Alexander Knüppel, M.Sc.

Institute of Software Engineering and Automotive Informatics
Technische Universität Braunschweig

Informatikzentrum
Mühlenpfordtstr. 23
38106 Braunschweig

Room: IZ 412
Phone: +49 531 391-2289

Email: a.knueppel(at)tu-bs.de

ResearchGate

Photo credit: Knueppel/TU Braunschweig

Research Interests

Feature-oriented software development (FOSD)
Software Product Lines (SPLs) and analysis
Feature modeling
Formal methods/formal verification: deductive verification, model checking, type systems, static analysis, assertion checking
Formal specification: Design by Contracts (DbC), Z-Notation, B-Method
Theorem proving with Coq

Activities

Participation in the Dagstuhlevent: Software Engineering Research Methods Training at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, from 31th March to 3rd April 2019
Participation in the FOSD Meeting 2019 in Weimar, Germany, from 12th March to 15th March 2019
Participation in the Marktoberdorf Summer School 2018 in Marktoberdorf from 31st July to 11th August 2018
Participation in the FOSD Meeting 2018 in Gothenburg from 3rd to 6th June 2018
Participation in the DeepSpec Summer School 2017 in Philadelphia from 13th to 28th July 2017
Participation in the FOSD Meeting 2017 in Odenwald from 14th to 17th March 2017

Projects

CCC: Controlling Concurrent Change

Teaching

TODO

Currently offered student projects and theses

TODO

(Co)-Supervised Theses

Tabea Bordis. Supporting Method Calls in CorC for Developing Correct-by-Construction Software Product Lines. Master's thesis, 2019. In english.
Maren Süwer. Parameter Guidance in the Deductive Program Verier KeY. Master's thesis, 2019. In english.
Markus Gamperle. Specifying Software Components with Multi-Viewpoint Contracts. Bachelor's thesis, 2018. In english.
Enis Belli. Implementing a Graphical Skill Graph Editor for Monitoring Vehicle Guidance Systems. Bachelor's thesis, 2018. In english.
Carsten Padylla. Ein Erfahrungsbericht zur Deduktiven Verifikation mit KeY. Master's thesis, 2017. In german.
Stefanie Bolle. Feature-orientiertes Framing für die Verifikation von Software-Produktlinien. Master's thesis, 2017. In german.

Publications

2019

Thomas Thüm, Alexander Knüppel, Stefan Krüger, Stefanie Bolle, and Ina Schaefer. Feature-Oriented Contract Composition. In Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Elsevier, 2019.
Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, Carsten Immanuel Pardylla, and Ina Schaefer. Understanding Parameters of Deductive Verification: An Empirical Investigation of KeY. In Software Engineering, Bonn, Germany, February 2019. Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).

2018

Tobias Runge, Ina Schaefer, Alexander Knüppel, Loek Cleophas, Derrick Kourie, and Bruce W. Watson. Tool support for Confidentiality by Construction. In HILT 2018 Workshop on Languages and Tools for Ensuring Cyber-Resilience in Critical Software-Intensive Systems (HILT'18), November 2018. To appear.
Ina Schaefer, Tobias Runge, Alexander Knüppel, Loek Cleophas, Derrick Kourie, and Bruce W. Watson. Towards Confidentiality-by-Construction. In 8th International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISoLA'18), November 2018. Springer.
Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, Carsten I. Pardylla, and Ina Schaefer. Scalability of Deductive Verification Depends on Method Call Treatment. In 8th International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISoLA'18), November 2018. Springer.
Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, Carsten Pardylla, and Ina Schaefer. Experience Report on Formally Verifying Parts of OpenJDK's API with KeY. In Fourth Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment (F-IDE), July 2018.
Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, Carsten Pardylla, and Ina Schaefer. Understanding Parameters of Deductive Verification: An Empirical Investigation of KeY. In 9th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP), Held as Part of the Federated Logic Conference, FloC 2018, Oxford, UK, July 2018. Springer.
Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, Stephan Mennicke, Jens Meinicke, and Ina Schaefer. Is There a Mismatch Between Real-World Feature Models and Product-Line Research?. In Software Engineering, Bonn, Germany, March 2018. Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).

2017

Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, Stephan Mennicke, Jens Meinicke, and Ina Schaefer. Is There a Mismatch Between Real-World Feature Models and Product-Line Research?. In Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE). 2017. Software artifacts available: GitHub

2016

Alexander Knüppel. The Role of Complex Constraints in Feature Modeling. Master's thesis, TU Braunschweig, Germany, July 2016. In English.