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).

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

2018

• Dec 11 — Robert Niemiec — Requirements Elicitation Mobile (Seminar)
• Dec 18 — Timm Gross — Testing Practices in Industry (Bachelors)

NB: No meetings planned Dec 25 or Jan 1! :-)

2019

• Jan 8 — Mathias Birrer — Investigating developer’s questions using web scraping (Seminar)
• Jan 15 — Dominik Briner — Improving IDEs (Bachelors)
• Jan 22 — TBA (NB: CUSO Winter School)
• Jan 29 — Mario Hess — Pervasive Visualization in AR for Software Monitoring (Bachelors, final presentation)
• Feb 5 — TBA
• Feb 12 — TBA
• Feb 19 — MSc seminar topic presentations and obligatory quiz.
• Feb 26 — TBA

Presentations already given in 2018

• Dec 4 — Joel Niklaus — Abusing HTML5 permissions on browsers (Seminar)
• Nov 27 — Asan Urazimanov — Use of Languages in Android Applications (Seminar)
• Nov 20 — Pascal Maissen — Scriptable Markdown pretty-printing with GraalVM (Seminar)
• Nov 6 — Rathesan (Radi) Iyadurai — Audrey — On Demand Run time Information (Masters)
• Oct 30 — Sabine Brunner — Analyzing the inconsistency between comments and source code in Pharo (Bachelors)
• Oct 23 — Marc-Andrea Tarnutzer — Targeted attacks supported by recovered data structures of web API’s (Masters)
• Oct 16 — Jonas Richner — Understanding developers questions (Bachelors)
• Oct 9 — Manuela Eschler — Search interface implementation for a Learning Management System (Bachelors)
• Oct 2 — Sofija Hotomski — Keeping Evolving Requirements and Acceptance Tests Consistent via Automatically Generated Guidance (guest speaker)
• Sept 25 — Marcel Chavez — Digital archive in small companies : Advantages and challenges (Bachelors)
• Sept 18 — MSc seminar topic presentations and obligatory quiz.
• Sept 11
  • Astrid Ytrehorn — Smelly APIs in Android ICC (Bachelors)
  • Markus Eggimann — Software testing in Industry (Bachelors)
• August 14 — Patrick Indermühle — Modular Exceptions (Bachelors)
• August 7 — Astrid Ytrehorn — Code review of security smells (Bachelors)
• June 26 — Mario Hess — Pervasive Visualization in AR for Software Monitoring (Bachelors)
• June 19 — Markus Eggimann — Software Testing in Industry (Bachelors)
• May 29
  • Patrick Frischknecht — Android ICC Security (Bachelors)
  • Michael Zbinden — Code Analyses Using Natural Language Questions (Seminar)
• May 22
  • Mohammad Altahan — Android Studio Plug-in for Code Reviews (Seminar)
  • Melike Geçer — Strings Attached (Seminar)
• May 15
  • Jovana Mićić — Type hints usage in Python projects (Seminar)
  • Stefan Krüger — Secure Integration of Cryptographic Software (guest presentation)
• May 8
  • Marc Tarnutzer — Privacy concerns in public web APIs (Seminar)
  • Vincent Hofer — Compiling to WebAssembly (Seminar)
• May 1 — Flurin Trübner — Polyglot development using GraalVM - Twitter analysis (Seminar)
• April 24 — Patrick Indermühle — Modular Exceptions (Bachelors)
• April 17 — Pooja Rani —Master Thesis Presentation (Previous MSc work)
• April 10 — Timo Spring — Benchmarking Android Security Analysis (Bachelors)
• March 27 — Mario Hess — Pervasive Visualization in Augmented Reality for Software Monitoring (Bachelors)
• March 20 — Nitish Patkar — Vision backlog — rethinking requirements elicitation (PhD/previous MSc work)
• March 13 — Mario Kaufmann — Reproducible moldable interactions (Masters)
• March 6 — Eve Mendoza — Visualizing Objects In Pharo (Bachelors)
• Feb 20 — MSc seminar topic presentations and obligatory quiz.
• Feb 13 — Lars Wüthrich — Writing A Shape Grammar Interpreter (Bachelors)
• Feb 6 — Sébastien Broggi — Bug prediction with neural nets (Bachelors)
• Jan 30 — Simon Curty — A bug report classifier (Bachelors)
• Jan 23 — Timo Spring — Benchmarking Android Security Analyses (Bachelors)
• Jan 16 —Andreas Hohler — BiCo: Towards an Infrastructure for Commit Analysis (Master)
• Jan 9 —Tanja Küry — Replication Mechanism of ZEMIS Ref (Bachelors)

See also: Past Seminar Presentations