Software Engineering Analytics Group
Software Engineering Analytics Group
Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia
The Software Engineering Analytics (SEA) Group is a spin-off from Software Engineering & Information Systems Group, with which it is still collaborating and sharing a joint project.
Mission statement:
To provide methods for collecting, generating, and analyzing software engineering data with the goal to estimate, predict, and improve the quality of software and software-intensive systems.
What we do:
- Methods and tools for static document and code analysis
- Methods and tools for dynamic code analysis (incl. testing)
- Methods and tools for quality estimation and prediction
- Methods and tools for selecting, augmenting, and generating test data, test cases, test oracles, and test code
See also our group presentations at the UT Alumni Day 2024, the ICS Day 2024, and the ICS Day 2025.
The Team:
- Dietmar Pfahl, PhD, Professor, Head of Group – Google Scholar
- Hina Anwar, PhD, Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
- Kristiina Rahkema, PhD, Assistant Professor (Lecturer, 0.25)
- Faiz Ali Shah, PhD, Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
- Maria Khan, MSc, Junior Lecturer, PhD student (Tallinn University)
- Fauzia Khan, MSc, Junior Lecturer, PhD student
- Maj-Annika Tammisto, MSc, Junior Researcher, PhD student
- Ali Ihsan Güllü, MSc, Junior Researcher, PhD student
- Sander Sats, MSc, Junior Researcher, PhD student
- Muhammad B. Akhtar, MSc, Junior Researcher, PhD student
Past members:
- Alejandra Duque Torres, PhD student (defended PhD in 2025)
- Laima Anna Dalbina, Software Developer (0.25), MSc student (defended MSc in 2024)
- Mariana Falco, PhD, Visiting Researcher
- Ezequiel Scott, PhD, Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
- Tarcio Bezerra, PhD, Visiting Researcher
- Huishi Yin, PhD student (defended PhD in 2019)
- Riivo Kikas, PhD student (defended PhD in 2018, main supervisor: Marlon Dumas)
- Myroslava Stavnycha, MSc student (defended MSc in 2015)
Teaching:
Our group is responsible for teaching the following MSc and BSc level courses:
- Agile Software Development
- Seminar on Enterprise Software / Master of Software Engineering Seminar 1
- Research Seminar on Software Engineering / Master of Software Engineering Seminar 2
- Software Engineering
- Software Testing
Moreover, we are in charge of the curriculum of the International MSc of Software Engineering program.
Supervision:
The group currently supervises five PhD projects:
- Verification and Validation of Safety-Critical Automated Driving Systems
- A digital data twin for the testing of services using the Estonian X-tee ecosystem
- AI-powered methods for detecting and explaining security vulnerabilities in code
- A method for systematically assessing the safety of automated driving systems via simulation
- Energy-efficient AI Solutions
In the past, members of the group supervised or co-supervised eight completed PhD, 50+ completed MSc, and 40+ completed BSc theses (mostly at the University of Tartu but also at the University of Calgary, Canada, the University of Oslo, Norway, and Lund University, Sweden, as well as two leading universities in Pakistan).
MSc/BSc Topics:
Click here to access our list of Bachelors and Masters thesis topics and search with “Software Engineering Analytics”.
Projects:
Group members are contributing to one PRG grant funded by the Estonian Research Council, a collaboration project with the Software Competence Centre Hagenberg, Austria, and a project with Bolt Technology OÜ.
Service:
- Organization of PROFES 2024 in Tartu, Estonia
- Organization of ESEC/FSE 2019 in Tallinn, Estonia
- Organization of ICSSP 2015 in Tallinn, Estonia
