Research – Robbert Jongeling

Current focus

In December 2022 I defended my PhD thesis on lightweight consistency checking for advancing continuous model-based development in industry. I am now a biträdande lektor (associate senior lecturer/assistant professor) at the department of Innovation, Design, and Engineering (IDT) at Mälardalen University in Västerås, Sweden. I’m also a member of the Industrial Software Engineering group and the Automated Software Language and Software Engineering group. My broad interests are in software engineering, in particular in studies in close collaboration with industrial partners, for example through the software center initiative.

Specifically, we are interested in balancing the gains and efforts for modeling in systems and software engineering. How much (or how little) modeling do we need for a particular benefit? And how can we lower the initial barrier to modeling, providing early automated analysis even for not so great models? A consequent interest is how to evolve such early modeling settings to mature ones, in which many models are used and could be connected; how can we benefit most from doing so? What is needed to allow collaboration in modeling across domains?

In summary, we aim to support flexible and continuous model-based software and systems engineering in complex industrial settings.

Awards and recognition

Best paper award – European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2022)
Best paper award – Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2019)
Best paper award application track – European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA 2019)

See also my university page or google scholar page.

Publications

Publications since PhD

Robbert Jongeling. “Towards public understanding of software through modeling”. International Workshop on Collaborative and Participatory Modeling (CoPaMo@MODELS 2024). (article)
Robbert Jongeling, Federico Ciccozzi. “Flexible Modelling: A Systematic Literature Review” European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA 2024 and published in JOT 2024). (article)
Luciana Provenzano, Robbert Jongeling. “How do practitioners reason about security requirements? An interview study” International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2024). (article)
Stefan Karlsson, Robbert Jongeling, Adnan Causevic, Daniel Sundmark. “Exploring Behaviours of RESTful APIs in an Industrial Setting” Software Quality Journal (SQJ 2024) (article)
Stefan Karlsson, John Hughes, Robbert Jongeling, Adnan Causevic, Daniel Sundmark. “Exploring API behaviours through generated examples” Software Quality Journal (SQJ 2024) (article)
Jakob Axelsson, Damir Bilic, Daniel Brahneborg, Joakim Fröberg, Henrik Gustavsson, Robbert Jongeling, Daniel Sundmark. “ALCEA: The Architecture Life-Cycle Effect Analysis Method” IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering (OJSE 2024) (article)
Robbert Jongeling, Antonio Vallecillo. “Uncertainty-aware consistency checking in industrial settings.” International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2023). (preprint)
Philémon Houdaille, Djamel Eddine Khelladi, Romain Briend, Robbert Jongeling, Benoit Combemale. “Polyglot AST: Towards Enabling Polyglot Code Analysis.” 27th international conference on engineering of complex computer systems (ICECCS 2023). (pdf)
Robbert Jongeling, Federico Ciccozzi. “Towards supporting malleable architecture models.” 3rd International workshop on model-driven engineering for software architecture (MDE4SA 2023). (pdf)

Publications during PhD

Robbert Jongeling. “Lightweight consistency checking for advancing continuous model-based development in industry.” PhD thesis (link)
Robbert Jongeling, Federico Ciccozzi, Antonio Cicchetti, Jan Carlson. “From informal architecture diagrams to flexible blended models” 16th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2022). (publication) best paper award.
Robbert Jongeling, Johan Fredriksson, Jan Carlson, Federico Ciccozzi, Antonio Cicchetti. “Structural consistency between a system model and its implementation: a design science study in industry” Published in JOT and presented at the 18th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA 2022). (pdf)
Robbert Jongeling, Federico Ciccozzi, Jan Carlson, Antonio Cicchetti. “Consistency management in industrial continuous model-based development settings: a reality check” Software and Systems Modelling (SoSyM 2022). (pdf)
Robbert Jongeling, Sachin Bhatambrekar, Anders Lofberg, Antonio Cicchetti, Federico Ciccozzi, Jan Carlson. “Identifying manual changes to generated code: Experiences from the industrial automation domain.” International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (Models 2021 P&I track). (preprint)
Robbert Jongeling. “Advancing Continuous Model-Based Development in Industry.” Licentiate Thesis (link)
Robbert Jongeling, Antonio Cicchetti, Federico Ciccozzi, Jan Carlson. “Co-evolution of Simulink Models in a Model-Based Product Line.” International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2020 P&I track). (preprint)
Robbert Jongeling, Antonio Cicchetti, Federico Ciccozzi, Jan Carlson. “Towards boosting the OpenMBEE platform with model-code consistency.” Workshop on Open Model Based Engineering Environment (OpenMBEE @ MODELS 2020). (preprint)
Muhammad Abbas, Robbert Jongeling, Claes Lindskog, Eduard Paul Enoiu, Mehrdad Saadatmand, Daniel Sundmark. “Product Line Adoption in Industry: An Experience Report from the Railway Domain. International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2020). (preprint)
Robbert Jongeling, Johan Fredriksson, Federico Ciccozzi, Antonio Cicchetti, Jan Carlson. “Towards Consistency Checking Between a System Model and its Implementation. International Conference on Systems Modelling and Management (ICSMM 2020). (preprint)
Robbert Jongeling, Jan Carlson, Antonio Cicchetti. “Impediments to Introducing Continuous Integration for Model-Based Development in Industry.” Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2019). (preprint) best paper award.
Robbert Jongeling, Federico Ciccozzi, Antonio Cicchetti, Jan Carlson. “Lightweight Consistency Checking for Agile Model-Based Development in Practice.” Published in JOT and presented at 15th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA 2019). (preprint) best paper award application track.
Robbert Jongeling, Jan Carlson, Antonio Cicchetti, Federico Ciccozzi. “Continuous integration support in modeling tools.” COMMitMDE @ MODELS 2018. (preprint)

Publications before PhD

Robbert Jongeling, Proshanta Sarkar, Subhajit Datta, Alexander Serebrenik. “On negative results when using sentiment analysis tools for software engineering research.” Empirical Software Engineering 2017 (link)
Robbert Jongeling, Subhajit Datta, Alexander Serebrenik. “Choosing your weapons: On sentiment analysis tools for software engineering research.” International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2015). (link)