Christian Birchler

ZHAW School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Software Engineering
Obere Kirchgasse 2 / Steinberggasse 12/14
8400 Winterthur

christian.birchler@zhaw.ch

Projects

COSMOS – DevOps for Complex Cyber-physical Systems of Systems / Team member / abgeschlossen

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Birchler, Christian; Khatiri, Sajad; Bosshard, Bill; Gambi, Alessio; Panichella, Sebastiano,

2023.

Machine learning-based test selection for simulation-based testing of self-driving cars software.

Empirical Software Engineering.

28(71).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-023-10286-y
Birchler, Christian; Ganz, Nicolas; Khatiri, Sajad; Gambi, Alessio; Panichella, Sebastiano,

2023.

Cost-effective simulation-based test selection in self-driving cars software.

Science of Computer Programming.

226(102926).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2023.102926
Birchler, Christian; Khatiri, Sajad; Derakhshanfar, Pouria; Panichella, Sebastiano; Panichella, Annibale,

2022.

Single and multi-objective test cases prioritization for self-driving cars in virtual environments.

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

37(4), pp. 111.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3533818

Conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Blattner, Timo; Birchler, Christian; Kehrer, Timo; Panichella, Sebastiano,

2024.

Diversity-guided search exploration for self-driving cars test generation through Frenet space encoding [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing.

17th International Workshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing (SBFT), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-20 April 2024.

Association for Computing Machinery.

pp. 9-12.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3643659.3643926
Birchler, Christian; Kombarabettu Mohammed, Tanzil; Rani, Pooja; Nechita, Teodora; Kehrer, Timo; Panichella, Sebastiano,

2024.

How does simulation-based testing for self-driving cars match human perception? [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering.

ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, 17-19 July 2024.

Association for Computing Machinery.

pp. 929-950.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3643768
Khatiri, Sajad; Saurabh, Prasun; Zimmermann, Timothy; Munasinghe, Charith; Birchler, Christian; Panichella, Sebastiano,

2024.

SBFT tool competition 2024 : CPS-UAV test case generation track [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing.

17th International Workshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing (SBFT), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-20 April 2024.

Association for Computing Machinery.

pp. 29-32.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3643659.3643931
Erni, Nicolas; Al-Ameen, Mohammed; Birchler, Christian; Derakhshanfar, Pouria; Lukasczyk, Stephan,

2024.

SBFT tool competition 2024 : Python test case generation track [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing.

17th International Workshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing (SBFT), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-20 April 2024.

Association for Computing Machinery.

pp. 37-40.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3643659.3643930
Birchler, Christian; Rohrbach, Cyrill; Kehrer, Timo; Panichella, Sebastiano,

2024.

SensoDat : simulation-based sensor dataset of self-driving cars [paper].

In:

21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Lisbon, Portugal, 15-16 April 2024.

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30117
Birchler, Christian; Rohrbach, Cyrill; Kim, Hyeongkyun; Gambi, Alessio; Liu, Tianhai; Horneber, Jens; Kehrer, Timo; Panichella, Sebastiano,

2023.

TEASER : simulation-based CAN bus regression testing for self-driving cars software [paper].

In:

2023 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE).

38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Kirchberg, Luxembourg, 11-15 September 2023.

IEEE.

pp. 2058-2061.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE56229.2023.00154
Birchler, Christian; Ganz, Nicolas; Khatiri, Sajad; Gambi, Alessio; Panichella, Sebastiano,

2022.

Cost-effective simulation-based test selection in self-driving cars software with SDC-Scissor [paper].

In:

2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER).

29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, Honolulu, USA (online), 15-18 March 2022.

IEEE.

pp. 164-168.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00030

Other publications

Birchler, Christian; Khatiri, Sajad; Bosshard, Bill; Gambi, Alessio; Panichella, Sebastiano,

2022.

Machine learning-based test selection for simulation-based testing of self-driving cars software.

arXiv.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.04769

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