SCM Course Plan

Course plan version 1.0 for SCM (last revised Friday 3rd of September, will be revised again).

The first lecture is Friday 8:15-11:45, subsequent lectures are Friday 8:45-11:45, with exceptions (see below). Unless otherwise noted, lectures are in D1 (not D4 as initially posted on the schedule).

Day Activities Reading / projects due
Sep 3rd
8:15
Course motivation
Techniques for searching scientific literature (guest lecturer: Anita Thiesen)
(none)
Sep 10th
8:45
Course introduction
Start of Mini Project I: Literature Search
Reading papers
Dawson: Chapters 1 and 2
Sep 17th
10:00 in A214
(project workshop 8:45 in D1)
Technical talk by Mads Ager from Google: The V8 JavaScript Engine: Design, Implementation, Testing and Benchmarking
Ulrik as available in D1 8:45-9:30 and will talk about the mini project
Study material related to the talk, prepare questions (see Mini Project I)
Sep 24th
8:45
Empirical methods Group report for Mini Project I (electronic, through Blackboard)
Oct 1st
8:45
Main project workshop
Oct 8th
8:45
Scientific methods for software engineering Email project description
Dawson: Chapter 6 (cursory reading)
Background reading: SCM-2 SCM-3 SCM-4 and AspectJ
Oct 15th
8:45
Scientific methods for AI (guest lecturer: Bridget Hallam Email progress report
SCM-01 (cursory reading)
Oct 29th
8:45
Empirical methods, empirical miniproject startup Cohen: 1-3
Nov 5th
8:45
Statistics I Cohen: 4 (except 4.9)
Nov 12th
8:45
Statistics II Cohen: 5.1, 5.2, cursory reading of the rest of chapter 5
Nov 19th
8:45
LECTURE CANCELLED
Nov 26th
8:45
Philosophy of science (guest lecturer: Jessica Carter)
Statistics wrapup, survey project continuation
A few good papers
Empirical miniproject due
Dec 3rd
8:45
Empirical miniproject wrapup
Presentation workshop
Dec 10 Lecture cancelled, work on your projects
Note: send draft report to Ulrik for comments
Jan 5 Last chance to send draft report to Ulrik for comments
Jan 10 Survey main project due