at Bosch. WSRE 2018 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 37, No. 2, May 2018. PDF
Wasim Said, Jochen Quante: State Machine Mining from Embedded Software: An Interactive Approach. WSRE 2018 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 37, No. 2, May 2018. PDF
Jochen Quante, Andreas Thums, Olga Pikuleva: Transformation of Preprocessor Variance to Post-Build Variance. WSRE 2017 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 36, No. 2, May 2017. PDF
Wasim Said, Jochen Quante: Towards Interactive Model Mining From Embedded Software. WSRE 2017 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 36, No. 2, May 2017. PDF
Jochen Quante: A Software Analysis Framework for Automotive Embedded Software. WSRE 2016 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 35, No. 2, May 2016. PDF
Andreas Hoffmann, Jochen Quante, Matthias Wöhrle: Experience Report: White Box Test Case Generation for Automotive Embedded Software. TAIC PART 2016.
Jochen Quante: Software Reengineering Bibliometrics - People, Topics, and Locations. WSRE 2015 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 34, No. 2, May 2015. PDF
Robert Heumüller, Jochen Quante, Andreas Thums: Parsing Variant C Code: An Evaluation on Automotive Software. WSRE 2014 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 34, No. 2, May 2014. PDF
Jochen Quante: Views for Efficient Program Understanding of Automotive Software. WSR 2013 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 33, No. 2, May 2013. PDF
Frank Ortmeier, Simon Struck, Jens Meinicke, Jochen Quante: A Pragmatic Approach For Debugging Parameter-Driven Software. Software Engineering 2013, GI-Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), P-213, pp. 199-212.
Jochen Quante: When Program Comprehension Met Bug Fixing. WSR 2012 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 32, No. 2, May 2012. PDF
Francesco Gerardi, Jochen Quante: Type 2 Clone Detection on ASCET Models. WSR 2012 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 32, No. 2, May 2012. PDF
Jochen Quante: Reengineering Automotive Software at Bosch. WSR 2011 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 31, No. 2, May. 2011. PDF
Jochen Quante, Thomas Grundler, Andreas Thums: Maintainability Index Revisited: Adaption and Evaluation for Bosch Automotive Software. Tagungsband des 3. Workshops zur Software-Qualitätsmodellierung und -bewertung (SQMB 2010), TUM-I1001, pp. 67-70, Feb. 2010. Proceedings
Vincent Schulte-Coerne, Andreas Thums, Jochen Quante: Automotive Software: Characteristics and Reengineering Challenges. WSR 2009 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 29, No. 2, May 2009. PDF
Jochen Quante: Ein kontrolliertes Experiment zum Programmverstehen. WSR 2009 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 29, No. 2, May 2009. PDF
Jochen Quante: Using Library Dependencies for Clustering. Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Vol. P-126, pp. 171-175, 2008. PDF
Jochen Quante, Thilo Mende: Workshop Applied Program Analysis. Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Vol. P-110, pp. 245-246, 2007.
Jochen Quante: Erzeugung dynamischer Objektprozessgraphen zur Laufzeit. WSR 2007 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 27, No. 2, May 2007. PDF
Jochen Quante, Rainer Koschke: Erzeugung und Anwendungen dynamischer Objektprozessgraphen. WSR 2006 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 26, No. 2, May 2006. PDF
Raimar Falke, Raimund Klein, Rainer Koschke, Jochen Quante: The Dominance Tree in Visualizing Software Dependencies. Proc. of the 3rd International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT 2005), pp. 83-88, 2005.
Raimund Klein, Rainer Koschke, Jochen Quante: Erfahrungsberichte zur Lokalisierung von Produktfunktionen im Code. WSR 2005 / Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. 25, No. 2, May 2005. PDF

Invited Talks

Promises and Challenges of AI-enabled Software Development Tools for Safety-Critical Applications; invited panelist at the 27th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2023)
Automotive Software REvolution; invited keynote at the "35th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution" (ICSME 2019)
Software Evolution at Bosch; Uni Tübingen, Vorlesung "Software Engineering", 27.4.2016
Software Evolution at Bosch; KIT, Vorlesung "Software-Evolution", 22.1.2015
Challenges in Engineering Automotive Software; TU München, 10.10.2014
Erfahrungen mit empirischen Methoden in der Software-Forschung bei Bosch; Uni Passau, Vorlesung "Empirische Methoden für Informatiker", 3.7.2014
Software Evolution at Bosch; KIT, Vorlesung "Software-Evolution", 13.2.2014
Software Evolution at Bosch; KIT, Vorlesung "Software-Evolution", 20.12.2012
Erfahrungen mit empirischen Methoden in der Software-Forschung bei Bosch; Uni Magdeburg, Vorlesung "Empirische Methoden für Informatiker", 10.12.2012
Software Evolution at Bosch; KIT, Vorlesung "Software-Evolution", 10.1.2012
Reengineering von Embedded Automotive Software; Hochschule Karlsruhe, Praxisforum, 3.11.2011

