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

• Jan 21 — Christian Zürcher — Exfiltrating HTTPS content in Android apps (Oseminar)
• Jan 28
  • Dave Steven Meier — Cryptography-related questions on Stack Overflow (Seminar)
  • Basil Schöni — Automatically Retrofitting Cordova Applications for Stricter Content Security Policies (final Bachelors presentation)
• Feb 4
  • Alain Stulz — Mobile app framework reengineering (final Bachelors presentation)
  • Artthik Sellathurai — Visual scenario builder (final Bachelors presentation)
• Feb 11 — TBA
• Feb 18 — TBA

Presentations already given in 2019

• Dec 17
  • Emily Croxall — From user stories to live-documentation (seminar)
  • Patrick Frischknecht — HTTP security headers in Web APIs (seminar)
• Dec 10
  • Melike Geçer — Debugging Spark Applications (MSc final presentation)
  • Louis Müller — Executable graph models in Bloc (seminar)
• Dec 3 —Jonas Diesbach — Paper Hunter (seminar)
• Nov 26 — Ivan Kravchenko — Class commenting practices in Java (Seminar)
• Nov 12 — Dean Klopsch — Learning from nature: How nature resolves security issues (Bachelors, first presentation)
• Nov 5 — Olivier Flückiger — Ř Melts Brains (SPLASH 2019 presentation)
• Oct 29 — Pascal Gerig — Phishing on Demand (Bachelors, first presentation)
• Oct 15 — Brian Schweigler — The Life of a Bug Report (Bachelors, first presentation)
• Oct 1 — Alain Stulz — Identifying and reducing technical debt in an iOS app framework (Bachelors, first presentation)
• August 13 — Julian Weyermann — DB-Reports with Oracle MLE (Bachelors, first presentation)
• July 2 —Mathias Birrer — Investigating developer questions on social media (Msc, first presentation)
• June 25 — Melike Geçer — Debugging Spark Applications (MSc, first presentation)
• June 11 — Christian Zürcher — Test name recommendation (BSc, first presentation)
• May 28
  • Elio Fritschi — Outlining the state-of-the-art of requirements engineering tools (seminar)
  • Basil Schöni — Javascript injection in Android applications (first presentation, BSc)
• May 21 — Andreas Wälchli — Webassembly, from stack based to SSA and back (seminar)
• May 14 — Sylvain Julmy — bc running on Truffle (seminar)
• Apr 16 — Rathesan (Radi) Iyadurai — Audrey — On Demand Run time Information (Masters, final presentation)
• Apr 9 — Marc-Andrea Tarnutzer — Web Communication Analysis of Android Applications (Masters, final presentation)
• Mar 26 — Pooja Rani and Manuel Leuenberger — Comment soup with a pinch of types, served in a leaky bowl (Pharo Days rehearsal)
• Mar 19 — Simon Kafader — Fluent API for NodeJS Crypto (BSc first presentation)
• Mar 12 — Nitish Patkar — Towards a Catalogue of Mobile Ruquirements Elicitation Techniques
• Feb 26 — Artthik Sellathurai — Visual scenario builder in Pharo (Bachelors first presentation)
• Feb 19 — MSc seminar topic presentations and obligatory quiz.
• Feb 12 — Jonas Richner — Software Developers’ Information Needs (Bachelors final presentation)
• Feb 5 — Manuela Eschler — Search interface implementation for a Learning Management System (Bachelors final presentation)
• Jan 29 — Mario Hess — PerfVis: Visualization in Immersive Augmented Reality for Software Performance - A User Study (Bachelors, final presentation)
• Jan 15 — Dominik Briner — Mobile Security Support for Android Developers (Bachelors)
• Jan 8 — Mathias Birrer — Investigating developer’s questions using web scraping (Seminar)

See also: Past Seminar Presentations