Dr. Sven Peldszus

I am a researcher at the intersection of software engineering and IT security, focusing on techniques for engineering secure autonomous systems. I joined the Chair of Software Engineering in December 2021 as a post-doctoral researcher and have been working as a research assistant at the Institute for Software Technology at the University of Koblenz-Landau since 2016. During my doctorate, I visited the joint computer science department of the Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, as well as the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, as a visiting researcher. I submitted my dissertation on security compliance in the model-driven development of software systems in the presence of long-term evolution and variants at the University of Koblenz-Landau and completed my master’s degree at the Technical University of Darmstadt. My research interests include the continuous tracing of non-functional requirements and features over the entire software life cycle as well as model-based software quality analysis in variant-rich systems.

For more information, please visit my personal website: https://peldszus.com

Selected Publications

Peldszus, Sven; Großer, Katharina; Konersmann, Marco; Brunotte, Wasja; Ahrens, Maike; Schneider, Kurt; Jürjens, Jan: Too Many Issues: Automatically Prioritizing Analyzer Findings by Tracing Security Importance. In: Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025, (Open Access), https://doi.org/10.1145/3744708

Hermann, Kevin; Peldszus, Sven, Steghöfer, Jan-Philipp; Berger, Thorsten: An Exploratory Study on the Engineering of Security Features. In: Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE55347.2025.00184

Sens, Yorick; Knopp, Henriette; Peldszus, Sven; Berger, Thorsten: A Large-Scale Study of Model Integration in ML-Enabled Software Systems. In: Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE55347.2025.00185

Hermann, Kevin; Schneider, Simon; Tony, Catherine; Yardim, Asli; Peldszus, Sven; Berger, Thorsten; Scandariato, Riccardo; Sasse, M Angela; Naiakshina, Alena: A Taxonomy of Functional Security Features and How They Can Be Located. In: Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2025, (Open Access), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-025-10649-7

Barros, Djonathan; Peldszus, Sven; Assunção, Wesley K. G.; Berger, Thorsten: Editing Support for Software Languages: Implementation Practices in Language Server Protocols. In: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS), 2022, https://doi.org/10.1145/3550355.3552452

Sven Peldszus, Katja Tuma, Daniel Strüber, Jan Jürjens, Riccardo Scandariato: Secure Data-Flow Compliance Checks between Models and Code based on Automated Mappings. In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS), 2019, https://doi.org/10.1109/MODELS.2019.00-18

Sven Peldszus, Géza Kulcsár, Malte Lochau, Sandro Schulze: Continuous Detection of Design Flaws in Evolving Object-Oriented Programs using Incremental Multi-pattern Matching. In: Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), September 2016, https://doi.org/10.1145/2970276.2970338

Sven Peldszus, Noubar Akopian, Thorsten Berger: RobotBT: Behavior-Tree-Based Test-Case Specification for the Robot Framework. In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), pp. 1503–1506, 2023, (Open Access), https://doi.org/10.1145/3597926.3604924

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