Committees and Conference Organization

Program committee member for the "40th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution" Industry Track (ICSME 2024)
Program committee member for the "24th International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation" Engineering Track (SCAM 2024)
Co-organizer of the "26th Workshop Software Reengineering and Evolution" (WSRE 2024) in Bad Honnef
Program committee member for the "12th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering" (MODELSWARD 2024)
Program committee member for the "39th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution" Industry Track (ICSME 2023)
Program committee member for the "23rd International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation" Engineering Track (SCAM 2023)
Co-organizer of the "25th Workshop Software Reengineering and Evolution" (WSRE 2023) in Bad Honnef
Chair of the Software Reengineering interest group of the German computer society (GI) (again) since 2022
Program committee member for the "38th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution" Industry Track (ICSME 2022)
Program committee member for the "22nd International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation" Engineering Track (SCAM 2022)
Program committee member for the "37th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution" Research Track (ICSME 2021)
Program committee member for the "28th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering" Industry Track (SANER 2021)
Program committee member for the "20th International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation" Engineering Track (SCAM 2020)
Program committee member for the "36th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution" Research and Industry Tracks (ICSME 2020)
Program committee member for the "7th Collaborative Workshop on Evolution and Maintenance of Long-Living Software Systems" (EMLS 2020)
Program committee member for the "27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering" Industry Track (SANER 2020)
Program committee member for the "35th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution" Research and Industry Tracks (ICSME 2019)
Program committee member for the "19th International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation" (SCAM 2019)
Program committee member for the "6th Collaborative Workshop on Evolution and Maintenance of Long-Living Software Systems" (EMLS 2019)
Program committee member for the "18th International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation" Research and Engineering Tracks (SCAM 2018)
Program committee member for the "17th International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation" Research and Engineering Tracks (SCAM 2017)
Program committee member for the "11th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering" Industry Track (ESEC/FSE 2017)
Program committee member for the "32nd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution" (ICSME 2016)
Program committee member for the "39th International Conference on Software Engineering" Main Track and Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) Track (ICSE 2017)
Program committee member for the "4th Collaborative Workshop on Evolution and Maintenance of Long-Living Software Systems" (EMLS 2017)
2007-2016 Member of the board of the Software Reengineering interest group of the German computer society (GI); chair from 2010-2013
Co-organizer of the "18th Workshop Software Reengineering and Evolution" (WSRE 2016) in Bad Honnef
Program committee member for the "3rd Collaborative Workshop on Evolution and Maintenance of Long-Living Software Systems" (EMLS 2016)
Program committee member for the "30th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering" (ASE 2015) Tool Demo Track
Industrial track co-chair and program committee member for the "31st International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution" (ICSME 2015)
Co-organizer of the "17th Workshop Software Reengineering and Evolution" (WSRE 2015) in Bad Honnef
Program committee member for the "22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering" (SANER 2015)
Program committee member for the "30th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution" (ICSME 2014)
Program committee member for the "22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension" (ICPC 2014)
Co-organizer of the "16th Workshop Software Reengineering and Evolution" (WSRE 2014) in Bad Honnef
Co-organizer of the "15th Workshop Software Reengineering" (WSR 2013) in Bad Honnef
Co-organizer of the "14th Workshop Software Reengineering" (WSR 2012) in Bad Honnef
Program committee member for the "28th International Conference on Software Maintenance" (ICSM 2012)
Publicity chair of the "20th International Conference on Program Comprehension" (ICPC 2012)
Co-organizer of the "13th Workshop Software Reengineering" (WSR 2011) in Bad Honnef
Industrial track co-chair at the "19th International Conference on Program Comprehension" (ICPC 2011)
Program committee member for the "11th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation" (SCAM 2011)
Program committee member for the "4. Workshop Software-Qualitätsmodellierung und -bewertung" (SQMB 2011)
Co-organizer of the "12th Workshop Software Reengineering" (WSR 2010) in Bad Honnef
Program committee member for the "18th International Conference on Program Comprehension" (ICPC 2010)
Co-organizer of the "11th Workshop Software Reengineering" (WSR 2009) in Bad Honnef
Program committee member for the "13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering" (CSMR 2009)
Co-organizer of the "10th Workshop Software Reengineering" (WSR 2008) in Bad Honnef
Program committee member for the "12th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering" (CSMR 2008)
Initiator and co-organizer of the "Workshop on Applied Program Analysis" (APA 2007)
Member of the organizational committee of the GI conference INFORMATIK 2007 in Bremen