Kästner, Christian

Understanding understanding source code with functional magnetic resonance imaging

Siegmund, J., Kästner, C., Apel, S., Parnin, C., Bethmann, A., Leich, T., Saake, G., & Brechmann, A. (2014) · Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchTeaching and Learning Programming

Cited by 219

Stress and burnout in open source: toward finding, understanding, and mitigating unhealthy interactions

Raman, N., Cao, M., Tsvetkov, Y., Kästner, C., & Vasilescu, B. (2020) · Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results

Open Source Software InnovationsSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 70

Toward variability-aware testing

Kästner, C., von Rhein, A., Erdweg, S., Pusch, J., Apel, S., Rendel, T., & Ostermann, K. (2012) · Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development - FOSD '12

Software Testing and Debugging TechniquesAdvanced Software Engineering Methodologies

Cited by 63

How has forking changed in the last 20 years?: a study of hard forks on GitHub

Zhou, S., Vasilescu, B., & Kästner, C. (2020) · Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering

Open Source Software InnovationsSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 36

Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars on GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware

He, H., Yang, H., Burckhardt, P., Kapravelos, A., Vasilescu, B., & Kästner, C. (2026) · Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering

Spam and Phishing DetectionSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 28

Beyond the Comfort Zone: Emerging Solutions to Overcome Challenges in Integrating LLMs into Software Products

Nahar, N., Kästner, C., Butler, J., Parnin, C., Zimmermann., T., & Bird, C. (2025) · 2025 IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP)

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 13

Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware

He, H., Yang, H., Burckhardt, P., Kapravelos, A., Vasilescu, B., & Kästner, C. (2024) · arXiv

Spam and Phishing DetectionSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 4

What Prompts Don't Say: Understanding and Managing Underspecification in LLM Prompts

Yang, C., Shi, Y., Ma, Q., Liu, M. X., Kästner, C., & Wu, T. (2025) · arXiv

Topic ModelingNatural Language Processing Techniques

Cited by 3