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).

Students are able to

• read and critically analyze scientific publications in the area;
• discuss technical material in the domain;
• relate to their own scientific work, if applicable;
• give a scientific presentation, in terms of structure, level of content, and presentation techniques;
• manage their time during the preparation of their work, when operating in teams or independently.

To prepare your presentation, please consult this checklist.

Scheduled Presentations

2020

• Dec 1 — Jan Dietrich — Survey of glue code in BDD tools
• Dec 8 — Ludovic Herbelin — Assess quality of Pharo comments
• Dec 15 — Ivan Ginovski — SCG Pier migration
• Dec 22
  • Sergiy Goloviatinski — Source code vocabularies
  • Alex Nyffenegger — HTTPS downgrade

2021

TBD ...

Presentations already given in 2020

• Nov 24 — Dr. Nataliia Stulova — Identifying clones in comments
• Nov 17 — Lino Hess —Generate Pharo class comments automatically
• Nov 10 — Suada Abukar — Adherence of class comments to the style guidelines
• Oct 27 — Jonas Richner — Interactive Visualization for Software Duplication (final MSc presentation)
• Oct 6 — Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand — A journey in software fuzzing
• Sep 29 — Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand — Cryptography uses in the wild
• 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