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 programer 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

Scheduled Talks

2017

• June 27
  • Luca Liechti — Inferring schemata from semi-structured data with Formal Concept Analysis (Bachelors)
  • Lukas Imstepf — How are Software Visualizations Evaluated? Results (Seminar)
• July 4 —Tanja Küry — ZEMIS project (Bachelors)
• July 11 - Aug 1 — break (no regular seminar; individual meetings)
• Aug 8 — Andreas Wälchli — Monitoring Java Server applications (Bachelors)

Talks already given in 2017

• June 20
  • Roger Stebler — An empirical investigation intothe usage of a live debugger (MSc)
  • Aleksei Kosozhikhin — Type hints from method argument names (Seminar)
• May 30 — Leonel Merino — Demo CityVR: A Visualization Tool to Gamify Software Comprehension
• May 23
  • Silas Berger — Visually Mining Scientific Communities (Bachelors)
  • Lars Vögtlin — Test/Document framework for Quality Rules (Seminar)
• May 16
  • Simon Curty — Issue Report Analysis (Bachelor + Seminar)
  • Linus Schwab — On the prevalence of Android issues (Seminar)
• May 9 — Lukas Zbinden — Augmenting a Source Code Editor with Method Nullability Data (Seminar)
• May 2 — Andreas Wälchli — SEM performance monitoring (Bachelors)
• April 25
  • Bachelor Thesis: Visualizing Objects in Pharo — Visualizing Objects In Pharo (Bachelors)
  • Sébastien Broggi — Using Neural Networks for Bug Localization (Bachelors)
• April 11 — Lukas Imstepf — How are Software Visualizations Evaluated? Scraping digital libraries (Seminar)
• Mar 28 — Leonel Merino — On the Impact of the Medium in Visualizations for Software Comprehension (PhD)
• Mar 21 — Mathias Fuchs — Recognizing Structural Patterns in Code (Bachelors)
• Feb 28 — Yuriy Tymchuk — CUSO activity on Design Science & Design Thinking recap (PhD)
• Feb 21 — MSc seminar topic presentations and obligatory quiz.

See also: Past Seminars