Lukas Schulte

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Year	Publication	Venue	Position
2026	The whos, whats, and whys of issues related to personal data and data protection in open-source projects on GitHub abstract Abstract Data protection regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the US affect how software may handle the personal data of its users. Prior literature focused on how data protection regulations are discussed for software in operation, or how this topic is discussed in various channels outside of the software development process. Yet, what is missing, is a perspective on the impact of such regulations on the software development process. In our work, we address this gap, and explore how discussions during the development of software are impacted by regulations, who reports and discusses issues related to personal data and data protection, and how developers react to those issues. To that end, we used inductive coding to analyze 652 issues from Open Source GitHub projects and used the codes to quantitatively analyze the relation between the roles, resolutions, and data protection issues to understand correlations and predict resolutions of issues. Most notably we observed a significant increase in reporting when GDPR came into effect. The most common issue types were feature requests for privacy enhancement, which were mainly reported and discussed by frequent reporters and frequent committers. But especially issues regarding privacy enhancement were also frequently reported by one-time reporters. Most of the requests were solved without opposing votes. All in all, our findings indicate that data protection regulations effectively start discussions about privacy within the software development community. Anne Hennig, Lukas Schulte, Steffen Herbold, Oksana Kulyk, Peter Mayer 0001	Empir. Softw. Eng.	2
2026	An exploratory study of bug-introducing changes: exploring relationships in bug-introducing changes towards causal understanding abstract Many studies consider the relation between individual aspects of the software engineering process and bug-introduction, e.g., software testing and code review. These studies typically only identify correlations between their set of variables without accounting for interactions with external variables, such as confounding factors. Within this study, we provide a broad empirical view on practices of software development and their relation to bug-introducing changes to enable future work on causal relations between those aspects. We consider the bugs, the type of change that introduced the bug, aspects of the build process, code review, software tests, and any other discussion related to the bug that we can identify. We use a qualitative approach that first describes variables of the development process and then groups the variables based on their relations. From these groups, we deduce how their (pairwise) interactions affect bug-introducing changes. We found multiple relevant relations within the development process of bug-introducing changes. Logical groups of variables and their relations provide a framework for discovering areas of interest regarding intermediate effects in the process and confounders towards bug-introduction. Software engineering practices applied during the development of bug-introducing changes are interdependent. This work lays the foundation to understand why bugs are introduced using causal modeling, discovery, and inference. Lukas Schulte, Anamaria Mojica-Hanke, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Steffen Herbold	Empir. Softw. Eng.	1
2024	Studying the explanations for the automated prediction of bug and non-bug issues using LIME and SHAP abstract Abstract Context The identification of bugs within issues reported to an issue tracking system is crucial for triage. Machine learning models have shown promising results for this task. However, we have only limited knowledge of how such models identify bugs. Explainable AI methods like LIME and SHAP can be used to increase this knowledge. Objective We want to understand if explainable AI provides explanations that are reasonable to us as humans and align with our assumptions about the model’s decision-making. We also want to know if the quality of predictions is correlated with the quality of explanations. Methods We conduct a study where we rate LIME and SHAP explanations based on their quality of explaining the outcome of an issue type prediction model. For this, we rate the quality of the explanations, i.e., if they align with our expectations and help us understand the underlying machine learning model. Results We found that both LIME and SHAP give reasonable explanations and that correct predictions are well explained. Further, we found that SHAP outperforms LIME due to a lower ambiguity and a higher contextuality that can be attributed to the ability of the deep SHAP variant to capture sentence fragments. Conclusion We conclude that the model finds explainable signals for both bugs and non-bugs. Also, we recommend that research dealing with the quality of explanations for classification tasks reports and investigates rater agreement, since the rating of explanations is highly subjective. Lukas Schulte, Benjamin Ledel, Steffen Herbold	Empir. Softw. Eng.	1
