Welcome to my homepage! My name is Sandra and I’m passionate about improving the maintenance of complex software systems, particularly configurbale ones. I am Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in the ACP Section.

I am Software Vice-Coordinator and Core Group member in the EU Cost Action roar-net and management group member of the Fachgruppe Software-Reengineering (SRE) of the German Informatics Society (GI).

What can you discover on this website?

You can find out more about me, my research interests, scientific services, etc. on the linked “About” page.

On my homepage, I also collect some of my main publicly available research artifacts, including talks and preprints.

If you are interested in subjects I taught in form of lectures, exercises or seminars, check out my teaching activities.

Have fun exploring this site and check out the latest news, listed below… :)

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Latest News

[May’25] The management commitee of the EU Cost Action roar-net has elected me as Software Vice-Coordinator.

[Apr’25] I’ve been elected as member of the management group of the Fachgruppe Software-Reengineering (SRE) of the German Informatics Society (GI).

[Apr’25] I presented experiences we made with optimizing feature tracing techniques at the WSRE 2025.

[Mar’25] I gonna present and discuss ongoing work at the FOSD Meeting 2025.

[Mar’25] At SDU’s IMADA talks, I give a talk on ‘‘Variability Management in Complex Systems’’

[Feb’25] For “outstanding review contributions” as PC at VaMoS 2025, I received the Best Reviewer Award :)

[Jan’25] Our JSS article Managing control software variability in Cyber-Physical Production Systems: The V4rdiac approach in which we explore the capabilities of delta-oriented product lines for CPPS got published.

[Jan’25] I’m co-organizing the 16th Transformation Tool Contest as part of the STAF conference. Submission of novel cases, extensions to previous solutions, and nove solutions is now open.

[Dec’24] Great news: Together with Jose Galindo, I have the honor to serve as Research Track Chair at SPLC 2025.

[Nov ‘24] Together with Bianca Wiesmayr, I am organizing the 9th edition of the SECPPS workshop co-located with the GI Software Engineering conference.

[Oct’24] I started as Interim Professor for Programming and Software Engineering at University of Regensburg, next to my Assistant Professorship in the ACP Section at SDU.

[Sep’24] The paper Give an Inch and Take a Mile? Effects of Adding Reliable Knowledge to Heuristic Feature Tracing, received the Best Paper Award at SPLC’24.

[Sep’24] I’m happy to announce that I will co-organize the 9th edition of the SECPPS workshop co-located with the German SE conference.

[Aug’24] Our paper Automated Generation of Code Contracts: Generative AI to the Rescue?, got accepted at the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE).