Prof. Dr. Armin B. Cremers, Daniel Speicher, Jan Nonnen, Paul Heckmann

Further pages: Topics - Tools for your research - Paper Evaluation - Internal

Current research topics in software engineering in the context of program comprehension and software measurements.

• Mining concepts and regularities in source code using data- and concept mining approaches.
• Classical models in program comprehension and cost estimation of software requirements or artifacts.
• Different means for code quality evaluation.

Have a look at the page with detailed topic descriptions.

You get

• a description of the topic you should address,
• a list of initial articles,
• feedback on your intermediate and final results.

Your task is to

• study the literature thoroughly,
• find further research literature on the topic,
• write a seminar paper that summarizes the literature and discusses the topic
• present your result during the block seminar.

• We collected a short list of tools for your research.

• This is a block seminar, i.e. the presentations take place at one day.
  • 45 minutes talk plus 15 minutes discussion.
• Module MA-3220, Points: 4 CP (Sem 2)

• Write us a mail, in case you are interested in the seminar.
• Orientation meeting:
  • 12.11.2012, 10:40
  • Location: Room 1.31 in the B-IT
• Topic distribution: Next week
• 30. November 2012: selection of possible further literature
• 06. December 2012: short summary of selected literature, outline of the paper
• 20. December 2012: first rough version of the paper
• 07. January 2013: first version of the presentation slides
• Seminar: 12. January, 2013
  • This is as well the deadline for the first version of you paper.
• Final deadline for your paper: 20. February 2013

Regarding your seminar paper the following two criteria need to be met:

• 8 pages
• the paper should summarize your presentation properly and completely

Use our LaTeX template: Link
Further information on how to write the paper you can find here: Criteria for the evaluation of your paper.

Powerpoint Template