Alexander Pretschner

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
178 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Alexander Pretschner is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Pretschner has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Software, 71 papers in Information Systems and 61 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Alexander Pretschner's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (75 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (49 papers) and Security and Verification in Computing (32 papers). Alexander Pretschner is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (75 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (49 papers) and Security and Verification in Computing (32 papers). Alexander Pretschner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Alexander Pretschner's co-authors include Manfred Broy, Bruno Legeard, Mark Utting, Susan Gauch, Ingolf H. Krüger, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Bengt Jönsson, Martin Leucker, Thomas Stauner and Sebastian Bănescu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Proceedings of the IEEE and Communications of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Pretschner

166 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A taxonomy of model‐based testing approaches
    2011 337 citations Alexander Pretschner et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Alexander Pretschner 1.6k 1.5k 1.2k 810 607 178 3.4k
Paul Ammann 2.7k 1.7× 2.5k 1.7× 709 0.6× 1.8k 2.2× 1.1k 1.9× 113 4.6k
Carl E. Landwehr 1.0k 0.6× 1.6k 1.1× 1.4k 1.1× 2.2k 2.7× 538 0.9× 70 4.3k
Antonia Bertolino 2.4k 1.5× 2.0k 1.3× 766 0.6× 1.1k 1.4× 198 0.3× 172 3.2k
D. Richard Kuhn 2.3k 1.4× 2.5k 1.7× 2.6k 2.1× 1.3k 1.6× 309 0.5× 126 5.8k
Gary McGraw 1.7k 1.0× 2.9k 2.0× 1.4k 1.1× 1.1k 1.4× 1.7k 2.8× 102 4.5k
Shing-Chi Cheung 2.5k 1.5× 3.0k 2.0× 1.4k 1.1× 1.9k 2.4× 830 1.4× 261 5.3k
J.M. Wing 485 0.3× 1.3k 0.9× 745 0.6× 1.4k 1.7× 639 1.1× 38 2.4k
Frank Buschmann 920 0.6× 3.1k 2.1× 2.9k 2.3× 1.7k 2.1× 228 0.4× 47 4.9k
Mourad Debbabi 505 0.3× 2.0k 1.3× 2.1k 1.6× 2.7k 3.4× 1.8k 3.0× 304 5.2k
Karl Levitt 579 0.4× 1.1k 0.7× 1.9k 1.5× 3.2k 3.9× 1.5k 2.5× 123 4.7k

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All Works

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Pretschner, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Cost of Flaky Tests in Continuous Integration: An Industrial Case Study. 329–340. 4 indexed citations
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Pretschner, Alexander, et al.. (2023). When to Apply Scenario-Based Testing to a New System Domain?. mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich). 399–404. 1 indexed citations
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Pretschner, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Severity-Aware Prioritization of System-Level Regression Tests in Automotive Software. mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich). 1 indexed citations
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Kugele, Stefan, et al.. (2022). Defining adaptivity and logical architecture for engineering (smart) self-adaptive cyber–physical systems. Information and Software Technology. 147. 106866–106866. 11 indexed citations
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Weber, Lars, Severin Kacianka, Andreas Lüdtke, et al.. (2022). Investigating Differences in Behavior and Brain in Human-Human and Human-Autonomous Vehicle Interactions in Time-Critical Situations. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 836518–836518. 6 indexed citations
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Pretschner, Alexander, et al.. (2021). Causality-based accountability mechanisms for socio-technical systems. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7-8. 100016–100016. 1 indexed citations
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Pretschner, Alexander, et al.. (2019). Chapter Eight - A Taxonomy of Software Integrity Protection Techniques.. 112. 413–486. 1 indexed citations
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Hauer, Florian, et al.. (2019). Did We Test All Scenarios for Automated and Autonomous Driving Systems?. mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich). 2950–2955. 60 indexed citations
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Bănescu, Sebastian, Christian Collberg, & Alexander Pretschner. (2017). Predicting the Resilience of Obfuscated Code Against Symbolic Execution Attacks via Machine Learning. USENIX Security Symposium. 661–678. 20 indexed citations
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Ochoa, Martín, et al.. (2017). Leveraging Compression-Based Graph Mining for Behavior-Based Malware Detection. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 16(1). 99–112. 51 indexed citations
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Bănescu, Sebastian, et al.. (2016). Nequivack: Assessing Mutation Score Confidence. 152–161. 7 indexed citations
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Pretschner, Alexander, et al.. (2011). Distributed data usage control for web applications. 1 indexed citations
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Beckert, Bernhard, Dennis Hofheinz, Jörn Müller‐Quade, Alexander Pretschner, & Gregor Snelting. (2011). Software Security in Virtualized Infrastructures — The Smart Meter Example. it - Information Technology. 53(3). 142–150. 2 indexed citations
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Huber, Matthias, Markus Klems, Samuel Kounev, et al.. (2010). Challenges and Opportunities of Cloud Computing : Trade-off Decisions in Cloud Computing Architecture. Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). 6 indexed citations
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Pretschner, Alexander, et al.. (2009). Usage Control Enforcement with Data Flow Tracking for X11. 20 indexed citations
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Broy, Manfred, Bengt Jönsson, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Martin Leucker, & Alexander Pretschner. (2005). Model-Based Testing of Reactive Systems, Advanced Lectures. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 22 indexed citations
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Broy, Manfred, Bengt Jönsson, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Martin Leucker, & Alexander Pretschner. (2005). Model-Based Testing of Reactive Systems: Advanced Lectures (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer eBooks. 65 indexed citations
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Salzmann, Christian, Thomas Stauner, & Alexander Pretschner. (2004). ICSE workshop: software engineering for automotive systems. International Conference on Software Engineering. 779–779. 5 indexed citations

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