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).

NB: There will be no MSc seminar in the Spring semester 2020, just the regular weekly group meetings with thesis students.

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

• May 26 — Andreas Wälchli — Implementing a profiler for Ř (final MSc presentation)
• June 2 — Julian Weyermann — GraalVM report generation (final BSc presentation)
• June 9 — Noah Buehlmann — Investigating security issue reports in OSS (final BSc presentation)
• June 16 — (Oscar possibly away)
• June 23
• June 30

Presentations already given in 2020

• May 19 — Mathias Birrer — Investigating developers’ information needs on social media
• May 12 — 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 (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