2015	The IceProd framework: Distributed data processing for the IceCube neutrino observatory Mark G. Aartsen, Rasha U. Abbasi, Markus Ackermann 0003, Jenni Adams, Juan Antonio Aguilar Sánchez, Markus Ahlers, David Altmann, Carlos A. Argüelles Delgado, Jan Auffenberg, Xinhua Bai, Michael F. Baker, Steven W. Barwick, Volker Baum, Ryan Bay, James J. Beatty, Julia K. Becker Tjus, Karl-Heinz Becker, Segev BenZvi, Patrick Berghaus, David Berley, Elisa Bernardini, Anna Bernhard, David Z. Besson, G. Binder, Daniel Bindig, Martin Bissok, Erik Blaufuss, Jan Blumenthal, David J. Boersma, Christian Bohm, Debanjan Bose, Sebastian Böser, Olga Botner, Lionel Brayeur, Hans-Peter Bretz, Anthony M. Brown, Ronald Bruijn, James Casey, Martin Casier, Dmitry Chirkin, Asen Christov, Brian John Christy, Ken Clark, Lew Classen, Fabian Clevermann, Stefan Coenders, Shirit Cohen, Doug F. Cowen, Angel H. Cruz Silva, Matthias Danninger, Jacob Daughhetee, James C. Davis 0002, Melanie Day, Catherine De Clercq, Sam De Ridder, Paolo Desiati, Krijn D. de Vries, Meike de With, Tyce DeYoung, Juan Carlos Díaz-Vélez, Matthew Dunkman, Ryan Eagan, Benjamin Eberhardt, Björn Eichmann, Jonathan Eisch, Sebastian Euler, Paul A. Evenson, Oladipo O. Fadiran, Ali R. Fazely, Anatoli Fedynitch, Jacob Feintzeig, Tom Feusels, Kirill Filimonov, Chad Finley, Tobias Fischer-Wasels, Samuel Flis, Anna Franckowiak, Katharina Frantzen, Tomasz Fuchs, Thomas K. Gaisser, Joseph S. Gallagher, Lisa Gerhardt, Laura E. Gladstone, Thorsten Glüsenkamp, Azriel Goldschmidt, Geraldina Golup, Javier G. González, Jordan A. Goodman, Dariusz Góra, Dylan T. Grandmont, Darren Grant, Pavel Gretskov, John C. Groh, Andreas Groß, Chang Hyon Ha, Abd Al Karim Haj Ismail, Patrick Hallen, Allan Hallgren, Francis Halzen, Kael D. Hanson, Dustin Hebecker, David Heereman, Dirk Heinen, Klaus Helbing, Robert Eugene Hellauer III, Stephanie Virginia Hickford, Gary C. Hill, Kara D. Hoffman, Ruth Hoffmann, Andreas Homeier, Kotoyo Hoshina, Feifei Huang, Warren Huelsnitz, Per Olof Hulth, Klas Hultqvist, Aya Ishihara, Emanuel Jacobi, John E. Jacobsen, Kai Jagielski, George S. Japaridze, Kyle Jero, Ola Jlelati, Basho Kaminsky, Alexander Kappes, Timo Karg, Albrecht Karle, Matthew Kauer, John Lawrence Kelley, Joanna Kiryluk, J. Kläs, Spencer R. Klein, Jan-Hendrik Köhne, Georges Kohnen, Hermann Kolanoski, Lutz Köpke, Claudio Kopper, Sandro Kopper, D. Jason Koskinen, Marek Kowalski, Mark Krasberg, Anna Kriesten, Kai Michael Krings, Gösta Kroll, Jan Kunnen, Naoko Kurahashi, Takao Kuwabara, Mathieu L. M. Labare, Hagar Landsman, Michael James Larson, Mariola Lesiak-Bzdak, Martin Leuermann, Julia Leute, Jan Lünemann, Oscar A. Macías-Ramírez, James Madsen, Giuliano Maggi, Reina Maruyama, Keiichi Mase, Howard S. Matis, Frank McNally, Kevin James Meagher, Martin Merck, Gonzalo Merino, Thomas Meures, Sandra Miarecki, Eike Middell, Natalie Milke, John Lester Miller, Lars Mohrmann, Teresa Montaruli, Robert M. Morse, Rolf Nahnhauer, Uwe Naumann, Hans Niederhausen, Sarah C. Nowicki, David R. Nygren, Anna Pollmann, Sirin Odrowski, Alex Olivas, Ahmad Omairat, Aongus Starbuck Ó Murchadha, Larissa Paul, Joshua A. Pepper, Carlos Pérez de los Heros, Carl Pfendner, Damian Pieloth, Elisa Pinat, Jonas Posselt, P. Buford Price, Gerald T. Przybylski, Melissa Quinnan, Leif Rädel, Ian Rae, Mohamed Rameez, Katherine Rawlins, Peter Christian Redl, René Reimann, Elisa Resconi, Wolfgang Rhode, Mathieu Ribordy, Michael Richman, Benedikt Riedel, J. P. Rodrigues, Carsten Rott, Tim Ruhe, Bakhtiyar Ruzybayev, Dirk Ryckbosch, Sabine M. Saba, Heinz-Georg Sander, Juan Marcos Santander, Subir Sarkar 0002, Kai Schatto, Florian Scheriau, Torsten Schmidt, Martin Schmitz 0004, Sebastian Schoenen, Sebastian Schöneberg, Arne Schönwald, Anne Schukraft, Lukas Schulte, David Schultz, Olaf Schulz, David Seckel, Yolanda Sestayo de la Cerra, Surujhdeo Seunarine, Rezo Shanidze, Chris Sheremata, Miles W. E. Smith, Dennis Soldin, Glenn M. Spiczak, Christian Spiering, Michael Stamatikos, Todor Stanev, Nick A. Stanisha, Alexander Stasik, Thorsten Stezelberger, Robert G. Stokstad, Achim Stößl, Erik A. Strahler, Rickard Ström, Nora Linn Strotjohann, Gregory W. Sullivan, Henric Taavola, Ignacio J. Taboada, Alessio Tamburro, Andreas Tepe, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Gordana Tesic, Serap Tilav, Patrick A. Toale, Moriah Natasha Tobin, Simona Toscano, Maria Tselengidou, Elisabeth Unger, Marcel Usner, Sofia Vallecorsa, Nick van Eijndhoven, Arne Van Overloop, Jakob van Santen, Markus Vehring, Markus Voge, Matthias Vraeghe, Christian Walck, Tilo Waldenmaier, Marius Wallraff, Christopher Weaver 0001, Mark T. Wellons, Christopher H. Wendt, Stefan Westerhoff, Nathan Whitehorn, Klaus Wiebe, Christopher H. Wiebusch, Dawn R. Williams, Henrike Wissing, Martin Wolf 0007, Terri R. Wood, Kurt Woschnagg, Donglian Xu, Xianwu Xu, Juan Pablo Yáñez, Gaurang B. Yodh, Shigeru Yoshida, Pavel Zarzhitsky, Jan Ziemann, Simon Zierke, Marcel Zoll	J. Parallel Distributed Comput.	221