SC: Software Composition Seminar

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This is a seminar for Masters students in the Swiss Joint Master of Science in Computer Science as well as Bachelors, Masters and PhD students completing their project work or thesis in the Software Composition Group. Scheduled talks generally cover recent progress in project work or research. The seminar normally takes place on Tuesdays at 10h15 in room 107, Schützenmattstrasse 14).

Logistics

NB: Due to Covid-19, this seminar will be held remotely. Contact Oscar Nierstrasz to participate in the zoom meetings.

Learning Outcomes

The seminar consists of a project and a presentation. You will have as a mentor one of the members of the SCG and will work on a practical and focused problem in the domain of programming languages and programmer productivity tools.

Seminar students will work on a small, supervised project during the semester. Due to the high cost of supervision, participation is strictly limited (selection will be based on the results of a short quiz).

After the successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

Build an Eclipse plugin for static analysis, or
Write a crawler that analyzes open source software repositories, or
Create a new method of visualizing software systems, or
Work on the design and implementation of programming language tools

To prepare your presentation, please consult this checklist.

Scheduled Presentations

2020

Sep 29 — Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand — Cryptography uses in the wild
Oct 6 — Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand — A journey in software fuzzing
Oct 13 — TBA
Oct 20 — TBA
Oct 27 — TBA
Nov 3 — Pooja - Speculative analysis of code comments
Nov 10 — TBA
Nov 17 — TBA
Nov 24 — TBA
Dec 1 — Seminar presentations
Dec 8 — Ludovic Herbelin - Assess quality of pharo comments
Dec 15 — Seminar presentations
Dec 22 — Seminar presentations

Presentations already given in 2020

Sep 22 — Dr. Nataliia Stulova — Towards Detecting Inconsistent Comments in Java Source Code Automatically (SCAM’20 rehearsal; see also final version of slides and YouTube video)
Sep 15 — MSc seminar project presentations and obligatory quiz (see NB above)
Sep 1 — Robert Niemiec — Modeling requirements artifacts in an IDE (final MSc presentation)
Aug 25 — Jonas Richner — Interactive Visualization for Software Duplication (first MSc presentation)
Aug 18 — Christian Zürcher — String 2.0 (first MSc presentation)
Aug 11 — Patrick Frischknecht — Detecting Lookalike Domains (first MSc presentation)
July 28 — Said Ali — Profiling Cryptography Developers (final BSc presentation)
July 14 — Robert Niemiec — Bringing agile artifacts closer to the implementation (first MSc presentation)
June 23 — Ivan Kravchenko — Moldable scenario editor (Final MSc presentation)
June 16 — Pooja Rani — Tips and tricks to organize an online course and the exam
June 9 — Noah Bühlmann — Exploring Security Issues in Open Source Software (final BSc presentation)
June 2 — Julian Weyermann — Simple MLE Deployer — A Tool for deploying JavaScript to Oracle’s Multilingual Engine (final BSc presentation)
May 26 — Andreas Wälchli — A Sampling Profiler for JITing in Ř (final MSc presentation)
May 19 — Mathias Birrer — Investigating developers’ information needs on social media
May 12 — Dr. Nataliia Stulova — Keeping documentation up to date with the source code
May 5 — Said Ali — Profiling Cryptography Developers (first BSc presentation)
Apr 28 — Ivan Kravchenko — Moldable scenarios (first MSc presentation)
Mar 31 — Brian Schweigler — An Investigation into Vulnerability Databases (final Bachelors presentation)
Mar 17 — Andreas Wälchli — A Sampling Profiler for JITing in Ř (first Masters presentation)
Mar 3 — Pascal Gerig — Phishing on Demand (final Bachelors presentation)
Feb 11
- Timm Gross — Threats to validity in TDD research (final Bachelors presentation)
- Noah Bühlmann — Security discussions in open source projects (first Bachelors presentation)
Feb 4 — Alain Stulz — Assessing and Improving the Software Quality of an iOS App Framework (final Bachelors presentation)
Jan 28
- Dave Steven Meier — Cryptography-related questions on Stack Overflow (Seminar)
- Basil Schöni — Autogenerating Content Security Policies to Prevent Code Injection in Mobile Web Applications (final Bachelors presentation)
Jan 21 — Christian Zürcher — Android: Bypassing HTTPS Security (Seminar)

See also: Past Seminar Presentations

See also:

MSc registration Fall 2020

JMCS students

Register on Academia for teaching units by Oct. 9, 2020
Register on Academia for the SMA exam by November 27, 2020
- [January 4, 2020 for all other MSc courses]

NB: Hosted JMCS students (e.g. CS bachelor students etc.) must additionally:

Request for Academia access by September 30, 2020

FAQ: Do I need to register for the seminar?

If you want credit for the seminar as a MSc course, you must register on Academia (also if you are a Bachelors student)
If you want credit for presenting your MSc thesis work (as opposed to seminar project), then please only register formally in your final semester
If you want credit for the seminar as a Bachelors course, you should register on KSL
If you need credit for a Proseminar (part of the Bachelors project), then you do not need to register. The grade will be filled in on the Bachelorarbeit in Informatik form.